Halloween: Let's share spooky stories....

[Anonymous]

The month of October is the month of Halloween and here in the forum we want to get into the mood by sharing spooky stories...

Have you ever experienced a paranormal activity? let the suspense begin whoooo-ha-ha-ha

[jonsie]

I have a wife who on Sundays goes to see family...next day she knows where I have been, who I spoke to and where I ate...that's spooky 

[Anonymous]

That sure is spooky!  

[Cleoriff]

I have never experienced paranormal activity. Nor would I ever want to

Obviously I have worked in a number of hospitals and there is always a tale of some ghost or another that haunts certain corridors, wards, store rooms etc etc etc. ...never seen by me....Mind you I was never brave enough to decry these tales as rubbish......I felt that would be just a bit too risky

[Cleoriff]

Just for your delectation. A picture taken at an Asylum.....which had been closed for 20 years

[jonsie]

Popular ghostly goings on in Bolton...

Location: Bolton - Smithills Hall (aka Smithells Hall)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 April (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Tried and executed for heresy, Marsh is remembered as his footprint (created when he stamped his foot) in the stone floor turns bloody each April 24. His shade is also reported to haunt the Green Room, where he was interrogated, though that isn't date dependent. A priest is also reported to haunt the vicinity, as is a photogenic grey lady and a cat.

Location: Bolton - Turton Towers
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two skulls are currently stored in the Towers, that when stored in previous places, have been blamed for causing two ghostly men to appear and begin fighting. Poltergeist activity is also attached to the stories, and a woman apparently dressed in mourning costume haunts the staircase of the tower (and possibly an old path outside the tower). The area outside the tower is haunted by a phantom coach.

Location: Bolton - Ye Olde Man and Scythe public house, Churchgate
Type: Other
Date / Time: Late twentieth century (blood story), and 2000s (Geny)
Further Comments: A woman drinking at the public house found her hands covered in blood as she started to leave, though she had no wounds of her own, and no other source for the liquid could be discovered. More recently, the spirit of Geny, an eight year old girl, has be blamed for tugging at skirts, pinching people, and moving items around, while a phantom dog runs around chairs in the museum room.

Location: Bolton - Belmont Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This shade, mistakenly hanged for highway robbery, still has the hangman's noose tied around his neck when he appears. They also say his eyes look as if they're ready to pop out of his head. Another report says that the road is also haunted by a fatal car crash from the mid twentieth century which killed a family - the screech of brakes followed by screams is heard but no accident can be seen.

And my favourite...

Location: Bolton - Albion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978 / 79
Further Comments: The female owner at this hotel felt something grab her bottom as she climbed into the bath. The ghost is also said to play around with the beer pumps.

[jonsie]

This one is fact, my mum and aunt worked there together. ..and saw the ghost together. One of the sightings recorded below was theirs in 1961. No drinking on the job definitely! 

Ghosts in Radcliffe - My home town

 THE BRITISH TELECOM BUILDING IN       
 RAILWAY STREET RADCLIFFE IS BUILT ON  
 THE SITE OF THE FORMER COMMERCIAL     
 HOTEL. THE PUB WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1972,
 AFTER STANDING FOR 123 YEARS.         
 THE ENGINEER IN CHARGE IN 1951 CLAIMED
 THAT HE NOTICED A SUDDEN DROP IN      
 TEMPERATURE AND SAW AN INDISTINCT     
 SHAPE RISE FROM THE FLOOR AND GROW    
 UNTIL IT REACHED THE CEILING WHERE IT 
 DISAPPEARED.                          
 FIVE MORE SIGHTINGS WERE RECORDED UP  
 TO 1972 WHEN TWO SCHOOLBOYS CLAIMED   
 THEY SAW A GREY MIST. IT WAS ONLY     
 AFTERWARDS THAT THEY HEARD ABOUT THE  
 GHOST.                                
 THE MIST WAS REPUTED TO BE THE GHOST  
 OF A LAnDLORD OF THE HOTEL WHO WAS    
 MURDERED.A PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED MAN, 
 THOUGHT TO BE THE LICENCEE,WAS        
 ENGRAVED ON A WINDOW,  WAS SAVED      
 BEFORE DEMOLITION & IS IN THE MUSEUM. 

[Cleoriff]

Location: Bolton - Albion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978 / 79
Further Comments: The female owner at this hotel felt something grab her bottom as she climbed into the bath. The ghost is also said to play around with the beer pumps.

I would say this female owner had been on the pop herself.....

[jonsie]

I reckon she wouldn't have been the only lady to have her bottom felt in that particular pub 

Like so many, it has long since closed down.

[Cleoriff]

Actually I have to say one of the most frightening but best experiences of my life was being in Florida the last week of October. We went to Universal Studios Halloween Experience. It was a total scarefest. It wasn't just inside various attractions......it was out on the streets. I actually refused to go into one attraction with the family and stayed outside....Big Big mistake.....I have an absolute hatred of clowns......I will just leave it there