Tyne Tees Late-Night Ghost Debate

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In the last year of primary school (September 82 - July 83) I watched a late night discussion programme in the Tyne Tees region about ghosts. I wish I could remember more details but this is what I recall:

The show has an audio recording of a ghost banging. Bloody weird sound. At school a few of us who'd seen it thought it sounded like a door banging but it was so rapid we couldn't replicate it.

The other thing I recall was that a ghost "wore" a yellow dishwasher glove. To try and ward off the ghost one on the occupants of the house started singing "onward Christian soldiers" but the ghostly glove just started beating time to the song as if it was conducting.
Then someone in the house threatened the ghost (probably swearing at it) and the glove became a fist!

Hopefully someone can add more to this.
 
DrPaulLee said:
In the last year of primary school (September 82 - July 83) I watched a late night discussion programme in the Tyne Tees region about ghosts. I wish I could remember more details but this is what I recall:

The show has an audio recording of a ghost banging. Bloody weird sound. At school a few of us who'd seen it thought it sounded like a door banging but it was so rapid we couldn't replicate it.

The other thing I recall was that a ghost "wore" a yellow dishwasher glove. To try and ward off the ghost one on the occupants of the house started singing "onward Christian soldiers" but the ghostly glove just started beating time to the song as if it was conducting.
Then someone in the house threatened the ghost (probably swearing at it) and the glove became a fist!

Hopefully someone can add more to this.
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Love to see that and Tyne Tees is my region.
 
Seeing as it is late at night, I am most disappointed that this thread isn't a debate on the veracity of ghosts. For what it's worth, I'm in the 'nay' column but always willing to have that view challenged.

I wasn't in the Tyne Tees region, but still that description is ringing bells. The knocking, the 'debate', but not the yellow glove- which I would have thought I would have remembered. At that time I would have been an impressionable twelve year old however, so it is entirely possible I would have become absolutely terrified and turned the TV over/off, and so missed the later stages.
 
The only publication we got was The Northern Echo. I'm scratching my head as to how I heard about it - either in the paper, a mention earlier on in the evening or by channel hopping.
I'm struggling to think that it was on Friday night, in the spring or summer months.
 
Steev(still) said:
I wasn't in the Tyne Tees region, but still that description is ringing bells. The knocking, the 'debate', but not the yellow glove- which I would have thought I would have remembered. At that time I would have been an impressionable twelve year old however, so it is entirely possible I would have become absolutely terrified and turned the TV over/off, and so missed the later stages.
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I would have been 10 or 11.
I can still see bits in my mind's eye.
 
DrPaulLee said:
The other thing I recall was that a ghost "wore" a yellow dishwasher glove. To try and ward off the ghost one on the occupants of the house started singing "onward Christian soldiers" but the ghostly glove just started beating time to the song as if it was conducting.
Then someone in the house threatened the ghost (probably swearing at it) and the glove became a fist!

Hopefully someone can add more to this.
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The Black Monk of Pontefract case?
The strangest event was when their religious Aunt Maude came to stay. She lost her fur gloves, only to be woken by disembodied ghostly hands wearing them! As she sang "Onward Christian Soldiers" to scare them off – the hands apparently conducted her.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QSzJ4WKvSDWHzfPHmBwKwK/britains-strangest-hauntings
 
DrPaulLee said:
In the last year of primary school (September 82 - July 83) I watched a late night discussion programme in the Tyne Tees region about ghosts. I wish I could remember more details but this is what I recall:

The show has an audio recording of a ghost banging. Bloody weird sound. At school a few of us who'd seen it thought it sounded like a door banging but it was so rapid we couldn't replicate it.

The other thing I recall was that a ghost "wore" a yellow dishwasher glove. To try and ward off the ghost one on the occupants of the house started singing "onward Christian soldiers" but the ghostly glove just started beating time to the song as if it was conducting.
Then someone in the house threatened the ghost (probably swearing at it) and the glove became a fist!

