Haunting tales from the Central Coast.

Paranormal activity, ghostly brides and a vanishing hitchhiker: Haunting tales from the Central Coast.

A hitchhiking ghost, a haunted ambulance station and a strange apparition that appears at Jenny Dixon Beach are just a few of the eerie tales reported by Central Coast residents.

Like every community, stories of weird unexplained happenings persist in the annals of local folklore.

One of the best known concerns the hitchhiking ghost of Wilfred Barrett Drive, between Magenta and Noraville.

The legend has been around for more than 40 years with numerous reports of a young girl with flowing hair wearing a long white dress seen hitching along a lonely stretch of the road.

Witnesses claim they have picked her up. She gets in the back seat, they say, and talks a little, but mysteriously disappears by the time the car gets to Norahville Cemetery.

Many believe it’s the ghost of a young girl heading home from work in the 1970s who was pulled into a car and viciously attacked and raped by five youths.

She was later found barely alive at Jenny Dixon Beach, but died as a result of her injuries.

No one was ever charged with her death, but it is believed the five youths, or four depending on which version you hear, died under mysterious and bizarre circumstances.

Good friends Julie Baker and Kaye Davison, both of Gorokan, swear they have seen the hitchhiking girl.

The year was 2000 and the women were driving from Gorokan to The Entrance to pick up Melbourne Cup tickets.

It was about 7.30pm and as they travelled along Wilfred Barrett drive heading south, they saw the girl, just opposite the cemetery.

“We both noticed her beautiful dress,” Ms Baker said.

“It was a long white handkerchief dress and we both commented on it.”

“We had seen another girl hitching on Main Rd at Toukley and thought it was dangerous and when we saw a car load of fellows in a car near the girl on Wilfred Barrett Drive we thought we should keep on eye them.

“So we slowed down and were just about pulled over and she disappeared.

“There was nowhere for her to go, she just disappeared.”

Ms Davison, who works at Wyong Police station, describes herself as a sceptic.

“But since I saw this, I am not sure anymore. I saw what I saw and I know what I saw that night.”

The story has also fascinated audio engineer and photographer Christopher Halling, of Watanobbi, for as long as he can remember. He began filming a movie called Jenny Dixon Beach in 2009.

The movie has been in the can for a few years awaiting a decent sound editor.

Halling wrote and directed the movie, which while based on the legend of the hitch-hiking ghost, has a whole fictious back story as well based on the cop who tried to find her killers.

“I was always fascinated by the story. Growing up I heard all about it and had friends swear black and blue they had seen the hitch-hiking ghost,” he said.

Over the years the story of the hitch-hiking ghost has been blended into another famous ghost story in the same area.

In 1973, four young boys decided to camp for the night at Jenny Dixon Beach.

The boys were 12 years old and set up camp on the beach with a large bonfire, huddled together around the flames. They were almost asleep when one felt compelled to look up towards the bush above.

He saw a women dressed in a long flowing dress, similar to the fashion of the 1800s.

Her arms were outstretched and the boys began throwing sticks at her which they claimed passed right through her.

Scared witless, the boys ran back up the stairs to the car park. They decided to have one more and saw her standing halfway along the stairs. They bolted home as quickly as they could.

Jenny Dixon Beach was named after a coal schooner Janet Dixon that was swept ashore in treacherous conditions.

The story goes a woman lost her young son when he was swept overboard and the ghostly mum is pleading with people to help find him.

Lonely stretches of road and windswept beaches are one thing, but strange things also happen at Wyong Ambulance station, according to station crews.

Paramedics are convinced the 62-year-old station is haunted, possibly by the old station master who once lived upstairs, which is now boarded up and no longer used.

Duty inspector Annemarie Dellahunty has only been on the Central Coast for two years and has never seen or heard anything untoward at the old station, but knows plenty who have.

“Some have said cups fly off the bench, the kitchen fan moves when there is no wind,” she said.

“Others have said something brushes past their face when they are walking and something taps their feet.

“A lot of ambos don’t like doing the night shift here.”

Some officers report hearing footsteps upstairs, doors closing for no reason and the feeling of being held down in their seats.

“The stories are widespread amongst Central Coast crews,” Ms Dellahunty said.

Another urban legend revolves around the ghostly bride of Tall Timbers Hotel at Ourimbah.

Legend has it a bride died on her wedding night in one of the upstairs rooms not long after the 100 year old pub opened.

“One of our permanent residents insisted the story was true,” licensee Kellie Holm said.

“The story goes that people have seen her walking up and down the corridor in her wedding dress.”

