Ghosts and haunted buildings.
 

Hello everyone! I am doing some research on ghosts in Lancashire and I am wondering if anyone here can share ghost stories from Accrington or let me know of possible haunted buildings. Anything will be appreciated. Also does anyone remember about 10 years ago on Radio Lancashire there used to be a local guy reading out local ghost stories some of which he investigated. I think it used to be on about 9 o clock pm. Does anyone know his name?

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Hi I wonder if its the gentleman who lives on Queen Elizabeth Cresent, called Stephen ....... - he has just recently had a book published - will try and find out more for you
June

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Hey there.................... I remember that the old cinema on Broadway (where JJB now stands) used to be haunted.............. on the upper levels if I remember rightly................It was in a ghost book I once read, twas a long time ago now so can't remember the name....... sorry :o

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Not a ghost story, but does anyone remember when they pulled down the Ambulance Drill Hall.?
They thought they'd found some remains?
Turned out it was the skeleton used by St John Ambulance! stupid or what!  ;D

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Go me there bud

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I think Dunkenhaulsh is the main one I heard of,the fabled headless horse man.I think I spelt "Dunkenhaulsh!" wrong... ???

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DAD BOUGHT ME A TAPE OF TONY SCHAEFFER WHICH IS A COLLECTION OF GHOST STORIES FROM THE SHPELESS PROGRAMME ON BBC RADIO WOULD THAT BE THE CHAP, OR WAS IT SIMON ENTWISTLE

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KestrelX has just reminded me of a story I heard about the Dunkenhalgh that my old english teacher once told.  She once worked there and said that it was haunted by a girl (servant girl) who had killed herself there after becoming pregnant by a 'well to do' man, who had spurned her and told her to leave the house.  She apparently drowned herself??  

I find the whole ghost thing really interesting.  I would love to do one of those ghost hunts and spend a night in a 'supposed' haunted location.  Sort of like that programme 'Most Haunted'.  Good show if you have seen it.

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g78. I think derek acorah was brilliant on most haunted. have you read his autobiography really  good. titled THE PSYCHIC WORLD OF DEREK ACORAH.

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I haven't read his autobiography but I think he is one of the best psychic mediums in a long time.  Of course there are people out there that will say he is false and it is all an act but I do believe what he says in genuinely true.  Just hope the new series starts soon. :)

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If anyone is interested a good site for 'ghost' photos is www.ghoststudy.com/gallery

Enjoy  :o

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will have a look at that g78

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Think my house haunted every morning i wake up sure a spook led next to me! :o


Ooops its ok just my husband! ;D

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I am sorry but Most Haunted is the best comedy programme going. That Derek chap is such a plonker. ::)..my husband and I just sit there laughing at him the whole way through :D. Just listen to him the next time he is trying to give a name, he changes his mind about half a dozen times  ???until he gets a positive answer from the presenter. Laughing at him and seeing the eyes on that woman (forgot her name for now) are the only things worth tuning in for.

I am not a sekptic I just think that that program stinks!!

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If you are genuinely interested in ghosts then try ou this site. It is amazing.

You will need to have your volume up loud to hear. It takes a little while so bear with it.

Apparently the owners of this house had been seeing images and hearing voices for quite a while. They did some research and found that a lady once lived in the house who lost her husband during the civil war. Legend says that she used to sit at the table and look across the fields in anticipation of her loved one returning home. He never came!
So, they say she still waits.

They caught this photo (using digital imaging and sound) of what they claim to be her. This one is wild and a little spooky once you find the ghost in the picture. It took me about 20 seconds to find it, but when you do, it just stands out. To save you some time, concentrate around the table and sort of towards the right window. Also, if you have volume, turn it up as you can hear some faint murmuring after a while, which they say is the ghost talking.

Wierd huh!!!!..keep looking you WILL find it.


http://home.attbi.com/~n9ivo/whatswrong.swf

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:o :o :o Lesley you wicked, wicked woman.... :P

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i just fell off my bloody chair good job i havent a bad heart. have applauded you for that.

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Salmesbury hall is definitely haunted, and St. Anne's school on Cobham road had a "White Lady" around the fuire escape area. Don't know if that was just kids stories, but we were definitely really scared, that building was really old and spooky.

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Have to agrre with the famous Salmesbury Hall and the tale of the white lady

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I can't get into the image you mention, Lesley, would love to see it. The file is a swf, anybody any idea what programme is needed to open it?