Hopefully someone can add more to this.
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Please listen to an audio file I've uploaded on my facebook page Paul. This was recorded at Hainford Hall in Norfolk, I was there when the recording was being made so experienced it for myself. Jason Gotts who took me had already admitted he was scared of going back there because both times before, they'd heard extremely loud banging noises on different levels of the building. I know for a fact it wasn't one of us there that night because everyone was accounted for and having a jovial chat in the reception area next to the sealed off large wooden front door. The door handle also violently rattled a couple of seconds after the almighty bang. You'll hear my saying "This is what we're here for!" .. we were retreating up the stairs at the time then you can hear a second bang that was from upstairs. This premises is known for two loud bangs happening.

A bit of research after I got back home led me to an urban ex forum where someone states that it's some local lads that do it to scare urban explorers and paranormal teams away but the bang I heard was sub base in substance. You could 'feel' it. It even set off our rem pods off that were metres away. I pm'd Yithian earlier to ask him how I can cut and paste it to here but we don't know how to do that to this forum. When you listen to it Paul, you'll even hear distortion when the bang happens which hit the outside of the front door. The front door was/is fenced off so nobody could have taken a running charge at it. I tried to replicate the sound afterward without success.

If you know anyone who can help me to post the audio file here, I'd be very grateful. It's by far the loudest weird thing I've ever heard on an investigation.
 
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If you scroll down on my FB page to a post made by Jason Gotts (Norfolks Forgotten History 13 November 2024), that's me holding an 80's hand held TV set. Because all TV transmissions are digital instead these days, we use the hand held to try to capture white noise images without the risk that any external TV broadcasts can be received on it these days.

This is the exact spot on the same night that the 5 of us were standing in when the bang/bangs happened later on that night. We were gutted just afterwards because we'd stopped recording by then. It wasn't until I got home and woke up the next morning that Jason Gotts sent me an excited message telling me that he'd forgotten that he'd left his phone still recording on a mantlepiece in this room so we had captured the seismic sounds after all!. Impossible to miss when we were there because it shook the room and set off our rem pods positioned on the stairs.
 
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Swifty said:
If you know anyone who can help me to post the audio file here, I'd be very grateful. It's by far the loudest weird thing I've ever heard on an investigation.
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post it elsewhere and link? If you have FB?

Have you tried just attaching the file? Rather than posting it in thread?
 
Tyne Tees Television Centre had it's own ghost apparently;


Peter, who apparently took his own life by hanging himself from a meat hook and remained in the building as a spirit during its transformation into the Tyne Tees base. There are even claims that Peter swings in to spook people still hanging from the hook that he used to commit suicide in the scene dock area, which is towards the back of the building. People have since remarked that certain parts of the building retain a distinctly spectral feeling, as though there is an unseen and undetectable presence watching them in the room.
https://whatculture.com/offbeat/10-...s-that-happened-in-newcastle-upon-tyne?page=5
 
DrPaulLee said:
The other thing I recall was that a ghost "wore" a yellow dishwasher glove. To try and ward off the ghost one on the occupants of the house started singing "onward Christian soldiers" but the ghostly glove just started beating time to the song as if it was conducting.
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The conducting gloves was also attributed to the Black Monk of Pontefract. Only in this case it was a pair of furry gloves belonging to Aunt Maude.

“She lost her fur gloves, only to be woken by disembodied ghostly hands wearing them! As she sang "Onward Christian Soldiers" to scare them off – the hands apparently conducted her.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QSzJ4WKvSDWHzfPHmBwKwK/britains-strangest-hauntings
 
Frideswide said:
post it elsewhere and link? If you have FB?

Have you tried just attaching the file? Rather than posting it in thread?
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I have FB but it's a TicTok link so I'm not sure how to go about doing that.
 
Thanks to Gordon and hopefully I can now post this from him as a working audio file. Jason Gotts has just told me he's got a similar recording from the same location from an earlier date that he made so fingers crossed I can provide that one here as well at a later date. He's told me that the previous time he was there, they were downstairs at Hainford Hall and a very loud bang came from upstairs instead. We've discussed if it might be locals throwing a brick at some sheet metal somewhere but we couldn't locate any sheet metal.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=916873493710506

(Recorded and written by Jason Gotts of Norfolk's Forgotten History)
 
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