Let's Talk About... The Most Haunted Places in Blackpool Ep.38

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[00:08:00] LH Podcasts LH Podcasts LH Podcasts LH Podcasts LH Podcasts There is another one just before you carry on me go on this that I want to See if I can get a reaction for again

[00:10:36] I remember watching a video because when we were going I was I was considering taking my stuff because of the hotel that we Were going into was oh Yeah, yeah quite haunted so I know there was a building where a man got shot right?

[00:10:53] I know it was a garage It's not on there then is it I don't believe so no right okay, okay? I just wanted to check me So next up we have the one that I am pretty sure you're on about the foxhole I believe

[00:11:09] No, I don't think it is actually No, it wasn't that one. I believe it's like Norbit Castle or some something along the lines of that all right fair enough Well, like I said this is right on the seafront on the promenade Okay

[00:11:23] So the foxhole is a public house that sits on Blackpool promenade it was once a 17th century refuge for priests Each of the three floors had four or five rooms each with its own private chapel

[00:11:37] The thick walls of the building were dotted with secret passages and priest holes What the hell is a priest hole? I was just gonna ask you the same thing there. I hope it's not like a glorial They are priests Sorry

[00:11:55] Right today is believed that the foxhole is haunted by a number of different spirits including Smugglers and priests Exciting news listeners we are thrilled to announce our new sponsor

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[00:12:57] The owner and his staff have reported feeling as though someone or something is watching them as they work The current owner Billy Johnson has discovered archive materials which identify the ghost Haunting this building as a lady named Laura shrooms who was originally from Scarborough Horace rooms Shrooms shrooms

[00:13:21] Yeah, shrooms shrooms. Well at least that's how I'm guessing it's said Well, yeah, you ever been there? I've been there before no I was gonna I was just gonna say it's annoying me that I've not been to any of these places yet

[00:13:34] What was she doing in the tobacco house? Fuck do I know it might be a smoker Yeah, it worked then Yeah, that was very sexist of me that

[00:13:45] I don't know why I just was that your problem because it was a woman. Yeah, yeah cuz in a tobacco house I thought really I mean fair enough Works work Right number five the eagle and a child

[00:14:00] Located just a short drive away from Blackpool in the village of Wheaton The eagle and the child pobers plenty of poltergeist activity going on Including glasses being thrown around and various things being moved around in the bar area

[00:14:14] One of the culprits is said to be a man named Murph a former highway robber He was said to roam around after midnight. He is frequently said to be heard moaning and muttering This one I've heard of

[00:14:27] There is also said to be a spirit of a young girl who died in the building still lingering around as well Yeah This this it's not the whole tell when I wasn't about but as I say when I was doing research before on Blackpool before

[00:14:38] I went yeah, this came up and it said it was just outside of Blackpool Yeah, I mean we're gonna maybe go there. I remember yeah, I remember the name nerf nerf not nerf

[00:14:50] Very short one so what rakes hall so rakes Hall has served many purposes over the course of its history It's formally been a convent a private dwelling and even a public house these days it is a stylish bar

[00:15:04] But it hasn't quite let go of its past thanks to the spirit of a drowned woman who was said to haunt the building Oh Jesus

[00:15:12] Did this actually happen do we know or does this just said to be the spirit of imagine it's just said to me isn't it? I mean, I mean there's probably a story that every woman who didn't drown somewhere near it. Yeah. Oh, yeah

[00:15:25] So number seven black hole pleasure beach Hey What would you mean black book? Well black the whole pleasure beaches? Yes haunted. It's gonna be fucking cloggy, isn't it? so Black Pearl pleasure beach is well known for being one of the United Kingdom's most visited attractions millions of millions

[00:15:47] Millions of visitors arrive every year to experience the bright lights and the exciting rides and the various other attractions at the pleasure beach has to Offer however some visitors and thrill seekers are a very different kind

[00:16:00] They are coming here in the hopes that they will have the opportunity to encounter the dead Yeah, this is that this is the go the ghost ride I know what this is and that's very well one of the most famous black pearl ghosts is cloggy

