Middlewood lodge/hospital/Asylum | Paranormal activity?

Dom29 · 11-01-2011, 02:32

Hey.
A few years ago when the admin building was derelict me and a few friends went though there just for a look around as this building fasinated me.

After i went though the building i was amazed it was so torn apart and had a feeling that just didnt feel right, i have just seen a thread on here about the hospital... and it brought it all back!

And i was wondering if anyone else had any interesting stories to tell about the paranormal activity that had gone on in there , if any ?

I have read all different posts on all different forums and looked at the pictures countless times.

And i really dont want people to start taking the mick out of this thread ... as i can imagine somone will ...

So i just wondered if anyone had any stories as i would be very interested to hear them, and im sure many others would.

tzijlstra · 11-01-2011, 12:01

I grew up in a place called Harlingen in the North of the Netherlands, there was an old hospital there that was derelict. Me and my brother went in one day, we were about 10-11, to find they had just abandoned it, there was still equipment of all sorts in the building (including some really suspicious looking old dentist-type chairs...) When we found a way to the second floor (the main-stairs had been demolished to keep people out) we found blood all over the walls. (now that I am older I think it was red paint) very unsettling and as you can imagine we never went back!

alchresearch · 11-01-2011, 12:12

I've been in loads of abandoned hospitals (Google "Denbigh Asylum" for somre great pics) and sensed nothing.

loopylulu · 11-01-2011, 12:35

I think there has been a thread before about middlewood hospital and paranormal activity. My dad used to work there and has told me quite a few stories about the place - very eerie!!!!

puddinburner · 11-01-2011, 12:42

Yes Middlewood Hospital does have paeranormal activity cos experienced myself and it quite freaked me out. Working as a security guard nights on the site up to 1996. Lots of things reported. The GSD working dog often stopped dead with hackles raised and refused to investigate noises and banging. I'm sceptic and firmly believe this theory.

puddinburner · 11-01-2011, 12:47

Did your dad ever hear rythmical banging against pipework with a spanner type noise? Near ward 11? This was just one, but impossible cos all metal had been taken by scrap men at this time. Main stuff was in and around clock tower, where misty figure lurked.

Vulcan B2 · 11-01-2011, 13:19

I visited the new apartments in the clock tower building last year and can't say I felt anything untoward. However, I am a big believer in paranormal activity. Here's a good link with info and pics -

http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/Mi...ain%20Page.htm

sleepercreep · 11-01-2011, 13:47

iv been told blunket still haunts the place..wooooooooo

Dom29 · 11-01-2011, 17:48

Hi , i had a look through the website you linked and I was facinated!

And when we went thought we went in through the front window and up to the top floor , we never went near the bell tower as i didnt fancy my chances.

The people who i came with said they had seen old woman in rocking chairs and people with cages on the heads and heard screaming.

But honestly i never heard anything.

And being near the bell tower there was a room that was pitch black i heard noises from there but nothing to right home about but the deeper you went the more wierd it felt.

I just wondered if the people who live there now have ever heard anything ?

Vulcan B2 · 11-01-2011, 20:25

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Originally Posted by Dom29

Hi , i had a look through the website you linked and I was facinated!

And when we went thought we went in through the front window and up to the top floor , we never went near the bell tower as i didnt fancy my chances.

The people who i came with said they had seen old woman in rocking chairs and people with cages on the heads and heard screaming.

But honestly i never heard anything.

And being near the bell tower there was a room that was pitch black i heard noises from there but nothing to right home about but the deeper you went the more wierd it felt.

I just wondered if the people who live there now have ever heard anything ?

