I'm really interested in ghosts and was wondering if any-one had encountered such an experience in and around rotherham/Sheffield, I visit certain sites and have captured a ghost like figure on camera at hoober Stand, Wentworth, what i would realy like is to see one my self. i would be interested in any areas that sighting have been seen.

You need to PM Jon (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=582), Sheffield Forums resident paranormal junkie.

He would be able to give you a better idea.
Also use the Forum's search facility, by just punching 'Ghost' it came up with all these threads (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=72540&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending).:thumbsup:

HTH

DB

Jon will for sure find this thread.
I have been on an overnight vigil at the Queens head in Pond Street a couple of months ago and found the experience quite proffessional and interesting.
If you can stand been up most of the night in spooky places i believe Jon is always looking for new members.

I am supprised you haven't caught more up at hoober stand the area is notorious for strange happenings!

Moon

More links for those who have no idea what I am on about

Wentworth Estates (http://www.topforge.co.uk/Photographs/Wentworth.htm)
Wentworth Follies (http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/wfolly/index.htm)

Moon

I've heard tales of a ghost of an old woman that is seen sometimes on the hill that leads up from Greasborough to Swinton.

Just to let you all know, I re-visited hoober stand last weekend and I saw an orb along with a shadow this time! spooky!

:thumbsup: Yorkshire Paranormal Society would be very interested in looking at the pics of the orb?

I really do wonder whether Sheffield forum could do with a wierd and paranormal forum... the amount of threads discussing it is quite alot!

Moon

dude like that hooberstand thing we've got a vid of bein up there we did an oujia board and like we got a answer but it weren't too happy and stuff man

but yeah hooberstand def has orbs and it you take a vid cam to film you'll heard noises that dnt realate to the area at all so i suggest if owt you take alot of precaution up there

theres some sick sutff that goes on up there

;) Think people are using photoshop too much :D i shall say no more.....Meant to be investigating Hoober Stand this friday night so look on our website for results..

Membership of YPS good time to join in you want to visit some very interesting places i won't mention them all but Derby Gaol is one of them a pub in Rotherham a Castle ;) you have to be a member to find out more :D

:thumbsup: YPS (http://www.yps-online.co.uk)

a bunch of my friends and me are going up to hooberstand this firday all i can say is be careful because there are like a group of 40 ritual seekers or whatever they are been up there alately

we found a cricified crow and a green candle up there! a numerous gutted crows in the area so be careful

:thumbsup: Don't worry dude we will let the drug craze kids play up at Hoober this Friday have fun say hi to the devil for me :evil: :roll: we have better places to visit

Originally posted by .:Mr.Rik:.
a bunch of my friends and me are going up to hooberstand this firday all i can say is be careful because there are like a group of 40 ritual seekers or whatever they are been up there alately

we found a cricified crow and a green candle up there! a numerous gutted crows in the area so be careful

Wish kids had better things to do than bring the good name of witches down!

Why crucify a cow? Just what purpose does that hold?? And a green candle? That is for fertility - obviously don't work on the cow!

Moon

i know its right weird why would someone crucify i firggin messenger bird anyway i dnt get it its no longer flyin and its something to do with like fertility couldn't it be to bring summat like a miscarriage i dnt get why they did it


i could really do with some help and not critisim there's weird stuff that goes on up there but why up there not in the other 4 places in wentworth?

I could really do with you taking some time over your typing - that last message was a tad hard to read.

There has been strange goings off up wentworth and surrounding areas for decades. No reason to change now. As for a lame attempt at ritual - it is what i said, a lame 'attempt' and a group of sick individuals messing about with what they think is a magikal ritual.

Moon Maiden

:thumbsup: Went to Hoober tonight met up with Roth Ghost (very nice man now member of YPS) but moved on to somewhere better check pictures on the website soon u won't be disappointed YPS (http://www.yps-online.co.uk)

ooo sounds interesting - canne wait

Moon

:thumbsup: The Packman Lane, Kiveton Park pics are on our site NOW ;)

Top stuff Jon mate!
BUT

You need to be travelling in a car to see the ghost....

Look at the top left hand corner of your windshield and keep
a look out for the back end of the horse!

Hope this helps-

:thumbsup: Spent hours up there mate driving backwards and forwards,i did see a white mist more then once but couldn't get it on video oh well next time (read about it in our first issue of Haunted Realm magazine for just £1 from our site...plug plug lol)

I know this is a funny question mate but did owt happen to your car on the lane - any stalling or anything?

Several times our car died on that lane leading down the dip

Also I will be joining up with YPS very very soon-
as I have just found the site today and I think it is brilliant!!!

