I believe that when i was 4/5 years old that I saw a ghost. At this young innocent age, you can't explain things like you do as an adult, and I think as an adult you are far more dismissive of things you can't explain, or far too sensible and put it down to a trick of the light etc, which might be why there seems to be a high inncidence of ghost sightings from children. I wasn't scared but maybe this is because I was a child and didn't understand the concept at the time.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Have you seen a ghost? If so, what is your story...

Do you know of other peoples stories?

Are there any strange myths of ghost hauntings in Sheffield?

Or do you think that they do not exist, for example some scientists believe that a memory can be recorded in the walls of a house rather like a film is captured on a video, or music on a tape, and can be replayed back years later making you think there is a ghost there but it a mere memory.
Do you have an explanation for ghosts?

I'd be interested to hear your stories and maybe we can be freaked out late at night by some of them!!!!! :wink:

I have never been lucky enough to see a ghost and not sure I would know what to do if I did. I do believe in them.

Carbrook Hall across the road from Meadowhall Retail Park is supposed to be haunted apparently.

Beauchief Abbey mad monk or so they say was always too drunk to varify personaly lol

I am not 100% certain of their existence. I have experienced some wierd stuff so cannot rule them out completely.

AS for hauntings in Sheffield - there are loads.http://www.mysterymag.com

try there.

Moon Maiden

Often wonder whether the Manor Castle ruins are haunted. Apparently, the Manor Castle pub just round the corner is haunted, can't say that I've ever heard of anything happening there though.

You can get books on Sheffield ghosts from book shops in town - fairly basic, but not bad for a wee chill up the spine and a little history.
I've (almost literally) bumped into a couple of ghosts out and about. One was in the cemetery a bit up Ringinglow Road, which always strikes me as a bit odd - why hang out in a cemetery when you're dead? Another was further along there heading out towards the peaks. Both were pretty unhappy souls, but not scary. I much prefer a chance encounter like that, during the day, by ghosties who take no notice of you at all.
Nastier are the ones I've had in a couple of houses I've lived in/friends have lived in on Club Garden Road and Machon Bank. Malicious, noisy and very interested in scaring you...And I never get less scared of that type. I've had them throw things at me, so I find it a little hard to believe when I'm told they can't hurt you.
No, I'm not crazy. Nor am I gullible. I'm always determined to look for the logical explanation, as that's a lot less scary. Unfortunately, I've never had the chance to disbelieve in them. I've got hundreds of stories.

Does anyone remember "Strange but true"? it was an odd programme on quite a while ago. I recall the story shown on there of a monk which haunts Stocksbridge bypass, which put the creepers up me because we've been on that road loads of times. Apparently the monk appeares on the roads at night, out of nowhere and scares the drivers, causing them to crash, (hence stocksbridge bypass being well known for its accidents)

I've never seen anything myself, but I've experienced strange, unexplainable things. I don't know what I'd do if ever I came into contact with a ghost, I'd probably scream my head off! :? eeeek!

I remember 'strange but true', in fact I think they still show it on one of the digital channels.

I had also heard of Stocksbridge bypass being haunted before the programe came out - but was interested to hear the actual witness accounts - like the guardsmen.

Does anyone remember the phantom aeroplane?? I wasn't living in Sheffield at the time - but my gran was listenening to the radio as the calls came in about it.
Apparently my husbands family who live in Stocksbridge heard it and were very confused when no reason could be found for that amount of noise.

Moon Maiden

I had encounters with a ghost in my house during the late 80s and early 90s thought to be a previous tennant.
Both me and my wife saw it on many occations and it was always in the bedrooms and one morning in broad daylight was a woman growling at me with ginger hair inches from my face.
This gave me a nasty shock and it was the last straw when i was hit across the face by this female ghost and got the vicar in who exorcised and blessed the house in 1992.
The sightings seased after that.
When we had the recent earthquake my wardrobe doors were banging and thought she had returned and was relieved it was caused by the tremour, but within the last couple of months a figure has been seen by my wife which disapeared through the wall.
Maybe she has returned but i have had no recent sightings myself.

How the hades did you manage to get a Vicar to exorcise your house??? That would mean the church recognise the damned things!!! :shock: :shock:

Moon Maiden

Well your right the vicar didn't believe in them but he wasn't getting spooked by them.
he lived bang across the road from me and the church is 100 yards away so being not only my vicar but a personal friend he agreed to do it.
He also said something tried to strangle him while doing it, so something was lurking upstairs.

