A silent path that knows no tread save the eerie footsteps of the dead ...
In the old English town of York n the North of England near the old Hadrian’s Wall there is an old Medieval building which has become the subject of a ghostly tale. This is the story of a young heating engineer apprentice who incredibly encountered the passage of an entire Roman cohort that literally stepped out of the wall.
In the old English town of York n the North of England near the old Hadrian’s Wall there is an old Medieval building which has become the subject of a ghostly tale. This is the story of a young heating engineer apprentice who incredibly encountered the passage of an entire Roman cohort that literally stepped out of the wall.
Harry Martindale was an eighteen year-old at the time of his encounter in the cold month of February in the year 1953. He had been instructed to install a new central heating system at Treasure’s House in the city of York North Yorkshire. The medieval building is an old house said to have been constructed in 1562 for the Treasurers of York Minster. The building is now run by the National Trust. While working on the heating system below the ground level the young apprentice suddenly heard the sound of a horn. The sound seemed very strange particularly since the young apprentice was in the basement level and from where the noise of the horn distinctly emerged. Young Harry remained perched on his ladder wondering about the growing sound when all of a sudden something very shocking occurred which startled him to fall off his ladder.
All of a sudden this great big cart with a horse appeared straight out of nowhere, through the brick wall of the basement and right into the cellar where he was working. Young Harry was shocked to see the cart and horse emerge and being ridden by a Roman soldier. The apprentice could clearly make out the dress of the driver and the state of disarray of his clothes in the dim lighting. Then immediately to his utter shock an entire cohort of marching Roman soldiers followed. The soldiers trampled through the cellar dressed in green tunics and silver helmets and they were armed with shield sword and spear!
Later on the startled apprentice learned that there was an old Roman road buried a few inches below the building. The curator of the building was an old man and smirked upon inquiring if the young man had seen the Roman troops on their march. Apparently the soldiers had been spotted several times before by the curator and other witnesses who had quite taken to the fact that they had a spirit army marching through the building at times. Quite clearly the building was built on top of an old Roman road but at the time of the construction who was to say that the road was still in use by Roman legionnaires!
All of a sudden this great big cart with a horse appeared straight out of nowhere, through the brick wall of the basement and right into the cellar where he was working. Young Harry was shocked to see the cart and horse emerge and being ridden by a Roman soldier. The apprentice could clearly make out the dress of the driver and the state of disarray of his clothes in the dim lighting. Then immediately to his utter shock an entire cohort of marching Roman soldiers followed. The soldiers trampled through the cellar dressed in green tunics and silver helmets and they were armed with shield sword and spear!
Later on the startled apprentice learned that there was an old Roman road buried a few inches below the building. The curator of the building was an old man and smirked upon inquiring if the young man had seen the Roman troops on their march. Apparently the soldiers had been spotted several times before by the curator and other witnesses who had quite taken to the fact that they had a spirit army marching through the building at times. Quite clearly the building was built on top of an old Roman road but at the time of the construction who was to say that the road was still in use by Roman legionnaires!
