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Black Country Museum
The Black Country Museum was opened in 1976 and is overshadowed by Dudley Castle on an expansive acres of land. The museum was created to depict a working charismatic working museum visited by thousands of visitors every year. It is brought to live by costumed characters in the many shops, houses and workshops in the Museum's canal side village. It includes a Black
Country Village that has been recreated and furnished to replicate it as it would have been seen in the turn of the century. In addition, Black Country coal mine, and trams and trolley buses.
Even more impressive is the 'Singing Cavern', a disused limestone mine reached by new tunnels constructed in 1984 and 1989. The underground coalmines, demonstrations in sweet making, glass cutting and metal working are all present in this impressive place, with a collection of original buildings that once were part of its past relocated and brought to life in retelling local history.
Dudley Canal
The Museum operates trips on the canal that leads to impressive caverns, who knows who you might meet in these tunnels as they are supposed to be the most haunted places in the region.
There is mention of a ghost that haunts the tunnels who was murdered there. Is this true, you might find out if you go on this trip. Even more intriguing is that they might be haunted by 2 children that drowned there after there raft capsized.
Pub Spirit - The Bottle and Glass
If you visit the pub then you might get more than the spirits behind the bar, staff have reported strange goings on and noises that occur down the cellar. Additionally, the chemist even claims they have a ghost in there.
Have ghosts travelled with the building to this site from their previous one? Would this be possible? If so then what other secrets could be found in this immense museum that holds this vast amount of history.
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