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It's one of the UK's most popular tourist attractions visited by over a whopping 2.5million people each year.
Alton Towers was first opened as gardens in the 1860s as a fortress for Ceolred, the young King of Mercia, who ruled for seven years before going insane.
It was believed that both he and the ground of Alton Towers were cursed, reports StokeLive.
The 15th Earl of Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, owned the building in 1801 and renovated it. During that time the famous tale of the Earl’s encounter with a witch is narrated on the ride Hex in the theme park, which is built into part of the old building.
Those waiting for the Hex ride have claimed they have seen ghost children playing and been hit with small stones.
In 2016 a woman named Sharon Kearns, 46, visited the theme park for a ghost walk joined by mediums and TV show Most Haunted's Brian Shepherd.
And the group were shocked when they spotted what they believe is an eerie figure in one of Sharon's photos from the evening.
People speculated that this image could be a sighting of the woman who cursed the theme park hundreds of years ago as there have been numerous ghost sightings in the theme park grounds, and one legend has it an old beggar woman put a hex on the land in 1821.
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The first reported sighting of her was from the Earl himself.
It is believed that the Earl’s coach was stopped by an old beggar lady asking for money, but when he refused, she told him that every time a branch fell from the old oak tree, a member of the family would die.
That night following a storm, a branch fell from the tree and a family member died, so the Earl ordered his men to chain up the branches of the tree – and it remains like this today.
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The gift shop, in particular, is said to be home to a poltergeist – which they believe is also a woman.
During the 1960s and 1970's my otherwise sane and somewhat sceptical family witnessed regular paranormal activity in the shop.
The poltergeist, which they believed to be a woman, as staff claimed to have seen her, became so active that my family went to great lengths to investigate.
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The family sealed doors and windows and even began sleeping in the Towers themselves to try and catch a glimpse of her.
They even hired specialist paranormal investigators from London but they never officially solved the mystery.
The activity is said to have started fairly gently, with granny noticing a line of ducks which she could have sworn were facing one way when she priced up the night before but were then facing the other. She brushed it off but then it happened over and over again.
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One morning a few weeks later, she unlocked the huge front doors and was faced with hundreds of those little green soldiers that had been packed away and sealed in boxes was scattered across the stone floor.
All the soldiers who were brandishing weapons were lying on their front or on their backs, presumably 'dead' whilst every single one of the others without weapons were still standing.
The woman claimed they were all strategically placed to stage this bizarre war scene as though the ghoul had been playing with them.
Mediums have claimed that the Staffordshire amusement park is still cursed.
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