The old graveyard of St Mary’s in Whitby has become the scene of real horror after human bones began to emerge from their centuries-old graves.
The discovery was made when the church cemetery, which dates to 1110AD, began to subside and fall down the cliff earlier this year following heavy rain.Many of the ancient graves were exposed – and among the debris tumbling on to the buildings below were a number of human bones, thought to be at least a century old.
Stoker was inspired to use the cemetery as the backdrop for some of Dracula’s horror scenes after visiting the North Yorkshire town in the 1890s.