In the early 1900's, workmen cleaning out the haunted 'Leap Castle' in Ireland found an 'oubliette' - a deep hole in the floor with a room at the bottom - a place to send prisoners and forget about them.
Leap Castle - Photo by D. Brands They also discovered many human skeletons that had been impaled on wooden stakes at the bottom of the drop, so many that it took three cart loads to remove them all.
A person would either be forced, lured, tricked or seduced into a small room where the oubliettes opening awaited. From there it was not so long a drop to kill you outright but long enough to ensure you could never climb back out. What greeted you was a room with only the one entrance/exit - the hole you tumbled down.
However, Leap Castles Oubliette was even more nasty, it had wooden spikes lined at the bottom so at the very least you would be quite injured... and with the hatch closed over it was all you could do to wail and cry until you succumbed to deaths embrace.
Leap Castle is haunted by many spirits, many of which no doubt saw their physical life ended in the oubliette.
A person would either be forced, lured, tricked or seduced into a small room where the oubliettes opening awaited. From there it was not so long a drop to kill you outright but long enough to ensure you could never climb back out. What greeted you was a room with only the one entrance/exit - the hole you tumbled down.
However, Leap Castles Oubliette was even more nasty, it had wooden spikes lined at the bottom so at the very least you would be quite injured... and with the hatch closed over it was all you could do to wail and cry until you succumbed to deaths embrace.
Leap Castle is haunted by many spirits, many of which no doubt saw their physical life ended in the oubliette.
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