Sightings show spirits do exist say Cumbria ghost hunters
Last updated at 18:39, Saturday, 31 January 2009
Cumbria's own gang of supernatural sleuths have released these spooky pictures, which they say prove the existence of spirits.
The photographs were taken by a member of UK Ghost Hunters, during a midnight vigil at the antiques shop at Brougham Hall, near Penrith.
Medium Chris Conway started the group to investigate the most haunted spots in Cumbria and south-west Scotland.
He hopes that by using technology, he can remove all doubts surrounding the existence of the paranormal. But taking pictures of ghosts, he said, can be more difficult than it sounds.
On this occasion, team members could only take six photos before spiritual activity had drained their camera batteries.
“The energy that spirits use is very similar to electricity,” said Chris, 37, of Annan.
“If they were to move something in a room it would take a lot of energy – that’s why they tend to make lights flicker and interfere with the electrical supply.”
Nonetheless, the vigil at Brougham Hall proved very successful. Six people stayed overnight at the 13th century manor, once known as the ‘Windsor of the North’ for its royal connections.
From 9pm on January 16, Chris channelled spirits including Lord Henry Brougham, a former chancellor of England who died in 1868.
He added: “I asked him to tell me something I didn’t know and couldn’t check up easily. He said that he’d bought a property nearby which had been allowed to fall into ruin, which he was very annoyed about.”
Members of the team were accompanied by local history enthusiast Neil Harrison, manager of the Old Smokehouse at Brougham Hall, who confirmed that the story was true.
Chris said: “There also was a 15-year-old boy called James who’d been working on the house – he had fallen to his death and it was covered up.
“And I picked up a lady who had been taken to the top of a tower and thrown off by soldiers.”
He added that the spirits he channelled were all verified by the Brougham family history books. And if anyone were to accuse him of tampering with photographs, he would be happy to show them his digital camera.
Anyone interested in joining UK Ghost Hunters on their next vigil should visit their website at www.ukghosthunters.synthasite.com or email Chris at ukghosthunters@live.com.
He is also keen to hear from anyone who believes their home or business may be haunted.
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First published at 09:04, Saturday, 31 January 2009
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
I absolutely have no doubts i know they exist, i hate synics who dont even give it a chance, iv wanted 2 get into ghost hunting 4 ages but dont know how 2 go about joinin other ghost hunters,plus our house is haunted, but luckily they are nice and dont really bother us
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all u synics that are twining about no gud pics of ghosts if u took th time to look th gud 1's up yal see, write ghost images in you tube (not videos coz most of videos are fake) but look on you tube at th images sum from early times & sum recent, if ya want that much proof over night hav th balls 2 stay in very evil poltergeists haunted house, sum houses th dont show them selves that much for months or weeks, so if ya want proof over night stay in very haunted shut down hospital or sumet, dont slate people jus coz they'v had experiences and u hav'nt, synics are jus scared of wot they dont understand
Posted by Sallyanne (saz) Hodgson on 13 March 2011 at 20:50