Most Haunted Places In Your Home Town

Paul_Exeter said:
A figure on horseback has been observed in the distance, holding a shield and sword.
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Could that be someone practicing for a Ren Fair or a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism?
catseye said:
*I realise that this is not a representative sample of the male population - just that section willing to get in a car with me.
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Does this mean you insist on driving? And that . . . how to put it . . . it might be inadvisable to be a car driven by you . . . ? :wink2:
 
IbisNibs said:
Could that be someone practicing for a Ren Fair or a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism?
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Renaissance Fairs aren't really a thing over here though. Not like in the States where everyone seems to dress in a 'fairytale' interpretation of historical costume. Here it's more re-enactment societies, and they wouldn't be out in full costume, although they might go out to exercise the horse and 'practice' they wouldn't need the shield and sword for that.

But does anyone know at what date a sword AND shield became a 'thing'? I started to wonder because riding whilst holding a shield and wielding a sword is going to be tricky and might need some degree of practice
 
It's always been a thing! :)
Think of Roman cavalry units, the Celtic tribes, etc.
The point (ahem) is that the shield arm controls the horse, along with the riders knees, while the sword - usually long or curved - does the business with the opponent, be they on foot or also on horseback.
In general, if you could afford a horse and a sword or spear then that is what you were trained to do from an early age.
 
MorningAngel said:
I’m not sure how a building built in 1703 has a cavalier.
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It seems confused. Would there have still been cavaliers then? The link refers to "a cavalier whose known by the scent of cigar smoke" which is quite an achievement when cigars were only introduced in Britain in the early 1800s. Maybe it's pipe smoke.
 
Erinaceus said:
It seems confused. Would there have still been cavaliers then? The link refers to "a cavalier whose known by the scent of cigar smoke" which is quite an achievement when cigars were only introduced in Britain in the early 1800s. Maybe it's pipe smoke.
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It could just be someone in fancy clothes that’s been labelled a cavalier. Pipe smoke would make more sense.
 
skinny said:
What are the most haunted areas of your village?

There are three I know of in Adelaide.

1. The Goodwood Orphanage, which I stayed in on a school trip in 1982. One of the teachers threw up a cardboard cutout of a figure in the arch of the belltower with a lamp behind it after dark and shreiked himself to ecstacy for our benefit. Anyway, it's purported to be haunted by the souls of the dear departed parentless of yore.
2. Greenhill Rd / Hallet Rd Intersection - a recent urban myth of the haunted walkway between the houses at night
3. The old Adelaide Gaol - scene of the last hanging in Australia ~ a woman (Elizabeth Woolcock) was one of the last.

Here's a video with apt spooky toons.
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My home town is very haunted. I'm surrounded by haunted locations where I live.
 
Erinaceus said:
It seems confused. Would there have still been cavaliers then? The link refers to "a cavalier whose known by the scent of cigar smoke" which is quite an achievement when cigars were only introduced in Britain in the early 1800s. Maybe it's pipe smoke.
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Time-travelling Cavalier?

"Cigars in England can be traced back to 1814, when officers returned from the Peninsular War with cigars gifted by their fellow Spanish officers. The officer's messes and gentleman's clubs of London (image of the Reform Club smoking room) started to seek out fine examples of the smoke, made with tobacco from Cuba."

https://www.simplycigars.co.uk/guide/history-tobacco-london-1877/#:~:text=Cigars in England can be,made with tobacco from Cuba.

"The Most Haunted team encountered a crying spirit thought to be the daughter..."

:comphit::headbang::chain:
 
skinny said:
What are the most haunted areas of your village?

There are three I know of in Adelaide.

1. The Goodwood Orphanage, which I stayed in on a school trip in 1982. One of the teachers threw up a cardboard cutout of a figure in the arch of the belltower with a lamp behind it after dark and shreiked himself to ecstacy for our benefit. Anyway, it's purported to be haunted by the souls of the dear departed parentless of yore.
2. Greenhill Rd / Hallet Rd Intersection - a recent urban myth of the haunted walkway between the houses at night
3. The old Adelaide Gaol - scene of the last hanging in Australia ~ a woman (Elizabeth Woolcock) was one of the last.

Here's a video with apt spooky toons.
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An apartment building near my place is haunted by a nurse from the 1930's. She often steals stuff from the people, and later returns them in different places. She also tickles people's feet when they are trying to sleep.
 
Many people from haunted locations claim that their belongings suddenly do missing. No matter what they can't find things, like their keys. Than all of a sudden there right there were they thought they had left them. I wonder if this phenomena could be related to a poltergeist pattern, where some scientists believe a child coming to age is responsible; unleashing psychic energies.
 
