Ghost hunter Ross visits old haunts
A GHOST hunter claims he spotted up to three spooks a night on visits to St Briavel's Castle.
Ross Andrews has spent the past 20 years chasing ghosts throughout Gloucestershire.
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spooky: Ross Andrews.
The 37-year-old, of Lansdown, Cheltenham, said: "Some of the things I have seen are hard to believe. There are so many haunted places in Gloucestershire and people don't realise that."
Ross, who works as a cabaret singer when he is not hunting ghosts, said he first became interested in the paranormal while growing up in his parents' house in Up Hatherley.
He said: "There was a ghost in there which would flap around, a bit like a bat. I told my brother about it and he said, 'Yeah, it's been there for years'."
Ross is now the chairman of Parasoc, a Gloucestershire group dedicated to finding ghosts and UFOs, and spends most of his spare weekends travelling across the county with a load of expensive equipment.
"We've recently been doing some work in St Briavel's Castle where we have seen up to three ghosts a night. That place is seriously haunted."
The Forest of Dean castle, which was built by Edward I in 1292, was once a prison but is now a youth hostel.
5 Comments
by CJ, Cheltenham
Thursday, July 23 2009, 3:10PM
“I guess it all comes down to what we mean by a ghost. After all, if a bat causes someone to say they have seen a ghost, its still a "ghost" sighting. There may well be naturalistic explanations for the phenomena at St. Briavels, but some are beyond any explanation I can currently put forward. I actually saw a dog there, and assumed it was real, searched highghj and low, and no dog. Was it a real dog? Well I would assume so, but I am still puzzled where it went if it was! and as to the more spectacular poltergeist type events, such as the load rapping while i was resting in a room last time i was there, well I'm sure there is a good explanation - but what I do not yet know! Come see for yourselves...
cj x”
by Sarah, Gloucester
Thursday, July 23 2009, 12:54PM
“I think some people take things far too litereally.
When we say we've seen a ghost, we dont neccessarily mean it came out and did a little dance and said hiya!
The number of knocks, bangs, objects moving and being thrown at the castle are phenominal and many of these things can't be explained.
Def one of the most haunted places I've ever been.”
by Miranda, glos
Thursday, July 23 2009, 11:53AM
“I've seen and heard and felt things I can't explain, and yes, alot of it could be racked up to imagination if you want to explain everything away that way.
But what if it isn't?
There is so much we don't know about the universe. It cannot all be explained way through science”
by Victoria, Oxford
Thursday, July 23 2009, 8:00AM
“I guess that could be the case, although I don't think it mentions visual impairment at any point? Go to the castle, have a look for yourself, it's a great place to visit ghosties or not, and you never know -perhaps you will see and experience things you can't particularly explain too???”
by FºCUS, glos
Thursday, July 23 2009, 7:34AM
“no a 37 year old is imagining things.
oh and the ghost that sounded like a bat may just have well been A BAT.”