Haunted Places in Cheltenham

Haunted Places in Cheltenham | Ghostly Trails

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Жыл бұрын

Cheltenham is an ancient Roman town in western England, featuring some of the best ghost stories in the whole country. Nearby is a neolithic burial site called Belas Knap, haunted by monks and spirits of nature.
Moving into Cheltenham we pass through Prestbury, the most haunted village in England. Ghosts range from the Black Abbot all the way to spectral shepherds and medieval horse riders.
Cheltenham itself has various stories, its most famous being 'the Cheltenham ghost' - which is the most accredited ghost on record.
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@LyraDavis Жыл бұрын

Ahhh the town I was born and raised in! I remember in the late 90s/early 2000s when all my friends was say ‘I’m sick of this town’ or ‘this towns finished for me’ or ‘it’s the same people everywhere I can’t wait to get out of here’ … I’d just think ‘no, you’re sick of yourself and having to live with the choices you’ve made. This town is beautiful’ and I still think it’s beautiful. Nothing beats a stroll through pitville park in the Autumn (or any time of year for that matter) paddling in boats, feeding the swans, or strolling down the prom at Christmas. Bunking off school and getting a dropper from the bakery and sitting in winston Churchill memorial gardens. Riding your bike along the honeybourne . In the Summer sitting in Sandford park having a picnic after a swim in the lido or chilling out with a pint at the beer gardens! What a way to grow up! I was so lucky!

@sphynxster06 Жыл бұрын

I can never get sick of this town . Love it through and through . We can trace my famalam here at least since 1650 - so I love the history of this place and surrounding areas

@LyraDavis Жыл бұрын

@@sphynxster06 Wow! 1650! That’s amazing! I haven’t dug too deeply but I can trace my great grandfather back to being the son of a butcher who owned a shop in Tivoli in the 1800s. Don’t know much about my Dad’s side as we don’t have contact but I’ve been told their history in the town goes back. My mum went to Pates girls school and said there was a plaque naming one of my dad’s ancestors as a benefactor dating to the 1700s. (Don’t want to give his family name as it’s extremely uncommon and would make me identifiable to him) I echo your sentiment about loving the history of this place and surrounding areas. We have so much on our doorstep!

@ameliabanner4071 Жыл бұрын

What a romantic way to describe our town. Love this.

@kathrynabbott5032 Жыл бұрын

I lived in Charlton Kings from the mid 70’s - the early 80’s. I try to get back as often as a can. Love shopping here, though Cavendish House is looking a bit sad these days.

@samfordofficial Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more!

@lynnwl99 Жыл бұрын

as a ghost story lover i really love your videos. they keep me company during spooky season which doesn't end with halloween, but lasts throughout winter when the nights are long, dark, and cold.

@michaelsung357 Жыл бұрын

Living in the most haunted place in England hasn't been too bad lived here for 22 years (since I was born). A couple weird encounters, hearing horses charging down the road at 5:00am with no one around whilst... No cars, no people and no horses, crazy stuff.

@silverstuff182 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Anything else?

@vanessaking4495 Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing a horse man riding lived very close to prestbury not all the time but now and again

@speedbird2064 Жыл бұрын

Hi Robin and Ross, love these ghostly tales keep them coming, I would like to suggest a book if I may it’s called The Green Stone by author Graham Phillips. It’s mostly based in Worcestershire and it tells of a paranormal adventure which locates the Green stone which belonged to Mary queen of Scots which was found buried next to the river Avon. Various clues were left for the team at locations around Worcestershire to the whereabouts of this stone and paranormal events which followed them on the hunt for it. Very best wishes keep up great work.

@JoelMc97 Жыл бұрын

I live right on Prestbury High Street and have never seen anything or believe in ghosts, but I still enjoy the stories and the aspects of history you can pick up from them

@kemmayr Жыл бұрын

Ooooooooooo going to a talk on Cleeve Hill later . We live out here in Prestbury ,very much haunted .