Please, please, please though do Roche Abbey

And take sound recording equipment there because you
always hear chanting always at night.. just wondering if anyone else on this forum can confirm this too

Not had any problems with the cars..but when we was filming using digital cameras all the batteries died at the same time which was weird.


Roche Abbey sounds good to me we will add it to our list..

We caught some good orb footage on night vision cameras in our last investigation we did at the George and Dragon in Wentworth which we will be showing Tuesday night at our meeting (The Old Queens Head Pond Street 7.30pm)

ANGELUS be good to have you as a member of our group :thumbsup: Jon

Thankyou very much for the warm welcome m8!

Also another brill location for you..
Anston Stones...

Take a clean pair of kegs...
lol!

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Thankyou very much for the warm welcome m8!

Also another brill location for you..
Anston Stones...

Take a clean pair of kegs...
lol! Tell me more about Anston Stones (sounds like a bitter :P )

Basically speaking its a woodland area - ice age in origin - in South Anston near Kiveton Park .. about 10 mins drive from packman lane.. very very spooky in the daytime never mind the nighttime..

Also has a cave there called dead mans cave - never wanted to set foot in there as its said to run for many miles underground..

All this and also there has been a reported padfoot sighting up on the tor!

One thing I remember from my last visit there is the trees are so weird looking.. its like something out of sleepy hollow.. very weird twisted shapes

Check out fortean times for the big cat sighting m8
and also the history of anston stones is @

www.rotherham.gov.uk/graphics/Leisure/Countryside+and+Wildlife/ _anston+stones+wood.htm

Talking of twisted trees. I was parked on Barnsley Road this evening outside the NGH entrance waiting for the wife whilst she visited her mum and I noticed how all the trees just over the wall in the hospital grounds where distorted. They look really wierd and spooky. God knows what they look like in the dark.

Have a look next time you pass.:thumbsup:

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Basically speaking its a woodland area - ice age in origin - in South Anston near Kiveton Park .. about 10 mins drive from packman lane.. very very spooky in the daytime never mind the nighttime..

Also has a cave there called dead mans cave - never wanted to set foot in there as its said to run for many miles underground..

All this and also there has been a reported padfoot sighting up on the tor!

One thing I remember from my last visit there is the trees are so weird looking.. its like something out of sleepy hollow.. very weird twisted shapes

jon

This is the location i was telling you about, when we went to Packman Lane.

Originally posted by roth ghost
jon

This is the location i was telling you about, when we went to Packman Lane. Sounds interesting fellow member of YPS we should go up there one night soon what do u think?

Originally posted by Jon
Sounds interesting fellow member of YPS we should go up there one night soon what do u think?

Can't wait!

Its a lovely place in the daytime especially in the summer but sometimes you get the feeling you're being watched and also as you travel deeper into the woodland it becomes a bit hostile to say the least.. very very strange..

I've left my Pitghosts books at work or I could give you the account of the guy who bumped into the padfoot on the tor...
have to get them back on tuesday when Im back at work

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Check out fortean times for the big cat sighting m8
and also the history of anston stones is @

www.rotherham.gov.uk/graphics/Leisure/Countryside+and+Wildlife/ _anston+stones+wood.htm I really don't class big cats in the subject of the paranormal they are just cats that the owners can't look after anymore and just let them go..

Well just in case you're right - best have a tin o' kittykat
on you just in case you run into South Anstons version of
the beast of bodmin moor!
lol!

Let us know how you go on mate if you do visit though,
would love to see what you guys find in there..
especially the area around the tunnel under the overhead
train track.. supposedly very active and hostile around that
area!

during a training nighthike for my iminent RAF Regiment officer course my "platoon" passed thru hoober stand and stumbled up on some ouija board kids who told us about a crucified bird they'd found and how they were supposbably contacting a young girl that was killed there. I think they were more scared to see 5 fully clad soldiers pass into the woods in kevlar helmets and flak vests hooded Para smocks and accompaning gear than we were of the ouija board, we moved on and stopped in the bushes in the dark to see what was happenin. Didnt see much but Id like to know if theres any truth in the story...

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Hello! I was gonna post a new thread on padfoot sightings, probably still will.
I did a search first & found this link...

Originally posted by Jon
Sounds interesting fellow member of YPS we should go up there one night soon what do u think?


Did you ever 'do' Anston Stones'?
If not yet, any plans? I know the wood well & would love to come along if poss?

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Hello! I was gonna post a new thread on padfoot sightings, probably still will.
I did a search first & found this link...




