The Most Reported & Notable Ghost Sightings Of 2017
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The most widely reported ghost sightings of the year, from viral videos which claim to show the supernatural, to the most impressive photographs and evidence of the paranormal captured this year.
January
The year started off with plenty of paranormal activity, the two biggest events were a ghostly photo caught by a British ghost hunter and some creepy home security video.
Ghost Of Screaming Child Capture In Photo
This photo was taken by a Katy Morritt, a 19-year-old, amateur, ghost hunter during a trip to The Village in Mansfield. It was only the next morning that Katy noticed she'd captured an image of creepy face in the background of one of the photos.
But who or what did this eerie face belong to? Well, that soon became clear when she reviewed the video recordings from the previous night. During the recording of a "table tipping" experiment the sound of a screaming child could be heard.
The creepy snap was taken in a building which dates back to 1802 and housed a former slaughter house and malt house. In the 70's it became a nightclub called The Village, but today is an activity centre, home to of laser tag games and play areas.
The Village is said to be haunted by many different ghosts, including a group of monks, but on this occasion it's the story of a woman named Catherine who was murdered at The Village along with her child which seems to fit the particular haunting.
Ghost Terrifies Little Girl By Moving Objects
A video has surfaced online of a young girl being tormented by a poltergeist. The ghost appears to possess a doll, making it move before throwing paper and other items around the room.
The footage is said to have been recorded by the girl's father who installed a camera when the girl complained of strange happenings. The video is made up of two clips of the girl alone in different rooms.
The clip was recorded in September 2016 (according to the timestamp) and uploaded to 'La Otra Dimensión' a Spanish speaking Facebook page by Julio Cesar Alvarez Perez in December, but has started going viral in the first few weeks of 2017.
The video shows the girl in two rooms of the house. In the first she is seen sat on the floor playing with her toys, while towards the corner of the room another doll sits alone. The girl is distracted by her toys so doesn't notice the moment the the doll’s head begins to move and turn.
In the second half of the video, the girl can be seen drawing on a sheet of paper on a coffee table in the living room. This time she can't fail to miss the paranormal activity taking place around her as a pile of spare paper blows towards her by a strong breeze of unknown origin.
The girl runs from the room but the activity doesn't stop there, more objects from the table start being thrown around before the whole table itself slides across the floor.
March
February was a quiet month for the paranormal but reports in March the newspapers were full of one suspected ghost story in particular.
Beer Glass Explodes On Its Own
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A casual drink at his local turned into a paranormal incident when a pint of beer randomly exploded without being touched and amazingly, the landlord caught the whole thing on CCTV.
The video was captured by the Derby Arms' CCTV camera and shows a regular sat on his phone texting at the pub in Prescot before his pint randomly explodes right before his eyes.
The pub's landlord, Dave McGinn wasn't convinced that the glass smashed of its own accord and decided to check out the pub's security camera footage hoping to prove that the customer had simply knocked the pint over himself.
However, after reviewing the footage, the landlord started to suspect paranormal activity and according to Dave, it's not the first time something spooky has happened at the pub.
He told the Liverpool Echo that there's often been stories told about strange goings on at the pub, "over the years a few cleaners have said they've seen people walking past or felt things moving and we've had the odd glass fall off the shelf but we've never caught it on video."
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April
April was a very active month for the paranormal, there was a video of a ghost attack, a long-running paranormal TV show got its best evidence of ghosts ever, and there was even an exorcism of a famous television studio.
Ghost Attacking An Unaware Teen While He Reads A Book
A creepy video has been uploaded to YouTube which shows the moment a ghost attacks an unaware teenager while he reads a book at home. The eerie clip which shows the teen walking in to the room of his house, picking up a pick and reading it while stood in front of a closed door. Without warning and without the guy knowing, the door behind him is flung open by an unknown force.
Before he knows it, the teen is attacked by a shadowy figure and dragged across the room, kicking and screaming.
Priest Called In To Exorcise The Haunted TV Set
A priest in Manchester was called to perform an exorcism on the old set of Coronation Street at Granada Studios. The priest was called after guests to the set to the former-set of the long-running British TV show reported "banging noises" and poltergeist activity while they were preparing for a music event called Granadaland which took place at the Manchester studio.
The moment the priest performs the ancient ritual in the studio's soundstage was caught on CCTV.
Apparently, Corrie actors have reported supernatural occurrences on the old set for years, many believing it to be the ghost of Pat Phoenix who played Elsie Tanner in the soap before her death in 1986. Sue Cleaver, who plays Eileen Grimshaw, said "so many people have seen and felt the same things that there has to be something in it."
Wentworth Ghost
Yvette Fielding and the team of the British ghost hunting show, Most Haunted finally caught a ghost on camera after shooting over 200 hundred episodes at some of the UK's spookiest locations.
