Archive for June, 2010
On the 25th June 2010 Yvette Fielding announced on the Antix Productions website that she was leaving Living TV’s Most Haunted, to move on to other projects.
Here at Paranormal United we wish her all the best in her future endeavours, it’s been a fun 10 years and we look forward to seeing her at Morecambe Winter Gardens on 24th July 2010. At the time of writing tickets are still available for this exclusive event at Morecambe.
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History Of The Feathers Ludlow
This hotel in the small town of Ludlow is re-known worldwide for its beautiful Jacobean architecture and medieval heritage. Built in 1619 during the reign of King James I the name of the hotel originates from the motifs of ostrich feathers forming part of the timber framed façade which were traditionally the badge of the Prince of Wales who at the time was the future King Charles I and can still be seen today. The small town of Ludlow was popular with the Royals as it remained loyal throughout the English Civil War and this hotel was even thought to be used for the Royalist soldiers. Indeed it was the Captain in the King’s Army who converted it into an inn in around 1670.
Paranormal Activity
With its extensive history much paranormal activity has been recorded over the years. A ghost of an unknown lady haunts room 211 and is known to be picky of who sleeps in the room, often preferring gentlemen guests to women guests. One couple awoke one night to find the female guest’s hair being pulled so violently that she was dragged from her bed whilst her male partner felt an unseen hand gently stroke his face. The female guest returned to her bed but awoke the next morning to find her clothes and sheets soaked with water but the sheets surroundings completely dry. Other reports have included a man in Victorian dress accompanied by a dog walking through room 232 into room 233.
The writing room is home to another male spirit who is searching for someone called Richard and seems to be from the period of James I. In 1974 a Mr. Ainsley was visiting the hotel for a meeting and rushing to meet his appointment he hastily parked his car opposite the hotel and soon realised he had forgotten some papers. Turning back to his car the man was stunned to see a young girl running and passing straight through his vehicle and vanishing but as he entered the hotel to relay his story the barman, he was informed that he was not the first to have seen the young girl. Some believe it was a girl that died in a road accident who was hurrying along to meet or do whatever that once fateful that day.
Source: xmoto.com
DEAD HAUNTED PRESENT
AN EXCLUSIVE, UNIQUE AND VERY SPECIAL EVENT
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**THE ONLY TIME THE TEAM WILL BE APPEARING LIVE TOGETHER THIS YEAR OUTSIDE OF THE ‘MOST HAUNTED-LIVE’ SHOWS**
A NIGHT WITH
As seen on ‘Most Haunted LIVE – 8 Faces of Evil‘, October 2009
at
MORECAMBE WINTER GARDENS THEATRE, Lancs
WITH
PHIL WHYMAN
and
The DEAD HAUNTED Team
FOR A TRULY UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT
YVETTE FIELDING
KARL BEATTIE
CATH HOWE
FRED BATT
In what could possibly be YOUR ONLY EVER OPPORTUNITY, you can join the Most Haunted team for a night to remember, at the scene of the 2009 Halloween ‘8 Faces of Evil – LIVE’ event; MORECAMBE WINTER GARDENS THEATRE, in Lancashire.
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Ever since Yvette Fielding and the ‘Most Haunted’ team hit our screens way back in 2002 the show has become a world wide phenomenon, amassing a huge following of paranormal enthusiasts. The show has gone from strength to strength, with more and more people eager to see what Yvette, Karl, Cath and the rest of the team will encounter!
The series has also spawned numerous successful ‘Most Haunted – LIVE’ broadcasts, which have taken followers all over the world in search of the paranormal, where Yvette and the regular team are joined by demonologist Fred Batt and others; Fred Batt is also joining us for this fantastic event.
DONT FORGET, THIS IS NOT JUST A SIT IN THE AUDIENCE EVENT…YOU WILL BE TAKING PART IN EXPERIMENTS AND INVESTIGATING WITH THE MOST HAUNTED TEAM MEMBERS!
Condover Hall is an elegant Grade I listed three story Elizabethan sandstone building, described as the grandest manor house in Shropshire, standing in a conservation area on the outskirts of Condover village, Shropshire, England, four miles south of the county town of Shrewsbury.
A Royal manor in Anglo Saxon times, until the 16th century Condover Manor was in and out of Crown Tenure until, in 1586, Elizabeth I made a grant of the current Manor to Thomas Owen, a Member of Parliament and Recorder of Shrewsbury.
Between August 1942 and June 1945 the hall was commandeered by the War Office and pressed into service as the officers’ mess for nearby RAF Condover.
For the forty years since 1960 the Hall had been run as a residential school, initially for blind children when owned by the RNIB and latterly under private ownership as a school for autistic children, covering boy boarders and coeducational day pupils. The school and college both closed during 2009.
As of April 2010, the site is still on the property market.
Hauntings
“Before heaven I am innocent, though my master’s son swears me guilty. And as I perish an innocent man, may those who follow my murdered lord be cursed.”
These words were spoken by the butler of Condover Hall near Shrewsbury as he met his unjust end. Condemned to death by the testimony of Lord Knyvetts son who had secretly stabbed his father to death and then blamed it on the butler.
