Ghost Stories

[DJ-1701]

Does carbon monoxide move stuff ? I'm impressed by this channel as I can't think of any reason why this would be faked and she sounds genuinely terrified

 

But it's the internet so ...

 

 

Eh, magicians have been preforming illusions for years, parts of objects are cover before movement is made, would need more coverage before I came to a belief or firm conclusion on this one.

[caffrey]

I know, plenty more videos on her channel though

[6Foot2]

spoilsport!

Hadn't intended it so: Just thought it was interesting.

 

[DJ-1701]

Hadn't intended it so: Just thought it was interesting.

 

 

It is!

[Protec]

I don't know if this would class as a ghost story but about 10 years ago, I had some Logitech 2.1 speakers and they were plugged in to wall with the 3.5mm jack just laying there. I vividly remember hearing some sort of voice coming from them. I don't know what it said and it only lasted about 1 or 2 seconds but it was strange as the only input was the 3.5mm jack and I don't see how that could pick up any signal and actually play a sound. Could just be one of those things. I have seen strange things which you could class as paranormal but I'm usually quite logical on my approach to things like that so I don't believe (and don't really want to) in ghosts. Edited May 6, 2021 by Protec

[caffrey]

PC speakers on rare occasions can pick up radio signals plugged in or not so it was probably that

[Protec]

Could be but still strange. My current ones sometimes make a cracking noise because the potentiometer is full of dust. The thing I heard was a voice so maybe it was a radio station or something but still, it's only ever happened that time.

[MrEprise]

I don't know if this would class as a ghost story but about 10 years ago, I had some Logitech 2.1 speakers and they were plugged in to wall with the 3.5mm jack just laying there. I vividly remember hearing some sort of voice coming from them. I don't know what it said and it only lasted about 1 or 2 seconds but it was strange as the only input was the 3.5mm jack and I don't see how that could pick up any signal and actually play a sound. Could just be one of those things. I have seen strange things which you could class as paranormal but I'm usually quite logical on my approach to things like that so I don't believe (and don't really want to) in ghosts.

 

I nearly bought a rather nice Logitech 2.1 speaker set a few years ago but was put off by a number of reviews where people could hear French radio stations through the speakers.

[Protec]

I nearly bought a rather nice Logitech 2.1 speaker set a few years ago but was put off by a number of reviews where people could hear French radio stations through the speakers.

 

The speakers were model S-220 OEM speakers. They got heavy use at the school then many years of heavy use for the TV at home. I vaguely remember hearing about radio stations randomly coming through speakers however, I'm quite far from France, but I guess the origin of the rogue radio signals may well be coming from closer to home!

 

I think that's more likely than Casper the ghost broadcasting his very own radio signal anyway!

[6Foot2]

Link: Resident calls police on neighbour who 'sent ghost to their home' [The Argus]

 

If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?... not the police!

 

This is the message from officers after a 999 call that would have been more suitable for Ghostbusters.

 

One Haywards Heath resident called the emergency services to report their neighbour for paranormal activity.

 

On Friday night, the unnamed caller claimed that a ghost had been sent to their house to haunt them.

 

Officers gave some "reassuring words" - but explained that they only deal with genuine emergencies.

 

Sussex Police have now issued a reminder around when you should and shouldn't call 999.

 

Mid Sussex neighbourhood policing inspector Darren Taylor said: "Phone call late last night from a resident stating that their neighbour had sent a ghost into their house to haunt them...

[6Foot2]

Link: The Gorbals Vampire [scotClan.com]

 

A short distance from Glasgow city centre on the south bank of the Clyde is an area known as The Gorbals. The origins of the Gorbals are quite surprising – most people, myself included just think of the history of slums associated with this area, but The Gorbals started off as a small village centred on one street, parts of The Gorbals were even considered fashionable. It was designed in 1872 on a Parisian diamond style centred around a fountain. The design of The Gorbals was never set up to house the amount of people that lived there. This was an area that covered just 2% of Glasgow and by 1931, 85,000 people were living here. It didn’t take long before The Gorbals was bursting at the seams.

