First of all, good morning Jon :lol: .
Any body had any unusuall experiences near the bypass.
The part i,m interested in is the bridge at Wortley thats crosse over it.
I always knew that the bypass was haunted but not the bridge at Wortley until i saw a program of it last night.
I travel up the bypass on my bike now and again, thats not so dangerous as it sounds as i feel quite safe on my pedal bike on there but i cross the bridge a couple of times a week at Wortley on my training runs out to Holmfirth and have never felt anything strange or Icy pockets or monks all which have been reported as seen.
When i go over it later today, i will be taking more notice.

Was on Stocksbridge by pass last Friday, wasn't unusual or scary, in fact I had to ask if that is where we were.

Concensus maybe that the initial disturbance is now over and the spirits that 'may' have appeared have gone back to sleep.

Moon Maiden

I went filming up Stocksbridge early this year and was asked to leave and not film anymore ? weird

Who has the right to stop you filming, its a free country.
Hope u told him where to go.

HI CLR,
I have read reports of ghostly sightings about the stocksbridge by-pass and one was from two police officers on duty during one dark night.

They were parked at this certain spot when they both saw these apparitions one at each side of the car looking at them, they were so traumatised that they both had to take time off work as it was such a terryifying experience.

That was on a TV program years ago wasn't it Hal???

The description that appeared on there is very similar to an aparition called The Hag of Dribble.

Her howls are heard in Welsh villages and fortell a death there.

Don't know if there is a similar connection but it seemed wierd.

Moon Maiden

That was on a TV program years ago wasn't it Hal???

Yes it was! I was scared to go upstairs after watching it! Haha! :oops:

It was called "Strange but true" I think...

It was on Weds night on a program called Ghosthunt although i have not seen that one but i knew of the hauntings.
Funny enough the same program also did another one about hauntings in the same area on the electric pylons on Green Moor over looking the bypass, sightings of children dancing round a maypole have been sighted.

This is where we was filming at the electric pylons on Green Moor over looking the bypass when a land rover pulled up and this man said you got rite to film here i said yes because i was stood on the public foot path that runs up near the pylon.

myself and two other people decided that we should move to the other side of the road until he had left and he went just drove off so we carried on filming 8)

Hi M.M.
No, it was in the Sheffield Star few months ago, and there was quite a long article about it. It so frightened the police officers, they couldn't work for a time.

The 'ghost' of Stocksbridge bypass is said to be a monk that materialises inside peoples cars, almost causing them to crash. There's been no reports of the spectre to my knowledge since the 80s.

The children singing (according to my researches) have been reported several times yet nobody has seen them, only heard them. It is possible that there was an iron age or bronze age sacrificial site in the region where children were slaughtered, but nobody can say for certain.

I've double checked my source records and books and nope, no actual 'sighting' of these kids ever.

There's a good synopsis of Stocksbridge bypass sightings in the book Ghost Hunters' guide to Sheffield check it out:)

Concensus maybe that the initial disturbance is now over and the spirits that 'may' have appeared have gone back to sleep.

Moon Maiden [/B][/QUOTE]

Blimey! I regularly drive on the Stocksbridge by-pass and I haven't seen anything strange! Should I be worried?!! I hope I don't break down there on my own! :o

I hope you're right, Moon Maiden, and they've gone back to sleep!

I know that several crashes and near misses have been blamed on sightings such as a monk suddenly appearing in front of cars then passing through them.
Look out for sightings myself when I drive over there, but know I shouldn't cos its dangerous.
Maybe thats why there's so many crashes, folks LOOKING for monks instead of at the road ahead.
Must have something to do with it, cos its the safest bit of road from Barnsley to Manchester. Its wide, its clear and the speed limit is less than the Woodhead Pass (now that's scarey!):idea:

Who's opening up all these old threads?

Originally posted by alchresearch
Who's opening up all these old threads?

The ghosts of the forum are :loopy:

Well i was once up that way at one of the resiviors with my partner late at night just to camp out, we just got the tent up and from across the water we could hear singing or chanting then my partner saw a light (like a car head light) hovering about a metre of the water there was no sound at this point but it was coming towords us slowly. we waited there for approx 3 mins before we chucked our tent in to the boot of our car and set off to drive. anyway we got back on to the bypass driving back towards sheff and just before the wortly bridge there was some sort of mist or fog but it was in the centre of the road funny enough it was the approx size of an adult. when i went through this mist our car veared to the left as if just over taken by a bus or truck but there was no wind. I can not explain this to this day. Any possible answers please let me know. I am very interested in the supernatural so please send some more storys.

I was riding my motorcycle just out side of stocksbridge some years ago.
It was about 3am and very cold,as I rode along the road,I saw what looked like a women walking in the verge coming towards me.
When she got close I slowed down,she seemed to be wearing a long white gown,and she was looking at the floor as she walked.
Her hair looked long and white but I couldnt see any facial features,I rode past her and looked back over my shoulder,there wasnt anyone there when I looked back.

Needless to say I opened up the throttle and away I went,only to be stopped by the Police about 5 minutes later.
I asked if they had seen anyone on the road,but they said no,politely issued me with a producer and away they went.

That night sticks in my mind,as I have seen other things in and around the stocksbridge area.
Manchester Rd has vivid memories for me regarding sightings of this nature.

I plan to go up there one night with my camcorder and see if I can get anything.

