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admin sinfulldude · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: Numererous Hauntings locations

(was written and posted by madmart former forum's ADMIN )

You will find below a small sample of the numerous hauntings that are avaible for your visits. Do not hesitate to send us more places with detailed informations about the ghosts and the story of the place.

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

The Bell Witch

Borley Rectory.

Drury Lane Theatre

The Tower of London

Winchester Mansion

One of England's most famous ghosts is the wicked Lady Howard, who in a phantom coach made from human bones - the bones of her four late husbands. The skeleton of a dog runs beside the coach. The story goes that each night the coach comes to Oakhampton Castle in Devonshire and the skeleton dog picks a blade of grass from Oakhampton Park to carry back to Lady Howard's family home. She has to take this journey every night until every blade of grass is picked - that is until the end of the world - as a punishment for murdering her four husbands.

When King Henry VIII wanted to marry another woman, he accused his wife, Anne Boleyn of treachery and had her beheaded. Anne's body is said to haunt the Tower of London where she spent her final hours. She has been seen as a pale figure in a grey dress, who carries her head under her arm.

Ghosts may not only be people. In 16 41 the Flying Dutchman was sailing around the Cape of Good Hope on its way to Holland. Its captain was a man called Henrik Vanderdecken. A huge storm blew up but the captain was so desperate to get home that he cursed God and swore that he would sail until Doomsday rather than stop. For these words against God he was doomed to sail forever until he could find another ship's captain to accept a letter from him which begged for the Lord's forgiveness. This has never happened and it is said that any ship that comes into contact with the Flying Dutchman will suffer a terrible fate.

There are many alleged ghosts residing in places of great suffering. These include prisons, battlegrounds, hospitals and execution chambers. Spectral appearances send shivers down all our spines and we can't help but wonder.

The LORELEI (pronounced lorer-lei) is a German ghost who appears as a beautiful woman. She sits on a tall rock the banks of the river Rhine and sing a song so enchanting that sailors who hear it lose all sense of direction and steer their boats onto the rocks.

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
The Brown Lady is famous mostly as being one of the most reliably photographed ghost in history. Although she has not been seen since 1936, she is said to wear a long brown dress or cape. No one knows who the Brown Lady is, or how she is connected to Raynham Hall.

The first sighting was reported in 1835 by a house guest, Colonel Loftus. He actually viewed her twice. He said she was wearing a brown satin dress and had only black empty sockets for eyes. Another sighting was made by Captain Frederick Marryat. He intentionally slept in the "haunted room," but instead caught a glimpse of the Brown Lady an upstairs hallway. His description was the same as Loftus', except this time the Brown Lady was carrying a lantern. Marryat happened to have a gun with him, and fired point-blank at the figure. The bullets, of course, passed right through the ghost. The ghost was not reported again until 1926, at which time it was viewed by two little boys. In 1936, the famous photograph was taken by photographers Captain Provand and Indre Shira during a shoot for the magazine -Country Life-. Shira saw the ghost on the stairs, an instructed Provand to take a picture.

The Bell Witch
"The Bell Witch" haunted the Bell home in Tennessee in the early 1800s. The "witch" was actually a poltergeist, which did lots of annoying things like throw things around and scream/knock loudly at all hours. John Bell, the father, died during the Bell Witch's tenure. Some claim he was poisoned by the Witch. Betsy Bell, John's daughter, is suspected of having faked the whole thing. Reliable records are lacking, so we'll probably never know whether the Bell Farm was truly haunted.

Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory is often called "The most haunted house in England." The site of the rectory originally held a monastery, which was inhabited by Benedictine monks. Subsequent to this, the monastery came under the ownership of the Waldergrave family, who occupied it for three centuries. In the late 1800's a descendant of the Waldegraves, the reverend H.D.E. Bull, built a new rectory on the site of the old monastery. It was not until after the new rectory was built that strange things started to happen.

One of the spectres that was said to roam the grounds was a nun ho in the 13th century fell in love with and tried to elope with a monk.According to legend, the nun and monk were caught in their get-away horse and carriage. As punishment, the monk was hung and the nun was walled up alive in the rectory. Some people reported seeing the ghostly form of the horse and carriage in addition to the nun. The reverend Harry Bull, who died at Borley, also was reputed to have haunted the rectory. He would appear dressed in the grey jacket in which he passed away.

In the late 1920s, the house was owned by a reverend (Lionel A. Foyster) and his wife who reported poltergeist-like phenomena. Supposedly the prankish spirit locked the wife in the bedroom, and other times threw her out of the bed. There were also pebbles thrown at the windows, and mysterious writing which would appear on walls.

Harry Price, a famous ghost hunter, investigated Borley Rectory in 1929, and again in 1937. He supposedly witnessed some of the activity, including the ghostly nun. Although Price spent a great deal of time in the Rectory, his research is generally considered to be biased and therefore flawed.

Unfortunately, Borley Rectory burned down in 1939, taking its secrets with it. In 1945, human remains rumored to be those of the nun were found on the site, and were given a proper burial. But the legend of Borley has not died yet; people still visit the site today to see if they can spot the ghostly nun.

Drury Lane Theatre
The ghost is described at various times as a soft green glow, or a handsome young man. During renovation in the late 1970's, they stumbled on a skeleton with the remnants of a grey riding coat with a knife sticking out of its ribs.