[00:16:13] It was ironically enough said to be said to haunt the ghost train attraction He's apparently the spirit of a former train operator who was known for wearing clothes Visitors and members of staff alike have reported hearing cloggy walking around the ghost train

[00:16:29] Everyone knows that it's him because of this distinctive sound of walking in clothes It's just a ride It's just a ride malfunctioning or just because there's that many mechanics and stuff have you ever been on that? Yeah

[00:16:42] Yeah, there's so much going on. It's just so bizarre like, you know, why? Train up a wet wearing clogs They have we're in black pool, man Yes suppose. Oh cloggy. Yeah, right

[00:16:58] However, cloggy is by no means the only ghost that is said to be hanging around black hole pleasure beach there have also been regular sightings of a male figure in the cellar who is described as looking very much like Carl Maxx the 19th century German philosopher

[00:17:13] there have also been reports of a shadow people moving around the Entire area and of a female apparition walking through the wall of one of the bars There you go

[00:17:24] It is also common for pictures to move on the walls lights to be switched on and off and for a lady singing To be heard when nobody is around

[00:17:33] Recently there have also been sightings of a young girl around nine around nine years of age appearing and disappearing in the gift shop She is often held responsible for objects mysteriously being moved around the shop The ice skating rink at black hole pleasure beach is also particularly haunted

[00:17:54] Staff often hear the sound of someone ice skating on the rink window But he's in there and they also report equipment and lightning being shut off and tools moving around on their own Doors will regularly slam shut with no explanation and the staff will often feel very uncomfortable

[00:18:10] Often feel a very uncomfortable presence near them I'm sorry Well, just makes them feel a little bit uneasy apparently mate. I'm sorry No, man, where's the line there's gotta be a line. I don't know I mean the Tovelyn Dean dead yet

[00:18:31] That's what they'd be doing and at once they fucking dead It's just silly in it like This is very much a light-hearted one this yeah, yeah definitely definitely That one house that was in the village so that one I watched there

[00:18:52] There's like a I'm sure there's a documentary on YouTube or the old coach house Is that the ones in that village? Okay, so black balls old coach house is said to be the said to be the oldest building in the South Shore area

[00:19:07] And at one time it served as a vicarage It is now operated as a bed and breakfast and is considered by many to be the most haunted hotel in Blackpool

[00:19:15] The owners are frequently told by their guests that there is a male figure wearing a black cap and a black cloak who rather Disconcertingly stares at them while they sit and try to enjoy their meals. That's fucking horrendous I'd hate that though

[00:19:28] Sat there trying to have your fucking tail in the sun fucking Grim Reaper in the corner staring at you Before you were gonna give me a Liam joke You had such authority about that I don't like going out to restaurants and stuff

[00:19:46] Yeah, they're in a big room full of people eating pisses me off. You can't do out what go Steve again exactly Much as a little above here. I can't go to them Just don't know how we've got to this Yeah

[00:20:00] Right is right then so the book of watching your eight So you certainly not the only spirit in the building know as there have also been reports of a female entity the female spirit is known as Shirley and

[00:20:13] She haunts she also haunts the dining area. Although rather than staring at diners She's simply said to be keeping watch over the room The owners have yet to encounter either of the spirits, but the guests see them with some amount of frequency Mmm

[00:20:29] It's one of those places now if it I don't know like you think if this stuff are being told and they just come up and Play along with it wouldn't it? Well, maybe but then it's also very honest people miss

[00:20:42] Would you make they haven't seen anything then they haven't seen anything? Yeah, that's what I'm saying So I don't really believe it I feel like the staff play like the main factor because other ones that are there most of the time Why?

