‘Ghost dog’ found at Delapre Abbey tea rooms, according to Northampton Spiritseekers
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A GROUP of ghosthunters from Northampton claim they found the spirit of a woman and a dog after they looked round the tea rooms at Delapre Abbey.
Northampton Spiritseekers explored the 12th-century building on July 29 using night vision cameras and heat- seeking meters to try to detect any paranormal activity.
Andy Britten, aged 34, leader of the group, said they had seen a woman, believed to be Mary Bouverie who died in the stable block in 1943.
Mr Britten said: “We picked her up at two different ages. One inside when she was about 20 years old and another outside when she looked a lot older.
“I could smell her perfume but she did not really want to say too much.”
Mr Britten said the group also picked up the spirit of a Labrador dog which is believed to have been buried in the pet cemetery behind the tea rooms.
He said: “People that go into the tea rooms with their dogs find that their pets won’t use the back door out towards the garden. This might be because they sense the spirit of the different dogs.”
The Northampton Spiritseekers have also looked round other historical sites in Northamptonshire including Boughton Cemetery, Naseby Battlefield and Salcey Forest.
Mr Britten said: “At Boughton Cemetery we saw a young boy and girl either side of a wall. But the girl could not get over to the other side of the wall.”
The next location on the ghosthunter group’s list is Abington Park Museum.
He added: “I don’t really get scared of ghosts. I think everywhere has got some sort of paranormal activity, they don’t just come out at night.
“Our aim is to prove that Northampton does have lots of history and ghosts living here.”
Mr Britten, who founded Northampton Spiritseekers – which currently has seven members – said he had been interested in the paranormal from an early age when he saw the ghost of his grandfather at the end of his bed.
He said: “I am the founder of this team but in my eyes we all run it. It has taken me since 2007 to get the team together and, being biased, it’s a great team.”
For more details go to www. northamptonghosthunters.webs.com
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ssscrudddy
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 02:05 PMLol. I've lived in the Abbey since 2004, I've never seen any ghosts, human canine or otherwise. Plenty of bats tho, & rabbits & toads & foxes & squirrels & moles etc. As for the comment about peoples dogs not using the back door out of the gardens... that's probably cuz it's usually locked. The closest we came to a ghost here was when some "ghost-hunters" came round & I got caught playing whale-song, I thought it was funny, they didnt. That was years ago.
ydnab40
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 09:13 AMThere seem to be a lot of flat earth society people with no imagination beyond only believing in what they see and touch. I wonder if the commenters on here would have said the same things about electricity 300 years ago?
lord.voldemort
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 05:33 PMComplex regional pain syndrome, hypothyroiism, fibromyalgia, adrenal. In june of 2001 i went to the ER for kidney stones and ended up with crps from the IV which is a one in a million chancwe this will. Findrxonline.comblog
lady muck
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 07:54 AMWoops ! Meant to say it wasn't News ! Serves me right for mocking the undead.
lady muck
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 07:52 AMWagtheDog...nice idea, but in this instance I feel that filling up the Chron's blank pages with the ramblings of a group of self-deluded publicity-seeking nutters with a childish obsession of the supposedly 'supernatural' is actually 'news'. It's beyond parody. What next ? A leading article on dreams ?
WagTheDog
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 11:53 PMTO THE WEB EDITOR OF THE C&E: . . . . . Would it be possible to publish a blank page on this site each day, then the likes of Blizzy, Crabby, et al can keep their personal jibes at each other away from the news pages. It's becoming a bit irksome trawling through all the spurious dross to try and find comments on the actual published article. Thank you very much.
poppiesforever
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 08:01 PMBlizzy if you are going to complain about peoples grammar andor spelling, check your own first. Kuala Lumpur does does have an h in it as you have put in one comment, and recouped is not hyphenated. Doh!
bobscrabby
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 07:05 PMBlizzy I wonder why you made no reference to what I thought possible errors in your comment did you just gloss over it and not bother to read it fully as you did with the first one , I would thought that if a comment is understandable it need not be grammatically correct . I have no I-SPY book , just wished people to know you have so little to do you stay up well past midnight commenting on things that you are no longer connected with , unless you are still coming back when you are no longer a UK subject to bleed the benefits system ,(you words not mine).
blizzy boy
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 06:10 PMSurely after almost 66 years you could have re-couped a little of your lost educational skills anyway to answer your question "OFF YOU GO" would be more grammaticaly correct in this instance or" YOU CAN GO OFF" anyway it's 12.05 am now if you wish to make an entry in your I-SPY book of world times & dates P.S sorry i do not wish to read your comment again ONCE IS ENOUGH thank you!!
bobscrabby
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 05:45 PMblizzy of the short memory , I have explained at length that my child hood education was severely interrupted by the 2nd. world war , so I wont go down that route again , was my time check that far out I Googled current time in Kuala Lumpur and thought came up as 10.04 pm , maybe Google need readjusting , just checked again now it's 00.35 ish 9th. Aug. did I err that much . I thought my first comment was about the actual story and suggest you read it again , I may just point out you used i instead of I and you'r my spellchecker doesn't like you'r, or is that OK to do , taking you hat off is not such a good idea as it is I believe rather wet in your locale , by the way I see nothing wrong with" off you can go" an ordinary statement , would you explain the error please .
blizzy boy
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 04:25 PMSorry bobscrabby but if your going to take the trouble to do a time check please try to get it correct and i see your grammar hasn't improved either "off YOU can go"!! and when it comes down to making UNCONNECTED comments bobby i have to take my hat off to you. you'r the master.number 1.for ranting on about everything but the actual story
bobscrabby
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 03:34 PMwilli have you seen the price of it , well if its your round OK !.
willi eckaslyke
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 03:22 PMPerhaps you both ought to have some...absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
bobscrabby
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 03:08 PMBlizzy you should have read my first comment more carefully , I said , haven't heard from for some time followed by " lucky us" , I think you have missed the derision intended , you say that take part in seances so that explains all , ( OH no I do believe you were being frivolous), well as it it just past 10.08 pm with you , so I bid you good night , off you can go and have some of the Absinthe you mentioned .
blizzy boy
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 02:46 PMI have always found it easier trying to communicate with the dead through a seance than trying to get through to you on most occasions Bobscrabby anyway i'm glad you missed me but as the saying goes absence makes the heart grow fonder
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