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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.
Click to expand...
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.
 
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