With CCTV being so common place, it’s not surprising that cameras have caught some of
the scariest moments of paranormal activity, especially in older buildings with a long
history, leading to some creepy CCTV footage.
Number 5 Agatha Christie’s life was almost as mysterious
as one of her novels, but for a museum in Devon it seems like the mysteries continued
into her afterlife.
Torquay Museum in the United Kingdom has the country’s only Agatha Christie collection,
and some of the staff believe that may include her ghost.
Creepy CCTV footage from the museum’s gift shop showed something pulling books off a
shelf.
At first, only a handful of the books are pulled to the floor, but when the workers
go to investigate the rest of the books tumble to the floor.
The staff there say this sort of thing isn’t uncommon.
Strangely, though, it’s only ever Agatha Christie books that are seen flying from the
shelves.
On one occasion, the books physically hit a woman who was going through the gift shop.
Late in her life, Christie said she would often dream of Ashfield, the villa where she
was born and spent her early years.
When the villa was torn down in the 1960s, Christie was devastated.
Some of the boards from her childhood home were saved and later turned into the steps
of the ladder in the museum gift shop.
This wasn’t the only mysterious activity at the museum.
Elsewhere, the museum houses Devon’s only real mummy.
The mummy is entombed in its sarcophagus which is rarely opened.
In a special event, the sarcophagus was opened for the first time in seven years.
It took seven men to lift the coffin’s lid.
In the dust, they found what looked like fingerprints which have never been explained.
There have also been photographs of a female ghost.
One was taken by a team of ghost hunters, who claimed it wasn’t seen with the naked
eye.
A second photo was taken during a Paranormal Investigation evening showed what seemed to
be a candle lit woman sat on the floor.
Others have disputed this, saying it was simply someone sat looking at their phone in the
dark, but some have said there’s a similarity between the woman and a young Agatha Christie.
Number 4
Bodmin Jail in Cornwall is allegedly one of the most haunted locations in the United Kingdom.
The jail was built in the 1770s and it’s said the local granite it was constructed
out of, which has a high concentration of quartz, is partially responsible for containing
the souls of those that passed away within its walls.
While not CCTV, there have been countless moments of paranormal activity captured on
camera, both in the form of video and still images.
Even more people have experienced the terrifying paranormal phenomenon in real life but were
unable to gather evidence.
The jail was in operation from the late 1700s all the way up to 1922.
In the beginning, conditions were terrible, with overcrowding a major issue and no segregation
between men and women or violent and non-violent crime.
Between the harsh punishment, the dangerous conditions, and disease that was rampant within
the walls, an untold number of people perished in the prison.
A total of 55 people had capital punishment carried out against them, the most recent
being in 1909.
It is this man, William Hampton, that ghost hunter Tony Ferguson believes he captured
on a stationary camera when he visited the prison in 2018.
He and his wife were the only visitors in the prison at the time for their investigation.
They heard faint, far-off voices and scratching, saw unexplained mists, and captured electronic
voice phenomenon during their time at the site.
Tony was calling out to Hampton, who was punished for taking the life of his lover, when the
apparition appeared.
What Tony believes to be Hampton is hard to make out.
At the end of the corridor, what appears to be a figure cloaked in darkness crosses the
corridor.
Given the jail was dark at the time, it’s hard to make out the fill figure, but what
appears to be his face is more visible.
The movement definitely looks more like someone slowly walking than a piece of dust drifting
past the camera.
Another famous apparition that has been caught on camera is that of the hag.
The hag has been seen in various locations within the prison, and is not tied to one
place.
The prison’s paranormal manager and her daughter were taking photos when they captured
a strange, agitated woman who appeared to be dressed in old fashioned clothing.
Many visitors to the prison, which is now a tourist attraction, have claimed to have
seen the hag, and have said they were filled with the feeling of needing to walk away and
not turn back.
Number 3
The Carlisle Castle Hotel pub in Newtown, New South Wales, has shared multiple scary
moments of paranormal activity caught on CCTV.
The pub, which was established in 1876, is apparently haunted by an unknown entity which
has a taste for expensive wine.
It was 2014 when the establishment first made headlines after sharing some of the creepy
footage on social media.
Three CCTV videos which captured the paranormal were shared.
The first video was of an empty dining area just before midnight.
What at first looks like a shapeless patch of white mist forms into a long stand that
waves across the camera.
It takes the shape of a person waving at the camera, it’s head at the bottom of the screen.
The second video was from the bar area, taken at about 8PM.
In the footage, one of the workers is getting something from a refrigerator when two bottles
of wine fall from a shelf behind him.
The worker is nowhere near the shelf when the bottles fall.
Some have suggested it might have been vibrations from the refrigerators that caused the bottles
to fall, but looking closely at the video it definitely appears like something pulled
the two bottles from where they were secured on the shelf.
The third of the now somewhat infamous videos is again from the bar area, but a different
angle.
In this video, patrons are sat and stood around the bar.
There is one worker at the back of the bar that’s watching the customers and another
worker at the other end of the shot.
