Discover the dark and chilling history of Greater Manchester with 12 terrifying tales of ghosts, spirits, and murderers that will send shivers down your spine. From phantom hitch-hikers to child-snatching spirits, these stories will make you see your streets in a whole new light. Don't read them alone!
It's the one night of year when even the most sceptical souls are happy to indulge in tales of mystery and the macabre. Yes Halloween, the creepiest date in the calendar we have come to celebrate in seemingly more elaborate ways each year.
1. Stockport's phantom hitch-hikers The tale of a ghostly figure of a woman attempting to thumb a lift near Mersey Square on Wellington Road South has intrigued many paranormal experts. The story, which features in a book called Supernatural Stockport by Martin Hills, says that on one occasion a biker picked up the woman and gave her a lift home to Hazel Grove.
2. Haunted happenings at pub built on a druid's temple A "nice old pub" in Manchester has been the centre of haunting tales and ghost stories for hundreds of years. The Ring O’Bells pub in Middleton was built on an ancient Druid temple and dates back to the 12th century. 4. The cake of death In 1828, a young boy was playing in Ancoats when he was approached by an old lady. She asked him to deliver a cake to a man named Mr Drummond.
A boggart, for the uninitiated, is a mischievous spirit that typically occupies fields and marshes, but can also be found indoors. Though mostly known as a mischief-making creature that has the ability to turn milk sour, make objects disappear and make dogs go lame, they also have a darker side. It's said their research discovered it had spent much of the time parked in the station after bus crews were reportedly reluctant to take it out due to believing it to be haunted. Further digging into its history is said to have revealed the bus had been involved in an accident in Reddish in the mid-fifties, in which a small boy was knocked down and killed.
8. The screaming skull of Wardley Hall Wardley Hall, the early medieval manor house in the Wardley area of Worsley, is one of the few buildings in the north west to have had a mention in the Domesday Book. Before it was occupied by the Roman Catholic Bishops of Salford it had a chequered and chilling history and was known for 200 years as 'Skull House'.
The most common account is of a ghostly male figure, dressed as an airman, wandering around the gates before disappearing. One letter, written in 1971 by a former airport worker, reveals how he had encountered an ‘old man’ whom he believed was the ghost of a night watchman who was killed there years earlier.
The remains of another sheep in almost identical circumstances were found months later. The landowner said another farmer at Wessenden, near Marsden, also contacted him after seeing a "large black creature" near flocks. 11. Mystery of the 'haunted' spinning statue It's not all about things that bump in the night. An ancient Egyptian statue spooked museum bosses when it mysteriously started to spin round in a locked display case.
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