After some research I have learned that the main sightings in Stocksbridge are around grid reference SK 272989,this would be around the area of Pearoyd Lane.
It is close (Im told) to the Pylons that children have been sighted dancing around.

In the area in the late 18th century and up to the mid 19th century children were regularly used in mining.

I have a friend who claims he was traveling towards pyeroyd bridge when all of a sudden the lights went out and the engine cut off. He stopped presuming there was a problem, after a couple of seconds he got an erie feeling as if someone was sat beside him. He said he could smell a musty kind of church smell if u no what i mean. after a minute or so(which must have seemed ages) the smell disapeared and he was able to start his car. He says he will not travel alone at night on that road.

The most common sightings seem to be of,a Monk,Children and a man dressed in 18th century clothing.
The are area also used to have a number of monestary farms.

I am trying to find out more details on the area,I want to know if there is a common time for sightings(time of year ect..)and locations.
There is an old man that lived up off Pearoyd Lane,he claimed that he had seen the children dancing round the pylon.
He was a recluce and im not sure if he is still alive,his last documented statement was back in the 80s.

If anyone is interested in doing a bit of filming up there let me know,the more the merrier.

I won't drive on that road. No way!

Tango, have you seen my post in the 'murders' thread about the ghost in my kitchen? You might find that interesting.

Ive just come back from Pearoyd lane,I must say it seems like a ver strange place (very Lonely),there was no traffic and very little in the way of noise.
Im trying to pinpoint the exact location that the security guards first made their sighting in 1987.
The area is not all that far from the sighting I made on the junction of Ash Lane and Manchester Rd.
This sighting was in the old Butchers shop,this also involved small children in a group being huddled into a corner.
These sightings were made by a number of people,all descriptions of the children were consistant.

There is a story of a cart overturning,all the children on the cart were killed,there are also strong indications of deaths of children being killed while working in the mines set into the hillside.

Originally posted by Richard Ap Rhys


I've double checked my source records and books and nope, no actual 'sighting' of these kids ever.

As far as I cam recall,the address of the sightings of the children was 227 Manchester RD.
I will need to check this as I know the old owners of the property,to my knowledge there were at least 5 sightings at this property,two were even made in the daytime.

This property is not far from Pearoyd Lane,the bridge and the pylons.

I am told that in theory,after death the spirit will walk in a straight line into the afterlife and all take the same route wearing hel boots or riding on Funerary wagons.
It has been suggested that some apparitions are place-memory images, replaying some emotion-charged action time and again.

In relation to the Monk figure,these could be related to genii cucullati (“hooded spirits”), pagan cult images found in various locations.


Consciousness is the ‘interior’ of physical reality.

There's a page about the Stocksbridge Bypass hauntings here (http://www.sykesssillysite.co.uk/scary_stuff/stocksbridge_bypass.htm).

http://www.urbanchillers.com/ghost/bigpic.asp?pic=14

http://www.absolutelyamazing.fsnet.co.uk/scream_faces_4.htm

http://www.absolutelyamazing.fsnet.co.uk/room_spirits_one.htm

I ride my bike up Green Moor quite often and foolishly rode it on the Stocksbridge bypass as well and if you pass the Rock pub on Green Moor there is a left turn that takes you down to the bridge, its a steep decent close to the bridge and there is a house bang on the side of it overlooking the bypass.
The security guards had there scare just below the bridge on the bypass when it was under construction and having rode down to the bridge on my bike it seemed almost normal, and i had no incline of anything unusual riding my bike on the bypass.
Regarding the pylons they are on the west face of Green Moor and i usually stop at the site of the electric generators and there is a deathly silence around there but again i have not encounted anything unusual.

Early this month me, my boyfriend and his cousin and auntie thort it would be fun to look for the so called "Mad Monk" as i used to live in deepcar and had heard lots about it. We went through the steelworks up 2 pearoyd bridge as we drove over it my blokes v reg very reliable astra just lost all power and when we got off the bridge it was fine. We never saw any thing but it was a really strange experience.

how the hell do you get to it from mexborough!!!!!!
wanna be scared like.

Yes i remember a story up there on the by-pass about a father and son. His son was a runner/sprinter and one morning around 5:30am they went training up there. The son ran quite quickly and his dad soon lost sight of him. As he aproached his son he called his name but to no avail. So the dad caught up with him and asked him to turn around and look at him as he was wondering why is son never spoke to him as he called his name, but the man in question was not his son and turned to face him with no face at all. His dad screamed out and his son came running back after him further up the road. Spooky eh. Another one was when a motorist crashed and when the police got there al he could say was that he swerved out of the way from a young family crossing the road in victorian clothing.

The story about the kids on the by-pass, was all about some kids who died there after the waggon, ( horse and cart? ) on which they were traveling, overturned and they were crushed.

I had the great misfortune to live in Stocksbridge for about five years, and all though I never saw any monks there is definitly something going on up there.

Its like living in Royston Vassey.

Bloody wierd place.

People have been looking for ghosts for years, but there is absolutley no proper, hard evidence. People who believe in ghosts are kidding themselves.

If you're seeing things, running through your head, who ya gonna call?! Ghostbusters! :D Or the Yorkshire Paranormal Society.

;) Our Lawyers are watching becareful when using our name Rich :D

Lol, it was an attempt at a promo for your company mate :D

Originally posted by Rich
Lol, it was an attempt at a promo for your company mate :D :thumbsup: every member you get us i'll buy you a pint ;)

Originally posted by Jon
:thumbsup: every member you get us i'll buy you a pint ;)

Drinks are on you then tomorrow afternoon? (The meet)

A friend of mine told me one day driving back from work late it was really bad weather raining really heavy, no traffic as it was about 10.30ish when a wagon was pulled up infront of him but instead of facing the back of the wagon he was facing it side on!!

