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Brummie Ghosts

I have not taken your comments as insulting and agree with a lot of what you say, just wanted to get my side across too.

But you are right, there are no mega ghost stories here at this pub but from the investigations that have taken place we are certainly putting a picture together of the history and days gone by of the place. What is interesting is that both investigations have also uncovered stark similarities which i add to my evidence.

The hard part starts now which is backing it all up with the research.
 
Yeah that is the problem, I think you just have to be careful at times of people taking advantage, only thing i can suggest is try Birmingham Library, something might turn up there, more then likely it was a farm firstly as most of the land that way was i think, years ago most of Birmingham was just little villages, i don't know much about that side of Brum, but someone on here is bound too... So what kind of stuff happens in the pub? who did these investigation people think the people haunting the pub were? and how much Spirits had they partaken before hand lol
 
Apparently we have several from two air force servicemen who were forced to sleep in the old bowling pavillion because they were drunk and the landlord wanted to keep them away from his daughter and from a farming family who have a sad tale of love and death that touched my heart when i heard about it. Also there is supposed to be the longest serving landlord of the pub who is resident here after many happy years of running the pub.

I have personally witnessed unexplained shadows, been pushed and touched, heard my name called out when i have been the only person in the pub, smelt burning for no reason and even seeing a cat run through the pub several times through the corner of my eye. The lights in our cellar always flicker when only females go down but never the men and a lady who works part time in our kitchen always has the lights switched off on her in the klitchen only on a Thursday. We have also had our cellar gas supply cut off mid shift several times and all beer flow stops.

Whats exciting is when others see or witness what i have seen and cant explain it either which has happened many times.
 
Sounds interesting, do you think the kitchen thing could be they aint happy with the service lol have you tried her food?? haha Well you certainly have a lot to find out about there, atleast they seem friendly enough, wonder what the old landlord thinks of the place now? they say ghosts come out when you start changing things, i assume over the years there's been quite a lot of changes and renovation, maybe that's brought them out.
 
lol no the food is lovely but there are a lot of changes taking place here, infact i asked once during a seance if they were happy with us and got a positive response so i guess its ok.
 
i had a ghost of a small boy in my flat that would turn on my gas fire and let all the gas fill the room,im so lucky i never switched lights on when i got up early for work each morning...so does anyone know about any boy in clunbury rd,northfield...id love to find out
 
yes it was scary,as if i forgot to check for gas and switched on....

i lived there in 1993 moved out in 1997,it was no 27.i never did check the history on the place...
 
Wonder if there would be any old newspaper clippings? I don't know Northfield that well, maybe other tennents experienced it too? Maybe the new tennents do? Do you live nearby still you could go back and ask them?
 
no other neighbour had a problem as far as i know...i live about 10 miles away now but im scared the new ppl will think im mad...lol

but it might be worth digging around to hear about anything weird
 
Yeah they may well do, but chances are they will have experienced too i would have thought, he's got to have lived there, how old were the flats do you recon? relatively modern or do you think they had been there some years? Maybe they were built where his house used to be, you never know do you, definately worth checking out i'd say
 
apparentley they were built for the old austin workers but dont quoote me on that,maybe some one on here knows when the one up one down flats were built in clunbury rd northfield?
 
You'de be amazed at what the people on this site know, i'm sure someone on here knows something and will be able to tell you, i take it they are down by Rover then? Well what was Rover, drove past there other day and have to say it was wierd it not being there, my cousin lives by there, worked there all his life until it closed, real shame.. bet that place is haunted too, i've never asked anyone... anyone got any stories from there too??
 
claire-brum71 said:
I'm not knocking you, just saying i hadn't heard mega ghost stories, and to be honest with you, as far as Richard Felix is concerned, he's probably a genuine guy, I just don't think the most haunted stuff has done him any favours with all their so called 'set ups' and thats from thier own people. We are just boucing around ideas, and i for one am certainly open to anything, but as you are probably aware there are a lot of people out there ready to make money out of vulnerable people and i just don't agree with that.
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I take my eye's off this post for a couple of days and when I come back......... Well......!!! :D:D

Re. Claires comments above - I have to say that I'd never heard of the pub previously (I'm not at all a pubby person), so any derogatory-sounding comments were aimed at dealings with Felix himself and any related machinations from that quarter.

Richard Felix probably doesn't think that he isn't doing any harm to this subject directly, but the ripples he sets off with his dealings - staged events at Dudley Castle, ill researched DVD's, etc - have definite effects on the ghostlore of the sites / places covered. If it was purely accidental and / or amateurish actions being carried out by an amateur investigator, but when it's all, purely, in the name of lining someones pockets at the end of the day, this is an inexcusable act and gnaws away at the very subject the people concerned are actually being 'revered' for!!!!:explode::explode: These things propagate each other...... crappy 'most Haunted' bringing Felix to national attention, Felix being hailed as the Ghost-Master General (or whatever ridiculous term the media keep using for him!!).... and now Felixs son is apparently starting up a paranormal related magazine......!!!!

Regards,

Nick:'(:'(:'(
www.westmidlandsghostclub.com
 
Nicholas don't lie, we know Derek Acorra (spelling??) told you what was going on lol lol lol and forseen our future court case for slander lmao (sorry couldn't resist) Just out of interest, have you watched TAPS? American version of ghost hunting.. i have to say they seem less staged and more open to questioning things and dismissing things as hauntings, that's interesting to watch if you get time..
 