Did you ever 'do' Anston Stones'?
If not yet, any plans? I know the wood well & would love to come along if poss? We did Anston Stones late last year very intresting place but we didn't pick up on much activity at all :(

Legend has it that the headless Marquis of Rockingham haunts Hague Lane at Wentworth. People claim to have seen him. I have travelled this road at all hours and thankfully never seen a thing out of the ordinary.

i have lived at anston for 15 years, and i have never actually seen anything ghostly at the stones. my friends have claimed though to have seen the padfoot or the hounted dog (what ever you want to call it)


and to clear up any confusion, dead mans cave doesnt go down deep under ground, it is only about 5m squared and not deep at all.


why is it called dead mans cave anyway?

i have lived at anston for 15 years, and i have never actually seen anything ghostly at the stones. my friends have claimed though to have seen the padfoot or the hounted dog (what ever you want to call it)


and to clear up any confusion, dead mans cave doesnt go down deep under ground, it is only about 5m squared and not deep at all.


why is it called dead mans cave anyway?

In 1969 I was a probationer constable in the Sheffield and Rotherham Police. On my first shift I was accompanied by an old Sergeant who, whilst we were walking along Moorgate, introduced me too a man called Bob Moodle, Moodle had been an old timer when my Sergeant was starting out, so Bob must have been a copper in the 20s/30s. When he had gone The Sergeant told me a story of how Moodle had one night been having a smoke at the rear of a small chapel off Moorgate (still there, behind the monumemntal masons shop), he was stood in the chapel yard near some gravestones, when from behind a gravestone a dwarf dressed in a top hat came out and attacked him! Moodle ran away to the old Frederick Street police station. Moodle served for many more years in Rotherham and had a distinguished record. He always refused to work Moorgate beat at night however.

I worked Moorgate beat for a number of years and often went for a fag in the chapel yard, whilst i was aware of the story i often felt drawn to the place and was never afraid until one night in about 1974 I was looking out over Canklow and heard a noise behind me, turning i caught the sight of a very small man walking away from me towards Moorgate, he appeared to have a stove pipe type hat on, aware of the story of Moodles ghost I followed and as I turned into Moorgate found no one. I did not take the matter further as i was about to resign from the Police service and did not want the hassle.

Whether what I saw was my imagination running wild i dont know, but i had been down to the chapel yard numerous times and seen nothing, all I know is that the man walked from the direction of a gravestone that bears the inscription " Lord Billy Lee erected by his friends from the circus"

hi all, im a newbie to this forum but had to register to have a say in ghost sightings!

On the 10th april me and a few friends decided to take a trip to packman lane, me and my boyfriend was in my car, along with the other 4 cars in tow, unfortunatly we had no such look on the ghost sightings at all although something weird happened on the way back.

As i was driving away from packman lane back down towards the railway line, just before the crossroads junction where the young boy died, my boyfriend was quiet, when we approached the crossroads junction by boyfriend started to talk about the young boy that died there, he gave me details of how the boy died, where the boy was found, that it was a male driver, said the boy had been dragged 3/4 of a mile down the road and that the boy was actually walking home from a friends house. anyway as we approached the railway line my boyfriend looked awfully pale, he then said to me "you have drove off packman lane quick" i said i was just driving normally off the road where he began to say that the last time he remembered something was seeing the bench before the crossroads and had only returned "back to normal" as we drove over the railway line to turn left, as we turned left off the lane my boyfriend said he was cold, i felt him and he was really stone cold so i put the cars heaters on full whack, after about a minute of saying he was cold he said he was really really tired and felt drained as soon as he had said that to me he had fallen asleep, 5 minutes later he woke up bright breezy, not tired and no longer cold.

I initially thought that he was just trying to scare me or wind me up, which it did but the way he was speaking to me about the young boy with his eyes just gazing forward into the road without looking at me plus with him going cold and going really sleepy and also the fact that my bloke had tears in his eyes and was quiet all the way back to sheffield made me even more freaked out but the really freaky thing is......... is he had no idea about the boy who died or how he had died but had come out with everything what had happened to the boy.

I know people have had the two other ghost sightings but can anyone tell me any information about the boy that died, i do really reckon that as soon as we passed the bench my boyfriend had become possessed or someone was telling him the story and told me exactly what had happened, really freaked out guys had to sleep with light on!

Jon, Angelus et al., what's the link to the Packman pictures - would be really interested to see them.

BTW, do you know about theories several local historians independently put forward a few years ago about a possible major battle in the vacinity of Kiveton/Wales in the 8th/9th century, and that there may have been a mass grave site in the southern part of the former colliery site?

