could be aliens
Good morning everyone. Welcome to today's episode of the vlog. I don't know if I've ever introduced tessie before
But she's the one remaining dog. We've got on our family. She's actually my sister's dog Tessie. She's eight year old and she's a
Mongrel sheepdog. We are gonna go off today with my whole family to
Rosslyn and just outside Edinburgh. It's a place I've been wanting to talk about on the vlog for a very long time
Just not got around to it yet, but there's all a mystery surrounding Rosslyn Chapel
I don't know if you guys know this if you're fans of The Da Vinci Code book and film you all know about
the legends from that place. I have never been inside rosslyn chapel shamefully
I've never been inside but am today that is changing. I'm gonna go and whore family going my sister a boyfriend my mom and dad
We're all going we're gonna go and see Rosslyn Chapel for the first time
I think I'll just be an interesting vlog and that was also about scouting locations for I
Also want to scout some locations for a vlog series I'm going to be doing
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Rosslyn Chapel has definitely got this mystical mythical
energy with stories of the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail
buried deep underneath in the chambers behind
it's really fascinating the Knights Templar were Catholic militant organization that
Swore themselves to defend the Catholic Church with force and fought many battles during those days
But I am I think one of the interesting things is the Holy Grail which is supposed to basically contain scriptures
actual documents written in the time of Christ along with a part of the crucifix cross that Jesus died on the blood of Christ and
potentially
Christ's head as well
Alongside these documents is what makes up the Holy Grail and is actually said to be buried deep underground at Rosslyn Chapel
It's a tall tale rumors passed down through the generations
But I'm not sure if they've done any archaeological digs or anything here, but it would be interesting
Rosslyn Chapel was built by William Sinclair in the 15th century and the land still belongs to the Sinclair family to this day day
It took a large team of some of the best stonemasons in the world 40 years to build
Although it was never fully completed as William Sinclair died while the Reformation in Scotland also outlawed Catholicism
This is an absolutely fascinating place
Wow, so, I guess one of the great mysteries about this place is the engravings on the wall
There are so many keys as to what these could mean and I just had a child - one of the people that works upstairs
because
Information to tourists and even they said it's literally a mystery and these markings have been in the wall for the last five or six
hundred years
So the most basic idea is that the workmen the stonemasons were actually trying to calculate what they were building as they were building it
But some of the symbols don't make sense that geometry and others are very geometrical. So
Yeah, it could be aliens
This one looks like a YouTube play button
Justine there's one that was like a YouTube play button
These symbols carved in the walls have been the center of theories about Rosslyn Chapel for many years
well
They could just be simple building plans for the building left by the stonemasons
Alternative theories claim the map how the underground crypt where the Holy Grail is supposedly kept or even that it symbolizes
at the entrance to an alien portal
What a fascinating fascinating place, I really really enjoyed them
Coming to visit and also they did a talking here which lasted about half an hour and really explaining some of the finer details
It's fascinating. They're all a mess later. And actually nobody really knows the true
Stories behind this place of the geniuses that built it hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Like I'm gonna watch The Da Vinci Code tonight
remember
People are in the world
Who investigate the story of the Knights Templar and the the Holy Grail was made into a film obviously The Da Vinci Code
And this bridge right here?
Featured in the castle this bridge
Tom Hanks, one of my favorite actors of all times walk across this bridge in the film
So there you go. Maybe there isn't proof. Maybe the Grail is lost forever
Recommend coming here for a Look
Yellin now, there's a wee tunnel here. Can I get for that No?
