Bedern Hall York

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Bedern Hall
York

Bedern Hall, is off Goodramgate, and was the medieval home of the Minister's Vicars Choral up untill 1575 . The area then degenerated into a region of slums and warehouses.

By the mid 19th century, a sort of orphanage-cum-workhouse was established here known as the York Industrial Ragged School. It's master was repoerted to have been a Mr Pimm, who was paid handsome sum of money to round up local waifs and strays and put them to work in his orphanage/workwork. He was required to keep a register of the children who worked there and was paid for each child in his care. The money he was being paid for each child was to be used for food and clothing for the children but he was found out later to be keeping the money for himself. As a result of this many of the children died through cold or starvation whilst in his care.

Mr Pimm realised that and found a way that by disposing of the bodies himself he could keep the child on the register and still claim the money for that child. This soon became a common practice to him and he would even hide , locking the bodies away in another room somewhere until he had a sufficient number to bury them all in one go. It wasn't long though after his first crimes that Mr Pimm started hearing noises and became convinced that he was being tormented by the ghosts of the children he'd mistreated. It is reported that one night convinced that the dead childrens spirts were tormenting him, he took to the bottle, drinking , he went berzerk mutilating the children he still had in his custody with a knife. The next morning it is said that he was found whimpering amongst the small bodies he had mutilated . Mr Pimm was tried for his crimes , judged insane and locked away in an asylum for the remainder of his life.

Bedern Hall has recently been renovated and built into luxury flats , many of the new owners to these flats have reported seeing and hearing strange things at night. Its the playful laughter that is often heard and not the screams of the restless spirits of the dead children that are still heard, but although sometimes the laughter does changes into their screams of terror.
Sometimes the ghosts of the dead children are seen.

Its report that two of the children's bodies were never found.

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The Treasurers House;- York

The Treasurer's House was the seat of the treasurers of York Minister from the 12th century to 1546. The last treasurer - William Cliffe - resigned, after all the treasure was removed during the dissolution of the monasteries. The house was extensively rebuilt in the 17th century.

In 1953 Harry Martindale, aged 18 at the time of the sighting, was working on a ladder in the cellars of the treasurers house, when he heard what he took to be the sound of a trumpet, and saw a soldiers helmet coming through the wall, followed by at least twenty troops. The soldiers were carrying round shields, lances, short swords and looked tired and dirty. The vision was as clear as day, but even more unusual was that the troops lower legs were not visible, as though they were marching on a road much lower than the present ground level. Later excavations revealed the remains of a Roman Road 18 inches below the surface of the cellar, the round shields of the troops is unusual as roman soldiers are usually depicted with the rectangular curved Scutum used by legionnaires, however, round shields were used by auxiliary troops in the 4th century. There were other sightings of similar phenomena in the 1920's and late 50s.