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The Ancient Colleges

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Contents

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  1. 1Orientation

    We now stand before the ancient colleges of Oxford, institutions that have stood for nearly a millennium, providing plenty of time to be haunted. These are the definitive locations for some of the most intellectual hauntings in…

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  2. 2The Archbishop of St John's

    One of the most famous and heart-stopping accounts of apparitions in the ancient colleges is found at St John's College. It involves the spirit of William Laud, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of the…

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  3. 3The Library Specters and Silent Scholars

    The ancient colleges are famous for their libraries, and it is here that many of the most subtle yet persistent supernatural phenomena occur. Oxford's libraries are repositories of thought, containing manuscripts that are…

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  4. 4Closing

    We leave the ancient colleges with a sense of the immense history and the spectral scholars who guard it. The heart-stopping accounts of Archbishop Laud and the silent library specters remind us that in Oxford, the mind is as…

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Key facts
TypeActivity
Story sections4
Text languageEnglish
Coordinates51.7560, -1.2580
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