Bolton Abbey is one of the most beautiful places to visit in Yorkshire. Found in the Wharfedale area of the Yorkshire Dales, it is a 12-century Augustinian monastery known as Bolton Priory. The area has tourists flocking from all over the world all year round to see its beauty, but the area holds a dangerous secret.
Along a section of the Yorkshire River Wharfe known as the The Strid is the most dangerous strip of water in the world that is just six feet wide. The area is unfathomably deep and in its history has a 100 percent mortality rate. It is found between the Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey and looks like a small unassuming mountain stream, but is anything but.
And, YouTuber ‘Jack A Snack’s made it his mission to film what lurked below the seemingly calm bit of river. In a video from 2021, the creator visitors the narrow section know as The Strid, which at first glance might seem like a pleasant spot.
This results in the treacherous waters that if someone were to slip into, it’s unlikely they would emerge. Local legend has it that 100 per cent of the people who have fallen into the Bolton Strid have died.
In the video Jack explains: “The water rushing over you, trapping you from the getting back to the surface,”
The YouTuber says when it gets to three feet down ‘it’s chaos down there’. He also notes that he has to start filming again as he ‘almost lost the camera’
The footage gets deeper and deeper and the banks disappear with Jack explaining: “You can see a cliff edge emerge here, waiting to pull you beneath it.”
The depths of The Strid are set to be 65 metres, which is around deep at its deepest point, which is the same as 15 double-decker buses stacked on top of each other.
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