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The ghost at salmesbury hall is the daughter of a catholic man who owned the house she fell in love with a protestant boy and they used to meet near the river, on night when they met up her brother followed her and overheard them talking of eloping at the arranged time and place her brother turned up and killed her lover, she was sent to a convent  and was sent insane by the thought of her lover being murdered. She is the ghost seen by many she is often seen coming out of a little path way (opposite the house) on her way back from the river where she would met her man.

Very sad story.

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Sorry cant help but it is a fascinating subject. I would be very interested on anything you find out though in the area.

katy xx

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I know I worked in some weird places. First the Dunkenhalgh. Yes, the girl was a sevant in the house and it was the son of the house who made her pregnant. Told to me by the Burrall family who owned the Dunk years ago Second. Yes, there was a ghost in the old Odean. I also used to work in the Pickwick and many strange things happened in there because the top floor is conected to the cinema.  The ghost was a guy who worked on the cinema when it was being built but fell to his death from the roof I believe.
The post office on Stanhill Lane is also known to be haunted by a lady. Girl I worked with years ago lived there and told me many stories of things going missing in the house. Her daughter also saw the ghost many times. Don't forget this is also the place where James Hargreaves lived who invented the spinning jenny.
Chingle Hall near Preston is also known to be haunted by a monk but I don't know why.

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chingle hall is the most haunted place in britain and you used to be able to stop there for the night but they have stopped doing that now

http://www.btinternet.com/~loonboy/para_chingle.html

http://www.lancshalls.co.uk/Preston/chinglehall.htm

http://www.accy.net/parkinn.htm

these are a couple of sites about chingle hall you might be interested in!

Dunkenhalgh Hall, Clayton-le-Moors,nr.Accrington. This is now a popular hotel,but was once the home of the Walmesley family,then Petre family. The Petre family employed a French Governess called Lucette in the 18th century,she fell in love with a visitor to the hall and became pregnant by him,he refused to marry her,so she threw herself into the nearby Hyndburn River. Her ghost,shrouded in white is seen in the hotel grounds around Christmas time

happy reading

jason

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me and a few friends of mine looked into stopping there for a night and they had stopped doing it a few months before we checked,i was well peeved. :(

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:D My gran used to tell us of the headless horseman near the Dunkenhalgh when we lived in Church. We think it was to keep us away from the canal which separated Church Kirk from the Dunk. It was all fields etc then instead of motorway.
;) It did work though, we never went near the canal.

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WE used to collect conkers in the Dunkenagh grounds and explor the tunnels under the hall you could hear the people talking above, there was an entrance just near the avenue of trees, but they bloked it off when we got caught ( circa, 1960 ). Didnt see any ghosts, The Birrills were there then. Then they opend Mitton Hall,  

i know a very spooky place. if you go to blackburn road where it links with the bottom of union road at Church theres an old mill house next to the cannel. If you go round the back (you may have to climb a wall) theres a entrence in to the building (window) or if that has been sealed off then theres a 10foot climb up the wall to a hole in the wall. any way if you explore the rooms and aviod the fire damage floor areas theres some spooky stuff.

and if you go up to the top floor and climb on to the roof you can climb into the old pub.

What sort of spooky stuff, Sean? I'm fasinated by this one....I know that building should have listed status because if it's historical significance but although the authorities know who the owner is they are unable to trace him...that's no excuse for the pub next door, mind...whoever owns that should be made to secure it at least.

I'm with you on this one tealeaf,the only scarey thing about this place is the appalling condition that it has got it self into. If i remember rightly a few years ago there was talk about it being refurbished, and turned into a restaurant. It's a wonder young kids have'nt been badly injured due to it's appalling condition.

Dont click the last link it is a bad link now for some reason....cant see why it is a problem to some people when it was from months ago and i cant modify my post to remove it (doh)....what am i supposed to do??

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Has anyone heard of the proposed 'ghost walk' that is currently being planned for accrington town centre? I read something about it a while ago in the Observer...... didnt think we had enough ghosts to warrant a full walk........ maybe there are some that have just stayed hidden for a while

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Dont think salmsbury is spooky at all.
Speke Hall in Liverpool is a good place to visit.

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Hi Scary, the guys name that did the ghost stories is Tony Shaffer, i have a tape of most of them, sometimes he has been on "most Haunted " on living tv, i used to live in Accrington from 6 yrs old but moved to Ireland last year i get back a few times, i have a few hauntings exspirenaces that used to happen in the town, since that first one i became an ardent ghost hunte, if i can help you in any way at all email me [email protected] all best now

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A forum coming soon for this sort of thing on www.sightings-uk.com within the next couple of days

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What was the name of the pub across from the cop shop on manchester rd ?I think it was the Hargreaves arms but could be wrong, anyhow the landlord used to say how haunted it was and I think look north did a prog about it in the 70s.

