Most Haunted Chambercombe Manor, Devon.

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The earliest records show a Lord of the manor as early as 1162, and as well as its priest holes a chapel was added in 1439. Then in the 1650’s the Oatway familys short but significant stay began, a succession of familys was lucky enough to call this their home. Recently its role change to a working farm, in 1979 the Chambercombe Manor trust took ownership allowing visitors to visit this site from then onwards in the summer months. The spirit of a women called Elizabeth has been seen walking on the 400 hundred year old floor, the spirit of a man has also been felt near the fireplace, also an old women dressed in black has been seen sitting on the windowsill. Legend has it that William Oatway was running out of money, his daughter had left and married an irish sea captain, they had not seen her for years and they wrecked a shipwreck which had alot of dead bodies, they saw a women lieing on the sand, she had been bashed against the rocks, her face was badly disfigured, William robbed her then brought her back to the house when he realised that she was still alive unconscious, he lied her in the bed and she died 5 days later, William wondered how he could dispose of the body and he went to the pub and was talking to some people who had a list of all the people that had died from the shipwreck, there was only one women on the entire list and they gave him the name and it was his daughter Kate Oatway, they did not know what to do with the body so the bricked up the room with the body still in the bed, in the 1880’s a farmer broke through a spare windowsill wall to discover the body of Kates skeleton in the four postered bed. In the four postered bedroom a child has been seen inside the cot as it swings from side to side, and a ghost of a women in grey has been seen standing over the cot. In another room a 6 year old girl who died has been seen playing with a friend, and two male figures have been seen in the same room, one of them is not too nice, cold spots, and poltergeist activity is also witnessed in the room. Ciaran O’Keefe is the Parapsychologist, and Gordon Smith is the guest Psychic Medium

First Broadcast: 26th September 2006

Most Haunted Bamburgh Castle

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The impressive Bamburgh Castle located in Northumberland. With the backdrop of the North Seas Bamburgh Castle is a wonderful site to see. The nine acre site once formed a smaller timber construction, the Norman Keep dates back as far back as 1120, so many wars has been seen from this Castle, numerous people are associated with this Castle. Early in the 19th century a charitable trust went about to bring Bamburgh Castle back to its former glory. As a result the castle has since been a school, a World War Two HQ, and a hospital. The ghost of John Sharp who renevated the Castle has been seen walking in the gallery area, the ghost of a women has been seen in a particular room and the camera’s fail on a regular basis in the room. A soldier has been seen, and a baby heard crying, there is also a piano playing ghost. Visitors have felt terrified near the library room, they have also felt sick, dark shadows have also been seen around there, and people complain about being touched by unseen hands while looking at the pictures. During World war Two when the Castle was used as a hospital a young male patient shot and tragically killed himself, his figure has been seen at the bottom of the stairs, and cold spots have been felt, a cold hand has been felt by visitors trying to hold their hand, this all happens in the Tapestry Passage. Matthew Smith returns as the Parapsychologist. Gordon Smith is the Guest Psychic Medium.

First Broadcast: 19th September 2006

Most Haunted RSS Discovery & HMS Unicorn

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The two ships located in Dundee Scotland. RSS Discovery and HMS Unicorn, both are based within a mile of each other.
RSS Discovery built between 1900 and 1901 lived up to its name by carrying Captain Scott to the West Indies and New Zealand towards his historic expedition to Antartica. In Februrary 1904 two years on the RSS Discovery returned home to a hero’s welcome. Ghostly footsteps are heard throughout the ship, people believe it could be a crew member that followed Captain Scott to the Antartic, others believe it could be from a young man who fell to his death from the crows nest. A figure has been seen in one of the cabins, a ghostly boy has been seen running around the Ship and ghostly shadows have been seen, a ghost of a young sailor is seen so vividly that visitors stop and talk to him.

