World of the Unknown: Ghosts: 1 (The World of the Unknown)

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He initially refuses, citing lack of permission from the church, but they blackmail him by showing photos of Clifton engaging in an illicit affair with his housekeeper, Mrs Blithe. The youngest daughter of the family also claimed she had been dragged, kicking and screaming, up the stairs, an event that left her seriously traumatised and with clearly visible finger marks on her throat. Boulton’s picture of the hallway shows a mirror with what appears to be a face staring out of it, with either black hair around it or a black hooded robe – though there was no one near him at the time. And then, on your way back to the railway station, pay your regards to “the ghost of the screaming man”, a brickworks employee “smothered to death when a wall of clay fell on him”, whose spirit still “screams in the same way as he did when he died.

The family started to wonder if something was wrong, but nobody had the words to name it, and certainly none of the tools to fix it. The spirit told me I had to pretend that I didn’t believe in him from now on, or it would attack me and my husband Matt. He may remember Maynard as a cousin and friend, but his refusal to remember out loud means that, for years, I’ve been haunted by a dead man.In a similar manner, the thoughts and temperament of the sole cabin dweller, the “vibes” if I may, have nowhere to go. Having garments of people who actually lived here makes you wish even more that you could find out exactly what these people must have been like and how they lived their lives. They proceed with the exorcism at Len's house; the spirit violently resists but Clifton manages to drive it out. On closer examination we discovered that it was a velvet waistcoat and a stomacher with paper patterns wrapped around them. We were treated to an after-dinner screening of this fascinating piece of film-making, preceded by a few words from its director – who explained the influence of the Usborne Ghosts book on his lifelong interest in the supernatural – and a specially-filmed introduction from star Reece Shearsmith.

Parents-of-two Jean and Joe Pritchard claim they saw the monk numerous times - even floating over their bed. And – most chilling of all – there was the translucent figure of a spectral monk beside an elaborate altar, “taken in the early 1960s by the vicar of a church in England. Paranormal investigator Phil led a group of seven us around the house on Wednesday night, as we took part in glass moving, tale tipping, viduals and séances, to try and get the spirit of the Black Monk – also known as Fred – to show himself. Were we all actually looking at the same set of facts about our existence and coming to very different conclusions about how to cope?They spotted young Michael walking back home, carrying a pack of cigarettes he had picked up for his sister.