Welcome to the Sunday Stills feature hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt.
This week’s theme is mysterious…synonyms include strange, puzzling or curious.
These creepy looking caves are in the grounds of Beeston Castle in Cheshire. I took the photos through the metal grill that keeps the public out. I don’t think I’d be venturing inside anyway.

The remains of over 50 buildings, which would have been thatched round houses, were found on a hillside in Anglesey, known as the Holyhead Mountain Hut Group. The site would have originally covered 15-20 acres



I forget where we saw this curiosity. Fragments of glass urinal flasks were unearthed in a 16th century latrine pit at Laugharne Castle in Carmarthenshire in Wales. The complete flask is a modern replica.
This is in Alnwick, Northumberland. It’s difficult to see with the reflections but you can just make out at least one of the bottles at the bottom of the picture in the middle if you enlarge the image.


It only became clear what this sculpture depicted after reading the plaque.


What interesting items you found for this. The bottles in the window is spooky.
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Thanks, Rosie. I thought the bottles were spooky too when I saw them, especially so when I read the plaque.
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Cursed bottles. That’s the first time I’ve heard of bottles being cursed and containing a death wish, Cathy. No wonder they’ve been untouched for nearly 300 years.
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First time I’d heard of it too, Hugh. Better not to risk touching 😉
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First of all the caves are definitely a mysterious find. Europe seems to have a ton of mysterious landscapes and architecture built into those landscapes providing eerie theories and stories. Gotta love those cursed urinal bottles. Perfect mysteries for the theme this week, Cathy!
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Thanks, Terri. I didn’t think I’d find anything for the challenge this week, good job I trawled through the archives.
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Here’s to good trawling!
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Those caves are creepy. What an interesting post this week. Those bottles are kind of creepy. And very nice photos again this week, Cathy
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Glad you enjoyed 🙂
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What fabulous mysteries you’ve shared Cathy!!
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Thanks, Debbie 🙂
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What a wonderful selection Cathy, I especially love the roundhouses – it must have been a wonderful sight in its heyday 💚 Wishing you all a happy Monday with much love from our house to yours 🤗💕🐕
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Thank you, Xenia 💕🐕🤗xxx
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Ooh, nicely spooky! That top pic looks like the legs of an elephant that has been turned to stone…
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Haha, so it does!
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