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Posted: 18-05-2003 20:23 Post subject: Kooky Kent

Strange Neighbourhood?

I've lived in Kent since the age of four and have always had an interest in the outre and unexplained but i never seem to find many cases 'close to home' as it were. Can anyone enlighten me as to any local Forteana without reference to either Pluckley or the Bluebell Hill mysteries (interesting but familiar cases).

Posted: 18-05-2003 21:08 Post subject:

Let me see. I'm in Dartford and there are some really strange stuff going on.

In Swanscombe woods there's a monolith that's only seen on ancient maps and not on any new ones. It's supposed to be a public right of way, but every now and again people get chased away from it by security guards.

I was told a story some years back about Ingress Abbey in Greenhithe. It was in some disrepair for quite a number of years and the then owners where being forced to do it up. They invited a carpenter to price up some restoration. He wanted to take some photos and decided to take his girlfriend along too. They walked around until they came to the big mirror that, until fairly recently was still standing in the hallway. He took a picture of her standing infront of the said mirror. When the film was developed all the pictures except that one was ok, the last one showed loads of faces staring from behind the girlfriend.

I actually approached the caretaker, who was a local historian, about that story and he went really quiet and changed the subject. I could not draw him any further on it.

There are loads of other stories about the area, but I'm a bit knackered and can't remember them off the top of my head. When I'm a bit more with it I'll post them.

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it depends who you listne to. devon is a good candidate.

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Posted: 21-05-2003 00:23 Post subject:

Yeah, I actually heard the info I quoted on a supernatural TV programme. I don't recall which one in particular ( roll eyes (sarcastic)

Oops.

) but I do remember it showing a pub that had at least 2 - 3 spooks in it. I particually recall one in the pub kitchen who used to mess about with the lights, taps, and knives! Eek Eek

I'm sure it was also the same place where someone claimed to have seen a pair of huge blood red eyes starring at them from the darkness of the fire place too. *shudders*

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Posted: 21-05-2003 10:08 Post subject:

Here's something for you:

1927 - Witness sleeping in tent awoke during gale and saw 'round globules of fire' bouncing in tops of apple trees (Upstreet, Kent).

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Posted: 23-05-2003 13:43 Post subject:

My dad comes from kent. I'll ask him.

Posted: 23-05-2003 13:55 Post subject:

According to my AA, there's an Upstreet on the A28 between Canterbury and Margate... here

Posted: 23-05-2003 14:15 Post subject:

I remember one of my cousins telling about someone dying on the rollercoaster in dreamland and leaving a ghost, but it was a lot of nothing made up to scare me, as revealed eventually.

We (myself, sister & cousin) did do a ouija board thing in Ramsgate and a sequence of events scared us all shitless for a day. Everyone else was downstairs but we were upstairs, trying to get a glass to move without human agent, which it didn't. Then we percieved taht we heard breathing outsdie the door so we called it all off and switched the light on - whereupon the aerial fell off the TV, causing us to all run downstairs. Then, when we downstairs, the CD player in the room we had been in turned on automagically. (My cousin could likely have put it on alarm clock to scare us all - in the fact the whole incident looks like several percieved things and coincidences taken the wrong way by psyched-up kids)