I used to belong to a football forum years ago and, on there, a bloke who was infamous for wind-ups posted about a serial killer who was notorious in his area. This was an elderly lady who stabbed people and then buried them in her extensive and barren back yard. He even drew, and posted, a kind of map of the yard with ragged crosses all over it(!!!) Nobody knew for certain if she was alive or dead but 'but she or her ghost still lingers in the dusty yard' *shivers* It was a very creepy tale, well told, and I was terrified long after everyone else had posted laughing smilies because he'd named her as 'Bloody Nora'. Doh.
 
I've just been thinking back to my growing up and general youth in Exeter. I don't remember any ghostly stories about the place (apart from the quite obviously invented ones that generally go round, haunted school, any 'creepy looking house' etc). I've read up on the Paranormal Database and don't recognise any of the stories on there (many of which seem more in the nature of folk tales than ghost stories) as being circulated among the young. You would have thought that the 'giant bat creature' would have had a good deal more publicity with young teenagers!

Dartmoor was well known for its ghosts (Hairy Hands et al) and Berry Pomeroy, but for a historic city Exeter seems sadly lacking in its old 'famous' ghost stories. I wonder if the Blitz which flattened much of the centre portion of the city accounted for them all? And, given that there was a large number of civilian casualties, why there are no stories of wartime ghosts?

@Paul_Exeter - any ideas? I've not been back for a while, so maybe the whole Ghost Tour thing has taken off down there since I've been away.
 
catseye said:
I've not been back for a while, so maybe the whole Ghost Tour thing has taken off down there since I've been away.
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There is a Ghost Walk that runs in the summer. I think it may have been curtailed by the fire on the Cathedral Green as at least one of the places (I'm told) was a well in the basement - is that in the pub or the art shop?
 
bugmum said:
There is a Ghost Walk that runs in the summer. I think it may have been curtailed by the fire on the Cathedral Green as at least one of the places (I'm told) was a well in the basement - is that in the pub or the art shop?
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Was that the Royal Clarence? Or has there been another fire? I know that the Clarence was supposed to have a ghost, but I don't remember stories being told about it, just a vague 'oh, it's haunted'. But then it was an old building that survived the Blitz so it was bound to be.
 
catseye said:
Was that the Royal Clarence? Or has there been another fire? I know that the Clarence was supposed to have a ghost, but I don't remember stories being told about it, just a vague 'oh, it's haunted'. But then it was an old building that survived the Blitz so it was bound to be.
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Still the devastation caused by the Royal Clarence fire. There's been so much disagreement about what to do with the shell that's left, the Green is still partly fenced off. Latest iteration of the plan has the building turned into flats and sone retail units.
 
It being a bank holiday weekend and the weather better than forecast, I did about 10 miles (there and back) up my local canal towpath yesterday; most of which is fairly closed in either side by deep countryside.

As I walked, I pondered what - if any - ghost stories may prevail once the sun set and so Googled when I got home. Absolutely delighted with what I found, particularly the latter - a phantom lantern is very much my speed.

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NomDeGuerre said:
It being a bank holiday weekend and the weather better than forecast, I did about 10 miles (there and back) up my local canal towpath yesterday; most of which is fairly closed in either side by deep countryside.

As I walked, I pondered what - if any - ghost stories may prevail once the sun set and so Googled when I got home. Absolutely delighted with what I found, particularly the latter - a phantom lantern is very much my speed.

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NomDeGuerre said:
It being a bank holiday weekend and the weather better than forecast, I did about 10 miles (there and back) up my local canal towpath yesterday; most of which is fairly closed in either side by deep countryside.

As I walked, I pondered what - if any - ghost stories may prevail once the sun set and so Googled when I got home. Absolutely delighted with what I found, particularly the latter - a phantom lantern is very much my speed.

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Cool. Is that the Atherstone not far from Tamworth?.
 
There have been numerous sightings of the ghost of a murdered policeman over the years not far from where I live. A place called Weatheroak, on the outskirts of Birmingham.

On 28th of February 1885, P.C Davies was on duty on Icknield street, an old Roman road, and was murdered in the early hours by a poacher. He was found with slash marks from a knife across his face and a severed windpipe.

The police caught the murderer, Moses Shrimpton, who was executed by the infamous hangman James Berry at Worcester Gaol. Unfortunately he bungled the calculations and accidently decapitated Shrimpton.

Some more information about it here: https://ghostsofredditch.weebly.com/pc-davies.html
 
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