Wednesday, January 7, 2009

WORSLEY OLD HALL

The green ghost of Dorothy Legh is seen tumbling down the stairs.

TURTON TOWER

Home to the Timberbottom skulls and the Black lady. The lady glides up the staircase and a cradle is rocked by unseen hands.

TONGE HALL

The building dates back to the 16th Century and stands on the site of an even older mansion house in Middleton. The ghosts are reported to have attempted to push one psychic investigator down a flight of stairs. There are, according to a team of Paranormal Investigators from the USA, four ghost residents in Tonge Hall

TAMESIDE THEATRE

Jack Douglas, ex- Carry On film star, reported seeing a male ghost in this Ashton Under Lyne theatre several times, standing above him in the upper circle and slowly melting away when approached.

SUNLIGHT HOUSE

Numerous staff and security guards from this huge city centre building have experienced a range of paranormal activity here. Apparitions, lift bells sounding, lifts moving on their own, lights turning themselves off and the sounds of rasping male voices coming out of nowhere seem to be occurring frequently. One member of staff witnessed an apparition moving backwards and forwards behind office screening, only to come face to face with a transparent figure in the toilets.. causing them to call on paranormal investigators on a number of occasions. The outcome of which can be found here

STRANGEWAYS PRISON

This old Victorian Jail close to Manchester Centre was one of a few in the U.K. to have performed executions many years ago. Over 100 hangings have taken place here and a permanent gallows was a feature in one of the wings. The condemned block is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of one of the hangmen who officiated there. Staff on night duty have reported seeing a mysterious man in a dark suit carrying a small briefcase. He is always seen walking along 'B' wing from just outside the condemned cell towards the central control area. When they try to follow this dark suited man he vanishes just before the old iron staircase leading up to the main office. One wonders if this could be John Ellis who committed suicide in 1932.

SLADE HALL

Slade Hall, which is up for sale for only the fifth time, dates back to 1260, although most of the present structure was built in Elizabethan times. The house, in Slade Lane, Longsight, was the focus of a paranormal study several years ago when ghost hunters investigated reports of a Jacobean man wielding a sword and pistol, babies wailing, women sobbing, and floorboards creaking.