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Hunting Hampshire’s ghosts
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Plucky Hampshire councillor Adam Carew has been boldly stepping where most mortals fear to tread – into the murky world of the paranormal.
The Bordon town, East Hampshire district and Hampshire county councillor launched his new book, Ghosts of East Hampshire, at a special event at The Royal Oak in Hollywater on Sunday of last week.
He told his audience of several paranormal experiences he had had himself, and ran through a number of the spectres featured in his book.
The setting was well-chosen: the pub is rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of a man in blue overalls, believed to date from the 1940s, who appears in the cellar, terrifying staff.
Other spectres in the long list include the ghostly figure of a monk at Tuxlith Chapel in Milland, a small boy in ragged Victorian clothes at St Mary’s Church in Bentley, unearthly footsteps at the Bordon Garrison and even Roman soldiers at Longmoor, plus the incredible 32 ghosts he claims to have unearthed in Bramshott.
He told his audience the book had been three years in the making, following an invitation to talk at a local U3A?group. He realised – that, rather than his normal topics of local history or wildlife, he had been booked to talk about local ghosts. So he did some quick research – and the talk went down a bomb. After that, he started work on the book.
“What I haven’t been doing for the past three years is hanging around graveyards,” he said, adding “well, I have been doing that some of the time.”
“When I started writing this book I didn’t know there were so many ghosts in Hampshire. But whether you believe in ghosts or not, I hope you would agree this is a good book for Hallowe’en.”
See next week’s Messenger for a review of ’Ghosts of East Hampshire’.
The Bordon town, East Hampshire district and Hampshire county councillor launched his new book, Ghosts of East Hampshire, at a special event at The Royal Oak in Hollywater on Sunday of last week.
He told his audience of several paranormal experiences he had had himself, and ran through a number of the spectres featured in his book.
The setting was well-chosen: the pub is rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of a man in blue overalls, believed to date from the 1940s, who appears in the cellar, terrifying staff.
Other spectres in the long list include the ghostly figure of a monk at Tuxlith Chapel in Milland, a small boy in ragged Victorian clothes at St Mary’s Church in Bentley, unearthly footsteps at the Bordon Garrison and even Roman soldiers at Longmoor, plus the incredible 32 ghosts he claims to have unearthed in Bramshott.
He told his audience the book had been three years in the making, following an invitation to talk at a local U3A?group. He realised – that, rather than his normal topics of local history or wildlife, he had been booked to talk about local ghosts. So he did some quick research – and the talk went down a bomb. After that, he started work on the book.
“What I haven’t been doing for the past three years is hanging around graveyards,” he said, adding “well, I have been doing that some of the time.”
“When I started writing this book I didn’t know there were so many ghosts in Hampshire. But whether you believe in ghosts or not, I hope you would agree this is a good book for Hallowe’en.”
See next week’s Messenger for a review of ’Ghosts of East Hampshire’.
www.altonpostgazette.co.uk/article.cfm?id=108080&headline=Hunting%20Hampshire%E2%80%99s%20ghosts§ionIs=news&searchyear=2016
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