The Beechworth Lunatic Asylum holds the title of world’s most haunted Asylum and that is something to boast about ! Abandoned asylums are by far the creepiest of any stereotyped locations, a creepy ass empty building full of former mental patients… But this location has something a little more than the walking dead. There is said to be something dark here, attracted by all the pain and suffering. With over 9,000 recorded deaths it is not hard to believe.
The Mad Within
600 men and 600 women would be held at one time in the second oldest asylum in the world, over the span of 128 years, 9,000 patients died within the cursed walls. The building closed its doors for good in 1995 after failed attempts of a hotel, conference center and even a university. All of these businesses tried to face the problems after spending a presumably large sum in the shell of the old asylum but they where all driven out by those who still resided within.
In one of the rooms, you will find the signature of J.Kelly, one of more famous ghosts of Beechworth. He was sentenced to 15 years after burning down his sister-in-laws house. When he entered he was thought quite sane but he left a broken man and died in hospital in 1903. He is seen in his old room, striding and banging. In the same room a manical laughter is heard and objects are seen flying across the room before smashing on the wall. Anger ? Or is this pleasure from the fear he inspires.
A Jewish Patient is seen here, she was thrown from the terrace over a pack of cigarettes.Check out the orb captured
The Reaction Hall is one of the most haunted rooms within the building. It was an area where patients would come together and sing or play music even preform from time to time. Two ghosts are seen here constantly. A young girl and an old man. The young girl is heard wailing and scratching at the walls and the old man is seen staring down at passers-by from the window.
The old Matron Sharpe is an active spirit around the dormitories. She is seen walking around the room and rushing up towards people who try and enter.
Tommy Kennedy was murdered in the kitchens when he was working with another patient. People report a tugging sensation or being poked in the ribs. The sound of pots and pans are heard clanging and smashing despite the fact there is no equipment left ! The screams of Tommy are heard, agonising and prolonged.
Little girl saw around the asylum.
The sounds of children giggling and light footsteps are heard all over the building. The building had a huge childrens ward, ofcourse until very recently children were deemed insane when they where acting anything but ” Normal ” and they where treated brutally. Whipped, slapped or kicked. All it took was i slap around the head and an awkward fall and a child would be dead. In alot of old orphanges or aslyums the childrens deaths where often covered up and bodies hidden by evil old women who fed from the suffering of innocent children. In the past resident children were punished for talking to imaginary friends here. We know now that children’s imaginary friends are not always imaginary…
There are alot more intelligently active ghosts here but alot go unnamed. A certain presence or presences here are thought to be alot more than just former patients. All the death, pain and suffering felt here would have easily attracted something darker than the spirit of a little girl. People have enetered the building and been hit with a sudden sickness others have been scratched and bitten. A large black shadow is seen in every part of the bulding, stalking the corridoors, followed by a stench of human feses and with glowing red eyes. The feeling of terror some are said to experience without explanation can only be summed up to something demonic within. Is it possible certain groups have broken in an preformed dark rituals ? It would not be the first time insane asylums have been used for this…
( Paralax on haunted asylums )
Convicted and Condemed
All it took to be convicted to Beechworth Asylum was a request from a pissed off relative and a signature from a doctor who was not even required to examine you in person, and the majority of patients left in body bags…
By far the most haunted part of the building and most terrifying is the Grevillia wing. It was infamous wing that all patients feared, insane or not. With medication not being introduced until the 1950’s. So if you were called mad the only way to cure you were shackles or straight jackets in a tiny white room with padded walls. Often patients would spend weeks, even months on end in this room. Or electro-shock therapy, you would be strapped down and connected to electric wires, the shock felt throughout the body would have caused ligaments to snap and bones to break. The end result if often permanent brain damage that would normally kill so many brain cells and you would be a vegtable.
The image actually was taken inside Beechworth Asylum…
The Greville wing is by far the most haunted and easily the main part of the building to experience some intense paranormal activity.
All of this is, let’s be honest, shit scary but that is nothing compared to the dark history ignored down in the cellars and more.
