Most Haunted Series Nine Brougham Hall

Most Haunted Series Nine : Haunted Happenings at Brougham Hall

GHOSTLY goings on at a country house in Cumbria have been captured on camera by TV’s Most Haunted with the help of a Carlisle medium.

Presenter Yvette Fielding travelled to Brougham Hall, Penrith, with resident medium David Wells and parapsychologist Ciaran O’Keeffe to investigate claims made by Neil Harrison, manager of the Old Smokehouse at Brougham Hall.

Mr Harrison contacted Most Haunted after glasses smashed, taps were turned mysteriously on and ghosts appeared.

Psychic James Griffiths followed up the claims in June.

The Most Haunted crew invited local spiritualist medium Martin Smith, from Sandsfield Park, Carlisle, to join them last Tuesday for a night at the property.

Martin, a medium for two years, said: “I was very excited and I can say there was some spectacular phenomena on the night.

“We finished around three in the morning. David and I were purposely not told anything about the history of the place.

“I deliberately didn’t want to know anything so anything I said would be honest communications and not my memory coming out.”

Martin and the crew carried out vigils in some of the darkest corners of the property.

He said: “Imagine the feeling you get when you walk in the dark and multiply it by 10.”

It was the first time Martin had teamed up with the Most Haunted team.

He said: “It was a great honour to be asked to work with Most Haunted.

“It will be interesting to see the final cut.”

Martin has been told the series nine episode is expected to be screened on UK Living in the new year.

Old Smokehouse manager Neil Harrison said: “I found when I started working here about two years ago that I’d think I’d see something or hear noises, see a flash or hear a loud bang.

“One morning when I returned to one of the units the tap was on full blast. There was nobody else about.”

Psychic James Griffiths claims he saw glasses fly off shelves, a table balancing itself on one leg, as well as feeling the presence of warring Scottish and English soldiers and Roman troops.

He also says he saw the spirit of a girl who died in the historic house and whose skull is rumoured to be concreted into one of the remaining fireplaces.

Most Haunted has previously asked owners of Dalston Hall Hotel, near Carlisle, if they can film there.

Room four at the hotel is notorious for its ghost – a lady called Catherine.

Muncaster Castle in west Cumbria is said to be one of the most haunted places in Britain.

KEve@cngroup.co.uk