Never seen a ghost but there have been many eye witness sightings over the years. A famous one was in York many years ago, a workman working alone in the cellar of the treasury house saw and heard a group of Roman soldiers marching past him with a centurion on a white horse blowing a bugle at the head of the column.

The man was terrified and when they found him he was babbling incoherintly and shaking like a leaf. The strange thing was that he couldn't see their feet and the researches realised later that the soldiers were marching on the road as it was two thousand years ago, six inches lower than the present level.whoooooo. True story.

Originally posted by "halevan"

Never seen a ghost but there have been many eye witness sightings over the years. A famous one was in York many years ago, a workman working alone in the cellar of the treasury house saw and heard a group of Roman soldiers marching past him with a centurion on a white horse blowing a bugle at the head of the column.

The man was terrified and when they found him he was babbling incoherintly and shaking like a leaf. The strange thing was that he couldn't see their feet and the researches realised later that the soldiers were marching on the road as it was two thousand years ago, six inches lower than the present level.whoooooo. True story.

I have heard about this story when I visited York Dungeons.

There are more things in heaven and earth than man ever dreamed of in his philosophy. Horatio!

There's a hotel in my village that's haunted. It used to be a family mansion owned by the Dixie family. Lord Dixie's daughter had started courting one of the gardener's assistants. Lord Dixie dissaproved so one night he set up a mantrap to catch the unsuspecting garden assistant on the path on the way to their meeting point. When her lover didn't turn up Dixie's daughter started along the path to search for him, not knowing about the mantrap. It turned out that the gardener was guenuinely late and Dixie's daughter got caught in the man trap instead of the intended target. She bled to death in her bedroom. There's still a blood stain on the ceiling of one of the function rooms to this day, and no amount of paint or wallpapering can remove it. Some people also claim to see the appearances of what has become to be known locally as 'The Grey Lady'. Never seen her myself, but I worked behind the bar there during the summer and 1 or 2 strange events took place.

Once the receptionist heard all the taps on full blast and the lavatory repeatedly flushing in the men's toilet. She knocked on the door and it all instantly stopped. It was late at night, so I was about the only male staff member around, so she rang me and told me to come and have a look. Needless to say, there was nobody inside, but it did feel very cold.

I also recieved reports of other things happening there like glasses being knocked over by themselves, but for some reason this only seemed to happen really late in the evening when everybody had had their fair share of alcoholic beverages, so I'm sceptical about how much supernatural activity was involved.

Anyone Believe in ghosts and have a cool story to tell?:D

Hey I believe in ghosts, although I have never seen on myself I truely believe in them 100%.

There's an established ghosts thread with many interesting accounts, Colonel. Seek and ye shall find.

MOD: Merged with thread with an identical title :)

One of my lecturers was a ghost hunter. She hunted them for 30 years and never found any, so she quit (http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/NS2000.html). So, rather than waste 30 years trying to find them myself, I'd rather go along with her and say that ghosts don't exist (although I am sure there do exist physical and/or psychological phenomena which convince people they have seen a ghost)

No, I do not believe in ghosts. But then, I do not believe in orbs/microwaves/Alan Titchmarsch either.....

Lord Snooty,
Surely you believe in Abi Titchmarsh's orbs? Sorry, I mean Alana Titmuss. Or do I?

Never seen one in my short time on this planet.

But as a lack of proof that a thing exists is not proof that it does not exist at all I prefer to keep an open mind.

It just worries me that all you see on the tv are prats like Derek Accorah mincing around in empty buildings claiming to be "channeling" messages from the spirit world rather than scientific investigations into the subject.

id like to believe in ghosts, but need more evidence..

i do believe there is something else out there but as i have never seen or experienced it myself i can't say for 100% what it is i do believe if that makes sense ?

Originally posted by timo
Lord Snooty,
Surely you believe in Abi Titchmarsh's orbs? Sorry, I mean Alana Titmuss. Or do I?

Vair funny, timo. Yes, I do believe in Abi Titmuss' orbs - theoretically at least, as I have never seen them. Are they lovely?

DanSumption,

I did not believe in ghosts until I saw one. I just moved into a new house and woke up in the middle of a summer night to a very cold room. (The air conditioning was off) My left arm felt numb and as I turned my head to the left I saw two green eyes. The eyes turned bright red, I jumped up screaming and it disappeared. I turned on all the lights in the house and sat on the sofa reading the newspaper until dawn.

I told a friend the next day when he came over to visit. He chanted over and over " In the name of Jesus Christ, all ye evil be gone!"

I'm not sure if it worked. The ghost has not appeared since that night, but the hallway next to the bedroom is cold at times while the rest of the house is warm.