He pulled up and wound his window down popped his head out of the window to speak to the driver who told him he'd broke down and he would have to turn around to go an alternate route, he thanked the man wound his window back up and turned the car around but then noticed his t- shirt was dry??
So he slowed down and turned his head to look back and there was NO wagon !!!!

:loopy:

In 1990 whilst working as a mobile security supervisor I was supposed to finish my shift in Manchester at about 6am and drive to Sheffield to clock off at 7ish.

One night I'd had enough and decided to drive over the Pennines at midnight, then park up, grab some kip in the car and take the short drive to clock off at the normal time.

Guess where I ended up parking up and kipping (12.30am - 6.30 am)? The layby on the bypass.

Thank God I only heard of the hauntings after this night.

Didn't see/hear anything, but kipped like a baby. Won't be doing it again though!!!:rolleyes:

Being a current Stocksbridge resident and having grown up here, I have to agree hj :)

Have heard the rumours about the black monk taking a ride in the back of some peoples cars when on the stocksbridge..

Can anyone else confirm that they have heard this rumour
for me?

Thanks all

Originally posted by Jaytee
Yes i remember a story up there on the by-pass about a father and son. His son was a runner/sprinter and one morning around 5:30am they went training up there. The son ran quite quickly and his dad soon lost sight of him. As he aproached his son he called his name but to no avail. So the dad caught up with him and asked him to turn around and look at him as he was wondering why is son never spoke to him as he called his name, but the man in question was not his son and turned to face him with no face at all. His dad screamed out and his son came running back after him further up the road. Spooky eh. Another one was when a motorist crashed and when the police got there al he could say was that he swerved out of the way from a young family crossing the road in victorian clothing. Thats stocksbridge then, people in Victorian clothing and Wendy shirts

Stocksbridge up near Pearoyd Lane has a lot of physic activity. Have visited it on many occasions with a clairvoyant friend of mine and have witnessed many strange occurances, would not recommend any one going there alone.

Originally posted by Jon
;) Our Lawyers are watching becareful when using our name Rich :D The YPS are famous.
There is a mention of you on the forum of most haunted about the Stocksbridge bypass.
www.livingtv.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13292

:o Famous at last , today Living TV tomorrow the world :D

i have lived up here 16 years and have travelled the bypass at all times and have never seen anything:( ,i feel left out now :(

Hey Jon,

If someone joins your investigation team, do they get to coem along with you on your visits to places? or is it just the meeting at the pub liek it says on the site, im just wondering because it doesnt state this on the membership page....

Yes you come on investigations with us :thumbsup: Jon
Membership is just £5 per year, giving you the following benefits:

o Access to the member's only area of the website

o Entry into the Christmas prize draw

o Exclusive YPS competitions

o The option to become a YPS investigator as and when cases arrive

o The opportunity to join in with YPS vigils and investigations throughout the UK

o Free YPS newsletters

ok, but i need more details on this, like how often does it be?, do you all go together or do you travel seperate and meet up? what times do you usually go for the investigations?

We all travel together and we all investigate together our investigations take place on Saturdays because most of the society dont have to worry about work the next day.

between now and the end of Summer we will be going to the following places

Michelham priory
Woodchester Mansion
Dover Castle
Pengersick Castle
Derby Gaol
Roach Abbey
Conisburgh Castle
Edinburgh Vaults
Robin Hoods Grave at Kirkless

ok cool, so why do you make people pay to become a member? is it because of the travelling expense and the use of the equipment? or do you just do it so you knowthat the people are serious?

I saw a program about the bybpass a few years ago. I even conducted my own experiment, me and my family drove up to the bridge at dusk, and stayed there until well after dark. You get a great view of stocksbridge and deepcar from there. The only paranormal thing to happen was rain.

However, we did have another odd experience in stocksbridge, comming off the bypass at the deepcar turnoff, suddenly the whole back of teh car lit up in a strange blue light, but the front want affected. Weird no?

JP =)

Was the blue light flashing with loud siron(sp?) type noise??

;) :P

ok cool, so why do you make people pay to become a member? is it because of the travelling expense and the use of the equipment? or do you just do it so you knowthat the people are serious?

I would imagine it's to cover costs, such as newsletter printing, prizes for the competitions, and quite possibly, public liability insurance. :)

It's now 2004 has anyone experienced anything paranormal recently at Stocksbridge Bypass or was the 1980's the last.

there is no such thing as a ghost its all in your imagination
:loopy: :loopy: :loopy: :loopy:

We've had no updates from Stocksbridge for quite a while. But if you are interested, the Yorkshire Paranormal Society are about to conduct a follow-up field trip within the next few weeks. Details will be posted here (http://jonyps.proboards15.com/index.cgi) shortly.

Ok cool, so why do you make people pay to become a member? is it because of the travelling expense and the use of the equipment? or do you just do it so you know that the people are serious?

