Ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night . . . Spectres or apparitions, phantoms or poltergeists . . Seen any in our beloved city?

If anybody has any spooky stories or encounters with the supernatural - please post them here.

Have you heard of the one on Bunting Nook near Graves Park?

Its on some site somewhere.:thumbsup:

You need to speak to Jon - he is part of the Yorkshire Paranormal society.
Could also try Mysteri mag if you want to fork out for membership to their forum

Moon

I have a paperback called GHOST HUNTING IN SHEFFIELD that lists a fair few. Think its available at Sheffield Scene on Surrey Street for a few quid.

Originally posted by markham
I have a paperback called GHOST HUNTING IN SHEFFIELD that lists a fair few. Think its available at Sheffield Scene on Surrey Street for a few quid. I also have this book and if you do a search on Jons topics i'm sure one of his threads will be of interest to you.

They reckon the Carbrook Hall pub near the Arena's haunted... meh, only cos people start seeing stuff when they're ****** out of their brains.

Theres the ghost of a gypsy type girl in Fulwood, does not seem based in any property but haunts a passage between 2 roads near the petrol station at nethergreen. Think I talked about this about 6 months back on another thread somewhere. Eye witness account from me as I seen her many times

I got a book of the ghosts of sheffield. It was really intresting so i convinced my bloke to come on a hunt wi me and his mates.We went up 2 buntins nook in norton and walked up the path to that church and my bloke whos 21, 20 odd stone and 6ft 4 who isnt scared of much legged it bk to the car in tears when he said he saw a something in the doorway of the church all in white staring at us. I didnt see anything but in the state my bloke was in i wont be goin up there again.

I live right next door to the mosborough hall hotel, and thats haunted by a woman dressed in white (its always white isnt it), who walks through the wall acoording to one story, runs through it in another, and god knows wot else. the story seems to change everytime, one says she is running getting chased by a guy who raped and murdered her, another says its a girl who died of suffocation hiding in a chest, and another is she fell out of a window and broke her neck... either way its haunted lol

One of the rooms are haunted too, u can spend the night there for a bit more than the other rooms, so we are putting my american auntie in it when she comes over and see if she see anything (americans usually do, typical tourists)

There's obviously the old monk and the Ring a roses children on the Stocksbridge bypass and another little known one...

(sighting verified by my scientific minded i.e. ghost non-believer uncle)... over at Kiveton Park, there's a lane up to a farm. If you take the main road to kiveton park station then cross the tracks at the level crossing, follow the road up and go straight across at the cross roads (this is particularly creepy at dusk!).

Carry along and in one of the dips of the road, near to a stile and gate, a ghostly image should run across in front of you.

thought the be the son of the local farmer who many years ago ran him over at this point in a tragic accident.

How true? Find out. I've been there and over to Stocksbridge bypass many times and not seen a dickybird

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Theres the ghost of a gypsy type girl in Fulwood, does not seem based in any property but haunts a passage between 2 roads near the petrol station at nethergreen. Think I talked about this about 6 months back on another thread somewhere. Eye witness account from me as I seen her many times

Where exactly is this?

the ghost at kiveton is on packman lane i,ve seen it on two occassions and although im a beleiver in such things im also very sceptical at sightings so i stayed for about 15 minutes ruling out all other options eg moonlight ,reflections etc
it is supposed to be a highway man who roamed the area of kiveton ,todwick etc which is why no feet are ever seen as he is supposed to be on horesback and as well as crossing rd he also cicles in feilds at side as if waiting for coach

Yes, the Todwick story is quite a popular one. It's supposed to be a horseman roaming the area. Drivers in cars stopping at the crossroads near the garden centre have allegedly witnessed something unnatural cross their path during the night.

Hey everyone!

I can confirm the sighting of the highwayman @ Packman Lane.

Coming from Kiveton Park myself I have seen it numerous times and also the spirit of the boy running across the road after the dip as well!!

Packman Lane is supposedly an old roman road apparently and I've heard a rumour that a small troop of roman soldiers walk the lane at nightime- cant confirm this though unfortunately.

:thumbsup: You can see pictures of Packman lane on our website YPS (http://www.yps-online.co.uk) Its a very interesting place but i wouldn't go that for to say you can see a highwayman, a white mist yes.

I remember 3 years ago seeing with my own eyes the back end of a horse walking across the road in front of the car to the left with a rider wearing a cape and tricorn hat - very quick though..

If you come back down the lane it dosent seem to appear though.. only when you go past the layby and start going up the hill.. right at the top you'll see it!

Hi
Ive only just registered on here, the reason being that i did a search on google for Stanage Lodge and it came up with an archive thread about it being haunted, it was posted by pistol pete. I used to live up there, moved in in 1982 and left in 1996. As a kid it was quite scary but i got used to it. Was wondering if anyone else had any stories about the place, either about it being haunted or not?

Jon on this forum might have some info that you want mate..
give him a shout on here!!

I have visited Roche Abbey many times and find it a very good place to experience something strange. A group of us have heard monks chanting and have captured on video and strange light anomalie (not an orb). It is well worth a visit. We are going down again tonight!!

a few years ago I used to work at Ash House old peoples home at Dore. We had a resident who although quite normal most of the time was very agitated at meal times often unable to go into the dining room crying "look at the children". We moved her to another room which we served her meals in. Later on I discovered that prior to the war Ash House had been a hospice for sick children and the dining room had been used for terminal children. Also the same building was said to be haunted by the ghost of a former owner who had hung himself on the main staircase. I remember always being cold on the stairs however there was ahuge stained glass window there so what did I expect! Other strange events happened there but you'd have to buy me a pint to bore you with those!

i lived in #79 buchanan road and i am 99% sure this happened to me and not a dream
i was about 9 years old and was in bed with two of my older sisters i was in the middle i am getting goose bumps just thinking about it
for some reason i woke up and we had big duffle coats on the back of the bedroom door one slid forward and travelled around the bed as if on wheels it went back the same way, i did not wake my sisters up as i was scared stiff and couldn't move

shivering now dave

Maybe the rats were getting cold? lol only joking!
Things like that are hard to tell people without them thinking your abit bonkers or a complete liar. It was the same with my original story on here, there were many other things happened in that same house but i just dont tell people as they tend to think your going over the top.

Originally posted by ginger
for some reason i woke up and we had big duffle coats on the back of the bedroom door one slid forward and travelled around the bed as if on wheels

Semi-conciousness is a weird thing, but it's not real... sorry !

A group of friends and myself have often visited Roche Abbey near Maltby.....and have had some amazing experiences.
These include hearing chanting, terrific feelings of fear and the usual orbs on photos and a strange white ball of light caught on video.

Well worth checking out......

There's apparently a wellknown ghost at my work, which I find very worrying I can tell you. I work in the old Radio Sheffield building and lots of my colleagues have seen this ghost - who only seems to reveal herself to men. Some parts of the building do literally send a chill down your spine when you enter the room - which sounds daft but is too true. Put it this way I would not like to be locked in that building all alone.......(!)

ive posted a message on the history section about'ghosts'at Queens Road retail park.Itoo would be gratefull of any info.
Staff at one of the retail outlets have experienced some very strange goings on.
A black shadow that a member of staff saw,and then checked on cctv and was visable.
a voice asking a member of staff 'What are you doing'when they turned around no-one was there!
Numreous reports of taps on the shoulders etc...no explanation
Turnstiles in the building turning with quite a speed but again....no one there.

weird eh?Researched as much as possible and know that the site was bus/tram depot and also heard rumours that a man took his own life there many years ago.If anyone knows any more info that may be useful please p.m. me.Thanks.

forgot to mention that the areas that the sightings and experiences are happening in is also freezing cold and there is no explanation for that either.
Done a temperature check and the reading in that specific area was 10 degrees lower than any other area in the building.

Beauchief Abbey is reported to be haunted. I don't know how much truth is in that as I've not looked into it, but everytime I've walked my dog near there I've felt really uncomfortable.

Strange things used to happen at the old house I lived in on harcourt road, things would move clocks would alter.. It used to bother me more than most of the visitors cos apparently "the gift " runs through my mothers side of the family. once I was sat at the p.c and I thought my son had his head over my shoulder, I turned round to scorn him and all that was there was a sort of dark head shaped matter.. made me jump and I screamed at that point my son popped his head round the top of the stairs to ask what was wrong.. it used to love to hide watches and roll balls along the floor.. there was a story connected to the house but I am not sure if it was true it involved italian familys in the 1930s and gang warfare..

have you got the 2 books ghosts of sheffield and more ghosts of sheffield i did have both but can only find one there old books published aroud 1987 but very interesting and has alot of different palces in

Does anyone know about any ghosts in the Manor castle pub? also does anyone know where there were sightings of spring heeled jack in sheffield?

Hi
There's a current posting on ghosts in Sheffield at the moment. Try
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8074

thats great cheers!

does anyone know much about the Manorcastle pub opposite the ruins? ive heard its haunted but i'm not sure where to find out!

Originally posted by JessicaA
Does anyone know about any ghosts in the Manor castle pub? also does anyone know where there were sightings of spring heeled jack in sheffield? There is no such thing as Spring Heeled Jack Its just something they made up to scare kids, like the Boogie Man or Michael Jackson :D

hey jenhoppy, which retail outlet on Queens road are you saying is haunted?

Hauntings, Ghost's, Poltergeist , hahaha, you people watch far too much TV.

Originally posted by Nu_Skillz
Hauntings, Ghost's, Poltergeist , hahaha, you people watch far too much TV. :thumbsup: Don't need to watch TV Nu_Skillz our group investigates this stuff for real ;)

i have had 4 expiriences with the strange in my life time, the first being when i was 4 years old
my mum and older sister (8) were downstairs watching TV
i had just been put to bed, and at that time me and my sister shared the same room, my sisters bed was next to the window and mine accross the room near the door.
i remember laying in bed and looking accross the room over my sisters bed and out the window.
my sisters bed sheet suddenly rose to the ceiling as if someone had pinched it in the middle and lifted it
then it just dropped back on the bed,
i flew out of bed and ran down stairs crying as i was so scared
my mum said i was just imagining things and she
calmed me down and took me back upstairs to bed
and there was the sheet, all messed up as it was after it had been dropped, spookey!!

the 2nd time i was 6 years old,
and because i have such a gr8 mum, she used to let me stay up late at night and watch the horror movies with her, and on this particular night the movie was a real scary 1, (some old frankinstein movie), and when id gone to bed i remember gazing at my door in darkness, just a faint orange glow gomming through the window from a street light outside
and i saw a silouette/shadow of a tall man that appered to be trying to open the door (turning the knob), i was so scared i couldent move any part of my body, it seemed to last about 5min and i cant remember anything after that,
other than waking up in the morning and telling my mum what id seen, she told me i must have just had a bad dream/nightmare.
im still not sure to this day if it was a dream
i have not had a dream/nightmare as vivid as that 1 ever since,
it still freaks me out to this day.

one evening i was just cleaning out some brushes/rollers after doing a little decorating.
i was running the tap to fill a piant tub with water so i could soak some brushes while the tub was filling up, i ran upstairs to toilet to take a leak.
when id done and gone back downstairs to finish of the bushes, the tap had been turned off already at the point where the water was right to the brim of the tub, there was noone but me in the house, and when i went to use the tap again i had to use a little strenght to turn it as it was very tight.
how wiered is that?

i have also had a spooky expirience with a ouiji board, where the glass started moving in a circular fassion arround the board.
there were 5 of us and all had contact with the glass,
i thought it was just one of the others pushing it arround, then it just kept getting faster and faster untill the point where we couldent keep contact with it anymore, i was the last one to loose contact, at wich point the glass carried on circling the board for another 3 or 4 full circles before shooting to the edge of the board and coming to a stop.
it freaked us out so much we we never did it again after that.

it would be nice to come along to one of your investigations sometime, would be interesting to see how you go about detecting such things as ghosts and how you decide wether it is a ghost or just some old boiler pipe banging occasionally:)

is it me or does the last post look suspiciously like a cut and paste job....?

Originally posted by Nu_Skillz
it would be nice to come along to one of your investigations sometime, would be interesting to see how you go about detecting such things as ghosts and how you decide wether it is a ghost or just some old boiler pipe banging occasionally:)

Or, indeed, in the case of some of the women who believe in all this sh**te, "just some old boiler banging on incessantly" :)

Quote: Spook
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is it me or does the last post look suspiciously like a cut and paste job....?
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what are you trying to imply Spook?
i will have thee know that post took me some time,
cut 'n' paste, pfft, u cheaky sod
and i can assure you that all this is genuine and has happend to me.

If you have a property or location that you would like us to investigate then please get in touch with Rotherham-ghosts, we may be able to help.

Originally posted by Warreng
hey jenhoppy, which retail outlet on Queens road are you saying is haunted?

Ooooh dont know if i should divulge this sort of info....!ha ha
Why do you work in one of the outlets Warreng?

I know everyone's talking about different areas of Sheffield being haunted but did anyone ever experience anything supernatural when they were at school?

I went to a large school in Sheffield, I wont say which one but it had a long corridor leading from the foyer to the classrooms. Alongside the corridor were the changing rooms, boys at one end and girls at the other. On many occasions I felt a presence following me as i walked through it. Usually when i was alone or when it was assembly and there was no-one else there i would hear breathing or even worse footsteps that seemed to run up behind me and then stop.
I'd walk to the end of the corridor praying that it wouldn't show itself and once through the door at the end i'd run really fast to the classroom.

althought i never saw anything while i was there, the school i went too was supposed to have the ghost of a white lady that haunted the sixth form centre, i think it was a white lady but its a few years ago and the memory is not as good as what it was..