Quite a convincing argument, based on medieval fieldnames, but a few of our volunteers are doing more detailed research into it at the moment.

JT

just stumbled across this forum and read the posts relating to strange stuff happening in the wentworth/hoober area.

I live in the Village and worked at the garden centre where I have heard stories of victorian dressed figures being seen in the gardens (one by a member of staff who was shooting magpies in the early evening and saw a victorian style man walk passed him dressed in funeral bearer style clothes and one by a little boy who told his mum he saw a man in old clothes,his mum however didnt see anyone.)

I drive up hague lane and cortworth lane at all times of the day and night on a regular basis and have never seen anything out of the ordinary apart from once. Me and a friend were driving up cortworth lane (just passed the woodhouse entrance where the wall is always collapsed due to car crashes) when i suddenly saw a black figure jump through the gap in the wall and into the grounds. I only saw it for a split second and it was extremely quick. I didnt say anything for a minute until my friend asked if i had seen something jump through the wall. This made me feel very uneasy knowing that we had both seen it. Anyway iv never seen anything else but it gives me chills down my spine when i pass now!Also iv been up to hoober stand many times and the last time i went was on a sunday during the day when i got an 'uneasy' feeling which made me leave in a hurry!I also was checking out the tunnel entrance next to hoober stand (which apparently leads to wath?) when i got the feeling i was being watched so i did a runner!My girlfriend says her gran went down the tunnel before it was sealed off and said it leads to where a manor house once stood in wath. It may also lead to wentworth woodhouse, wentworth church and kirkstead abby mews (former kirkstead abby) as i know there are tunnels under there too. Apparently the tunnels were used originally by monks who were escaping the crusades and then later by lords to visit their mistress's.

To build a tunnel to Wakefield would take a lot of doing. When dod the monks try to "escape" from the crusades.?

There is quite a bit of Special forces type training goes on in the area and it may be you saw a ninja.
just stumbled across this forum and read the posts relating to strange stuff happening in the wentworth/hoober area.

I live in the Village and worked at the garden centre where I have heard stories of victorian dressed figures being seen in the gardens (one by a member of staff who was shooting magpies in the early evening and saw a victorian style man walk passed him dressed in funeral bearer style clothes and one by a little boy who told his mum he saw a man in old clothes,his mum however didnt see anyone.)

I drive up hague lane and cortworth lane at all times of the day and night on a regular basis and have never seen anything out of the ordinary apart from once. Me and a friend were driving up cortworth lane (just passed the woodhouse entrance where the wall is always collapsed due to car crashes) when i suddenly saw a black figure jump through the gap in the wall and into the grounds. I only saw it for a split second and it was extremely quick. I didnt say anything for a minute until my friend asked if i had seen something jump through the wall. This made me feel very uneasy knowing that we had both seen it. Anyway iv never seen anything else but it gives me chills down my spine when i pass now!Also iv been up to hoober stand many times and the last time i went was on a sunday during the day when i got an 'uneasy' feeling which made me leave in a hurry!I also was checking out the tunnel entrance next to hoober stand (which apparently leads to wath?) when i got the feeling i was being watched so i did a runner!My girlfriend says her gran went down the tunnel before it was sealed off and said it leads to where a manor house once stood in wath. It may also lead to wentworth woodhouse, wentworth church and kirkstead abby mews (former kirkstead abby) as i know there are tunnels under there too. Apparently the tunnels were used originally by monks who were escaping the crusades and then later by lords to visit their mistress's.

I have no idea when the monks 'escaped' the crusades or even if its true,its only what iv heard in stories. I never mentioned that any tunnels went to wakefield though?they could do for all I know,very much doubt it though.As for the special forces stuff I don't think thats very accurate,I cant quite see the SAS running around wentworth at night, and I dont think they have 'ninjas' in the special forces.

My uncle was a Ninja attached to Special Forces and regulalrly trained in the area. Many was the time we used to meet him in the Red Lion after he had completed a day Ninjaing. His speciality was camouflage and it could be quite embarassing sitting talking, apparently to a chair.I have no idea when the monks 'escaped' the crusades or even if its true,its only what iv heard in stories. I never mentioned that any tunnels went to wakefield though?they could do for all I know,very much doubt it though.As for the special forces stuff I don't think thats very accurate,I cant quite see the SAS running around wentworth at night, and I dont think they have 'ninjas' in the special forces.

My uncle was a Ninja attached to Special Forces and regulalrly trained in the area. Many was the time we used to meet him in the Red Lion after he had completed a day Ninjaing. His speciality was camouflage and it could be quite embarassing sitting talking, apparently to a chair.
Was he a part time Chippendale?