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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, we're going to go back in time now. |
0:15.4 | We're going to go to Brompton Cemetery in London, |
0:17.9 | because Helen Smith from Reuters on the London Daily News of October the 29th |
0:23.1 | 1998 asked, is the secret to time travel lurking in an old London cemetery? |
0:30.1 | You see, there is a story that deep within the Victorian Brompton Cemetery inon is a time machine for teleportation or time travel it sounds an extraordinary claim and yet there is much intriguing mystery to this story |
0:48.0 | this portal to another world is said to be within the egyptian mausoleum of a spinster named Miss H. Cortoy and her daughters. |
0:58.9 | Like the row of mausoleums in Highgate Cemetery called the Egyptian Avenue, |
1:05.4 | in Brompton Cemetery stands a 20-foot-tall mausoleum decorated with carved Egyptian hieroglyphics and a huge |
1:14.8 | copper door with a mysteriously missing key. |
1:18.8 | Well, the reporter for Reuters, said, surrounded by trees in the middle of Brompton Cemetery, |
1:23.6 | stands a strange, imposing structure, carved with elaborate Egyptian-like figures, |
1:31.3 | exciting the interest of writers and researchers. |
1:34.3 | The 150-year-old mausoleum is the only one in the cemetery for which no plans can be found. |
1:41.3 | Its occupants are a mysterious trio of spinsters about which almost nothing is known. |
1:48.1 | The sculpture is startling. The trapezoid of dark polished granite is decorated with a narrow |
1:54.1 | band of carved hieroglyphics and has an enormous door, for which there is no surviving key. |
2:04.5 | It has not been opened for more than 120 years. |
2:11.9 | Brompton Cemetery itself is arguably one of the most stunning Victorian cemeteries in the world. |
2:17.2 | It covers roughly 40 acres and houses more than 35,000 monuments, which mark the resting place of more than |
2:19.6 | 205,000 burials, with ornate marble headstones, exquisitely designed mausoleums, and finely carved |
2:27.6 | angels abounding everywhere within the cemetery. It's where the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is |
2:34.0 | buried, and Beatrix Potter wandered here |
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