Rituals & Necromancy in Beechworth
In some mourges or prisons or aslyumns there is rumour of evil practises being preformed of the corpses of the dead. Removing dead bodies or preparing the coprses for burial or indeed the burial itself were all roles that involved the dead were underpayed jobs and relativley easy work to get. So as you can imagine it attracted some of the stranger members of society. As for the doctors, that profession was diffiucult to get into, incredibly difficult. It would have taken a lot of hard work and dedication so it would have been efficent to certain sociopaths with fasination of human anatomy. So what happens then ?
A doctor begins by testing the bodies reactions or perhaps a person’s mental response to certain treatment and they are fascinated by it, then they begin to reach out further and experiment on the dead bodies, then when that was no longer enough to fulfill there self-proclaimed purpose they turned towards the rumours of necromancy and satanic rituals.
There was whispers of this type of activity taking place in the bowls of Beechworth Asylum and why not ! Acts of this kind always attract those darker things and i understand this sounds a tad wacky but go to places supposedly haunted by demonic creatures and then place judgement. It is not hard to believe that these kinds of acts took place at this location and even less hard to believe that something inhuman is still lurking the abandoned halls of the worlds most haunted asylum.
Pluckley Village, Kent has been called the UK’s most haunted village, with over 15 active spirits and not all of them friendly. But the woods next to this village is what caught our attention. Pluckley’s ancient screaming wood. But what is screaming ?
Pluckley Village & Forest
The legend of the screaming woods began when the Guinness Book of Records published that Pluckley was Britain’s most haunted village. The village itself is haunted by more than twelve ghosts, but some say it may even be forty… That would surprise anyone who has a knowledge of the history of the area. It is a place of death.
But then, people slowly people began to turn their attention to the adjacent Dering Woods. This forest is inexplicably active. So many reports started flooding in of ear-splitting screams coming from within the forest, both day and night. There are also shadows that are well known for following those across the forest who have the balls to enter.
It has been suggested that the most prevalent spirits within the forest are those of an 18th century Colonel who killed himself in the shrub, as well as a highwayman who was captured by the local villagers during the 18th century, nailed to a tree and then had his head cut off…
Funny enough, similar to the Ballybolly forest this site is home to one of the world’s oldest Neolithic sites. Is it possible that these sites are giving off some strange kind of energy acting as a fuel for these ghosts to act out ? It’s a theory, but isn’t that how facts are created?
The Ghost’s Seen at Pluckley
There have been over forty, yes forty ! different ghosts are seen at Pluckley, both within the forest and the village. All of them are active, but not in the kind of way that you would see on most haunted. We are talking smashing objects against the wall, following you around the location, blood-curdling screams, and psychical attacks and attachments. There are a few who have been identified and here are their stories.
The Hanging Colonel
In an area of the adjacent forest called Park Wood, there is an old army Colonel seen marching around the forest. He committed Suicide by hanging himself from a tree. People have seen this guy hanging from a tree and walking up behind them. He has been seen been a sad expression and sometimes he has even reached out to visitors to the forest, is it possible he is trapped like so many others in the forest ?
The Ghostly Highwayman
Along the Smarden Bell Road, there is a junction that has been dubbed Fright Corner. He was taken and killed by angry villagers, who were tired of his killing and stealing. They took him to the forest, nailed him to a tree and took off his head…
His screams are said to be part of the horrific symphony that gives the screaming woods its name. But that’s not all, he is actually known to jump out from behind trees and terrify hikers ! That is not alike anything else we have heard before, and it is fudged up.
The Miller
In the village of Pluckley, there was an old wooden windmill that dated back to the 19th century. In 1939, lightning struck, it burned and eventually crumbled.
The old miller called Richard ‘Dicky’ Buss hung himself after the loss of his business. People have seen this spirit standing, with empty eyes simply staring at the spot where his old mill once stood. Some even say that during a lightning storm he is seen hanging…
The Phantom Monk
On the edge of the village, there is a large white house called Greystones. The house itself was built around 1863 when it was originally called Rectory Cottage. This is the domain of the Phantom Monk. He is often seen around and within the house, he is best known for being the cause of avid poltergeist activity within.
The Tudor Lady
Near to the Greystones, is another tiny cottage, Rose Court Cottage. It is well known for being haunted by Pluckley’s Tudor Lady. Legend tells us that she was friends with the monk mentioned above, possibly even a secret love affair.