Ms Holm’s dad Mick Trembath owned the hotel from 1988 to 2006 and she spent her teenage years living at the pub.

“I never heard or saw a thing and I was a teenage girl, and if I didn’t see anything at that age, no-one would have seen anything,” she said.

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Haringey and Enfield's most haunted places

Ghostly goings on: Haringey and Enfield's most haunted places.


Paranormal experiences, eerie sightings and unexplained goings on - the intrigue of the unknown instills a fascination to explore what we cannot explain.
Sites across Haringey and Enfield have hosted many ghostly sightings and experiences that have dumbfounded experts and lent weight to those who believe in the undead.
Here, we explore some of north London's most haunted hotspots and unearth the legends and stories behind their reputations...

Forty Hall, Forty Hill, Enfield 

Visitors to this historic building have experienced ghostly goings on since it was opened to the public in 1951. People have reported feelings of being watched or followed by a ghost as they make their way around the corridors of the 17th Century building.

Most of the paranormal experiences have occurred on the first floor landing on the main staircase, as well as what locals call ‘Raintom’s Bedroom’. Several years ago, when the room was sealed off to the public, the bedclothes were often found disturbed, as though someone had been sleeping in them. A group of paranormal investigators visited the museum last year and reported feeling a presence on the first floor landing.

Bruce Castle, Lordship Lane, Tottenham 

This grade-one listed 16th Century manor has received a reputation as the home of ‘the Ghostly Lady of Bruce Castle’. Little is known about the early life of the woman but it is speculated that she committed suicide and her spirit roams the grounds of Tottenham’s oldest park.

Highgate Cemetery, Swains Lane, Highgate 

 
Numerous ghostly sightings have been reported at the burial place of the late political philosopher Karl Marx. David Farrant, a British occultist, claims he saw an eerie seven foot tall spirit outside the gates of the cemetery. The spirit was nicknamed ‘The Highgate Vampire’. A group of ghost hunters named the North London Paranormal Investigators backed up Mr Farrant’s claim, insisting they also ran into a tall dark figure that appeared in front of them on a visit.

Gloucester Drive, Finsbury Park

 
Residents claim the footsteps of an invisible and unknown pedestrian can be heard on Gloucester Drive, in Finsbury Park, late at night. Witnesses say they hear the footsteps starting outside number seven and continuing across the front gardens, with cracking twigs breaking the deadly silence of the dark street. Gloucester Road's reputation earned it the title of Britain’s fifth most haunted street.


Number 8 Ferrestone Road, Hornsey 

This seemingly normal residential property in north London became known as the haunt of the ‘Hornsey Coal Ghost’ after many sightings and paranormal experiences over the best part of a century. A violent poltergeist was said to be tormenting the house in the 1920s, and a number of strange events were reported in the property in 1999, including sudden changes in temperature. A crypt was discovered submerged in the garden under foliage some time ago, providing a possible clue as to the reasons for the spooky experiences.

The Rose and Crown, Clay Hill, Enfield 

This popular old-fashioned public house was once owned by the grandfather of infamous highwayman Dick Turpin. Rumour has it that the serial robber would use the drinking hole as a hideout after his violent crimes. For decades, punters have reported seeing his ghostly figure outside the pub, sometimes accompanied by his horse.

Myddleton House, Bull’s Cross, Enfield 

 
This impressive historic estate was formerly the home of Edward Augustus Bowles, one of Britain’s most famous self-taught gardeners, artists and expert botanists. A caretaker working at the 19th Century home claims she once saw a man in a suit walking towards an exhibition group while she was cleaning the ground floor. But as she followed him in to tick him off the list, he vanished, leading to a widely-held  belief that the estate is haunted.

Hadley Road, Enfield 

 
Legend has it the ghost of a witch who lived in Hadley Road in the 1600s haunts this sometimes eerie country lane. She was reportedly executed in 1622 for witchcraft and residents insist that on cold, misty nights, her ghostly form returns.

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3-Year-Old Remembers Past Life and finds his old body.

3-Year-Old Remembers Past Life, Identifies Murderer and Location of Body.

A 3-year-old boy in the Golan Heights region near the border of Syria and Israel said he was murdered with an axe in his previous life. He showed village elders where the murderer buried his body, and sure enough they found a man’s skeleton there. He also showed the elders where the murder weapon was found, and upon digging, they did indeed find an axe there.

In his book, “Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today,” German therapist Trutz Hardo tells this boy’s story, along with other stories of children who seem to remember their past lives with verified accuracy. The boy’s story was witnessed by Dr. Eli Lasch, who is best known for developing the medical system in Gaza as part of an Israeli government operation in the 1960s. Dr. Lasch, who died in 2009, had recounted these astounding events to Hardo.

