First-Hand Accounts Of Paranormal Acitivity (Extreme Ghost Stories) | Our Life

An investigative series looking at frightening and unsettling tales of the paranormal. Nowadays most people listen to ghost stories secure in the knowledge that the shiver of terror they may feel will pass. Extreme Ghost Stories puts this complacent modern attitude to the test with six tales of dire dread, each immaculately researched and each truly harrowing.

In this episode, the stories include: Michelham Priory, House of Spirits, The Weeping Woods of Naworth, Plas Teg and Swindon Railway Works. Michelham Priory is known as one of the most haunted building in Britain; hear one man's terrifying account of what happened when he went to live there. And does a dark history hold a key to a series of terrifying events at a Jacobean Mansion in North Wales?

This film was first broadcast: 2005

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[livmarlin]

When I was 25 I went to a psychic for the first time. She told me that I had three children, two in the physical & one in the spiritual. I looked at her confused because I had two children, not 3 .
She said, I'm talking about the daughter you had a miscarriage with.
I immediately started to cry & she said she wants you to know she chose not to come into the world at that time. But she loves you & she will come back to you as a grandchild. But she might not be a girl. She said, but you will know me by the mole on my neck right where you have one. Same side on the left. I was flabbergasted to say the least, mainly because it was a little girl I miscarriaged! Other things she went on to tell me were very accurate as I said I was 25yrs old at the time of the reading & I'm now in my early 50's
Well my youngest Son had my first Grandchild & I felt such a deep connection to him even before he was born. I figured it was because it was my first grandchild. But when he was handed to me for the first time I had this overwhelming feeling of familiarity
& deep connection to him. I was in Love instantly! Then he moved & I saw his neck ! He had a tiny mole the left side of his neck!!!! Then he looked right at me & stared & I knew I just knew he was the soul of the daughter I lost!
He's three & I have such a bond with him! Sometimes I feel bad because he will cry for me & not his Mommy or my Son & there's no consoling him until I come. I can't tell you how many nights I had to go over to their house & put him to bed or calm him down, , because he only wanted me.
I have never told my daughter in law, whom I love dearly, because I wouldn't want to hurt her or my Son. I'm Mimi & he has my whole heart💙💙💙

[jefferee]

The thing I like about this series is the believability of the people. They aren't trying to get their 10 minutes of fame. They are legitimately traumatized

[fennelleastman]

I think this series is by far the scariest of any ghost documentaries ever made -- the documentary ''Ghosts On The Underground'' is also great.Genuinely chilling.

[IsaidwithaC]

The people interviewed have used time to reflect on their experiences. They have come to accept them, even without true understanding of what happened, and that's what makes these stories genuine and believable.

[cm]

I'm so terribly sorry for Ed Paine. What a traumatic, horrifying experience ! Rest in peace, Mrs. Paine.

[bubbaplayz]

I’ve had many ghostly experiences but the one that sticks in my mind the most, is when I was a cleaner in a very old school, a school that Florence Nightingale attended as a child! One autumn evening, I was cleaning at the far end of the school, and proceeded to clean my first class room, and the whole time I was doing so, I could hear chairs being moved around, something quite sinister about school chairs, the metal legs being clanged together, the sound of them being stacked….I continued cleaning, but dubious as to the noise, once I’d finished, I moved into the next classroom as always, but the next classroom was where the chair clanging sound was coming from, I half expected to see the caretaker or someone in there, but it was completely empty!!! 20 mins later, the teachers emerged, she told me they’d all been in a meeting at the bottom end of the school and could velch that the caretaker and other cleaner where down there the whole time!! What on earth was moving the chairs!?!?!? I was quite spooked and to this day, know I was not alone at the far end of a very long old corridor in a very old school!

[mckenzie]

I worked in an old council building. Every time I sat down to work I would get this overwhelming feeling of depression. By 11am it became so overwhelming I had to leave the room. It went on for months until I had to leave the job. Years later I saw an article in a local paper about the building. Security guards claimed it was haunted. I'm now less sceptical of people's tales.

[johnturner]

My wife worked as cleaner at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in the 1990s. One day, she was about to enter a single-bed side ward, off a main ward in the oldest part of the hospital, when she saw through the window a fully-dressed man standing at the end of the bed. She turned away to do something and when she turned back the man had gone. She entered the room to find only one man present, a patient in his pyjamas asleep in bed. When she mentioned this later, a nurse told her many of the staff had seen the apparition at one time or another. It wasn't an omen of doom, he just appeared at the end of the bed, looked down at the patient and then vanished. As they say, every nurse has a ghost story!

[sithlordhibiscus]

This is the type of ghost show that's believable. Not sensationalised. Not "investigated" using pseudo-scientific devices. I'm primarily of hte engineering type of mind but I've also had lots of paranormal/"psychic" episodes my entire life. I"m quick to find a logical (if equally strnage) explanation for things, but I mostly see how sensationalised the accounts are in other shows. Especially the people whose "real experiences" are featured on 3+ differnet programmes! lol.

[djmastergroove]

That was brilliant. One of the best I've seen by far. I prefer real stories like these with people who appear to be genuine.

[ItaintmeCCC]

Why don't they make shows like this anymore? UK Television programmes have gone down the pan in the last 15 years.

[ericleuterio]

This is the type of paranormal TV program I prefer not the reality ghost shows we have nowadays. I like the narrative more than the "staged" evidence.

[ej]

I’ve lived in my current home in London for 4 years. In my first couple of weeks here I was happily listening to music, when I was shoved by what distinctly felt like 2 hands on my shoulders. I fell forward on to my bed and remember thinking, someone’s got in and this is the end for me. No one was there.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, I turned my light off to go to bed, and as I started to relax, something came pounding down on to the pillow beside me. I assumed my cat had got in, but when I switched the light on, my door was still shut and nothing was there. I don’t know what to make of it. I learnt after the first incident that someone died in this building years ago and no one found him for a long time. Makes me wonder. Does scare me.

[susana]

The narrator's voice is heavenly, my dogs are even falling asleep to his voice. Magnificent.

[pierrelangedoc]

I think these will be considered classics of the 'ghost' genre documentaries in a few more years..Whoever directed them deserves an award or two.They are all genuinely spooky and not sensationalised at all.The best i've ever seen but if anyone wants to recommend any other documentaries of similar style and quality i would be very interested to know about them.

[justinparkerthewildwolf]

Im fascinated with this sort of stuff and scared at the same time, I can imagine what it would be like and its very scary

[telecasteredtodeath]

I feel for Ed Paine, he's very sincere and clearly traumatized by this experience.

[Bettinasisrg]

Five stars!! This was amazing, reminds me of the first few seasons of Paranormal Witness (the TV show, not the movie paranormal activity)

[lexenvy]

These are better than many of the horror films out there

[ivorybow]

This was very well done. All the interviewees were completely credible, and I found myself having chills.