More than 100 years ago, something terrible happened in Berkeley Square.
Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square is a nickname given to the mysterious entity that seen in the 18th century and 19 in a Victorian era building called 50 Berkeley Square in the UK.
Although most researchers are more inclined to enter this event into the category of the supernatural, while others have assumed that this entity can be included into the category of cryptid or Predator. This is also the reason why I want to write about this creature.
The building is haunted
This mystery story centers on a housing complex called Berkeley Square.
Berkeley Square complex was built in 1740 by an architect named William Kent. The complex was once the residence of prominent figures, among them Winston Churchill, who lived in the building # 48. Then, George Canning, the British prime minister in 1827. He lived in the building # 50. And in this building, this mystery begins.
No one knows exactly when and how the building earned a reputation angkernya. However, the strange events that accompany this building actually began in the late 1700s. It is said that according to legend, a girl who lived in the building murdered by a sadistic nanny. Since then, the ghost of the little girl was often seen crying on the floor above.
But only in 1840, this building successfully built its reputation to be one of the most feared buildings in England.
Horror on the second floor
In that year, Sir Robert Warboys 20-year-old heard the rumors about the building was haunted. Raised as a scholar, Warboys despise rumors and looked at only as an urban legend. Warboys colleagues who disagrees with that view immediately challenged him to spend the night on the second floor of the building.
With the arrogant, he accepted the challenge.
After successfully convincing the guards of the building, Warboys is given a room on the second floor, just above the guard room.
Later on, the room will be called as one of the most haunted rooms in the UK.
Warboys then climbed into the bedroom armed with a pistol and a candle.
Forty-five minutes later, the guard awoke from his sleep. He heard a noise in the room upstairs, the rooms are inhabited Warboys. A few seconds later, the sound of gunfire was heard. With haste, he immediately got up and ran toward the top. Arriving at the door of the room, he was soon to break by force.
What he saw would never forget for life.
Conditions in the room was almost unchanged. However, at the corner of the dimly lit room, Sir Robert Warboys motionless clutching his pistol which still emit smoke. He was not dead anymore!
What is more appalling is the facial expression of Warboys.
Her teeth were tightly shut, and his eyes bulging as if about to jump out of his skull. Looks like he had seen something terrible that has been killing him instantly.
There is no clue as to what has caused Warboys died tragically. The guards just found a hole in the wall caused by bullets fired from a gun.
What has been shot?
What is certain 'something' is horrible.
Some twenty years later, "something" comes back. This time, he was seen by witnesses who are alive!
Experience two sailors
In 1887, two sailors from the ship HMS Penelope in Portsmouth named Robert Martin and Edward Blunden who had just spent money to get drunk get into Berkeley Square complex and decided to go into one of the buildings that were there to find a place to rest. Incidentally they chose the building # 50.
At that time, 50 Berkeley Street is uninhabited and empty.
Then they managed to find their way into the basement and broke into it. Because finding a moist floor conditions, both upstairs and slept in the same room with the room occupied Warboys.
When entering the room, Blunden who seemed more sober than Martin soon realized that the atmosphere in the room made him uneasy. He said if he felt the presence of 'something'. But Martin immediately to calm him by opening the bedroom window to let the night wind blows in..
About an hour later, around midnight, Blunden awakened by the sound of creaking door. As he rubbed his eyes, he saw the bedroom door was open.
Blunden who wonder then check around.
Suddenly he saw something!
In dim conditions, Blunden saw a strange gray crept slowly on wooden floor. Along with the movement of the creature, Blunden could hear the sound of friction with the floor that made me shudder.
With gripped by extreme fear, Martin Blunden wake.
Martin is awakened immediately realized what was happening in that room. Both of them then jumped out of bed.
The creature was seen standing in front of them strangely. Behind the door there is to be the only hope to escape them.
Blunden's trembling glance at his rifle which was lying near the window. When he tried to reach it, the creature suddenly jumped and landed on the neck Blunden. Blunden panic, he started screaming and wrestled with the creature.
Seeing opportunity, Martin quickly ran out of the room, down the stairs, out of the building and immediately shouted for help. Not long after, he met a policeman on patrol.
When they returned to the building, they found the room empty. Blunden does not exist there!
Then, they began to search the entire building. When it reached the basement, they found Blunden. However, he was lifeless with dismembered body condition!
Just as the expression of the death of Sir Robert Warboys, Blunden's face showed an expression of profound fear.
In another version, recounted that Blunden was not killed in the basement, but was killed by a fall from a window as a result of fear. Although there are different versions, which would all agree that something terrible inhabit the building 50 Berkeley Square.
Experience Thomas Lyttelton
The story of apparitions experienced by Martin might be considered a hoax drunken sailor. But sightings of this creature was also experienced by community leaders who seem to have no reason to lie. One of them is a member of parliament named Thomas Lyttelton who had lived in the same building for some time.