Suddenly, a glass item flies off the shelf next to the woman closest to the camera.
She wasn’t moving at the time, so hadn’t knocked it off herself, and didn’t seem
to be paying any attention to it.
All the customers turn to the incident, but none seem able to explain what happened.
When the owner shared the footage to his Facebook page, there were many suggestions about who
might be the spirit.
Some have suggested it might be someone by the name “Old Pete” who had run the bar
in the 1990s.
A bust of Pete supposedly still stands behind the bar.
Alternatively, some have said it was the last person to run the pub, or even one of the
former regulars that still wants to hang out at his favourite bar.
Another video from 2018 might have some answers.
The footage is of a small office space with nobody in it.
A picture falls from somewhere off camera.
According to the owner, the wire and hook were still intact, but the frame fell top
first.
A staff member comes in and picks up the picture, which is a black and white portrait of a man.
The owners didn’t share who the man in the picture was, but it’s possible he may have
been connected to the haunting.
Number 2
Ye Olde Man and Scythe pub is the fourth oldest public house in England, and dates back to
the 1200s.
Situated in the town centre of Bolton in Greater Manchester, it has been the site of countless
gruesome stories, and some of those seem to have seeped into the foundation itself.
The pub first appeared on the town charter in 1251.
Obviously it has received multiple face lifts over the years, but much of the interior dates
all the way back to 1636.
It was a few decades after this that the most famous of the tragedies to occur at the pub
happened.
The English Civil War came to Ye Olde Man and Scythe’s doorstep in 1644.
Bolton was a Royalist town at the time, and more than 1600 people lost their lives in
an event sometimes called the Storming of Bolton.
James Stanley, the Earl of Derby and a man whose family owned the pub at the time, played
a large part in the devastation.
After the end of the war, Parliamentarian forces came for him.
Stanley was sitting in the pub, drinking, when he was apprehended by Parliamentarians
and dragged outside.
They took his life there as punishment for his part in the tragedy that had occurred
seven years earlier.
Stanley’s spirit is said to be one of the dozens that still linger at the pub, and many
believe it was him captured on CCTV in 2014.
The chilling footage from the bar shows a hooded figure appear from the darkness.
The lights flicker around it before everything cuts out and the figure vanishes once more.
For those that frequented the bar, the paranormal footage caught on CCTV was just evidence of
something they experienced on a regular basis.
According to the landlord, paranormal activity happened almost daily.
This involved everything from a ghostly dog that would lick his feet in the middle of
the night and sleep at the end of his bed, to the scarier figures like the former earl.
Other spirits include that of a girl called Jenny that tugs on the dresses of female patrons
and sometimes pinches guests, and a male spirit that touches female workers while they’re
in the cellar.
According to the owner, none of the female staff will enter the cellar alone now.
It’s not only apparitions in this paranormal pub, though.
One story tells of a woman in the 19th century who was enjoying an evening at the bar when
just looked at her hands to find red fluids mysteriously pouring from her body.
She ran screaming from the establishment, only to find she didn’t have a single scratch
on her.
Number 1 The Eagle’s Nest Hotel in Quincy, Illinois,
isn’t particularly well known for paranormal activity.
The hotel was built in 1972, its name changing a number of times over the years but, according
to the manager “the charm stays the same”.
Reviews of the hotel show nothing out of the ordinary, but staff at the Eagle’s Nest
have different stories to tell.
The hotel came into the spotlight when a scary paranormal moment was caught on camera and
shared by one of the hotel staff.
The staff member had been checking security cameras after an item went missing from the
housekeeper’s cart.
She found video of the cart parked in an empty hallway, just outside an elevator at 12 minutes
past 1 in the afternoon.
In the clip uploaded to Facebook, there was about 15 seconds of the still hallway before
something darts out of the entrance to the elevator.
The dark shadowy figure moves very quickly, darting to the cart and back in an instant.
When it first leaves its hiding place, it seems humanoid in shape, but seems to lose
shape as it leaves the cart.
It’s not clear if the figure actually takes anything, or if the missing item from the
cart was just a coincidence.
The elevator itself is closed throughout the clip, as it was explained that light would
be shining from the elevator if the door was open.
So even if this figure was a real person, there wasn’t anyway it could have hid there.
Despite no mention of a haunting before, the staff member who shared the video claim staff
at the Eagle’s Nest Hotel were used to paranormal activity.
They claim to hear unexplained giggling and sometimes see shadowy figures out of the corner
of their eye.
The activity seems mostly focused on a particular maintenance man, so it’s possible the entity
is haunting him rather than the hotel itself.
Staff believe the figure is a spirit of a child, or something pretending to be a child.
Many of the commenters on the video claim it seemed more demonic in nature than a playful
child.
One commenter claimed to see multiple spirits in the video, including something hiding beneath
the cart.
Beyond this, there’s little information about when the haunting started or what could
have triggered the haunting in the first place.
The building isn’t too old, but it’s possible a lot of bad energy had accumulated over the
years, resulting in this scary paranormal moment caught on camera.