Following his death, she also committed suicide by drinking a potion made up of some poisonous ivy berries taken from the forest. *Starting to see the pattern yet? She is seen walking around the grounds surrounding the cottage, sometimes even with her two faithful pooches.
The Dering Arms
One of the oldest buildings within Pluckley village. It dates back to the 1840’s and it was used as a hunting lodge serving the Dering Estate. Today it is a B&B;, and one of the most haunted in the world.
There is a lot of poltergeist activity within, chairs scrape along the floor, footsteps are heard banging up the stairs and objects are pushed off the bar to smash on the floor. But what unsettles guests most of all is the old lady seen sitting by the window. She is said to wear a Tudor period style dress with a bonnet. She is known to be seen sitting in a chair by the window and then simply vanish into thin air.
The Headless Coachman
What ghost story would be complete without the Headless Horseman? Well, this one has been seen around the village. He has been seen driving a black carriage led by 4 cryptic black horses. The ghostly vehicle is seen mainly on Maltman’s Hill, but also around the village a lot.
The Screaming Man
In the 19th century, a man died after falling into a clay pit at the old brickworks. He is heard screaming through the night. This, of course, is only residual but still creepy af all the same.
The White Lady
Along the street in the village, the 13th-century church stands out more than any other building. The churchyard holds the Dering family vault and inside the church itself people have seen a white lady, she has been described as young and beautiful.
The Red Lady
The Churchyard is also haunted by the Red Lady. She is thought to be the ghost of Lady Dering who the child was stillborn. She is seen around an unmarked grave. She herself was buried at the top end of the church those placed on top of her tombstone.
Both she and the White Lady are seen in and around the church, and when they are not seen they are heard. Clicking footsteps are heard within the church, they sound like someone walking in high heels…
The White Dog
This one is awesome. There is actually a white dog seen around the church. It looks like a pretty normal dog with white hair. It follows people into the church, sits with them, some have even stroked him. He is also seen sitting and staring straight forward from the church.
Later, when guests have asked the priest about the dog. He has revealed that the dog has been seen around the area for hundreds of years, he used to belong to a former priest who worked in the church. That fits with the fact that the dog is known to disappear. Even sometimes whilst being stroked.
The Hanging Schoolmaster
Dicky Buss Lane is haunted by the ghost of a schoolmaster who committed suicide there by hanging himself from a nearby tree. He did this just after the WWI. The children actually found him hanging on their way to school.
He is seen today, hanging from that same tree dressed in a frock coat and striped trousers…
The Watercress Woman
Just next to the Pinnock Bridge, a misty pink apparition has been seen. The locals tell tales of an old gypsy woman who used to sell watercress by the road and harvested from the fields just next to the road itself.
She died when she fell asleep smoking her old pipe. The embers from her pipe fell onto her straw bed, and she burnt to death.
The Black Horse Pub
In the center of the village is its most haunted building. The Black Horse dates back to the 1470’s when it was a dry-moated farmhouse for the Dering family.
The spirit responsible is thought to be a little girl called Jessie. She is well known for hiding people clothes from them and smashing pint glasses on the floor, in the bar area.
The Screaming woods is an awesome location, they even do nights where you can brave it out in a tent. it is definitely worth a shot, if you don’t believe in ghosts go stay a night there and then see what you believe.
Paranormal photography is a huge subject at the moment. With technology moving forward every day, we are discovering new ways to capture the other side all of the time. A lot are just hoaxes of course, but there’s a few out there that sceptics are unable to debunk.
3. Grandpa´s Ghost
This photo was taken when a family were moving their grandmother to a care home. She was having a tough time with the move… Anyways the younger daughter took a photo and saw a man standing the background, later on when they were checking it out.
The man standing behind their grandmother was identical to their grandad. He had died 13 years earlier… Perhaps he came along to make sure everything would be ok. But it doesn’t end there.
This photo was called a hoax for a long time and it was under speculation for even longer. However, when looking closer, some people spotted what looks like a cloaked figure with a skeletal white face standing by the grandad looking directly at him. Almost like death himself was bringing grandad on a supervised visit. If you can’t spot him, look a little left from the red car.
It’s easy enough to say that, the cloaked figure is a trick of the light… But, there is no denying that grandad is standing right there. Is it a coincidence that this trick of the light happened at the same moment that this spectral giant was caught ?..