The Castle House co-op is supposedly haunted by the ghost of the young boy who fell to his death from the stairs. Also the mother of the boy is also supposed to haunt the staff toilets. I work there and I've never seen anything although many others claim to have.

A young boy's face was seen in the screen of the freezer although the shop was closed. Another young boy was seen zooming through the closed warehouse on a bike and rode straight through the wall. The guy who saw this was in tears when he reported it so maybe it's true.

It does sometimes get cold in various places too (not near the freezer obviously ;) ) so maybe it would be great if you could check it out and exercise the ghosts!

Afterall, a young child and his mother haunting a supermarket for eternity - can't be much fun. :(

But saying that I don't think the managment would let you. Ah well ...

Originally posted by Rusted Root


Another young boy was seen zooming through the closed warehouse on a bike and rode straight through the wall. ........... so maybe it would be great if you could check it out and exercise the ghosts!



Looks like the kid on the bike gets enough 'exercise':thumbsup:

Originally posted by roth ghost
If you have a property or location that you would like us to investigate then please get in touch with the Yorkshire Paranormal Society we may be able to help.

www.yps-online.co.uk

What would this investigation include?

Dirty lenses, like this that you claim shows "some kind of strange ectoplasmic mist".

http://www.cotcpi.co.uk/IMAGES/Bramber%20Castle/!CID_003B01C1BB03$C7087200$0100007F@TINY.JPG

Or clearly doctored photos like this;

http://www.cotcpi.co.uk/IMAGES/websitelogo.jpg

On your web site you say you concentrate on the science side. But in your investigations I can find nothing but totally subjective accounts of feelings and temperature drops. Where is the science?

:loopy:

Fact 1) We are not COTCPI we are the Yorkshire Paranormal Society.

Fact 2) We have one member who is a member of COTCPI

:thumbsup: Get your facts right back2basics

Geetings from C.O.T.C Paranormal Investigations

As a Co-founder of the organisation I would just like to answer your questions.

1. The picture taken at Bramber Castle was taken by an experienced investigator of some 30years and whilst it may appear nothing, he has eliminated all possible natural causes.

2. The images on the logo page are in fact lightened up in order for people to see the actual mists etc... again this was after we had eliminated natural causes as well as human ones.

3. Your comment with regard not using science I find hard to accept fully as we do in fact use computers and photographic analysis machines to analyse these pictures (this is science as it is the use of equipment to eliminate outside interference) Also the fact that when EVP's (electronic voice phenomenon) are recorded, again analysing equipment is used to clean up the recording and remove background interference together with voice pattern recognition for members of the team so that we can safety eliminate them as the cause of it.

I appreciate your comments and we always consider opurselves open to debate on such matters and if you want to discuss our methods etc... further then please feel free to e-mail me at enquiries@cotcpi.co.uk
Would be nice to hear from you and to learn your credentials and experience in this field, who knows it may be beneficial to both of us.

Regards

Stuart Logan
Co-founder
C.O.T.C Paranormal Investigations
http://www.cotcpi.co.uk

Why do you guys all seem really critical of ghosts and spirits? Is it because all the textbooks and scientists tell us that they don't exist?

Some things that we can't see really do exist (magnetism, radiation gravity etc). Sure we can see the effects of these things, just like some people feel the effects of ghosts (cold spots or whatever), so why is they're a difference?

Because communicating with the dead has been shunned for centuries? Or maybe we just don't want to believe that somewhere someone's granny is roaming around an ancient building?

Hmm. I've been watching too much Kingdom Hospital.

Jon sorry for the confusion. I have to see why you don't want to be connected with COTCPI, their fakes are much worse than yours are. But even yours are very obvious to even the untrained eye.

This picture for instance...

http://www.yps-online.co.uk/reports/Woodchester%20Mansion/fig_3.jpg

http://www.inside-chicago.com/fforum/data/back2basics/200462113928_imagebig.JPG

I looked at it at a larger size. The big "orb" in the center is poorly done. You really let yourselves down with this. The anti-aliasing around the orb is too perfect too regulated. The chances of this happening naturally (even after you would have sized down the image for the screen) are almost of low as the chances of ghosts actually existing in the first place ;) It's clearly been done in Photoshop or some other photo editing software. But as i said, it's been done BADLY. Your other images are slightly better, i must admit i picked the most obvious one. But i think it follows that if you fake one, as the rest have a VERY similar feel (to the point that some orbs look suspiciously like they were re-used), I think we can assume you would have faked them all. Also the YPS image you put over the top of all your pictures, that put on using EXACTLY the same technique as the ORB's are... which came fist the chicken (logo) or the egg (orbs)?

Also it appears as if (after you resized them) before you put on the "orbs" you used some form of filter to make the original image (sans "orbs") look better. The tell tale signs are there, anti-aliasing round the main person in the image that just don't occur that regulated without a computer applying some form of digital enhancement. It's amazing the things you can tell from a digital image ;)

As for COTCPI, well their images are badly done. However they don't rely as heavily on "photochops" as you do, so we have to give them credit there. They actually use more traditional techniques for faking, but i have to say the image they use as their header is the WORST example of digitally modified fakery i have seen, even at the small size. It's size stops me showing how bad it is, but there should be no need, it just looks fake anyway.

paranormalst, you didn't answer my question, and you did show a total lack of knowledge about science and scientific methodology. What "photographic analysis machines" do you use? What's the name of the software? I notice these "EVP's" are a growing trend, audio is even easier to fake than images. So your asking us to believe that you have software that checks for patterns in the voice structure from those poor quality recordings and eliminates members of your team? You should sell that to the FBI, because when they verify that Bin Ladens voice is real or not they have a huge team of highly trained people, and much of the process is done by eye. Everybody who has ever used voice recognition software knows of bad it is, EVEN UNDER PERFECT CONDITIONS. So what software do you use to add in.. ahem I mean "clean up" the ghostly voices in your audio clips?

Where is the science? Where is the link to science you tout? All I see is "people felt colder", "they felt a presence" that's not scientific! There are some images on your site that look like they are supposed to be infra-red! badly faked normal photos to look like somebody's impression of what a infra-red photo looks like. Could you explain what those photos show, what the different images mean?

As I said in the previous post, I will debate our methods of analysis and reasons for coming to the conclusions we do with anyone who is serious about the matter.

However I find your accusations totally inappropriate and I have spoken to lecturers of the local Universities and they have the courtesy to allow our views. You are accusing us of faking our material which is all fine and well as you are allowed your opinion, however I find people that make these sort of comments seem to hide behind namehandles on sites and I see with no great surprise you are one of them.

Unless you are willing to say who you are, where you are, wheter you belong to an organisation or have one of your own together with your credentials for making these accusations, I will not entering into discussion with you as I find that I have enough serious enquiries to deal with and I can't really be bothered to answer someone who doesn't have the balls to name himself so we can see who is doing the accusing.

Stuart

Going back to the original subject if I may ;), has anyone else got any good stories of ghosts in Sheffield? :o
I'd like to find out about haunted places where the public can readily get access. A lot of hauntings you hear about are of closed down buildings or private homes etc, the sort of places that people don't appreciate you wandering around in with a torch and a refrigerator temperature gauge!! :D
Also, I've always wondered why graveyards are supposed to be haunted. Personally if I was doomed to walk the earth for eternity, I wouldn't spend it in a creepy graveyard - I'd haunt somewhere fun - like a rollercoaster!!! ;) :P :D :cool:

There is no such thing as Spring Heeled Jack

Oh I beg to differ!!!! There may be no genuine sightings in Sheffield, there certainly has been in London!!

Take a look at the following web pages from 'Mytery Mag' (based in Yorkshire)
http://www.mysterymag.com/hauntedbritain/index.php?page=category&subID=7&unique=7007


Londoner

I work for the government, my job is to discredit people like you, to hide the conspiracy to keep ghosts, UFO's and the afterlife quiet... we don't want the public to know... erm for some reason. Which of course is why there is no proof of ghosts, and that's why not a single scientist of credit (you will always find the odd nut who calls himself a scientist) gives any credence to this clap trap.

LOL. I am just me somebody who has seen enough fakes and photchops to know. Somebody who doesn't try to rip people off, help them delude themselves that ghost exist or there is anything that science cannot (at least in part) explain. I have looked in to these claims by people such as yourself, just on a personal level. You see many people believe there are many photo's and events that cannot be explained, but (and you should know this) not a single one has stood up to investigation.. but we know that there are people cuing up to fake these things. Personally I don't get it, what weird kick do you get out of it? You cannot make much money.

I am saying the material on the site is very clearly faked (as I said badly faked) I don't know who did those fakes, but who ever it is really shouldn't even own up to it! Seriously even amongst your kind (the paranormalists, or what ever you like to call yourselves) these would be classed as bad fakes. Individual pixel antialiasing (as seen in the photos) does not happen by accident. I could tell you much more about how it was done, but you have to give me something first, answer some questions.

paranormalist are you that unsure of what you are telling people, and your methods, that you won't even talk me about them on a message board? What do you have to loose? I promise I won't take up much of your time. Also which college is it that lets you teach you crap, just so the normal people know before they send their kids to this kind of college? What are your credentials? Where did you learn your art? Where would somebody go to learn these things? What are these things you do? And why so secretive?

Mod: threads merged

Funny but you say why am I secretive when you claim to work for a government department but won't tell me your name. Besides which as you should know the governement keep an eye on the internet so I hope for your sake you just haven't lost yourself your job for disclosing this fact.

That apart I have spoken to the other Co-founders and we would like to invite you along to one of our investigations.

Please drop us an e-mail to enquiries@cotcpi.co.uk so we can let you know details etc...

Regards

Stuart

I've got a photograph that has these 'orbs' on it that I took in an old Victorian building that was having drilling survey work done. It's the middle of the day, inside and away from direct sunlight or artificial light, no flash... but they are there.

It wasn't a ghost investigation, just a normal record photo, but we noticed the 'orbs' afterwards.

Now of course I have no connection to benefit in faking anything, but what was interesting was that the engineer reported her things going missing, and turning up where she hadn't put them and also, the drilling rig broke 3 times which is VERY unusual.

Even more strange was that I forwarded the pic to a 'paranormal investigator' and didn't even get a response... weird!

Anyone fancy checking out the pic to see what you make of it?

Hi

If you want we will gladly take a look at it for you as it is always interesting to see what may or may not have been caught on camera.

Regards

Stuart Logan
Co-founder
C.O.T.C Paranormal Investigations
http://www.cotcpi.co.uk
enquiries@cotcpi.co.uk

Update: I've just looked a the pic again... it does have flash, sorry.

However, I've just freaked myself because there is very clearly a face visible that I didn't notice before :o

Thats OK. Thats why even believers of the Paranormal are sceptics in the first part as you have to eliminate natural and human causes first and then see what can have caused it. Is quite a long process as anyone who does this knows.

Stuart

Tony,
Any chance of you putting the pic on here so we can take a look?:thumbsup:

Originally posted by Jon
Fact 1) We are not COTCPI we are the Yorkshire Paranormal Society.

Fact 2) We have one member who is a member of COTCPI



No offence meant but i'm ******* myself here, Life of Brian anyone?

"Are you the Judean Peoples Front?"

"F*** OFF, we're the Peoples Front of Judea!"


I'll get me coat...

Originally posted by Lestat
Tony,
Any chance of you putting the pic on here so we can take a look?:thumbsup:

Ummm.. well we don't that facility do we? I would if we did, or if Geoff made a special exception.

I haven't heard from the paranormalst yet, but I did send him the pic last night. I'll look forward to the analysis (probably dust on the lens or something). Maybe back2basics want's to analyse it too?

Can't you upload it to a website & then post the link? You can email it to me and I'll do it for you if you like...

Try http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286671839 . Let me know if it doesn't work.

The one with the worklmen in it has a couple of these 'orbs' and there is a faint face visible above the wooden pallet behind them.

Originally posted by Barra
No offence meant but i'm ******* myself here, Life of Brian anyone?

"Are you the Judean Peoples Front?"

"F*** OFF, we're the Peoples Front of Judea!"


I'll get me coat... :D nice one Barra thats funny

I really cant see anything resembling a face . . is it higher up in the pic? :( I can see the orbs tho.

Originally posted by paranormalst
Funny but you say why am I secretive when you claim to work for a government department but won't tell me your name. Besides which as you should know the governement keep an eye on the internet so I hope for your sake you just haven't lost yourself your job for disclosing this fact.

That apart I have spoken to the other Co-founders and we would like to invite you along to one of our investigations.

Please drop us an e-mail to enquiries@cotcpi.co.uk so we can let you know details etc...

Regards

Stuart

I don't work for a government agency. It was a joke, because science and governments gave up looking in to this clap trap years ago. Most people who still believe, or want people to believe, have to come up with some sort of conspiracy theory to counteract this fact.. and the fact that these trends and fads (aliens with bug eyes, ghosts and now orbs) all coincide with cultural effects, like films, books and radio. That's when the public start seeing these things for themselves. It's just a function of the brain, you see something, your brain cannot make sense of it, and it fills in the gaps. There has been no corroborated proof, non what so ever of any of these paranormal things existing, but there is are so many that have been show to be faked. You have to ask yourself why, and it isn't the government and science covering it up.

