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A mysterious moving pint glass has been captured on CCTV at the New Inn in Gloucester, which has a reputation for hauntings.

A catalogue of unexplained activity at a Gloucester pub has prompted the Gloucester Active Paranormal Society to investigate.

It’s claimed that a series of unexplained happenings have occurred at The New Inn in the space of a week, including the sound of ghostly footsteps, rattling doors and even a pint of beer mysteriously lifting itself off a table and on to the floor.

The building in Northgate Street is a bar and hotel, and dates back to the 14th Century.

It was originally built to house pilgrims visiting the shrine of King Edward II at nearby Gloucester Cathedral, and is described as having the finest example of a medieval gallery in Britain.

Lyn Cinderey from the Gloucester Active Paranormal Society (GAPS) was in the bar at the time of the ‘moving pint’ incident, taking part in a pub quiz.

“There were a few people in the bar, and four people saw this glass – a full pint – just lift up and fall on the floor. The glass didn’t even break.

“The rest of us looked around and heard the thud. We just couldn’t believe it. It was right there in the middle of the quiz.

“I’ve been investigating this [reputedly haunted] building for a long time and I’ve never known it so active.

“Activity has risen since 1 February when new managers, Mark and Samantha, arrived. Their daughter has been talking to a young girl – there is reputedly a young spirit girl there.”

“One of the bar staff has heard footsteps in the cellar when he’s been clearing up with nobody else there, and staff have also heard the exit door rattle in the restaurant.

“Another of the bar staff claims that when he’s been clearing up he’s felt a cold spot and he’s been chilled all over. It’s absolutely fantastic,” said Lyn.

“Samantha’s dog was eating his food in his bowl the other night and the bowl just turned itself over.

“The dog ran over to the other side of the room and just stared at his bowl and wouldn’t go near it the rest of the night.

“My friend also stayed there and she was watching TV when it suddenly went off.

“She went to look and the plug was half way out of the socket and yet it was firmly in before.”

Lyn Cinderey is now planning to do an overnight investigation, with a team of people from GAPS.

They will carry out temperature readings, use dictaphones to do EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) recordings, record anything that might be there with camcorders, and take pictures.

“We’ll hopefully get to the bottom of what exactly is going on,” said Lyn.

The first teaser trailer for the sequel to last October’s surprise low-budget blockbuster, Paranormal Activity, was released at screenings of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Shot in a similar style, this footage features the same security camera footage catching spooky images when no one is looking.

The budget is bigger this go-round since the original film, which cost only $15,000 to make, earned $193 million worldwide.

The storyline for the follow-up remains a secret and this eerie one-minute trailer gives no specific information about the plot of this supernatural tale. It shows objects moving on their own, a vanishing babe, and flying body. Apparently actors who originally played the haunted couple, Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, will return.

Complaints that the Paranormal Activity 2 trailer is too scary for young kids prompted the Cinemark theater chain in Texas to pull it, according to trade publication Variety. Some have suggested there are hidden voices and imagery. No doubt, this has increased views of the trailer online.

Supposedly tremendous word-of-mouth on the internet triggered the campaign, demanding that the first Paranormal Activity open in cities throughout the US, when it was originally scheduled for a select release.

On the 25th June 2010 Yvette Fielding announced on the Antix Productions website that she was leaving Living TV’s Most Haunted, to move on to other projects.

Here at Paranormal United weÂ wish her all the best in her future endeavours, it’s been a fun 10 years and we look forward to seeing her at Morecambe Winter Gardens on 24th July 2010.Â At the time of writing tickets are still available for this exclusive event at Morecambe.

**THE ONLY TIME THE TEAM WILL BE APPEARING LIVE TOGETHER THIS YEAR OUTSIDE OF THE ‘MOST HAUNTED-LIVE’ SHOWS**

In what could possibly be YOUR ONLY EVER OPPORTUNITY, you can join the Most Haunted team for a night to remember, at the scene of the 2009 Halloween ‘8 Faces of Evil – LIVE’ event; MORECAMBE WINTER GARDENS THEATRE, in Lancashire.