The boy was of the Druze ethnic group, and in his culture the existence of reincarnation is accepted as fact. His story nonetheless had the power to surprise his community.

He was born with a long, red birthmark on his head. The Druse believe, as some other cultures do, that birthmarks are related to past-life deaths. When the boy was old enough to talk, he told his family he had been killed by a blow to the head with an axe.

It is customary for elders to take a child at the age of 3 to the home of his previous life if he remembers it. The boy knew the village he was from, so they went there. When they arrived in the village, the boy remembered the name he had in his past life.

A village local said the man the boy claimed to be the reincarnation of had gone missing four years earlier. His friends and family thought he may have strayed into hostile territory nearby as sometimes happens.

The boy also remembered the full name of his killer. When he confronted this man, the alleged killer’s face turned white, Lasch told Hardo, but he did not admit to murder. The boy then said he could take the elders to where the body was buried. In that very spot, they found a man’s skeleton with a wound to the head that corresponded to the boy’s birth mark. They also found the axe, the murder weapon.

Faced with this evidence, the murderer admitted to the crime. Dr. Lasch, the only non-Druse, was present through this whole process.

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Blair witch ghost ‘captured on camera’ in the UK.

Blair witch ghost ‘captured on camera’ roaming around Bristol woods.

Two women who went camping in the woods got the fright of their lives after capturing this Blair Witch-style ghost on camera.

Image captured at Leigh Woods, Bristol

Lola Swan and Kate Channon set up camp in a dense woodland but soon noticed strange noises such as twigs snapping and their equipment going missing.

But they packed up and fled in terror after hearing a chilling child’s voice at 1am.

It wasn’t until the following morning when Lola, 28, flicked through their pictures of the night before that she noticed the spooky apparition among the trees.

Lola Swan and Kate Channon

‘I immediately threw the phone to the ground,” she said. “I knew we were being watched, and that picture proves it.

‘During the night we heard the sounds of, what can be described as, people walking around.

‘Twigs and branches were cracking and breaking, like footsteps on the forest ground.’

Lola and Kate, 24, were camping at Leigh Woods on the outskirts of their home city of Bristol.

They set up during the day but as night fell they began hearing strange noises and felt like they were being watched.

At one point Kate whistled out – and was horrified when something whistled back.

Tensions rose when their hammer went missing and the child’s voice at 1am was the final straw.

‘After midnight it all got too scary and, in our panic and fear, packed up our tent and go the hell out of there,’ said Lola, who is unemployed and of Hartcliffe, Bristol.

Zoomed in image.

 Her picture shows what appears to be a white ghoul, or ghost, peering at them from behind a tree.

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Floating Orb at Liverpool Allerton Hall.

Moment ghostly orb floats across the grounds and into the building of a pub... owned by a spirit company.

• Vision spotted on CCTV at Allerton Hall pub, Liverpool, on Monday

• Orb floats across Grade II listed 17th century hall, drifts through a wall

• It is the latest in a series of supernatural sightings spanning years

This is the moment a mysterious vision was captured on CCTV floating through a pub.

Supernatural incidents have been reported for years in the 17th century Grade II listed Allerton Hall in Liverpool.

But it was not until Monday night that the owners managed to capture 'hard evidence' of a ghostly object in the manor - which is owned by pub chain The Spirit Company.

It was discovered by Joe McCann, general manager at the building known as The Pub In The Park, after looking back through security footage.

To his horror, the largely uneventful late-night video is interrupted by a translucent object plainly drifting across the screen.

He replayed the reel dozens of times, and every time a misty, white ball loops through the oak wood panels before drifting through a wall.

Mr McCann said: 'It was a very strange thing to see.

'We’ve all been talking about it and trying to figure out what it actually is.

'Ghost hunts here in the past have found some strange things like orbs and other supernatural activity so who knows what’s going on.

'It’s a different kind of spirit to what we usually deal with anyway.

'I’m not a believer in ghosts but my girlfriend Susan was convinced she’d seen something supernatural.

'When we watched the footage back I couldn’t believe my eyes.

The manor of Allerton served as the National Fire Service headquarters during the war.

In the centuries before, it housed some of the nation's most prominent figures.

It was built in the early 1600s for the Lathoms, a prominent family in South Lancashire - but they were accused of treason after the civil war and forced to forefeit their land.

The city's former mayor Richard Percival took over the estate in 1670 and his family passed it down two generations.



However, in 1736, the Percivals hit financial difficulties, forcing them to sell up to soon-to-be MP John Hardman, commissioned most of the building which remains today.

