On Sunday 12th September 2010 Paranormal United are proud to welcome back to Bridgnorth renowned paranormal investigator Phil Whyman from Living TV’s Scream Team, Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live. Phil and members of his Dead Haunted Nights Team will lead 24 members of the public through an overnight paranormal investigation of the Woodberry Down, Bridgnorth.
There have many disturbances and strange activity reported at Woodberry over the years, particularly recently as the refurbishment has been ongoing. So they hope for a very interesting night.
Phil last visited Bridgnorth in 2008 when he ran a paranormal investigation of ‘The Theatre On The Steps’ as the finale to the Bridgnorth Music Festival. Phil has most recently been involved with the ‘The Great Unexplained Debate’ – alongside Karl Beattie, Most Haunted Live at Morecambe Winter Gardens and runs Dead Haunted Nights taking the public on Paranormal Investigations in some of the most haunted locations in the UK.
Tickets are available to take part in this event via the Woodberry Down Website but there are very limited numbers available and with the chance to take part in the investigation with such a renowned paranormal investigator they are expected to sell out very quickly.
A mysterious moving pint glass has been captured on CCTV at the New Inn in Gloucester, which has a reputation for hauntings.
A catalogue of unexplained activity at a Gloucester pub has prompted the Gloucester Active Paranormal Society to investigate.
It’s claimed that a series of unexplained happenings have occurred at The New Inn in the space of a week, including the sound of ghostly footsteps, rattling doors and even a pint of beer mysteriously lifting itself off a table and on to the floor.
The building in Northgate Street is a bar and hotel, and dates back to the 14th Century.
It was originally built to house pilgrims visiting the shrine of King Edward II at nearby Gloucester Cathedral, and is described as having the finest example of a medieval gallery in Britain.
Lyn Cinderey from the Gloucester Active Paranormal Society (GAPS) was in the bar at the time of the ‘moving pint’ incident, taking part in a pub quiz.
“The quiz night was absolutely amazing,” she said.
“There were a few people in the bar, and four people saw this glass – a full pint – just lift up and fall on the floor. The glass didn’t even break.
“The rest of us looked around and heard the thud. We just couldn’t believe it. It was right there in the middle of the quiz.
“I’ve been investigating this [reputedly haunted] building for a long time and I’ve never known it so active.
“Activity has risen since 1 February when new managers, Mark and Samantha, arrived. Their daughter has been talking to a young girl – there is reputedly a young spirit girl there.”
Lyn claims other strange happenings have happened recently.
“One of the bar staff has heard footsteps in the cellar when he’s been clearing up with nobody else there, and staff have also heard the exit door rattle in the restaurant.
“Another of the bar staff claims that when he’s been clearing up he’s felt a cold spot and he’s been chilled all over. It’s absolutely fantastic,” said Lyn.
On another occasion the pub managers’ pet has even been spooked.
“Samantha’s dog was eating his food in his bowl the other night and the bowl just turned itself over.
“The dog ran over to the other side of the room and just stared at his bowl and wouldn’t go near it the rest of the night.
“My friend also stayed there and she was watching TV when it suddenly went off.
“She went to look and the plug was half way out of the socket and yet it was firmly in before.”
There have also been reports of keys going missing.
Lyn Cinderey is now planning to do an overnight investigation, with a team of people from GAPS.
They will carry out temperature readings, use dictaphones to do EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) recordings, record anything that might be there with camcorders, and take pictures.
“We’ll hopefully get to the bottom of what exactly is going on,” said Lyn.
The first teaser trailer for the sequel to last October’s surprise low-budget blockbuster, Paranormal Activity, was released at screenings of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Shot in a similar style, this footage features the same security camera footage catching spooky images when no one is looking.
The budget is bigger this go-round since the original film, which cost only $15,000 to make, earned $193 million worldwide.
The storyline for the follow-up remains a secret and this eerie one-minute trailer gives no specific information about the plot of this supernatural tale. It shows objects moving on their own, a vanishing babe, and flying body. Apparently actors who originally played the haunted couple, Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, will return.
Complaints that the Paranormal Activity 2 trailer is too scary for young kids prompted the Cinemark theater chain in Texas to pull it, according to trade publication Variety. Some have suggested there are hidden voices and imagery. No doubt, this has increased views of the trailer online.
Supposedly tremendous word-of-mouth on the internet triggered the campaign, demanding that the first Paranormal Activity open in cities throughout the US, when it was originally scheduled for a select release.
The sequel hits North American theaters on October 22, 2010.
Could this be evidence of ghosts in a Shropshire castle?
Video journalist James Shaw spent an evening at Whittington Castle, near Oswestry, with ghosthunting group Dead Haunted Nights, run by Phil Whyman, from Living TV’s Most Haunted.
And he found evidence that ghosts may – or may not – exist.
One of the most compelling pieces of footage is a light that travels across a landing and appears to disappear into a wall.
The shape appears to change as it moves across the screen and was only discovered when the tape was being reviewed.
The group also heard stone-throwing noises as it attempted to contact spirits near an old dungeon.
So could our video reveal more about the existence of ghosts or has the light really been playing tricks?
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.
Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments.
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.
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.