Don't wanna fall down there cuz a long long long way down to the river stay on the path
Alright so i'm down underneath the castle now
That was a bridge
I was just standing on I mean one of the reasons we came over here today
And to see Rosslyn was just to do by scouting for the series that I want to be doing
Which is gonna be called spooks. I
Mean it's absolutely beautiful. Yeah, that is a creepy soundtrack
Every time I talk they talk
Not that time
But I look at our backdrop of Rosslyn Castle the base of roslin castle as it once was the house that still exists
Where you can stay it's on the very very top levels that are built on the plane
But this is the original part of Rosslyn Castle which is ancient and this around here
These grounds is where the story of the haunted dog comes from
There's also a window to go all the way up here
I'm pretty sure they're all abandoned
All right, any guys want to hear the story of the dog
Right, okay on dark and stormy nights, so it said a blood-curdling sound can be heard in The Woodlands around Rosslyn Castle
According to folklore it comes from a phantom dog the ghost of a war hound which belongs an English night and in 1302
there was a battle here between Scottish and English forces and when a Scottish soldier killed the English night the dog attacked a soldier and
The soldier killed the dog. I'm reading this off Wikipedia so it could be fake news every night
The soldiers were camped here this dog appeared to them howling in the night one night that soldier who killed the dog
Went out for a pee in the middle of the night
Saw the dog come after on me screamed three days later he died
So
Yeah, ever since that legend of the Haunted hound the war hound is stuck in this woodland below rosslyn castle
All the frost has melted over the last couple of days it was very very soft and muddy
It's quite slippy to walk through then I almost just fell over
And you can actually see from this standpoint right that up there is where the current inhabitants of this castle can actually live
There's actually rooms in there by the time you get to the second level here is already abandoned chambers
Then there's a third level down and then a fourth level down that would be a cool investigations for the spook cities
gorgeous River down there
It's just so atmospheric
What spot we need now, all right one thing I swear I am NOT that red
Just light in here. Plus this camera is making me look like I have spent
weeks literally on a Sun bed
It's not normal, right? It's just the way it is in this room with this camera. Okay?
anyway, we came back from
Roslin right after exploring there today
What a great week up. That was I mean, it just goes more with my theme of explored in Scotland, its shearing the world
I love Scotland and I think we've got so many cool and interesting places here. Rosslyn is absolutely one
It is on the tourist trail for obvious reasons
It's a place where you guys can all visit if you come here
I'm just think about those walls and some of the pictures that were inscribed onto them
Absolutely bizarre, like we don't know exactly what that was about
Was it measuring it looks like it was measurements definitely geometry shapes on there
Then there's other things that make less sense like the Stars
Triangles of crosses on the top really bizarre and it just gives you a picture of mystery
which is one of the interesting things about that place and it's why it's been the subject of
Hollywood, for example Dan Brown's book is a place of mystery some say it's even
chords that lead to a map of where
The Holy Grail is buried underneath. One of the symbols looked very much like the YouTube play button
Right. I'm just gonna put it out there, but does that mean these mysterious people who bail Rosslyn Chapel?
Maybe it was a sign for me to go there people who are involved with that castle say there are things buried underneath
chambers hidden chambers but there are just places where people were buried a lot of people with feeties disagree in that and
Anyway, cool place to check out and I recommend you guys do that if you go there anyway
Another thing right? You might have noticed over the last couple of days
My YouTube channel has changed a little bit an appearance of our new profile picture new banner. I made things a lot cleaner
I hope you guys like it. Let me know what you think and I've also made it consistent across my youtube channels
They're all very very similar, now my other live YouTube channel now has its own proper name and URL
Youtube.com/shaunLIVE - Hope you it like that
So that's gonna be the place where I'm going to be doing live videos from now on and last I think I've touched on this
Today but um, one of the things I want to do on my channel is a CDS
Like I said earlier it's going to be called spooks which is about the paranormal. Um
and
Investigating certain places and as you're gonna see in a video, I'm gonna make an event in your future
I'm not sure if I believe in ghosts or not
I'm not sure I believe in the paranormal
As about they are but it is something that's very deeply ingrained into Scottish society in our culture
Paranormal stories
Mr. D. That is what we are. It's in our fabric here in Scotland. We love to tell stories
We love to have myths. I think I would be doing a great disservice if I didn't really cover that properly one day
I always wanted to do this
Because we've got short with literally got hundreds and hundreds of myths and stories and you'll write it to the top of the tree
You've got like the Loch Ness monster, right the Loch Ness monster
Is probably just the one that got most famous?
But actually we've got hundreds and hundreds of other really interesting stories
the cool thing about those stories is ghost stories is that they are all about real people that really
existed in Scotland and what I like about that is I'm gonna be telling these stories and
whether or not you believe in ghosts and the paranormal whether I believe in the paranormal or ghosts or not is their element to the
Story because actually as we're exported we will be learning this history of these people
so most of the ghost stories that we have here in Edinburgh, for example
the people that were talking about really lived here in the city and
Really did to the horrible things. A lot of them did in this city and died here
So I'm gonna be breaking it down and trying to get to some of these stories and really tell
The story about the people behind them the streets
They walked and the nasty things he did how they died and then doing some paranormal investigations
So yeah today was a little bit of a scout for potential future mission
And there's just literally dozens and dozens and dozens of these stories right here in the city that I could be telling you guys
So that is something for the future. It's coming up very soon. Thanks very much for watching
I appreciate it and until the next adventure
I hope you have a good night/morning even afternoon or whatever time it is wherever you are in the world. Take care
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