Charity Event at the

Priestley Theatre,

Bradford

5th July

8pm - 2am

Tickets £20

Please contact Priestley Theatre direct

or call: 01274 820666

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September

 

Saturday 13th September

RAF HOLMPTON

Withernsea, Hull.

RAF Holmpton was built in the early 1950's, housing a coldwar bunker.

The site is very large with many different paranormal areas located upon it.

 

Why not join us on an investigation?

free cold buffet/refreshments

8pm - 3am

Tickets: £20

 

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The Golden Fleece, York

plus ghost walk

Saturday 20th September

9pm - 4am

Seeking Spirit's second visit to this most active of places.

The Golden Fleece has a long history of ghostly happenings. For centuries (the building dates back to 1503) it has been recognized as being seriously haunted!

Sightings suggest The Golden Fleece is home to at least 5, possibly 7 ghosts/spirits who appear in almost all of the rooms; the cellar, both bars, the function room on the first floor and all 4 letting bedrooms – the Shambles Room, Lady Peckett’s Room, St Catherine’s Room and the Minster Suite.

The yard to the rear of The Golden fleece is named after Lady Alice Peckett ,whose husband John was Lord Mayor of York, who also owned the Golden Fleece around 1700. Is it  Lady Alice who is the “resident spirit” A younger woman dressed in black has also been seen walking past a window in St Catherine’s Room. A guest has caught her appearance on video at a time when there was not another living soul in that part of the building. In the bottom bar, the presence of a ghost dressed in the red coat, wig and breeches characteristic of the 17th century, carriying an old flintlock pistol, paces fretfully up and down the bar.

Towards the front of the pub in the top bar,  the ghost of a young boy in Victorian attire is quite active. This poor child is supposed to have been killed accidentally by one of the horses that pulled the delivery cart in those days – the brewer’s dray.Without doubt the most recent phantom to haunt the Golden Fleece is a WW11 airman,  who died here during the war. There is some confusion over whether he committed suicide by hanging  or plunged 3 stories to the ground after a drinking session, also  sightings of a little girl who appears and disappears in the kitchen, and ghostly Roman soldiers have been seen in the cellar.

Records show that, in times gone by, the bodies of convicts, hanged at nearby Bale Hill would be stored in the pub cellar until such times as their families came to claim them.In addition to all these sightings there have been numerous  paranormal occurrences reported,.loud noises,  footsteps, strange lights that turn on and off by themselves, cold spots and temperature changes,  beds that move,doors that slam and bathroom taps that turn on by themselves,

 

Free cold buffet/refreshments

Tickets: £35

                                                               

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OCTOBER 2008

 

Saturday 11th October 2008

Doncaster Air Museum

9pm - 3am

Tickets £25

Join us again for our third visit to this old airfield.

This area was used in the WWII, home of 616 squadron. Visit the hangar, the bunker, Area 19, the bedrooms and much more!

includes free refeshments and buffet supper

 

 

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Saturday 18th October 2008

The Red Lion, Pontefract

Back by huge demand!

This sixteenth century hostelry was originally a coaching Inn and private residence before becoming a busy hotel. It closed its doors around fifty years ago but the public bar
beneath remained open. The previous owners were upset by strange happenings around twenty years ago and so decided to permanently shut every door on the second floor towards the Great Hall along with all the corridors leading to it, and all the doors on the third floor stayed sealed until the new landlord took over in 2006.

After opening up this whole new area the landlord found the upstairs of the Red Lion was comparative to a ‘Paranormal Pandora's box’. Poltergeist activity occurred, shadows were seen, light anomalies passed by and the ghosts were
extremely active once more.

It is believed that many years ago the building was used for many untoward things, such as illegal medical practice and its is also rumoured that black arts were practiced in this building sometime in the past.

Tickets £25 each

with free refreshments and midnight feast

 

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Friday 24th October

Mosborough Hall,

Sheffield

Includes free refreshments and free buffet.

Tickets: £35

9pm - 3am

 

