Haunted Pype Hayes Hall To Become Luxury Hotel

Pype Hayes Hall stands in Pype Hayes Park in Erdington, here in Birmingham. We are very excited because news was released during the summer that the old house which dates back to the 1600’s is to be converted into a four-star luxury hotel and spa. Pype Hayes House is only a couple of miles from our office.

Now it appears that Pype Hayes Hall is also one of the most haunted houses in Birmingham. Pype Hayes House has one or two grizzly secrets. It is the site where medieval lovers carried out a suicide pact. It is reputed to be the site of a double murder mystery as well as a Black Death love tryst.

Patrick Hayes, a local historian, has written about the house and its other world inhabitants in his book ‘Ghost Stories of Erdington’.

Apparently local council staff – the house was owned by the city council until recently – all reported feeling ‘uneasy’ walking through the park.

There is a raft of strange sightings in and around the hall. These range from ladies seen in old-fashioned dresses ‘drifting’ across the grounds to incidents where a bookcase, plates and crockery have all been found scattered and smashed on the kitchen floor.

So long as the ghosts remain in Pype Hayes Park and are not tempted to jump on the bus to our office we will be happy.  In the meantime we watch with interest the restoration of what is a fine old historic house. It is expected to begin shortly.

I Was Healed By A Ghost...and there's a photo to prove it!

A woman believes she was healed by a ghostly apparition known as the White Lady as she visited a church during a family summer holiday.

Diane Berthelot had been unwell for months after having her gall bladder removed and was taking antibiotics for an infection when she went into Worstead village church in Norfolk to rest and escape the heat.

While she sat on a pew close to the font and prayed for a full recovery, her husband Peter and son David wandered around the empty church taking photographs.

Mrs Berthelot remembers vividly tingling all over and feeling “warm and comfortable” while sitting on the wooden bench with her eyes closed and head bowed.

When she felt better the family left the church and did not think about the incident until six months later when the camera film was developed and they held a slide show of their holiday snaps for their lodger at their home in Chelmsford, Essex.

One photo clearly showed a woman wearing a bonnet and dressed in light-coloured, old-fashioned clothes, sitting facing Mrs Berthelot on a bench directly behind her.
She said: “When we saw the white figure sitting behind me on the projector screen, we just stood there with our mouths open.

“My feet started to tingle. This sensation eventually engulfed the whole of me. It was a pleasant, comforting feeling.” Her husband added: “I had been walking around the church looking at various things.
“I came back, saw Diane sitting there and took the photo. I couldn’t see anyone behind her but it’s so clear on the image. It’s incredible.”

The following summer they went back to St Mary’s Church in Worstead and showed the slide to the vicar, who told them about a local legend that the White Lady was a healer who appeared when there was sickness.

The folklore also said that a man climbed into the church belfry on Christmas Eve in 1830, boasting he would kiss the White Lady if he saw her.

His friends later found him huddled in a corner whispering “I’ve seen her, I’ve seen her,” before dying. However, Mrs Berthelot, now 81 and living in North Walsham, Norfolk, believes her contact with the ghost was a positive experience which has boosted her health and spiritual well-being throughout her life.

And for decades after that first encounter on Saturday, August 2, 1975 she experienced the same tingling sensation every time she looked at the photo. She explained: “I always felt it was a blessing because my whole life seemed to change after we realized the White Lady had sat behind me. It inspired me to write poetry.

“I can remember the sensation that engulfed me sitting on that pew as if it was yesterday.”

Mr Berthelot, 82, said: “Every time we have been back to the church, it has been a very calming experience. I definitely believe in ghosts.”

Firefighter Captures Ghost On Camera

Firefighter captures ghost on camera before battling house fire in Indiana!

A firefighter may have captured proof of the paranormal after he took some photos of a burning house. When he posted the images on his Facebook page, his wife noticed a strange shadowy figure engulfed in flames in one of the windows of the home.

Firefighter Douglas Tipold was called to a house fire in Gary, Indiana and when he arrived he took some photos of the property. As Tipold was waiting for his partners to unravel a hose he snapped a few shots of the burning house with the camera on his cell phone to document the scene. Later that night Tipold's wife Donna noticed something strange in one of the photos after he posted it to his Facebook page.

"This is a photo taken from my husband's camera phone. He doesn't know how to photo crop. I only believed it when I looked it up myself on his phone. The picture you see is exactly how the picture was taken. I still don't believe in this stuff, but I will say it is pretty creepy!" Donna Tipold said in a comment on Facebook.

In the photo, an eerie dark figure can be seen in the left window of the house and it is engulfed in flames. A ghost of a child can be seen in the doorway of the home.

Paranormal investigators from the Illinois Paranormal Research Association believe that the photo is original and has not been doctored. According to Tipold, the original image is still in his cell phone.

What exactly is the eerie figure in the photo? Is it a hoax? Could it actually be a shadow figure or a ghost?