HMS Unicorn will be the main focus for the crew on this episode. HMS Unicorn is the oldest British Ship still afloat. The Ship fully launched in 1824, but the Ship never did get to see active battle due to due to onset of steam powered sailing, but the Ship did contribute to other things but it just remained in its location in Dundee. People feel uncomfortable on the decks as if someone is watching them, but the heavy booted footsteps and dark figures that scare people the most. There is only one known death located in this ship as well, one of the shipkeepers fell down the stairs near the boiler room and died and was found the next morning. Poltergeist activity is known to happen in one part of the ship and heavy objects and display cases are thrown on the floor when no-one is around. Some staff members refuse to enter the ship alone.
Steve Parsons is the Paranormal Investigator, and Guest Psychic Ian Shillito returns.

First Broadcast: 12th September 2006

Most Haunted North East Aircraft Museum

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The North East Aircraft Museum, formerly the Northumbrian Aeronautical Collection, began life in 1974 as a small group of vintage aircraft enthusiasts meeting very informally at Sunderland Flying Club to exchange views and information on their chosen interest. At this time, the North East was the only major area of the United Kingdom not covered by any form of vintage aircraft group. Indeed, the only enthusiast aviation group in the whole region was Air North which mainly indulged in aircraft spotting. As the number of people attending the informal group meetings began to swell the decision was taken to establish a more formal organization and thus the Northumbrian Aeronautical Collection was born.

About the time of the formation of the N.A.C. , reports were received of the existence of an ex-Fleet Air Arm Westland Dragonfly helicopter rotting in a North Yorkshire scrapyard, and that a Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 fighter aircraft was to be broken up at RAF Acklington. After many hurried conversations and much frantic money raising, it was decided that the N.A.C. should go into aircraft preservation.
Following the acquisition of the two airframes, finding a suitable site to display the embryo collection was the first major difficulty. However, this was finally overcome when the owners and organizers at Lambton Pleasure Park showed an interest and were kind enough to provide a site free of charge. Thus, a trend was started that would eventually develop into the North East Aircraft Museum.

Over the following years the museum continued to grow, by collecting aircraft and artefacts from home and abroad, this included three aircraft donated by the United States Air Force. As the size of the collection increased so did visitor figures and the museum was considered to be of sufficient standing to allow an entrance fee to replace entrance by donation. In an effort to enhance the status of the museum it was decided that the museum should apply for registered charity status and that the museum support and fund raising activities should be set up as a limited company.

It was also at this time that the museum achieved its first major preservation coup by successfully saving the remains of a Supermarine Swift F.4 and a Bristol Brigand. These two airframes were of a particular historical significance in that the former was the remains of an aircraft that had captured the World Air Speed record in 1953. The latter represented the sole surviving remains of this type of aircraft anywhere in the world. Both of these exhibits wre saved from certain destruction, while many larger museums looked on.

In January 1983 the largest aircraft to land at Sunderland Airport arrived for the museum. This exhibit, the mighty Avro Vulcan bomber, which is still the largest and most expensive of the museum’s acquisitions instantly became the museum’s biggest attraction and to this day remains open for public inspection.

In line with a policy of continuous improvement the museum was able to stage another major preservation coup in 1988 when an F-84 Thunderstreak arrived on site from Greece. This was followed in 1989 by an F-86D Saber from the same source and thus gave the museum two further unique exhibits. The success of the policy of continuous improvement and extended opening times was supported by the ever increasing number of visitors, which by the end of 1990 had reached an annual total in excess of 20,000.

First Broadcast: 5th September 2006

Most Haunted The Ancient High House

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Stafford’s Ancient High House has been one of the most important buildings of the town for over four hundred years. Its late Elizabethan architecture makes it particularly distinctive among its 20th century neighbours. Rooms are displayed in period settings illustrating the varied history of the house. The Dorrington family had the house built in 1595 of oak believed to have come from Doxey Woods. It had an important role when King Charles I and his nephew Prince Rupert stayed here in 1642 at the start of the Civil War. The following year, when Stafford was taken over by the Parliamentarians, it became a prison for Royalist Officers.

