The Sadistic Bishop's Ghost That Haunts Fulham Palace

Fulham Palace in West London is a grade II listed stately home that used to house the Bishop of London. Despite its beautiful architecture and picturesque gardens, this building is hiding a dark past. Bishop Bonner, a notoriously evil Bishop used to live here. His restless spirit is still said to walk the halls of the palace to this day.
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[@lilibetp]

I'll never understand how people can possibly think Jesus would have wanted his followers to do this kind of thing.

[@peterstucke9824]

Yeah . Sorry mate if you like history you'll know it happens all the time. If you pay attention to current affairs you'll know it's happening now. Doesn't matter which religion.

[@beatle1956]

I'll never understand why anyone would believe that a schizophrenic carpenter walked on water, healed a leper and gave sight to the blind.

[@victorious3926]

​@@beatle1956praying for you that's all I can say.

[@bawsack69]

​@@beatle1956 because you're gay

[@iiiwwwooo4168]

Demiurgos wants it, not Jesus. Catholics worship Yahweh, which is actually Devil

[@msdxyz]

Lambeth Palace was the home of the Archbishop of Cantabury not the Bishop of London. You mention Sir Thomas More's home in Putney, he also had his own torture chamber to root out heretics. The Catholic church was terrified of the Bible printed in English and the people worshiping in English.

[@alecblunden8615]

3:36 They preferred Jerome's Vulgate., itself a biased Latin translation of the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts.An accurate English translation could have disclosed the bias and might actually teach the common folk the truth of the gospel.

[@robincowley5823]

It's true that Lambeth Palace is home to the Archbish of Canterbury. But then, this 'documentary' is about Fulham Palace, so....

[@msdxyz]

@@robincowley5823 ...so maybe you should replay the part where the narration clearly idenifies his TWO palaces Fulham and Lambeth

[@randynesbit4497]

Thanks for sharing

[@hildahilpert5018]

More,s home was not in Putney, but Chelsea.If I recall More,s home site is now a convent, but I can't recall the name of the religious order of nuns who live there.More didn't have a torture chamber in his house.Thomad Cromwell was from Putney

[@victorious3926]

When you have power hungry greedy people in positions of power it never turns out right and people take advantage of that position in many different forms and ways. Many countries have been founded on cruelty and brutality producing fear.

[@jeffnichols7834]

I enjoy these series.

[@evilladollyz7602]

People were brutal back then.

[@jeffnichols7834]

They still are today. Brutal more so than ever.

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

They called him Bloody Bonner for a good reason.

[@arlenedavis5770]

There are so many men and women "of God" who were not godly people. It's horrid.

[@justinkauffman731]

Come on Fulham! Super Fulham!

[@suemcgregor9248]

I hardly think the Bishop played on the team. Go the Mighty All Blacks!

[@randynesbit4497]

Hahaha😂

[@mariaowen-c1o]

Look up the number of people tortured and executed in Elizabeth I reign, more than any other monarch. I spite of her declaration ‘ not to make spy holes into people s beliefs ‘ early in her reign, it.became a capital offence to hear Mass or even speak to a priest. It’s still illegal for a Roman Catholic to marry someone in the line of succession and that person not lose their place in it. I think that’s down to the Hanoverians.
Incidentally the narrator couldn’t remember his own figures, adding an extra 100 towards the end.
Mary was responsible for 275 executions, Henry VIII 72,000. Elizabeth I 10 of thousands, more than her father, can’t at the moment find the exact number, but there is a list of 81 pages of names alone and that only covers the higher classes and not mentioning others or the Irish.
40:33
It’s worth remembering that torture was seen as an acceptable way to get to the truth across Europe up to about 200 years ago.
At the beginning of the 1800’s a child could technically still be hanged for stealing an apple.

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

Elizabeth was forced to become anti-catholic because the Pope decided to excommunicate her and condemn her to death, and offer the throne of England to whoever accomplished the deed. Look up how many assassination attempts were intercepted for her.

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

Also, the anti-Catholic law was passed under the Stuarts, to justify removing James II.

[@lyamainu]

To be fair, her reign was a LOT longer than Edward’s or Mary’s. I wonder if you did the math, who would have the highest yearly average?

[@elisabetta611]

Henry VIII executed far more people than Elizabeth. And Mary would have too if she hadn't died so early. I'm a Catholic but the Marian persecutions cannot be excused by whataboutisms. Like would you do that with Caligula or Nero?

[@pinoyhappynetwork]

There is no good or evil. Only power.

[@frawgeatfrawgworld]

There is no power only the illusion of control. And what is good and evil is out of your control. It is absolute.

[@lyamainu]

Okay, Voldemort.

[@johnmathew5495]

Dang

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

What a evil queen

[@ccasey1904]

Ghostly tobacco or cigarette smoke is well documented.

[@lizaatwood201]

Thats satan work