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More than 100 years ago, something terrible happened in Berkeley Square.
Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square is a nickname given to a mysterious entity that is seen in the 18th century and 19 in a Victorian-era building named 50 Berkeley Square in the UK.
Although most researchers are more inclined to enter these events into the category of the supernatural, while others have assumed that this entity can be put in a category Cryptid or Predator. This is also the reason why I want to write about this creature.
The building is haunted
This mystery story centered on a housing complex called Berkeley Square.
Berkeley Square complex was built in 1740 by an architect named William Kent. This complex was once the residence of prominent figures, among them Winston Churchill 48, who lived in the building. Then, George Canning, the British prime minister in 1827. He lived in the building No.50. And in this building, this mystery begins.
No one knows exactly when and how the building was getting a reputation haunted. However, the strange events that accompany this building actually began late 1700s. It is said that according to legend, a girl who lived in the building were killed in cold blood by caregivers. Since then, the ghost of the little girl was often seen crying upstairs.
But only in 1840, the building was successful in establishing its reputation to be one of the most feared buildings in the UK.
Horror on the second floor
In that year, Sir Robert Warboys who was 20 years of hearing rumors about the haunted house. Raised as a scholar, Warboys despise rumors and looked at only as an urban legend. Warboys colleagues who do not agree with that view immediately challenged him to spend the night on the second floor of the building.
With arrogance, he accepted the challenge.
After successfully convincing the guard building, Warboys given a room on the second floor, just above the guard room.
At a later date, the rooms will be called as one of the most haunted room in the UK.
Warboys then climbed into the bedroom armed with a pistol and a candle.
Forty-five minutes later, the guard woke up from his sleep. He heard a noise in the room upstairs, the rooms are inhabited Warboys. A few seconds later, a gunshot was heard. Hurriedly, he immediately went and ran toward the top. Arriving at the door of the room, he immediately mendobraknya by force.
What he saw will never forget for life.
Conditions in the room was almost unchanged. However, in the corner of a dimly lit room, Sir Robert Warboys motionless clutching his gun still smoked. She no longer alive!
What is more appalling is the facial expression Warboys.
His teeth clenched tightly, and his eyes bulging as if about to jump out of his skull. It looks like he has 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 the gun.
What has been shot?
A definite "something" terrible.
Some twenty years later, the "something" that comes back. This time, he was seen by witnesses who are alive!
Experience two sailors
In 1887, two sailors from the HMS Penelope in Portsmouth named Robert Martin and Edward Blunden who just spend the money to get drunk drove into a Berkeley Square and decided to go to one of the buildings that were there to look for a place to rest. Incidentally they chose the building No.50.
At that time, 50 Berkeley Street has been uninhabited and empty.
Then they managed to find their way into the basement and broke into it. Because finding a moist condition of the floor, both rose to the top, and then sleep in the same room as the room occupied Warboys.
When entering the room, Blunden who seemed more sober than Martin soon realizes that the atmosphere in the room it made him uneasy. He said that he felt the presence of "something". But Martin soon reassured by opening the bedroom window to let in the night wind blows entry.
About an hour later, around midnight, Blunden awakened by the sound of the bedroom door rattling. Rubbing his eyes, he saw the bedroom door was open.
Blunden who wonder then checked around.
Suddenly he saw something!
In dimly lit conditions, Blunden saw a strange gray creeping slowly across the wooden floor. Along with the movement of the creature, Blunden could hear the sound of friction with the ground floor rooms which made her shudder.
By gripped by fear, Blunden wake Martin.
Martin, who awoke immediately realized what was happening in the room. The two then jumped out of bed.
The creature was seen standing awkwardly in front of them. At the back there is room door being the only hope for them to escape.
Blunden trembling glanced toward his rifle lying near the window. When he tried to grab it, the creature suddenly jumped and landed on the neck Blunden. Blunden panic, she began to scream and struggled with the creature.
Seeing the opportunity, Martin quickly ran out of the room, down the stairs, out of the building and immediately shouted for help. Not long later, he met a police patrol.
When they return to the building, they found the room empty. Blunden were not there!
Then, they began to search the entire building. When he reached the basement, they found Blunden. However, he was not lifeless body condition dismembered!
Just as the expression of the death of Sir Robert Warboys, Blunden facial expression by fear.
In another version, recounted that Blunden was not killed in the basement, but was killed by a fall from a window due to fear. Although there are different versions, which surely all agree that something terrible inhabited buildings 50 Berkeley Square.
Experience Thomas Lyttelton
The story of sightings experienced by Martin may be considered a hoax sailor who was drunk. But sightings of this creature was also experienced by community leaders who seem to have no reason to lie. One of them was a member of parliament named Thomas Lyttelton who had lived in the same building for some time.
On a night when going to bed, Lyttelton see something like creature living in his room. He immediately took his rifle and fired. He is convinced that the creature was shot because he saw him fall. But he could find no trace or carcass.
Creature is it?
According to witnesses who claimed to have seen, the creature was barely shaped and looks like a sticky liquid. When he moves, he will produce strange noises. Descriptions are given quite different, but at least one witness said he witnessed that the creature has a collection of tentacles like an octopus.
Due to this description, some researchers concluded that the creature is a type of octopus possibility of water or other water creatures that have mutated and successfully migrated from the river Thames to the London underground channels that eventually make it to Berkeley Square buildings through plumbing.
This creature may be eyeing a collection of mice living in the building when it accidentally discovered the drunken sailors.
However, there is no satisfactory explanation regarding the time span that is long enough sightings. If the creature is a creature that mutates water, it seems quite impossible for appearance reaches up to two hundred years.
Therefore, many believe that the creature is a supernatural creature, not a cryptid or predators.
Harry Price, one that examines this mystery intensively in the 1920s discovered some interesting facts. For example, before 1790, 50 Berkeley Square was never used as the headquarters of the document forgers. Price speculated that haunted house story that may have been exhaled by counterfeiters are to cover their illegal activities. However, while Price examined more deeply, he found a lot of testimony and documentation that tells the story of an encounter with Nameless Thing.
For example, he found an article in the magazine "Notes and Queries" written by W.E Howlett, published in 1870. There is written:
"Berkeley Square still mysterious events. The story of a haunted house in Mayfair it can be concluded with a few words: The building has at least one room with a supernatural atmosphere that is 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 is pretty much, Price can only conclude that it is an evil Poltergeist activity is active in the 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 building Berkeley Square has been used as a rare book shop named Maggs Brothers.
Ed Maggs - bookstore owner Maggs Brothers
Although there is no further sightings were reported within the past few decades, it should be noted that the employees of the bookstore was 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 a barn.
No one who knows the exact reason ... but at least they can expect.
Source: americanmonsters.com, londononline.co.uk
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