Brannigans Night Club

Series Two of Most Haunted opens with a very spooky investigation into a disused church which occupies the upper floors of Brannigans nightclub in Manchester.Brannigans is Located in the former Albert Hall building in Manchester. It is a popular bar and night club. However upstairs can be found an old disused methodist church with an old organ, believed to be Britain's largest! Brannigans is supposed to be very actively haunted. There is reported to be Poltergeist activity, spectral sightings and two entities. One of these entities is said to haunt the bar area and is reported to be the Reverend Samuel Collier who preached in the church in 1910. The spirit of Reverend Collier is said to cause glasses to crash to the floor and move across the bar on their own accord.

There are reports of considerable poltergeist activity and spectral sightings, including two entities that, according to spiritualist medium Derek Acorah, did not want a television crew in the building.

 

 

House Of Detention, Clerkenwell

The prisons on the site of the House Of Detention date back over 300 years. In 1845 it was decided that the entire area should be re-built as the Clerkenwell House Of Detention. This was soon to become London´s biggest remand prison detaining as many as 10000 prisoners a year. Although demolished in 1890, almost all the perimeter wall, the wardens residence and the entire underground level of the prison was left intact. Some of the underground cells became air raid shelters during the Second World War, while others were sealed off so completely at the time of demolition that they have never as yet been entered into again, and are only recently being excavated. The House of Detention was re-opened in 1983 as a tourist and visitors attraction, and strange phenomena has been reported there ever since its re-opening. In "Walking Haunted London"by Richard Jones, he mentions that visitors to Clerkenwell have seen an old lady who seems to be searching for something. Jones also mentioned that the manager had lost count of the number of people who hear the little girl whose "heart-rending sobs reverberate from the inner depths of the jail", and said that some people believe that a lost child is genuinely lost inside the prison; surprising as it may seem, children were imprisoned at the House of Detention too.

In this dark, damp and disused prison, spiritualist medium Derek Acorah has a difficult time coming to terms with allegedly hostile spirits.

Fear gets the better of some female members of the crew and the director receives a cut to his head which cannot be explained by natural causes.

Tutbury Castle

http://www.tutburycastle.com/

Tutbury, celebrated for its ruined castle, was once a market town seated on the south bank of the River Dove.

The tower on top of the motte dates from the mid 18th century. The original Norman castle is said to date back to 1071 belonging first to Hugh de Avranches and then to Henry, Lord of Ferriers and Chambrais in Normandy.

In 1174, following a disagreement with William Ferriers, King Henry II lay siege to the castle and ordered it to be demolished. In 1263 it came under further attack from Prince Edward (the future King Edward I). Two years later, Henry III gave Tutbury Castle to his younger son Edmund. It has remained in the hands of the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster ever since.

In 1362, new walls, towers and buildings were added on by John of Gaunt, second Duke of Lancaster. And in the late 16th Century the castle was used to keep Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned.

The final straw came in 1646, during the Civil War when Parliamentary forces inflicted even more damage leaving the ruins you can see today.

During the 24-hour vigil, members of the crew encounter strange knocking sounds at a window,where the spectre of a lady has been seen, and a digital stills camera catches what is believed to be ghostly orbs.

The Station Hotel

http://www.stationhoteldudley.co.uk/

This hotel has had guests running from their rooms in fear, and the cellars are said to be haunted by the spirit of a murdered maid.

Originally built in 1910, the Station was rebuilt as a larger hotel in 1936. Famous guests over time have included Laurel & Hardy, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and George Formby.

Do the cameras capture evidence of poltergeists? You decide, in this scary 24-hour investigation.

The Skirrid Inn

The oldest pub in Wales has a gruesome history, in which more than 100 people were hanged in the stairwell.

After eliminating all natural causes, the crew becomes convinced that a door is opening and closing of its own volition.

The pub's history can be traced back beyond the Norman conquest.

It is said that in 1110 a court was convened to try two brothers, James Crowther for a violent robbery, John for stealing sheep. James was sentenced to nine months prison while his brother was hanged from a beam at the inn.

Three Locations One Investigation

Three locations, one investigation. The Heritage Centre, Laffertys Pub, and The Bell Inn give Derby a claim on the title of 'the most haunted city in Europe'.

Bodies under the floor at the Heritage Centre; a skull - believed to belong to a murdered woman at Laffertys; and a room that no one will stay in at the Bell Inn, make this investigation one of the most challenging and frightening of the series.

