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‘Man In Black’
‘Man In Black’ Hilperton
Hilperton
‘Man In Black’ Hilperton
‘Man In Black’ Hilperton
‘Man In Black’ Hilperton
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Are you experiencing something strange in your home from the sound of footsteps, knockings or some other unexplained phenomenon.
Have you seen a ghost in your home.
Are you experiencing Smells or oders in the home, that can not be explained, for example pipe tobacco smells, perfume or aftershave.
Do you ever get a feeling that you are not alone in the home.
Have you seen objects moving around by unseen hands in your home or work place.
Many of these experiences are never reported because people don’t want to feel weird and odd.
People are frightened to talk because of skepticism (it’s all in your head, it’s only your eye’s playing tricks, you’re hallucinating, its a misinterpretation of something natural or some other reply) and are talked out of what may of been a real paranormal experience.
So if you are witnessing events and need someone to talk too, please post your comment below or If you prefer that you and your experience to stay private from public eyes then thats not a problem.
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I have been working at the Lion & Fiddle public house in Hilperton for 10 years and have sometimes witnessed unusual occurences. To start, I appreciate that some people will put all this down to excess ‘quality control’ of the stock, but I can assure you, this has happened while in a state of complete sobriety.
The first instance of unusual happenings was first brought to my attention by the previous managers of the business, who had a gentleman stay regularly in room 5 of the accomodation lets. By all accounts, he awoke on more than one occasion , to find the apparition of a woman and child near the foot of the bed, looking at him. On his last visit some years ago, apparently, he had arrived late and retired immedietly only to be awakened once again by said apparition. By this time, the occurence had become so regular for him he politely askd to be left alone, turned over and went to sleep!
Myself, I have had to sleep in this room while the old tenants were away and all I could report on at night is a faint tapping coming from the wall near the door. I know the building is at least 150 years old so it could just the effects of settling down, then again…
As for other occurences I have witnessed, while setting up tables for lunch in the bar at about midday, from the corner of my eye I have seen dark shadows hanging about the brickwork pillars, which disappear when my head turns. This has happened on more than one occasion but not very often.
Dogs in the public bar have been indicators of unusual happenings, when we used to let them in. The first being when a local young lady brought her puppy in. Loving pups as I do, I wanted to take it for a trot around the pub, so leash in hand and puppy in tow, I ended up at the restaurant door. I opened it up and started to enter. The puppy remained on the threshold and absolutely refused to cross it. No amount of tugging could coersion could move him and eventually, it was really trying to back away from something it could see but I couldn’t.
Other dogs have been seen in the bar focused on one spot. This is the area in the centre where the old front door is situated, and if I’m not mistaken used to be the entrance to two seperate businesses. But the dogs can see something there that I can’t, and when unleashed, they go over and just stare at what seems to be empty space.
A local lady who claims to have powers of a psychic nature was intrigued by the stories and immediately wanted to ‘read’ the restaurant area. This area, as I understand it, used to house the stabling facilities in times gone by. Her findings remain that while very few traces of energy could be picked up in the bar area, the restaurant readings were more ‘interesting’.
Ian Smith(Quote)
Thankyou Ian for sharing these accounts with us. Very intriguing read.
Administrator(Quote)
Concerning the ‘Man in black’, this could, perhaps, stem from an account posted on the wall of the Lion & Fiddle in Hilperton. Taken from the Salisbury edition of the Western Circuit dated 1828, it tells of the demise of one Daniel Bayley at the hands of Richard Mizen and Moses Angel. The mugging and murder of Bayley occured 20th, November 1827, when all 3 Steeple Ashton residents found themselves at the pub on their way back home from Trowbridge in the early evening. Angel(18) was already on the premises when Bayley(63) turned up. Shortly after, Mizen(24) entered the pub and Angel joined him in what would be the plotting of the mugging of Bayley. The two conspiritors left the premises with Bayley departing shortly after.
Just up the road, Mizen and Angel confronted Bayley, who was struck twice around the left side of the head by Mizen with what is described as a ‘great stone’. With Bayley on the ground bleeding profusely from his injuries, the two relieved him of a watch, complete with chain and key, and somewhere in the region of 9 shillings. Before leaving the scene, Angel is reported to have kicked Bayley in the head and the two made their way back to the public house. Mizen retreived a smock from a ditch he had stashed there earlier, put it on and handed Angel the watch in exchange for the majority of the cash. All this happened in the space of 20 minutes.
Bayley was briefly cared for on the premises of the Lion & Fiddle where his wounds were dressed and his daughter found him the next morning. He died 15th, December from his injuries.
