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TRAVEL GUIDE PLUMBS NEW DEPTHS

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The website itravelfun.com has few rivals for strangled prose and recycled wobbly-eyed gobbledegook in its guide to Europe’s most haunted places. Can you guess the location described here?

‘The breeding ground of gory battles and torture of an erstwhile era, [it] is a well-known haunted spot, where people have reported to have felt a hand on their shoulder or someone pulling them.

'There are rumored apparitions of an old man sporting an apron, and a piper (who died under mysterious conditions in the ... tunnels).’

We will reveal the answer tomorrow.

Update (31.8.14): And the answer is ... Edinburgh Castle. It may well be a coincidence, but since yesterday's posting, the entry quoted above seems to have disappeared from the Internet.