Oops. I've only just noticed that Jon never replied to this post. The website has been down for two months and there's been a few wobbles, but the website at http://www.yps-online.co.uk will shortly be returning. The membership charge covers printing costs for the newsletter, and helps fund equipment costs for the investigation side of the group.

there is no such thing as a ghost its all in your imagination

You are on the wrong thread, Mr Mason. This is a discussion of the apparitions sighted at Stocksbridge bypass. Your input is irrelevant. There is a thread on whether or not you believe in ghosts elsewhere on the forum, started by Cycleracer. Do a search for "ghosts" and you will find it, there's a good lad.

Originally posted by craigmason
there is no such thing as a ghost its all in your imagination
:loopy: :loopy: :loopy: :loopy:

Stone the crows!

Centuries of speculation around the existence or not of otherworldy spirits OBLITERATED in one unforgettable moment of astounding insight!

Put down your pens Messrs Barker, King, Koontz, Poe, and Stoker: craigmason has spoken!!!

:D

Centuries of speculation around the existence or not of otherworldy spirits OBLITERATED in one unforgettable moment of astounding insight!

Ah, but it wasn't the rhetoric that was so persuassive, Greenback. It was the crushing appearance of the four (count them) green men making the primary school "loony" sign.

Can anyone tell me if this myth is true or not?
On Saturday afternoon, I was driving down the Stocksbridge Bypass with a friend on the way to a pub for a meal. During the journey, I was listening to a CD quietly so I could make conversation with my friend, when all of a sudden a Jazz radio station took over full blast. It kept stopping and returning to my CD track, but kept coming back on again all on it's own. At this point I wouldn't have thought anything of it - but my car is a company car and have been told that the radio has not worked for a year as the aerial is broken! So I felt a little uneasy. As I pointed out my nervousness, my friend decided to calm me down by explaining that the Stocksbridge Bypass is haunted by a Monk, who had been spotted on several occasions not only on the road, but actually in the back seat of people's cars when they looked through the interior mirror!! Exactly the same thing happened to me on the way back, same Jazz station and everything. But I never saw anything suspicious.
This has never happened before - everytime i've tried to tune in the radio I can't get a thing, just fuzziness. Someone please tell me if the Monk exists or if it's just a silly coincidence.

link http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=482952&highlight=Stocksbridge+Bypass#post482952

The rumour is yeah there's supposed to be a monk on the bypass near the Mad Monk Bridge as they call it,Although ive never seen it myself,I'd poo myself if i did? But i just cant help myself and have to look everytime i go passed:loopy:

I'm just reading through the stories via the link above, interesting. Never heard of it being haunted before, but now i'm intrigued. Any more stories or info will be greatly appreciated.

hmmmmm im sure i just posted in this thread..........seems to have mysteriously vanished, oh well

i said "hmmmmmmmmm a jazz loving monk"

Time to resurrect this thread with another Stocksbridge story...

A friend of mine - female, early 20s - was driving on her own back to Sheffield along the bypass late one night. Suddenly she had an intense feeling that somebody was sitting behind her in the back seat. She was too scared to even look in the rear view mirror, but she was convinced someone was there. After a few minutes the feeling wore off, but it left her quite shaken.

She told us about it the next day. She went white when we told her that that stretch of road was reputed to be haunted - she'd never heard about it before.

ghosts don't exist, there is no scientific proof to say there is........so no its not! ;)

ghosts don't exist, there is no scientific proof to say there is........so no its not! ;)

Not to say there won't be at some point.....

Same as anything else.

hi
Dont know if this helps, i travel along that road everyday, and at the same point near to Pearoyd Bridge, all the dials on the dashboard (speedo,revs, petrol),all cease working until i reach the Stocksbridge turn off at Underbank. Really strange, i know that there is an electricity sub station, which belongs to the steelworks, and could this be responsible to releasing energy or something into this area. Which might explain the car radio
Cant be good for health though

Was this story once on the Michael Aspel show... "strange but true" a good few years ago? i can remember watching something like this on that show...:suspect:

Alq, yet again, you are being ignorant of the evidence. Ghosts may exist, and the evidence for them is certainly there, though it is very weak and not weighty enough to convince me.

Yes, Stocksbridge Bypass featured on Strange But True.

He is reputedly a monk driven mad by celibacy and he is so consimed by lust that he keeps poping up ni Stocksbridge looking for it.

That's Freudian Projection, Sidney.

(Is "poping up" catholic slang for donning the sheath?)

hi
Dont know if this helps, i travel along that road everyday, and at the same point near to Pearoyd Bridge, all the dials on the dashboard (speedo,revs, petrol),all cease working until i reach the Stocksbridge turn off at Underbank. Really strange, i know that there is an electricity sub station, which belongs to the steelworks, and could this be responsible to releasing energy or something into this area. Which might explain the car radio
Cant be good for health though

The same kind of thing happened a few years ago travelling back from a late night gig in the van, all the electrics started dimming and cutting out for no reason whatsoever... VERY strange!

ghosts don't exist, there is no scientific proof to say there is........so no its not! ;)Another know all:loopy:

ghosts don't exist, there is no scientific proof to say there is


Ah but is there any scientific proof to say there isn't? ;)

The unexplained shadows, cold spots ect :suspect:

A couple of old friends of mine was driving on the bypass at about 3am in the winter and saw some smoke coming from the tarmac in front of them. There werent any cars around so they pulled over and went to have a look. Even touched the tarmac where the smoke was coming from and there was nothing there... they actually saw that the smoke was coming from about 4cm off the ground and not from the tarmac at all.