When he died, Hardman handed Allerton to his butler's son: the celebrated politician, historian and philanthropist William Roscoe.

From Allerton, Roscoe wrote his book Life Of Lorenzo de Medici and influential pamphlets calling for the abolition of slavery.

His alterations to the house in 1811 involved pulling down the remaining 17th century parts and the building of a library and art space.

Mr McCann added: 'I’ll be on the lookout for any more goings on but am hoping this is a friendly ghost.'


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Ghost caught on camera at Cascade restaurant?

Ghost caught on camera at Cascade restaurant?

One area restaurant might have caught a ghost on camera.

At least, that's one explanation.

Chuck & Edna's Maid-Rite in Cascade has two possible instances of paranormal activity caught on camera. Owner Pat Orr said his surveillance cameras caught something spooky one night in mid-April.

In the first video, dated April 14 at 6 p.m., a shadowy shape is seen approaching the kitchen's dish-washing sink. It moves haltingly and occasionally, not fluidly.

Some say it looks like a shadow. Others say it could have been a bug that landed on the camera. One thing is for sure: it's unexplained.

"We found you can't make a shadow on the floor back there because of all the lights. Some people said it's a bug on the lens," Orr said. "I don't know what the thing is."

Orr called in Cascade police chief Fred Heim soon after watching the video.

"I still can't tell you what I saw. There was a fuzzy thing on there. I don't know if it was a fly leg, I don't know if it was something that, you know, could be related to ghosts. I really couldn't tell you," Heim, an admitted non-believer in ghosts, said. "(Orr) asked me if we investigated stuff like that, and I basically told him that he probably should call Ghostbusters."

So that's what Orr did. A few days after the shadowy-figure video incident, Orr called a ghost hunting team from Iowa City. As of Wednesday afternoon, he had not yet heard back from them with any results.

Is it phantom or fiction? Orr said his employees have occasionally reported strange activity in the past three years, that this was just the first of it caught on camera.

Besides, there's a whole other piece of possible evidence.

In a second video, dated April 19 at 9:49 a.m., a stack of cups flies (or falls) off a kitchen shelf, hitting an employee, who is preparing food below. Clearly rattled, the employee backs up and turns to walk out of the kitchen.

Wednesday afternoon, Tom Oberbroeckling and his wife, from Anamosa, were eating lunch at the Maid-Rite in Cascade.

When told the restaurant he was eating in might be haunted, Oberbroeckling said he was, "very surprised, considering this is a new building."

The Maid-Rite has been in Cascade for just over three years. Before then, it was an empty lot.

"I've been here in town about eight years," Heim said, "but they said there's been quite a few different things that have actually been on that lot over there. Groceries stores, and there's been some other things in the area, such as funeral homes and the old ambulance garage, so who knows!"

Is it a poltergeist? A prank? A publicity ploy?

"You can believe what you want, whether it's a bug, a shadow," Orr said. "I don't know what's going on down here, but it's kind of funny."

Customers can enter, if they dare, and have a ghostly gander.

For the faint of heart, there's always the drive-thru.




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Apparition of a Victorian Girl, blamed for crashes.

Ghost of Victorian girl 'causing car crashes'

A ghostly apparition of a young girl is being blamed for a series of crashes on a stretch of country road.

Paranormal researchers are investigating the sightings of a girl in Victorian dress on a road in the West Midlands, which locals say is an accident blackspot.

The late-night visions are occurring along Oldnall Road in the Halesowen area and are believed to have been responsible for a number of crashes and near-misses in the area in recent years.

Oldnall Road, Courtesy of Google Maps.

Investigators looking for a logical explanation for the mystery admit they are baffled.

David Taylor, chairman of the Parasearch group, said he had received reports that the apparition had been the cause of several accidents along the road between Wollescote and Cradley.

"Although the people who have reported the sightings didn't actually crash they were close to it because they had to swerve around the apparition and up onto the pavement,” he said.

"The area around there is an accident black spot and there have been some serious incidents so maybe they had seen the same thing.

"There could be a logical explanation for this, it could be an optical illusion of some sorts.

"For 22 years we have been running a group who investigate claims of the paranormal. Most of the time there is a logical explanation - but so far I haven't found one for this case.

"The image had been described as a small girl between the ages of three and five years old and wearing Victorian clothes.

"We are trying to find out any stories locals might have of the area which might explain what or who this could be."

Local resident Jimmy Lahn, 54, said: "We've had quite a few accidents on that road, I wouldn't be surprised if this ghostly figure has something to do with it.”

Resident say most of the crashes have been minor, but there have been a couple of serious incidents over the years.

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