Originally posted by caprice
Does anyone remember "Strange but true"? it was an odd programme on quite a while ago. I recall the story shown on there of a monk which haunts Stocksbridge bypass, which put the creepers up me because we've been on that road loads of times. Apparently the monk appeares on the roads at night, out of nowhere and scares the drivers, causing them to crash, (hence stocksbridge bypass being well known for its accidents)

I've never seen anything myself, but I've experienced strange, unexplainable things. I don't know what I'd do if ever I came into contact with a ghost, I'd probably scream my head off! :? eeeek!

I was a big fan of 'Strange But True'. It was hosted by Michael Aspel in early 90's. That particular episode about the Stocksbridge Bypass was brilliant. It was televised in 1994 and I still have a copy of it on video.

2 security guards protecting a site when the Bypass was being built, saw the ghost of a monk, which supposedly has a very negative/possibly evil energy. They reported it to the police, and then 2 policemen went to investigate the site shortly after. They both encountered the spectre too. Their car did not start straight away when they tried to drive off, and then they heard loud thuds on the car boot before speeding off.

The episode was extremely spine-chilling. I have been fascinated with this story ever since SBT, and late last year, one night me, my sister and her boyfriend visited the old site at about 11.30pm.

As soon as you stepped out the car, you 'felt' something. hard to describe really, but we all felt as though we were not alone, and that we shouldn't be there, as if we were trespassing on private land. It was really weird. A very spooky place.

We took some photos with a digital camera at the site. On some of the photos, there does appear to be quite a few 'orbs' on them. Not sure whether they are orbs, or just insects, or slight drizzle. But some of the photos were taken under the bridge where the drizzle wasn't falling, and there are 'orbs' on those.

I would not advise anyone to go to the site alone. I'm not sure of the exact location, its kind of just off the beaten track just off Stocksbridge Bypass, on the way to Penistone I think!

Has anyone else visited this site, or seen anything?

I'm gettin married at Cubley Hall in a few weeks and as a result I've been driving up there on a weeknight once every couple of weeks to meet with the wedding planner. In all that time I've been up and down the Stocksbridge Bypass and under the "haunted bridge" numerous time and I can honsetly say that I've seen and felt nothing supernatural at all.

I saw the case on that series that's called "The Supernatural" or something similar and is always showing on the SKY documentary channels. There were some interesting accounts, but the people they interviewed looked and sounded like a right collection of yokels!:loopy:

I know of a few sites where you can see ghosts but sadly non are in Sheffield.
When I lived in a village in Northamptonshire called Sulgrave, near the disused railway track the ghost of a young girl could be seen. Even on a hot summers day, it would be icey cold on the site where the young girl was found dead. Another site was a few miles out of the village and had been used as a hanging tree in the middle ages. If you were lucky on a dark night you'd see a ghost or two near the tree, usually in the middle of the road.
Another very spooky place was an old house in Halifax were a friend lived many years ago. It was here I saw my first ghost, it was of a young man in Tudor clothing. He walked through a wall, across the room and through the closed door. As it was the loo, the shock of seeing the ghost, I peeed down my leg rather than the toilet.
In the same house was a room that was always kept empty and no one could stay in it for more than a minute or two. Even though you couldn't see anything, the feeling you got was of a very nasty presence. What ever time of year it was you could always see your breath, the room was that cold.

I believe there is something but I am not sure what. I would like to think there is life after death but I read a post in a different thread that really scared me.
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3100&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Originally posted by cerberus1971
'A ghost usually moves' was meant to imply: when video footage as been shown of them, they tend to glide. They tend not to move their joints (they do not have any). Sorry about being unclear.
Regards

If the afterlife means not being able to bend my arms and legs then its hell for me.

Originally posted by Chicago
DanSumption,

I did not believe in ghosts until I saw one. I just moved into a new house and woke up in the middle of a summer night to a very cold room. (The air conditioning was off) My left arm felt numb and as I turned my head to the left I saw two green eyes. The eyes turned bright red, I jumped up screaming and it disappeared. I turned on all the lights in the house and sat on the sofa reading the newspaper until dawn.
But what proof do you have that this was a ghost? As I said in my post, I do believe in physical and/or psychological phenomena which convince people they have seen a ghost. What I don't believe is that the spirits of dead people walk among us. As for getting rid of whatever was there by chanting "In the name of Jesus Christ, all ye evil be gone!"... well, no comment.

Packman Lane @ Kiveton Park is worth a look.

There are several posts on the subject on the forum about it, also it has appeared in a few books as well on ghostly sightings.