Naughty Claire!!!:D:D

Re. TAPS, I only watched one episode..... back at the beginning of the first series. They've apparently become 'heroes' to many groups in the time the show has been running, being praised for their no-nonsense attitude with regards to 'Orbs' and such like......

Unfortunately, I recall watching them convincing one householder that her house was 'definitely' haunted because they had caught 'orbs' on some of their photo's during the show I saw, so they are evidently less impressive than most seem to give them credit for, to be honest......

Regards,

Nick
www.westmidlandsghostclub.com
 
I've only seen a few shows, i keep missing them lol but from what i saw they did seem a bit more rational about it and not so oh yeah that noise was a ghost etc etc, and seemed more willing to question things then just accept it was down to hauntings, but as i say i haven't seen the whole series so i could be wrong, but it certainly isn't as sensationalist as others. I mean lets face it i someone stuck me in the pitch black in a house and said it's haunted i'm sure my mind would play tricks on me and i'd be convinved i saw/heard stuff i would normally not.
 
But nobody's actually SEEN anything resembling a ghost on any of these programmes have they?


Harborne
 
I worked at Metro Cammell for 27 years and there were reported Ghosts in the big cellar,and also in the old machine shops a few people said that they had seen them personally i am a believer:PMossy
 
You're right there Harborne... Mossy what kind of ghosts were there? I don't know much about the place you mention so do you think it could be past workers haunting it? or was there something there before it that the Ghosts are connected to?
 
Don't get me wrong, I do believe in them, but I don't think you can get them to appear by order like the TV shows try to do!
 
Harborne, I know if i was a Ghost i wouldn't just to annoy them rofl It is all a bit dramatic sometimes isn't it, i've seen my Family, altho didn't know at the time they were Family as i didn't remember them as i was young or they passed before my birth, there's a lot of things happen that can't be explained tho.

Just thought, anyone know what used to be there before they built Star City?? Was bowling there few months ago when a bowling ball just flew 5ft off the rack past me, no explanation for it, my mate thought we had set it up at first, i was white as a sheet and scared silly, another friend there said her daughter had been up to the toilets in there once and now refuses to go back, she wont say what happened tho, but i swear something is haunting that place.
 
Claire it was certainly passed workers and as far as i know it was the original building

And Harborne you are correct in what you say that you cant order them up just like that.....sounds like Tommy Cooper:D:D:DMossy
 
Mum and my sister went to Aston Hall a few years ago. One of the rooms had belonged to the housekeeper I think. My sister went to touch a garment lying on the bed there and suddenly both she and my mother had the most awful feeling of foreboding and took off out of there like greased lightning.


Harborne
 
How do you think i feel it was aiming at my head !! I couldn't believe it, place was empty nearly and there was no one in the lanes either side of us, infact only people were 3 lanes up so it wasn't anything to do with them playing tricks.. i saw it out of the corner of my eye and moved my head back and it just dropped at my feet, i refused to carry on and left pretty sharpish i can tell you, no plans to go back obviously lol

Aston Manor is meant to be haunted, been there loads as a youth worker taking kids but never saw anything myself, bet they were scared witless, i don't blame them for running i'd have been infront had i been there lol
 
claire-brum71 said:
You'de be amazed at what the people on this site know, i'm sure someone on here knows something and will be able to tell you, i take it they are down by Rover then? Well what was Rover, drove past there other day and have to say it was wierd it not being there, my cousin lives by there, worked there all his life until it closed, real shame.. bet that place is haunted too, i've never asked anyone... anyone got any stories from there too??
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I heard about someone who was working on the track.when the engine came out of the tunnel under the track,the engine hook caught him when it was returning to the tunnel and he fell into the tunnel and was killed.since then.people who had never worked there before had seen this person in the tunnel(which was a short cut to the tracks if it was raining) on several occasions.
one worker was walking through the tunnel one day and was approached by another worker who asked for a light for his cigarette.when he flicked the lighter and it lit.the other worker vanished.when he was asked what the other person looked like.it turned out it was the worker who got killed several years earlier.
i've heard it was full of underground tunnels where they stored cars.

heres one site link showing the tunnels
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=5759
 
Amazing stuff Winston, spooky tho .... i had heard they had tunnels there, something to do with the war as they made Aircraft there, but i'm not 100% on that, maybe you know more.. i'll check out that link, looks very interesting
 
claire-brum71 said:
That's normally meant to settle things...
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Don't you believe it Claire!!!:D Literally every case I've come across where a blessing or exorcism has taken place, things have either subsided for a brief period of time and then simply continued.... or just got much worse. (This includes orthodox religious, psychic / spiritualist, white witch, etc, modes of cleansing).

The Rover related stuff is fascinating...... I don't know this area at all, I must admit, so can anyone tell me what the 'lay of the ground' is like over there nowadays please?

Regards,

Nick
www.westmidlandsghostclub.com
 
yes i had the local vicar come in and bless my flat,things stop for quite a while but i noticed things were starting again,and my cat would hiss on the landing
 
Nicholas, well so much for thinking that would solve the problem.. obviously i have been watching too much fictional TV lol Most of rover is gone now, not sure if the tunnels survive but i saw that they plan to build a new 'mini city' there, be a shame if they destroy it as it goes back to the war, read the site on that link and they did build planes there and the tunnels are full of history no doubt, such a shame if they were lost
 
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