St Andrews Shopping Centre

St Andrews Shopping Centre

Situated off Hessle Road in an area that was once synonymous with fishing families and factories. Several stores on the precinct have had unusual activity including a store were all the stock in the stock room was moved over night. A store where the toilets could be heard to flush after hours, even though they are manual.

The strangest encounter was weeks after the site opened in 2001. A store alarm had triggered and the security team alerted the manageress and the Police, who duly turned up and began to enter the building. Upon entering the alarm was deactivated but banging could be heard at the rear of the store. A check on the CCTV revealed there was no one at the rear of the premises, so the Police concluded that there must be an intruder in the stock room.

Batons and torches at the ready they opened the stock room door and found no one within the building, stranger still as they opened the door the banging stopped almost as if something or someone had been released!

Other stores experienced the loud banging and security would train there CCTV on the location to reveal no earthly cause. On another occasion a security guard was so convinced he had seen “something” he took to his heels and ran to the spot were the “thing” should have been, only for nothing to be psychically there! After reviewing the CCTV footage it appears the mist moved off away from him as he rounded the corner.

Drowned Parents

Location: Hull - Brazil Nut Company, east bank of the river Hull (now Thompson's Plastics?)

1960s and 1970s

For many years, the banks of the River Hull have been associated with the story of a drowned couple. Some thought at first, that they were lovers who took part in a suicide pact. It is only when you hear the ghost story  of the Brazil Nut Company that some light is shed on the identity of the couple.

The story first came to light in the early 1970's when a female member of staff, who worked as a nut picker was on her way to the toilet.  To get to it she needed to walk down a passage that connected the yard and the toilet. As she did so, she looked up at what appeared to be a grey haired woman wearing a shawl come through  the outside wall. The woman appeared to e dripping wet. The female worker froze as the wet lady came near to where she stood and then turned, retraced her steps and went back through the wall she had come through. This was strange as there had never been a doorway there and on the other side of the wall is a bay where barges came along to unload the nuts needed at the mill.

Ghost Captured On Video At Manchester Arms Pub In Hull's Old Town

WHEN the landlady calls time, she is the visitor who refuses to leave.

A spooky spirit affectionately dubbed "Beryl" has been causing mischief at The Manchester Arms in Hull.

She flickers lights, turns off machines, plays with hair, causes floods and has even been captured on CCTV.

Lisa and Mark Fowler took over the Old Town pub ten weeks ago and have been experiencing some spooky goings-on ever since.

"Sometimes, it feels like someone is running fingers through your hair," said Lisa, 38.

"Other times, it feels like someone is behind you, but when you turn round, you catch a shadow in the corner of your eye but nothing is there.

"Then I couldn't believe it when I saw the CCTV footage."

On the evening of November 1, Lisa had been preparing to go to bed, in the family's home above the pub, when she went into the office to check the computers.

Mark was downstairs cleaning the bar when Lisa spotted something on the CCTV screen.

She said: "I phoned down to one of our barmaids, Gemma, and asked her if she'd let anyone else in.

"She said no but I could definitely make out a lady on the screen.

"I went running downstairs to see what was going on, but there was nothing there."

The Scale Lane pub is one of the oldest in Hull, dating back to the 1700s.

It is believed Beryl was part of the pub's rich history and, at some point, was a regular.

Lisa says the woman looks like she is in her fifties. She appears to be wearing a fur collar and is looking down the bar towards the front door.

Lisa said: "One night, we were working and the Coca-Cola went off. We'd only just changed it, so thought it was odd it had ran out, so I sent one of the staff to the shop for some bottles.

"When we had time later, we went down to the basement and the pipe leading to the coke had been loosened.

"The hatch to the cellar is under the bar and had been shut all night, no one could have gone down there."

Lisa and Mark, who live at the pub with their children James, 16, and Alicia, 12, say they can sometimes see frosty breath in the cellar, even though it is kept between 12 and 14 degrees.

Other spooky feelings include cold patches in certain areas of the pub and a weight on your body, as if someone is leaning on you.

The ghost has also been turning off a pump, which stops the basement from flooding in heavy rain.

But despite getting "goosebumps", Lisa is convinced the ghost is a friendly one.

She said: "I'm not one of these people that believes in silly goings-on.

"I used to explain things away like an electrical fault or just shadows, but, after the CCTV footage, I'm convinced.

"Thankfully, I think she is friendly – it doesn't feel sinister when she is around."

Haunted Family Council House - Inglemire Lane, Hull

These are photos captured by the tenants living in s haunted council house in Hull.

3 different teams of paranormal investigations have taken place, 3 house blessing, 2 house exorcisms and a celebration of mass in the property but yet the entity still remains.

Occurrences:
Items vanishing and some turning back up weeks later, photos getting turned upside down, the tenants names been called, voices, whistling and animal sounds caught on EVP, lots of photographic evidence, nice smells and awful smells lasting a few minutes in various places around the property, unexplained lights and flashes, kids toys operating on own, alarms going off around 3am on approx 30 occasions, mobile phones that haven't worked for months suddenly sounding alarms through the night, electrical appliances coming on through the night especially TV sets, furniture constantly getting moved around the house, drawers opening/closing, banging, hair being touched, responses to questions with whistling, lights flash in and off, light bulbs exploding, knocking on front door but nobody there, phone line is just static noise, scratches on visitors, lots of bad luck, financial problems, huge spiders appearing all over the house, shadows and the list goes on and on...