Great Britain has long established the reputation of the most "ghostly" country - there are a lot of ghosts in ancient castles. Many of them are not troublesome. But that is not at all the ghost of Kelvedon Hall. Ever since the castle was converted into a monastery school in 1934, something out of the ordinary has been happening there.
Mansion Kelvedon Hall, located in Essex, for the time being was considered a tidbit. Just thirty miles northeast of London - and you are surrounded by nature, surrounded by beautiful forests, parks and lakes. The owners of the old building have always known the benefits that their ownership has, and when the mansion was put up for auction in the early 1930s, there were enough buyers. They could sell the house for a higher price, however, on the contrary, they lowered the price when their estate wanted to acquire a monastery. The owners were devout people and never regretted their decision. In 1934, the castle was converted into a monastery school. And in the very first year, when the sisters of the monastery of St. Michael settled in it, several inexplicable cases occurred. One of the nuns fell from the balcony and crashed to death. The police have investigatedbut did not find any crime, the case was closed. The sisters came to the conclusion that the unfortunate woman could have some hidden reasons for settling accounts with life. In addition, the deceased was a closed, silent and uncommunicative woman. What was going on in her soul, alone
God knows.
TESTS
The misadventures did not end there. After a while, a fire broke out at the school. Nobody was hurt, but the building was damaged. It took a while to regain its former appearance. Then, in just one summer, a whole chain of tragic events followed. The first to die was a child who contracted tetanus after falling on the playground. A week later, another death followed: another student died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Calvedon Hall remained in trouble for the following year: in September, a sister was found drowned in a pond. A couple of weeks later, one of the students fell ill with pneumonia and died. At the same time, the weather was very dry and warm. The nuns who taught at the school prayed to God for mercy, but he sent them more and more tests. In the fall, one of the visitors fell out of a third-floor window and crashed to death. Policemen were again frequent in Kelvedon Hall, but the case turned out to be so dark and strange that Sherlock Holmes himself would hardly have been able to unravel it. Everything indicated that the unfortunate woman had been pushed out of the window, but the culprit could not be found. The sisters of the monastery of St. Michael remained firmly convinced that it was not without evil spirits, and began to pray even more strongly. Less than a week after the death of the visitor, the abbess closed the school and took out all the nuns. To the ubiquitous reporters, the Mother Superior admitted that, in her opinion, something "devilish and terrible" settled in this place, and all the sisters think the same way. A spokesman for the local diocese said the whole affair was "clearly supernatural." Then the nosy newspapermen found out: at the invitation of the priests, the mansion was visited by an exorcist, whose name remained a secret. He performed the necessary ceremonies in the castle, but the nuns did not dare to return to the shadow of the ancient vaults.
A SON FOR A FATHER
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In 1937, Kelvedon Hall was put up for sale again. It was bought by Sir Henry Channon, Member of Parliament and representative of the richest dynasty of bankers and brewers, who in England was called "The Pouch" behind his back. Channon's wealth was legendary in Britain. However, from the very first steps on the new possession, the almighty Henry felt a vague uneasiness. Of course, Channon had heard of Kelvedon Hall's notoriety, but the pragmatic businessman gave little thought to superstition. However, to avoid misunderstandings, Channon invited a bishop from the nearby town of Brentwood to consecrate the building. Oddly enough, it helped, and Sir Henry calmly lived to a ripe old age in the estate, which he loved with all his heart. However, to his son Paul, who inherited the castle after his father's death, otherworldly forces were no longer so supportive. Furthermore,they seemed to have decided to take revenge on the representative of the glorious family and fell upon him with all their might. In 1986, the first misfortune happened. Paul's daughter Olivia, a spoiled and capricious girl, went overboard with alcohol and drugs and went to the next world. Her body was found in an apartment she rented while studying at the prestigious Oxford College. A terrible scandal erupted, and the Essex parliamentarian Paul Channon was forced to put an end to his political career. True, several years passed, the scandal was forgotten, and Paul got the position of Secretary of State for Transportation. But as soon as he rose again, another blow fell on him. The impression was that someone deliberately substitutes him one step after another. In a parliamentary debate in December 1988, Channon fiercely defended the idea of trust in the public transportation system. And just at the moment when the Minister took the podium in the House of Commons to begin his speech, three trains collided in London at once.
December 12 became the black day of the British calendar: a total of 35 people died, more than half a thousand were injured. The accident occurred due to confusion in the signals of the traffic light, in which there was a short circuit … But the British did not have time to recover from this blow, as a new one hit. On December 21, 1988, a Pan American Boeing 747-121 took off from London Heathrow Airport and headed for New York. At that moment, when the plane flew over Scotland, a strong explosion occurred on the port side in the cargo hold. A hole has formed in the side of the plane. The bow of the Boeing came off, and the chopped off burning plane rushed down. The burning wreckage of the aircraft crashed into the Scottish village of Lockerbie. 270 people were killed (259 on the plane and 11 on the ground). The investigation into the incident lasted for three years, two Libyans were found guilty of committing the terrorist attack,one of whom was later found not guilty. Channon's name became a household name again after the publication of an independent report on the Lockerbie 747 terrorist attack. Margaret Thatcher herself pointed out his insolvency and incompetence, after which she gave the order to dismiss the unlucky minister. Since then, Paul Channon no longer drove a chauffeured company car to work in London. He settled in solitude at Kelvedon Hall. They say that the former minister went crazy: he was haunted by the ghosts of those killed in disasters, who visited him with enviable regularity in an old mansion. After his death, Channon's heirs attempted to sell Kelvedon Hall. Rumor has it that one of the buyers was our former compatriot Boris Berezovsky. However, upon learning of the notoriety of Kelvedon Hall,The fugitive Russian businessman opted for a different place to live - a mansion in Ascot, Berkshire, and a house in Surrey. However, this did not save the oligarch from bankruptcy and premature death. Who knows, maybe the mansions he bought were also cursed? Castles of Great Britain are like people: they get along well with someone, but they hate someone and constantly survive from their possessions.
Vlad DRUGOV