 

It was Glasgow in the 1950s, a time effected [sic] by industry and recovering from the effect of war. It was a dark time – literally, the buildings were all stained black with soot, thick smog covered the streets blocking out the natural light, often it was hard to see more than a few feet infront of you.

 

The destruction and disruption and from the war meant that by the 1950s there was a massive housing crisis, overcrowding had reached it’s peak. WWII saw house building stop completely, and now there was a baby boom.

 

The tenements were built quickly and cheaply and were designed to pack in as many people in as possible. There were no gardens, or lawns. Definitely no playgrounds.

 

Appalling conditions came with it and it was not unusual for houses to have no water facilities and for sewage to run through the rat riddled streets. This was one of Europe’s most deprived neighbourhoods. It was not uncommon for up to eight family members to share the same single bedroom. In many parts of the Gorbals, up to 30 people would have to share the same toilet and more than 40 residents would have to use the same tap. Life was tough.

 

Here there was a horrendous amount of poverty, gangs ran amok, and there was sectarian violence, this was a notorious area. To be fair there was another side to The Gorbals in-spite of all of this – it was famous for its community spirit which could not be crushed. Kids would fill the streets, all ages, playing football, hide and seek and building dens, and even hunting vampires as this story of The Vampire of The Gorbals tells.

 

There was one place that was the exception in The Gorbals, a beautiful green open space – this was Glasgow’s largest and oldest municipal graveyard, the Southern Necropolis. A beautiful graveyard that covered many acres. The cemetery can be found on Caledonia Road. The Southern Necropolis provided much needed burial place for the Southside of Glasgow as many of the other cemeteries were filled to capacity.

 

It must have been such a contrast to the dark bustling slums filled with noise, the impressive entrance to The Southern Necropolis with it’s gothic gatehouse. For kids growing up in The Gorbals this must have been the equivalent of their fields and woods, somewhere to escape … somewhere to imagine a different life.

 

Stories had been circulating in the Gorbals about missing children, believed killed, the culprit was said to be a seven-foot vampire, lurking in the Southern Necropolis. The vampire was described as having iron teeth, which it used to kill and eat up children. The stories spread like wildfire, everyone knew someone who knew someone who had fallen victim to the vampire.

 

The adults wouldn’t believe the kids, so the kids decided to deal with this monster once and for all – by themselves. Secretly they passed messages, arranged meetings, made weapons and plotted their attack. In 1954, hundreds of young kids from the Gorbals area of Glasgow swarmed into the creepy Necropolis graveyard on the hunt for a vampire with “iron teeth” . Armed with sharp sticks and even dogs they hunted for hours upon hours, more and more kids came over the next two days. The police were called but couldn’t move the children, it took a local head teacher to finally disperse the crowd.

 

The following day, pupils were lectured on the folly of vampire hunting. The story of the missing children had been unfounded.

 

Everyone now wanted to know how this had happened? Who was to blame?

 

Local historians believe they were inspired by the earlier legend of “Jenny wi’ the Iron Teeth”, a murderous ghost said to haunt Glasgow Green. There was also an American comic book at that time entitled: “The Vampire with the Iron Teeth”. Maybe inspired by a passage in the Bible, Daniel 7:7, that reads: “Behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth”.

 

After the story appeared in the local press, it gained worldwide coverage. An unlikely alliance of Christians, communists and the National Union of Teachers blamed imported American horror comic books for the mass hysteria Before long the country was in the grip of a full blown panic. The campaign even reached parliament, where it was championed by Alice Cullen, Labour MP for the Gorbals, and resulted in the 1955 Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act being passed – an act which still stands today.

 

Posted: 5^th of January, 2018

[6Foot2]

Link: Kermode on Film - podfollow.com

 

Ghost Stories Special. Mark and Jack Howard examine the genre of the supernatural

[6Foot2]

Link: Ghost hunters claim to capture The Shining twins on camera at 'UK's most haunted hotel' - Manchester Evening News

 

 

A ghost hunter couple said they spotted the spirits of 'two children' during their stay at the UK's 'most haunted hotel'.