On getting back in the car nothing would work, radio, speedo etc until they reached the other side. They were terrified and still talk about it now. :rolleyes:

The same kind of thing happened a few years ago travelling back from a late night gig in the van, all the electrics started dimming and cutting out for no reason whatsoever... VERY strange!
I just found it so odd at first, but have just put it down to the amount of electricity around that valley, having an effect on the dials ,as i said it cant be good for the health of Stocksbridge people, living within the vicinity of the steelworks though.

Was this story once on the Michael Aspel show... "strange but true" a good few years ago? i can remember watching something like this on that show...:suspect:


I was on that!!!

they came to my school and asked for kids to voulenteer, i thought yeye i'll do that to be on telly!! i had to dress up as a victorian boy and dance around a pylon singing a ring a ring a roses!!

ahhh the shame....

On the few occasions I have to use the bypass I always feel a chill even on the hottest of days and personally I would never use the bypass near midnight, I would go the long way round via Deepcar and Wharnecliffe Side

dave

ghosts don't exist, there is no scientific proof to say there is........so no its not! ;)

Nor is there proof to say there isn't, so you loose :thumbsup:

I was on that!!!

they came to my school and asked for kids to voulenteer, i thought yeye i'll do that to be on telly!! i had to dress up as a victorian boy and dance around a pylon singing a ring a ring a roses!!

ahhh the shame....

at least you didn't dress up in a bin bag with yellow tape around it and collect bean bags (or pollen, as we were supposed to be demonstrating) and pretend to be a bee for some nature programme.

i was 23 at the time.

that last bit isn't true, by the way.

sorry to deviate from the ghostly story. nothing to do with stocksbridge, but one of my friends has a haunted bathroom.

we have slept up there never again if you go over the bridge and follow the road you come to a sub station and there is allsorts of stuff going on there tango pm me if you want any info

jon send me pm for info on becoming a member

I travel on the bypass every day and night and have never seen anything.
I'm not disputing the claims of others but seeing is believing.

at least you didn't dress up in a bin bag with yellow tape around it and collect bean bags (or pollen, as we were supposed to be demonstrating) and pretend to be a bee for some nature programme.

i was 23 at the time.


quality... :hihi:

we did a small investigation there last year and never saw awt except an irate cottage owner....(un beknown to us we had parked in his gateway, which was gated and padlocked up) oops ;) heheee

Is it possible to be gay and be a mummy (or a spectre of any kind really) at the same time?

Iv got something on my fone that someone sent me 2 girls in like a tunnel (is that the by pass?) n theres two ghosts in the scren, finding out if the video is fake or not and the poeple i have shown it say it isnt any1 else seen this video??

Iv got something on my fone that someone sent me 2 girls in like a tunnel (is that the by pass?) n theres two ghosts in the scren, finding out if the video is fake or not and the poeple i have shown it say it isnt any1 else seen this video??

It's already been posted on here and discussed, it's not the best piece of documentary evidence of the existance of sppoks.

Anyone seen this yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDOB0eu4f4


and:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqmyavrCN-E

As someone said the radio / electronics interference in vehicles can be partly explained by the high level of electric pylons around the steelworks and bypass carrying enormous volumes of electricity that is pumped into the steelworks.

There is a lot of iron in the ground around the bypass which when mixed with electric currents in the air interfears with car electronics etc (and apparently the locals minds).

I haven't heard of any ghost sightings on the bypass for years, at the time of the condtuction of the bypass (mid eighties) there was a number of sightings but that may have been down to distrubed souls.

There was a thing on tv about 10 years ago, maybe less, a medium went there and ... did the clearing thing, sending them onwards?

I dont know much about it but maybe thats why they arent seen as often now...?

Once Corus have gone, they will all be out to play again , the kids the monk the miner with his lamp [2 shop cellers] and lastly the old man and his wheel barrow all seen in the spooky town, but up where the pylons are it is scary even in the afternoon, and then there is Ruby Wood but thats another tale.

I worked for the security firm where the two guys who were featured in the film also workled. I saw tham at the end of the shift. The were absolutely terrified. One has never worked since the other lives in a orthodox seminary in Canada where he has been visited by ministers of religion also high muftis of the muslim religion to discuss what he saw. I have never seen aghost and dont particularly believe in them but i know what i saw. Laugh at your peril.

Temple security...?

Is it possible to be gay and be a mummy (or a spectre of any kind really) at the same time?

I recall the case of 2 gay ghosts in pub cellar that were rgularly seen trying to put the willies up each other





Pffffffffffffffffft:hihi:

Constant of Meccie

Once Corus have gone, they will all be out to play again , the kids the monk the miner with his lamp [2 shop cellers] and lastly the old man and his wheel barrow all seen in the spooky town, but up where the pylons are it is scary even in the afternoon, and then there is Ruby Wood but thats another tale.

RUBY WOOD! made me laugh that did.:hihi:

Was this story once on the Michael Aspel show... "strange but true" a good few years ago? i can remember watching something like this on that show...:suspect:

Indeed, and in recent years there have been several reports of the bypass being haunted by the ghost of Michael Aspel........

That red book... oh god that red book...

I've worked at that sub station, it's eary in the day light, we never hung around at night either:) :)

Hi M.M.
It so frightened the police officers, they couldn't work for a time.

I don't suppose they would have been on full sick pay, while they got over their trauma. :suspect:

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Sicknotes come a lot easier than getting spooked up Stocky,and i would rather walk down Kenworthy road [Bagdad] at midnight than venture up by the pylons after Blue Peter.[tea]

People have been looking for ghosts for years, but there is absolutley no proper, hard evidence. People who believe in ghosts are kidding themselves.