Mosborough Hall, Mosborough, an ancient manor house, the earliest parts of which date back to medieval times, circa 1246. and parts of the Hall’s history can also be traced back to Henry VIII. Since the beginning of the century Mosborough Hall has passed through many different families, and paranormal activity has been rife throughout the years, ranging from full apparitions to violent poltergeist activity. The Spafford family who owned the Hall 1944 to 1960, decided, due to the amount of paranormal activity taking place , to enlist the help of the local vicar, Montague Holmes, and also the famous and renowned Harry Price, who was one of the most well known psychical researcher of his time, to perform an exorcism at the Hall. Afterwards a more peaceful atmosphere seemed to pervade the building, but years later, when the Spafford family decided to leave the Hall, and auction all their belongings in a marquee erected on the lawn in front of the Hall. The marquee burst into flames the night before the auction, destroying all their belongings and furniture. No cause of the fire could be found.  The paranormal activity had returned. The many Ghosts of Mosborough Hall. The Barn, the spirit of a male entity has been seen. In the many bedrooms/floors of Mosborough Hall, a male spirit has been witnessed, probably Georgian , due to his attire. Grounds and Bedrooms, The White Lady, who is believed to be a governess, who had her throat cut by the Hall’s squire after she threatened to inform his wife of their affair. Grounds and Building, the sound of arguing between a male and female, believed to be the governess and her lover. Black Dog, seen many times throughout the property. Poltergeist activity, ornaments, books and furniture have been moved in parts of the building. Female Servant, seen at various areas in the Hall. A doorway (now bricked up) which was used by servants when going to the local farm to collect eggs etc, the main staircase, the same female servant has been seen and heard walking up to the first floor. Bloodstains, in the same bedroom as the apparition of The White Lady, The bloodstains could not be removed; no amount of scrubbing would erase them. Only recently, due to the conversion of the Hall, were they removed when the floorboards were replaced. Grounds and Building, the sound of dreadful sobbing and a full apparition of the female afterwards. Downstairs Bar, elderly male spirit, in the corner, next to the fireplace. Many raps and taps heard in the upstairs conference rooms, cold breezes in the bedrooms and many white swirling mists seen in the grounds of the Hall.

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Seeking Spirit are pleased to announce...

Hallowe'en 2008

Friday 31st October 2008

The Thackry Medical Museum, Leeds.

 

Includes free refreshments and free buffet.

Tickets: £35

buy your's now!

8pm - 2am

The Thackray Medical Museum stands in the grounds of St James Hospital.  It started life in 1861 as “The Leeds Union Workhouse”. A place with a fearsome reputation , little food to eat, grim surroundings, forced to work,  punishment if you didn,t do as you were told, plus the spread of disease in the crowded conditions, all contributed to a high death rate. “The Leeds Union Workhouse” changed its name to St James Hospital in 1929, but it has also been used as a psychiatric hospital and also took in wounded military persons during WWII.

The Thackray Museum set up as a charitable trust in 1997, by Paul Thackray, founder of Thackray Instruments and is housed in a 5,000sq metre; grade II listed building, capturing the history of medicine in a variety of displays and galleries, including a mock Victorian slum, a display of instruments etc dedicated to the evolution of medicine, hygiene and social change.

Exhibitions which we have full access to

Victorian Street/ slum houses, step back in time and experience 1842

Health choices, Disease returned, The Apothecary’s shop, Life zone.Surgery,Having a baby, Wilkinson Collection, a display of 600 artefacts , collected and given to the museum by Manchester Physician Dr. JF Wilkinson., Hannah Dyson(Victorian operation),Pain,pus and blood, an exhibition demonstrating Victorian medical cures

 

And finally

The remains of Mary Bateman, The Yorkshire Witch.

 

Mary Bateman, nee Harker, commonly called The Yorkshire Witch

Born in North Yorkshire 1768, married in 1792. Took up residence in Marsh Lane, Leeds. She was well known in Leeds and the surrounding districts as a “witch”. She was employed to work “cures of evil wishes”, “diving” and “witchcraft”, and

is rumoured she have styled herself on the famous “Pendle Witches”.

She was convicted of murder, in May 1808, and sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. Mary Bateman was executed on 20th March 1809 at York. After execution her body was displayed in public, and it was then sent to surgeons to be dissected, her skin was cut into strips, tanned, and the strips were then sold as charms to ward off evil.  All monies raised were given to charity. Her remains now reside in the Thackery Medical Museum, on the first floor.

Ghosts of the Thackray Museum

A group of three male spirits, all in white coats, in the area outside the ladies toilets.

 A weeping woman,  in the Victorian Street/slum area

A heavy smell of perfume/lavinder on the ground floor exhibitions.

A female spirit, on the first landing of the main staircase, dressed as a Victorian nurse.

On the first floor, lots of spirit evidence of hospital activity, i.e. nurses, cleaners etc.

A sense of a male spirit in the Wilkinson Collection, also smell of pipe tobacco in this area.

The remains of Mary Bateman, a sense of injustice, but also maliciousness in its intent.

 

Also reported at the museum, the sound of footsteps at night when the museum is empty, the smell of urine in certain parts of the building, and also some of the staff have reported feelings of dread, also in certain parts of the building.

 

DARE YOU JOIN SEEKINGSPIRIT ON THIS HALLOWEEN NIGHT

   

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NOVEMBER

Saturday 15th November

Smithills Hall

Bolton, Lancashire.

8pm - 2am

Smithills Hall is a Grade I listed manor house, in the town of Bolton, Lancashire and dates from the 14th Century.

Smithills Hall is one of the oldest in Lancashire, it has a footprint in its flagstones rumoured to have materialised when a protestant martyr was interrogated at the hall. The footprint is said to bleed on the anniversary of his martyrdom.

free cold buffet/refreshments

Tickets: £40