I dont believe i have ever SEEN a "Ghost"..but i do firmly belive that as a child i was "bitten" by something in my bedroom one night...and then there was the big eveil shadow creature on the wall that tried to get me...but my parents just put it down to an over active imagaination and a trick of the light....:suspect:

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
I remember 'strange but true', in fact I think they still show it on one of the digital channels.

I had also heard of Stocksbridge bypass being haunted before the programe came out - but was interested to hear the actual witness accounts - like the guardsmen.

Does anyone remember the phantom aeroplane?? I wasn't living in Sheffield at the time - but my gran was listenening to the radio as the calls came in about it.
Apparently my husbands family who live in Stocksbridge heard it and were very confused when no reason could be found for that amount of noise.

Moon Maiden

Heard of it? SEEN it! Saw it fly straight into the side of a hill/moorland and dissapear....big bang but no fire/smoke/debris....very strange...

But what proof do you have that this was a ghost? As I said in my post, I do believe in physical and/or psychological phenomena which convince people they have seen a ghost. What I don't believe is that the spirits of dead people walk among us

You have a point there. Perhaps I should have realized the importance at the time of gaining proof. In retrospect, I could of asked the evil spirit into the kitchen for a cup of tea, invited scientists and the media over to the house and documented the event on video. ;)

I think I saw one once on that Gail Porter show "Dead Famous".... When she was searching for Jim Morrisons ghost. It wasn't him though. There was a bloke stood at the top of the stairs who shouldn't have been there.

I also watch Most Haunted. (?) My friend told me that by watching Most Haunted you are letting the spirit world know you are open to visits and they come in your room at night and lick your knees while you sleep.

But what does she know.

Originally posted by SimonS
I also watch Most Haunted. (?) My friend told me that by watching Most Haunted you are letting the spirit world know you are open to visits and they come in your room at night and lick your knees while you sleep.

But what does she know.
That's true. And posting to this thread has the same effect. Although they tend to lick your elbows when they've been let in via computer rather than via TV.

But what do I know?

Thank God i have a long sleeved top and jeans on today then.

Originally posted by SimonS
I think I saw one once on that Gail Porter show "Dead Famous".... When she was searching for Jim Morrisons ghost. It wasn't him though. There was a bloke stood at the top of the stairs who shouldn't have been there.

I also watch Most Haunted. (?) My friend told me that by watching Most Haunted you are letting the spirit world know you are open to visits and they come in your room at night and lick your knees while you sleep.

But what does she know.

Ha Ha! That one made me laugh. Why would they wanna lick your knees? Weird. Maybe she meant to say nick your lees. I tell you, if my Nan tried to make contact, I don't think she'd want to lick my knees, she'd think it was dirty.

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Packman Lane @ Kiveton Park is worth a look.

There are several posts on the subject on the forum about it, also it has appeared in a few books as well on ghostly sightings. Talking of Packman lane ANGELUS we are planning a forum field trip there on July 3rd if you want to come?

Originally posted by raganoonande


I think something spooky is going on! Either that or you messed up the Quote

Originally posted by Carmine
I'm gettin married at Cubley Hall in a few weeks and as a result I've been driving up there on a weeknight once every couple of weeks to meet with the wedding planner. In all that time I've been up and down the Stocksbridge Bypass and under the "haunted bridge" numerous time and I can honsetly say that I've seen and felt nothing supernatural at all.

I saw the case on that series that's called "The Supernatural" or something similar and is always showing on the SKY documentary channels. There were some interesting accounts, but the people they interviewed looked and sounded like a right collection of yokels!:loopy:

When you said you went under the "haunted bridge", is it a bridge that the cars drive under as part of the route up and down the Stocksbridge Bypass? You see the bridge we went under was actually off the road and it was kinda underneath the main Bypass. I don't think cars are actually supposed to go under there, but we knew wouldn't be seen with it being quite late at night.

Its a little off the beaten track. Underneath the bridge, there is a fair bit of grafitti. and some woodland/shrubs/small trees.

Don't get me wrong, nothing significant happened, it was just a strange feeling that you felt. I mean its possible we felt like that, because we were in that frame of mind, I just don't think I felt a feeling a strong as that before, even when I've visited 'so called' haunted places before.

I can assure you though, we are definitely not a collection of yokels, just a collection of curious, slightly sceptical, would-be ghost hunters!!

Have a good wedding, Cubley Hall is a lovely place.