@frankparsons1629 Жыл бұрын

What is that great stone tower with its flag flying atop (at night), at 14.50? Looks like a prison or maybe a castle but there isn't any in Cheltenham, is there? Would love to know, it looks so ancient with its rough stonework. Any answers gladly received. Thank you, and thanks Robin for a great video and stories of ghostly goings on! Very intriguing, and I only believe these stories of sightings since I saw 2 ghosts as a teenager, very strange and they were so real and solid that I could have touched them, except I was scared to! One was a relation of my Uncle's and the "ghost" I saw had died some 15 years before I was even born, weird or what!? Its as vivid now as it was on that day.

@helengaley1256 Жыл бұрын

Love your work , your voice is very calming and your narration is brilliant. 🌹

@sphynxster06 Жыл бұрын

Agree 👍

@stephanielloyd4053 Жыл бұрын

Please come and visit Worcester!

@thegloucestergroundhopper Жыл бұрын

You should visit nearby Winchcombe. There’s murder alley where people have seen the head of someone rolling down a hill. My great great grandmother was one of the first to witness this. There’s also been many other ghost stories told, such as a candle flickering in the bedroom of a child that died.

@venrox7053 Жыл бұрын

4:15 my Great grandparents and my granddad are all interned in a grave just behind where you're standing. My Granddad loved his ghost stories x

@rachaelghostcat8584 Жыл бұрын

Love your tales, your voice is so unique. Do you do TV work? If not you should!

@obsidiandwarf Жыл бұрын

And/or audiobooks (Ghosty ones)

@Aria-wl2ve 10 ай бұрын

Great production values. Very well narrated. Love this channel. Thank you.❤

@sphynxster06 Жыл бұрын

I’m from chelters and I’ve rented a couple of super haunted houses - both were in the town centre - Ali were end . Built in 18c . The worst one I researched used to be an undertakers which made sense as my experience when in the large l lounge of one cottage, sat with all 5 house sharers . None of us smoking and me at the end of one settee near the back of room. A billow of smoke floated past my face and I smelt candle wax - the billow of smoke was small as of a candle having been blown out. After my research - It also noted that candles were used during laying out of bodies and the lounge was that room ! 😮 . That was stonham cottage opposite bar and wok . Also in Henrietta street, the very corner ‘shop-like’ fronted house at the very end opposite the hotel - was also extremely haunted. I lasted all of 6 months in both of those house. Both over looked the car park where the anicent market still takes place today ! And has since as you mention chelt was recorded I. The doomsday book . It is also mentioned in my research that this area is over crossing let-lines which gives for more haunting due to its energy fields etc.

@sphynxster06 Жыл бұрын

To note: as the billow waved past my face literally in my face - I jumped up and said to my friend did you see that. My friend sat beside me had. We were all pretty shook up. Thing happened so often there I calf I was first home from work I would wait outside or nearby until a mate was home 😂 the rent was 35£ each a week that was 2008 ish - well cheap . I now know why lol

@LyraDavis Жыл бұрын

Mate that’s mad! I almost bought that house on Henrietta street and the one next door when both came up for sale recently. Not enough garden (if you can even call it that) and would have cost a bomb to restore. But thought it’d be handy for the frog and the brewery! We loved in several places all had ‘unusual’ activity. A townhouse on Albert place next to the ABC park that was at one time used as a school where you could hear footsteps running up and down the stairs all day even when you were home alone. A flat in a Georgian mansion on Douro road where things kept disappearing and then then reappearing in weird places. A cottage in marsh lane where the ghost of a dog used to bark at the window but disappear as soon as you opened the window! The house I grew up in in Hester’s way where I saw an old man tell me not to stand too close to the fire and as he turned I could see he was burned and then the nice lady dressed like from the 30s who turned my lamp back on for me after my mum came in and turned it off because I was afraid of the dark. I remember seeing a monk walking along the old bath road whose feet were sunk half in to the ground up to his shins. And just ask anyone in the Norwood and they will tell you not to be the last one in after closing. Any place with so much history has its ghosts. Most people just dismiss what they see as something else.

