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admin Madmart · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:31 am Post subject: Haunted Beds!

Haunted Beds!

Beds To Beware of!

Where’s the safest place in the whole world? Where’s the one place you can snuggle up in and forget all your worries? Where do you want to be when you’re sick and in need of a warm and cosy nest to hibernate in? Your bed – right?

This might make you think again, and turn those sweet dreams into nightmares.

CHAMBERCOMBE MANOR is set in the peaceful Devon countryside near Ilfracombe. Not long ago Madeleine was there with a film crew and she discovered that the building had a very spooky reputation. Roaming around the creepy mansion the TV crew were a bit sceptical of the stories they’d heard, until that is, they reached the secret bedchamber, which is haunted. The origins of the house’s most famous ghost go back to 1865 when repairs were being carried out to the roof and the builders discovered the outline of a window, for which there was no matching room inside.

Mystified, they began a search of the house’s interior and realised that there must be a hidden room between what is now Lady Jane Grey’s Room and the one adjoining it. The owner and his wife broke through the wall, and poked a candle into the hole. In the centre of the dusty, musty room was a four-poster bed. They made the hole bigger and climbed through. The bed had a rotting curtain all around it, and when they tore it back they saw revealed in the flickering candle-light, a gleaming white skeleton. The story says that the former owner, William Oatway, was a wrecker and smuggler in the early 17th century. Wrecking was a heinous crime, whereby men would use a decoy light to lure ships onto the rocks, drowning all the crew, so that they could plunder the cargo.

Oatway’s daughter, Kate, discovered her father’s criminal activities, and was going to report him. His response was to brick her up in the secret room and leave her to die alone of thirst and starvation. No wonder Kate’s bed is reputed to be cursed, and some people believe that if you lie on it you will be struck down instantly. Of course the ‘manly’ film crew were too scared to do it, and insisted on ‘ladies first’, so Madeleine had to climb onto the bed. What happened to her? She was fine, but people say, she was never the same….

The Old Bed

Up until she was a year old Sarah Forbes thought it was quite normal for strange figures to appear in her bedroom. She would watch from her crib as the ghostly people sat on her Mother’s big bed. By the time she was two, she thought it was fine to hear conversations taking place between people that she couldn’t see. At that point the old-fashioned bedroom suite was put into storage, and the weird visitations stopped for a while.

When she was seven and big enough to sleep in the old bed it was taken out of storage again, and right away Sarah started having very intense dreams. They got so bad that TV was blamed and banned, but still the dreams came and the voices came back. Eventually Sarah was taken to see a psychologist who gave her some medication, which stopped the dreams, and after a while the suite was stored once more.

When she was 21 Sarah decided that the old bed was too beautiful and unusual to store, so out it came again. Right away the dreams and visions started again. Her son, who was 4 at the time also heard voices and would smile and chat, to someone he called, ‘Grandmother’.

Sarah burned a lot of sage, and used candles and holy oil to try to get rid of the pestering spirits. The more she tried to get rid of them the worse things got. A woman would wake her by stroking her hair and talking to her while she was asleep. Then there were footsteps up and down the hall, and a dark figure wearing a large brimmed Amish shaped hat would pace. People would visit Sarah and ask, “Who's that I can hear in your room?”

Well, Sarah has decided to sell the bed, and who could blame her. So, if you want to have some real nightmares, just put in a bid for the haunted bed! To make a bid, visit: http://www.ghoststudy.com

America seems to be too modern and brash to house ghosts, but if you think you’ll be safe in bed over there, you could well be in for a shock. At the Red Garter Bed and Bakery in Williams, Arizona, you could be bunking down with a ghost! Over a century old, the building has in turn been a saloon, a guest house and a bordello. Though the state outlawed prostitution in 1907, the law was only loosely enforced. Even during prohibition, the saloon and brothel continued to operate, hiding the bar and poker tables behind a divider. Both businesses continued to operate successfully until the mid 1940s, when a grisly murder was committed on the stairs of the Red Garter.

Behind the saloon, two rear rooms once housed Chinese railroad workers, who both lived and operated a chophouse and opium den crowded into the small space. During this time, the local sheriff was often called to the site to investigate a murder, only to arrive to find nothing out of the ordinary. At one point, the tales became so frequent, that the local garbage collector was lowered into the cesspool below the outhouses to look for bodies, only to be lifted again, having found nothing.

After the newest guest house was opened, guests and staff began to report signs of ghostly activity, including the sound of footsteps when no one is around, doors mysteriously slamming, and strange clunking noises, heard throughout the building. Though one might think that the spiritual activity could be attributed to the murder that occurred on the stairway or the many mysteriously missing people during the Chinese opium days, but the spirit is said to actually be that of a young girl, for whom no-one can account for.

Guests have reported seeing the apparition, describing her as a Hispanic girl with long dark hair and dressed in a white nightgown. One guest, who claimed to have made contact with the spirit, said her name was Eva.

When sleeping in a certain, rather lively bed, on the premises - perhaps the one that the hapless Eva slept in - guests are often woken by the bed shaking violently, and one person even claims to have been grabbed by the arm and tipped out of bed by the angry ghost.

If you’d still like to stay at the Red Garter, here are the details: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AZ-RedGarter.html

Who Will Dare To Sleep on the Great Bed of Ware?

Originally made in Ware, Hertfordshire, in the 16th Century, the Great Bed of Ware now resides in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The bed huge, measuring 10'9" long, 10'9" wide and stands 7'6" high. Two legends surround its manufacture. One says that it was for King Edward IV. The other says that it was made as an advertising gimmick for one of the local Inns. In either case it was built by carpenter, Jonas Fosbrooke. In time, the bed was sold and passed through the bedrooms of successive inns at Ware in Hertfordshire.

It is famous enough to have been mentioned in Don Juan, Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer and Twelfth Night...

“Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention; taunt him with the licence of ink; if thou thou’st him some thrice it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ‘em down .....”

If you are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, dare if you are brave enough to lie down on the bed, but beware of the bed of ware. For it is said that Fosbrooke’s spirit, annoyed at commoners enjoying his creation, will come to remove you, if you try to sleep in England's most haunted bed!

Sweet dreams!

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