World of the Unknown: Ghosts: 1 (The World of the Unknown)

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He may remember Maynard as a cousin and friend, but his refusal to remember out loud means that, for years, I’ve been haunted by a dead man. It was a bit strange because the paper, some plain and some newspaper, is cut in the shape of patterns to make garments. Although the infamously spook-plagued rectory itself is never mentioned by name in the book (there were, apparently, potential legal issues at the time), it clearly provided the inspiration for the “Haunted House” double page spread, detailing the trademark signs of a textbook ghost infestation (“an old skull screams whenever it is moved from the house”; “a bloodstain on the floor cannot be removed”), and Chris has been a willing participant in the film’s bonus features, with director Ashley Thorpe making a distinct impression on him.

Quite often, this solitary character, when confined to a cabin and cut off from civilization, will develop a psychosis that is caused by a lack of human contact. Reserved, in that if you fail to ask excellent follow-ups, he will keep all the key details to himself. He not only grew up in Pontefract, but his mother Rene was the sister-in-law of Jean Pritchard’s sister.

As Chris’ text solemnly declares: “All three of these pictures are considered by experts to be genuine. We did have some activity on the landing whilst we were in the hall, and there was a cold draught and smell of burning in the parents bedroom.

After completing the movie, I discovered that the actual house, where all these incredible events allegedly happened, was for sale and it was…er, cheap – so I bought it,” he said. The house has been unoccupied for the past six years, as Jean Pritchard left to enter a nearby nursing home, with Most Haunted visiting the property for a Halloween special during that time.The fact that both Pritchard children each appeared to be the focus of the phenomenon during the two periods of activity again doesn’t support an argument for psychokinetic ability. On closer examination we discovered that it was a velvet waistcoat and a stomacher with paper patterns wrapped around them. A lovely guy from Exeter…” muses Chris, “who had in his school library a copy of the book that he took out regularly, and it lasted and stayed with him. She found herself looking at a tall figure dressed in a black monk’s habit, with a cowl over the head. A visitor who stayed in the house posted online: “This is the place where I had the most amazing phenomena.

He carried around his own autographed copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X until he passed it down to his younger brother Kendal. We’d sit in the pub after work, and we’d say ‘you know… we’re knocking these books out, and yeah… we’re making life better.

One of the ghost hunters, a woman identified as Jess, reported feeling a presence while sitting blindfolded in a room with Danny. Almost two decades later, after years of observing my own family, I’ve grown convinced that when you swallow your pain it never does digest. Her frightening snaps show a spooky silhouette with 'chiselled cheekbones and flaring nostrils' gazing down from inside a toy pram. I am not superstitious so do not subscribe to that point of view, but I do know that houses can have different feelings about them. I discovered “Tom Colley’s Ghost”, the spirit of the 19th century mob-leader, whose restless spirit was shackled to the rotting remains of his gibbeted body.

Maynard introduced them to the forefathers of hip-hop, blasting the Last Poets from that hot guest room. Following the incident, the family remain in the house, though Sally never enters her bedroom again. Chris retired from full-time writing in the late 1990s, but is still clearly fizzing with energy and inspiration. The gallows at which this punishment was executed, Cuniff argued, was in the immediate vicinity of the house itself. There’s still a chance it is just pareidolia [seeing faces in shapes] however I asked other people what they could see but I didn’t tell them what I had seen.I was convinced that my inadvertent eye contact with this terrifying spirit had, effectively, alerted the agents of the paranormal to my existence, and that a parade of malevolent ghosts, spectres and poltergeists, headed up by the towering, black-robed monk himself, would be gliding silently up the stairs to claim me in my sleep that very evening. They found themselves in touch with Usborne marketing director Anna Howorth, herself a fan of the book, who was inspired enough to set up an online petition, hoping to convince the publishers that a UK reissue was a viable proposition. As a sceptic, the only thing that scared me was being in the dark with strangers, but it was at this point leader Phil told us that the head of the family, Joe, had come in one night after a session at the pub and died in the upstairs bathroom after choking on his own vomit. In this scenario, the character is an unreliable narrator and readers often discover that the things that haunt the cabin manifest from his/her own broken mind.