Intriguingly, the first arrests of the Knights Templar occurred on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307, per GQ, which is perhaps one of the reasons many people associate Friday the 13th with bad luck.

Adding to the carvings' creepiness was their rudimentary, almost childlike, execution. Imagine the surprise, then, of the people who rediscovered Royston Cave , quite by accident, in the summer of ...

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