Ever since Yvette Fielding and the ‘Most Haunted’ team hit our screens way back in 2002 the show has become a world wide phenomenon, amassing a huge following of paranormal enthusiasts. The show has gone from strength to strength, with more and more people eager to see what Yvette, Karl, Cath and the rest of the team will encounter!
The series has also spawned numerous successful ‘Most Haunted – LIVE’ broadcasts, which have taken followers all over the world in search of the paranormal, where Yvette and the regular team are joined by demonologist Fred Batt and others; Fred Batt is also joining us for this fantastic event.

DONT FORGET, THIS IS NOT JUST A SIT IN THE AUDIENCE EVENT…YOU WILL BE TAKING PART IN EXPERIMENTS AND INVESTIGATING WITH THE MOST HAUNTED TEAM MEMBERS!

The house made famous by the 1970s Amityville Horror film has gone on sale in Long Island, New York, with a price tag of $1.15m (Â£800,000).

The five-bedroom house at 108 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, gained notoriety through the film based on the story of the Lutz family, who moved in in 1975.

Several months earlier, six members of another family had been shot and killed as they slept in the house.

A book and a series of films based on the events described by the Lutzes followed.

The high asking price of the house – a Dutch Colonial style home overlooking a canal – is based on renovation work, reports say.

It has had several owners since the 1970s. The address has been changed from the original 112 Ocean Avenue in a effort to keep onlookers away.

Photograph with the light anomaly was taken on 14th March 2010 at 3am at Old Tatton Hall in a period set of a living room.

Â Shot with a Nikon SLR f8 on a 30 second exposure. TheÂ area was lit by a blue neon torch for the first 5 secs.

A 15-year-old mystery surrounding a photograph which supposedly showed the ghost of a schoolgirl standing in an inferno has been resolved, after a researcher found the image is copied from a postcard.

Amateur photographer Tony O’Rahilly took the snap while photographing a blaze which destroyed Wem Town Hall in Shropshire on November 19, 1995.

After developing his film, Mr O’Rahilly claimed he had captured an image of a young girl wearing old fashioned clothes standing amid the flames staring into the camera lens.

Locals even claimed it was an apparition of 14-year-old Jane Churm who accidentally set fire to the town hall in 1677.

But eagle-eyed Brian Lear, 77, has finally put an end to the mystery after he noticed a striking similarity between the spooky shot and a girl in a postcard which appeared in his local paper.

The postcard, printed in the Shropshire Star’s Pictures from the Past section, shows a street view of Wem in 1922.

A young girl standing in a shop doorway on the left handside of the picture bares an uncanny resemblance to the Wem Ghost.

Mr Lear, a retired engineer and taxi driver, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, said: ”It is interesting to compare the two pictures.

”I was intrigued to find that she bore a striking likeness to the little girl featured as the Wem ghost.

The ‘Wem Ghost’ led to a plaque being placed on the newly built town hall and Wem was briefly renamed ‘Ghost Town’ attracting hundreds of tourists every year.

The Globe Inn Ludlow is reputedly haunted by Edward Dobson, a Tudor soldier garrisoned at Ludlow Castle. He died in a pub brawl circa 1553 and his ghost now appears hovering over the spot where he fell. The apparition is described as wearing a cloak and a wig.

A Birmingham business man staying at the Globe Inn also met a figure on the second story around 2.00am. He wished the figure goodnight. The next day he discovered that no other guests were staying at the Inn and nobody knew who this figure was.

Itâ€™s not every day that you get the chance to explore one of the regionâ€™s most sumptuous stately homes by candlelight . . . so who could resist a spooky night-time tour at Halloween?

For most people, Berrington Hall near Ludlow conjures up images of a beautiful neo-Classical building in acres of beautiful gardens and parkland, full of fine furnishings and brimming with history and style. But when the National Trust announced that the hall would be open for the evening on Saturday, I was keen to look at the hall by candlelight, and see it as only the staff and the people who lived there usually do.

