I grew up in Epworth and the Old Rectory has always been a fascination of mine especially with old jeffery, everytime i walk past i get the shivers and i swear i have seen the curtains to the left side of the house moving before.
A beautiful house and fascinating tale. The dog, the levitating bed and the shoving sound paranormal and difficult if not impossible, for some kind of trickery. Now it is a museum I wonder if anybody has had any ghostly experiences there. Great video, thanks for your work, so enjoyable.
OMG I grew up with these tales! I’m from the village right next door. Used to work in The Old School Inn and went to school in Epworth! Thank You for sharing these stories!
Great story! I've heard of the Epworth Rectory Poltergeist, but learned new things from you about it. And I love listening to your stories as I go to sleep. As to why or what it was, I'm wondering if it was the energy from the entire village's hate aimed at them, made worse by the family's multiple tragedies of children dying and father going to the poor house. Not to mention the father being a royal jerk to his wife. If he stayed away from his pregnant wife for a year for something so minor, I bet he was rather difficult to live with daily, and that type of tension would put everyone constantly on edge. Since poltergeists are theorized to be the result of heightened emotional energy of some type, from people living in the affected house or nearby, that would track. Or maybe it was an aggregor, a being caused by multiple people's beliefs in it. Someone "plants a seed" of belief (in this case, of a demon), others hear it and start believing in it, thinking about it often, "growing" it 'til it becomes strong enough with enough energy to affect things physically. Whatever it was, it's an interesting story. I feel for the family, especially the women who were blamed. Thanks for bringing us the story.
What a gorgeous building. It’s difficult to comprehend how Hetti could manufacture the levitating of a bed, or physically push someone. As for the theory of ropes, pulley’s and weights. It’s a bit of a non starter for several reasons. There is no doubt in my mind this was supernatural, plain and simple. Superbly constructed video Nicola, beautiful narration; well done young lady, well done. You take care. Neil 👻♥️👻👍📷🙏
Thank you Neil. Yes the bed levitating is odd and would be difficult to carry out. Also the fact Old Jeffrey came back many years later too. Thank you for your kind words and glad you enjoyed the video for sure 👻🙏🙋♀️
What a beautiful home. Another interesting case, Nicola. Nothing better than a ghostly tale told with a British accent. I’m in bed, waiting for my nighttime meds to kick in and listening to my favorite UA-cam channel.
I currently ministering in my mother's parish. When she was 13 years old she and her two brothers encountered a poltergeist in a old house, which is now ruined. Mum always says that she saw the ink pot move across the window sill, as well as the poker shaking in the coal bucket. A scotch man lived there for a short time, but everyone didn't trust him. Rumour has it he was a medium, the parish priest gave him money to go away. This was in 1959.
Oh wow thank you ever so much for sharing this. I am fascinated by this. How interesting to see what your mum saw. Was the Scottish man the medium or the priest? 👻🤔
Dear Nicola, Ah, nothing better than a hot cider with a little sherry in it on a Friday night with a new ghost casebook video from dear Nicola. This is a great epi, Nicola. Thanks! ❤alex from Ohio
This was amazing! I love how you're able to make me feel like I'm at the places you tell us about and you always deliver the experiences so well. Thank you again for yet another stellar story😊❤❤
Nothing better than hearing a ghost story in an English accent, well I concur, and I’m now becoming attracted to my own voice, jeez thanks, this is asmr stuff, honestly I could listen to this all night
Found your channel today. Absolutely fantastic. The history is presented so well and the imagery’s perfect. Have to say I binged watched a lot today. I suppose I like the idea of ghosts but I love the history of houses and people so it’s really right up my street. Thank you for your detailed and excellent work. All the best
Oh thank you ever so much and welcome! I hope you’ll find some of the other videos interesting too and it is always so nice to read other viewer’s stories and opinions. Welcome and thank you kindly 👻🙏🙋♀️
The strings-and-pulleys theory is just ridiculous. With as many people as resided in the house, It would be impossible for no one to have stumbled upon the hoax. I believe the tensions and unsettled emotions in the house may have attracted and fed whatever entity was responsible. Great video. Thanks!
Really interesting story with detailed research - I think Samuel Taylor-Coleridge was insightful about "contagious" belief in the haunting but my friend who also watched thought it was a genuine story of haunting. Thanks.
Hey Nicola great to see another great video and what a fantastic way to start off our St Patrick's weekend 😀 going to the gym shortly but I'll be looking forward to relaxing with your video later on. Thanks and hope you have a great weekend ❤.