As you would expect for a house with such a long history, ownership has changed many times with some the region’s most important families living here. The Sneyd family were here through the 17th century and in the next century, Mr. Brooke Crutchley owned the house and divided it, the other half being lived in by Samuel Twigg, a mercer. Alterations to the ground floor in the 19th century seriously weakened the structure. Continued deterioration this century resulted in Stafford Borough Council carrying out an extensive programme of restoration. At the rear of the building is a small demonstration herb garden. The Ancient High House promises you an enjoyable and interesting visit.
Museum
The Staffordshire Yeomanry Museum, housed within the Ancient High House since 1993, gives visitors a flavour of the history of the Queens Own Royal Regiment. The display covers over 200 years of tradition and is specifically designed to be interesting to members of the general public as well as military enthusiasts. The centre piece of the exhibition is the Guidon (Standard) of the Yeomanry. It is surrounded by maps detailing the 19 battle honours the Guidon carries. The museum is a fine record of a fine regiment.

Featured in the Ancient High House are samples of 18th and 19th century wallpapers restored as part of the work carried out on the house by Stafford Borough Council. Designs bear intriguing clues to their history, such as excise duty stamps from 1740s.

The visit of King Charles I and Prince Rupert is commemorated in the civil war room. The coat-of-arms of the Sneyd family, can be seen in this room as a magnificent stained glass window, purchased by the Friends of the Ancient High House.

The furnishings in the Victorian room show some of the splendour of the time. The room is used for Victorian evenings when the piano provides entertainment of the era.

First Broadcast: 30th August 2006

Most Haunted East Riddlesden Hall

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East Riddlesden Hall itself was built in the 1640s by the local Murgatroyd family. The family had made their fortune through milling and weaving and the building was designed and built as a symbol of the power of the family.

Unfortunately the family’s star was short-lived and the house passed into the hands of the Starkie family through intermarriages later that same century.

The Hall was extended during the 1690s but has changed very little since that time and still contains many items originating for the century it was built including furniture and embroideries.

The Hall has been a gentleman’s residence and also a tenanted farm.

It came under threat of demolition in 1934 but was purchased by the Keighley brothers who presented the house to the National Trust who now have the care and running of the property.
The ghosts: Will you encounter a woman in white, the lady of the manor drowned in the ground’s fish pool? Or perhaps the Grey Lady, reputed to have been shut up in her room to starve to death by her husband after having been discovered with a lover.

First Broadcast: 23rd August 2006

Most Haunted Taunton Castle

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Some kind of structure has existed on the site of Taunton Castle since Saxon times. In 1138, Henry of Blois, transformed a manor house into this mighty castle and it has been a feature of the town ever since. But perhaps its most notorious age relates back to the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, known locally as the ‘Duking Days’. Many Somerset people suffered at the hands of the authorities after the failed uprising and Taunton Castle was the scene for some of the trials of the Bloody Assizes, when hundreds of people were sent to their death by Judge Jeffreys, who the Most Haunted team have encountered at various locations before.

Inevitably the castle has gained a reputation for being steeped in the paranormal. In the Great Hall where many of the trials were carried out, the sound of marching feet is heard, thought to be soldiers bringing prisoners to face the bloody assizes. On the castle landing, the figure of a man in period dress and wig, carrying a sword and pistol has been seen and the ghost of a fair-haired woman has been reported. Even the ‘hanging judge’ Jeffrey’s himself, has been known to make a spiritual appearance. And as the team have crossed swords with the Judge in the past, a memorable visit is guaranteed

