The Haunting of Dulwich

[Pattyman]

Hey guys,

I was thinking of writing an article regarding any local hauntings. If any of you know of any spooky, strange tales about ED, it would be great if you could drop me and a line and let me know! :)

Cheers!

Daniel

[bottom]

boo ! scary enough?

[thexwinglessxbird]

I don't, but I'd like to know the history of the house I live in. I think that would be pretty spooky! :-$

[quickbrownfox]

I know of no hauntings. Just keeping the thread alive as I would love to hear some tales of spookiness in these environs....

[Sue]

Do you have any tales to tell, as you are writing an article about local hauntings?

[Domitianus]

I hesitate to mention The Green Worm of Lordship Lane.....

[Ted Max]

Residents of Fellbrigg Road are often woken by the sound of a dray horse clattering up their street at night, snorting in terror.

Cats will not step foot in 168B, Barry Road.

The door on the third cubicle down on the left at the East Dulwich Baths often swings open, despite users swearing they have locked it securely.

The spare room at 32 Glengarry Road cannot be heated beyond 8?C, even on the hottest summer day.

A small child dressed in Victorian clothing will often join those waiting for the 13 bus at the bottom of Whateley Road. He waits for the bus, growing ever more nervous, and then when it arrives runs away in terror.

[*Bob*]

This is weird:

Last Saturday morning, I got a selection of tools out of the toolbox in the cellar, with the intention of repairing a broken door handle - and placed them on the kitchen table, next to the fruit bowl. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I didn't repair the door handle, electing instead to sit in the garden, then open some wine, watch X-Factor and then go to bed.

The next morning, the tools were no longer next to the fruit bowl - they had been put in a carrier bag and thrown down the stair back into the cellar.

This has happened on several occasions now. Freaky or WHAT?

[Ted Max]

Have you checked your spirit level?

[steveo]

About ten years ago I used to hear bagpipes at 6 in the morning coming from the middle of Dulwich park. It wasn't unpleasant, I've long been a closet fan of the strangled cat. But for some time I dismissed it as just a new addition to the dissonant orchestra that goes on in in my head but one morning the wife heard it too.

After a few months it stopped and now I quite miss it.

Anyone else heard the phantom piper at the gates of dawn?

[Brendan]

There you go confusing ?Haunting? with ?Marriage? again *Bob*.

[????]

Similar story to *Bob*. My missus being 8 months pregnant elects to have a single glass of wine most Saturdays now, being practically allergic to the filthy stuff but also in sympathy to her and my liver I am restricting myself to 4 cans of Stella (with a financial penalty too of no 6 for a ?5 from Bossman). Anyway, she has her glass whilst we watch X-Factor and then Waddles off to bed putting 2/3 of a bottle of wine in the fridge. Come Sunday, without fail, the recycling box has 4 cans of Stella and an empty bottle of wine..spooky and not ammusing in my hungover state. *Bob* is it possible that X-factor carries some malignant spirit that come out of the TV a la Poltegeist (not sure if it happened in Poltegeist 2) to disrupt our domestic arrangements?

[*Bob*]

We're not married - though I am under considerable pressure* to get married.

*from David Cameron

[annaj]

David Cameron wants to marry you?

[Ted Max]

In a very real sense, AnnaJ, DC wants to marry us all.

[annaj]

Ok, now this thread is getting scary.

[*Bob*]

He only says he wants to marry you.

But he only really wants to screw you.

[Brendan]

David Carnell wants to marry us all?

[????]

No Brendan he wants to screw us all...I think

[Ted Max]

It started with Belle, and ended in hell. The Shafting of Dulwich.

[Ted Max]

(You need to read that in one of those cinema trailer voices, not in my effete dour Scots whine.)

[Jeremy]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> The door on the third cubicle down on the left at

> the East Dulwich Baths often swings open, despite

> users swearing they have locked it securely.

This happened to me. It wasn't a ghost though, it was a strange man with a tool kit, saying something about "fixing the door".

[*Bob*]

Sorry about that, Jeremy - I should have knocked.

[Ted Max]

Back on topic, didn't Louisa (blessed be her name) once give us some gems about paranormal goings on in Nunhead Cemetery?

[Brendan]

My old flat was haunted. Nothing hugely noteworthy but there was a ghost (or whatever you want to call it) in the kitchen.