Stafford ghost stories

Nicholas

A few posts under my belt
I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't really have any ghost stories to relate here - despite having run a paranormal research group for just over 20 years now!! :lol:

I did have a knife thrown (seemingly) at my head during an investigation at a shop a couple of years ago - but I honestly think this was more to do with one of the shop assistants at the place, rather than anything ghostly!! :lol: Of course, they pretended that they had nothing to do with the activity concerned!! I saw a lot of stuff flying around that shop - screwdrivers, rugby boots, light bulbs getting smashed, etc - but was never convinced!!

With regards to ghost sightings, I always seem to be just facing the wrong direction!! :lol: I've been present at many occasions where people have seen or experienced something, but I never really share in that experience! Grrrrrrr!!!

Regards,

Nick
 

djstaffs

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Whilst we are on the paranormal theme, what do poeple make of smelling cigarette smoke? Although we live on a busy road with a local hositilary only few doors down where smokers congragate outside, we never have cigarette smoke blowing in. Yet not long after my dad died on several occassions and by not just us, we have smelt cigarette smoke (my Dad had been a smoker). It wasnt confined to just one room and usually not the front rooms where you could expect smoke to be blown in.
 

Nicholas

A few posts under my belt
djstaffs said:
Whilst we are on the paranormal theme, what do poeple make of smelling cigarette smoke? Although we live on a busy road with a local hositilary only few doors down where smokers congragate outside, we never have cigarette smoke blowing in. Yet not long after my dad died on several occassions and by not just us, we have smelt cigarette smoke (my Dad had been a smoker). It wasnt confined to just one room and usually not the front rooms where you could expect smoke to be blown in.
My Grandfather died of smoking related cancer..... He was one of those 60 a day Woodbines blokes, unfortunately. In the years after his death, me and my grandmother would sometimes smell cigarette smoke around the house (never see it though!?) and my Gran would always say it was Grandad coming back to let us know he was still here, etc.

I must admit that I always found this to be a most ironic way of letting people know that 'you were still okay' (as they tend to say) being that smoking was the cause of his death!! Laugh!! Still, there was no one in the house who smoked, no one in the adjoining houses, etc, so it was a bit weird, under the circumstances!?

Regards,

Nick
 

djstaffs

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lol yes i agree with bit ironic saying i'm ok with smoke signals. Just to put a little more to that storey, the smoke started a little after he died (which was 2 days before christmas) and stopped after we took his ashes to be buried with my grandparents (in March). That was funny enough, but a few months afetr i visited my sister and eventually the conversation got round to Dad. Without me saying anything to her she volunteered she had had the same smoke thing which started about the same time and finished the same time.
 

Nicholas

A few posts under my belt
djstaffs said:
lol yes i agree with bit ironic saying i'm ok with smoke signals. Just to put a little more to that storey, the smoke started a little after he died (which was 2 days before christmas) and stopped after we took his ashes to be buried with my grandparents (in March). That was funny enough, but a few months afetr i visited my sister and eventually the conversation got round to Dad. Without me saying anything to her she volunteered she had had the same smoke thing which started about the same time and finished the same time.
That's really specific with regards to the times these things happened DjStaffs! It would be really hard not to associate such happenings with your Dad, given such circumstances..... Certainly food for thought!?

Regards,

Nick
 

djstaffs

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Yep coupled with the other things too like my wifes glasses going missing the day after he died (never to be found even though whole house has been redecrated and every piece of furniture replaced-glasses were a significant part our our dealings with my Dad) and the clock pendulum that constanly fell off for those 3 months.

Some things you can explain, maybe not easily, but eventually. But this is a complete mystery to me, but if anyone has an explanation...go for it.
 

Nicholas

A few posts under my belt
No idea as to explanations DJStaffs...... This sort of thing is the most commonly reported type of situation that we have to respond to, to be honest.... but it's also the hardest matter to address, if I'm honest!! People reporting allegedly haunted houses / properties to us is one thing, but when the professed phenomenon is something personal to the person concerned, it does take a lot of tact at times. A few years ago, I was contacted by a woman who said that her recently deceased teenage daughter had apparently been causing phenomenon around her home, for example.....