I do belive in ghosts, i belive ive seen one, ive heard that theres a ghost tour for sheffield?? anyone been on it?? should we get a forum group together to go one one?? sh** our pants??:heyhey:

there's definitely something in the old part of Hallam University's Psalter Lane campus.

Originally posted by mj2006
there's definitely something in the old part of Hallam University's Psalter Lane campus.
Great thread!

What is it at Psalter Lane, I wonder?

I don't believe in ghosts, but I do find the subject fascinating. I sometimes buy the Fortean Times, as there's loads of ghostly stuff in there.

I read somewhere that some ghostly presences had been put down to something called infrasound - strange sound waves below the detection threshold of our hearing - that can make us feel very uncomfortable. It can even affect the eyes, leading to that effect when you think you've seen something out of the corner of your eye, and when you turn round, it's not there. Spooky.

............

I lived in my old place for 5 years and you could hear things banging about and doors opening with nobody there on a regular basis the landlord also used to hear it/see it. I had my cards read and it was mentioned that there was someone "who liked to pop back now and then and also liked to keep an eye on the place". Apparently the "ghost" didn't mean any harm and protected the place from being burgled.

As I have relayed on a couple of other similar threads, I have experienced a phenomena which might well be a ghost. Before I go into detail I should make it clear that I suspect that science will one day identify the possible cluster of variables which may together produce the phenomena. I very much doubt that there is a metaphysical explanation for ghosts.

One evening in the late 80s, when out walking my dog past Clough Field in Crookes, I may have seen what local folklore claims is the ghost of a Victorian boy. In my case, what I saw was nothing like a person, but rather a white flash which suddenly shot across the field. As is the case with so many reported sightings of 'ghostly' phenomena [and the ghost of the Anglian King in M.R.James' 'A Warning to the Curious'], I saw the white flash partially, from the corner of my eye. I will admit to being unnerved by the experience, especially as it was evening and there was a nearby graveyard. My dog [a big, confident male Labrador] displayed the classic signs and worryingly whined and cowered, with his tail between his legs. Needless to say, we did not loiter near the field.

In all honesty, I do not know what I saw, except that it was bright white and shot like a flame across Clough Field. There was definately nobody on the field or nearby with lights or fireworks etc. Most curious.

interesting...where abouts is clough field at crookes?

When i was little my mom told me, when i walked in the tesco near longley school, i used to tell her i could see a girl who died in a fire, never found out if there was a fire around there but freaky none the less!:o

I moved out of my house due to the banging of door,s key,s went missing my purse went missing found later in bread bin .. my daughter saw an old lady it got that bad we moved..

Something weird is going on at my house: Three lights on one wall have all gone on during the night. It's happened three times.

Each time, I was certain I had turned the lights off before bed. The first floor was pitch dark when I went upstairs, but lighted when I came down in the morning. I have a witness for one episode, who swears I did turn out the lights. :suspect:

Originally posted by HappyHoosier
Something weird is going on at my house: Three lights on one wall have all gone on during the night. It's happened three times.

Each time, I was certain I had turned the lights off before bed. The first floor was pitch dark when I went upstairs, but lighted when I came down in the morning. I have a witness for one episode, who swears I did turn out the lights. :suspect:
I'd get an electrician out to check your wiring. Sounds dodgy to me ;).

I'd get an electrician out to check your wiring. Sounds dodgy to me .

Probably a wise idea, ppn_2204, but a poltergeist is more exciting than an electrical malfunction. Cheaper, too. :D

Mr J Bravo,
Re Clough Field, Crookes- my reference is to circa 1989, when my wife and I lived at Toftwood Rd in Crookes [we are now exiled in darkest Lancashire]. I don't know whether the field has been built upon since, but then it was next to a footpath which ran along side of the graveyard. It was then possible to walk through an entrance at [I think] Crossspool and the field ran down all the way on the left hand side, until one came to the bottom end of the graveyard at the right in the near distance. Walking on past Clough Field, one would encounter a footbal pitch, and then a sloped walk up to the Crookes entrance. This entrance was not far from Crookes Working Men's Club. I cannot remember the names of the roads, and it now seems so long ago. I recall then that one could rest at a stone wall and look across Clough Field. I saw the weird flash fly across the field when resting on the stone wall nearer to the Crookes entrance. I hope this makes sense.

All the Best,
Timo

I have never seen a ghost, but I believe they are entirely possible. I have twice had the experience of having the same dream as somebody else, at exactly the same time, and have witnessed other examples of psychic phenonema.
I think there is a part of the brain which does not work in linear time and is subject to merging with other peoples subconciouseseses. This would make ghosts possible even from scientific point of view.

I