[00:20:55] But it's one of them though in it like There's an argument for both sides. I know what you're saying Yeah, you're saying because they're there all the time they should be saying to us Yeah

[00:21:04] Well, what about the places where the way you go where the people who live there are on the place say they see Things all the time and then you go there and see if I go works both ways because you know

[00:21:12] They're also that's what I'm saying. Like if we went that's what I'm saying No, if we were my point is us with that many people are claiming it

[00:21:19] You're I mean, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't you mean what does like to say there's an argument for both sides Yeah, what doesn't know because it blackpool. Well, yeah exactly Right then with so onto black roads tower

[00:21:33] Blackpool towers hot off. Yeah people died in the building process, right? Well, yeah, but I don't want anything about that No, it's well, so everybody knows Right then so the tower has a storied history based on the Eiffel Tower in Paris

[00:21:48] While it never reached the heights of the original when it was opened to the public in 1894 it held the honor of being the tallest man-made structure in the British Empire at a mere 158 meters or 518 feet compared to the Eiffel Towers 330 meters or

[00:22:07] 1083 feet but it's still fucking tall. Yeah. Yeah when you're up there on that glass floor, man Yeah, I've got a bit about the glass floor fucking it. I'll do it. Why you hate it? Well, they say because I put down here

[00:22:19] The first year we went because I mean the first time I went I will obviously have a bit older than you The glass floor wasn't there the first couple times. Oh really? Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean it makes sense called the walk of faith

[00:22:32] Because I would because like now it's one side isn't it? Yeah, yeah side of it The first time it was literally just one panel in the corner. What do you mean? It was just one glass panel in the corner

[00:22:42] It's like four sides in it like you can walk around. Yes a viewing gallery So it was just like one one corner before that was glass it wasn't a full walkway, right? Okay Yeah

[00:22:52] So I said that that's what it was like when we first went up there and my brother was absolutely pet terrified of heights Hated it. Well, they hated going up in the first place

[00:23:00] Yeah, we went fucking nowhere near that fucking glass bed and my fucking sister. She just sat down. It is fucking just sat there That's me. I don't like heights but as long as I know

[00:23:08] I'm you know enclosed in an enclosed space if I was up there and it was just barriers Now I'm not going up. I'm not going up. I've been to talk to him if I stayed building his life that what no No, like just just barriers. Yeah

[00:23:21] Windy as focus. No, no, don't get me up there You can go the very top of the top blackpool tower though like that. I know you can and absolutely No, absolutely not never in a million years

[00:23:31] Anyway, so it currently hangs in there as the as the world's 125th tallest freestanding tower Another well-known fact as well is that it's actually designed that if anything goes to its own way It will fall into the sea. Oh

[00:23:45] Great. Yeah, I'd rather fall into land. Why I don't like the sea we're not getting into that again Yeah, I mean to be fair if it fucking collapse while you're up the bastard you would fucking die either way

[00:23:55] Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But if you go into the sea you're landing far out near it's not like yeah Using one of the panels as a parachute Break your fall a bit Nice anyway, what most people simply call blackpool tower refers to the tower buildings a

[00:24:18] Complex that includes the tower itself the tower circus the tower ballrooms the roof gardens What used to be jungle gyms? Yeah big fucking like a soft play area for children Which sadly is now just a giant bar called the fifth floor

[00:24:32] Plus a new dungeon attraction part of like, you know, you've got the young dungeons London dungeons Edinburgh dungeons You've been the black girl one have any good One of the baby it's not bad It's it's it's a dungeon in it

[00:24:50] Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean York's are not different level to the black There's a ride at the end of the blackboard one as well. Yeah, it's one more thing as well

[00:25:00] Go on the circus. How good is that circus? Oh, I don't want the service. What's the clowns? It's what? I Not a single clown in that in the black well when when our last one

[00:25:13] I wouldn't go to a circus just in case there was lots of Spanish women. It's great Fucking what sticky biggie? It's a Spanish women in black building service Jesus Christ

[00:25:28] So its first 30 years no one fought to paint it properly or otherwise preserve the structure a bad idea generally But a terrible lack of forwards thinking on the coastline obviously well assault air

