Ghost stories...

"Quick! Put a shilling in the meter... The kids are turning blue!"

 

Not a ghost story as such but have a read about the exorcism at Gawber church https://thetruecrimeenthusiast.co.uk/2017/10/07/the-ossett-exorcist-murder/

pretty harrowing stuff. I was brought up near Gawber in the seventies but as a child oblivious to this sort of stuff! Scary though

 

Years ago, I worked with an elderly man. He was a Jehovah's witness, which I mention because he never swore, drank or lied in all the time I knew him. He told me one day, that in the house that he grew up in as a kid there was a ghost. I laughed it off at first till I saw he wasn't kidding so I asked him about it. He said that as a child, for as far back as he could remember, everyone in the household was ordered to be sitting at the kitchen table at 6pm for dinner. When they were all seated, nothing physical would happen, but they would all hear footsteps come down the stairs, the kitchen door swing open, footsteps walk through the kitchen table, the back door latch lift, door open and shut again. They would be silent while this was going on, and afterwards just continue with dinner. His mother had told him that if he didnt get to the table on time, and he was on the stairs, to just sit down, stay quiet and move over to the side, which he did several times when he didnt make it. They sold the house years afterwards. I often wonder if its still going on. He said nothing else weird ever happened there and they all more or less got used to it.

 

He knocked on my brother in laws house one night saying he was drawn to it by a light, spent the rest of evening telling the Wife he was speaking with her dead brother.

 

I used to spend a lot of time in the Golden Fleece in York. Met a number of paranormal enthusiasts including Derek Acorah. They were all extremely obnoxious and the majority were full of excrement.

 

Alex’s dad? I was a regular in there before all this and several foll in the engine got different stories to tell about stuff thats gone of int the engine too.

there used to be a pit down the bottom from the pub and there was a mining disaster where there was an explosion in the pit that killed several folk. They used the cellars in the pub for a temp morgue.

People seen ghostly figures move through the walls in the pub from one area to another.

For me ghosts are like recordings. We used vcr to store images on magnetic tape. Rock and stone can be magnetic and i reckon it can hold information like that. Sometimes when the conditions allow it allows this to be replayed somehow. Thats my take anyway. Once yer gone yer gone in my eyes. All interesting tho.

 

Mary loves dick - nuff said lol.

 

Spoke to the landlord of the Golden Fleece a few years back and asked him about haunting. He reckoned the last orders bell on the bar would ring in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and they'd sometimes hear footsteps even though all the doors were locked and bolted. It is claimed to be the most haunted pub in Britain though so it could be a Loch Ness monster scenario perpetuating the myth.

 

Ive stayed overnight there in the room where they found the hidden room that they converted to a toilet. When we went in that night the little room smelt right bad of sulphur but in the morning was gone. We were mucking about with the lights off but didnt see anything. Fun night

 

What about the Stocksbridge bypass hauntings?

After the pit my old man worked in the steelworks and spent a lot of time in the scrapyards round there (before the bypass was built). He wasn’t a bloke to make things up and had no interest in this sort of thing. But when it was mentioned in a news item, years ago, he said, “Oh yeah I’ve seen him. Few times at night. A man in a long robe who looked like a monk.” We just laughed. He didn’t laugh. He’d seen it and that was that.

 

No I'm not Alex's Dad! The events took place 98/99 ish and she only worked there cos she was dating a lad whose Dad went in the boozer (good pint o' Sams btw).

I didn't know that about the mine disaster and the morgue, but I agree with you that sometimes the environment serves somehow as a recording medium - don't know how I would possibly explain what we saw otherwise.
Just to add that while we could see the torso and head of the "ghost", we couldn't see the legs even though it was only about 6 - 7 metres away, but there were no facial features we could make out. It still makes me wonder all these years after the event.

 

Not surprising given that mediums make money by shamelessly conning and lying to people, often the bereaved. They're all scum.

 

When the kids were little, we stayed at a self catering place in Wales, when we got there we found out it was an ex nursing home that was being converted by the owners who lived above it. It was nice but definitely still, shall we say ‘atmospheric’.
One night we were sat watching telly when one of the kids who was sat at the table at the back of the room playing with history’s started laughing and waving at the window. When we asked what he was doing, he said he was ‘waving back at the old lady who was smiling and waving at him’
I looked out but could see nobody, there was no reflection so assumed the owner had been out with her dog.
Next morning she drove in early morning and it turned out that they had stayed over it’s family, so it wasn’t her.
Now the place was totally private nobody could have just walked by , our son was too young to understand about ghosts n stuff or play a joke of that nature and the next night he was stood at the window wanting to wave to the old lady again, so.....

 

I did start to think that myself when their Class 7 transporter took me beyond the Zarn nebula.

Hasn’t everyone got implants?

 

more likely to be time travellers or aliens with cloaking technology than ghosts. As long as they've taken into account the movement of the Earth through space, mind. Wonder how many folk (in the future) have invented a time machine only to forget (or miscalculate) that the solar system is travelleing at 143 miles a second around the galaxy. Space could be littered with dead time travellers.

 

lad I know seen a space ship and saw all the aliens faces in it, his whole family saw it, Barnsley is a hotbed for UFO activity,he as never been same since and went missing once for 6 months said he had been living in his car ,also developed trouble holding number 2s in, reckon he got a heavy handed prober

 

My Mrs and I had a 200+ year old little cottage as our first home in Keighley. Laying in bed one night drifting off to sleep, heard the sound of two women talking downstairs, enough to cause my heart to go like mad and the hairs on my neck stand up. A good two mins later felt the Mrs sobbing and she asked if I'd just heard what she heard.
We had an open staircase there and when my young nephew was staying over once he started giggling uncontrollably one night as though someone was tickling his neck. Me and the Mrs were nowhere near that side of the room.
And in the same spot, 1995, we were legged out on the sofa watching a film, our two cats curled up in the chair beside us. They both sat bolt upright and their eyes followed someone up the stairs. Needless to say, neither of us looked.

I'm fairly soft when it comes to spooky places, I have refused to stay at a few places that don't feel right, but even given the events above, I never saw anything or felt frightened there and we had 4 happy years there.

 

This is probably the most likely explanation for a lot of “sightings”. Don’t believe in the “intelligent” ghosts though. Once your dead your dead. Most experiences can be explained.