Haunted places in Leeds

Si · Post by Si » Wed 05 Dec, 2007 9:58 am

Blimey!!! Phill's been posessed!

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Wed 05 Dec, 2007 10:16 am

Owt to make a few quid eh?

Si · Post by Si » Wed 05 Dec, 2007 10:19 am

That's the way!

Si · Post by Si » Wed 05 Dec, 2007 10:23 am

Sthenno wrote: My flatmates have become utterly convinced that our halls are haunted. Apparently there are unexplained bangs and things keep going awol... not experienced any of these things myself, and I'm normally a right scaredy-cat when a place feels a bit spooky, and am dubious as the building is brand spanking new. But just out of curiosity, do any of you knowledgeable peeps happen to know what was on this site previously, or of any spooky goings on in the area? The halls are Opal Court on Burley Road, the ones with the weird multicoloured metal things outside the windows, just down from the Fox and Newt pub. PS I can see Opal Court from the street outside my office (Brancepeth Place - across the river and canal) but haven't seen any 'white ladies' or cavaliers at the windows of a night!

Sthenno · Post by **Sthenno** » Thu 06 Dec, 2007 2:34 am

No ancient Indian burial grounds then? Oh well!

Si · Post by Si » Thu 06 Dec, 2007 11:41 am

No, but I'm intrigued by "unexplained bangs" in a student halls!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 07 Dec, 2007 12:34 am

Phill_d wrote: Good old Derek. He got booted off there when they found out he was a fake. That phsycologist fella used to think he was a fake and was cheating on these places he was going on and looking up the history before he went there. So he started leaving bits of information about on notes were old Derek would find them. He left this name of this supposed ghost that haunted the place, 'RIK EEDLES' so good old derek started carryng on about this RIK was possesing him when actual fact RIK Eedles is an anagram of Derek lies. Also another one was Kreed Kaffer (Derek Faker) They both got the sack then when it was in the paper. Ha phill,i wish you would tell my kids mate..i have been telling them he was a fake since day one..my mum went to see him at the city varieties when she was alive.now mum was gullable at times,but she saw straight through him.

Post by **cnosni** » Fri 07 Dec, 2007 12:18 pm

Heres a tale i tell to embarass our lass,and its connected to Mr Pakora.Whilst walking on the prom at Scarborough mydearly beloved scouse other half noticed the sad looking theatre on the sea front."Is that a theatre?" she asked"Yes it is""Oh,well there must be a clairvoyant on or something then""Why",i asked"Because it says so""What?""Look,Futurist"I then explained,with a great deal of micky taking,that it was the name of the theatre.She was not best pleased with my laughing at her expense,but as we got closer she had the last laugh because we could then see the bill of acts coming to the theatre,and one was Derek Acorah.So she was right,they usually are though.

wilko · Post by **wilko** » Tue 04 Mar, 2008 1:12 am

The old Ida hospital in Cookridge is ment to be haunted. As my grandma used to work night shifts there in the 80s. she told me on many occasions that she saw the ghost of an old woman wondering around at night, but you could only see the top half of her body. i only live a 2mins walk away from the hospital and used to hang around there as a kid, the place totaly abandoned and is victorian loooking and is realy creapy. At the side of hospital are two graves of children hidden away in the bushes. i always found that to be really wierd. Wilko.

Chaddy 83 · Post by **Chaddy 83** » Thu 19 Jun, 2008 12:52 pm

Festwerfer wrote: Ian R P wrote: I love this stuff,Here's my list of Ghouls.There's the Blue lady and apparently maybe another one at Temple Newsam, at least one ghost in The Grand Theatre and one in the City Varieties. An apparition in one of the shops in the victorian street in the abbey house museum, and definately a ghost in the Tommy Wass pub at Beeston.In the early 70's my mum worked there and got my dad to do a bit of electrical work and he swore he saw a ghost in the cellar. I put it down to the Tetleys but years later the landlady told me her grandkids and the dog would not go in one of the rooms, and it was always freezing cold in there.The original building is years old, it was a farmhouse and people reckon the ghost is that of Ada Wass (Tommys Brother). The Tommy Wass story does surprise me I have many connections with that pub over the years and I cant say I have ever heard of it being haunted I will have to check that one out for myself.One place I do know is haunted is a building at the back of quick fit on Kirkstall Road I checked in to this story after hearing unexplained noises for myself while working in this building the building was at one time a leather tanners and two men got in to a fight and one was hooked on his apron and pulled in to a vat and drown. He is supposed to walk the upper floors and heavy foot steps are heard. Yea yea yea I thought when I first heard this till one day I was working alone. The upper floors had been condemned as unsafe and we used the ground floor for storage Very clearly I heard loud heavy foot steps from above and this is were I freaked I had just unlocked the building and was alone but the show stopper is this the stairs to the upper floors had been ripped out to stop people going in to the unsafe areas. Impossible to gain access up there .I have to say I left the company shortly after this happened Asa was his son. Thomas Wass, born in 1832, the son of Stephen Wass, a Wheelwright and Carpenter from Easingwold. Thomas married a farmer's daughter by the name of Rachel Oades-Broadbent and they began married life at a farm in Gipsy Lane, before moving to the building shown here, at the time a new substantial farmhouse. They had 5 daughters, Mary, Charlotte, Hephzibah, Annie and Amy, and three sons Oliver, Asa and Stephen. Asa took over the farm after Thomas's death in 1887, followed by Stephen. The land on which the property was built belonged to the Church commissioners and there was a covenant imposed in the deeds to prevent the making, storage or sale of alcohol. In later years Bridge Farm, as it was called, became known as the Refreshment Rooms when it was used as a changing room etc. for the local church cricket and tennis club. After the death of Asa Wass in 1924 the building was eventually purchased by Melbourne Brewery Company when the covenant was released. As it had always been known locally as part of the 64 acre farm, Tommy Wass's, the family gave consent to continue the name when it opened as a public house in the late 1920s.