So how do you account for people, reliable (supposedly) people like the police, teachers, solicitors ets seeing things. I didnt beieve until I saw.

An old Aunt of mind told me this story about 30 years ago - believe it or not - and after reading all the above I have now decided to tell it to you. -She used to live in Stocksbridge, her husband worked at Samuel Fox and well before the bypass was built her and family decided to buy a smallholding on the hill looking down on the steelworks. They moved in before the sale had gone through fully and began to do a few alterations as the place had been empty. One day a man knocked on the door and when she opened it he asked her something (cant remember what) and when he had gone she realised he was soaking wet from head to toe but
it was a warm evening with no sign of rain??? someone then told her that a few years earlier a man was repairing a water tank in the area and had fallen in and drowned.
A few days later they were pulling an old staircase out of the house and her sons had gone for supplies - she was sat in the hallway and dozed off. When she woke up a little boy dressed in old style clothes with a ruffle collar was standing in front of her and looking at her - she said hello to him (thinking he was in fancy dress and had walked into the house) and blinked and he disappeared? Anyway, in the end the sale fell through and they moved elsewhere but I think she was glad in the end cos she couldnt explain any of the above!!! She is still of sound mind by the way.

Spooky - Has anyone done any research is it possible that ghosts find it easier to manifest anywhere there is strong electric fields like pylons? Hence maybe u see more on motorways if there are pylons along side .... tho i Not seen any around or in my mirowave in the kitchen yet ... maybe its the wrong frequency - Also if you let the telly on to just a snow picture if you look hard enough you can see little ghosts something like imps jumpin about ... spooky

a friend of mine who lives in skegness came down to see some of her friends in sheffield, and have a night out in manchester. on the way back they took her to stocksbridge bypass and pulled up, about three cars all in tow. they just sat there for about 5 mins and then they saw a big black figure run across the front of the car, then heard children laughing.

A couple of months ago me and my boyfriend went up to the bridge/pylon area in the early hours of the morning to see if we could see or hear anything. We took the camera with us and just kept taking shots into the darkness with the flash on to see if anything showed up... unfortunately it didnt, although there were a few pics that you could say had orbs on if you were that way inclined, but I am more tempted to say that it was just light on the camera or something. We walked all around the pylon and stood on the bridge, also sat in the car in case the monk fancied joining us.... still nothing. I must say I was very disappointed in the whole experience, we'd both really been hoping something would happen, but I daresay we would have pooed ourselves had we seen or heard something, it was scary enough just being there!

I was on that!!!

they came to my school and asked for kids to voulenteer, i thought yeye i'll do that to be on telly!! i had to dress up as a victorian boy and dance around a pylon singing a ring a ring a roses!!

ahhh the shame....

So you were one of the victorian kids? That's cool! I would have like to have been in that episode. I've still got a copy of it on video from 1994. Its a bit tatty now though, but I loved Strange But True, it was brill. I remember the father and son joggers in it, - Graham and Nigel Brook, my sister saw the son 'Nigel' one night in a shop in High Green, she thought she knew him personally, and then she suddenly remembered who he was when she got back home!

HI ANT
i am a mature adult. i think.
'kiddie' - are they the same kiddies running round pylons?
so funny that in this day and age what with video and film etc nobody thinks about taking a camera or other recoeding device up there with them!
i am not ' trolling' i thought i was in a forum where i could post my views just like everyone else!

i see your now offline ant?
id be glad to enter into an intellectual debate with you on the so called ' paranormal '.
Dean

so funny that in this day and age what with video and film etc nobody thinks about taking a camera or other recoeding device up there with them!
i am not ' trolling' i thought i was in a forum where i could post my views just like everyone else!

Hi, no, I'm here. I choose to hide my online presence.

I've spent many hours up there with a couple of groups, and I could name half a dozen other teams that have conducted investigations up there. All of them take suitable recording and measuring equipment.

We all welcome your input, so long as it's not a cheap one-liner-and-off. Constructive criticism is all we accept.

Dismissing the validity of the paranormal events that took place at the bypass means dismissing the eyewitness accounts of two police officers. Both well respected, and coming across very much as honest. I'm not prepared to do that without good reason, and as such, the location itself is worthy of attention.

My Best Mate and her Dad were in thier car coming over the hill to pearoyd farm and saw a woman in the middle of the road. This made her Dad brake hard but then she dissapeared. This was before they dug up the hill to put the bypass through - probably about 20 years ago. They were both very sure it was a ghost they had seen ::wow:

My Best Mate and her Dad were in thier car coming over the hill to pearoyd farm and saw a woman in the middle of the road...

That's interesting. I don't suppose you could help some of the groups out by identifying the precise spot on multimap?

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Is there anywhere that you can actually camp nearby.

I've been discussing this thread with another forummer and we think it would be very interesting.

We both believe in the paranormal, but I don't fancy driving along it late in the evening unless I have to.

Not that I can think of - there's a couple of farmer's fields, but they won't take too kindly to campers. Actually there is a bit of scrubland on the other side of the bypass. I'd not fancy it myself - too close to the town, I have visions of local kids lobbing bricks at the tent! You could always park in the town itself - it's not too far to walk.

Why don't you tag along with a group? There's one or two that I'm sure would wecome you as a guest for the day - night, even.

