WEIRD EUROPE: 20 HAUNTED CASTLES: Ghost Queens, Bloody Chapels, Cursed Knights, Witch Trials, Walled-Up Prisoners, Gates to Hell, and Other Completely Normal Castle Problems - Couverture souple

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ISBN 13 : 9798172620225

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Europe has spent centuries building castles, attacking castles, imprisoning people in castles, murdering relatives inside castles—and then acting surprised when somebody reports a ghost in the stairwell.

In Weird Europe: 20 Haunted Castles, travels through twenty of the continent’s strangest strongholds, from bloodstained chapels and underground prisons to cliffside fortresses and a castle supposedly built over a gateway to Hell. Along the way, he encounters ghostly queens, headless soldiers, cursed knights, walled-up prisoners, witch-trial horrors, unexplained footsteps, and several historic families that desperately needed a quiet hobby.

But this is not simply a collection of spooky tales. Behind every restless spirit lies a fascinating mixture of documented history, local folklore, royal scandal, political betrayal, tourism, and enthusiastic exaggeration. Some legends are chillingly plausible. Others begin to wobble the moment anyone asks an awkward question. All of them reveal something about the castles—and the generations of people who have refused to let their stories die.

Travel from the misty battlements of Britain and Ireland to elegant French châteaux, remote Alpine strongholds, Scandinavian prisons, Transylvanian towers, and some of Central Europe’s most spectacularly unsettling ruins. Discover what happened there, what visitors claim still happens there, and what it is actually like to stand at the gates today.

Funny, atmospheric, and packed with gloriously peculiar history, Weird Europe: 20 Haunted Castles is for travelers, castle lovers, folklore enthusiasts, amateur ghost hunters, and anyone who has ever looked down a dark medieval corridor and thought, “This seems perfectly safe.”

Pack a coat. Bring a torch. Ignore the footsteps behind you.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798172620225
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 169
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