Galleries home to England's most active ghost
NOTTINGHAM'S Galleries of Justice is home to England's most active poltergeist, ghost hunters claim.
Fright Night, which organises scary gatherings at the Galleries, say the former courthouse tops its list of the country's most active spooks.
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x240506mi1-4 High Pavement Nottingham with the Galleries of Justice, formerly the Shire Hall Courts. (Photo Geoff Buxton)
Martin Jeffrey, Event Director at Fright Nights said the company had logged supernatural activity at 120 sites for the past decade and had visited the Galleries for the past eight years.
He said: "It doesn't surprise at all, for the last eight years we have been exploring the dark side of the Galleries of Justice Museum's history and it has been consistently active through those years.
"We visit about 15 to 20 times per year, taking around 30 people each time, and we keep getting stones being thrown on demand and that's highly unusual."
Mr Jeffrey claims stones have landed in the middle of groups of people when asks if there is a spirit presence with them.
He added: "The sceptics will say it could be somebody throwing them but we take different groups of people from around the world and we don't tell them beforehand about the throwing."
Nicola Burley, head of museum, said staff believed activity had increased since an oubliette, or bottle-shaped cave, was uncovered in February.
Archaeologists believed prisoners could have been left to die in the cave.
She said: "The poltergeist seems to be most active in what was the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon, when we uncovered what is thought to be an oubliette where prisoners were left to die, it all got a lot worse."
Staff have felt someone touch them, strange breezes and seen objects move.
The ghost is believed to be a former parson who gave prisoners their last rites and whose shadowy figure has been spotted by visitors.
The Galleries is looking for funding for further work to uncover the oubliette, which they believe could contain human remains.
4 Comments
by mark, wales
Monday, November 02 2009, 9:45PM
“Well i dont belive that for one second they take groups of 30, more like 40 to 45. Stay away from Fright nights! They treat you as there own private cashpoint, with little thought for those people who have had a dissapointing evening then try to first get an answer or talk to someone then have to email no less than '12 TIMES' to in the end complain about not only the rubbish night but also the appalling customer service and still no one contacted us. Rubbish night rubbish attitude and dreadful public relations!
STAY WELL CLEAR......”
by Simon, Nottingham
Tuesday, October 20 2009, 10:04AM
“The Galleries of Justice have been looking for funding to develop the cave area for a long time... that is how they have actually got to uncover the oubliette and deck out the 'dungeon' area in the first place. They are now looking for more funding to explore the cave area further as it is believed there may be more to it than can currently be seen. They aren't 'JUST' looking for funding now, for places (museums) like the Galleries the search for funding to expand it is a constant way of life.
With regard to Fright Nights, they are not directly connected with the Galleries but have hired it as a venue consistently and regularly for the past 8 years and will continue to do so with the same regularity.
Finally, in paranormal circles, the Galleries has been renowned for its activity for many many years, even before it was a museum. As with any paranormal activity, the true nature of an incident is debatable, but what is fact is that the existence of the reported (alleged) paranormal activity is NOT a new phenomenon.”
by Carl, Notts
Friday, October 16 2009, 6:06AM
“"Just as they are looking for extra funding" If you read the artical properly it says
Martin Jeffrey, Event Director at Fright Nights said the company had logged supernatural activity at 120 sites for the past decade and had visited the Galleries for the past eight years.
He said: "It doesn't surprise at all, for the last eight years we have been exploring the dark side of the Galleries of Justice Museum's history and it has been consistently active through those years.
"We visit about 15 to 20 times per year, taking around 30 people each time, and we keep getting stones being thrown on demand and that's highly unusual."
8 years isn't "just" as they are looking for funding is it.”
by JohnR, Nottingham
Thursday, October 15 2009, 3:10PM
“OOOOooooo loads of ghostly happenings to get the place in the press... Just as they are looking for extra funding.”