Not that I can think of - there's a couple of farmer's fields, but the won't take too kindly to campers. Actually there is a bit of scrubland on the other side of the bypass. I'd not fancy it myself - too close to the town, I'd have visions of local kids lobbing bricks at the tent!

Why don't you tag along with a group? There's one or two that I'm sure would wecome you as a guest for the day - night, even.

Possibly, I think we'll look into it. Even if it means parking up at dusk and having a good wander round after dark. Should be interesting.

If we get round to doing it, I'll let everyone know how we got on :thumbsup:

Excellent. Take a camera and post some pics up. We expect a full report with all the spooky details. :thumbsup:

cant wait, look forward to em'

Hello This is where they saw the woman who they both agree was a ghost. Her dad is a very sensible bloke too - worked in the fire service.

From the end of the private lane (Briary Busk Farm) turn right on to Hunshelf Hall Lane just before the first farm (on a bit of a bend) the ghost was seen just there on the left. It was a woman who turned towards the car as they approached and then dissapeared. It was about 21 years ago as I just rang my pal to ask her about it.

i no theres a vid of the ghost been sent around mobiles you can only just see the ghost though


scary :o

i no theres a vid of the ghost been sent around mobiles you can only just see the ghost though


scary :o

Where is that? Is that Stocksbridge bypass??

No, York (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=165207&highlight=rothghosts+stocksbridge) apparently.

This is the definitive story of the security guards and the ghost. Two security guards employed by Constant security of Mexborough were working patrolling the road which was still being constructed. About a mile on the tankersley side of peayroyd lane bridge they saw a group of children in medieval costume dancing round a bush. Shocked they carrid on in silence for some distance fianlly stopping near to Pearoyd Bridge. When they attempted to leave the vehicle a large inhuman presence held the drivers, then the passenger side door closed. The presnce behaved in a threatening way then vanished. Both men paniced and went to the local vicarage in a state of terror, they were then sent to the Police station eventually returning to thier office in Mexborough where they were sent home.12 hours later they were interviwed by thier employer who stated that in his opinion they were "traumatized".

Neither man has worked again, one lives in barnsley with his family and is under constant medical supervision. the other, affected even more badly lives in a Roamn catholic seminary in montreal where, within the last few years he has received visits from clergymen of the catholic, orthodox and Jewish religions and where in 1994 he was visited by the muslim grand mufti of Jerusalem.

I worked with these men and new them well, I have never seen a ghost nor do I particulrly believe in them, however what happened was far from funny and has ruined the lives of to decent ordinary working men.

Spooky going ons

Around three years ago, my Mother was in a car as a passenger on the stocksbridge bypass.Both her and the driver saw that in a field, a sort of newish area had been made with a stone path, the stone path led up to an intriguing looking old inn.
They both said they hadn't seen this pub before and that they might as well try it for lunch.They turned round and came back along the bypass, they couldn't find the pub.They went up and down it four times before they became convinced it wasn't there.Had they BOTH imagined it?We'll never know.

I have a friend who claims he was traveling towards pyeroyd bridge when all of a sudden the lights went out and the engine cut off. He stopped presuming there was a problem, after a couple of seconds he got an erie feeling as if someone was sat beside him. He said he could smell a musty kind of church smell if u no what i mean. after a minute or so(which must have seemed ages) the smell disapeared and he was able to start his car. He says he will not travel alone at night on that road.

OMG me and my mum were driving dwn that same strech one nightjust after xmas when our lights cut out :o and there was a light behind us like a moterbike but it just went after bout 10min just like that and we felt like some one was behind us like allmost watching us i was scared to turn around (lol) i am genuinly scared of this road and it gives me the creeps :suspect:

Ah, I remember back in the day my friends and I used to dress in dark hooded clothing and creep around the bypass bridge lower down near the steelworks.

I know of at least one 'sighting' that was later dispelled at school the following day.

Oh to be young and stupid again.

As opposed to old and stupid as I am now.

though their are two recorded cases of hangings along there, one at unsliven and one at underbank, the actual haunted theory is a load of tosh. Ive driven regularly along there since it was opened (and horse ridden on there before it was) and seen nothing.

though their are two recorded cases of hangings along there, one at unsliven and one at underbank, the actual haunted theory is a load of tosh. Ive driven regularly along there since it was opened (and horse ridden on there before it was) and seen nothing.

Which, of course, means that you have no experience of witnessing anything paranormal in that area. Not that it's "a load of tosh".

If it were that common to witness a ghost, we'd all have witnessed one, and the subject wouldn't be as controversial as it is.

Hi everything, I am new to this so hello:hihi:

I and a few friends of mine are expecting to go on a little kind of ghost hunt to the bypass. I just really wanted to know where the locations are and what we need to look for and where.

If there any books on what to do on the night we will go?

Also has anybody actually done this before? If so when you did this, did you actually find anything?

Thanks Ben

read this old thread...back in the good old days of 2003..
its called use search...


http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1405

its called use search...



Newbies are not to know that we have previously discussed every subject under the sun.

basically what i know of stocksbridge bypass is that it's bilt on a grave yard, and people who have drove there and crashed claim to have seen a monk in the back seat of there car! whether ornot tat is true who's to know. not sure where te hotspots are tho.

Threads merged. Hope you find what you want :)

HI CLR,
I have read reports of ghostly sightings about the stocksbridge by-pass and one was from two police officers on duty during one dark night.

They were parked at this certain spot when they both saw these apparitions one at each side of the car looking at them, they were so traumatised that they both had to take time off work as it was such a terryifying experience.

