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Numerous reports have emerged of ghostly encounters within Castle Prison. Slamming doors, infants crying, heavy footsteps, whistles and screams echo from the cells. Guests report temperature shifts and shadowy figures pacing the stone floors. The staff have heard hearing women's voices singing, chains clinking, and unsettling scratching sounds from within the cells. Could this be the work of the hangman rumoured to roam these walls? Whispers fill the building, a young boy in period attire is spotted vanishing around corners, and sightings of an elderly woman by a hearth, who disappears, have been reported.Once an 18th-century prison, York Castle Museum has a dark and brutal past. We will try to connect with its most infamous inmate, the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin who spent his last hours in the cells of the Felons' Prison before his execution at the Knavesmire on April 7, 1739. We will also try to connect with the spirits of those who languished for months in these cells awaiting their destiny and those who died within the castle's walls. This includes the inmates of the Suffocation Cell, who met a horrific end, and the Yorkshire Witch, Mary Bateman, among others.
Along with the cells, you will investigate Rowntrees Snicket and Kirkgate, Britain's oldest recreated Victorian street, with its sinister schoolroom, police cell, a terrifying padded cell and a spectral Hansom cab. What energy clings to the artefacts within the original shop fronts?
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York Castle Museum, 2 Baile Hill Terrace, York, YO1 6, United Kingdom,York
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