Ghosts In The News

DrPaulLee

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I'd like to start a thread listing and discussing mentions of ghosts in the press. Last year there was a dearth of such stories even in October when such reports should reach a zenith - though these were mainly the usual "top ten haunted pubs in your home town" - usually repeats from previous years with no new material added
 
Ghosts, along with UFOs and certain murders, used to be standard 'silly season' tabloid stories. This was in summer when there were few domestic political issues to report on.
 
Christmas is the ghost season - I put the papers away last night (sent them back for return) and had a quick browse and couldn't see anything ghostly related at all. Everyone seems too concerned with celebrities these days, there doesn't seem to be space for the speculative ghostly tales any more. Any speculative stuff seems limited to what a 'close friend of the couple' says about the Beckhams or someone.

It's almost as if the general public has lost all imagination.
 
catseye said:
Christmas is the ghost season - I put the papers away last night (sent them back for return) and had a quick browse and couldn't see anything ghostly related at all. Everyone seems too concerned with celebrities these days, there doesn't seem to be space for the speculative ghostly tales any more. Any speculative stuff seems limited to what a 'close friend of the couple' says about the Beckhams or someone.

It's almost as if the general public has lost all imagination.
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Yup, ghosts etc are considered frivolous filler-stories. We have celebrities now, we don't need ghosts.
Shame.
 
DrPaulLee said:
Quite true, but we get a double whammy sometimes when ghosts and celebrities mix, like Richard Hammond's haunted estate which was mentioned in a few internet locations.
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Yup, there have been some cracking ghost/celebrity tie-ins. Jack Dee's haunted house springs to mind. :)
 
Haunted pubs - bah! Here in Dundee, we've got a ghost train due to make an appearance on the 28th of December. But you know how reliable trains are...
A second bridge was built across the Firth of Tay, that ran parallel to the remains of the first bridge. This bridge was opened in 1887 and remains in use today. The stumps of the pillars of the old bridge can still be seen poking eerily out of the water. Some say that it is not only the physical remains that point to the existence of First Tay Bridge. It is said that on the anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster a ghost train can be seen where the track would once have been. Then the sounds of screaming can be heard as the train disappears, plunging its passengers into the cold waters of the River Tay.
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https://www.transceltic.com/blog/ghost-train-crosses-firth-of-tay
 
Bigphoot2 said:
Haunted pubs - bah! Here in Dundee, we've got a ghost train due to make an appearance on the 28th of December. But you know how reliable trains are...

https://www.transceltic.com/blog/ghost-train-crosses-firth-of-tay
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Possibly now a ghostly replacement bus service.

The Tay Bridge disaster also prompted the poem by the worst poet in history William McGonagall

|".....So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time...."

Full text at.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/
 
Tunn11 said:
Possibly now a ghostly replacement bus service.

The Tay Bridge disaster also prompted the poem by the worst poet in history William McGonagall

|".....So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time...."

Full text at.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/
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DrPaulLee said:
One of many spooky tales that has entered the realms of legend ... And one of many that may just be bunk. Has anyone ever seen this train and put their details on the public record?
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Good point. I've seen the odd article in papers and online saying the bridge is haunted but I don't ever recall seeing any eyewitness testimony. The bridge is in a busy area, overlooked by a lot of housing on both sides of the river (one of the selling points for any property in the area) but nobody seems to have seen anything strange.
 
Not in the news but new to me :) Fell back into contact with an old school friend (she was high jump champion!) and the pub her dad used to manage came up - and she said it was definitely haunted. Unfortunately she didn't give details and I've now pressed as much as I can at the moment... Cross Keys at Esh in County Durham.
 
Kondoru said:
I dont know about ghosts but there were allegedly a lot of prophetic dreams before the Tay Bridge Disaster.
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There's a story that's been passed down in my family about how my great grandmother who was about 14 at the time, was visiting relatives and was about to get on that train when she had a panic attack and refused to get on it.
 
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