Ghost hunting at 'haunted house' that sparked Hollywood interest

A child's gravestone successful the garden, a monk-like fig supposedly appearing implicit a sleeping babe and words carved connected walls... each reported astatine a location erstwhile known arsenic the UK's astir haunted.

About 300 evident paranormal phenomena was documented astatine a distant 17th Century location that had nationalist media sum due to the fact that of expected spooky goings-on.

The aggregate claims of the unexplained was a communicative that funny Hollywood.

It came aft a household started to talk astir their Penyffordd Farm nightmare.

Reports of muffled voices successful bare rooms, figures appearing, proceeding children singing and carvings and stains appearing connected walls were brought to nationalist attraction by mum-of-four Rose-Mary Gower who said she was hopeless for answers.

There were besides claims of a immense woody owl moving crossed the location connected its own, and a large miss appearing connected the patio of their farmhouse successful northbound Wales and past vanishing.

Rose-Mary documented what she believed to beryllium unexplained experiences, and was truthful spooked that she got a scientist into her location successful Treuddyn, Flintshire, to bash a survey - and helium recovered nary rational explanation.

Now those reports of supernatural stories person been investigated successful a new BBC documentary fronted by Radio 1 presenter Sian Eleri, who heard from those who accidental aggregate spirits were doing worldly astatine Penyffordd Farm that no-one could explain.

"One time I was moving immoderate dried flowers that had started to look a spot manky truthful I decided the propulsion them away," Rose-Mary wrote aft she started documenting the goings-on successful the precocious 1990s.

"I took them from the lounge to the room and enactment them connected the counter, dropping petals each the while.

"Somebody came to the doorway and I was astir 30 seconds, and erstwhile I came backmost each azygous petal had disappeared. They had been replaced by dormant oregon dying half-drowned wasps.

"There was nary motion of a wasps nest and each of the doors and windows were shut. Inexplicable."

The Paranormal documentary hears the spooky claims started erstwhile the Gower household accidental they recovered a Welsh connection written connected an wrong partition of their bare home, aft they had returned from a New Year's Eve enactment astatine their daughter's house.

The household said it work "tangnefedd" which is Welsh for peace, successful a spiritual context.

The Gowers assertion this started a flurry of Welsh words appearing, similar "hir americium aros", which means long-suffering - and "erlidiau", which means persecutions.

Rose-Mary documented that the words appearing connected the walls were uncommon Welsh words - and they, arsenic a household from England, didn't talk oregon recognize Welsh.

The household consciousness the catalyst for the expected paranormal events was moving a gravestone of a 15-year-old miss that had been propped up astatine the beforehand of their home.

Jane Jones' headstone had been connected the beforehand way since the Gower household moved successful during 1997, but they moved it to a much discreet spot for a plot reception aft eldest girl Nicolette's wedding.

The documentary recovered Jane was calved to Morgan and Mary Jones successful 1763, earlier she died successful 1778 and was buried successful a field.

"We looked into it and she was really our relative," said section nonmigratory Maurice, who erstwhile lived astatine Penyffordd Farm, who told the documentary astir wherefore the gravestone was successful the garden.

"She died successful childbirth and they wouldn't let her to beryllium buried successful consecrated crushed due to the fact that of the disgrace of having a babe astatine 14. It is plausible Jane is connected that land."

Nicolette told the Paranormal documentary that aft the gravestone was moved "all benignant of unusual worldly kicked off".

"One nighttime I awoke and saw a fig lasting implicit the cot successful the country wherever my kid is," she said.

"It was leaning implicit looking into the cot wherever Quinn was sleeping. I couldn't spot its look - it had a hood, similar a wont a monk would wear.

"I sat bolt upright and it had conscionable gone. It creeped the beingness retired of me."

Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost and The Gravestone features exclusive video footage, audio interviews, photos, and eye-witness accounts from the location erstwhile known arsenic the UK's astir haunted.

The four-part container set, presented by Radio 1's Sian Eleri, is disposable present connected BBC iPlayer.

Nicolette, her hubby and lad Quinn lived astatine Penyffordd Farm for a portion erstwhile Rose-Mary relocated to Eastbourne successful 2002 for David's job.

"It was a changeless regular happening of weirdness, similar words appearing connected the partition erstwhile you'd beryllium sat watching a programme," occupational therapist Nicolette said.

"Quinn's sanction appeared connected the partition and I truly didn't similar that. How tin you beryllium successful a country and words look connected a wall?

"There were little moments of children singing and being successful the furniture and proceeding the latch lift, a intermission and the latch would spell down again.

"I could consciousness this tension. There were figures successful the country of your eye. It was creepy."

Nicolette's hubby Ewan besides recalled 2 occasions the Gower family's tremendous woody owl had moved connected its own.

Adrienne, the Gowers' younger daughter, besides claimed to person seen the monk during a enactment astatine Penyffordd Farm, and Rose-Mary documented her waking up successful the mediate of the nighttime screaming.

"I was dormant and woke up and felt this beingness of thing lasting implicit maine - and I accidental it was a monk," she told Paranormal.

The household recognize galore bash not judge their supernatural story, but Rose-Mary and her daughters are adamant this was not an attention-seeking hoax.

"I deliberation immoderate radical thought we were doing it to marque wealth retired of it. Well, I guarantee you we weren't," Rose-Mary told the documentary.

"John-Paul has Down's syndrome and learning difficulties and I had to look aft him truthful I was rather busy, to enactment it mildly. We thought idiosyncratic was playing silly beggers."

Daughter Nicolette added: "It couldn't person been my siblings due to the fact that erstwhile things happened they weren't astatine the house.

"My parents couldn't person had thing to bash with it - they were successful Eastbourne hundreds of miles away.

Her sister Adrianne admits she's "not 1 to accidental I judge successful ghosts", but she said: "I cognize what I experienced."

"We ne'er got to the bottommost of it," she told the documentary.

"Even talking astir it now, I deliberation 'do I privation to speech astir it? Do I look a spot mad?' But it's what happened to me."

Whatever the information whitethorn be, mum Rose-Mary says American movie directors wanted their communicative arsenic an inspiration for a blockbuster movie.

"We did person Hollywood," she told the documentary.

"They got to perceive astir it and they wanted to bash a film, and were going to wage america goodness knows however galore thousands of pounds.

"[But] erstwhile we heard precisely however they were going to bash it we said 'no convey you, spell away, goodbye'.

"They were going marque up a load of worldly based connected a existent communicative and it was going to beryllium ridiculous. I would not ever authorisation that. You either person a existent communicative oregon you don't person it astatine all."

The Gower household moved retired of Penyffordd Farm successful 2012. Current proprietor Michael told the documentary helium does not judge that his location is haunted.

"The chances of the paranormal being thing existent is conscionable zero," helium said

"This partition was flooded with damp, and if you person a damp partition you person stains. If you're creative, you could look astatine it and accidental 'my gosh it's a representation of a person's head'."

It would look that with the Gower family's departure from the farm, their paranormal experiences seemingly near with them.