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Ghosts R Well Cool

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It Was Called The Muldoons Bazf

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Well the forum is up and running at www.sightings-uk.com

Had to re-post, need some money for my Petz!

whats the web site address
 

im fairly new to the web so i may have misread something could you please give me the web address so i can check it out leslie.

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Another good website for anything ghostly is

www.ghosts-uk.net
With ghost forums,news and photo's
Dave.

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I've only just seen this thread. What happened to the forum Neal? I tried the link but it didn't lead anywhere. Is that a temporary hitch or didn't the idea take off?

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This is not a publicity stunt but at The Miners Arms ther is realy strange things happening, glasses exploding, objects flying, lightbulbs falling out of fittings, shadows passing and people standing ther one second and gone the next when the pub is open and closed. Im not soft but when i have to set up upstairs i hate it my hair stands on end. can anyone explain why? This is before i'v hit the spirits.

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Are you trying to put us off going there again? :D

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what about that house in church that was said to be haunted, think it was on queensway (might be wrong). It was said that the house 'which was council house' was not being used for tenancy anymore because of the amount of people that had moved in then moved back out. supposed to be a real bad spirit in there:confused:

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Now you've intrigued me because I knew someone who used to live on there. I'll have to ask her about this but I vaguely remember something being said years ago. (and we are talking years ago!)

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Does anyone know whether the Odeon ghost is still hanging around in the new buildings?

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Theoretically I suppose it should be somewhere upstairs above Boots shouldn't it?

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Slinky, the house on Queensway was haunted when my sister lived in it, believe it or not she and her family moved out because of it. I also know the people who lived there before, they too told us of VERY strange and scary things happening.

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How long ago did your sister live there Janet?

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It was about 9 or 10 years ago willow,she was that scared that she upped and left with the kids and put everything into storage untill the council rehoused her. The council just thought she had made the whole thing up so she could be rehoused. It was in the local paper, also with reports by previous tennants.You try to convince the council.

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My friend lived on Queensway longer ago than that but I'll ask her this weekend if I see her because I'm sure she mentioned a haunted house in the area when she lived there.

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Here is something to get you thinking, it is a picture of the Green Corridor in White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, taken in 1892.

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Hmm... Half of the images on that site are done in photoshop. I've worked with photoshop for almost 2 years and know when they are photoshops or not..

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What site is that?

I don't know about the above photograph but I do know that the one I took wasn't fiddled about with.

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Hi Siddie

I have been searching for copies of Tony Schaffer ghost tapes for some years. I am keen to receive copies and would pay for them.

Can you help me?

Kind regards

Joe

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Why muck about with tapes? We've got a ghost on this website - it's called Garinda. Really weird, as well.

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You might want to go to the "Introduce Yourself" section......................:rolleyes:

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Heth, you're sounding like me now ;)

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Heehee!! Do you know what Shaz I thought exactly the same as I were typing it!!!! :D:D:D

Also, how old is this thread........................;)

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7 years and 4 months

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ThankYou Kindly.............:rofl38:
I were going to try and work it out but I coudnt be :bootyshak

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Well it seems like scareys been scared off?:D

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Albion Mill in Blackburn, i used to train there 4 - 5 times a week up until it got demolished.

On friday nights we would stay late for a few games of paintball and i can tell you that the place was haunted.

If you PM me ill give all you all the details, but that place was creepy.

I lived in a 300 year old cottage in Altham and that too was haunted. There were stories that when the RAF were stationed in Clayton Hall, the pilots were complaining about the ghosts.

Various people who walked by the cottage would also mention seeing ghosts etc.

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On their way home from the Walton Arms.:)

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A certain house I used to live in on Christchurch Street, very odd goings on there, seen by a good few people and heard by me!:eek:

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When I was a teenager a group of us sneaked into the odean cinema on Broadway when it was boarded up ready to be demolished. I can tell you now we did not stay in there long someone or something was throwing stones/bricks pieces of metal at us, freaky stuff. Of course afterwards the logical thing to think was that it was caused by the condition of the building, so I am surprised to think other people believe it was haunted.

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That'd be the ghost of old Edie, an usherette killed under an avalanche of confectionary, in the nineteen thirties, when the floorboards in the kiosk mysteriously gave way.