Sarah Boughton ready for the arrival of visitorsÂ

There is certainly a special beauty about it at night, especially the domed interior. And there was a spookiness about the illuminated pumpkin heads in the courtyard, and the lights among the trees.

The evening began with a hearty bowl of pumpkin soup before we set off on a tour of the hall led by interpretation assistant Sarah Boughton.

She told us how, in days gone by, ladies would go to a churchyard and pick a piece of yew and place it under their pillows to dream of their future husbands.

Foretelling death was also a regular pastime in the 19th century. If you dreamed of a wedding, it meant you would die within the next year. If a clock stopped or creases in the table linen resembled a coffin, it could also indicate your impending demise.

Sarah also revealed people would open all the windows in the house when someone died, to let the soul escape.

â€œThey used to have people called sin-eaters. If a family member died, they would call in a sin-eater. A family member would stand on one side of the coffin and the sin-eater would stand on the other.

â€œA piece of bread, some money and a mazard bowl would be passed over the coffin to the sin-eater, who would eat the bread, drink from the bowl and take the money.â€

The idea, she said, was to pass on the dead personâ€™s sins to the sin-eater so that the deceased could go to heaven.

Servants were forbidden to use the main staircase, except when they were cleaning it. Even after death, they would be taken down a less glamorous set of stairs at the back of the house, which had been designed with a space in the middle just large enough to lower a coffin on ropes.

Dead servants would be taken down with their feet pointing towards the door â€œso their souls couldnâ€™t return.â€

We were allowed to wander round the bedrooms on our own, and found there was one more surprise in store. In one of the most beautiful boudoirs which contained a four-poster bed, a figure wearing a nightgown and cap suddenly rose from the bedclothes calling for her husband George.

When my husband addressed the ghostly apparition, and said: â€œGood evening, Lady Cawleyâ€ she presumed he was the butler and demanded that he should empty her chamber pot!

Although on this tour we did not see any other ghostly figures, there are a few well-known tales connected with the house, which sits on the south Shropshire border.

In â€œGhosts: Mysterious tales from the National Trustâ€ by Sian Evans, there are interviews with several staff members. One extract reads: â€œThere have been a number of reliable reports of mysterious sightings in the grounds and outbuildings within the last decade, especially around the area which houses the stable block.â€

A gardener relates how, on one occasion in the late 1970s, in full daylight, he was working in the grounds when he saw someone unlocking the door to the stables.

He realised that was strange because the key had been missing for years. Puzzled, because he didnâ€™t recognise the man and it was on a day when Berrington wasnâ€™t open to visitors, he went to investigate, only to find the stables locked and deserted.

He checked with other staff members, none of whom had been near the stables. The key is still missing and the door has remained unopened for many years.

In 1995, two cleaners asked the property manager if they could go and take a look at the two horses in the stable block they had seen on their way in.

They were assured that there were no horses on the premises and hadnâ€™t been for a number of years. The cleaners refused to go through the stable arch again.

Jo Mason from the National Trust said: â€œThere are two theories that may explain these odd apparitions. The first Lord Cawley altered this wing of Berrington around 1900-04 to create the present stable block, and all the male members of the family were keen horsemen. Tragically, three of his four sons were killed in action in France during the First World War.

â€œDuring both world wars, parts of Berrington Hall were used as a hospital for wounded and recuperating soldiers, who would have been encouraged to take gentle exercise as part of their rehabilitation.

â€œRiding would have been considered an excellent aid to recovery of both body and mind. So perhaps the glimpses of a striding figure heading for the stables, and two horses in the loose boxes, are traces of an earlier event, picked up by sympathetic figures from our own times.â€

The hallâ€™s visitor services manager Gareth Gwilt believes Berrington Hall to be a friendly house.

Although there are a few stories of ghostly figures at the hall, he said many had been handed down from generation to generation and modified. â€œI tend not to listen to them too much because I live here!.

â€œWe wanted to do something that was history-based. Itâ€™s not very often that you get to see the house lit up like this. We are definitely looking at doing it again next year.â€
Read more: http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/11/03/ghostly-goings-on-at-hall/#ixzz0s8MqrEpv

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