After Dark Paranormal UK

13/08/2024

'Sinister Grotto’ is a local legend and is one of around 200 surviving grottoes across the uk hidden in the woods of north Wales. Location 3 Harking back to the Hellenic period of myth — with carvings of a giant cyclops, griffins and death — the grotto overlooks the coast of North Wales. The estate dates back to the 1600’s, and has been lived on by the Mostyn baronets of Talacre and a community of Benedictine nuns. It lies separate from the old abbey and hall, built in 1829 by Chester architect Thomas Jones, and strikes similarities to those built by royal gardener William Kent. The walls of the North Wales grotto is adorned with shell, glass and quarzite, and feature hollowed out crevices similar to the original Celtic temples seen across Britain. The place serves also as a burial ground, and there are passageways to tunnels and chambers beneath the main build. On the wall of the chambers there is a carving of death, not toofar from a statue of a headless monk.Accurate history of this location has been hard to pin point but regardless of the tales and myths of this location it was an unusual yet uneasy location!

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Location 2
Hidden in the mountains of Snowdonia, yet only metres away from a main road, lies a secret Second World War bomb store that's been left derelict for half a century. The Glyn Rhonwy bomb store, built by the RAF, was sunk into the ground in Llanberis at the outbreak of the Second World War, According to NorthWalesLive in its heyday, the munitions store was vast, consisted of numerous deep open pits linked together by tunnels. But it collapsed under its own weight in January 1942, burying 14,000 tonnes of bombs. The majority of the bombs were recovered and although the remaining tunnels were eventually cleared of debris, no ammunition was ever stored underground at Llanberis again.

Fantastic location! Very creepy and the tunnels go on for miles!

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13/08/2024

13/08/2024

13/08/2024

Location 1 of todays visit to north wales.
THE VAYNOL MAUSOLEUM

History - The Grade II Listed Mausoleum is situated on the 500-acre Vaynol Estate, this section of the estate is known as Vaynol Wood and is accessible to the public. The estate was owned by the Williams family in C16 and was later inherited by Thomas Assheton-Smith. Thomas was the owner of the Dinorwic slate quarries. Later, ownership was passed onto the Duff family.

The Assheton-Smith family commissioned the construction of the mausoleum during the later part of the 19th century. It was designed by Welsh architect Henry Kennedy. The building appears in several early OS Maps editions. The gates/fencing are quite unique with chamfered stone piers and pyramid-shaped caps, in addition to iron gates.

The mausoleum was constructed using a combination of snecked rubble and freestone dressings. It features a distinctive roof design with banded fish-scale and plain slate patterns and was built with an Early French Gothic design. There’s also an octagonal bell tower.

The interior of the building is almost empty with just a table present, there are two memorial plaques on the wall acknowledging the death of Laura Alice and Enid Mary. The site has suffered some vandalism over the years thanks to the nature of its location, there's quite a bit of graffiti and the stained glass windows have suffered over the years too. An internal door leads to a set of stairs and leads to a tunnel that goes around the sealed crypt.

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