Haunting experiences...

[DRM]

I don't think they like that word any more.

Doesn't matter, they've all been closed down

 

[MontyVeda]

Nearly drowning off the coast of Cornwall when I was about twenty five.

I can empathise with that.

Nearly drowning after capsizing a canoe under a fast flowing weir. I got stuck in the torrent and couldn't get away from it, like being in a washing machine... I felt myself 'go', only to pop out of the water about 50 yards away. Spent the next few days coughing the river Lune out of my lungs.

 

[oxoman]

Doesn't matter, they've all been closed down

No they haven't they just renamed them, then they abbreviated it MHU,s. Personally I prefer to think they just renamed it the houses of Parliament and house of Lords.

 

[oxoman]

As to Scary, you want to see my ex or her mum without their concretia on. 🤢. Luckily they looked alright whilst I was married to it.

 

[classic33]

https://ribblesteam.org.uk/news/whittingham-hospital-railway/

Had it's own railway as well, according to that website nearly 3000 patients. Surely one of them could have survived into the afterlife?

The one near Menston had a similar private railway line. It's one of the origins of "Going Round The Bend".

 

[Mike Ayling]

Doesn't matter, they've all been closed down

Apart from the one we are discussing

 

[wiggydiggy]

The one near Menston had a similar private railway line. It's one of the origins of "Going Round The Bend".

Is that true?

 

[classic33]

Is that true?

The asylums were always approached by a grand driveway, from which you could never see the building properly, until you'd gone round the bend in the drive.
The approach by the railway lines followed a similar route, hiding the building from sight until you went round the bend in the line.

 

[prestonhere]

https://ribblesteam.org.uk/news/whittingham-hospital-railway/

Had it's own railway as well, according to that website nearly 3000 patients. Surely one of them could have survived into the afterlife?

Indeed, it was a branch off the preston to longridge line part of a bridge is still present on a lane i use

 

[DRM]

I think Menston Hospital, is now flats, as is Stanley Royd at Pinderfields in Wakefield, if anywhere was to have a ghost or two, they would seem to be prime candidates in my book

 

[Webbo2]

I think Menston Hospital, is now flats, as is Stanley Royd at Pinderfields in Wakefield, if anywhere was to have a ghost or two, they would seem to be prime candidates in my book

So are most old institutions . The two East Yorkshire ones Broadgates hospital is levelled and is now housing estate, some of the old staff cottages are still there. De le Pole hospital still has a secure Mental health facility on site as well as the trusts HQ the rest of the site is a gym and other businesses.

 

[prestonhere]

Doesn't matter, they've all been closed down

There was another name they were called certainly in lancashire but Whittingham certainly held some who could never stand in court the details would prevent any jury being fit fit to understand or comprehend

 

[Profpointy]

Aside from the coffee machine, and all the naughty cyclists, here, I'd like to start a thread about haunting experiences. I've had a few of them, but don't know where to start the thread

Off we go:-

I was once stuck in a cave for 12 hours that was quite memorable...

Or the time my dad and I brought a car and he drove it away only to find the wheels weren't full tightened up.

Which cave , and dare I ask injured, or trapped by high water or whatever?

 

[Profpointy]

A very secure section of Whittingham still remains the guests there will never leave so if you pass there do not stop for hitch hikers

The song "sound of the suburbs" refers to the weekly test of the escape siren at broadmoor. It also places the band's origins in quite a small geographical area where this could be heard


View: https://youtu.be/Qkaj4LA4bw0?si=cKe5QMuSfT-ADaBM

 

[Dogtrousers]

A friend of mine was on a training course near Crewe or Chester (I think). He was staying in a hotel building obviously converted from other use with a rather institutional feel.

Talking to a local he explained where he was staying and they said "ah, the old clap clinic"