30 Jan 1661: Oliver Cromwell's body ritually executed at #Tyburn on the anniversary of Charles I's execution #otd

Cromwell had died 3 Sept 1658.

Just seen a photo captioned something like "I took this photo of Marble Arch and used the smart eraser to remove the people!"

What about a modern update of MR James's View From A Hill: someone does that to a photo of Marble Arch and ... the curséd app adds in corpses?

#horror #ghoststories #MRJames #London #Tyburn

2 Dec 1610: St John Roberts #Benedictine, from Trawsfynydd #Cymru, arrested in vestments while saying Mass for the First Sunday of #Advent #otd (British Museum)

Hanged, drawn, quartered at #Tyburn 10 Dec

#GothicAdvent Day 3:

Ring the bells and pull the carts,
Watch the wretched pierce their hearts,
The pit men cough as they start their dig,
None escape the Tyburn jig!

Creaking goes the rope at night,
The wheezing gasps of life's last fight,
Hand the bottle for one last swig,
Your last dance is the Tyburn jig.

Let us travel to the Tyburn Tree, the ancient gallows of Old London Town. The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a #highwayman, was hanged.

Tradition says, that sometimes, at this time of year when the cold nights grow hard in the silence you can hear the necks crack.

Listen heard enough and you can still hear and bodies swinging from this grim old tree. Creak... Creak.. Creak...

#Tyburn #Advent #AdventHorror #Folklore #FolkHorror @folklore