Ghost Hunting

As you may know from earlier blog posts, I love ghosts and the thought of the spirit world being all around us. I am also a bit of a family history geek and love researching the past from a family perspective, not learning loads of dates and facts that history classes were famous for.

I had the perfect opportunity to explore both on Friday. A student we have on placement at the school spoke to me at lunch in the staffroom on Friday asking if we had historic records for pupils going back many years. We are an old Victorian school which opened its doors to the city in 1892 and are lucky to have all the original school documents, log books and registers going back to the opening day. Amazingly, over 560 boys registered for the school on it's opening day in 1892.

Anyways, back to the story .... She (the student) had been to visit a medium with her mum the night before and had been gobsmacked at the information that the medium had shared. A great deal of it was personal information that very few knew about and this made her a little freaked out! The medium then interrupted to say that a young boy was trying to pass a message and then started to give loads of details about my school and it's past etc etc.

This young lad was called Daniel whose surname started with a W, and he apparently loved school and loved being in our school when he was a pupil. He hated the huge, heavy wooden doors but was really happy there and remains in the school to this day. He apparently died at the age of 12. He follows the student around the school at the moment, looking after her, and was telling the medium about incidents that had happened during her placement.

She was a little worried about this now because the medium had come up with this boys name which made things a little too real for her.

I jumped at the chance to investigate and after school on Friday we started to look through the original registration documents for all the children. We came across one pupil called Daniel whose surname started with a W. He was born on the 19th of June 1894.

Then came my family history enthusiasm! I have been searching the online documents and census information to find the boy and have currently drawn a blank!!! I am so disappointed and if truth be known, a little jealous of the student. I know that sounds a bit weird, but I love the thought of the spirit world and would love to think that a child from the schools past, who loved school, was looking after me when I was in the building.

I have many more school records to trawl through on the hunt for Daniel as this register only goes as far as 1912. I'll let you know if I find him :o)

IS THERE ANYBODY THERE.......???????

NO .. not me asking if anyone is reading this ... but tackling my thoughts about the after-life. Most Haunted got me hooked on spirits and ghosts and got me thinking ... what does happen after this life?

If you have watched Most Haunted you would have to agree that it does question your beliefs - do ghosts really exist? My opinion was NO - until I got hooked and fascinated by the medium on the programme, Derek Acorah. I love the work of this guy and he has changed my whole perception on "passing over to the other side".



I jumped at the chance of buying tickets to see another of the "Three Mediums" Colin Fry at the Edinburgh Playhouse. I was expecting a few people there but the whole of the theatre was packed .. a sell out performance. By the end I was converted ... I do believe there is life after death - I am NOT religious at all but the arguments and evidence that I have seen has convinced me.



I became a bit of a ghost freak and started watching Colin, Derek and the third medium Tony Stockwell on television and went to another sellout performance in Edinburgh with Colin and Derek.



You arrive hoping and wishing to have someone from your past come through to speak to you. By the start of the performance I was desperate for them NOT to come through as it would be bloody embarrassing to have a chat about some personal stuff infront of a few hundred strangers ... but by the end of the show I was again desperate for a chat with someone ..... maybe next time :o)

The Most Haunted team have me rivited to my sofa waiting to see what is going to happen next and what information the shows spirit medium is going to find out next. Even if you are not a believer ... this show is great entertainment and certainly keeps my gob shut for an hour - not something easily done. I do have to keep checking behind me just incase there is a strange shadow or orb of light .... and anyone walking past my front door creating a shadow in the hall has freaked me out a few times .. nearly spilling my wine ffs (now that would be a tragedy).

Edinburgh ghost walk and dungeons is the next stop ...... wwwwwwooooooooooooo