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Is your work haunted? The Theatre Royal dosen't seem old enough to have ghosts.

Flash_Andy wrote:Is your work haunted? The Theatre Royal dosen't seem old enough to have ghosts.

I thought all it took was a dead person. They don't have to be Victorian or older, do they?

Yeah I suppose your right! Have many people died in the theatre? I know many acts have died on stage? Morcambe and Wise, Des O'Connor! (can't remember at what theatre though)

Ha, you're all maybe thinking of the old Empire round on Sauchiehall St, famously the graveyard of many an English comedian!

Theatre Royal as it stands today dates from 1895, although it replaced two earlier theatres built on the site in 1867 and 1888 - both of which were gutted by fire before being rebuilt within the existing external walls. Our most famous ghost is apparently the fireman who drowned in 1969, when the theatre was still used by STV as a studio complex - the basement was filled with foam, and he fell in and wasn't found for a day. Led eventually to the development of a new type of inertia alarm for firemen - we had a retired firefighter looking around recently who was there on the night.

I lock the building up at night alone quite regularly, and while I've been spooked by noises and the like, I've not yet experienced anything more substantial - but there are areas of the building I simply don't like being in!

WOOOOO
Any chance of us going on a mad Most Haunted type trip to a spooky place in Glasgow...........I'm well up for that! Will post this in the other forum too....

get enough people and i can help ya out!!

I've started a thread in 'what's on' if anyones interested.

Thanks for offer.............is it somewhere really creepy....do i need garlic and a crucifix??

cheesylion wrote:I was in the city and I decided I would take a wander up to the cathedral for a wee while.

I work in the Royal and come out at the Cathedral most days. No matter how warm the weather, it's always chilly there.

Didn't they disturb a load of graves to build the Museum there?

Hi there,


I am looking for any info out there on hauntings,weirdness and strange and spooky sites,stories in and around the Glasgow area......I'm keen to visit some of these places,camera in tow and see what's out there.


Not much up on the Net about this subject surprisingly...just some out of date sites/pages.


Found some books....but need to get to heart of this matter.

Any one seen the Deil's Plantation site online about the geometry of Glasogw and Bonnyton mound? Watched it last night...interesting stuff.

Thanks for any info......much appreciated.


TQPR

This was in the news a few weeks ago.

BBC

When Pc Alex Deeprose was called to Glasgow's sprawling Southern Necropolis on the evening of 23 September 1954, he expected to be dealing with a simple case of vandalism.
Children turn vampire hunters
But the bizarre sight that awaited him was to make headlines around the world and cause a moral panic that led to the introduction of strict new censorship laws in the UK.
Hundreds of children aged from four to 14, some of them armed with knives and sharpened sticks, were patrolling inside the historic graveyard

hello QPR
This is a good book as well
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-Glasgow ... pd_sim_b_1

im yer man when it comes to hauntings and spooky stuff in Glasgow, ill get some stuff together for you, and get back to you.

Dicky

hi there,

thanks to those who replied...I have orderd the mysterious glasgow book and am awiting it's arrival...going to get hold of the haunted glasgow book too........


Cheers for the offer of some stuff..i'd really appreciate that.........


Thanks again,


TQPR

thequeensparkranger wrote:Any one seen the Deil's Plantation site online about the geometry of Glasogw and Bonnyton mound? Watched it last night...interesting stuff.

Aye indeed, just finished watching all the video bits. Good stuff. I helped her out at the start with my Google Earth placemark file of the network >clicky<.

hi grahame,

thanks for getting in touch........interesting subject this.......



going to have a look at your site.......

I visited Leverndale and Crookston Castle yesterday and was at Old Govan Parish Church recently....oh and the Cathedral/Necropolis too........the more i think about this..the more it makes sense.......
many historians have written off ancient peoples as being savages or unsophisticated..intellectual snobbery.

I shall look forward to finding out more about this subject. Is Harry Bell's book still in print?

I am fascinated with the Bonnyton Mound,used to pass it all the time and never knew it's significance....used to travel the Humbie Road alot when I stayed in Newton Mearns as a teenager and became interested in Rudolf Hess conspiracies too......the plot thickens... :)


Cheers,


Elliot (TQPR)