monks & monasteries

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/fragment-from-world-s-oldest-bible-found-hidden-in-egyptian-monastery-1780274.html

Just watched the film from 2012, no idea how I'd missed that one, but usually shy away from contemporary stock horror, much to my own detriment sometimes. But I loved this, from the wonderfully accurate setting in 1974 Yorkshire to the amazing cast. Has anyone else seen this, and what are your...

My work takes me into people's homes. I can't help myself in old properties: Is it haunted ? I inquire. On one occasion I visited a family in a location close to a ruined Abbey. The lady of the household recounted the time she was hanging her washing on the line when she was disturbed by a solid...

We've been going to Byland Abbey a fair bit recently - it's English Heritage but open access. Often go in the evening so there is no-one else around. I had a bit of a weird experience there a month or so back - couldn't bring myself to write about it here, at the time because it was only a...

Here's an old poltergeist story some of you may remember, now turned into a low-budget movie... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_ ... Pontefract Here's an interview with the director... http://www.screendaily.com/home/blogs/h ... 59.article I'm not sure about his line... "It is...

I am 60 this year, and I have been amazed just how many rational people have admitted they have either seen or felt a ghost. I got to talk intimately with men and women when I was a nurse and carer, so perhaps they felt they could confide in someone who would give them a sympathetic ear. I...

A friend of mine in Northern Ireland stayed with a couple of people at a lighthouse, she went out for a cigarette on her own and one of her companions took this picture. It was not until it was uploaded that there was a darkened figure standing 6 or so feet from her that she was not aware of at...

This blue-eyed beared monk sounds like quite a character! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma And he has some great legends retold on the same page:

Meditation Shown to Light Up Brains of Buddhists LONDON (Reuters) - Buddhists really are happy, calm and serene people -- at least according to their brain scans. Using new scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain light up constantly in...

"Miracles" at Saint-Medard France, 1727-1732 I read about this in "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved" a while back but haven't really found much else about it on the internet. Found this at http://www.nhne.com/windwings/wind4.html...