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UK Theme Park Relocates Ride Because It's Haunted by a Headless Monk Ghost

February 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM | by | Comments (0)

We’ve been to the Disney version of a haunted house at both Mickey’s world and his land, but the latest spooky theme park news out of the United Kingdom appears to be way more hardcore.

At Thorpe Park in England, workers were busy doing their thing getting a new ride ready for visitors come this summer season, but when the bulldozers started moving the earth around they clearly disturbed something—or someone—that wasn’t as excited about the new attraction. After starting to construct a new water ride called Storm Surge park, workers noticed that bits and pieces of the ride starting moving around the construction scene on their own.

Alright we’re big chickens so this would be enough to totally freak us out, but it sounds like the workers just tried to shrug things off. Well things got worse as they eventually started to see ghosts, and one description was even pretty specific—it was a headless monk.

Park officials called in the experts—not Bill Murray and friends, but some other Ghostbusters—and it appears that the site of the new ride was actually home to the cliché ancient burial ground. Long story short, the new ride is getting a new location, but who knows what they’re eventually going to build on the vacant land. We’re thinking available theme park space is at a premium, so we’ll let you know when a real deal haunted house opens to the public—even though there’s no way we’d go inside.

Related Stories:
· Ghosts Force Architects To Move Location Of Theme Park Ride [Reuters]
· The Green Lantern Roller Coaster Arrives at Six Flags Magic Mountain [Jaunted]
· Theme Parks coverage [Jaunted]

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