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Long have we thought that the major attraction missing from all amusement parks everywhere in the world – is this literal death roller coaster. Seriously – we’d pay to ride something like that a million times. Just something to think about California Adventure.
On a related note – there’s currently an amusement park that went and dug up an ancient old grave yard. You know what happened after that?
Exactly what you’d expect would happen.
No doubt you’d like us to get right to it and tell you all about the horrifying haunted theme park located in merry old England. Well, first let’s get you a little background. This from Wikipedia:
“Thorpe Park is a theme park located in Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK. It was built in 1979 on the site of a gravel pit which was partially flooded, the intention of creating a water based theme for the park.”
Well their intent may have been to create a water-based amusement park, but what they made instead was a gaping hole to hell seeping more souls than a BP oil platform seeps black ooze. You see, the park was going to put in a new ride called Storm Surge, but the gents putting it in with shovel and pick began to claim all sorts of paranormal happenings.
Happenings, according to our source material, like a headless-monk ghost hovering around making people feel slightly chilly or something. Also, according to the Daily Mail, this sort or stuff happened too:
“There were reports of workers feeling like someone was watching over their shoulder and sudden cold feelings being experienced. As a result of the ghostly sightings, and fears that an ancient burial ground has been disturbed, the project was moved to another site.”
Sounds like a Steven King book, right? Well it isn’t. Why do you always think everything sounds like a Steven King book? He can’t write everything, you know. Whoever wrote all this, the Daily Mail adds more to it:
“A paranormal detection agency was then called in to the park in Chertsey, Surrey, to carry out tests and found that a burial ground or settlement could have been disturbed…The 64ft-tall water ride, Storm Surge, was originally planned for an area known as Monk’s Walk, an old footpath that has linked the ruins of nearby Chertsey Abbey to Thorpe Church since AD666.”
Notice, if you will, that the AD date is 666. This is just looking worse and worse for any non-suicidal attendees to the park. Now before you think this has anything to do with the park’s Fright Nights attraction – the one they’ve currently got going in order to soak up all of your money this coming Halloween – you should know that the article we found about all this was written in February 2011.