In the show's latest piece of evidence, Karl Beattie and Stuart Torevell caught an eerie figure on camera walking up some steps during a nighttime vigil in part of the derelict stable block at Wentworth Woodhouse, a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, South Yorkshire.
The show's presenter Yvette, described the video as the "most groundbreaking footage" to date. She later admitted that she actually burst into tears, "I was so excited and overwhelmed with the fact that, all of these years on Most Haunted, to me, that is the best piece of paranormal evidence."
May
In May a creepy ghostly figure sat on a road in Malaysia freaked out a driver and it was revealed that elsewhere in Malaysia a malevolent ghost likes to push its victims down stairs.
Ghost In The Road
A driver in Malaysia was forced to do a u-turn after he spotted a ghostly figure sat in the middle of the road. Aswan Yap captured the whole incident on his in-car dashboard camera.
The 25-year-old was driving at night in Kuala Lumpur, in a part of the city which is said to be home to haunted mansion. The pair freaked out and Aswan slammed on the breaks, before turning around and heading back the way they'd come.
Malaysian Ghost Pushes People Down Stairs
Later in May some eerie footage was upload to YouTube which appears to show several people being pushed down a flight of stairs in the North-eastern Malaysian town of Keningau.
The video was posted by Mohd Faizal and of the thousands of people who have already watched and shared the clip, many think that there's a paranormal force acting on the people in the video which is causing them to slip.
July
Summer was reasonably quiet in the paranormal world, but that didn't stop me from heading off on a ghost hunt myself.
Drakelow Tunnels Ghost Hunt
The audio highlights of a ghost hunt at a form underground, wartime aircraft factory in Kidderminster. I recorded audio with a Sony digital audio recorder for the whole four hours and spent today picking out the best bits and the bits which were loud enough to be picked up by the microphone. The audio includes the mysterious whistling sound we heard, the moment something was thrown/fell in the kitchen, and our reaction to the flashing lights we witnessed during the table tipping experiment.
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August
In August we celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of the most famous and best documented haunted house case of all times, the Enfield Poltergeist. Several ghost stories also made it into the news.
Yvette Fielding Meets The World's Most Famous Haunted Doll
A few weeks ago, 'This Morning' presenters Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford were spooked by a Victorian-style doll. After being sold on eBay the creepy doll is back and this time Yvette Fielding is on hand to give her opinion on the toy.
It's been called "the world's most famous haunted doll", although personally I think I'd give Annabelle that title. She caused quite a stir last time she was on the show when the rocking chair she was perched in started moving on its own.
Man's Story Of Being Haunted By Ghost Of A Dead Child Goes Viral On Twitter
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A series of tweets by a New Yorker, Adam Ellis AKA @moby_dickhead, went viral in August. The terrifying tweets tell the story of the sinister ghost of a child which Adam claims is haunting his apartment. He's tweeted about several strange paranormal occurrences in the apartment, some of which involve his cats.
According to the 30-year-old Twitter user, the haunting started after a series of vivid dreams which featured a little boy with a misshapen head sitting in a chair at the end of his bed.
Adam now believes that the spirit has crossed over from his nightmares into the real world which has resulted in lots of strange goings on in his NYC apartment. The whole tale has gathered quite a following on social media. His original tweet which he posted at the start of August has now been retweeted over 50k times. It read, "so my apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child and he's trying to kill me."
But those 98 characters were just the start of the story. Adam continued with a series of tweets about the eerie ghost child. The thread from that first day is made up of around 30 tweets, including a drawing of what he claims the ghost of Dear David looks like.
Since then Adam has gone on to post regular updates on his Twitter account, as well as several photos and videos of paranormal activity.
September
September was another quiet month, but I headed out on another ghost hunt, once again armed with my audio recorder.
Guy's Cliffe House, Warwick Ghost Hunt
In September I went on a ghost hunt at Guy's Cliffe House, a grade II listed manor house which dates back to 1751 but fell in to disrepair in the 1950s.
The audio highlight from the night and the only evidence I captured was the bang we heard in the Masonic temple. In the clip the sound plays twice, recorded from two different devices. One microphone was right next to the sound and one at the other side of the room.
October
It's the month of Halloween and spirits are high, here's some of the spooky events than occurred in the run up to the creepiest night of the year.
Ghost Of Boy Seen At Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire
Photo: © Tony Grist
Derbyshire's Bolsover Castle has been voted the creepiest castle in the UK. The castle, which is built on an ancient burial ground has been the site of many hauntings, including an incident when the spirit of a boy was seen holding hands with a visitor without them even noticing.
Staff at the castle have also reported sighting themselves, a security guard said he has seen unexplained lights, and another member of staff heard screaming when she was locking up for the night.
Haunted Apartment In The UK
A video which was submitted to us, the guy shot this two minute video during a walk around his house on a very active evening. The video was shot while the man was alone in his flat in the dark.
He starts off in the living room, the sound of faint knocking can be heard. From here on the activity escalates to poltergeist activity and even a partial manifestation.
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