Tony, do you have a bigger picture? What kind of Camera was it taken on (make/model)? I took a quick look and it's hard to tell. There is a vertical line of white highlights running almost directly down from the "orb", which could point to a flash effect. But I would need more details and a bigger version of the image to tell.

Here is a good example how the human eye can be fooled by photos...

www.nasa.gov/vision/space/travelinginspace/no_ufo.html

If anybody is looking for *truly* skeptical reasoning being something they have seen or photoed, that they cannot understand, try this site. They are *real* scientists (scientist who don't have a problem talking about their methods), world leading scientists, they don't look at individual cases, but all the info you need is there in the archives.

http://www.csicop.org/si/

Jeez Back2basics! I thought ghostly phenomenon was confusing! the way you talk about camera lenses and all these other gadgets is really rather tiresome & uninteresting.

Can't you just let people talk about a subject without showing off your brainiac skills of deduction ( which to tell you the truth, I personally think is a load of old womens pants ).

Right back to the original thread - Has anybody had any supernatural experiences in Sheffield?

The camera was a Sony DSC-P1. The face really needs highlighting, but of course it's all very subjective. If I get a chance I will run a copy through Photoshop for guidance.

Yo can get a full size copy from the website if you click the right links.

Still not heard anything from paranormalist.

Originally posted by Lestat
Jeez Back2basics! I thought ghostly phenomenon was confusing! the way you talk about camera lenses and all these other gadgets is really rather tiresome & uninteresting.

Can't you just let people talk about a subject without showing off your brainiac skills of deduction ( which to tell you the truth, I personally think is a load of old womens pants ).

Right back to the original thread - Has anybody had any supernatural experiences in Sheffield?

Borning maybe, but why waste your time with lies? It seems your actually saying ignorance is bliss, and i am happy to be ignorant?

Somebody said earlier that they love hanging round grave yards, it's exiting and fun. I still get scared and enjoy that feeling (roller coasters, jumping out of planes etc).

But being self delusional doesn't help you or anybody.

The problem is that all this crap together, is actually doing harm in the world. Every scientist looking in to this crap, could better spend his time looking for a cure for cancer. Every person putting these things forward as fact, is adding to this myth that there are things we do not understand, giving creedance to all this crap helps nobody but the fakers.

Sorry i will keep on doing what i do.

Originally posted by Tony
The camera was a Sony DSC-P1. The face really needs highlighting, but of course it's all very subjective. If I get a chance I will run a copy through Photoshop for guidance.

Yo can get a full size copy from the website if you click the right links.

Still not heard anything from paranormalist.

Yeah i saw the face, but as you say (and as has been proved, with some people seeing it and some not) it's all very subjective. If you zoom in to ANY image you can find things that look like all sorts of stuff.

I will get back to you when i find the big image.

I used to work at the HSBC Computer Centre at Tankersley and one of me workmates told me about a white figure stood in the road by a bridge on the Stocksbridge by-pass. This was in the early hours of the morning.
I think there was also an article about this in The Star.

Maybe he went up to the apparation and asked "How are you?"
and the ghostly spectre replied "I'm all white!"

Sorry, I had to slip that one in. I know it's a serious subject,but I usually say what's on me mind.

I'm with back to basics on this one. Load of old pony.

have a look at the Are Mediums Fakes? thread

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=11660

If you are looking for ghosts have if it still there go to the old Fir Vale hospital.Go upstaires through what was the main door but go up the main stairway use the old servants stairs.Half wy up the temperature will drop and you will feel very cold. Try it at two in the morning

sorry should be DONT use the main stairs

Originally posted by Tony
[The one with the worklmen in it has a couple of these 'orbs' and there is a faint face visible above the wooden pallet behind them. [/B]

Hi Tony, I have taken a look at your photo, first your photo as it was taken, no alterations have been made.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/fsanytime/ghost1.jpg

As you say, you can see something above the wooden pallets.

I have now had the chance to enhance the area above the pallets, and as im sure you are aware, there is something in the room with the two men.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/fsanytime/ghost.jpg

wow! that's spooky!!! Do you think he's a friendly ghost? :o

PrioryX, Do you mean the old Clock Tower of the NG Hospital? if so then you may be right about a certain prescence there. From what I know from a friend who works there alot of the staff wouldn't go up even during the daytime and a exorcist had to be brought in to bless the place.
This only happened a year or so ago, but a number of staff said they saw mysterious shadows and figures wandering around and following them!!:o

me and my cousin are always out over the weekend ghosthunting in the car early hours of the mornin first of all i think carbrook hall isnt really active at all theres been the odd things giong on in there but not much weve been to many places in and around sheffield strines inn for example drove round the moors at 3.30am in the mornin but nothing compares to buntings knook weve been there a couple of times the first time we went we drove up and down the road a couple of times and nothing but the third we dorve past bang outside the gates of the big houses a scracthing sound was heard on the passanger side window then coming back up exactly the same again this was qiute spooky but not terryfiying the one that still scares me is the 3rd time me and my cousin drove up there 1st and second times we drove up and down nothing the third time we were in driving up in about 2 gear giong about 26 miles an hour bang outside the gates to houses again the car sut out and just stopped dead usually not something to worry about apart from the fact we were giong at a fast speed and the car stopped dead without using the breaks it owuldnt start the first couple of times then it did the third time it really an evil road and the best place weve been so far if you go up in a car go up and down the road four five times and something will happen and its true no birds sing on there ive never no kind of animal on there fox//bird/cat u name it we havnt seen it i know more places to visit back roads in the moors places in sheffield put a post up if ya want info

does anyone know about the new bench at Ford in ridgeway sheffield/derbyshire borderline...quite near mosbrough....in memory (i think) of mr v.p.walker. its situated just past the pond at the bottom facing the trees and greenery where the kids usually run and play around ....
tonight we went for a walk and decided to sit on the bench for a few mins ..whilst there we both got a smell tobacco as if someone was stood quite close who was a heavy smoker.....like the smell was hung in their clothes ...... there was no one around only us ..... i got up and walked around and the smell went .there are no plants there , just grass, no cigerette ends or anything that would cause that aroma and so strong ......we sat a few mins longer and the smell returned ....... can someone explain why we would smell that? if it was mr walker .... thankyou ... for letting us sit and think about you and for allowing us to rest at your place .......

I know what you mean Dawn, When i was a youngster i used to play at my friends house and he had an old bomb shelter at the top of his garden. We spent many hours pretending to be soldiers etc and the old man next door used to tell us all sorts of stories of the war. He used to smoke a pipe and the smell was really strong.
He died not long after and in the summer of the next year whilst we were playing in the shelter we both could smell the same strong tobacco that he used to smoke.
it happened a few times and there was never anyone else who smoked around at the time!

Why dont you go along to somewhere "haunted" with some of the guys on this thread?
Personally ive never seen a ghost or gone looking for them. And im certainly not a firm believer, but i am atleast willing to have an open mind on the matter as i cant prove anything either way.
But i DO think you are as stubborn as a barn door!
How can you say they are liers and fakes??? You strongly believe ghost dont exist and they strongly do! Who is right?
Well just cos you dont believe them doesn't mean you ARE right does it?
I dont believe you know enough about editing pictures to have said what you have, but does that make you a lier and a fake? And does that mean i am DEFINATELY right about you?
I'll look forward to you no doubt proving me wrong about your skills, but at the same time it will also prove that your wrong in thinking you are DEFINATELY right about the ghost stuff no?!?!
At least go with them and have a look for yourself before you slag them off, im sure they would be accomodating??

For the record, I still haven't heard anything back from the COPTC people that wanted to anylyse my photo's.

Originally posted by Ollie
Why dont you go along to somewhere "haunted" with some of the guys on this thread?
Personally ive never seen a ghost or gone looking for them. And im certainly not a firm believer, but i am atleast willing to have an open mind on the matter as i cant prove anything either way.
But i DO think you are as stubborn as a barn door!
How can you say they are liers and fakes??? You strongly believe ghost dont exist and they strongly do! Who is right?
Well just cos you dont believe them doesn't mean you ARE right does it?
I dont believe you know enough about editing pictures to have said what you have, but does that make you a lier and a fake? And does that mean i am DEFINATELY right about you?
I'll look forward to you no doubt proving me wrong about your skills, but at the same time it will also prove that your wrong in thinking you are DEFINATELY right about the ghost stuff no?!?!
At least go with them and have a look for yourself before you slag them off, im sure they would be accomodating??

It's not a case of being open minded, I was when I was younger. I have been to haunted places, seen things that scared me and everything else that goes with it. Like most children I was fascinated with these things.

I won't be going with them as I live in Chicago now. I used to post (when i live in Sheffield) and look in every now and again.

There is proof they don't exist. PLENTY of proof. It always amazes me that people are willing to believe the most unbelievable things over the more viable alternative. Ask yourselves why.

No what YOU should do is, do a little reading. Everybody searching for bizarre explanations to simple things in this thread should. Look at the links I posted, look at www.randi.org (BTW Randi offers 1 million dollars to anybody who can prove their photos or claims... NOBODY has won it, why?), there are hundreds of sites that debunk (as I have done) these idiots. Ollie I can say with 100% certainty that those picture were faked. Anybody with a digital camera of scanner, look at your own photos and see if you can find where each block of colour is so regulated when you zoom in. You won't be able to, it does not happen.. you have more chance of winning the lottery than "pixels" or blocks of colour happening naturally like that. It's been digitally altered. I can say with complete certainty. And there are plenty of other people out there doing the same, to keep people beliving. It's not rocket science, they made a mistake thinking nobody with a clue would look at them. They are taking the **** out of people like you. In private these people laugh at people like you, how they conned you in to believing. Like the students who did the crop circles, they laught at you people over a pint in the pub.

Millions of these picture have been proved to be fake. If you want to go through life being lied to, and be so gullible you believe (or do not discount the possibility) then that's fine. But be aware you are self delusional, that will never get you anywhere, it WILL allow people to take advantage of you, and there are plenty of people in this World trying to take advantage of you. That's the best advice I can give you, as somebody who once took advantage of people whole blindly follow, trust and beleive.

If people take one thing away from this, it's NOT harmless fun. Perpetuating these myths is not just something we should take flippantly and allow people to get away with. It DOES damage, indirectly, but it does damage. BIG damage. Trust me.

And people ask yourself why the paranormal people have not put up a decent argument. Because they know dam well they have been ousted as liars.

Knowledge is power.

Are you trying to tell me that Yoda doesn't exist? :(

of course yoda exists, hes sat having a game of poker with the 'Bogie Man', Santa Claus and God.
Jesus was also in the game but had to leave to attend some crusifiction, but i think that may have just been an excuse cus he was loosing quite badly :D

Originally posted by Nu_Skillz
of course yoda exists, hes sat having a game of poker with the 'Bogie Man', Santa Claus and God.
Jesus was also in the game but had to leave to attend some crusifiction, but i think that may have just been an excuse cus he was loosing quite badly :D

Yoda was a puppet voiced by the bloke who did Fozzy, Gonzo and most of the other "cast" of the Muppet Show... :lol:

Puppet! LOL! thats a good one. I suppose he could be a puppet because he looks abit rubbery but sorry, ain't no puppet i know who's as wise and cool as him.

As for the voices!! get real :P Yoda IS real.

Much fear in you, there is. Teach you - I will.

I heard from a friend at The NG Hospital that there was another sighting of the shadowy figure near the top of the stairs in the old clock tower again last week!
He told me that one cleaner is refusing to go up there after she said she heard someone walking around and then cough right behind her. She was the only one up there at the time and says that something pulled on her dress.

I was told that the tower had been excorsised once before after rumours of staff sightings of ghosts etc. By the sounds of it, they didn't get rid of everything.

I know that during the war there were bombs dropped in the Fir Vale area (no jokes about how it looks now please) and that many buildings and homes were wrecked. From talking to many of the older residents I gathered that an old, grey lady materialises during a certain November night just down the road from where the Cannon Hall pub is and walks down the middle of the road.
Is this an urban myth or has anyone else heard about this too? I got the same story from more than one person & would be interested to hear if anyone else might have heard of it - or can shed some light on it.

Do you mean the clock tower for the church? or some other tower nea3r the hospital? i knwo theres a church there....

The tall tower around the back of the hospital, It's one of the oldest parts of the NGH. I think they call it the clock tower. It's reputedly haunted not only in the top rooms which look pretty ghastly from outside during the day but also down in the basement as well.
There have been sightings of unknown figures down there too!

hmmm....i see....so can anyone just go there? i dont think ive seen the tower or i may have but forgot... i think you might as well go and then come back and tell us what happened...

try bramall lane on a saturday, it a ghost town.
sometimes cheers can be heard, even people crying.

Originally posted by Warreng
hmmm....i see....so can anyone just go there? i dont think ive seen the tower or i may have but forgot... i think you might as well go and then come back and tell us what happened...

I know someone who works there and went to see them once, whilst being shown around I could see how people would be spooked out in that place, it's like something out of nightmare on elm street. The basement is well spooky, with long corridors and pipes heading off in all directions.

Also I only went halfway up the stairs to the tower as I wasn't allowed any further up and it just felt so strange in there. You know when you can sense something and feel like you're being watched? it's that kind of feeling you get in there - when you get prickles on your neck just standing there!

The Old Queens Head, Pond Street

Back in the early 90's my sister was a relief manager of this pub, supposedly the oldest in the city with alleged links to Manor Lodge.

