Don’t Scare Claire

In 2010, Paul & Samantha moved into their new home, a place where they hoped to raise their young daughter in peace.

But the house had other ideas.

Their family was tormented for two brutal years, with Paul suffering the worst of the evil paranormal activity.

This is their real ghost story.

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Bodmin jail has stood since 1779, and in that time, it saw almost 150 years of suffering before it closed its doors for good.

To this day, people who stay in the now-converted luxury hotel, or visit the attraction, will claim to experience things they can’t explain.

Could it be that the prisoners who never got to leave, are making their presence known?

SOURCES

📚 The History Of Bodmin Jail, by Bill Johnson

📚 Haunted Bodmin Moor, by Jason Higgs

📚 Peter Underwood’s Guide To Ghosts & Haunted Places, by Peter Underwood

📚 A Ghostly Almanac of Devon & Cornwall, by Nicola Sly

📚 Haunted Places of Cornwall, by Sheila Bird

📚 The Hanging Pit: The Haunting Of Bodmin Jail, by Richard Estep

💻 https://architecturemagazine.co.uk/2022/02/03/case-study-bodmin-jail-by-twelve-architects/

💻 https://brian-haughton.com/ancient-mysteries-articles/anne-jefferies-and-the-fairies/2/

💻 https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/last-man-executed-cornwall-strangled-6150948

📺 Most Haunted, first aired 2005

🎙️ The Paranormal Monkey Podcast interview with Joseph Carter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9ntAgqYuI&t=2s

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These are three creepy haunted house stories, told by the people who actually lived there. Each ghost story comes from a real home, with firsthand accounts of experiences they still can’t fully explain.

From shadow figures seen lurking in basements, to unexplained noises echoing through otherwise empty houses, each of these stories centres around a home where something seemed unwilling to leave.

These are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from someone’s own experience. Make of them what you will.

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Sandringham House is where the Royal Family spend Christmas every year, but underneath their festive traditions, there's a long history of tragedy, and unexplained encounters.

From kings who died within its walls to staff and even royals themselves reporting unexplained activity, could Sandringham possibly be one of the most haunted royal residences in Britain?

SOURCES

📚 Britain’s Ghostly Heritage, by John West

📚 Haunted Royal Homes, by Joan Forman

📚 Supernatural England, by Betty Puttick

📚 Haunted Britain, by Antony Hippisley Coxe

📚 Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk 1862–1952, by John A. Matson

💻 https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a38208317/queen-elizabeth-weighs-guests-kate-middleton-prince-william-christmas-sandringham/

💻 https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/our-estate/

💻 https://www.princemichaelschronicles.com/a-ghost-at-sandringham/

📺 Crown And Country, first aired 1998

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The Queen Mary is believed by some to be haunted by up to 600 ghosts…

And while we have historical records for some, other backstories just don’t quite add up.

But from ghostly little girls playing hide and seek, to phantom crew members still doing their jobs long after their shift should have ended, there really does seem to be something paranormal happening on board the Queen Mary.

SOURCES

📚 Haunted Queen of the Seas by Nicole Strickland

📚 Ghosts of the Queen Mary by Brian Clune, Bob Davis

💻 https://www.crescentavalleyweekly.com/leisure/04/19/2018/the-legend-of-b340/

💻 https://navyhistory.au/ss-queen-mary-the-loss-of-hms-curacoa-1942/2/

💻 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-11-vw-4030-story.html

💻 https://www.worldofcruising.co.uk/editors-corner/rms-queen-mary-corporate-haunting

💻 https://skepticalinquirer.org/2013/07/the-queen-mary-is-not-haunted-but-i-understand-why-you-think-she-is/

💻 https://www.queenmary.com/

💻 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-british-liner-queen-mary/

💻 https://www.nytimes.com/1943/10/01/archives/disaster-averted-by-the-queen-mary-great-liner-nearly-capsized-in.html

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/08/a8083208.shtml

🚢 Stories from The Queen Mary’s ghost tours: https://www.queenmary.com/

📺 Most Haunted: Season 6, Episode 17

📺 Dead Famous: Season 1, Episode 6

📰 Greenock Telegraph, 6th June 1934

Special thanks to Rachael Goddard for helping out with the research on this one!

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Before the ghost tours and the paranormal reports, the RMS Queen Mary had already lived through a history so dramatic, that it's no wonder she's said to be haunted.

From a luxury ocean liner, to a WW2 troopship, this legendary ship accidentally sank a Royal Navy cruiser, survived a 92-foot rogue wave, and hosted world leaders, celebrities, and soldiers before her retirement to Long Beach, California.

If you only know of the ghost stories about the Queen Mary, you've only heard half the story!