[00:25:41] So there was some discussion of just demolishing the whole mess, but it was instead rebuilt in stages from 1920 to 1924 exceptional undertaking now has the tower Being thoroughly painted in a six-year cycle. So it never has to happen again. And it's also now a grade one listed building

[00:25:58] It's like a law right okay has to be fucking and there's so many what what do you mean? What has to stay there? Yeah, yeah, why because it's listed building I'm confused so they can never take never heard of a listed building before no unfortunately not

[00:26:13] Yeah, so like that cast most castles are classes listed building. So yeah, you have to do your best to preserve it Yeah, but you have to be preserved building the fucking 1800s exactly bollocks made of fucking

[00:26:25] 1800s exactly bollocks made of fucking 1800s and they built that fucking tower right that bloody Jesus thing in Brazil Which is classed as a wonder of the world Rio de Janeiro. That's the fella. Yeah, what's it called Christ the fucking Christ the Redeemer? I'm gonna say reindeer

[00:26:45] Well, yeah, that was building in 1900s and that's a wonder of the world blackpool town was better than that But no, it's not it is it's at the top of a fucking mountain me Give a fuck Didn't in the 1800s, I'll know

[00:27:09] I agree though. It should be regardless because it is There's so many things that can be classed like honestly There's like out, you know, like when toilet use outside now house some of them right there classed as listed buildings

[00:27:23] All right, okay. Yes, it's a kind of knock it down. That's um, Winkie's Castle mask. Yeah Yeah, that's a listed building. They are that mark Marchley thing, you know

[00:27:31] Yeah, yeah, that is me and my dad we were we restored a old greenhouse because it was classed as a listed building What? Yeah, but it was one of the old ones like you know

[00:27:41] You get a beamish where they got the levers and everything to open the windows. Yeah, yeah mechanical shit That makes sense blackpool tower does not yes. It does is fucking iconic Am I wrong

[00:27:55] No, you're not wrong. Exactly. No, because you cannot lie to me after you're fucking driving a your name 62 You start looking for the fucking blackpool tower, don't you? Oh, yeah exactly. So shut up. Well, it was it's just a greenhouse

[00:28:07] Just completely took. Yeah, it's a greenhouse. No, no, that's not a greenhouse. I'm saying do a greenhouse from That was just an example. Yeah, that's fair I Am so sorry that really blew my mind

[00:28:22] It's not just the towers so the buildings underneath it as well the whole thing Yeah, no, no. No, but what I was saying is like I thought I had to be like really old

[00:28:31] To me that is really old. Yeah, but when you compare it to like a castle Well, yeah, but still I mean there's plenty of things that are gonna be classes listed There'll be fucking things that have been

[00:28:40] Probably built one by women alive speaking of enlisted buildings. Did you see what happened a stonehenge? Well, yeah bastards It's a bit shit stonehenge though. Yeah, but that took over and spray paint it

[00:28:51] It's a bitch hit the story behind isn't shit. I don't even know what the story behind it is. There's an episode for you. Yes Look forward to that. I know I know it's a part of their stick of the dump

[00:29:01] Do you do you actually don't know my son edge? No, that's crazy. Right anyway backs of black girl so So the gallery obviously in their ballroom Of obviously, you know like the ballroom they do all the dancing. Yeah, you come dancing all that bollocks

[00:29:17] so as a well-known lady haunting it who doesn't seem to do do much apart from Sitting and watching the floor below this can happen at times. The ballroom is empty or when there's actually something to watch

[00:29:29] Yeah, so this can happen at times the ballroom is empty or when there was actually something to watch this particular haunt seems to like some sort of out of time after After after image of a person

[00:29:42] Do that again, so it's a bit basically they fucking looks like everyone says they think it's a real person But obviously the dress they don't that's why people think Right, okay, so I think there are multiple stories of

[00:29:59] Being able to see the lady in the gallery from anywhere in the ballroom when she appears But if you watch it for long enough or else bold enough to try and approach her she just disappears