I went to meet her after the pub closed as we were going clubbing. We switched off all the lights in the place and went out for some late night fun and games.

having a sister living in the middle of town I thought it silly to taxi home so we went back to the pub to crash. Got in there all the pump lights had been switched on!

There was and had not been all night anybody there. Plus the living quarters are really spooky, if yr over 5'10" you'd have a job getting through the doorways!

Allegedly a guy haunted this pub and likes to sit in a corner.

I heard a story a few years back of the ghost of a bride that haunts the churchyard at Fir Vale.
It actually happened to a very good friend of mine, I wont mention his name but he was one of the lads working in the pizza shop opposite the church & had just finished his shift and was walking home past the yard near the traffic lights when he saw a woman sat on the bench with her head in her hands crying. Even stranger was the fact that she was in a full bridal dress - with the veil over her face.

Thinking it was someone from a fancy dress party he shouted across to her asking if she was alright or needed help, but she continued crying. With this he walked across the road and into the small yard and sat down next to her still asking if she was ok.
The minute he sat down he said he froze, like someone had thrown a bucket of ice over him. At the same time the bride lifted her head and looked at him - he raised the veil and and was shocked to realise he was staring into nothing! there was no face, just a black space.

He moved as fast as his legs could carry him and went back to the pizza shop. The other workers at the shop all vouch that he was pale & shaking, They even went out to investigate but could find nobody anywhere near the church. It took him a long time to come to terms with what he'd experienced.

I was told by the other staff there that he subsequently left his job there the following week.

Anyone know who the ghost might have been of?

Sounds like a classic example of exposure to spirits. ;)

lol! :P now that was a bad joke! and you know you've reminded me of one now!!
The one about the two homosexual ghosts? . . they kept putting the willies up each other! :D

Does anyone know if Sheffield has any ghost tours?
the kind they do in Nottingham & York, where a crowd of people are shown around supposedly haunted sites and told old ghost stories etc.

I hope your not looking for the ghost from your last but one Les...lol

Certainly not Owd! scary as it may be. :P

Originally posted by JessicaA
does anyone know much about the Manorcastle pub opposite the ruins? ive heard its haunted but i'm not sure where to find out!

My Dad, and some of the other regulars who drink at the manor castle pub on manor lane say they have seen and felt a presence there, it's usually when they have a lock in. Cleaners, Barstaff and Landlords past and present have also witnessed strange occurence's.
Mind you they say the Bitter in there is to die for.

What kind of strange occurances Rubbersoul? spectres or things moving, strange noises etc.

I know this may seem like a stupid question - but whereabouts is the manorcastle pub?

Originally posted by Lestat
What kind of strange occurances Rubbersoul? spectres or things moving, strange noises etc.

I know this may seem like a stupid question - but whereabouts is the manorcastle pub?

The Manor castle pub is situated between the Wybourn and Manor park estates, and next to the turret house and ruins on Manor lane.
As for the strange occurences, it's the usual sudden drop in temperature and movement just out of field of view.

I saw a ghost in The vine on Cemetry road when I worked there a couple of years back. The atmosphere in the cellar is well creepy and can suddenly change! I was in there about two AM and I came down stairs and there was this guy stood at the bar. Naturally I kaked myself and when I had regained my composure he vanished. But it would be cool to think that when we die we can spend all our time in bars.

It's true that alot of ghostly happenings and sightings seem to be in pubs and bars. Maybe because they've been around for so long and have been frequented by so many characters throughout their time.

Miniminch, your story is very interesting - I can understand it must have been dark but did you manage to see the face or eyes etc? did he move at all and when he vanished did you see it happen?

OK! Im going on a ghost hunt/vigil next week. I've been trying to pluck up enough courage for ages to do it. Im going to spend a few hours on the Stocksbridge Bypass alone, from around 10pm till about 3 or 4am depending on the circumstances.

I really want to see first hand if anything is out there at all. Will report back on this post soon with my findings!;)

I'm being cynical now. :( Is it a good idea to advertise where you are going to be alone in the early hours of the morning?

Good luck, hope you see something interesting. :D

LOL! probably not Snook, Im hoping there wont be any forummers there in white sheets - thats why Im not saying which night.

Got me trusty cam anyway so if I do see anything - it'll be on here!:P

Hi

I have just joined the forum but if your looking for ghost stories near the Firvale area the only place to lookis the Northern General Hospital, a friend of mine works there and she has told me of the different stories. She was once on duty and was working in the theaters at night, she aked if one particular theater
was in use and if not she would get it cleaned, the sister in charge told her that it was not is use therefor she could clean it. She walked down to the theater and looked in only to see three men in green gowns leaning over the operating table. She went back and told the sisiter and they both went down together, they looked in and the theater was in darkness.
No one was there and it had not been in use.

There is also supposed to be a ghost in the old part of the northern where the clock tower is (it used to be the old work house) and also a presence in the basement area (SSD) where the sterile supply unit is.

dazzer

Well, I went to the Stocksbridge Bypass last week and stayed there through the night. I drove down at about 9.30ish and chose a nice high spot near a bridge. I parked up in a layby behind a truck and waited!! I had my trusty cam with me in case anything exciting happened.

After about an hour it was pretty dark so I decided to go for a little walk, I went along the grass verge of the opposite side for about 500 yards but decided to go back to my car as it was dark and I'd probably get arrested if I was seen by the law.

Just after midnight though something did happen - I had my radio on and it suddenly went all fuzzy and I couldn't get it back clear. The truck in front had gone and yet I got this horrible cold feeling that there was something in front of my car. I got my cam ready and was holding it up to the windscreen praying for something to appear!! Although nothing did appear, A large shadow did pass over the whole car - could have been a cloud or something! it wasn't any other traffic cos non passed at the time.

Other than this I had a horrible feeling of someone sat in the backseat of my car as I moved from the spot to another layby on my way back. I stopped there till about 2am and only saw traffic pass.
The moments when there was no other traffic though were pretty scary. It went deathly quiet and every noise had me looking around. There was a moment when I thought I saw a figure stood near the roadside but it was gone as quickly as it had appeared and I decided it was the shadow of a tree!!

I can fully understand why drivers have experienced unnatural things here though, it is a spooky place with a history and an unwelcoming atmosphere.

Just to change the subject for one min..YPS are doing an investigation at Marston Moor near York on Saturday 7th if you want to become a member and then join us then PM or email jon@yps-online.co.uk for more details :thumbsup: Jon

i believe in ghosts because i have seen a number of them and i was wondering if anyone else has seen a ghost or knows where abouts in sheffield is the most haunted

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8074

here you go, try this link!:D

thank you didn't see that theard

Originally posted by SaxonLeigh
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8074

here you go, try this link!:D

Thanks for that, saved me looking. Threads merged.

Originally posted by Tony
Sounds like a classic example of exposure to spirits. ;)

A bit too much exposure methinks... :lol:

And I don't mean spirits of the ghostly kind either.

I stayed in the Carbrook Hall Pub, When I was younger. Some40 plus years ago. I agree that the stories are all hyped up. The pub has changed over the years, It does not seem the same. Yes TOO much commercialism. Yet till recently I never believed in Ghosts. But certain things have happened in my home that have changed my mind. I have seen nothing in my home myself. But what has happened to my nephew convinces me that there is some sort of evil around. He has seen things and heard things. That when investigated prove that there is a supernatural being in my home. The story is far too long to put into this message, But though there are many stories that are true, These are belittled by the one's that are not true.

Hi Folks

Its down to your persona, not mentality, some people are spritual, some are not!

I am going to put my head on the block here>

Up to the age of 14, I thought seeing ghosts was quite normal, not wishy washy ghosts, real looking people, who I later found out to be dead! Going to a Catholic school, people thought I was crazy when I said that I see Ghosts on a regular basis.

How many accounts, to many to mention, nothing told me they were ghosts, other than finding out they had past away at a later date, although I have wittnessed some other strange anomolies too, that were from 'Another World'.

Started when I was 7 years old, I went to stay with my Grandparents who I had not seen for many years as we lived miles away.

It was a large Victorian House, with fireplaces in every room, even the attic. On retrospect, a spooky looking house, but this has nothing to do with what I am going to tell you, or is to add to the atmosphere.

That night, I awoke to find a man by my bed, it was the old large cast iron type, I asked who he was and he replied, "I'am Ted"

He then said"Come with me", he reached out, and I* took his hand, where he then led me to my Grandparents room.
He pointed at the bed and said" Tell your Grandad to stop smoking in bed, otherwise your grandma will lose all her money"

I turned away from Ted to look at my Grandparents bed, letting go of his hand in the process, then I heard a different voice" "What are you doing in here at this time of the morning, get to bed" the Sun was starting to come over the Horizon and into the Bedroom, I noticed it was my Grandad speaking, I turned round and Ted was gone.

In the morning my mother came to collect me, I told here about Ted and the bed and about Grandad smoking in bed.

She immediately went to my Grandma and started an argument about what she had been telling me, and that discussing dead people with me was not the way to treat a young boy when he comes to stay with you!

My Grandma insisted she had not said anything to me, neither had my Grandad, it was this point that they got a blackand white photo album out and asked me to show then who Ted was.

I pointed out the man who had come to my bedroom, and it startled both of them, then they asked again, what hea had said to me.

I mentioned again, the bit about Grandad smoking and about Grandmas money, the story was also relayed to many of my relatives over the next week or so, although I did not know what all the commotion was about?

Well, exactly to the week, My Grandparents house burnt down from my Grandad smoking in bed, they lived, but all my Grandmas saving were under the matress!

As for a ghost, the guy had died there a few weeks previous to me sleeping there, he was the lodger, who worked with my grandad. I had never met him previously.

He was as real as you and me!

On another occassion, I went to see a builder friend of mine who was working in the red house on Tapton bank in Sheffield.

He shouted for me to come upstairs, I went to the top, into the attic, where part of the roof was missing. I turned to see a young man hanging from the Purlin , turning slowly with a grin on his face!

I blinked, and it vanished!

I ran down stairs to tell who ever I could find, I found two of the builders there, told then the story, and they just laughed at me!

I walked down to the little shop at the bottom of the road to get a sandwich with the builders, who relayed the story to the shop keeper, he looked sad, and said, A young man had commited suicide in the house, he had hung himself from one of the beams in the Attic!

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I know there is something there, something in the spritual world that is real, and I know that others have had similar stories to my own. where the ghost is real, not wishy washy like portrayed on TV.

Its easy and safe for the critics to say that there is no proof, no hard evidence, but neither is there proof of God, not scientific anyway, yet I believe in God, nonetheless!

As for James Randi, the guy has some credibility, for hes playing safe like all the other critics, as most peoples stories or evidence will be incorrect, or miscontrued, misinterpretated, etc!


Do people here believe in their star signs, the time that they were born having an influence on our lives, do the planets have any influence on us whatsoever, I wonder what your views are on this out there folks, because I do have some answers and scientific evidence to suggest otherwise!

I would be curious to know if anyone believes in people who can contact ghosts, mediums, people who read fortunes etc, is there any truth in it?

I know there is alot of rubbish out there, but now and then, something does turn up that has credence!

As a bit of a scientist myself, I delve into everything, even religion, but relating to Ghosts, A friend of mine in the states, Michiu Kaku (Author of many books on Astrophysics, theories of everything etc)has something interesting to say about how other universes would appear to us, if only one dimension was changed.

It an interesting concept, for it clearly shows why we possibly do not have the scientific information we want on other worlds, wether it be a parallel universe or a supernatural world where ghosts tend to frequent, or maybe Aliens live perhaps.

He gives us a scenerio of different worlds meeting each other. Well, world of different dimensions.

To make the excercise easy for everyone, we play with dimensions that we can deal with in this little episode, for any dimesions greater than 3, plus time, would be above our understanding in a spatial awareness and logical deducting thought experiment.

So we are going to play the three dimensional beings in our own world, but our Alien counterparts, will only less than our three, so we can comprehend their world.

We will give them two dimensions, plus time, and we will call these people the flatliners!


Their world has no height, only lengh and width. our world has length ,width and height! Plus time of course for both entities.

Their world is only small too, but we know where it is, for it is only small, so small, that their entire world fits onto a table top!

Now, you want to communicate with them, even visually, , there sound that they produce is unique, it only travels in a flat world, lost, so their world appears silent to us.

We manged to communicate visually through them sending signals to us, giant signs made in their world, but we can only read with a microscope, but uncannily, they have a lauguage structure, albeit we cannot comprehend.

So we decide to show them what we look like be placing our selves into their world. You place your arm through their world, first a finger, then the arm, then your head, but they still cannot see you in your true dimensions, they only see a cross section of you at any instant, only length times breath, the thickness of a finger, the thicknes of the wrist, for their eyes have only the potential to see in 2D!

~THeir physical development is in flatland, they cannot see us, or even intelligently comprehend us, ever, no matter what we say to them or show them, for they have no concept of height and as such, cannot see height, understand height, its just alien to them.

Their world can easily be in our world, like we can be in someone elses world.

Ghosts, God, etc, may be entities in another world, which has 10 or 22 dimensions, dimensions we can discuss, but never comprehend. These entities may, for strange reasons, become apparant to us under certain conditions, or certain people may be able to see in these dimensions because of some physical defect in their vision or something, all I know, that we are still naively trying to understand our world, but we are along way off yet!