One night, when about to sleep, Lyttelton see something like creature living in his room. He immediately took his rifle and fired. He believes that the creature was shot because he saw it fall. But he could not find any trace or carcass.
The creature is it?
According to witnesses who claimed to have seen it, the creature was almost out of shape and looks like a sticky fluid. When he moves, he will produce strange noises. Descriptions are given quite different, but at least one witness said he saw that the creature has a set of tentacles like an octopus.
Because of this description, some researchers concluded that the creature is the type octopus possibility of water or other water creatures which have mutated and successfully migrated from the river Thames to the London underground lines which eventually make it up to Berkeley Square buildings through plumbing.
This creature might be chasing a set of mice that lived in the building when it accidentally discovered the drunken sailors.
However, no satisfactory explanation of the appearance of a time span long enough. If the creature is a creature of water that is mutated, it seems quite impossible because the visibility reaches up to two hundred years.
Therefore, many believe that the creature is supernatural, not cryptid or predators. Harry Price, one of which is intensively researching the mystery of the 1920s found some interesting facts. For example, before the year 1790, 50 Berkeley Square was once used as a base document counterfeiters. Price speculated that the story haunted the building may have been exhaled by counterfeiters is to cover up their illegal activities. However, while Price dug deeper, he found a lot of testimony and documentation that tells the story of an encounter with the Nameless Thing.
For example, he found an article in the magazine 'Notes and Queries', written by WE Howlett, published in 1870. There is written:
'The events of Berkeley Square still mysterious. The story haunted building in Mayfair it can be concluded with a few words: The building had at least one room with a supernatural atmosphere are having an adverse effect on the body and mind. One girl had seen and heard the horror and became mad. He never recovered to be able to tell what he had seen. '
See the documentation that quite a lot, Price could only conclude that it is evil Poltergeist activity is active in building No.50 in the 1800s. However, he believed that the activity has vanished now.
Berkeley Square - Now
Since 1938 until now, the ground floor of the Berkeley Square building has been used as a rare book store called Maggs Brothers.
Ed Maggs - bookstore owner Maggs Brothers
Although there are no more sightings were reported over the past few decades, it should be noted that bookstore employees are not allowed to go upstairs. According to them, since the 1950s, police have put a warning sign on the wall inside the building.
The warning mentions that the top floor of the building should not be used, even for warehouse though.
Not even one person who knows the exact reason ... but at least they can expect.
Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square is a nickname given to the mysterious entity that seen in the 18th century and 19 in a Victorian era building called 50 Berkeley Square in the UK.
Although most researchers are more inclined to enter this event into the category of the supernatural, while others have assumed that this entity can be included into the category of cryptid or Predator. This is also the reason why I want to write about this creature.
The building is haunted
This mystery story centers on a housing complex called Berkeley Square.
Berkeley Square complex was built in 1740 by an architect named William Kent. The complex was once the residence of prominent figures, among them Winston Churchill, who lived in the building # 48. Then, George Canning, the British prime minister in 1827. He lived in the building # 50. And in this building, this mystery begins.
No one knows exactly when and how the building earned a reputation angkernya. However, the strange events that accompany this building actually began in the late 1700s. It is said that according to legend, a girl who lived in the building murdered by a sadistic nanny. Since then, the ghost of the little girl was often seen crying on the floor above.
But only in 1840, this building successfully built its reputation to be one of the most feared buildings in England.
Horror on the second floor
In that year, Sir Robert Warboys 20-year-old heard the rumors about the building was haunted. Raised as a scholar, Warboys despise rumors and looked at only as an urban legend. Warboys colleagues who disagrees with that view immediately challenged him to spend the night on the second floor of the building.
With the arrogant, he accepted the challenge.
After successfully convincing the guards of the building, Warboys is given a room on the second floor, just above the guard room.
Later on, the room will be called as one of the most haunted rooms in the UK.
Warboys then climbed into the bedroom armed with a pistol and a candle.
Forty-five minutes later, the guard awoke from his sleep. He heard a noise in the room upstairs, the rooms are inhabited Warboys. A few seconds later, the sound of gunfire was heard. With haste, he immediately got up and ran toward the top. Arriving at the door of the room, he was soon to break by force.
What he saw would never forget for life.
Conditions in the room was almost unchanged. However, at the corner of the dimly lit room, Sir Robert Warboys motionless clutching his pistol which still emit smoke. He was not dead anymore!
What is more appalling is the facial expression of Warboys.
Her teeth were tightly shut, and his eyes bulging as if about to jump out of his skull. Looks like he had seen something terrible that has been killing him instantly.
There is no clue as to what has caused Warboys died tragically. The guards just found a hole in the wall caused by bullets fired from a gun.
What has been shot?
What is certain 'something' is horrible.