Regards,

Nick
 

grumpy1974

A few posts under my belt
i have a healthy obsession with the afterlife, was wondering if anybody had any talesof ghosts ? fromyour own homesorbuildings around stafford x



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Thehooperman

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The Ancient High House is supposed to be haunted by somebody called George Borrow.

There's an old Pathe News link from the 60s about a group of students trying to predict the football pools there.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=71205
 

Theorum

Old Skool Vet
I'm not a believer but there were some very strange things that used to happen in my last place of residents.

The missus is convinced they exist, I never let her know what I was thinking she would never have got to sleep and that would of meant badness for me.

I think there is always an explanation but its never always obvious, I don't mean to be a sceptic so happy hunting!!!
 

Miss Red

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I used to go (with others not by myself lol) ghost spotting, all over the uk.
In Stafford i know the bowling alley (the lazer zone bit upstairs) supposed to be haunted by a young girl who hung herself. They shut it down for ages, and its only recently opened again, because staff refused to work up there, as some has saw the girl hanging.

The pub by the market - used by queen lizzy 1st, is also supposed to be haunted. When i first moved to stafford 7 yrs ago, i needed the loo while in town with my daughter. She said use the one in the pub.
There is definately an atmospher in the ladies loos (of the spooky kind loL)
Dont know the story around the pub or what happed tho.

Opposite the gaol gates was where they used to hang people in the old days - that supposed to be haunted.

One of the road leading into eccleshall village (the one from cresswell island) theres supposed to be a headless man on horse and soldiers walking along the road.

The most scary places i have been (with camera) is Bodmin Gaol in Cornwall - The ancient Ram Inn in stroud (most disturbing) and The Gladstone Pottery museam in Stoke

Only place strange things got caught on camera was Ram Inn (every photo taken inside came out double exposure) and the Gladstone Pottery museam ( light caught on video).

Im hoping to pluck up the courage to go to pendle hill in the spring.
I did give it up last year - on someones advice - but still have an urge to go occaisionally
 

Floss

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The Shrewsbury arms has a bit of history to it. I remember when I worked there several years ago, I was waiting to lock up one night and waiting for the last customer to finish his drink, when we were chatting and something caught both of our attention in the lounge area at the far end if the room. We both looked at each other and I said "did you" but before I could finish he said "yeah I did but I ain't looking again!" we saw a woman in a long White gown stride across the room. Following on from this I did a bit of research at the William salt library and discovered the lounge part of the shrew was once a funeral parlour and according to one long time elderly customer, the story goes years ago they use to sell bodies for medical research and one particular funeral director had sold a body of a young lady, only to discover in prepping her she wasn't actually dead and woke up, so he stabbed her to ensure the sale of the body that had already been agreed! mind you the customer in question liked a few scoops so he probably dreamt the whole funeral director story up!
 

Gadget

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We are frequently visited by the lady who died in our house. She likes to lurk in doorways and twiddle the thermostat. A time or two we've had to have words when she's unnerved the cats and dog. We can usually tell when she's about as we get a really strong smell of cigarette smoke. We know she was a heavy smoker as our walls are still nigh on undecoratable due to the nicotine coating the walls. Non of us smoke by the way.
g x
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Daft as it sounds,we have a ghost cat. When our big cat was alive I used have Puss by my right leg and the ghost 1 by my left. It never bothered any of the cats,they seemed to accept it. I first noticed it well before I got Puss,felt sumat land on the end of me bed 1 night,turned on the light couldn't see anything there,but could feel the pressure of it on the bed. There's also a bloke in my room, (I bloody wish!!) wears hob nail boots,walks across the floor every morning arounbd 5.30am,stands by the window for a few minutes,then walks away. Frit me to death first couple of times I head him,but i've got used to him now.
 

Withnail

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Abandon sense all Ye who enter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jghJ7RCP6i4&feature=related

One of five. :mystery: (as in, it is a mystery that so many could be so ridiculous)

But i am no Cowell.

P.S. If thou requirest tales of a ghostly nature, Bruce Braithwaite is very much your man - not just of the High House, but Stafford and it's surrounds - Bruce is yer factotum. If you can find him - :strange:
 
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