[00:30:10] Well, that makes sense. Yeah ghost. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the lady isn't the only curious out-of-time Style phenomena at the ballroom. There are also an old couple who like to dance They can be spotted sat at a table like any other customer

[00:30:24] Life like enough that staff have tried talking to them and brought them cups of tea just minding their own business Eventually, they will stand up the old man leading his partner to the floor and they will join him with whatever sure

[00:30:36] He's on that day only as they dance when they start to fade away Us too is too much Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's soft and touchy yeah, well it's just stuff that have made it up let's be honest

[00:30:57] You're the one who believes in all the fucking ghosts and you're not shit like it The broken cups of tea mate at that point of the not realized like oh, there's no one there Well, no because they can see then you twat that's the point

[00:31:13] I don't understand how to take payment. Sorry man Punch it Basically free. Oh really? Yes. I'm going there. I don't even drink tea man. Go on that give me a red bull change my mind Sorry, man, right show up

[00:31:34] Right, so here's a story of two members of staff It were closing up for the night who were just doing their usual rounds The lights were dimmed and there was no one no one put them in the building as they locked up

[00:31:46] Or at least I shouldn't have been anyone else one member of staff was on the ballroom floor and One elsewhere in the tower buildings and as the first member of staff crossed the ballroom floor

[00:31:59] They looked up into the balconies only to notice a dark figure walking alone up there They radio their co-worker asking if it was them wondering about their reply in surprise. There's an intruder in the ballroom

[00:32:13] They both run to catch whoever is lurking around after hours shouts to stop I're ignored and the two members of staff nearly get them They both turn a corner to spot the shadow ahead of them walk through a door

[00:32:25] So proceeded by rapid drops in temperature if a customer looks around to see what caused the draft They can see a dark shadowy figure passing by should they follow they can see this figure walk through the door without bothering to open it first Sorry, yeah

[00:32:41] So that's it made the most haunted places in Blackpool I think I'm The most intriguing one there for me was that that one that was one of the first ones where it was the camera what it was

[00:32:56] My a bit of bed and breakfast or something, but it was just a little bit of the eagle and the child Wasn't the eagle in a child? Yeah the eagle and the child. Yeah Yeah, we could go there I'd like to do that

[00:33:07] Yes, that that sort of stuck out a little bit more in to me in terms of believability No, we will we have to me I feel like the Tower it has potential to be haunted a hundred percent

[00:33:26] But I guarantee the stories were the worst of all really yeah I mean, I don't care for an old couple dancing in the ballroom. Yeah I mean, yeah, don't get me wrong with what you know, fucking evil spinners and stuff from whatever you bought

[00:33:37] I'm waiting for a Titanic theme song to play in the background afterwards. Why? dancing the ballroom All right, okay, we'll leave that out then we'll go go go ice skating mate Fucking see if we can do some 12

[00:33:59] Right then yeah, so that's it mate all the most haunted places in blackpool So like we both said obviously we've been back to blackpool. Yeah a couple of times as an adult and

[00:34:08] Well, I have to say man. I'd love to see it return to its former glory. I'd love it I mean, especially now obviously you've got kids man. You must admit you Present them. I have that same experience than I had exactly

[00:34:20] The thing is that let me down the last time I said simply three years ago Maybe four now that I last went and Jayden was He felt he fell ill like but shock Everyone did but me and I remember we went into a subway

[00:34:37] We were just doing night the just walking along the promenade really just doing some shopping as you do and I'm shocked. Oh shit. Yeah, yeah It's fucking crazy because like people that people have never been at blackpool Especially our listeners in America will not understand this

[00:34:54] Yeah, but honestly, it was such a fucking iconic place Let's write for you Americans. It was labeled. This is controversial, but it was labeled the Las Vegas of the UK Exactly that gives you sort of an idea as to your version our version of your Las Vegas

[00:35:19] Now look at it No, I think the most haunted places in the UK's answer to Las Vegas, yeah Christ right then guys. So as always go listen go and listen go and follow all the other socials

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