devol4 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Came across this article on StumbleUpon today. (Gotta love Firefox ) Read it and thought it was fake, but there's a few sites around the interwebs which carried a similar story. According to Jaunted.Com We’ve been to the Disney version of a haunted house at both Mickey’s world and his land, but the latest spooky theme park news out of the United Kingdom appears to be way more hardcore. At Thorpe Park in England, workers were busy doing their thing getting a new ride ready for visitors come this summer season, but when the bulldozers started moving the earth around they clearly disturbed something—or someone—that wasn’t as excited about the new attraction. After starting to construct a new water ride called Storm Surge park, workers noticed that bits and pieces of the ride starting moving around the construction scene on their own. Alright we’re big chickens so this would be enough to totally freak us out, but it sounds like the workers just tried to shrug things off. Well things got worse as they eventually started to see ghosts, and one description was even pretty specific—it was a headless monk. Park officials called in the experts—not Bill Murray and friends, but some other Ghostbusters—and it appears that the site of the new ride was actually home to the cliché ancient burial ground. Long story short, the new ride is getting a new location, but who knows what they’re eventually going to build on the vacant land. We’re thinking available theme park space is at a premium, so we’ll let you know when a real deal haunted house opens to the public—even though there’s no way we’d go inside. The article can be found here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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devol4 Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 Found a few images on the DailyMail's website. Apparently, the land where the ride was being built is in the middle of a path that once connected Chertsey Abbey and Thorpe Church. This image was taken at Monk's Walk in Thorpe Park by the South West London Paranormal Society team who investigated the site. They said the vague white mist appeared in a number of images but was not visible to the naked eye. However, they did add that it could just as likely be to do with the weather as the paranormal Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354393/Thorpe-Park-Storm-Surge-ride-Headless-monk-seen-workmen.html#ixzz1EMJz83js A figure (circled) appears in a photo of one of the investigation team (right). 'Is this just mist, or someone passing by? You decide' is the question posed by the group which investigated the claims of a headless monk wandering around the theme park Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354393/Thorpe-Park-Storm-Surge-ride-Headless-monk-seen-workmen.html#ixzz1EMK3dxAL Forensic geophysicist Peter Masters, seen here in Thorpe Park, has been called in to analyse the site, using deep ground radar. He said: 'From the preliminary investigations, we have picked up signatures similar to that of a burial ground - possibly ancient' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354393/Thorpe-Park-Storm-Surge-ride-Headless-monk-seen-workmen.html#ixzz1EMKAFClp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernierocker Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 This is already being discussed in the following thread: www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=58155 Feel free to discuss this further in that thread. This has already been posted in another thread... No need for backseat moderating or being snarky about it. If you would like to actually link to the thread where the topic is being discussed, that is fine. But, simply saying it has already been posted and rolling your eyes is not necessary or helpful to anybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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