Some twenty years later, "something" comes back. This time, he was seen by witnesses who are alive!
Experience two sailors
In 1887, two sailors from the ship HMS Penelope in Portsmouth named Robert Martin and Edward Blunden who had just spent money to get drunk get into Berkeley Square complex and decided to go into one of the buildings that were there to find a place to rest. Incidentally they chose the building # 50.
At that time, 50 Berkeley Street is uninhabited and empty.
Then they managed to find their way into the basement and broke into it. Because finding a moist floor conditions, both upstairs and slept in the same room with the room occupied Warboys.
When entering the room, Blunden who seemed more sober than Martin soon realized that the atmosphere in the room made him uneasy. He said if he felt the presence of 'something'. But Martin immediately to calm him by opening the bedroom window to let the night wind blows in..
About an hour later, around midnight, Blunden awakened by the sound of creaking door. As he rubbed his eyes, he saw the bedroom door was open.
Blunden who wonder then check around.
Suddenly he saw something!
In dim conditions, Blunden saw a strange gray crept slowly on wooden floor. Along with the movement of the creature, Blunden could hear the sound of friction with the floor that made me shudder.
With gripped by extreme fear, Martin Blunden wake.
Martin is awakened immediately realized what was happening in that room. Both of them then jumped out of bed.
The creature was seen standing in front of them strangely. Behind the door there is to be the only hope to escape them.
Blunden's trembling glance at his rifle which was lying near the window. When he tried to reach it, the creature suddenly jumped and landed on the neck Blunden. Blunden panic, he started screaming and wrestled with the creature.
Seeing opportunity, Martin quickly ran out of the room, down the stairs, out of the building and immediately shouted for help. Not long after, he met a policeman on patrol.
When they returned to the building, they found the room empty. Blunden does not exist there!
Then, they began to search the entire building. When it reached the basement, they found Blunden. However, he was lifeless with dismembered body condition!
Just as the expression of the death of Sir Robert Warboys, Blunden's face showed an expression of profound fear.
In another version, recounted that Blunden was not killed in the basement, but was killed by a fall from a window as a result of fear. Although there are different versions, which would all agree that something terrible inhabit the building 50 Berkeley Square.
Experience Thomas Lyttelton
The story of apparitions experienced by Martin might be considered a hoax drunken sailor. But sightings of this creature was also experienced by community leaders who seem to have no reason to lie. One of them is a member of parliament named Thomas Lyttelton who had lived in the same building for some time.
One night, when about to sleep, Lyttelton see something like creature living in his room. He immediately took his rifle and fired. He believes that the creature was shot because he saw it fall. But he could not find any trace or carcass.
The creature is it?
According to witnesses who claimed to have seen it, the creature was almost out of shape and looks like a sticky fluid. When he moves, he will produce strange noises. Descriptions are given quite different, but at least one witness said he saw that the creature has a set of tentacles like an octopus.
Because of this description, some researchers concluded that the creature is the type octopus possibility of water or other water creatures which have mutated and successfully migrated from the river Thames to the London underground lines which eventually make it up to Berkeley Square buildings through plumbing.
This creature might be chasing a set of mice that lived in the building when it accidentally discovered the drunken sailors.
However, no satisfactory explanation of the appearance of a time span long enough. If the creature is a creature of water that is mutated, it seems quite impossible because the visibility reaches up to two hundred years.
Therefore, many believe that the creature is supernatural, not cryptid or predators. Harry Price, one of which is intensively researching the mystery of the 1920s found some interesting facts. For example, before the year 1790, 50 Berkeley Square was once used as a base document counterfeiters. Price speculated that the story haunted the building may have been exhaled by counterfeiters is to cover up their illegal activities. However, while Price dug deeper, he found a lot of testimony and documentation that tells the story of an encounter with the Nameless Thing.
For example, he found an article in the magazine 'Notes and Queries', written by WE Howlett, published in 1870. There is written:
'The events of Berkeley Square still mysterious. The story haunted building in Mayfair it can be concluded with a few words: The building had at least one room with a supernatural atmosphere are having an adverse effect on the body and mind. One girl had seen and heard the horror and became mad. He never recovered to be able to tell what he had seen. '
See the documentation that quite a lot, Price could only conclude that it is evil Poltergeist activity is active in building No.50 in the 1800s. However, he believed that the activity has vanished now.
Berkeley Square - Now
Since 1938 until now, the ground floor of the Berkeley Square building has been used as a rare book store called Maggs Brothers.
Ed Maggs - bookstore owner Maggs Brothers
Although there are no more sightings were reported over the past few decades, it should be noted that bookstore employees are not allowed to go upstairs. According to them, since the 1950s, police have put a warning sign on the wall inside the building.
The warning mentions that the top floor of the building should not be used, even for warehouse though.
Not even one person who knows the exact reason ... but at least they can expect.
