True Life Mysterious Ghost Tales E-Book

Roger Logan

• Herausgeber: epubli
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 47

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

This book contain a section of intriguing and mysterious true life ghost tales. This selection in this edition of Roger Logan's accounts includes haunted children's toys, ghosts in prisons, royal ghosts, phantom armies along with tales of murder and intrigue down the centuries. We hope you enjoy reading this varied selection of true life ghost tales.

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True Life Mysterious Ghost Tales  

Roger Logan© Copyright 2023 Roger Logan

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ContentsIntroductionGhost Army of Haverah ParkOstrich Inn of ColnbrookTank Museum GhostCleopatra's NeedleElizabeth BeesmoreThe Rectory Lane HauntingThe Headless Drummer Boy of Dover CastleBattle AbbeyWinchester Mystery HouseOrdsall HallThe Houmas HouseThe Airport GhostsHaunted Rocking HorseThe Linton Village HauntingTalbot HotelMuncaster CastleShepton Mallet PrisonThe Haunting of Calvados ChateauIntroductionRead about a section of intriguing and mysterious true life ghost tales.  This selection includes haunted children’s toys, ghosts in prisons, royal ghosts, along with tales of murder and intrigue down the centuries.I hope you enjoy this varied selection of true life ghost tales.Ghost Army of Haverah ParkHaverah Park in Yorkshire, England saw a very strange incident in the year of 1812. Haverah Park is located some 3 miles (5 km) from the spa town of Harrogate. Although the park is a civil parish there is no actual village  or public roads in the area. About 30 people live in a series of farms which are quite a bit apart from each other. The name Haverah Park comes from an Old English phrase meaning hunting enclosure. This is because the park was created as a Royal Deer Park in the 12th Century contained within the confines of the Forest of Knaresborough. The land fell under the ownership of the Ingleby family. Their ancestral home is Ripley Castle, a 14th century manor house in Ripley, 3 miles north of Harrogate in Yorkshire. Ripley Castle has seen its fair share of mystery and intrigue. Francis Ingleby was hanged drawn and quartered in 1586 for being a Catholic. The family was involved in the Gunpowder Plot against the King where Catholic plotters planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. Nine of the eleven plotters were members or associates of the Ingleby family and some of the planning was undertaken at Ripley Castle. Sir William Ingleby later supported the monarchy during the English civil war in the 1600s  and Oliver Cromwell was imprisoned in the castle overnight at one point in 1644 after the Battle of Marston Moor.In the 1870's a tragic incident at Ripley Castle occurred when Dame Alicia Ingleby's two daughters died of meningitis. Dame Alicia is said to float around the castle in mourning. Her two children haunt the castle playing practical jokes such as hiding objects such as spoons and keys.A poltergeist haunts the castle, moving pictures and furniture on a regular basis. One incident in 2017 saw expensive silver candle sticks disappeared and reappeared three years later. An insurance company paid out insurance on the spoons when they disappeared. When the spoons returned current castle owners Sir Thomas and Lady Emma Ingleby had to return the insurance money. Let us return the 1800s with a strange incident that occurred on the evening of the 18th July 1812. 45 year old farmer Anthony Jackson was with Martin, the 15 year old son of farmer friend William. They had just enjoyed a leisurely supper of cheese and bread and headed out. They were inspecting their cattle on land owned by the Ingleby family, owners of the nearby Ripley Castle. As they inspected their cattle they were surprised to see a large mass in the distance. At first they thought they were seeing an enormous herd of cattle. Then they realised the mass consisted of men. Anthony said:‘Lord bless us! They are not beasts, they are men!’ As the apparition of people got closer Anthony realised that the men were soldiers:  ‘an army of soldiers in a white military uniform with a Personage of commanding aspect, who was clothed in scarlet.’ The ghosts marched on top of a hill some 100 yards away from Anthony and William. It was estimated that the ghostly army was made up of over 700 men four deep, over an enclosure of thirty acres.  To compound the spine chilling nature of the apparition another larger group of men appeared dressed in dark clothing. The two spectral groups did not share any animosity towards each other. The groups marched and were enveloped in a thick smoke which spread over the heather covered area. After the smoke cleared the ghost armies had disappeared.Ostrich Inn in ColnbrookThe village of Colnbrook is near Slough, Berkshire and 17 miles to the west of London.  In 1106 an inn was built by a Milo Crispen and named the Hospice. This later became known as the Ostrich maybe as “the hospice” sounds rather like the ostrich!A later landlord and landlady of the inn were not very hospitable hosts. In the 17th century John Jarman and his wife owned the Inn. The Inn was on a main road between London and Bath in the west country of England so many rich businessmen travelled on the road and would stop at the Inn. The pair took a keen interest in the belongings of their guests and murdered them to gain their valuables. It is said that John would say to his wife: "there is a fat pig available if you want one!". The fat pig being a rich guest. His wife would say:"put him in the sty for tomorrow". The sty was a special room which contained a trap door under the bed. The trapdoor had a large pot of boiling water into which the unfortunate guest would fall and be boiled to death. The body, or what was left of it, would be thrown into a local river. The couple took the valuables and sold them to local gypsies. One night clothing businessman Thomas Cole stayed at the Inn. He was well known in the local area.  The couple decided to murder Cole for his money. Bizarrely they persuaded Cole to change his will to give money to the couple.