The Bell Inn is an old coaching inn. The building, built in 1680, retains much of its original features. Amongst reported sightings there is a Victorian lady in blue, a poltergeist who throws things around and a maid in 18th Century garb. The maid is said to have been murdered in 1745 and has been seen in the presence of children.

The George Inn, now Lafferty's, was one of the most famous coaching inns in Derby and was built around 1693. Over the years the inn hosted the Duke of Devonshire's headquarters during the 1745 uprising, it has also been home to vet and dentist surgeries, postoffice and a makeshift funeral parlour.

The inn is reputed to host many ghosts and mysteries including the 'George Skull'. This damaged female skull was found by workmen in a pit beneath the cellar. The skull was found amongst animal skulls and bones, shoes and strips of leather. Perhaps the skull was put there by superstition? In 1693 new buildings were built on a human skull, a pair of shoes and a dead cat to ward off evil spirits and witches.

Other reported activity saw a long-haired man in a blue coat walking along the landing, crockery moves from the racks in the kitchen and the bar staff have had many paranormal experiences including objects flying across the room, hearing human groans from the cellar and pint mugs shattering.

Llancaiach Fawr Manor House

A 17th century manor house that has been renovated to its 17th century state and is said to be haunted by many of its previous occupants: soldiers, children, and a maid. Reported sightings include a cot that rocks on its own...

The manor was home to Colonel Edward Prichard during the Civil War. It is said that Charles I visited in 1645 and that following his visit, loyalties went from King to Parliament.

If you want to visit there are candlelight ghost tours in the winter months.

Pengersick Castle

This ancient and crumbling castle invokes the troubled maritime and smuggling history of Cornwall. It is said to be built on the site of a Tudor Manor around 1500.

The grounds include a large wooded area with ruins that play host to ghost sightings of sailors and monks.

This is an atmospheric location that spooks even the hard-bitten, worldy-wise Most Haunted crew.

Pengersick has always had a reputation for magic, mystery, sorcery and particularly, ghosts. There are said to be more than twenty separate presences at Pengersick Castle including: a ghostly 14th century monk; a 13 year old girl who danced to her death off the battlements and still tries to swing people around; a four year old boy who tugs at ladies dresses; the re-enactment of a medieval murder; a man seen swaying in the corner of a room; a young lady lying on a bed under spectral covers; a woman seen walking through a wall and pacing the room; a woman stabbed to death in the castle; another woman who was beaten to death in the haunted bedroom; a man stabbed and strangled in 1546 in front of a fireplace; several previous owners; a ghostly cat and dog; John Milliton, a wicked man, claimed to be an alchemist and practice in the black arts, who acts in the castle tower; and there is even believed to be a demon captured in the tower bedroom's fireplace and more besides

Another legend is that of an evil man who left his wife while fighting in foreign lands. While on his travels he courted another woman who gave him a magic sword. He returned to his castle to have his wife and young child drowned and to marry yet another woman, this one an evil witch. His other son, who survived, years later rescued a drowning sailor who turned out to be his brother left for dead at sea.

Another is that Henry Pengersick was violent man and that back in the 12th Century he killed a monk and wounded a vicar. The present owners believe that if there are ghosts at Pengersick Castle they could be of Henry Pengersick, later known as Henry Le Fort and his wife Engrina.

This tale steeped in local folklore accounts for many of the said hauntings at Pengersick Castle.

 

 The Clockhouse , Surrey Hills

Click For Larger Image of this photo taken by Fred Batt

Part one of the Ruth Ellis ghost mystery. This very large privately owned house, built across Medieval, Georgian and Victorian periods, is said to play host to strange noises, doors opening and closing, dark figures in corridors and a room that seems to harbour a number of spiritual entities.

When spiritualist medium Derek Acorah picks up on the sprit of a woman called Ruth, only the property owner Fred Batt can explain the extraordinary link. Fred also owns a Caesars nightclub in London, which is said to be haunted by 1950s socialite Ruth Ellis.

 

Caesar's Nightclub

http://www.caesars.uk.com/

Part two of the Ruth Ellis investigation takes the Most Haunted team to Fred Batt's South London nightclub.

The largest club in London, Caesars was closed for many years.

When current owner Fred Batt re-opened the club eight years ago strange things started to occur.

Staff report unidentified footsteps along corridors, dark shapes seen moving across rooms, doors opening on their own, and a ghostly woman's figure who is believed to be 1950s socialite Ruth Ellis. Ellis used to work at Caesars nightclub.

Spiritualist medium Derek Acorah picks up on the name Ruth, and the names of some of the club's former celebrity clients such as Reggie Kray.