Most Haunted Places In Your Home Town

Ronnie Jersey said:
We used to have endless antique stores in our area, I could disappear in there for days, now they're all gone. The last one just closed during the virus, along with all the great bookstores.
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The problem with the antique trade these days is that there are so few collectors. Mostly, they survive by trading among themselves.
Once the collectors stopped visiting, the trades between dealers dried up.
 
Mythopoeika said:
The problem with the antique trade these days is that there are so few collectors. Mostly, they survive by trading among themselves.
Once the collectors stopped visiting, the trades between dealers dried up.
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True, and it shows how my area has completely changed. I purchased all our furniture in these old stores, lamps, everything. Now I have to look online.
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
We used to have endless antique stores in our area, I could disappear in there for days, now they're all gone. The last one just closed during the virus, along with all the great bookstores.
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We had about 6 Antiques Shops in my sort of Village/Town in the 1980s and Early 90's but wonder if it was the popularity of BBC shows of The Antiques Roadshow and Lovejoy.
Now it's just sadly Coffee places and Hipster Bar/Foodies.
 
Sabresonic said:
We had about 6 Antiques Shops in my sort of Village/Town in the 1980s and Early 90's but wonder if it was the popularity of BBC shows of The Antiques Roadshow and Lovejoy.
Now it's just sadly Coffee places and Hipster Bar/Foodies.
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We had them for as long as I can remember. Now they're dollar stores, or just standing empty. My favorite one, which is the last one to close, was a 'cleanout' business with the most beautiful jacobean, etc. furniture, lamps and just everything.
 
Our pier's supposed to be famously haunted. I've never seen anything spooky on the pier itself but one night this summer, I was waiting for a friend and saw a figure walking down the slope to the promenade. I stood up expecting it to be my friend, it disappeared behind a sign that blocked my view then didn't re appear on the other side. I was walking towards the entrance to the pier and didn't take my eyes off the figure. There was no time or room for it to have been a person doubling back or hiding anywhere. It was a clear dry night so visibility was good.

As well as the end of the pier theatre supposedly being haunted, people have reported seeing figures walking on the pier then investigated to find no one there.
 
Sabresonic said:
We had about 6 Antiques Shops in my sort of Village/Town in the 1980s and Early 90's but wonder if it was the popularity of BBC shows of The Antiques Roadshow and Lovejoy.
Now it's just sadly Coffee places and Hipster Bar/Foodies.
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I think the popularity of Antiques Roadshow and similar programmes meant that people got their antiques properly valued and became more aware of historic value. This meant that real antiques went to expensive auction houses, and the 'previously known as antiques' shops went further and further down the house-clearance/junk line.

There is, apparently, a TV programme about the auction house across the road from where I work. I've never seen it.
 
Also on Antiques Roadshow you do get the odd time when the owner of the item says they were told by an antiques dealer that it wasn't worth much - only to find that the show's expert values it highly. Perhaps potential antique shop customers are put off by that kind of thing....
 
dannycheveaux1 said:
Also on Antiques Roadshow you do get the odd time when the owner of the item says they were told by an antiques dealer that it wasn't worth much - only to find that the show's expert values it highly. Perhaps potential antique shop customers are put off by that kind of thing....
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Not these three though.....
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Back to Windwhistle Hill, here's the write up by BUFORA (there's a name I haven't heard for a while) that was the source for the newspaper article:

https://bufora.org.uk/Strange-Places:-Windwhistle-Hill.php

It strikes me that the second 'experience' of the two featured in the case is very much the sort of thing that in another context would be interpreted as a 'road ghost', rather than something UFO-related.
 
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