@sphynxster06 Жыл бұрын

@@LyraDavis for real they do . I feel privailedge to have seen so much. Ive scarier moments actually when I think of it. But yes so many hauntings I. Such a small place - as is chelt. But yes you had a lucky escape - thing were happening daily 😬 in the Henrietta stree one ! Could see black fogs floating round constant people running up and down stairs, so much so that you would go into hall confused to see who had come down stairs knowing g no-one was up there anyways. Lol non- stop. it was a stressful place to live tbh.

@LyraDavis Жыл бұрын

@@sphynxster06 nice to know I didn’t pass up a bargain for nothing!

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@jasonladd6400 Жыл бұрын

like the John Hurt tones

@mrsportybloke1336 Жыл бұрын

Sat on belurs knapp while mountain biking lots of times,but never saw or felt anything sadly. And the house in Pittville Circus was also a youth club I used to go to in the 80s before turned in to flats.

@TheUncleRuckus Жыл бұрын

You definitely deserve more subs! Liked and Subbed 👍👍

@EowynSoup Жыл бұрын

I live in Cheltenham! Looks like I've got some new places to visit. Thank you!

@leonaheraty3760 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing these spooky stories. 😉

@kalihensley-garrison6282 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the work you put into your beautiful videos. 💚

@grazia1238 Жыл бұрын

more please Robin 🙏 keep up the spooky stuff 👻💙💚

@suparnadebnath1535 Жыл бұрын

Love love ur videos and that heavy mysterious feel .. Truely spooks u

@AiraCamille Жыл бұрын

New subscriber 👋 from the Philippines ❤️

@Geenalee1 Жыл бұрын

Nice Love Your Vids HugS oh Yeah...... FIRST !!!!!!!!😁🙋‍♀

@liavandervelde3434 Жыл бұрын

Hi Robin, very very well done. Beautiful storytelling and fiming. Excellent. Thanks

@mattvaughan180 Жыл бұрын

Great video and great narration, I’ve just subscribed. can I say also as a local myself to Cheltenham Tewkesbury is very very haunted and well worth you doing a video on

@lukeslade7201 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much for sharing this. I love ghost storries and listening to what others experience others have encountered. Im from cheltenham myself and know of many stories around the town particulary prestbury down the road from cleeve hill. I am baffled having having visited cleevehill manytimes i never knew this was there! Thankyou fors haring and thank you YT for recommending. Exclellent video, thumbs up and earnt yourself a sub

@StarOfArtemis Жыл бұрын

Robin your execution of these videos makes me think of David Attenborough's older works when he would go back and forth between the voiceovers and on-location narrations. You clearly put a ton of work into making these, and I appreciate your effort! These are so fun to listen to.

@ret1975 Жыл бұрын

Really love your videos and love Cheltenham I am a massive racing fan and know all about the place just never lucky enough to have been yet hopefully one day this makes me want to go more thank you very much

@soukthavoneinsisienmay1188 Жыл бұрын

Love this!!!! Keep them coming! Awesome job! 💓💓💓 It's in your voice... 😍🥰🤩

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@ThePianoMan1999 Жыл бұрын

Been living in prestbury for a year. Just watched this, now I'm terrified 🤣🤣🤣

@Kingshieldwall 2 ай бұрын

Great story telling voice. Bravo 👏

@FionaKay-ju9uq 2 ай бұрын

My parents bought a house on Prestbury Road in the early 70's we had our fair share of experiences there.

@LeeJPryer Жыл бұрын

I went camping up on cleeve hill and was woken up about 3 in the morning by a young girl laughing running around the tent, i checked outside and no-one waa there

@tinahale9252 Жыл бұрын

I have come into the paths of spirits and ghosts when I have deep emotional trauma. Of course I used to think I was mad. I'm not. As the grief passes so do the Spector's

@denisoshea1089 Жыл бұрын

Besides nicely told stories and appealing places your voice is something extra. So soothing, deep and attractive I sometimes realise I stop listening just perceiving its melody. Anyway, thank you for your work.

