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The Hythe Crypt

St Leonard's Church, Hythe, Kent

Over a thousand skulls stacked in a church, and nobody knows whose.

Beneath St Leonard's Church in Hythe is one of only two surviving ossuaries in England. It holds around 1,000 skulls and thousands of other bones, neatly stacked on shelves and in a great pile.

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When
Medieval
Where
51.0720, 1.0830
Group
Unexplained

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Open to visitors in summer for a small donation.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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