Recent reports of the discovery of a series of caves and tunnels linked to the Knights Templar have already been discredited. The caves exist; there’s no question about that. It’s the link to the Templars that is dubious. Not that it matters at all for our present purposes. The caverns are spooky and cool-looking, and they immediately bring to mind a dozen or so Hammer Horror flicks. You’d expect to run into Christopher Lee around the next corner, or see several coffins tucked away into a shadowy alcove. Don’t take my word for it, though. Take a gander at the caverns for yourself here. Doesn’t it just ignite an irresistible itch inside you to go explore them?
The Templar link put me in mind not of the historical Knights Templar, though, but of the blood-slurping Blind Zombies, stars of the “Blind Dead” quartet of films from Spanish director Amando de Ossorio. I’m not into cosplay; working in the theatre, I get enough opportunities to play dress-up already. But I would love to make myself up like one of the Blind Zombies and hide in these caves, waiting for some unsuspecting tourists to come moseying along. It’s in Britain, where they don’t allow such unrestricted carrying of firearms as we have here in the States, so I probably wouldn’t get shot. I’d need to bring a friend along with me, though, with a boom box to play my ominous Medieval-sounding music. A Blind Zombie can’t appear without accompanying creepy music. And I’d have to learn to move in slow motion. The Blind Zombies, they ain’t too fleet of foot.