 First Broadcast: 15th August 2006

Most Haunted Plas Mawr

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Plas Mawr, the ‘Great Hall’, built between 1576 and 1585 for the influential Welsh merchant, Robert Wynn.
The tall, lime rendered walls reflect the status of its builder as does its richly decorated interior. But do not let this rugged exterior deceive you, for within it is rich in ornamentation.
Plas Mawr is an architectural gem, the finest surviving town house of the Elizabethan era to be found anywhere in Britain.
It stands as a symbol of a prosperous, buoyant age, epitomised by the style and taste of Robert Wynn, a remarkable and well-travelled courtier and trader who rose to pre-eminence amongst the Welsh gentry. Wynn’s ‘worthy plentiful house’ is especially noted for the quality and quantity of its ornamental plasterwork, now fully restored to its original splendour (look out for the many initials ‘R. W.’ in its crests and coats of arms).
Particularly exquisite is the plaster overmantel in the hall, repainted in its vivid original colours, which immediately proclaimed Wynn’s wealth and status. Other riches in this noble dwelling include the glorious decorated plasterwork ceilings and friezes and skilful carpentry.
Plas Mawr’s authentic period atmosphere is further enhanced by furnishings (many original to the house) based on an inventory of the contents in 1665. Visitors can take an audio-tour of the house which describes the restoration and the life of the Tudor gentry (not just Wynn’s generous entertaining and feasting, but also the work of the servants which underpinned such a lavish lifestyle).
To mark the 400th anniversary of Wynn’s death in 1598, Cadw plan to re-create the Elizabethan garden around the house.

The Most Haunted team visit Plas Mawr located in Conwy, North Wales. The building has been standing for over 400 years, one of Britains best surviving Elizabethan town houses. It was built around 1585 for its original owner Robert Wynn. Both Robert’s two marriages both called Dorothy both had premature deaths. Illness killed the first, but a tragic fall killed the second who was pregnant. Dorthy slipped by accident down the stairs with her child while she was pregnant with another, the doctor came and said she would die, when Robert returned home he found his wife and child both dead in the bed and the doctor had dissapeared never to be seen again. The doctor is rumoured to have suffocated in the chimney whilst trying to escape from her husband because he could not save Dorothy. Are Robert Wynn’s second wife and the doctor who tried but failed to save her still trapped in the bedroom? In the bedroom a ghostly face is seen in the doorway, also the master of the house is said to walk here, he greets people with a ghostly ‘hello’. Also two lady’s have been seen on the second floor, one of them distressed, could this be both the wife’s of Robert who had premature deaths? Alot of poltergeist activity is seen in Plas Mawr, also footsteps are heard and smells of tobacco is smelt by visitors. Touchings by unseen hands are felt, security doors swing open and a ghostly black cat has been seen running across the floor. Parapsychologist Ciaran O’Keefe returns, and Ian Lawman is the guest Psychic.

First Broadcast: 8th August 2006

Most Haunted Preston Manor

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The Most Haunted Team investigate Preston Manor located in Brighton. First mentioned in the doomsday book of 1086 it has since gone through many rebuilds but it still retains one fact that a ghost has been seen here for over 500 years. The nun was brutally murdered and her remains was not found until 400 years later , Agnes does not just haunt the manor she also haunts the graveyard nearby looking for a proper burial. The Stamford family who’s generation have lived in the Manor for 138 years have seen Agnes. There was many families that lived here before it was open to the viewing public in 1933. Many people are convinced that a nun called sister Agnes resides here. Bells jingle even when one of them is not connected, a women in gray has also been seen. From smells, to noises, to apparitions, this place was well worth an investigation. Parapsychologist Ciaran O’Keefe returns. Ian Shillito is the guest Psychic.

First Broadcast: 1st August 2006

Most Haunted Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

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The first exchange was built near to the present site in 1792. The first exchange was replaced by a second, larger, exchange that was constructed between 1806 and 1809. The second exchange was enlarged between 1847 and 1849. The second exchange was in turn replaced, by a third exchange by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874.  The building was then extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading room in England.

The building was seriously damaged during World War II when it took a direct hit from a bomb during a German air raid. The interior was subsequently rebuilt with a much smaller trading area. The top stages of the clock tower, which had been blasted off, were replaced in a much simpler form. Trading ceased in 1968, and the building was threatened with demolition.

The building remained empty until 1973 when it was used to temporarily house a theatre company.

Yvette Fielding, guest medium Ian Shillito and the team investigate ghostly phenomena at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. As well as being greeted by remnants of the building’s former guise as a trading centre, a modern day characterdecides to play his part in welcoming the Most Haunted team to his domain.

First Broadcast: 25th July 2006