Anyone been on an organised ghost hunt?

[muddledpup]

Seems there are a lot of 'spooky' threads about at the moment
Wondered if anyone has done any organised ghost hunts?
I've done
Chillingham Castle
Otterburn tower
Killhope leadmine
Nothing to report really

Though my friend took this in the cellar at Otterburn which I still think is really weird

I've done Shepton Mallet Prison and it was amazing!

Yes and I really enjoyed it.

Ooo I'd love to do one of these

Killhope Leadmine was interesting if nothing else
We were told not to tell anyone we were there as there was a 'live' radio broadcast going out that night (Halloween) which had been pre recorded!!
There was a scary bit where 'something ' started throwing stones but I think it was the organisers
We did divining with crystals in the mine and went into the forest to an old hut to do a seance

I've also done ghost walks in York and Whitby

I'd absolutely love to.
Who organised your hunt? Sounds like you live in my general area.

I'm not sure it was years ago but we booked them direct with the venues

My sister and I once went on a ghost hunt in Edinburgh at midnight.

We went after spending all evening in a pub.

It ended with my sister and I at the front of a mausoleum in a Edinburgh graveyard. Due to the gin consumed earlier in the evening, we totally freaked when a man in a plastic mask jumped out of us.

As our panic subsided we were stunned at the stampede our panic had caused at the back of the mausoleum. Several American tourists had hit the ground.

So my advice is ghost tours are best done sober

Yes. It was rubbish. We left at 1am when nothing was happening and the host told some bullshit cliched story to try to build tension.

I haven’t but plan to do one, just need some one to come with me

Landguard Fort, Felixstowe. mostly because i just wanted to be able to walk round it in the dark.

saw nothing, felt nothing, may have kicked a small stone when everyone was in an underground room with torches off waiting for spooky happenings. made a couple of people jump.

it’s good fun just for access to places you couldn’t normally go.

Just remembered. I've done the underground vaults and the underground street in Edinburgh. The vaults are spooky

As our panic subsided we were stunned at the stampede our panic had caused at the back of the mausoleum. Several American tourists had hit the ground.

I went to one years ago at knebworth House in Hertfordshire. My sister and I were terrified. The evening was ended with a talk about bat's, then we had a bat hunt with those sonar things that can hear them. It was a good evening.

Sort of, in that I was the fill-in tutor for a university creative writing module about ‘writing place’, that featured an annual night session at a ‘haunted’ building. It was highly atmospheric, dark, isolated, and filled with suggestible undergraduates actively looking for spooky inspiration (and who had been primed by being taken on a guided ghost walk of the area first) — not so much as a phantom throat-clearing.

I’m hoping to do the Shepton Mallet prison one at some point.

Mary kings close in Edinburgh, i wouldn’t say it was really creepy, but interesting, the atmosphere was really strange though.
I felt sick dizzy and off balance and couldn’t wait to leave.
I didn’t feel right for days!

Went to a late night one at Newsham Park, it was originally an orphanage from 1874 but became a hospital in the 1950's and later on a mental health facility.

Went with a healthy dose of scepticism but also an open mind. The place certainly had an eerie sad feel to it but any abandoned hospital after dark probably would.

The ghost hunt itself was entertaining with plenty of stories and a few attempts at getting a spirit to "make contact"

It was all lighthearted until we went into the attic that had a series of small cupboards built into the eaves that were on each side of a central corridor. It was rumoured that the orphans were locked in the cupboards if they misbehaved as punishment. My friend and I wandered off from the group and went into a cupboard and shut the door. We had torches and took some photos, my friend started joking about and we were giggling when there was two loud bangs on the door. We assumed that it was either an organiser or someone from the group pranking us so immediately opened the door within a split second only to find that all of the group had moved on to the bottom end of the corridor at least 100 meters away. We ran over too them but were both too freaked out to mention it to anyone as we just wanted to get away from the attic.

The rest of the night was uneventful but my friend was so spooked that she stayed at mine after it finished at 3am and we slept in the living room.