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Two sailors slept in a London attic. One never made it out alive. πŸ•―οΈ
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Two sailors slept in a London attic. One never made it out alive. πŸ•―οΈ

Two sailors slept in a London attic. One never made it out alive. πŸ•―οΈ . . . December 1887: two Royal Navy sailors on shore leave broke into an empty townhouse at 50 Berkeley Square. By dawn one had fled screaming into Piccadilly. The other was found dead β€” he had tripped as he ran from the house. Nobody has ever agreed on what he saw inside that room.

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