2. Please, let that be your shy daughter behind you.
Look just a little to the right, directly behind the women taking the photo…
There´s a game that has been going around recently called Karen the Mirror Ghost. You take a selfie three times in a row and then on the shot, just before you hit the button, say, Karen, I see you. Then she strangles you, steals your children or shares a tub of popcorn with you. After the third snap a girl called Karen, who supposedly died whilst taking a selfie to post on myspace, will appear in the third picture…
It sounds nuts! However, take a look at the photograph above, this Reddit user decided to give it a shot, and what she captured is fudged up.
Is it just us or does the thing behind her have glowing eyes and a dashing if not somewhat evil grin? Not too pretty…
1. The Party Ghost.
For us, this is the most convincing photo out there, not to mention one of the creepiest !
This group were on vacation in southern America and they decided to take a couple of group photos. The first is completely normal, however, take a look at the second…
It would seem that these guys have a party crasher. Upon later review, none of the guys recognised the women who decided to join the fun. Of course, this could just be a member of the party… But look at the proportions of her body and head, she is as close to the camera as the guys in the front of the photo…
That means that she is closer to the camera than the majority of people there, however, she is in the centre of the table. So unless there is a huge hole in the centre of the table, and this group of 10 are all lying or there’s a spectre manifesting right before your eyes.
There´s a lot of ghost photos out there, you can scour the internet all day and find hundreds of them, but just take a closer look and see if they match these three.
3rd October 2016
A photo posted on Reddit is sending its user´s nuts. A picture taken on an iphone by a man´s girlfriend in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The couple where freaking out because there was no one else there at the time. The girlfriend did see something but she did not realize it was a figure until seeing the photo later on. But they also have a live photo and its insanley creepy.
Photo taken on iphone, hence the poor quality.
Here it is using the live photo application.
Here it is slowed down a little.
The guy went back up to the mountains and took another photo of the spot where the image was captured. You can see that the grass here is not tall. But the figure looked like it was walking in taller grass, hence why it seemed to be half a person …. So was this really only half a person ?
Left, Photo he took when returning to the spot.
You can clearly see in the live photo that the figure is walking towards the man from taller grass or perhaps from behind a small hill, but again there is no hill. So what does this say was this only half an apparition of the person. Whatever it is the fact the grass is not tall and the fact the guy is clearly walking with only half a body this photo is real paranormal evidence. If you guys have any theory on what it could be then let us know.
21th September 2016
You might have realized the different videos and photos popping up all over the internet of Snapchat filters seeming to pick up on on unseen faces. But what is this ? A simple software malfunction or are the intricate Snapchat algorithms actually able to recognize faces of the dead.
The Snapchat filters are able to transmogrify your face into a hamster, harry potter, a piece of toast, etc …..
But for this gimmicky feature that does make up Snapchat there is an insane amount of technology behind it.
For the functions they have to be able to recognize distinct features in a face, then the program has to model the structure of your face in 3d space, taking into account the rotation and occlusion of the overlaid prop effects
So to find the face in the given space, Snapchat uses the Viola Jones Algorithm. This works by scanning the image data repeatedly, calculating the different shades of grey ( grey-scale pixel value ).
By doing this the app picks up on the light hitting the fact, even when the light cant be seen by the human eye. So normally the light would hit the bridge of your nose and your forehead first.
But does that mean it can mistake a lumpy bit of sofa for a human face ?
See how he tells it where to go and the faces manifest …….
It is possible, it all depends on how the light is hitting the object. Like you see guys doing a Face swap with a plug socket etc.
But we do see this same technology put to use in some of the more expensive ghost hunting equipment. The SLS Camera ( The Structured Light 3d Scanner ).
One of the designers state ” The Machines software can make mistakes, however when functioning in the dark. So without light tampering and when a figure appears then it should stay there even when the camera is moving.”
See how he also is able to request the spirit to do certain things, making the chances of this happening accidental minute.
The only way to prove this is catching spirits is to give a command, tell it to appear again and facing pointing the camera in a different part of the room. Then you know that is a floating pooch face appears again then the chances of it being another glitch in that moment are almost 1000000/1.
As technology advances in such crazy ways everyday we are guaranteed to find some accidental extra functions of devices or software. Lets just hope there are more like this that can allow us to see more ghosties.