Mizen and Angel were apprehended after Angel sold the watch to an employee working in the yard of the pub, stating that his father had given him it as a present but he already owned one. The employee bought the watch but doubted Angel’s story. The watch was handed over to the local constable and was found to belong to Bayley.
Mizen and Angel both stood trial for murder, Mizen aquited through ‘lack of evidence’, and Angel convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He was hung in March, 1828 at Fisherton, Salisbury, dying a repentant man.
Maybe the man in black could be Bayley or maybe it could be Angel. Maybe neither!
willhaunt(Quote)
Thank you Willhaunt for finding and posting this information. As in regards to the story of the ‘Man in black’ well, I have it recorded to file somewhere but to be honest, there wasn’t a huge amount of this story anyway. What you provided has, I’m for sure a more interesting read. Cheers!
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Me and my friend were looking round this house because being teenagers we were bored at home……the front door had been knocked down…..well it wasnt a front as such because the front door and all of the windows had been boarded up with Chipboard…..but the chipboard on the front door had been kicked in…..so we went to look inside and we looked around and there was abit of graffiti on the walls and we looked at all of the graffiti and laughed because some of them were rude :L most of the floorboards were missing and the stairs banister was missing…..we searched the whole house for anything of intrest..but it was pitch black which made even more creepy…….but we had a light…. so we came back downstairs and as we did there was a creepy sudden chill in the air and it didnt feel like a draft or anything like that it felt different….had never felt it before! and we shone our lights in the direction of the chill because we felt what direction it came from and we saw on the wall a message had appeared since we last looked….it said “stay the F*** out” and i apologise for my language but those are the exsact words it said……..and it really freaked us out….but we dunno how to explain what happened……..have any ideas?
Luke(Quote)
Hi Luke and a happy new-year to you. Many thanks for sharing your experience with us. I’m personally not recommending this but it you do return please contact us with any new updates regarding this location be careful as you are trespassing and the property may be unsafe.
Can an apparition directly affect the physical world and create cold effects? From what I’ve learnt about these things over the years is that it’s very unlikely. With the cold this is either a natural physical effect of cold or subjective hallucination created by ourselves mentally from being stood in the dark in an unknown location.
As for the message on the wall, well there is no evidence of apparitions directly effecting the physical environment (e.g. writing on walls) but it seems more plausible that you didn’t notice this graffiti and created this suggestion. If a building is old with boards in the windows this doesn’t always mean it’s haunted.
Sorry if this wasn’t the reply you wanted to see, I’m not always that skeptic.
Abstract from G. N. M Tyrrell’s book “Apparitions”.
Feelings of Cold.
Another characteristic of apparitions, not invariability but fairly frequently, is that the percipient experiences a feeling of cold. One can see no reason for these cold feelings; they are just empirical fact. But the consensus of statements about them further endorses the truth of the accounts. It will be sufficient to give a string of extracts from cases on this point without giving the reference to each case.
“I…felt myself grow perfectly cold.”
The experience was like “a jug of cold water poured on the nape of the neck.”
“As if the blood was like ice in my veins.”
“A cold, shivering feeling came over me.”
The apparition “laid a cold hand on his cheek.”
“Her kiss was like a waft of cold air upon my cheek.”
“She felt a cold hand clasp hers.”
“I awoke in a cold sweat.”
The percipient “felt an icy wind blowing.”
“As if a cool wind was blowing about me.”
“As the figure we distinctly felt a cold air.”, Again,
“An icy chill passed through him, and his hair bristled.”
“My hair seemed to bristle.” (Cf Job iv.15, “Then a spirit passed before my face; and the hair of my flesh stood up.”)
It seems probable that these cold feelings are subjective. Again, the Morton ghost supplies evidence of this.”I felt a cold icy shiver,” says Miss E. Morton as the ghost bent over her whilst she was playing the piano. On another occasion footsteps were heard to pass Miss Morton, her mother, and a maid. They saw nothing but most of them “felt an icy shiver.” When a party of five, consisting of two Miss Morton and three of the maids, were standing outside their bedrooms with their candles alight, listening to the footsteps, “walking up and down the landing between them,” they felt “a cold wind, though their candles were not blown about.” This surely must have been a subjective feeling of a wind, and not a physical cold wind. It is possible that the act of supernatural perception brings about physiological changes which lower the temperature of the body. Notice that in one of the experimental cases, the percipient says, “I felt a cold breath streaming over me, and violent palpitation of the heart came on.”
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