Be afraid, be very afraid..
Oct. 31st, 2002 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eliabrithNo i'm not starting another new story (though i did get a2nd part added to the gen one). It's the title of an article in The Newsletter about a couple of local places (the NL is a NI paper but both the places featured are in Larne)
"With Halloween upon us, things are going bump in the night at a stately home.
Visitors and tourists are reporting ghostly sightings at Cairndhu House in Larne, with 2 German students left shaking in their hiking boots over a spooky apparition at one of the windows of the Victorian mansion.
The German women were chilled to the bone after spotting a ghostly figure staring down at them as they walked past the property.
Their ordeal promted them to run to a nearby tourist information centre to recount the creepy tale.
This however is not the first time that the former home of Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon has played host to our friends from beyond the grave.
Cairndhu House, which was home to Queen elizabeth and her sister Margaret, for a short while during the blitz was the "focus" of ghostwatchers in 1997 when wedding guests at the venue found a child in Victorian dress lurking in the background in only one of a reel of 28 photos of the same scene.
It was through the same window that the spectre of an old fashioned nurse veiwed the wedding of another couple almost five years previously.
Cairndhu house was previously owed by the council as part of the Carnfunnock Country Park estate. The council sold the property in 1996 to a property developer."
Bee's note due to unusual experiences nothing has been done to the property since then to this date however rumours of work starting have resurfaced again this year.
"The building was formerly a convalescent home after it was handed over in 1947 to the NI Hospitals Authority.
The stories of its posession have intensified over the summer with Larne council staff, who run the counrty park, reporting many more sightings by frightened dog walkers, campers and tourists.
Park manager Zoe Warwick said "The stories of the wedding photographs are widely known but, this summer, the incedents of dogs being "spooked out" by the building are increasing. we have had numerous people telling us their dogs went mad when brought near the house or where acting in a strage way.
at first we thought is was children mucking around but they do say animals can sense things we can't."
This sugestion is backed up by the former security manager of the property Jim McElhinney, who spent 5 yrs looking at it during "the witching hours".
Jim said "i worked throughout the night and my office was on the top floor of the building.
On the 1st night i started i brought along my wee Jack Russell for company.
"At about 1am. I was sitting in the room doing a crossword when i heard this awful noise. it sounded as though someone had
lifted a hammer and rattlked it on the radiator in the room with me.
the dog jumped up and started barking at the radiator then sniffed around it. i serached the upper floor thinking it must have been loose masonry but found nothing. at 5am the same thing happened again and the dogs reaction was the same as before.
The next day i came back with my partner and we searched the building again but found nothing.
Although I am sceptical abolut ghosts I have to admit there is something in the house."
End of article.
I will admit to at times being entirely creeped out if i go anywhere near that house. there is something decidedly wrong with it, although when i took Matt to it it was peaceful (which was bloody irritating on its own) , too peacefull if you ask me although the torn pages on the grass where still bone dry even though it had been raining the past couple of days. We noticed the pages first a couple of weeks before matt came over when we (jenn and me) where really creeped out (jenns never been weirded out by it before). we walked accross the front of the house rather than the lane, I was feeling ill just being the place but jenn wanted a picture of her and Ellie on the nice steps at the back, we noticed the scraps of paper but didn't pay attention to them, took the pictures and came back down the steps spotting a book to one side, out of insane noseyness i looked at it it was an old leather bound medical journal "the surgens works" and chunks of it had been ripped out the really odd thing was the book and the surrounding scrapps where bone dry despite it raining constantly all day untill an hour before.
Also if anyone can't sleep there a live ghost hunt happening in Ballygally castle by BBC NI and being put out on the web here http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/autumn/halloween/ghost.shtml
which is what the 2nd part of the article is about. talk about that inthe morning I'm off to bed now.
"With Halloween upon us, things are going bump in the night at a stately home.
Visitors and tourists are reporting ghostly sightings at Cairndhu House in Larne, with 2 German students left shaking in their hiking boots over a spooky apparition at one of the windows of the Victorian mansion.
The German women were chilled to the bone after spotting a ghostly figure staring down at them as they walked past the property.
Their ordeal promted them to run to a nearby tourist information centre to recount the creepy tale.
This however is not the first time that the former home of Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon has played host to our friends from beyond the grave.
Cairndhu House, which was home to Queen elizabeth and her sister Margaret, for a short while during the blitz was the "focus" of ghostwatchers in 1997 when wedding guests at the venue found a child in Victorian dress lurking in the background in only one of a reel of 28 photos of the same scene.
It was through the same window that the spectre of an old fashioned nurse veiwed the wedding of another couple almost five years previously.
Cairndhu house was previously owed by the council as part of the Carnfunnock Country Park estate. The council sold the property in 1996 to a property developer."
Bee's note due to unusual experiences nothing has been done to the property since then to this date however rumours of work starting have resurfaced again this year.
"The building was formerly a convalescent home after it was handed over in 1947 to the NI Hospitals Authority.
The stories of its posession have intensified over the summer with Larne council staff, who run the counrty park, reporting many more sightings by frightened dog walkers, campers and tourists.
Park manager Zoe Warwick said "The stories of the wedding photographs are widely known but, this summer, the incedents of dogs being "spooked out" by the building are increasing. we have had numerous people telling us their dogs went mad when brought near the house or where acting in a strage way.
at first we thought is was children mucking around but they do say animals can sense things we can't."
This sugestion is backed up by the former security manager of the property Jim McElhinney, who spent 5 yrs looking at it during "the witching hours".
Jim said "i worked throughout the night and my office was on the top floor of the building.
On the 1st night i started i brought along my wee Jack Russell for company.
"At about 1am. I was sitting in the room doing a crossword when i heard this awful noise. it sounded as though someone had
lifted a hammer and rattlked it on the radiator in the room with me.
the dog jumped up and started barking at the radiator then sniffed around it. i serached the upper floor thinking it must have been loose masonry but found nothing. at 5am the same thing happened again and the dogs reaction was the same as before.
The next day i came back with my partner and we searched the building again but found nothing.
Although I am sceptical abolut ghosts I have to admit there is something in the house."
End of article.
I will admit to at times being entirely creeped out if i go anywhere near that house. there is something decidedly wrong with it, although when i took Matt to it it was peaceful (which was bloody irritating on its own) , too peacefull if you ask me although the torn pages on the grass where still bone dry even though it had been raining the past couple of days. We noticed the pages first a couple of weeks before matt came over when we (jenn and me) where really creeped out (jenns never been weirded out by it before). we walked accross the front of the house rather than the lane, I was feeling ill just being the place but jenn wanted a picture of her and Ellie on the nice steps at the back, we noticed the scraps of paper but didn't pay attention to them, took the pictures and came back down the steps spotting a book to one side, out of insane noseyness i looked at it it was an old leather bound medical journal "the surgens works" and chunks of it had been ripped out the really odd thing was the book and the surrounding scrapps where bone dry despite it raining constantly all day untill an hour before.
Also if anyone can't sleep there a live ghost hunt happening in Ballygally castle by BBC NI and being put out on the web here http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/autumn/halloween/ghost.shtml
which is what the 2nd part of the article is about. talk about that inthe morning I'm off to bed now.