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15th September 2016
The photography taken below is a real ghost photo from late 2016. It sent Reddit into a little bit of a titter. Originally it was only meant to show 3 people in a graveyard at night. God knows what they where doing there, perhaps a little ghost hunting of there own. But they caught something else, what seems to be another person taking a casual stroll, strange social hotpot.
Ofcourse there is a strong chance its fake, these days even your nan can drag a ghost into a photo and drop it in, so make of it what you will. But there again that means every ghost photo in the world could be fake …
Here’s the enhanced version …
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http://www.paranormal360.co.uk/real-ghost-pictures-the-unknown-spirit-in-the-graveyard/
2nd September 2016
One of Britain’s oldest & most haunted pubs. Said to be haunted by famous royalist he could have just been caught on CCTV. The cameras seem to have captured something incredible, a full figure that honestly looks hooded. But some speculate it could be the traditional wigs that the royalists would have worn. We will let you decide.
As you can see the lights are flickering and the ghost seems to be flickering in and out of view. To be honest this doesn’t seem genuine, we have never seen a ghost that flickers like that.
It takes alot of energy for a ghost to manifest, so do it 4 or 5 times in such rapid succession makes it seem like a hoax in order to sell more Guinness.
However this type of footage is so rare who’s to say if its real or not ! Its defiantly creepy enough. This doesn’t mean that its not haunted either. A passing tourist seems to capture a similar apparition in the upstairs window !
There are literally thousands of people fussing over this sighting. But again theirs that strange flickering. I can honestly say i have never seen this anywhere else.
To make it a little more unbelievable look at the strange grudge like character in the bottom window, which is obviously computerized.
If the pub owner is investing a little money on special effects to attract more customers then fair play. It has attracted customers for hundreds of years, but i think to pass it off when asked as being true, then its a bit of a joke.
Again decide for yourself ! And there is no doubt this location is haunted. To many stories over the years and actual activity. But maybe they are just making to much of a meal of it.
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Pendle Hill in Lancashire is a well known and traumatic location. Considered one of the most haunted places in the world it has been terrifying generations of ghost hunters. All thanks to those infamous Pendle Witches, but has there ringleader finally been caught on camera? Christine Hamlet seems to think she’s done just that.
St Mary’s Churchyard is said to be just as affected by the Pendle Witches as Tyndale Farm. With the churchyard being the dumping ground for the lifeless bodies of the executed twelve it would seem logical.
St Mary’s Churchyard is exactly where this X Ghost Hunter seems to have caught the image;
Photo captured in the churchyard. ( seen above*)
However looking at the photograph it doesn’t seem to fit the description of Elizabeth Demdike, or that of of women at all.
So we did a little digging and found out that out of the eleven hung in 1612 there was; 9 Women, 2 Men and one Little Girl.
The Little Girl was Janet Preston age 9. The sad thing was that Janet was actually the key witness and her evidence brought around the demise of her grandmother Elizabeth Demdike and the others.
The little girl appears to be staring directly into the camera.
This little girl has been seen many times by visitors at the St Mary’s Churchyard. But this is the first time she’s been caught on camera.
St Mary’s Churchyard, Tynedale Farm and Malkin Tower on Pendle Hill have all been affected by the witches with two of the sites being home to the witches and there deadly practices.
Tynedale Farm. ( seen above* )
St Mary’s Churchyard. ( seen above*)
Malkin Tower. ( seen above*)
Pendle Hill and especially Tynedale farm has been named one of the most haunted locations in the Uk and the world.
Attracting the attention of the most famous Ghost Hunting Teams such as Most Haunted and for good reason. It has been so brutally haunted for so many years that the locals actually refuse to talk about it ! Sounds like something from lord of the rings.
Victim of the Pendle Bitches ( oops i meant witches )
Events Include ; Screams, Cackling, Psychical attacks, Possessions, Scratching and even a freaking Human Tooth thrown at a bunch of investigators.
One thing is certain for us anyways this location is awesome. With all of the promising activity that ensures on hell of an investigation Pendle Hill should be on every investigators wish list. Just remember to call out for that old mother Demdike she will be sure to answer.
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http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/witchtrial/
http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/demdike/