This could explain UFO,s, Ghosts etc, their world entangling with ours at certain times, places etc.

We can see the 2D world, but they cannot see ours!

The ghosts, Aliens etc can see our world, but we cannot see theirs!


While we are on the subject, what religions are people into and why, what faith do thay have to back up what they believe in?


Regards

Mark..

<What we do in Life, echos in Eternity>~The Gladiator~

Can anyone help ? I am a student at the University of Sheffield, studying aspects of folklore. I am looking for and would be grateful to receive, any information about personal experience of public outdoor locations which are said to be `haunted`, or have an otherwise strange reputation. I will be particularly interested in your own thoughts and feelings about the place concerned, how you first got to hear of it and what the general local attitude has been about this subject. Examples would be welcome from both past and present experience. Thanks !

Steve

Has anyone heard of the brook school ghost or hauntings I saw it in a sheffield haunted book and cannot find anything about it. I have argued with my dad and he says their is no such ghost but I read about it!

Brook school, richmond\ stradbroke

Thanks In Advance,
Kyle

www.thesimscentre.co.uk

i will have a look ive got 2 books of sheffield ghosts

Ok thanks for that! :)

Kyle

www.thesimscentre.co.uk

There are a few books about ghosts in Sheffield but I haven't for the life of me been able to get hold of them!! I once remember seeing them in WHSmiths but stupidly didn't buy them at the time.

Anyone know the authors?

Valerie Salim :thumbsup: Yorkshire Paranormal Society print a magazine "Haunted Realm" has loads of local investigations only £1 and 35 p&p

I know a good website (Mostly made up!) about ghosts pretty weird stuff. Take a look www.sfogs.com

Cheers,
Kyle

Rivelin Valley Road is haunted by a woman hanging from a tree. Cutthroat Bridge near Strines is supposedly haunted by highwaymen, and rumour has it that Sugworth Hall is also haunted by its murdered inhabitants.....

Mark, do you understand anything about string theory?

Hi, was it just public places you're interested in? If so the ones I know about are Loxley Common, once a public hanging site and quite spooky in places when alone.

The other is the story of the Marples pub, now a motor sport shop, I believe, on Fitzwilliam square. Was once a public bomb shelter in WW2 an suffered a direct hit in the blitz and all were killed. Legend has it that sounds (screams?) have been heard and the over powering smell of flowers has been experienced.

My only other tale is one involving a building I used to work in, has a resident spook, who had a particular fondness for scaring the bejesus out of my secretary, even in broad day light!

He, as we feel he is male, also likes to type things on her computer when she's alone and not looking. This had occured several times to another, very sensible lady, who was terrified at the time, although it would appear he has a sense of humour. He typed " Anyone else in this room?"

Sadly I have personally only seen a glipse of someone/ something out of the cornner of my eye and felt someone at my shoulder, was gutted nothing more happened to me!

There is a book about Sheffield Ghost written by Valerie Salim, published by Sheaf Publishing. Has loads of stories in it, including the Marples. Good Luck !

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Local folklore has it that Clough Field in Crookes is haunted by the ghost of a Victorian-era boy. He has allegedly been seen running across the field at night. My wife and I lived in Crookes from 86-91, and I regularly walked my dog on the nearby footpath [which leads through a graveyard ; are you shivering yet?] late at night before being warned by a work colleague against it. I ignored his advice. Maybe the mind can play tricks upon one, and maybe the effect of my colleague's warning together with the undeniably "spooky" vibes of the nearby graves played a part, but I DID see something flash across that field one night later. Oddly, like the character in M.R.James' A Warning to the Curious who sees the ghost of the Anglian King, it was in the corner of my eye. My Labrador had obviously sensed something too, and scared me more than the white flash had done, as he began to whine like I'd never heard before. Maybe there is an explanation for what I think I saw, and maybe my dog had belly-ache! Nevertheless, the thought of it makes my spine tingle to this day.

Looking back on the incident as a more mature man [ I am now a University lecturer], I ask myself if I would take a late night walk past Clough Field today. The answer is definately no.

Originally posted by Rich
They reckon the Carbrook Hall pub near the Arena's haunted... meh, only cos people start seeing stuff when they're ****** out of their brains.
i played darts at carbrook hall
once i was on my own in the room
i went all cold i was glad somebody else came in

my sister lives on the arbourthorne estate (not saying where) and her house is very old. apparently, a man drowned in the bath not so long ago.

my sister had heard many things in the house (footsteps etc) and the presence in there is eerie.

she was in bed once with her husband when all at once she heard a babies cries. her husband (who up until now was broad minded) also heard these cries but when they went to investigate this they found nothing.

during the summer in 1998 i looked after thier house while they where on holiday. at night when it was quiet, around 8pm, their dog always looked up at the ceiling and whimpered. my sister told me that the dog even jumped off the sofa and across the room, barking at the ceiling. anyway, this night in particular after locking up and going to bed, i turned on my side and faced the wall. all of a sudden i felt a presence laying next to me and a cold shiver run down my spine.
it wasnt a hot night but i felt a roll of sweat on my neck running. nothing weird in that but when you consider that it rolled UPWARDS then you can understand why i crapped myself (as i was laying on my side this made it even more weird). i wiped my neck and just went to sleep, hoping it would go away.

the next day i told the neighbours about this and that is when they told me about this man who had drowned in the bath. as you can understand, i didnt go near that bath and had to go to my mums for one.

in the past few months my sister has been getting complaints form her other neighbour that she is making noise and banging late at night which she denies as she knows that it couldnt possibly be her as they where on holiday one week when it was supposed to have happened.

would be interested if one of you lot would like to investigate this as my fiancee doesnt believe a word of it.

p.s.: i live near buntings nook and believe me, it is bloody spooky!!!!!!!!!!. i am getting married in teh church on there next year so i hope the white lady doesnt gatecrash!!!!!!!!!!.

I was until very recently a member of, and webmaster for, the Yorkshire Paranormal Society. I killed the website on leaving, but I'm sure they would be interested in an investigation - as far as I know the group is still pottering around.

My grandparents once lived near the end of Rutland Road, Neepsend, where my grandfather Fred was a resident security guard at the Stones yard. The yard is still there, but the house is now demolished.

Fred was a very down-to-earth, no-nonsense, flat cap wearing Yorkshireman. He had a great distain for all things paranormal. On many occassions, however, their dog Bingo would bark furiously at the window overlooking the yard entrance. Occassionally Fred would catch sight of a figure passing the window, entering the yard. Fred would immediately dash out to check for intruders. On many occassions he would catch sight of a figure entering the security room adjacent to the window at which Bingo had been barking. The room - just a cramped 10' by 10' single-entrance shelter housing a table and chairs, was always unaccountably empty on investigation. This was a regular occurrence, apparently, witnessed occassionally by fellow security men, and my grandmother.

I always remembered as a child being told by my mother and grandparents not to go into the spare bedroom at the Stones yard house, without being given a reason. I remember sneaking up one day with two of my braver brothers, and finding the room locked, so I never did get to see inside it.

Relatives staying overnight in the bedroom would complain about the noises in there and told tales of toes being pinched, bedclothes being ripped off and so forth. The incidents grew in intensity, reaching such a point that no-one would spend another night there. My grandfather snorted his disgust at such childish nonesense, and in an attempt to prove everyone to be a group of over-exitable fools, spent the night himself in the spare bedroom. In the morning, my grandmother woke to the sound of him boarding up the door to the room. Apparently, he would never speak of it again, nor allow anyone to discuss the subject in his presence.

It's a shame the house is now demolished - I'd have loved to revisit it and spend a night in that room myself.

hi sorry to just butt in but does anyone know much about the ghost of queens tower? mary queen of scots was held there or something and i've heard loads of stories about it. wonder if anyone could add to it. :)

Don't worry about butting in - it's how things work around here ;)

I've heard of that one - some sort of grey lady isn't it?

I've never actually heard of Queen's Tower. Is this somewhere in Sheffield? We always found the White Ladies, Hooded Monks and the like not to be worth investigating. I presume a local book on Sheffield ghosts would have an entry. Anyone else had any unexplainable bump-in-the-night occurences?

Thought I'd share this whilst I'm in the ghost thread.

When I was about 18, my parents owned a Victorian shop at Wadsley Lane, Hillsborough. At the time it had quite a dull name - Wadsley Stores, or something similar. When we moved out, the new owners renamed it Gr-Gr-Granville's as it bore a strong resemblance to Arkwright's store from Open All Hours. It was a four-storey gem, with outside stables, servants bells in the prep area, and three suitably creepy cellars.

I've never really felt spooked in a house, but there was a distictly odd feeling to the upstairs landing and adjoining stairs leading to the attic bedroom I shared with two of my brothers - I hated walking down that corridor at night to get to the loo.

On one side of the attic bedroom, covering the whole of the wall, were a set of three built-in wardrobes, each with a cupboard above it. One day my brother Steve casually asked me if if I'd ever seen the wardrobe doors moving. I asked him what he meant, and he told me that many times he'd been laying awake on his bed, and at exactly the same time each night - I can't recall the time, it was about 1.30-ish - all the doors of the wardbrobes would open and close. I told him it must be the wind, and thought nothing more about it.

It was only a few days afterwards that I saw it happen - the first of about half a dozen occassions. My brother suddenly sat up and urgently whispered for me to look at the wardrobes. Very gently, all of the doors - including the cupboard doors at the top - were opening and closing rhythmically, about a centimeter or so. Over a period of about three minutes they opened wider and wider, until at its peak they were opening about six inches, all in perfect rhythm. On the last beat,they very gently and slowly drifted back into a closed position. It was the most alarming thing I'd ever seen. It was surreal watching them moving in perfect unison. The top cupboards were the strangest part - they were heavy hinged doors that lifted upwards - only a force ten would have lifted them that high. On a couple of occassions I actually got out of bed and closed the doors, checking for draughts in the process. They opened five minutes later and the cycle resumed where it had left off.

Also, at the end of the upstairs corridor was the bathroom. On many occassions I was laying in the bath when I'd see the door handle turn, and the door open. This always happened when I was upstairs on my own. A kinky ghost, perhaps?

I think that Queen's Tower was part of the ruins of Manor Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was temporarily incarcerated. I don't know if the ruins are still there [not very familiar with this part of the city], but there is a black and white photo in "More Images of Sheffield", published by The Star newspaper. I'd heard it was reputed to be haunted too.

When I was a youngster we sometimes used to play in the small wood at the side of Burrowlee House in Owlerton.

One night after lighting a fire we were shouted at by somebody from a nearby house.

We all set off running but had to climb over the steel gate.

As usual I was the last and as I crossed the yard I saw a ghost.

I was scared to death, it was a young woman coming out of the empty Burrowlee House and glididing across the yard to an outbuilding.

I could see completely through her.

Some years later I was on holiday and visited Owlerton and found there was an open day at the House.

I went in to see the work of the restorers who were working there.

Inside the kitchen there was a display board with an article about a ghost that haunted the house.

The thing I couldn't understand was that the ghost was of a small dumpy woman who was a nanny or something at the house in the old days.

This didn't fit in with the image of the tall slim young woman that i saw all those years ago.

I was told by one or two of the workers that there were unexplained movement of articles and somtimes images and noises were seen and heard.

On the display board it did mention another ghost who was seen by many people over the years-she was a young woman who rode a horse across the path at the front of the bandstand in Hillsborough Park.

I wondered if this was the same ghost as I had seen in the yard of the house.

I believe the Dixon family of Hillsborough Hall (now library) built Burrowlee house for their daughter who married Thomas Steade.

I know anyone can take the mickey out of me for this piece but if anyone can add anything to this info I would appreciate it.

Happy Days!!

try walking alone down vickers corridor at the NGH at 2 in the morning...eek!

You've lost me, medic25uk. I know I'm dim but it went straight over my head. Is it haunted? You have to explain these things - I'm a little slow due to the medication. :loopy:

Pop T, I can't add anything else to what you say, but the encounter sounds amazing/terrifying. I can only speak for myself, but I would never take the mickey out of anyone who claims a "ghostly encounter" after my wierd experience with the white flash on Clough field, related earlier. It is easy to sit back and poke fun [prior to my experience I was stupid enough to do so, too] but when it happens it can change the way you think quite profoundly. My encounter was brief, and only in partial vision, but yours is the kind of thing investigators dream of.

i work at NGH medic25uk and i gotta admit that vickers corridor is scary but i haven't seen anything yet! have you?

I used to work at Magna (old Templeborough Steelworks) and we used to hear all kinds of stories about ghosts of steelworkers from the security guards - there was one particular gruesome story about a man who jumped into a ladle because he knew he was going to die from cancer and he was supposed to haunt the building. A visitor also told me that when he worked there there was a cold spot where another man hung himself. Other ghosts were seen in the office buildings on the stairs and in the corridor. I took this with a pinch of salt - I don't know if you've been to magna but its designed to be very dark so when you're working there in the winter, its cold and there are no visitors your mind starts to play tricks. I wanted to design a ghost tour for visitors one Halloween but we couldn't find enough stories - does anybody know any more?

Originally posted by medic25uk
try walking alone down vickers corridor at the NGH at 2 in the morning...eek!

I know exactly what you mean Medic, the corridor at my old school was exactly the same - leading from one end ( foyer ) to the other ( upper school ) it was closed off at each end and dead silent whilst you walk along, the toilets at each end where a sign you'd made it to one side, I'd sometimes start off walking, quicken my pace and be lightly jogging by the time i reached the door at the end.

