Contemporary illustrations show cathedral spires collapsing, vaults caving in, high scaffolding keeling over in a chaos of planks and poles.
Unusually tall columns, flying buttresses, towering spires, and narrow windows, all create vertical lines that appear to jut out perpendicular to the surface of the Earth.
See one of the spires up close - really close - at the 17th century Church of Our Savior.
With their ornate turrets, spires, gabled Windows and forbidding facades, many of them certainly look haunted.