Stumbling down the stairs of the basement, Knyvett reached out his bloodied hand leaving an imprint upon the wall that defied any attempts to wash it away. No matter how hard the work, it would simply reappear. Later the hand-print had to finally be chipped out of the brick.
More recently, the sound of footsteps and doors closing have been at night, and a couple dressed in Victorian clothing spotted.
The Dun Cow is one of the oldest public houses in the UK. Built by Roger de Montgomery, First Earl of Shrewsbury circa 1085 as a hostel for the highly skilled masons and master builders bought in to supervise the construction of the St. Peter and St. Paul (later to be known as The Abbey). The Dun Cow was historically a hostelry with its own brewery in 1105 and probably existed before that.
During the late Tudor period The Dun Cow was in need in repair, but by this time the good Shropshire oak which was used in original constuction was at permium. Thus the steward a Mr Dun Fow (an interpretation of whose name later gave the pub its present name) was obliged to purchase spanish oak from Bristol. The oak came from the breakers yard where the Armada galleons routed by Sir Francis Drake had in earlier years been dismantled. The ships timbers were bought to shrewsbury on a sail barge and can now be seen clearly in the walls of the inn.
Prince Rupert chose The Dun Cow as his billet when in Shrewsbury. On one occasion one of the Prince’s stewards a certain Sir Richard was murdered in the inn kitchen by a Dutch army officer. The Netherlander was immediately court marshaled, found guilty and ordered to be hung by the neck until dead. On the scaffold in the stables of The Dun Cow he made a short speech, “it is grossly unfair ” he said ” that I a Dutchman should be executed for killing only one Englishman”.
In 1980 Mrs Hayes, wife of the then land-lord awoke suddenly one night. In the room was a hooded figure, wearing the habit of a monk, though dotted with bright colours. Though the sight of this phantom was chilling enough, the long dead monk was bent over the cot of the land-lady’s infant daughter.
Disturbed, the phantom father disappeared, but later visited the child, now aged two, again. She awoke frightened and screaming at the mysterious man in her room. Mr Hayes, the land-lord also saw the apparition and guests have seen shadowy figures in the night disappearing though walls.
A ghost wearing the uniform of a Dutch cavalry officer of the time has been seen on the permises, the last recorded sighting being as recent as 2003.
The house made famous by the 1970s Amityville Horror film has gone on sale in Long Island, New York, with a price tag of $1.15m (£800,000).
The five-bedroom house at 108 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, gained notoriety through the film based on the story of the Lutz family, who moved in in 1975.
The Lutzes say they soon discovered that the house was haunted.
Several months earlier, six members of another family had been shot and killed as they slept in the house.
The family’s eldest son, Ronald DeFeo Jr, was convicted of the 1974 murders.
A book and a series of films based on the events described by the Lutzes followed.
The high asking price of the house – a Dutch Colonial style home overlooking a canal – is based on renovation work, reports say.
It has had several owners since the 1970s. The address has been changed from the original 112 Ocean Avenue in a effort to keep onlookers away.
Source: BBC News – 25th May 2010
Photograph with the light anomaly was taken on 14th March 2010 at 3am at Old Tatton Hall in a period set of a living room.
Shot with a Nikon SLR f8 on a 30 second exposure. The area was lit by a blue neon torch for the first 5 secs.
The unusual light was not seen with the naked eye.
No other light sources were evident or used during the exposure.
We look forward to your thoughts.
Zoomed in version
A 15-year-old mystery surrounding a photograph which supposedly showed the ghost of a schoolgirl standing in an inferno has been resolved, after a researcher found the image is copied from a postcard.
A street scene postcard from the 1920's taken in Wem, Shropshire by M. Audin-Wood
Amateur photographer Tony O’Rahilly took the snap while photographing a blaze which destroyed Wem Town Hall in Shropshire on November 19, 1995.
After developing his film, Mr O’Rahilly claimed he had captured an image of a young girl wearing old fashioned clothes standing amid the flames staring into the camera lens.
Locals even claimed it was an apparition of 14-year-old Jane Churm who accidentally set fire to the town hall in 1677.
But eagle-eyed Brian Lear, 77, has finally put an end to the mystery after he noticed a striking similarity between the spooky shot and a girl in a postcard which appeared in his local paper.
The postcard, printed in the Shropshire Star’s Pictures from the Past section, shows a street view of Wem in 1922.
A young girl standing in a shop doorway on the left handside of the picture bares an uncanny resemblance to the Wem Ghost.
Mr Lear, a retired engineer and taxi driver, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, said: ”It is interesting to compare the two pictures.
”I was intrigued to find that she bore a striking likeness to the little girl featured as the Wem ghost.
”Her dress and headgear appear to be identical.”
The ‘Wem Ghost’ led to a plaque being placed on the newly built town hall and Wem was briefly renamed ‘Ghost Town’ attracting hundreds of tourists every year.
The Telegraph : 18 May 2010
The Globe Inn Ludlow is reputedly haunted by Edward Dobson, a Tudor soldier garrisoned at Ludlow Castle. He died in a pub brawl circa 1553 and his ghost now appears hovering over the spot where he fell. The apparition is described as wearing a cloak and a wig.
A Birmingham business man staying at the Globe Inn also met a figure on the second story around 2.00am. He wished the figure goodnight. The next day he discovered that no other guests were staying at the Inn and nobody knew who this figure was.