Both had to take time off work eh! :suspect:

HI CLR,
I have read reports of ghostly sightings about the stocksbridge by-pass and one was from two police officers on duty during one dark night.

They were parked at this certain spot when they both saw these apparitions one at each side of the car looking at them, they were so traumatised that they both had to take time off work as it was such a terryifying experience.

Cops often take time off work.

i regularly drive over there.

once with old friends we even use to wait till it was clear, winows down get and when about 100 yards from bridge, turn engine off! never heard anything though lol.

The sotrys ive heard are there is a Monks building used to be there then the bypass goes strait over part of it.

Also a play ground.

Suposably ther eis sightings of people stodd on the bridge looking down at cars also.

Never personally seen anything on the bypass my self, but i do belive there there!

*sigh* Stocksbridge bypass has been done and done, and done again...

I have been up there myself with a team many times, and many different teams..

the last time I was up there, we heared the 'children', or atleast what could be described as a group of children singing.... we had a sound beacon so we could pinpoint (to whin 1 meter) where sound was coming from, 1/2 of us wanted to go and look what the sound was, and the other 1/2 decided to be scared and wanted to go home... sufficed to say we ended up leaving...

I dont know when i'll be up there again, or IF, as there's so many groups doing it, and its been done so many times already i'd rather concentrate on other places for the time being..

Been reading these comments - travel on the stretch of road and under Pea Royd bridge regularly and know about the 'sightings' etc. Travel all over the country and this stretch always seems 'odd'. Never seen anything myself but can't get my head around the number of road accidents within 1 or 2 miles of the bridge. Is the actual number of deaths (let alone injuries) now up to 14 since the road opened? It was officially opened on a Friday 13th!! - Good planning or what? The accident rate must be some sort of a very sad record no-one wants on such a relatively shortl stretch of road? There was a problem with speed until the cameras went up and thankfully the death toll has reduced dramatically. I notice when reported a lot of the accidents involve outsiders to the area - possibly using the road for the 1st time? When passing the bridge and regularly seeing waggons parked for drivers' to sleep over night - I often think 'if they only knew'!! Also seems barmy to me that in my humble opinion the safest parts are now lit leaving the dodgy bits without and the design of the 3 lanes on the hills seem to court disaster! The now hatched solid white lines on the 3 lane bits mean you can't overtake although some folks either don't know this or want to meet the monk prematurely? By the way - try weighing up the white lines in snow or heavy rain - poor design me thinks?

i regularly drive over there.

once with old friends we even use to wait till it was clear, winows down get and when about 100 yards from bridge, turn engine off! never heard anything though lol.

The sotrys ive heard are there is a Monks building used to be there then the bypass goes strait over part of it.

Also a play ground.

Suposably ther eis sightings of people stodd on the bridge looking down at cars also.

Never personally seen anything on the bypass my self, but i do belive there there!

I didnt know there use to be a playground! A friend of mine went up to the bypass with a carful of friends, parked up for a while and switched the engine off. After about 10 minutes they heard a child giggling from next to the car, looked out of the window just in time to see a flash of grey mist "run" infront of the car bonnet then disappear! After the mist had dissappeared they heard laughing again, but this time it was more than just one child, more like 3 or 4.

It was on a programme a while ago about the monks building/grounds suposably like roche abby in maltby.

also a playfield kind of area, hence children playing are heard.

the signtings of the monks, are normaly of a monk walking down the side of the road. And it has been known that only half of the monks body can be seen, due to the ground has been raised to support the bypass.

This was all off a programme i watch a while ago and a few peple i know who have worked up on the bypass quite regularly.

I didnt know there use to be a playground! A friend of mine went up to the bypass with a carful of friends, parked up for a while and switched the engine off. After about 10 minutes they heard a child giggling from next to the car, looked out of the window just in time to see a flash of grey mist "run" infront of the car bonnet then disappear! After the mist had dissappeared they heard laughing again, but this time it was more than just one child, more like 3 or 4.

Kids dancing round a maypole is one of many ghostly signings seen up and around Pearoyd Bridge.

A local historian found evidence of an accident up near the bridge in bygone days. The kids had been on a school outing then the horsedrawn carriage they were in went out of control and crashed killing about 5 children out of the party onboard.

Please, please, please can someone help me?

I'm desperately trying to get hold of a copy of the "Angels" episode of the TV series "Strange But True" - it's the one featuring the Stocksbridge bypass. It ax Xmas pressie for my boyfriend who has been going on about it for years and would be beside himself if I somehow managed to get him a copy.

Please!!!!

Please, please, please can someone help me?

I'm desperately trying to get hold of a copy of the "Angels" episode of the TV series "Strange But True" - it's the one featuring the Stocksbridge bypass. It ax Xmas pressie for my boyfriend who has been going on about it for years and would be beside himself if I somehow managed to get him a copy.

Please!!!!

God I hope you get lucky and let me know if so, as all I think about when I hear or read about Stockbridge Bypass is that programme- I loved it! Good Luck x

It was on the supernatural channel the other morning
God I hope you get lucky and let me know if so, as all I think about when I hear or read about Stockbridge Bypass is that programme- I loved it! Good Luck x

God I hope you get lucky and let me know if so, as all I think about when I hear or read about Stockbridge Bypass is that programme- I loved it! Good Luck x
And it's on You Tube !!

Search Strange but true - Stocksbridge Bypass