 

Lee, 55, and Linzi Street, 52, said they had a 'weird' experience while staying at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool on Tuesday (June 22), the Echo reports.

 

The couple, from Rotherham, said they had wanted to stay there for some after it was named the most haunted hotel in the UK.

 

They booked room 105, which the pair said had seen paranormal activity before, and documented their stay on the 'Ghosts of Britain' Facebook page - a page set up by them with more than 1.8 million followers.

 

They then started investigated the building.

 

Lee said: "One of the first things that was weird was the lift. We were filming by the lift and it just opened for no reason with nobody inside.

 

"We had heard the lifts do what they like from some other people that had stayed, but to see it in person was weird.

 

"We also kept hearing whistling noises from the lift as well as scratching noises in our room."

 

As part of the pairs paranormal venture, they Facebook live their trips to allow people to watch at home in their own time.

 

Linzi said she only saw the silhouettes of two children in one of the clips when an eagle-eyed viewer pointed it out to her on social media.

 

The 52-year-old said: "To me it looks like two children and I feel like one of them is a girl.

 

"It reminded me of the twins out of The Shining.

 

"We also tried to use one of our devices to speak to some spirits but the only response we had was somebody saying 'you b******'."

 

Lee added: "They never did anything that we asked them to do, it was always in their own time."

 

It wasn't just in the halls of the hotel where the couple said they saw souls from beyond the grave.

[6Foot2]

Link: The Paranormal Database

 

The Paranormal Database is a serious ongoing project to document locations with folkloric, paranormal and cryptozoological connections in the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands. The site currently features over 13,000 entries; some accounts are recent and other stories reputedly hundreds of years old. This should not be considered a 'paranormal tourism' site - many of these places are private, and as such, the owner's privacy should be considered paramount. Select a region or category below to discover more.

[6Foot2]

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[6Foot2]

Link: Paranormal team capture 'face at window' of haunted Cornwall church - Cornwall Live

 

Spoiler: It's a cat!

 

[hardtailstar]

Link: Paranormal team capture 'face at window' of haunted Cornwall church - Cornwall Live

 

Spoiler: It's a cat!

 

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That's....

[caffrey]

That's.... [ATTACH]63865[/ATTACH]

 

 

More like the owlman...

 

[6Foot2]

Link: The Jigger's Bank Ghosts

 

The ghosts haunting Jigger's bank in Ironbridge.

[6Foot2]

Link: Spooked onlookers spot 'demonic faces' in smoke as flames engulf The Leopard - Stoke-on-Trent Live

 

 

...People claim that they can see a spooky face in the smoke...The pub has claimed to be one of the spookiest buildings in the UK...

 

...In one terrifying incident, a statue of a horse was flung by an invisible hand across the pub.

 

One of the bar staff also reported hearing unseen children singing the nursery rhyme, 'ring o' ring o’ roses’.

 

Stoke-on-Trent paranormal investigator Damon Simms said: "Although there are many stories of ghosts visiting unsuspecting visitors and staff all the way back to Molly Leigh herself, it's probably fair to say that the discovery of a number of hidden corridors and rooms behind a panel at the back of what was thought to have been just a cupboard breathed even more life into the wonderful, frightening experiences people regularly claimed to experience."

[6Foot2]

Link:

[Picture Tweet]

 

Sounds exactly like what a haunted house would say

 

[6Foot2]

Link:

[James May Text Tweet]

 

My thanks to everyone who has pointed out the ‘ghost’ in ep3 of my new Italy series. Nobody saw it at the time, so it’s either a real ghost or (more likely but also more boring) just a bit of digital file corruption.

 

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[Jaan]

I once walked past one of the rooms here we normally use and noticed a man in there at the table. As we we made eye contact, i did the head nod thing and he did the same.

 

Got back to the office and asked my colleague who he was. "Not sure who you're on about". Went back to the room nobody there...... checked the CCTV, you can clearly see me acknowledge nobody sat in the chair..........

 

[StevieM]

... checked the CCTV, you can clearly see me acknowledge nobody sat in the chair...

Was it Tyler Durden?

[Jaan]

Was it Tyler Durden?

 

ROFL, maybe