Can you imagine what a schoolkids imagination, in a long lonely corridor during assembly when no-one else is in that part of the building can do to a person!!?

Crikey - reading all your posts.... bizarre.
I have a couple of things to add of my own. Having trekked around the country quite a lot and around some historical sites I've got a few pics of things I can't explain. Strange smokey things in broad daylight in ancient abbeys and castles.
Furthermore, some friends and I were playing hide and seek in one of the abbeys in 2000 or 2001, one of the guys thought he had seen me but later found me in an entirely different part of the site where I had been all along. Plus I wasn't wearing grey and white and neither was anyone else in our party of 10 ppl.
At another venue I was looking through the fastened gates of the chapel when a feeling of great oppresion fell over me and I ran as fast as I could away from it to where I was staying and refused to go back, even though the public loos were next door, I had to pee in a field instead.
The Queens Head in Pond Street, I spent one Halloween in the upstairs room and was the last to leave and I was deeply unhappy about it, there's a certain feeling on the top of the stairs. The landlords part of the building feels equally freaky.
There's a house on .... the road which crosses Carterknowle, cant recall the name. Anyway, there's a guy on the stairs whose about 6ft and a few inches, blonde hair and build like an outside loo! Cept, after he made me jump one night, I found out various people have seen him in there.
Bishops House....feels fine inside but there's a face at one of the upstairs windows from the outside sometimes.
My cousin (when aged about 4) used to tell me about the 'lady in the green dress' who used to stand in the living room doorway of my old flat and watch us.
The Burton Street Project in Hillsborough has a million and one strange things going on, including a chap in the cellars who asks questions but isn't there. A boy who looks through the windows of one of the halls and then vanishes. I think a spiritulist group meets there now too.
Finally I have my personal tale of terror. After moving into a house new to us, in Hackenthorpe, when I was 4 I had gone to bed and remained awake for sometime. there was a streetlamp outside my window which glowed quite brightly through the thin curtains. I saw the shadow of a man crouched on my window ledge, he then opened the window and crept in, dropped onto the floor and turned to look at me. He was dressed in black, had an odd moustache and a cape. He walked around my bed and went to my wardrobe, took my mini suitcase off it and opened it on the floor then opened my chest of drawers and took out a handful of clothes and dropped them in and over the suitcase. Then he pointed to it, indicating I should continue to put my clothes in the case, then walked out through my bedroom door. I laid there I terror half the night, before I finally dropped asleep with the duvet over my head. Next morning, I climbed over the suitcase and clothes which were on the floor. I went out of my door half expecting to see the man, then in the back bedroom I found a picture of him, decorating the cover of two matchboxes- neither of which had been there the previous day. The man I had seen was Captain Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel I'm told.
My father still has the match boxes in his toolbox and it still gives me the creeps to this day.
Some of these things perhaps have explanations, I know what I've seen.
And for whoever asked - the books about Sheffield and about the ghosts are available in Waterstones in Orchard Sq., Ottakers in Meadowhall and certain branches of GT News were carrying them for a while.

No such thing - only human imagination or human exploitation.

You're probably wrong.

(Three words against your nine - do I win a prize?) ;)

Probably, Probably not.

Originally posted by Yorkie
No such thing - only human imagination or human exploitation.

In that case - so many of us have such overblown imaginations!?
Why is it you can get the most serious of people to admit to ghostly encounters then? respected people?

A friend of mine, a police officer moved into a new home a few years back, both he and his wife were busy decorating. He was downstairs whilst she was up in the bedroom stripping off wallpaper. He heard her scream and ran up to check what was wrong, she was standing outside the room looking pale. She explained that there was a young boy standing by the cupboard near the window and he looked boney and white.
My friend walked into the room and couldn't see anything, they searched the house but found no-one.

A few weeks after moving in properly, they were in bed in the same room and he felt someone pulling the bed cover. It was about 2am, he lifted his head and saw a young boy standing at the end of the bed. The same as his wife had described, pale and boney with dark eyes - this terrified him and he let out a shout. He jumped out of the bed but as he did so the boy apparently opened his mouth, pointed to it and disappeared !!
He never told his wife, but after another strange experience which he wouldn't tell me about they soon moved out of the house.

He is a respected police officer, tall and built well - you just wouldn't expect a story like that from him and I cant see any point in him making it up.

Originally posted by Lestat
In that case - so many of us have such overblown imaginations!?


Yes - a lot of you do, and that baffles me.

Many of you just want it to be true but personally I think it is a load of tripe.

Like religion, there is no solid proof, and that it what I need. Otherwise I won't waste my time. :)

I've been told the cellar of O'Hagan's (while it was still standing) was haunted. One of the staff was working alone on a Sunday morning before they opened up and had 'an experience' down there which meant he could never again face going downstairs to e.g. change a beer barrel over.

(btw O'Hagan's changed its name to the Hornblower and was then demolished to make way for the West One development, although why this perfectly serviceable pub with some history and character to it was razed is one of Sheffield's planning mysteries.)

Hi, lestat.

you said you were interested in haunted places in sheffield area. well I am not saying i believe in ghosts but i'm open minded about the supernatural.

I have some information for you if you are interested or not, but anyhow my aunty lives in the Ecclesfield area of sheffield and is a spiritual medium, she believes she can see spirits of the deceased in other words and has kind of a sixth sense.

she told me that st.marys church in the Ecclesfield center of the village is reportedly haunted by a monk dressed in black robes and also a room within the ecclesfield church priory is reported to be haunted by an invisible evil entity or presence, she said that when a dog was locked in the room it would not stop barking and howling, and when the owner opened the door the dog was snarling and looking at some invisible force.

anyhow hope you was interested, please pm me or email me if you have any interest or questions.

thankyou

I worked in elderly units for a few years. Every unit I worked in had it's own ghost story. It is quite strange going into a room after somebody had died and the body had been taken away. I never saw a ghost but I had some strange experiences.
At one place I worked somebody had died and John Heaths were taking the body out of the front door.
I had locked this persons bedroom door and walked down the corridor and let John Heaths out. As the body was going through the door a room alarm went off. I looked at the alarm panel and saw it was on the corridor where I had just come from. I went to answer the call and it was the room I had just left.
I had the unit and master keys keys on me and nodody was playing a trick on me.
Very strange I thought.
Another time at a different unit somebody had died and the family had been to take what they wanted from their belongings. As I was the persons keyworker and close to the person the other staff left the clearing of the room to me.
It took me about 30 minutes to do and I had the door wedged open al the way through the time I was in the room.
As I moved the last bag out of the room into the corridor the door closed behind me. I didn't knock it or anything but the fact it happened did send a shiver up my spine.
Most of the time I'm happy to put these sort of things down to my imagination playing tricks on my but these two incidents were quite strange.
The most scary time I had was working nights in a unit that was an old victorian building. I used to go up and do the hoourly checks on my own.
One night as I was walking along a dimly lit corridor towards a room that used to be a chapel I could hear a strange noise behind me. Everytime I took a step the noise would happen everytime I stopped it stopped. I was on the point of crapping myself when I realised the noise was coming off the corderoy trousers I was wearing.

Originally posted by pberry
I've been told the cellar of O'Hagan's (while it was still standing) was haunted. One of the staff was working alone on a Sunday morning before they opened up and had 'an experience' down there which meant he could never again face going downstairs to e.g. change a beer barrel over.

(btw O'Hagan's changed its name to the Hornblower and was then demolished to make way for the West One development, although why this perfectly serviceable pub with some history and character to it was razed is one of Sheffield's planning mysteries.)


I totally agree with you pberry, why O'hagans was knocked down is beyond me, it was one of Sheffields friendliest and nicest pubs. I spent many a good night in that place and was even there on the last night before it shut down - I won't go into Vodka Rev on principle now!!

Anyway, as you mentioned about the strange experience with the bar staff - do you remember who it was? as I know most of the bar staff that used to work there and also knew the owner and manager who now owns a nice pub down Hillsborough.

If you have a name, I'd be grateful as I could check it out in more depth - like I said I knew most of the bar staff very well and have contact details from the last night there.

re ghostly experiences,30 odd years ago i was living in leeds due to my work,the house we shared with two students was in beeston,our room was allways cold,the beds would tilt up and shake.the blankets would be pulled off ( no duvets in those days ).things that we used daily such as knives and forks would dissapear later turning up in the bed.....i left and returned to my home town sheffield.got married,the same things started to happen again,my wife was sat with me when the pots came out of the sink..other times washing has been lifted out of the washer and dumped upstairs many things have happened that caused friends to stop visiting.they had their hair pulled..faces nipped doors slammed on them,im 55 now things are reasonably quiet..the odd thing occurs but eventually you just accept them..cheers for listening..

The old sheffield college building in parkwood and the old builings across the road were supposed to be haunted. Indeed my nan had an experience there as a cleaner.

Whislt cleaning the toilets a woman walked out of a cubicle and walked down the corridor, being 5 in the morning my nan naturally tried to talk to her but was ignored. My nan saw this woman diserpear in the corridor 'apparantly' where the woman died years ago when something smacked her on the head.

So does anyone know about this??

High-Tech Ghost Story (By courtesy of Sweetdexter)


A Winnipegger's death goes unnoticed for two years. Thanks to his computer.
By LIANNE GEORGE (Maclean's)


ONE NOVEMBER DAY in 2002, Jim Sulkers, a 53-year-old retired municipal worker from Winnipeg, climbed into bed, pulled the covers up, and died.

Over the next 20-odd months, the U.S. invaded Iraq, Janet Jackson exposed herself at the Super Bowl, and Canadians -- with some reluctance -- elected Paul Martin.

But, tragically, it wasn't until Aug. 25, 2004, toward the end of the Athens Summer Olympics, that somebody finally thought to look in on Jim Sulkers.

By the time police -- alerted, finally, by concerned relatives -- climbed through the window of his second-storey condo in the posh River Heights neighbourhood, Sulkers' body was in a mummified state.

Everything else in his tidy one-bedroom apartment was intact, although the food in his fridge was spoiled and his wall calendar was two years out of date.

After a brief investigation in which Manitoba's chief medical examiner determined he'd died of natural causes, the bizarre confluence of coincidences that led to his delayed discovery began to emerge (and landed Sulkers' story on "wacky news of the world" websites from Houston to Cape Town).

For one thing, he was a reclusive man. He was estranged from his family and had minimal contact with neighbours, most of whom assumed he'd taken an extended vacation.

Also, he suffered from a medical condition that prevented his body from decomposing -- and therefore expelling any telltale odours.

But the primary factor in the delay, it turns out, was technology -- or more specifically, automated banking.

Sulkers suffered from multiple sclerosis and received a monthly disability pension, which was deposited directly into his bank account.

His condo fees, utilities and other expenses were then deducted automatically. As such, his bills were routinely being paid up well beyond his death.

Why wouldn't his creditors assume he was alive?

Sad as it is, Sulkers' tale illuminates a chilling fact: that new
technologies like electronic banking have created a system in which it's possible to become so physically disengaged from the day-to-day administration of your own affairs that your life can effectively go on without you, perhaps indefinitely.

"For many practical purposes, this man was virtually alive throughout that time," says Terence Moran, professor of Media Ecology at New York University, a program he co-founded with Neil Postman, the celebrated media critic, in 1971.

Marshall McLuhan famously said that media are extensions of ourselves, Moran points out.

"This man's life was extended for two years by the technology he used. Postman would've said that what you have here is a lack of community."

What you also have is Exhibit A for techno-skeptics -- the artists,
> intellectuals and other prophets of despair (most notably McLuhan, U.S. cultural historian Lewis Mumford and French philosopher Jacques Ellul) who've long warned that too much reliance on technology will result in a whittling away of human virtues and freedoms in ways we can't begin to understand.

The dark, inevitable and unforeseeable consequences of technology were an inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as Blade Runner and the Matrix trilogy.

This is what Postman called technology's Faustian bargain.

"It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect," he wrote. "Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that."

Often, says Moran, the most significant consequences of technological innovation are the ones we could have least predicted.

When the automobile was first invented, people had concerns, but primarily about safety.

"Nobody predicted it would lead to air pollution, smog and the suburbanization of America," he says.

Likewise with the Internet, concerns have primarily centred around access and privacy. But the actual societal implications of chat rooms, instant messaging, and online dating may not emerge for
decades to come.

In academia, a war has been raging over the true emotional, social and psychological impact of the Internet and the automated services it affords us.

Sure, critics say, new media help us overcome boundaries of time and space.

They foster communication, productivity and access to
information -- but often at the cost of face-to-face interaction with family, friends, neighbours and shopkeepers. By its very nature, they argue, the new technology destroys communities.

Professors Robert Kraut of Carnegie Mellon University and Norman Nie of Stanford were two of the first to examine the societal impact of new technologies.

In separate studies, they each concluded that frequent Internet use leads to a decline in social support, family communication and the size of one's social network, and an increase in depression and loneliness.

"The Internet," said Nie, "could be the ultimate isolating
technology that further reduces our participation in communities even more than did automobiles and television before it."

In other words, electronic media have created a new definition of what it means to be connected -- one which, paradoxically, means more people "home, alone and anonymous," he said.

Consider that your average young person spends 6 1/2 hours a day in front of a screen of one stripe or another, whether it be playing video games, surfing the Web, downloading music onto an iPod or text messaging with a BlackBerry.

