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    Ghost Stories: The Spine-Chilling Tale of the Chase Vault
    Ghost Stories: The Spine-Chilling Tale of the Chase Vault
    Ghost Stories: The Spine-Chilling Tale of the Chase Vault
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    Ghost Stories: The Spine-Chilling Tale of the Chase Vault

    By Albert Jack

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    From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more....

    The Spine-Chilling Tale of the Chase Vault.

    What terrifying secret is sealed within an old family tomb in Oistins, Barbados?

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    From the seventeenth century onwards, the nobles of England who had been awarded land on the island began importing thousands of African slaves to work the newly formed tobacco, sugar and cotton plantations. Over the next century, Barbados dominated the world’s sugar industry and the plantation owners became powerful and successful figures throughout the British Empire.

    It was one of these landowners, the Honourable Thomas Waldron, who in 1724 built an elegant family burial vault in the cemetery of the parish church in the town of Oistins. It was intended for his married daughter and her family.

    Seven feet wide and twelve feet deep, and made out of carved coral, the vault was large enough to accommodate the entire Waldron family. The first person to be buried in it was Richard Elliot, the husband of Elizabeth Waldron. He was also the last of the family to be interred there.

    Nobody has since been able to explain why Elizabeth failed to join her husband in his final resting place, and nor why the next occupant, Mrs Thomasina Goddard, was a non-family member (unless she was a descendant of the Elliots or the Waldrons by marriage), but what is known is that when the tomb was opened on 31 July 1807 to bury Mrs Goddard, it was found to be empty.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Jack
    Release dateNov 8, 2015
    ISBN9781311661432

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      Ghost Stories - Albert Jack

      Introduction

      We all love a good mystery, don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated at one time or another by a decent, real-life mystery, either one of the world’s best, or something on a smaller scale such as the baffling question of why the best-looking girl is going out with a loser (again).

      And so, after writing my last book, That’s Bollocks! (on urban legends), and inspired by the legend of the Beast of Bodmin Moor (described in the book), I started looking at some other famous mysteries, ones that continue to fascinate us. The story of the Beast of Bodmin Moor is an example of an urban legend which could also be properly researched as a genuine mystery, and the same could be said for various other topics covered in the

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