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22 August, 2008 at 10:50 pm #11224
anyone fancy sharing local scary or ghost stories. ?
have any of you got any spooky local stories or legends.heres one for starters.just outside our village, on saddleworth moor .are the ruins of a cottage. not much to see just a few rows of old stones and a bit of dry walling [a local type of walling found all over yorkshire. ] the cottage was supposed to belong to the mother of a child killer. her son had kidnapped and killed a child. when he was in his late teens this is going back a hundred years. i have no idea wether its true or not. but i was told as a child not to go there alone as another teenager had been found wandering there alone just before world war two. out on the moor just wandering about in the cold. the teen was never returned to his mother because he refused to talk again and he lived his life in a local mental asylum. which closed around twenty years ago. the site of the asylum is now a major student housing project for the huddersfield uni. it is well known as storthes hall.
there are some local places. well known, and the times mix together. but wether it is proveable i doubt. especially nowadays with the data protection era. how or who? would go about checking it.
im sure many of us have similar local tales ?23 August, 2008 at 10:52 am #365794I live in an area redolent with notable historical happenings..Centurions..Covenanters..Cromwell..all around or within stone-throwing distance of where our cottage stands. There is also a burial barrow in one of the fields belonging to the farm across from us. The Romans built a long stretch of road just a few fields over from our lane, incredibly straight in comparison to the twisting lanes surrounding, and Cromwell and his troops marched along where our cottage is now sited..until very recently, the farmhouse at the end of our lane was known as Cromwell House, and is reputed to have been where the man stayed overnight.
There have been innumerable sightings of marching men and more pronouncedly the sounds of jingling harness. It thrillls me to be immersed in the past as much as the present, and I feverishly anticipate an encounter with Cromwell, some dark eve..if only to kick the auld scourge in the ghostly knackers.26 August, 2008 at 8:54 pm #365795wow cule.. :shock:
26 August, 2008 at 8:55 pm #365796My house has mirrors which can be damn scary :shock:
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