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It was another hot one today. Hot hair dryer stuff again. I did all the usual stuff and chatted with Bruce again when he came out of his air conditioned comfort.
MORE GHOSTS - STORY 9
In the mid 90's I spent a night, along with about four others, in Chingle Hall to raise money for charity. Chingle Hall is supposedly one of the most haunted houses in England. It is a small moated manor house and dates back to around 1300. It was winter and it was cold and we arrived after dark. The building looked very creepy and had an old fashioned light hanging above the door. We were shown around and told the history of the house and later on we were left to our own devices all night to ghost hunt. Chingle Hall has been at the centre of several alleged episodes of paranormal activity. Inside the Chapel there are a number of wooden beams going across the ceiling. Some of these beams have strange symbols on them, possibly relics of earlier use elsewhere. When samples of the wood were scientifically examined,they were found to have a high salt content, and to be much older than the house indicating that perhaps they were ship's timbers being recycled. It was reported that, during the 1970s one of the beams covering a section of the wall in the chapel spontaneously caught fire, and, just as quickly as it had started, inexplicably extinguished itself. (There is no evidence of this to be found today.) Among other phenomena, there is supposedly a pot-rearranging poltergeist in the kitchen, and visions of monks in the hallway and on the stairs. One of the rooms alleged to be most haunted is thought to have belonged to Eleanor Singleton, who died at the age of 18. On Christmas Day 1980, two ghost hunters spent time at the Hall in a vigil and recorded rapping sounds emanating from one of the priest's hiding holes. At the time of the knocking noises they recorded a significant decrease in temperature and saw an 'indefinable shape' move across the floor. In 1985, sounds of bricks being moved were recorded by a visitor in the priest's room, which seemed to originate in the priest's hiding hole. He peered within and saw part of a human hand moving one of the bricks. As he watched, the hand stopped moving and disappeared. This witness later managed to capture the sounds of footsteps on tape and a shadowy form on film. Later bricks were found scattered on the floor of the chapel on the ground floor. A team from the Northern Anomalies Research Organisation investigated Chingle Hall. During the visit one member of the group managed to capture two photographs of orange lights which appeared on and near the oak-beamed ceiling. The investigator did not see these lights but rather small white flickering lights which prompted the photographs to be taken in the Chapel Room whilst standing in the dark by himself. Notably, the taking of the photographs and the light were witnessed by a several people in the house. When tape recorders were used in an investigation, sounds were heard and recorded within the priest's room but nothing was heard or recorded on the cassette in the passageway outside. We experienced nothing paranormal whatsoever! If anything the building felt warm and friendly. We had a vigil downstairs and explored the upstairs rooms but nothing at all occurred. By an hour before dawn we were getting fed up and extremely tired. One of the lads went upstairs and fell asleep on the floor in Eleanor's room. We heard him snoring from below. We just couldn't help ourselves. We got directly underneath where he was and tapped on the ceiling. We heard him get up and move downstairs very quickly. He had **** himself. The rest of us were in hysterics!!!
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Being surrounded by so called 'normal people' has me very very nervous.
MORE GHOSTS - STORY 9
In the mid 90's I spent a night, along with about four others, in Chingle Hall to raise money for charity. Chingle Hall is supposedly one of the most haunted houses in England. It is a small moated manor house and dates back to around 1300. It was winter and it was cold and we arrived after dark. The building looked very creepy and had an old fashioned light hanging above the door. We were shown around and told the history of the house and later on we were left to our own devices all night to ghost hunt. Chingle Hall has been at the centre of several alleged episodes of paranormal activity. Inside the Chapel there are a number of wooden beams going across the ceiling. Some of these beams have strange symbols on them, possibly relics of earlier use elsewhere. When samples of the wood were scientifically examined,they were found to have a high salt content, and to be much older than the house indicating that perhaps they were ship's timbers being recycled. It was reported that, during the 1970s one of the beams covering a section of the wall in the chapel spontaneously caught fire, and, just as quickly as it had started, inexplicably extinguished itself. (There is no evidence of this to be found today.) Among other phenomena, there is supposedly a pot-rearranging poltergeist in the kitchen, and visions of monks in the hallway and on the stairs. One of the rooms alleged to be most haunted is thought to have belonged to Eleanor Singleton, who died at the age of 18. On Christmas Day 1980, two ghost hunters spent time at the Hall in a vigil and recorded rapping sounds emanating from one of the priest's hiding holes. At the time of the knocking noises they recorded a significant decrease in temperature and saw an 'indefinable shape' move across the floor. In 1985, sounds of bricks being moved were recorded by a visitor in the priest's room, which seemed to originate in the priest's hiding hole. He peered within and saw part of a human hand moving one of the bricks. As he watched, the hand stopped moving and disappeared. This witness later managed to capture the sounds of footsteps on tape and a shadowy form on film. Later bricks were found scattered on the floor of the chapel on the ground floor. A team from the Northern Anomalies Research Organisation investigated Chingle Hall. During the visit one member of the group managed to capture two photographs of orange lights which appeared on and near the oak-beamed ceiling. The investigator did not see these lights but rather small white flickering lights which prompted the photographs to be taken in the Chapel Room whilst standing in the dark by himself. Notably, the taking of the photographs and the light were witnessed by a several people in the house. When tape recorders were used in an investigation, sounds were heard and recorded within the priest's room but nothing was heard or recorded on the cassette in the passageway outside. We experienced nothing paranormal whatsoever! If anything the building felt warm and friendly. We had a vigil downstairs and explored the upstairs rooms but nothing at all occurred. By an hour before dawn we were getting fed up and extremely tired. One of the lads went upstairs and fell asleep on the floor in Eleanor's room. We heard him snoring from below. We just couldn't help ourselves. We got directly underneath where he was and tapped on the ceiling. We heard him get up and move downstairs very quickly. He had **** himself. The rest of us were in hysterics!!!
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Being surrounded by so called 'normal people' has me very very nervous.
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