In a recent study, 20 per cent of teenagers said they use instant messaging as their primary mode of communication with friends.

A techno-skeptic will tell you that virtual communication is a poor
substitute for meaningful, face-to-face interaction. "It's only the
illusion of interacting," says Moran.

"To illustrate this point, Postman used to say,> 'Try eating some virtual food or breathing some virtual air.' "

It's no secret we've come to rely on technology to help alleviate a litany of latter-day ills: boredom, loneliness, laziness, lack of time and isolation.

(There are new wired devices that help adults monitor their elderly parents from afar.

If they alter their daily activities in any suspicious way, this information will be transmitted electronically.

Useful, but not quite the same as dropping by.)

Of course, it's a little premature to argue that new technology is
transforming people into apathetic techno-misfits. For the time being, its benefits clearly outweigh its drawbacks.

In fact, Keith Hampton, a Canadian professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently created local chat lines and found that they actually made residents more likely to meet their neighbours in person.

"My work suggests you can use new technologies to encourage new social ties and strengthen local relationships," he says.

(Hampton makes another good point: was interaction with the bank teller really that meaningful?)

The downside is undeniable, however, as evidenced by Jim Sulkers' lonely demise.

In his immediate community, his death has had direct consequences for his neighbours, many of whom are elderly or disabled and horrified by the idea that someone could be so completely forgotten.

Gladys Lowry, who lives alone in the apartment two doors down from where Sulkers died, now feels compelled to make more direct human contact.

"I know this could never really happen to me," she says, "but my neighbour and I have decided to phone each other every other day -- just in case."

My housemate recently returned from Kelham Island Museum with this book
Ghost Hunters Guide to Sheffield

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1850480206/qid=1096290402/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/026-6785017-9413213

which had quite an indepth view on many locations around Sheffield. Its all listed by location so its easy to find the area you're looking for.
(The best places, unsurprisingly, are the old medical areas, churches and pubs!!!)

anyone no of any ghosts around dronfield ?

I have read that there was some sort of mysterious figure appearing & disappearing. A shadow of a man seen around the railway, Im sure it was Dronfield, maybe someone could back this up?:confused:

Originally posted by craigmason
anyone no of any ghosts around dronfield ?

I heard there was supposed to be a ghost in the library in Dronfield, at the Civic Centre. A grey lady, apparently.

Yeah i've heard about that too.
Mind you,arent most librarys frequented by grey old ladies !

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, as I don't have time to read 12 pages worth of posts in my lunch hour ;)

There is a book called 'Pit Ghosts, Padfeet and Poltergeists' by Liz Linahan that tells of paranormal goings on around Yorkshire - some of which must be of around Sheffield.

If nothing else it's a really good read and will scare you ***less if you read it using a torch on a rainy night in the middle of a powercut like I did. :loopy:

ISBN: 1872438113
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1872438113/qid=1098274565/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-9800327-5466023

does everybody here belive in ghosts and the paranomal? I belive there could be aliens as the odds are well in favour of a solar system out there similar to ours with habital planets.

But peoples ghosts knocking around where they died or where they spent a lot of time whilst they were alive?

Yeah it makes an interesting read and shows about it on tv are entertaining but its one of thoese things ill only beleive when i see it. (not knocking anybodys beliefs or calling anybody a lair, just my opinion).

My ghostly experience.

One clear night in winter, no clouds, no mist, nothing.
Me and a friend were riding our motorbikes out by redmires damn.

We got bored and decided to ride back, this being about 2am.
Coming back down the hill, round the blind corner and in the middle of the road looked to be a man. Clear as day. Just stood there. I swerved and nearly ended up in a wall, look in my mirror and see nothing.

My mate comes round the corner and just sees a confined mist, which he claims was about the same size as the man I saw.

I'm getting shudders thinking about it. Just a hollow stare straight at me.

my wifes grandad has decided to stay with us instead of moving on we dont have a problem with this iff he wants to stay with the people he loved(and people who loved him)cant see anything to worry about

A good site for Uk paranormal places is
http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/ Quite a lot of places here.



Thanks Sheffield Paranormal Investigations

:confused: i'm very surprised nobodys mentioned the "ship " in shalesmoor,not only have they a resident ghost "charlie" he pinches the black poopl ball,they have roman soldiers visiting from time to time mainly seen passing through the cellar walking approx 1mt above floor level,according to old folklore the old roman road passed this way,anyone through any light on this?

Cheer dears we will look into that :-)

Sheffield Paranormal Invsetigations

:suspect: Just becareful when asking mediums to come investigate your property(you never know what evil sprits they will let in your house) you should leave it to well known paranormal groups.

Just be warned :heyhey: Jon

Around 1983 I recall a story told by some good friends of the family who lived in Swallownest at the time in a fairly old building which was surrounded by fields through which part of the A57 now passes.

The front garden was totally overgrown and finally they got round to tidying it up in order to create some car parking space. With it being in such a bad state they hired a mini digger in order to shift the rubble and plantation. However, they dug a little deeper and unearthed what appeared to be bones. These - it was deemed - were from the old pit ponies that used to operate in the area. Thinking nothing more about it, they went to bed as usual.

That night, the mother of the family was awoken by the strange feeling of someone sitting on the end of her bed. There wasn't anyone/anything visible! At breakfast the next morning (which I presume might have taken place a little earlier than usual) her daughter also claimed to have had a strange feeling that night, of someone walking around her room.

Being sensible people, they decided to bury the bones and have done with them. To the best of my knowledge, that was the end of it!!

One other case, briefly. Two friends of mine, walking back from the Bull's Head, Ranmoor to the Rising Sun, Nether Green one Sunday night. One of them went to take a leak in grounds of a large house on the corner of Fulwood Road/Gladstone Road. He didn't take long. He came running out in terror having seen a little girl in a white Victorian dress playing in the (otherwise pitch-black) garden. He ran, for some strange reason, down into Whiteley Woods and up to Quiet Lane in Fulwood. He returned to the pub to be found playing on the slot machine with tears in his eyes. Rumour has it a little girl was killed at this very junction in Ranmoor. (And I hope the person who witnessed this sighting won't be reading this for I know he won't thank me for reminding him of it.)

:confused: come on then,why are they always in white,theres got to be a reason :help:

Originally posted by Nathen
My ghostly experience.

One clear night in winter, no clouds, no mist, nothing.
Me and a friend were riding our motorbikes out by redmires damn.

We got bored and decided to ride back, this being about 2am.
Coming back down the hill, round the blind corner and in the middle of the road looked to be a man. Clear as day. Just stood there. I swerved and nearly ended up in a wall, look in my mirror and see nothing.

My mate comes round the corner and just sees a confined mist, which he claims was about the same size as the man I saw.

I'm getting shudders thinking about it. Just a hollow stare straight at me.

I've heard of three cases in this region. One is of someone who set out to walk home from Soughley Lane towards Ringinglow (I think the silly sausage was headed for somewhere as far away as Castleton) and never made it. His body is supposed to haunt this region. Maybe he's the very chap you met?

My brother was driving over Ringinglow near the Round House one foggy night and swears he drove right through a ghost. His initial thought was that it was a woman in the middle of the road and to hit the breaks rather hard! But he says he literally drove right through her and that when he looked to the side of the car there was no-one in sight.

And finally, a good friend has seen a ghost near the wooden bench on Quiet Lane near Fulwood. He says the temperature in his car plummeted and he got a very strange feeling.

Although this guy is partial to a pint, I know for sure he wouldn't fabricate this kind of stuff.

Watching Ghost Hunters on TFN I agree with you. Ghosts are either, Grey Ladies, Small scruffy blonde haired kids, Monks, Dukes Earls etc. Headless horsemen. They only come out at night when it is dark. They only talk to certain people. I once spent weeks at the Carbrook Hall Pub Attercliffe. This pub is no more haunted than the phone box at the bottom of the road. My house is supposed to be haunted according to certain people. I have never seen a ghost,

Have you ever seen sixth sense? . . maybe you too are a ghost!? :gag: :hihi:

Lestat

If you only knew what I have had to put up with, It would surprise you. I have tried to get a so called medium to visit my home. I have had some already, At great cost. They told me nothing that my next door neighbour, Or general information did not already inform me of. What they told me could apply to anyone. But, I am neither a believer nor disbelieve. I do believe that some sort of force exists. That it must be inherent within us. But, Programmes such as those shown on freeview channel 20 ftn are just a load of rubbish. especially this guy called Derek Ochara or whatever his name is. He would make a great actor in horror films.. I myself have faced death on the operating table more than once. I was at one time certified dead. But, As you say, Maybe I am a ghost ( haha )... I would respect a visit from a medium if this person was genuine. I do think there are those that have a sense of sensing out the evil energy that does exist in places. But, Like many I do not know what to think, I just hope that one day I may meet a ghost. Then once and for all I will have the proof I seek. Then I may understand certain happenings that I have witnessed. Not ghostly. Or as you say, " Are they ".

Rodgers, you should contact Jon from the paranormal society, he's on here regurlarly. Im sure they might find time to come and investigate your house.

Rodgers, we most certainly do not recommending getting a medium in. If you would like any assistance, feel free to pm either myself or Jon.

:confused: still do'nt know why their white n whats an "orb" supposed to be?

still do'nt know why their white n whats an "orb" supposed to be?

Fridgeman, you're a card.

Which sounds more romantic, the Lady in White or the Lady in Mauve With Sort Of A Pale Lilac Bonnet? Other than the fact that white was a very common Edwardian/Victorian dress colour (which adds a little weight to the ghost theory), which makes the best legend for your haunted mansion?

An orb is considered by many to be the first stage of physical manifestation of a spirit.

But not by us.

Well over 99% of all orb photographs taken by YPS were found to be caused by water vapour or dust particles illuminated by the flash of the digital camera. The close proximity of the flash unit to the camera lens in compact cameras (orbs are a modern "digital camera" phenomenon) causes perspective distortion, making the particle seem much larger than it actually is.

Most american paranormal sites claim that faces can be seen in these orbs. One site even claims that there are two species of orb that are locked in orb wars. But that's the yanks for you.

Having said that, we have caught two small moving anomalies on night-vision camera whose appearance and movement we find it hard to dismiss as dust particles, water vapour or insects.

I tend to agree with Ant, we have also captured many orb like things on night vision camera which we find very dificult to explain.

Stocksbridge Bypass which is a bad accident black spot is noted to have victorian children who play out late at night.

This was reported in the newspaper some years ago and i beleive they were seen by a Police Offcer and a Sprecial Constable on evening while they were on duty.

There's a Stocksbridge bypass thread elsewhere on here that'll give you more details. We've had countless investigations up there, but it seems a bit on the inert side now.

There is a lot of info at the link below regarding Stocksbridge.
http://www.sykesssillysite.co.uk/scary/stocksbridge_bypass.htm

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ant
[B]Fridgeman, you're a card.

Which sounds more romantic, the Lady in White or the Lady in Mauve With Sort Of A Pale Lilac Bonnet?

i always thought it were lady in red and whiter shade of pale,i am not the queen of hearts or the jack of spades (int that the devil)
but the king of all hearts.
how am i supposed to know what an "orb" is,i've only ever seen most haunted,are they for real or what??
and as for being romantic, i always thought ghosts were there to frighten the living daylights out of you :D :D :P

If you want to see lots of Orbs go upstairs take your quilt and shake it then take a picture with your digital camera, Hey presto lots of orbs. But seriously orbs or round or oblong balls of lights on film some times can be dust or moisture but sometime unexplainable, Others believe its the first manifestation of spirit.

Is there an echo in here?

Hellooo

Actually, while just reading about all these weird things, I get chills in my spine and generally feel quite uncomfortable! I was wondering how could you deal with these things in “reality” with self-control, without freaking out?

(I would be particularly interested in an answer by any member from the YORKSHIRE PARANORMAL SOCIETY)

pls excuse my English- I am foreign :P

Well to be quite honest it is a normal reaction for people when you are not used to being around the paranormal. But if you believe the dead cannot harm you then theres nothing to be scared off. The way you have to look at it if they are your loved ones and they would not harm you when they were alive, then there is no reason why they would harm you when they pass over.

Actually, while just reading about all these weird things, I get chills in my spine and generally feel quite uncomfortable! I was wondering how could you deal with these things in “reality” with self-control, without freaking out?

Speaking personally (I can't speak for all of YPS), it's something you grow out of. I used to get goosebumps just watching ghost programmes on tv, and when I was much younger the slightest unexplained creak of a door freaked me out.

The more investigations you go on, the easier it becomes to filter out the normal creaks and bangs an old house has to offer. What you're left with tends not to play games with the imagination - it's unexplainable, but not overwhelming.

Dramatic events are few and far between, and seem to have some sort of build-up, so they don't leave you a wobbly mess in the corner of the room. Then we're all too busy checking cameras, tape recorders, thermometers and EMF meters to be too freaked out by it.

Me and a friend are very interested in the paranormal, and would love to become paranormal investigators.

Any chance of some pointers or the oppertunity to tag along sometime?

We are both fine respectable members of the community :D

Originally posted by Nathen
and would love to become paranormal investigators.
:D

Me too, please.

signed Dana Scully

Me and a friend are very interested in the paranormal, and would love to become paranormal investigators.

pm sent, although...

We are both fine respectable members of the community

...probably rules you out. ;)

Originally posted by Ant
pm sent, although...



...probably rules you out. ;)

These chaps from the abnormal society are quite amusing! I'd come along to but the nurses lock the doors at ten. Secure accommodation? Prison more like?

