on todays story were going to go back to 1626, the place pond square in highgate london , which at the time was named pond square because of its two, man made ponds that was dug out by a hermit in the 14th century .
but it was in 1626 that sir francis bacon , thethe english philosopher ,, and politician was riding through pond square in a horse drawn carraige ,accompanied by his friend Dr. Winterbourne
it was a bitterly cold day in early april , and the snow lay thick upon the ground ,
during the journey the two men had been discussing if it was possible to preserve food other than using the salting method ,
sir fransis bacon was probably looking down at the brilliant white snow , and rubbing his hands together trying to keep himself warm , when all of a sudden , he had the crazy idea , that maybe food preserved in really cold conditions could stop it from spoiling .
of course we know now that freezing food is a reliable way of preserving it ,but back then it was unheard of .
and so to test the theory fransis bacon , went to a poor womans house that was at the bottom of high gate and purchase a chicken from her , who also slaughtered , gutted and plucked the unfortunate experimental bird.
sir fransis bacon then went about packing the prepared chicken with snow , then placed it in a sack and then buried it in more snow , and voila , there you have the very first frozen chicken.
unfortunatley for sir fransis bacon , whilst digging in the freezing cold conditions packing the chicken in the snow , he came down with a severe chill , and he was in no fit state to actually make it back to his own lodgings and was kindly alowed to sleep at Arundel House , in highgate ,un fortunatley the bed he was placed into hadnt been slept in for over a year and was damp and his chill quickly turned into pneumonia , and he died on the 9th of april 1626 only days after his experiment .
but that wasnt the end of the story , you see ever since , through out the years , there have been many sightings of a distressed posibly phantom that likes to lurk around the area of pond square absolutley terrifing unlucky passers by who just so happen to lock eyes on the haunting appoirition ,
but the ghost that haunts pond square isnt that of sir fransis bacon.

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