A Festival for the Most Haunted Village
The First Cheltenham Paranormal Festival
On the first week of February this year, Cheltenham hosted a number of festivals and shows on different topics… horse racing, literature, science and music etc.
One of those was the ‘First Cheltenham Paranormal Festival’, whose organizers clearly wanted to promote any truth behind ghost stories in the outer area of Gloucester and Prestbury. In fact, they believe that Prestbury is the most haunted village in the whole UK… There must be some reason they believe it to be so!
A full program of events was arranged for visitors to the Cheltenham Paranormal Festival… magic shows, guided walks, horror movies… but the most extraordinary was the Ghost Hunt. A team of experienced ghost hunters joined the festival and hunted for ghosts all night long. They then presented their scary findings to the audience hehe.
The audience of the Festival’s many shows even had the opportunity to test their psychic powers (aka. “psychometry”), test their ability on reading minds etc.
The festival really catered to all… even the kids had their own program! Stories and songs about bad characters from movies and theatre plays, puppet theatre, body painting… these were all for the kids, but under the “horror” theme of the festival.
Or view the video on the server at: http://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/YT-CheltenhamParanormalFestival.flv
View the BBC story on the Cheltenham Paranormal Festival on the server at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9339000/9339610.stm
An extremely interesting house for ghost hunting in Cheltenham is the Ancient Ram Inn.
It is called by the locals as “The Most Haunted and Scary Place”. Reasons for this is that when the house was built, it was built over a 5,000 year old pagan burial ground. Initially the building served as a church only to later house children, workers and slaves…
Apparently, many child sacrifices, black magic rituals and suicides took place there. Many visitors of the house today will mention how they would hear spooky noises, smell odors and feel the sudden cold breeze.
This building is one of Britain’s National Treasure as, being built in 1145, it is the oldest building in Wotton-Under-Edge.
John Humphries, the owner of The Ram Inn house, explains that “eight people who have slept” in the Bishop’s Room, “have had to be exorcised”…
The organisers of the Cheltenham Paranormal Festival called visitors to write in their experiences before the opening on February 1st. Most people expressed a deep understanding on the intentions and will of the ghosts. They seemed to understand the reasons of the existence of spirits in that specific place.
Most of those who wrote in, also connected past actions (usually negative actions), with an energy that is now trapped… having to remain in the Ancient Ram Inn.
How is it that the people of Cheltenham are so familiar with ghosts??
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