Yep it's a good website, I found it after visiting the new apartments last year. From the apartment I visited (which was empty, awaiting re-let) you could see the clock tower directly above through one of the skylights. I expected to feel some of the eeriness connected to the place but it was strangely sterile. I only spent about half an hour there, plus another half an hour wandering around the grounds, but felt nothing. Obviously you wouldn't recognise anything internally now due to the luxurious upgrade. Maybe if you were to spend the night there it might be a different matter! I would also have loved to take a peek inside the church but it looks to be on the verge of falling down

Had there not been loads of workmen working in the vicinity, I may have risked it

Dom29 · 12-01-2011, 00:09

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Originally Posted by Vulcan B2

Yep it's a good website, I found it after visiting the new apartments last year. From the apartment I visited (which was empty, awaiting re-let) you could see the clock tower directly above through one of the skylights. I expected to feel some of the eeriness connected to the place but it was strangely sterile. I only spent about half an hour there, plus another half an hour wandering around the grounds, but felt nothing. Obviously you wouldn't recognise anything internally now due to the luxurious upgrade. Maybe if you were to spend the night there it might be a different matter! I would also have loved to take a peek inside the church but it looks to be on the verge of falling down

Had there not been loads of workmen working in the vicinity, I may have risked it

We went in the church back when i went in the asylum (think it was the summer of 2006) and there was just empty rows where the pews were, an organ and a silver jug funnily enough!

It just felt quiet and no different to a normal church (appart from the missing pews and vicar

) but the asylum was a different story!

spritulist · 12-01-2011, 00:22

iv not seen any thing up their.i have at the old dyson car place back in the late 70s on middlewood road.i lived at the back.which is the curry shop.she was victorian in a white dress..she told me to go opposite where i lived to find the old market plaque.on.what is a house/was a shop in the late 1800s.i did find the plaque.i moved some months after.as dyson was selling the bed sit i was in.........

spritulist · 12-01-2011, 00:27

theirs a little girl thats runs out into the road on jawbone where the cottages are..i reported to police,and called to cottage,they told me the family sold it when their daughter got run over.many years ago.and the little girl still gets run over...

Dom29 · 12-01-2011, 02:11

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Originally Posted by spritulist

theirs a little girl thats runs out into the road on jawbone where the cottages are..i reported to police,and called to cottage,they told me the family sold it when their daughter got run over.many years ago.and the little girl still gets run over...

Wow that is interesting , although me and a friend have expirienced the sight of a ghost on stubbin house lane just off jawbone, driving down at around 2-3am as its the quickest way from Parsons cross to oughtibridge.

We both saw a figure that appeared to be riding a horse or walking with a really bad limp it ran across the road around 20meter away from the car and if you have ever been down that road it is very enclosed and not very pleasent.

Halibut · 12-01-2011, 05:57

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Originally Posted by Dom29

We both saw a figure that appeared to be riding a horse or walking with a really bad limp it ran across the road around 20meter away from the car and if you have ever been down that road it is very enclosed and not very pleasent.

20 metres away - and you couldn't tell if it was someone walking with a really bad limp or riding a horse?

Dear oh dear.......

Maxxy · 12-01-2011, 07:27

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Originally Posted by Dom29

Wow that is interesting , although me and a friend have expirienced the sight of a ghost on stubbin house lane just off jawbone, driving down at around 2-3am as its the quickest way from Parsons cross to oughtibridge.

We both saw a figure that appeared to be riding a horse or walking with a really bad limp it ran across the road around 20meter away from the car and if you have ever been down that road it is very enclosed and not very pleasent.

Yes that road is quite eery in the dark.

Maxxy · 12-01-2011, 07:28

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Originally Posted by spritulist

theirs a little girl thats runs out into the road on jawbone where the cottages are..i reported to police,and called to cottage,they told me the family sold it when their daughter got run over.many years ago.and the little girl still gets run over...

Do you mean at the top of jawbone, next to the white cottages?

Dom29 · 12-01-2011, 19:18

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Originally Posted by Halibut

20 metres away - and you couldn't tell if it was someone walking with a really bad limp or riding a horse?

Dear oh dear.......

Oviously im not very good at judging distances!

gularscute · 13-01-2011, 06:14

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Originally Posted by Halibut

20 metres away - and you couldn't tell if it was someone walking with a really bad limp or riding a horse?

Dear oh dear.......

And to think I've just sent Dom to Newmarket with my life savings!

Dom29 · 14-01-2011, 03:54

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Originally Posted by gularscute

And to think I've just sent Dom to Newmarket with my life savings!

50p each way