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Ghosts and Hauntings In East Dulwich?


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A house on Rodwell Road was haunted by the ghost of an elderly lady, who used to sit by the front window and drink her mug of tea, which she used to place on an old Edwardian table. When the new occupiers moved in, they inherited the said table and kept it in the same place. However, whenever the lady of the house went to dust and polish the table, a round mark would appear on it and the temperature of the room would, always, drop. This carried on for quite a while, until the table was put into the back room, upstairs.... where the mark was still known to appear, when there was only one person in the house and their name would be called out, whilst they were sitting downstairs by the front window, drinking a cup of coffee or tea! The occupiers of the house, were only told about the old lady and her daily ritual several years later, when they had a visit from her son. Apparently, she died in her chair, looking out of the window, with her china mug on the table beside her.
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east dulwich hospital was used as a casualty station for soldiers wounded in ww1,legend has it that one poor unfortunate who had sustained terrible injuries but also lost his sight due to being gassed,wanders the corridors looking for his fallen comrades,apparantly bumping off this,that and the other.
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That's really eerie, as I remember my neighbour telling me that when she was a cleaner at Dulwich Hospital -

in the 1960's - she twice saw the coat and legs of what looked like a soldier, suspended through the ceiling! She didn't

say anything, at the time, because she thought people would think she was mad. Since the new occupant moved into

the flat, she's been complaining about the smell of tobacco - and I haven't got the heart to tell her that the man who

lived there, before her, used to smoke a pipe - and was found dead in his kitchen.

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  • 10 years later...

One of the houses on Nutfield Road is haunted. If you're a Nutfield resident I think it's benign.


There's a ghost of an old woman on the top floor of one of the houses on the SE22 side of Peckham Rye. It's in one of the buildings that hasn't been converted into flats - or certainly hadn't been 10 years ago. I can't remember what number... but that one is not benign.

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A load of cobblers, obviously but I like a good story. Any more info on these?


SpringTime Wrote:

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> One of the houses on Nutfield Road is haunted. If

> you're a Nutfield resident I think it's benign.

>

> There's a ghost of an old woman on the top floor

> of one of the houses on the SE22 side of Peckham

> Rye. It's in one of the buildings that hasn't been

> converted into flats - or certainly hadn't been 10

> years ago. I can't remember what number... but

> that one is not benign.

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edcam Wrote:

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> A load of cobblers, obviously but I like a good

> story. Any more info on these?

>

> SpringTime Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > One of the houses on Nutfield Road is haunted.

> If

> > you're a Nutfield resident I think it's benign.

> >

> > There's a ghost of an old woman on the top

> floor

> > of one of the houses on the SE22 side of

> Peckham

> > Rye. It's in one of the buildings that hasn't

> been

> > converted into flats - or certainly hadn't been

> 10

> > years ago. I can't remember what number... but

> > that one is not benign.



It was early evening. Late summer. There were three of us in the house, all grown-ups, and our visit was business-related. The house was empty and had been for some time. No electricity. Some furniture had been left throughout the building. The curtains were still in place and had been partly or wholly drawn in some rooms. It was a dark house anyway. In the top room the curtains were open however.


It was a double bed. We'd walked passed it on entering the room, drawn towards the window to look out over the Rye. There was no noise, not a sound, but something wasn't right. None of us uttered a word and as we turned our heads simultaneously there she was in the bed... slowly sitting up as if rising from the grave.


Of course we had to run, not looking back. Piercing terror.


This was in 2008 and I have never had cause to go back, and wouldn't want to.

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SpringTime Wrote:

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>

> It was early evening. Late summer. There were

> three of us in the house, all grown-ups, and our

> visit was business-related. The house was empty

> and had been for some time. No electricity. Some

> furniture had been left throughout the building.

> The curtains were still in place and had been

> partly or wholly drawn in some rooms. It was a

> dark house anyway. In the top room the curtains

> were open however.

>

> It was a double bed. We'd walked passed it on

> entering the room, drawn towards the window to

> look out over the Rye. There was no noise, not a

> sound, but something wasn't right. None of us

> uttered a word and as we turned our heads

> simultaneously there she was in the bed... slowly

> sitting up as if rising from the grave.

>

> Of course we had to run, not looking back.

> Piercing terror.

>

> This was in 2008 and I have never had cause to go

> back, and wouldn't want to.


Was it someone on this forum then ?

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FJDGoose Wrote:

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> fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> > Amazing how some people skip right past any

> > potential rational explanations, and jump

> straight

> > to ghost/poltergeist/magic/god/etc.

>

>

> How would you explain it then fishbiscuits ?


Squatter/tramp seeking a bed for the night/kids arsing about? As the witnesses fled without stopping to investigate one would think any of those were possibilities?

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> FJDGoose Wrote:

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> > fishbiscuits Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > Amazing how some people skip right past any

> > > potential rational explanations, and jump

> > straight

> > > to ghost/poltergeist/magic/god/etc.

> >

> >

> > How would you explain it then fishbiscuits ?

>

> Squatter/tramp seeking a bed for the night/kids

> arsing about? As the witnesses fled without

> stopping to investigate one would think any of

> those were possibilities?


That's me too I'm afraid - just too rational to believe any noise or event is anything other than something rational even after scaring myself stupid on the horror films I watch.


I'd have come back after the initial scare to investigate for sure - I'd love to see a real unexplained event rather than know the creaks behind the wall mean I have to buy a mouse trap.

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