@dominiqueelademoray4948 Жыл бұрын

I would love to live in the country side

@carltaylor6434 Жыл бұрын

Great video, I live in charlton kings Cheltenham

@kathrynabbott5032 Жыл бұрын

I lived in CK in the mid 70’s

@obsidiandwarf Жыл бұрын

Robin, have you considered doing audiobooks? Ghost ones of course. You'd be great. 'The Signalman, Any Dennis wheatly black magic books (The Ka of Gifford Hillary, springs to mind), et al.

@cindchan Жыл бұрын

I think he actually has audiobooks.

@obsidiandwarf Жыл бұрын

@@cindchan Hi. I found 'A Christmas Carol' on COTSWOLD EXPLORER . Do you know of any others?

@ghostlytrails Жыл бұрын

Robin does indeed narrate audiobooks, there's a whole collection of ghost stories here: cotswoldshop.co.uk/collections/audiobooks

@obsidiandwarf Жыл бұрын

@@ghostlytrails That's great1 Thank you. 🙂

@richardwani2803 Жыл бұрын

Subscribed 👍

@c.c.ccrazycoconutclan7546 Жыл бұрын

i live in prestbury and i have heard these

@thomashartman4270 Жыл бұрын

Down with the Roundheads, up the Cavaliers up the King.

@ruiseartalcorn Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Many thanks :)

@PerformanceCheck Жыл бұрын

Lived here a long time and loved this video, first time viewer and now new subscriber! This video was great. If you come back again, be sure to check out Devil’s Chimney up Leckhampton Hill

@musicland6477 Жыл бұрын

Just discovered this sister channel. Looks great. 🙂👻

@aliceh-2305 Жыл бұрын

i live here currently and its a very spooky village at night but all the people are lovely

@iamskrybz Жыл бұрын

You should take me on a ghost tour around cheltenham, im into all that spooky stuff 😂

@gerardshort6149 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever done a very old air base in Bristol . I ain't quite sure where it is could Henbury or Henleaze as there has been reported of ghost hunters on the bank seeing a woman and a Aairforce officer from WW11 . As i have only been told this so how true it is i do not know as my ghost haunting days are over from COPD . So i am limited for walking .

@AbbieMaySmith Жыл бұрын

Please do Worcester/Worcestershire!

@williambennett8704 8 ай бұрын

I have lived at garden reach/st annes for 18 years.

@silverstuff182 Жыл бұрын

So maybe Brian Jones doesn’t appear in this town where he is buried. Just as well. RIPeace.

@mar.011 Жыл бұрын

well isnt that lovely , now knowing the town i got raised in has haunted places 😂

@adamleeaustin1 Жыл бұрын

My Only Home Of 43 Years

@WooRidersDg 8 ай бұрын

hello from the future oct 22 2023

@photographerlondon3 Жыл бұрын

Did anyone see the dog or fox looking ghostly 9.20 mins in. There the portrait then a dog or fox ghost walks by the wall

@arlenedavis5770 Жыл бұрын

I saw it.

@robincook3367 Жыл бұрын

Cheltenham is not an ancient town, it's about 200 years old. It was originally a ham on the river Chelt (from which it derives it's name). It only became a town in Regency times, and it was built with the money of Jemmy Wood - the Miser Banker, at one time the richest commoner in England and reputedly the inspiration for Dicken's Scrooge character. Gloucester is the ancient City - there has been a settlement there since pre-Roman times.

@chrisamies2141 6 ай бұрын

True. The oldest - pre-19th century - bits of Cheltenham are the Minster and the western end of High Street - it was a large village or small town before the rapid expansion from c. 1800 onward. I wonder if it's more 'nobody shows much interest in the pre-19th century history' rather than 'there isn't any.'