But if you are going on manoeuvres I would be frightfully grateful if I could get the call up. Although Doris would not be amused. But when is she ever?

97, Ted? Really? Do you find dribbling onto your keyboard a problem when accessing the internet? Or has Doris knitted a drip tray underneath your downy chin?

Young Ant.

There is a lot Paranormal groups out there I suggest you look around and see which suit you the best 8)

we went to packman lane tonight.stayed till late ...saw not a jot! though the level crossing alarm went off and scared the hell outta me!! lol so where do we need to park up to see anything?

I have no Idea not been down there yet but if you pm Ant he is the expert there I think, I think they had some good experiences there. 8)

Originally posted by nitelife40
we went to packman lane tonight.stayed till late ...saw not a jot! though the level crossing alarm went off and scared the hell outta me!! lol so where do we need to park up to see anything? Just to let you know the YPS will be doing a field trip to Packman Lane tommorow night meeting on the Lane at 7pm everyone welcome...just dress up warm it will be freezing up there :thumbsup: Jon

Since we're in the month, does anybody have any good Christmas ghost stories from Sheffield to tell? would love to hear them.

Also, how did the Packham Lane investigation go Jon?

2 good local ghosty books worth a read! 'Pit ghosts Pad feet & Poltergeists' .
ALSO 'MORE pit ghosts pad feet & poltergeists'
ISBN 1-872438-13-X
Both by Liz Linahan.
Publisher; The Kings England Press, Goldthorpe Rotherham.
Contain tales of sightings, hauntings, etc. £5.99 when I bought my copy. And no, ya can't borrerit! ;)
Happy Christmas everyboddee

I've probably asked this before but does anyone know if Sheffield has it's own 'Ghost Walk' like alot of other cities, e.g York, Nottingham, Lincoln etc.

This would be a great idea, especially over Xmas, it would add a little xmas chill to the atmosphere! for visitors and locals.

There was a ghost walk in October for the festival at the winter gardens but it was very booked up and I don't think they do it as a regular thing.

I'm pretty sure i saw a ghost the other day in one of the bin rooms in the underground car park at West One.

I had my hands full with bin bags so pushed the door open with my foot, a man in his 50's i would guess, with a grey beard dressed in black was in there, I only saw him for a second as I didnt give the door a hard enough kick so it closed quickly, I opened the door again about to apoloagise to the man in case I had startled him but there was nobody there. I'm not sure if it's me going mad or if I did see something. Has anyone else experienced anything at West One or does anyone know what used to be on this site and if so did anything happen here that could make it haunted. :help: :confused: :help:

I work in what used to be an old workhouse in the Northern General Hospital site which is supposed to have a ghost. When the building was being refurbished builders would often comment and a few refused to work alone in the building. A couple of years ago I was in ireland and the lady that owned the B&B used to work as a nurse in this building and she also made comment - there are too many independent stories of this particular ghost for there to be nothing in it.
we often have the lift opening for no reason and drafts when no door is open!
spooky!

I found this on The guardian website earlier today.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,7890,1378599,00.html

If you want to know the author of the sheffield ghost books she is called valerie salim she as produced about three books on the ghosts of sheffield and I think that there is a new one out now very interesting reading I have got a fair collection of ghost books from all over the british isles there is one called the good ghost guide that is an excellent book to read and yes it does mention sheffield in it and some more in south yorkshire. I can relate a story that happened when I worked at then BSC we was on nights and working in the heat treatment department well at the side of us was the heavy plate mill and at about 01:30am we had just had our snap and some of my mates was playing cards everything was quite when all of a sudden there was a big bang we went out to have a look and the old plate rolling mill had started up there was nobody anywhere near it know fitters nobody just us then one of the electricians who was working in the 10inch cogging mill came to see what had happened when he looked at the heavy plate rolling mill and saw that it was moving he said now thats strange I wonder if old jack as come back to finnish the job off what he had started mind you he as been dead for 10 years he was hit in the head when the plate broke and the other strange thing is there is know motors connected to it they was took out 2 years ago but them two rollers was going round and round then they just stopped and everthing went quite again very strange !

Does anyone in Sheffield want to start a paranormal investigation group up? Ideally we would need digi cams and camcorders(nightvision) and some kind of temperature sensor along with an E.M.F. meter if anyone has one, and are there any mediums out there who would like to join. Sheffield people only please. contact James : clarencebodica@bluebottle.com

Originally posted by jimbojones
Does anyone in Sheffield want to start a paranormal investigation group up? Ideally we would need digi cams and camcorders(nightvision) and some kind of temperature sensor along with an E.M.F. meter if anyone has one, and are there any mediums out there who would like to join. Sheffield people only please. contact James : clarencebodica@bluebottle.com If you need any help or tips please don't hesitate to ask.

Mick:cool:

Thankyou for replying Mick. How do you usually go about arranging to visit the smaller venues which you investigate, i.e. pubs etc? I already have a few people who would like to join the team and want to start looking into how to set up the venues. I have wanted to this for a very long time as I have seen many unexplainable things since the age of around 14 and really feel that I need to look further into it. thanks again, James d;-) Remember anyone out there interested in setting up a team? clarencebodica@bluebottle.com

You have to write lots of letters informing them what you are and what you do.:thumbsup:

Hi there to you all. I can remember being in the old queens head one night this is before they refurbished it when it had seperate rooms we was in the back room when I and 4 others watched a pint glass turn upside down. then on another occasion we was stood in the bar with the old landlord & landlady when one of the optics moved it was ready to be put back on the glass shelf when it moved across the back unit. I have never known it go so cold in that pub. when they had a beer delivery old stan one of the dray men had gone down in to the cellar to fetch up the empty barrels when he felt someone or something rushed passed him on the cellar stairs his hair stood on end. I can remember when the pub was shut for refurbishing well they closed off one of the rooms to do the work on it when the door jammed we watched 3 men try to open it and they failed in a space of 2 minutes 6 workmen tried it and it still would not open until they landlady said stop mucking about with the door and it opened straight away very weird.

Hello BigKev, Are you interested in becoming part of a paranormal investigation team? We have already got a medium interested in joining. Anyone else out there? We need roughly 4 more people which includes one skeptic which is a MUST.
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com
:gag:

Hi all. I really need 3 more team members A.S.A.P which must include one skeptic, anyone interested or know someone who will be? The rush is because I am currently setting up arrangements for the new team to spend the night in Carbrook Hall as a team building exercise. REMEMBER : There are only 2 PLACES left for true believers. Hurry and join the team. James
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com
:clap:

Originally posted by jimbojones
Hi all. I really need 3 more team members A.S.A.P which must include one skeptic, anyone interested or know someone who will be? The rush is because I am currently setting up arrangements for the new team to spend the night in Carbrook Hall as a team building exercise. REMEMBER : There are only 2 PLACES left for true believers. Hurry and join the team. James
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com
:clap:

Do you have people who are neither a skeptic or a true believer? Just wondering, as I'm guessing being either a skeptic or true believer would effect the outcome somewhat.

Hello Snook. Are you interested or not? Are you a skeptic or a believer? Want to join the team?

clarencebodica@bluebottle.com
:suspect:
James

interested to know if there are any ghosts round hillsboro pk, as i live bang oppsite on middlewood rd, and am up all nights(i am insomniac!) and will hold a vigil if anyone is interested or maybe i could attend one (i dont hav any transport, 'cept shank's pony, tho.)

Never heard of the park being haunted :confused:

Originally posted by jimbojones
Hello Snook. Are you interested or not? Are you a skeptic or a believer? Want to join the team?

clarencebodica@bluebottle.com
:suspect:
James Hi James do you have a website yet? :)

maybe it isnt, was just wondering if i could walk somewhere locally right now to hold a vigil. (my fiancee says im stupid.)

Middlewood Village around the old church and the driveway to the old administration building suppose to be very active.(old middlewood hospital).:thumbsup: Should have been with us last night got back around 4am very active night.:D

just my luck. maybe i will have a walk up there, its only 10-15 minutes walk.......maybe i am crazy :loopy:

Originally posted by jonluvsnique
just my luck. maybe i will have a walk up there, its only 10-15 minutes walk.......maybe i am crazy :loopy: Don't forget your camera and it helps to be loony. lol:hihi: :hihi:

only got a small digicam, has flash tho but how do i take a photo if i cant see anything!!!????

just been up as far as the new housing estate, wasnt sure where the group went, had a walk down to the ambulance station and decided to come home, pity.

Originally posted by Bikertec
Hi James do you have a website yet? :)
Hi Mick. I don't have a website yet. What prog did you use to do your one? I would like to set one up. Looks like the team is complete now, hopefully anyway. Thanx to you and Bren for all ya help;)
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com

Originally posted by jimbojones
Hi Mick. I don't have a website yet. What prog did you use to do your one? I would like to set one up. Looks like the team is complete now, hopefully anyway. Thanx to you and Bren for all ya help;)
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com I use dreamweaver seems the easiest to use.:thumbsup:

Hi all. One of the new paranormal investigation team has to go away so can't join. That leaves an open place to anyone interested. If you've wondered about the paranormal, nows the time to look further. :heyhey:
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com

Originally posted by jimbojones
Hi all. One of the new paranormal investigation team has to go away so can't join. That leaves an open place to anyone interested. If you've wondered about the paranormal, nows the time to look further. :heyhey:
clarencebodica@bluebottle.com

Jimbo, keep us updated on here about where you are going to hold vigils etc. Because of work I cant really do it but if you're ever in Fir Vale or near here . . . the NG Hodpital clock tower would be great place!! lots of stories . . Then I'll try my best to join you.:thumbsup:

Originally posted by Lestat
Jimbo, keep us updated on here about where you are going to hold vigils etc. Because of work I cant really do it but if you're ever in Fir Vale or near here . . . the NG Hodpital clock tower would be great place!! lots of stories . . Then I'll try my best to join you.:thumbsup: Damn Lestat we just did an investigation at the Ball Inn Grimesthorpe last friday which was quite intresting. I think thats near firvale isn't it.

The Sheffield Paranormal Investigation team were on Hallam FM Wednesday evening (20/1).

Very interesting - some quite spooky calls.

Did anyone hear it?

TH

Originally posted by TaptonHill
The Sheffield Paranormal Investigation team were on Hallam FM Wednesday evening (20/1).

Very interesting - some quite spooky calls.

Did anyone hear it?

TH I think Brenda and Gaz did a teriffic job on the radio nerves of steel, I would rather stick me in a dark forbiding cellar on my own than do the radio show.:help: :thumbsup: :clap: :clap: :D

I'd agree with that.

I thought they were very good.

I'm sure we'll get them in again in the future.

NM

Did you hear the caller with the teddy bear? How scary was that!?

Originally posted by TaptonHill
Did you hear the caller with the teddy bear? How scary was that!? I did but I was too busy sitting on my hands resisting the temptation to press all them buttons and sliddy things. Wierdness happened before the show all the computers went down and just as the show was about to start all the phone lines went dead.:suspect: And no I never pressed a thing:)

Not an actual house but a road, in the dark dip in the road that leads from Spinkhill to Killamarsh just before Rose Cottage.
There is a Big Black dog that only appears at 12.00 to lone drivers that think they have hit it and stop (rather dangerous cause its a blind bend and dip)
Scared the beejeepers out of me when I found out its happened to loads of people and no one has a black dog in that area.
Not sure if its already been mentioned too many pages to trawl through.

ther is a big church at the bottom of my road (yew lane) ecclsfield church and on one of the walls ther used to be a door it was bricked up yonks ago but a monk is said to be seen walking through the wall wer the door used to be sometimes apparently. allot of the houses in the area are said to be haunted too my mum sais that ours is by a little girl, she has talked to the girl in one of those circle things, she is said to walk past our glass living room door every so often, my parents have both seen her. I havnt yet though thankfully!

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
2 good local ghosty books worth a read! 'Pit ghosts Pad feet & Poltergeists' .
ALSO 'MORE pit ghosts pad feet & poltergeists'
ISBN 1-872438-13-X
Both by Liz Linahan.
Publisher; The Kings England Press, Goldthorpe Rotherham.
Contain tales of sightings, hauntings, etc. £5.99 when I bought my copy. And no, ya can't borrerit! ;)
Happy Christmas everyboddee

L@@K what I found !

http://unseen.nlb-online.co.uk/webpages/pitghosts.html

I've personally got both the books from Liz Linahan and I gotta say thay are brilliant.. I emailed her publishers a while ago but she's not writing any more which is a shame.

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
You need to speak to Jon - he is part of the Yorkshire Paranormal society.
Could also try Mysteri mag if you want to fork out for membership to their forum

Moon
How do we contact john ??

How do we contact jon ??

You can contact him through me - Jon is not online at the moment. pm me and I'll pass the message on.

Hi all I just thought I would pop in and say hello. Thanks Nick for all your help on the show19th Jan. Thanks Mickey (Bikertec) for being there, you are always such a great support to me in all I do.:love:

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Theres the ghost of a gypsy type girl in Fulwood, does not seem based in any property but haunts a passage between 2 roads near the petrol station at nethergreen. Think I talked about this about 6 months back on another thread somewhere. Eye witness account from me as I seen her many times

Hi,
I'm a journalism student and I've been assigned to Fulwood. I need 5 stories from there and I wondered if you'd be at all interested in talking to me about this sighting and mabe helping me out with a story.

Thanks