Haunted Medieval Prison That Held Accused Witches - THE CAGE -

10/07/21 • 28 min

THE CAGE Britain's most haunted house For almost four years, Vanessa Mitchell lived amongst some of the most powerful paranormal activity ever known. She bought The Cage in St Osyth in 2004, a medieval property renowned all over the world for its imprisonment of witches in the 1500s - most notably, Ursula Kemp. The now 46-year-old was blissfully unaware of the full extent of property's chilling and haunting past when she moved in, but the demons that lived inside soon rose to the surface. She managed just four years in The Cage and the house has been completely empty since 2009. Now, after 12 years of trying, Vanessa has finally secured a buyer. She fell in love with the house and made it her home - but once she was in, she couldn't wait to get out. Born in London, Vanessa moved to St Osyth when she was a young child. She would walk past the infamous house every day on her way to and from school. Little did she know that years later she would be living inside. To this day, the mum-of-two is unsure as to why she bought The Cage - but she claims it was the house that chose her. "I was working away and I came back for a weekend and I saw it was up for sale," she explained. " I had a house in Newcastle that was being rented out. "I thought how can I get the tenants out and get the house on the market in time to buy The Cage?

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The Devils Bible

The Devil's Bible

The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). Very large illuminated bibles were a typical feature of Romanesque monastic book production, but even within this group, the page-size of the Codex Gigas is noted as exceptional. The manuscript is also known as the Devil's Bible, due to its highly unusual full-page portrait of Satan, and the legend surrounding its creation.

The manuscript was created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia, now a region in the modern-day Czech Republic. The manuscript contains the complete Vulgate Bible, as well as other popular works, all written in Latin. Between the Old and New Testaments are a selection of other popular medieval reference works: Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews and De bello iudaico, Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia Etymologiae, the chronicle of Cosmas of Prague,and medical works: an early version of the Ars medicinae compilation of treatises, and two books by Constantine the African.

Eventually finding its way to the imperial library of Rudolf II in Prague, the entire collection was taken as spoils of war by the Swedish in 1648 during the Thirty Years' War, and the manuscript is now preserved at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm, where it is on display for the general public

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The Haunted Woodchester Mansion

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING Woodchester Mansion is an unfinished, Gothic revival mansion house in Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, England. It is on the site of an earlier house known as Spring Park. The mansion is a Grade I listed building.

The mansion was abandoned by its builders in the middle of construction, leaving behind a building that appears complete from the outside, but with floors, plaster and whole rooms missing inside. It has remained in this state since the mid-1870s.

The mansion's creator William Leigh bought the Woodchester Park estate for £100,000 in 1854, demolishing the existing house, which had been home to the Ducie family.

A colony of approximately 200 greater horseshoe bats reside within the attic of the mansion, and have been studied continuously since the mid-1950s.

William Leigh was born in Liverpool, and educated at Oxford and Eton. At the time of the purchase he was living at Little Aston Hall in Staffordshire, where he had recently converted to the Roman Catholic faith. This and the Gothic Revival style in architecture were fashionable, and formed the ideology for the new house. He approached Augustus Pugin to draw up the plans.[3]

Pugin drew up plans for the house but in 1846 he became ill and the project was allowed to drop. Leigh meanwhile gave land in South Woodchester to a community of Roman Catholic Passionist fathers for a monastery and church. He then turned to Charles Francis Hansom, whose brother designed the famous Hansom cab of Victorian London, to take over the architectural planning.[8]

In 1857 Leigh dropped Hansom, and unexpectedly hired Benjamin Bucknall,[1] a young man who was an aspiring architect and assistant to Hansom, but very inexperienced.[9] Bucknall set about studying Gothic Revival architecture – the result, Woodchester Mansion, is Bucknall's masterpiece.