The ghost is that of a young man who was murdered in 1780. J. Wentworth Day, a ghost hunter, reported seeing a moving blue light in the theatre in 1939.

The Tower of London
The Tower of London has a long and bloody history, and of course many ghostly legends are associated with the Tower. In 1483, two young princes were murdered in the Tower, and their ghosts were reported to have haunted the tower until the year 1674, when their bones were found and buried in a proper ceremony.

The most famous and most often reported ghost in the Tower is Anne Boleyn. She was beheaded by her husband, Henry VIII, in 1536. Other Tower ghosts include Sir Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes, and even the apparition of a bear. In 1816, a palace guard who was on duty spied the bear. Not realizing he was facing an apparition, the guard attempted to lunge at the creature with his bayonet. The guard reportedly later died of shock.

In 1864, a soldier saw a ghost and again attempted to use his bayonet. The soldier fainted when he realized his antagonist was a ghost, and was later court-martialed for neglecting his duties (hard to guard the castle when you're fainted dead away). However, the charges against the soldier were dropped when two witnesses came forward to support the soldier's ghost story.

landlover · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 19 Location: RUSSIA

The Ghosts of Famous Britons

You don’t need to go to Madame Tussauds to see famous dead British people. A surprisingly large number seem to return as ghosts to their lifetime haunts. So keep your eyes peeled as you travel the length and breadth of Britain and you could catch a glimpse of anything from a dead queen to a modern pop star.

We often think that, in order for someone to return as a ghost, their life must have been unfulfilled in some way, perhaps ending tragically, prematurely, or violently.

Royal Ghosts
Mary Queen of Scots certainly had reason to feel aggrieved, having had her head chopped off! Her ghost has been spotted in a remarkable number of places and is probably Britain’s most prolific ghost having been seen across the length and breadth of Britain, ranging from Craignethan and Stirling Castles in the north to Bolton Castle and the Talbot Hotel in the South. Mary’s tormentor, Elizabeth I, is also believed to have appeared in ghostly form, dressed in black, in Windsor Castle.

Famous victims of royal wrath abound in the Tower of London where the spirits of Anne Boleyn, Guy Fawkes and Sir Walter Raleigh have all been witnessed

Oliver Cromwell’s home in Ely has now been turned into a museum documenting Cromwell’s life and the history of the Civil War period. But not all of the 17th century figures in the museum are made from wax! A woman who once stayed at the house with her husband, back when it was an inn, described seeing the figure of a powerful, preoccupied man who gripped her arm firmly before disappearing. She believes it was the ghost of Cromwell himself. A team from the Cambridge Paranormal Research Group, which visited the house accompanied by a medium, received and managed to make contact with what they believed to be the spirit of Cromwell. The Lord Protector’s ghost has also been seen in London on a number of occasions, including, allegedly, by the Duke of Wellington in what is now the Wellington Museum.

Lillie Langtry, Victorian actress and paramour of the future King Edward VII, is another extremely busy ghost. She has been seen in quite a few places including London and Torquay. Another Victorian celeb who has returned in phantom form is Florence Nightingale. The nursing pioneer is believed to haunt the precincts of St. Thomas’s Hospital in London where she helped establish a school for nursing.

Modern Ghosts
The ghost of John Lennon has been spotted or sensed on more than one occasion. Oasis member Liam Gallagher claimed the legendary Beatle appeared to him after waking up in a friend’s house. The quantity of alcohol or other inebriates consumed by Gallagher beforehand is, unfortunately, not known. Former Beatle Paul McCartney also believes he has been visited by the spirit of his dead friend. McCartney has said that as he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were recording the single Free as a Bird in 1995, they all felt Lennon’s presence in the studio with them. Later, as they posed for a photograph together, a white peacock from a nearby farm wandered into the shot and McCartney said “That’s John.” An incorrigible globe-trotter even after his death, Lennon’s ghost has also appeared in New York and in the Hollywood home of actress Robin Givens.

Carry-on legend Sid James is said to haunt the Sunderland Empire Theatre where he died in 1976. James suffered a heart attack while on stage then died shortly afterwards in a backstage dressing room. Some years later, roly-poly comedian Les Dawson is said to have emerged terrified from this dressing room and refused to re-enter it or even to speak about what had happened there. Many believe he encountered the ghost of Sid James.

So, even if you don’t get to meet any celebs in their lifetimes, you could still catch them after they’re dead. It’s unlikely they’ll be signing any autographs, but it should be a moment to remember all the same.

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Galleries of Justice

Haunted Location: Nottingham - Due to the misery, torture and sheer despair of its residents this location can induce overwhelming emotions from all of its visitors. Execution was carried out under the most extreme conditions as was the torture and abuse of the poor wretched souls that had the misfortune of finding themselves inprisoned there.

The Galleries of Justice has many ghosts and apparitions have been seen on many occasions by visitors and staff alike. Soldiers have been seen on the steps of the main entrance hall and a lady pushing a pram as if in a trance has been witnessed on several occasions. The courtrooms themselves have produced many light anomalies and there have been sightings of people overlooking the balconies, there is also the haunted caves beneath the prison where stones are thrown at almost anybody who enters there.