So is Smallcleugh haunted then, Nick? :ohmygod:

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would be interested to know of any other first-hand, alleged paranormal incidents!

I'm a total sceptic, and the Thing under the bed isn't real, but if you keep your foot under the covers it can never grab your ankle...

MARK

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Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

maybe I lack imagination, but I cant see whats supposed to be there?

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People have heard voices in Wheal Bellan, I haven't.
Maybe I need hearing test or perhaps I should be cautious of the type of people I mix with ::)

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it looks like some ones there till the photo is enlarged then it looks like two boulders.

closer to home mr F, king side adit which connected with king side shaft [ francis shaft] was driven through the fault to reach the shaft , miners were killed in here, it was reported as being haunted, you can get just below the adit , down the incline, there does feel at times to be a presence in this area,

I would say there's a definite paranormal presence going on there.

I talked to the ghost, he calls himself Xtar. Very friendly in fact and has decided to come home with me and usually inhabits our hall, regularly joining us for walking the dog when it's dark.

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Woooo..... :ohmygod:

on the positive side, could said spectral entity be persuaded to go and have a look for you on the other side of blockages, see if they 'go' and are worth a dig?

we have ebgb for that! ;)

MARK

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Easily persuaded but alas he doesn't speak, or even go Wooo.
Good at eerie glows though 🙂

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I have a friend who see's dead people all the time whilst we are in the mines, me I see nothing just cold, damp, dark passages.

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Given the number of 'ghosts' some people manage to 'see' in mines they probably should stay well clear from battle sites, former concentration sites, etc..
Just taking my son to school involves crossing a battlefield (Battle of Neville's Cross) which could well be haunted by 1000 or so Scots, and that's a relatively minor one...

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I've spent a lot of time underground and never once 'felt' a thing.

Until someone posts a photo of a screaming skull (which must also be on fire)

I remain a 100% sceptic.

I've spent a lot of time underground and never once 'felt' a thing.

Until someone posts a photo of a screaming skull (which must also be on fire)

I remain a 100% sceptic.

Yes, same here.
And who is known for almost always being underground on his own, sometimes for up to 10 hours.

Its all a load of you know what

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I must admit, like Roy, I could not see what this photo was about.
I have been "going underground", since the age of 14 which is a long time, the most recent, being yesterday.
I am a sceptic, about seeing mine ghosts, but I will admit there are times, when I do not feel happy in certain mine areas, one of which is the foot of Bowman's rise from Nentsberry Horse Level, to the Admiralty Flats.
It probably is the poor state of the roof, which I think all of us, must regard with care. At Bowman's a large timber, suddenly decided to drop down, hitting the floor, where a minute before my son had been standing!
Even in the best supported mines, the roof can drop, without any warning!

...."that" tunnel in Cwt y Bugail....definitely a spooky vibe going on in there. Never felt it anywhere else..... Makes me shiver just looking at it....

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When you get to the end you realise that you are a loooong way from your mates and you suddenly feel VERY alone. Everyone I know who has been in there alone comes out walking backwards, looking over both shoulders and singing to themselves.....;(

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Tavistock Canal tunnel has an odd vibe about it; I've often had that "someone is following me" feeling.

Woooahhh i've just got a hugely weird and spooky feeling this has all happened before !!

Because it has in 2011 !!

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?t=5949 

Anyway, at the time I remember wondering and commenting about the possibility of Infrasound for being why certain places 'feel wrong'

(aside from a de-laminating roof and cold water up to your nips)

Unfortunately in the last five years there hasn't been a 'app' developed that yet allows you to test this on your mobile phone 😞

a side of mining history i dont see discussed much, is legends,and spirits, german mining history is full of stories of spirits guiding the miners to the load!, as late as the 18th cent cardigan miners were reported to follow the sounds of the "knockers" a good spirit who the miners could hear tapping, they followed the tapping,

vibes, feelings, are definitely a very real sensation for lots of people, hair on the back of your neck raising, auto self preservation kicking in ? there are certainly places under sod and above were this happens,

There is a logic to following the knockers, given that veins are effectively cracks, it isn't beyond belief that in certain conditions they move and create noises. Also some mine locations, such as Middlecleugh North Vein, where I was yesterday, where the rock is possibly leaping off the walls to give you a cuddle; the random spalling off of rock and its natural creaking and groaning is the sort of thing that people brought up to believe in god, angels and devils etc. could well associate with paranormal activity.

Personally I don't get it, though my mother and her mother both claim to have seen & felt ghosts and I have no reason to doubt them either.
One thing to bear in mind is how we associate shapes and sounds to something we can relate to, hence the occurrences of Jesus on slices of toast and clouds looking like a three eights gripley.
I have spent a fair amount of time underground on my own, though nowhere near as much as Roy, and it is quite easy to imagine the sounds of a normal retired mine going about its business to be other people or 'other things'.
Bigger worry might be the unexpected appearance of Mr Fellowes from an unexpected location!

Going back to the original photo, not far beyond there is somewhere that definitely puts the hair up on the back of my neck for very normal reasons!

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I'd vote with the sceptics. It's easy to see why the susceptible would believe in presences in mines because they're dark and damp and cold and remote (as are the mines... 🙂 ) but in reality, most main roads probably have a greater accident rate than the average mine but who could be bothered to relate tales of the Headless Motorcyclist of the A33...

Reminds me of a story a gas engineer told me when we were sorting some reheat furnaces. He had been doing work on kilns for Baggeridge Brick. The workers from one of the sites wouldn't go near the other site at night because they reckoned it was haunted. Apparently the authorities had caught up with some of the plotters from the gunpowder plot near there, and the ghost was supposed to be one of them.
When they re-lit the kiln it went bang. No one was hurt, and when he went round the other side of the kiln there were six burner cocks open - hence the bang. As it used double - block - and - vent valve proving, someone must have opened the burner cocks after the block valves opened. He tried to find out who had opened the valves but no one was owning up - they blamed the ghost.
A few weeks later, he was relating the incident to a safety officer colleague. When he asked if they found out who did it he replied yes . When the safety officer asked if he had been prosecuted he was informed that it might be rather difficult, as he died in 1605.