SOURCES

📚 Haunted Queen of the Seas by Nicole Strickland

📚 Ghosts of the Queen Mary by Brian Clune, Bob Davis

💻 https://www.crescentavalleyweekly.com/leisure/04/19/2018/the-legend-of-b340/

💻 https://navyhistory.au/ss-queen-mary-the-loss-of-hms-curacoa-1942/2/

💻 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-11-vw-4030-story.html

💻 https://www.worldofcruising.co.uk/editors-corner/rms-queen-mary-corporate-haunting

💻 https://skepticalinquirer.org/2013/07/the-queen-mary-is-not-haunted-but-i-understand-why-you-think-she-is/

💻 https://www.queenmary.com/

💻 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-british-liner-queen-mary/

💻 https://www.nytimes.com/1943/10/01/archives/disaster-averted-by-the-queen-mary-great-liner-nearly-capsized-in.html

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/08/a8083208.shtml

🚢 Stories from The Queen Mary’s ghost tours: https://www.queenmary.com/

📰 Greenock Telegraph, 6th June 1934

Special thanks to Rachael Goddard for helping out with the research on this one!

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Leap Castle in Ireland is referred to as one of the most haunted castles in the country, with countless ghost stories involving mysterious monks, vengeful ladies, and even a malevolent elemental.

And with a history said to be as dark and violent as this, you have to wonder… is the elemental still roaming the castle, feeding off everything that happens inside?

SOURCES

📚 Hell House & Other True Hauntings From Around The World, by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale

📚 Haunted Castles of Britain & Ireland, by Richard Jones

📚 Leap Castle: A Place and Its People, by Marigold Freeman-Attwood

💻 https://thejasongreene.com/Leapcastle/

💻 https://offalyhistoryblog.com/2018/02/10/the-most-haunted-castle-in-ireland-the-story-of-novelist-andrew-merry-aka-mrs-mildred-darby-of-leap-castle-co-offaly-by-noel-guerin/

📺 Castle Ghosts of Ireland, first aired 1995

Leap Castle on the thumbnail: Trenchspike via Wikimedia Commons 4.0

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Highgate Cemetery in London is one of the UK's most haunted graveyards, known not only for the famous people buried there, but also the ghosts said to haunt the burial ground.

But in the 1970s, Highgate became the centre of a media storm... because supposedly, there was a vampire on the loose.

SOURCES

📚 The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection in Satanic Cult Lore, by Bill Ellis

📚 Haunted Highgate, by Della Farrant

📚 Beyond The Highgate Vampire, by David Farrant

📚 The Highgate Vampire, by Seán Manchester

💻 https://davidfarrant.org/

💻 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol17/pt1/pp54-62

💻 https://vamped.org/2015/02/27/5-reasons-why-a-wampyr-didnt-walk-in-highgate-cemetery/

📺 The Curse Of The Highgate Vampire, first aired on Discovery+ 2021

📺 One Hour With Jonothan Ross, first aired 1990

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

The desecrated church in Clophill became a magnet for vandals, morbid thrill-seekers, and possibly even devil worshippers.

But decades later, strange lights, ghostly figures, and an oppressive energy still leave many explorers running for their car.

Are the ghost stories proof of something darker still haunting Clophill, or are they just a product of the satanic panic that overtook the area in the 60s?

SOURCES

📚 Ghosts of Bedfordshire by Betty Puttick

📚 Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, By Bill Ellis

📚 The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill, by Kevin Gates

📚 Devil Worship In Britain, by A.V.Sellwood and Peter Haining

💻 https://www.clophillecolodges.co.uk/st-mary-s-old-church

💻 https://metro.co.uk/2016/02/19/does-this-video-show-a-hooded-monk-ghost-creeping-around-a-church-5706153/

💻 https://clophillhistory.mooncarrot.org.uk/

💻 http://clophill-lodge.co.uk

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45736101

📰 Bedfordshire on Sunday, 1985

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

In the quiet Bedfordshire village of Clophill sits the ruins of a desecrated church that looks unassuming nowadays, but it has a terrifying past.

In the 1960s and 70s, rumours of devil worship, black magic rituals, and grave desecration spiralled into a full-blown satanic panic that almost destroyed the village rector.

But was it all just bored teenagers and mindless vandals tormenting the village of Clophill, or was something truly evil going on here?

⚠️ This one is very dark, with some pretty graphic descriptions involving animals, as well as mentions of sexual assault and murder. If that’s not your thing, maybe give this one a miss. Look after yourselves 🖤

SOURCES

📚 Ghosts of Bedfordshire by Betty Puttick

📚 Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, By Bill Ellis

📚 The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill, by Kevin Gates

📚 Devil Worship In Britain, by A.V.Sellwood and Peter Haining

💻 https://www.clophillecolodges.co.uk/st-mary-s-old-church

💻 https://metro.co.uk/2016/02/19/does-this-video-show-a-hooded-monk-ghost-creeping-around-a-church-5706153/

💻 https://clophillhistory.mooncarrot.org.uk/

💻 http://clophill-lodge.co.uk

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45736101

📰 Bedfordshire on Sunday, 1985

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My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!