An abandoned family tomb on the island of Barbados in the Caribbean has an eerie history of 'dancing' coffins that remains unexplained to this day.
A small vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish was built in 1724 by an official called James Elliot and was approximately 12-feet deep and six-feet wide.
The stony underground room could only be accessed by a set a stairs and was secured behind a chunky piece of marble slab.
Accounts vary on the Chase Vault - as it became known after it was bought by the Chase family in 1808 - but it is likely to have been initially occupied by Elliot and then his wife towards the end of the 18th century.
The claustrophobic vault was then bought by the Walrond Family, and in 1807 a lady called Thomasina Goddard was due to be buried there soon after.
However, when it was opened, the two Elliot caskets were bizarrely missing, which hinted at the seemingly paranormal activity that would plague the room.
Goddard's coffin was left in there when the Chase's eventually buried their two-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, the same year they bought it.
The vault remained untouched for four years until another of the Chase's daughters, Dorcas, had to be buried in it.
Rumours spread that she had starved herself to death due to her abusive father, Thomas.
This time in the vault, Mary Ann's little coffin was found inexplicably upside and on the opposite side of the room that it was placed.
Thomas died a few months later, and his casket was put next to his daughters.
But when the tomb was reopened in 1816 to bury 11-month old Samuel Brewster Ames, all of the coffins inside were in complete disarray.
Two more bodies were interred there over the next few years and, each time, the residing coffins had moved as if they were dancing around the tomb.
The mysterious circumstances were reportedly brought to the attention of the then governor of Barbados, Sir Stapelton Cotton, who is said to have ordered a thin layer of sand to be spread upon the vault's floor to expose any potential footprints, in case someone was breaking in and moving the coffins.
But the adult-led coffins were so big and heavy that it took up to six men to move one.
The vault was also checked for any secret passages - none were found - and earthquakes and floods were ruled out as no other coffins in the cemetery's vaults had altered position.
In 1820, the tomb was opened once again and officials found no incriminating traces in the sand - but still all the coffins had moved and looked like they had been forcefully thrown about, with Mary Ann's being chipped.
This was one ghostly fright too far and it was decided to move all the bodies out of the vault and rebury them elsewhere in the cemetery.
News of the creepy crypt spread as far as the British Isles and the Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suggested that because Thomas and Dorcas died by suicide, they were haunting the room - although the strange activities started before their deaths.
Other supernatural theories include local spirits angry at being colonised causing the problems.
Chase Vault remains empty today, but it is open to visitors brave enough to step into the shallow underworld to try and work out the mystery of the restless coffins.
