LONDON LEGENDS by Marian Polverino

LONDON LEGENDS by Marian Polverino https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends en-us 2018-12-12 09:44:51 UTC 2024-05-27 11:24:11 UTC hello@padlet.com JACK THE RIPPER archiviomarian https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/313762566 2018-12-12 09:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/313762566 archiviomarian https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/313764129 2018-12-12 09:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/313764129 THE SUICIDE POOL archiviomarian https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/321130507 Stretching from the fringes of London deep into Essex, Epping Forest has long been a place of myth and mystery. It was here that Dick Turpin’s gang plied their trade and Elizabethan poets found their inspiration. But it’s also a place of dark, unsettling legends; the darkest of which has to be the Epping suicide pool.
Many decades ago, so the story goes, a young couple in love were followed to a pond by the girl’s father. Although the tale is hazy on what exactly happened next, it’s generally agreed that the two confronted him… and the father responded by killing them. Not long after, something strange happened. The waters of the pool turned a dark, impenetrable black. Wildlife began to die at its edges and the clearing soon became barren. Then the bodies started to appear.

First a woman was found dead beside the pond. Then a girl was found, her young child dead beside her. Rumours began to surface that the pool was drawing people in, leading them to their deaths…

And there the legend stops. Supposedly, Epping Forest’s suicide pool is still out there somewhere, unmarked on any map, waiting for someone to find it. But we’ll understand if you’d rather not go looking. Just in case.

]]> 2019-01-16 09:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/321130507 archiviomarian https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/321134595 2019-01-16 09:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/321134595 THE LEGEND OF THE RAVENS archiviomarian https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/321136839 2019-01-16 09:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/archiviomarian/londonlegends/wish/321136839