Derbyshire, UK
Paranormal Activity
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Haunted House
Little Hallam Lane
Hi, I would like to add an experience that I had when I was 18/19.
I rented a house on Little Hallam Lane in Ilkeston, which is still there. When I first moved in, nothing unusual happened. However after around 9 months, i started to have out of body experiences during my sleep which i remember with clarity. To make a long story short, i started to have encounters with a dark entity (black mass) and this started to happen virtually every night and scared me to death.
The last straw was the night I went to bed and felt i needed some protection, so put a bible to my chest when i went to bed. After about 15 minutes, the lights in my bedroom started to flicker and finally went off. I quickly got up to check out the window to see if there was a power cut and noticed that the street lights were still on and some house lights were still on. It was then that a banging noise started somewhere in the house and that was it. I got dressed and ran outside and walked to a friends house not returning until the morning. I soon moved out of the house.
Since I have moved, I have noticed that many people have rented the property, but do not seem to stay more than a year. A couple of years ago the property became vacant again, so I arranged a viewing with the letting agent and got a medium to go back in with me. What the medium picked up was a man upstaires in the middle bedroom that he described as evil. The medium actually stated he had never come across such an evil soul. Without me saying anything about my experience, the medium also stated that he shows himself as a black mass and that he sensed that this man had murdered in the past. I would love to get in touch with other people who have rented the property to see if or what experiences they have had.
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Wood Street
Hi, we live in ilkeston, Wood Street, me and my wife have seen black shadowy figures in our house, also heard someone walking accross our landing and stopped outside the bedroom door, but no one was there, on more than one occasion, my wife seen a dark shadowy figure yesterday in the dining room but no one was in the house, one incident sticks in our minds, the youngest daughter was singing in her bedroom and when she stopped the singing carried on? it really shook her up ,tim,
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Glebe Crescent ... Reports of spooky going's on! - various homes
Market Street - I lived in the house opposite Jacksons, it had been converted to flats and town house, never really saw anything but my son used to laugh. "At that man" when he was in the bath! Dominic n smit lived there before and they left due to wired happenings Hayley Balchin
Coppice Avenue - My mum and dad used to live on coppice avenue, 25 or 15, they had a terrible haunting experience - Dale Forbes-Sutherland
Family Terrorised in home by ghost
A family on Coppice Avenue Ilkeston have been afraid to go into there Kitchen and bedrooms alone due to a Mischievous spirit. Activities include. Phantom door bell and knock on door, doors held back or shut, voices and cries, moving objects and shadowy figures
Park Road - Carol Morgan 13 park road was haunted. my mum lived there when she moved to Ilkeston, in the 60s the room in the attic eventually got boarded up because of ghostly figures on the stairs, witnessed by a few people
Pemberton Way (Helen Wright) - This is a Land Haunting, not the house. spooky new built Houses reporting strange unexplained activity - A couple from Hull lived in this property when it was first built and moved out within 2 weeks.
Burr Lane and East Street
Numourous reports relating to two house with a sad history (Muder and Massacre) - Both apperitions of a boy, dark demonic and strong black figure. Feelings and noises.
Sudbury Avenue - Various posts regarding shodow figure, noices, things movieg, mostly in the Older Buildings.
Wirksworth Road in Kirk Hallam - Margaret Russell Bannister I remember talking to a lady by the name of 'Cundy' who lives at the top of Wirksworth Road in Kirk Hallam .(I do believe that she still lives there) She had experiences with Monks, passing through her bedroom !! When she looked into it she found that her house had been built on a path which led to the Abbey at Dale Village !!
This is not the first sighting, many people have seen monks along the whole stretch og Monks Way
Prayers at Ghost House
Last report 1986
Two clergymen have said prayers at the home of an Ilkeston Disabled woman who claims she is being haunted by a playful spirit.
She's afraid to go into her main bedroom alone at her home on Ebenezer Street as the spectre of an elderly man appears at her bed
Other strange spooky going on include Horses brass and ornaments being scatterd on the living room floor
Bathroom mirror moving from sink to floor
Lights going on and off and cutlery being spread out on the Kitchen floor
Hawthorn House and Market Street
Andrew Sanders As I say I'm not a believer but there was something in the papers back in 93 I think when the 3 story flats were built on the right side of Chalons Way, a couple from Hull were the first people into the new flat which was built roughly in line with Derby Street. They apparently moved out within 2 weeks due to unusual activity and they had no former knowledge of Hawthorn House. A coach from Ilkeston Town FC also lived in the house to the right of Jacksons Chippy and he has a few stories to tell also of his house. They're all within 30-40 yards of where Hawthorn House stood.
John Burns Jnr When I was at Hallcroft, we used to cross over the road when we got to this house, if we came out of the gate at the back of the art block. (at the end of Derby St)
Sue Turner I've read about this before, I asked my dad about it as he went to hallcroft.
Peter Simpson My wife lived on derby st as a kid an she told me about the woman running to her house saying that there was no one in the house n someone trying to drown her in the sinkby ducking her head under water . Makes u wonder
Charlotte Kelk I remember reading about this house in the 80s in the ilkeston advertiser, it was derelict then as was a school on the next street, we used to dare each other to go in them
Nikki Williams I was mobile hairdressin back. before all the houses came down - I went.to.do a job.down.there there.were.only about 2 houses with folks.still.in.them.waitin.to move.it.was.very eery
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Margaret Fisher We used to avoid the house when we were at Hallcroft. Heard the same tale back in the 60's.
I remember my sister telling me about the hauntings when I was a little girl. She used to work at Rutland Garments. I started at Hallcroft in 1958 and the tales were very well known by then.
Kay McMahon My husband lived on market st until the late 90's, the school was open for business until 1997 when it closed, and most of market st was/is haunted. I have witnessed a few odd things on there.x
Roger Stephenson, football coach who lived to the right of Jacko's chippy also got spooked whilst living there.
Emma Robinson The school was haunted, they say the ghost can be seen still on chalons way