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[Handsome Johnny]

as usual with most towns st helens has it's fair share of ghost stories, has anyone out there got any really interesting ones?

[daystate]

Theres no such thing as ghosts

[nb from rome]

Why don't you ask Blossom? She has more than one ghost in her house and is happy to keep company with them.

[Alan]

There is a ghost in the old mansion house in Victoria Park. It is the ghost of a servant lass who died there in the 1800s. Allegedly

[Griffin]

That's quite an area for ghosts. Rutland Street alongside the park is said to be haunted by a coachman who worked in a house in North Road. There was said to be a ghost in one of the buildings of Cowley Girls' School when my wife was there.

[warringtonsaint]

Are there any books about this subject does anyone know?

The Mansion House in Vicky Park and Cowley Girls school always used to give me the shivers.

[Gareth]

The White Rabbit of Crank?
Ghost appearing at a window of a house at the top of Croppers Hill about 1900, which drew large crowds who threw stones to tempt it out?

[Handsome Johnny]

Gareth, on 05 December 2009 - 12:06 AM, said:

The White Rabbit of Crank?
Ghost appearing at a window of a house at the top of Croppers Hill about 1900, which drew large crowds who threw stones to tempt it out?

i have to admit that i am responsible for that legend! when i was a lad i used to breed new zealand white rabbits and one of my does was barren so i let her go in crank wood rather than have her put down.

[suste]

The grey lady in Taylor Park.

[brunty]

fingy-lad is that yer own tooth-just thought id ask.

[Handsome Johnny]

brunty, on 09 January 2010 - 09:11 PM, said:

fingy-lad is that yer own tooth-just thought id ask.

don't even know who the chap is in the photo. just found it on another forum and thought he had an interesting face.

[Olliebeak]

Griffin, on 30 November 2009 - 05:37 PM, said:

........ There was said to be a ghost in one of the buildings of Cowley Girls' School when my wife was there.

That story was told to all first-years when they started Cowley Girls. It was supposed to be the ghost of Sarah Cowley in the Lecture Theatre of North Block (the larger, dark building)!

Oh yeah - she was long gone when the place was built but, nevertheless, you'd not get anybody going into the Lecture Theatre alone.

[Carr Millite]

Leaving aside the ghost stories (I am a believer btw) has Ollie had a sex change or was she always a man and I didn't notice?
I 'see' him/her a fair bit on mse but she has always come across as female.
And I'm sure I once spoke to her on the phone and she didn't sound like a man.

[Olliebeak]

Carr Millite, on 18 April 2010 - 08:59 PM, said:

........has Ollie had a sex change or was she always a man and I didn't notice?
I 'see' him/her a fair bit on mse but she has always come across as female.
........

aaargh - I wondered what the hell Carr Millite was on about for a few minutes there.

Re-read my posting to see if there'd been some kind of slip-up in my words/grammar - nope! Double-checked my avatar - nope - it's still pink !


Then I spotted it - the offending word 'male' under my name - how the flaming norah did THAT happen !

Thanks for pointing it out, CM - now off to see if I can alter it ............. goes off muttering about gremlins haunting the forum..........




That's much better !



The haunted Lecture Theatre was the Upper Floor windows on the left-hand side of this picture - though I never remember seeing the windows from the inside - the blinds were always down in there.

Incidentally, the lower windows (slightly below ground level) - those classrooms and corridor were known as 'the dungeons' - the lights had to be left on all day as hardly any sunshine got into those rooms.

Edited by Olliebeak, 18 April 2010 - 09:43 PM.

[Phyll]

As I said in another thread, I'm a Newbie, and I already read this thread, but
glad to see it's being revisited, (get it} Anyway, I worked at The Providence,
and when I worked Nights, it was spooky. We used to go around in Twos, in case
some dark figured Nun appeared, apart from the live ones!