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I've recently been speaking to a gentleman who says that he recalls some form of 'human remains' being discovered in the grounds of the Erdington Orphanage in fairly recent decades..... (Approx. the 1980's or 90's, perhaps?) In short, I was wondering whether anyone on the forum perhaps...

Thank you very much for sharing your experience Lady Penelope!! I'm afraid I don't really know the place you refer to at all (despite having carried out some investigations in Boldmere, over the years), but would certainly like to try and 'check it out' with a view to finding if the site has a...

Hi Astonian, These days matey, I think it's a matter of people just 'moving too quickly throughout life' to give time towards dwelling on anything too 'phantasmal', if I'm honest.....!? Still - the supernatural (whatever that might actually be?) clearly comes forward and breaks through into...

Having spoken to literally hundreds and hundreds of people about their encounters (over the years), it's often been stressed to me that the witnesses concerned were completely surprised by their own, 'mild' reactions to their experiences!? Personally speaking, I'm sure I'd do a fair bit of...

Well Ray T..... I did have a knife seemingly 'thrown at me' during a poltergeist investigation a few year ago, I must admit, but I'm 100% certain the incident had nothing at all to do with genuine, ghostly activity....!! Laugh!! The offending projectile literally 'skimmed my ear' - I...

No..... I've never understood where the 'burning' idea came from at all, Smudger!? There was a 'Gibbet Hill' on the outskirts of Sutton - at Old Oscott - so he'd have been 'strung up there', if anywhere, I guess!? Laugh!!

Hi Big Gee - I think a lot of these stories / names just get carried from place to place, don't they..... and these 'cock-eyed' associations crop up regularly? I know the Shire Oak region was WELL-KNOWN for being a bit dodgy, where highwaymen were concerned, in the past and, needless to say...

I've heard of the 'Tom King burned in Sutton Park' story before Big Gee, but can't even begin to suggest where this may have originated......!? (Burned!?!?) Through looking into certain matters in the Stonnall region in the past - just 'up' from Aldridge / Walsall Wood, of course - I've come...

This is the matter I mentioned Ray T.... Almost 20 years ago now, a Birmingham household hit the National press with tales of 'ghostly goings on' in their, otherwise typical, Council home. It seems that the 'activity' concerned had initially started up some 5 or 6 months before media sources...

An intriguing story reached the ears of the W.M.G.C. recently, when a good friend of the group told us that she had 'had a strange experience' while shopping in her home town (West Midlands region) with her mother.... (We've had to keep names and exact locations out of the write-up of the...

I must admit that I've always thought this is something that has greatly aided me in research / investigation, Steve.... While I've always 'fancied' having some form of paranormal experience myself - purely for novelty reasons, I guess - my lack of experience in that particular quarter has...

I'm afraid I've never seen anything on the subject in print Big Gee.... and believe that I may have actually first heard of the topic somewhere on this very thread, possibly!? (Can't be 100%, I'm afraid, but have a sneaky feeling?) Interesting what you relate re. the 'out of time' feeling to...

Hi Big Gee!!! I've previously heard of the alleged 'ghost of Lady Scott' being see walking around the fishing pool in the former grounds of St. Margarets, but I'd long put that down to being a matter of 'colourful ghostlore', rather than anything more substantial.....!? (Well - as substantial...

Hi Lyn - thank you very much for the welcome back!! I must admit that I sporadically visit, from time to time, but, not actually being a 'Brummie' myself, I generally don't have anything to contribute to the forum as such, from a nitty-gritty, historical point of view..... Well - that is -...

I know that this kind of subject doesn't always 'sit well' with historian-types Steve, but this kind of thing is an integral part of human experience (throughout the history of mankind across the globe, in one form or another), so I've always regarded it as an integral part of social history /...

Thanks for the reply Ray!! With regards to this particular aspect of the story, it does seem that this kind of thing is relatively common in this type of scenario....? I've heard many such instances over the years and - coincidentally - two people have mentioned similar things to me within the...

An angle not for everyone, of course..... but a friend of mine used to have a commercial property around the Vyse St area, in years gone by, and the work force there sometimes reported seeing the ghost of a 'young girl' around the property concerned..... Needless to say, it doesn't really take...

I've never actually visited the museum in question myself, but I was wondering what forum members thought of this recent matter? https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2016/10/14/black-country-mother-claims-to-have-caught-ghost-on-camera-at-birminghams-victorian-back-to-backs/ I have to...

As luck would have it, I've only popped on here to check some data..... and here is your cracking ghost story, Ray T...!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us!!

Referring to the original post / query on this thread: I must admit that I've never heard of any reported activity at the pub concerned previously, Cresser. (I guess I should have said there: 'despite having been collecting such stories associated with the West Midlands area for many years...