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also the ammount of tramps thet slept in there :D:D

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Not too sure I would dismiss the Odeon stories, the Boots in Acc is built on that patch and there were some strange goings on when I worked there! Also when I worked in the Arndale loads of staff from various shops had tales to tell about shadows, noises, alarms triggering, mainly from what is now New Look (was Dixons or Currys), H Samuels, Our Price and the card place opposite what was Our Price. We deffo had something strange going on at OP!:eek:

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Most of that site had been vacant from when they built Broadway, it was used as a barrage baloon site during WW2, then it became a car park, when the built the foundations for the Arndale they culverted the river Hyndburn, happen it was noises from under there when it was raining heavy. As for ghosts and stuff, father Christmas is as real.

Retlaw

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Exactly Retlaw. There'a a simple explanation for this. Piccy's of the various culverts under Accy are to be found elsewhere on this site; all that's needed is a build up of waste and/or a heavy flood storm in them and you're going to get all sorts of echoing strange noises and even slight vibrations in the structures above.

There is a logical explanation for everything, should one care to look.

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Sorry to bring up an old thread but i used to live on queensway and also heard stories of the haunted house on there. So the story goes, one girl was thrown across a bedroom in there

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Bet thats occured on every street in accy.:D

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How do you know all these fantastic things?!!
Are there any ghost stories about Ossie?

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You can always find one.:hehetable

thats a true story about dunk

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I used to live in malt st as a kid i was off school one day when a loaf of bread i jus bought from the shop and placed on the table in the middle slid off the table while i was watching also my dad used to shout at us for bangin about upstairs but when he checked we were asleep

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The bit about the drowning maid is probably true, I heard that the servants couldn't sleep at night because of the constant noise of splashing about created by the victims of some randy sod in there.

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Originally Posted by g78 http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...s/viewpost.gif
KestrelX has just reminded me of a story I heard about the Dunkenhalgh that my old english teacher once told. ;She once worked there and said that it was haunted by a girl (servant girl) who had killed herself there after becoming pregnant by a 'well to do' man, who had spurned her and told her to leave the house. She apparently drowned herself??

All this crap about a ghost at Dunkenhalgh was laid to rest back in 1914. The Accrington Pals were on a night exercise in the grounds at Dunkenhalgh.
That ghost was mist rising off the river.
Never yet heard of a ghost that will face a Lee Enfield Rifle with 2 ft of cold steel on the end.
As for that bloke who does the ghost walks, he's come with some right corkers, when challenged he doesn't reply.
Retlaw.

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That'll be Janet.

Who had a stroke in the jacuzzi, and now haunts the leisure facilities.

http://www.katzy.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/ghost.gif

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My Gran told me another story after I had told her about something I had seen near the Dunkenalgh ( can't say what, on here as no one will believe me!!) Anyway Gran said that the daughter of the owner of the Dunkenalgh fell in love with a young man who worked on the estate and as her family would not allow her to marry him, she killed herself by jumping off a bridge into the river.
When you are 11 years old, you'll believe anything, but I swear I saw something.!

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Jaysay buying a round in the Load of Mischief?

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Nah ... that' just too wierd;)

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From my spirit guide, Madame Cholet.

In answer to your second question, yes.

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Madame Cholet produces the most delicious meals out of all kinds of strange things. Her elm-bark pie with fluffy toadstool topping is famous throughout the Womble world. Like all good cooks she stands no nonsense in her kitchen and has been known to rap even Garinda's paws when he tried to taste one of her bracken jellies before it was properly set.;)

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I think you have the wrong Madame Cholet, an easy mistake to make when they are both lying on their backs whistling La Marseillaise!

Rindys Madame Cholet as he stated is his 'spirit guide' and is willing to tell him his fortune so long as he takes her for a tour of the top shelf behind the local bar.

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My brother=in=law has a laptop full of ghost stories if you wish to get in touch he will be pleased to email some of them to you.

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There was Elsie Sidebottom, who died after falling through the ice on the Swanee, and is now sometimes seen skating across the football pitches at Whiteash, on frosty winter mornings.

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Hay you, there'll be no biccies when you call round for that:p:D

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Well finding jaysay in clayton never mind even having a drink in Clayton would be:p

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Biccies! that would be a first.:D

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I'm not a believer BUT-
We once decided to have a go at an ouiga board with a friend and her husband. The glass was moving merrily about giving answers and we all had a good laugh. It was impossible to tell who was pushing it so to test it I left the table and asked a very personal question which I knew the others didn't know the answer to.
The answer was immediate, brief and exact. When I explained it they were all quite upset and we stopped playing. We've never tried it again.
Thought transfer? ESP? Or something else?I don't know but I wouldn't recommend trying it.

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we once had a do wi a ouija board, once being the answer- never again.:eek:

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You've got mail.

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