Richmond Haunts Short
Stonehenge: Shadow Figures, Levitation and a Phantom Aircraft
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| Stonehenge has inspired countless theories about why it was built. Archaeologists generally interpret the monument as a prehistoric temple aligned with the movement of the sun, where communities honored ancestors and marked important moments in the calendar. Its earliest phase also served as a cremation cemetery, showing that the landscape held ceremonial and funerary meaning across many generations.
The Short then turns to modern supernatural reports. Night security personnel have described shadow figures and disembodied whispers, while soldiers assigned to the site in 1972 reportedly experienced an episode of levitation. Nearby Airmen’s Cross commemorates Captain Eustace Loraine and Staff Sergeant Richard Wilson, who died in a 1912 aircraft crash. The episode also recounts a later story in which soldiers during the Second World War witnessed what appeared to be another crash. Following it through the darkness, they found no wreckage or crew, only the memorial to the earlier airmen. |
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