Hi Nicola, awesome live ghost stories video. I enjoyed it. How are you doing? I'm doing well, and so is my cat Benjamin. We have spring-like weather in Ontario, Canada. How is the weather where you are? Benjamin and I always enjoy watching your videos. Have a great weekend. See you next video 😊
Wow, What a fantastic video, brilliant, really enjoyed this one, an amazing case. I was watching something on the Great British Ghosts series from the 1990's you might find interesting, there is a hotel in Ludlow, Shropshire, that is called the Feathers Hotel and has numerous ghosts, worth watching, but there is one outside the hotel where a girl in 1960's clothing, mini skirt and high boots, is seen to cross the road and pass through cars there, but the thing is that a woman in a different part of Britian says the spectre is her, she isstill alive of course, probally the stone tape theory!! I thought it was a great case too, keep up the great work Nicola, Val in Ireland.
Hi Val and thank you ever so much. I am so glad you enjoyed the video for sure. I do briefly remember the Great British Ghost series but I think I need to revisit it! So glad you are enjoying the videos for sure. All my dad’s side are from Cork! 🙏👻🙋♀️
Thank you for another interesting, well-researched, photographed, edited, and narrated video! It seems if it was a sophisticated system of pulleys, etc., that someone eventually would have stumbled upon one of the mechanisms as it would have to have been extensive to encompass the house and elaborate. Also, it's interesting that when someone scoffed at another for being frightened or disbelieved the story, then that person was targeted. Thank you! As always, your videos - short or long - make my day brighter!! Take care.
Interesting. All of it, not just the poltergeist. They're supposed to be attracted to, or manifested by adolescent energies, aren't they? I wonder if the youngsters there did have an effect - not consciously, of course. I love the way people kept saying - oh you're easily frightened. It won't scare me.......famous last words. Great episode. Thank you.
Poltergeist actively is often recorded around young people in their teens. I wonder if this was such a case given that there were several teens in the house. This sounds like a genuine poltergeist case, and the fact that another rector experienced similar disturbances some time later would suggest it had nothing to do with the Wesley family and more to do with something attached to the house.
Yes I am not sure quite what to make of this case really! I can see so many different points of view but what you’ve said it how I understand Poltergeist cases to operate. 🙏👻🙋♀️
Hi Nichola I’ve watched a few of your stories over the last couple of days since I discovered your channel, I really love the fascinating locations you’ve filmed at and the many different opinions given as to what happened This story particularly resonated with me as many of the experiences the residents experienced happened to me in a property I lived in for years! I have to say the idea the events were merely ‘manufactured’ by ‘pulleys’ Id find difficult to accept personally! Thank you so much for your fab contact I love your show! Valerie 👻
You are very welcome and I am so glad you enjoy the channel and the videos. The Epworth video was very interesting to make and research and it is interesting that Old Jeffrey returned years later. I think they just blamed Hetty because it was an easy option! 🙏👻
Sorry I’m a couple days behind. Thank you so much for all your work to bring us these excellent videos!! Honestly another great video!! Again thank you!!🙂🙂
This is very interesting. I have a lot of genealogical links to Epworth, so it is interesting to think my extended family may have been contemporaneously aware of this.
Thank you for this interesting video. I've just found your channel and I actually went to Epworth rectory museum with my parents in the 1980's as my mum was a member of the methodist church. I've never seen a ghost in my life but all I can say it was a hot day outside and we went upstairs and one of the rooms was freezing cold. This was the only place I've been that was supposed to be haunted that I thought was haunted. I didn't like that room at all. I've thought about the rectory many times over the year and tell people that is the only place I've felt was haunted.
Wow thank you so much for sharing your story. This is so interesting. I wonder if you were in the attic room that’s meant to be very active? I am so glad you have found the channel and please feel free to subscribe if you’d like 👻🙏🙋♀️
Glad to hear you again, been a while.😊 This is interesting, because there's a two pronged issue here. It's long known that religious buildings, (current, ruined and the land where they once stood) seem to contain energies that long persist. The second prong is the curious catalogue of cases of methodist sites that were and are haunted by perceived malevolent but definitely violent activity, a lot of investigators assaulted and hurt testify to this, this seems peculiar to these places from what I have read. Curious indeed.
Many thanks. I'd like to know more about when Old Jeffrey returned after the Wesley's were there which led to the that rector leaving, and if there has been any more recent incidents.
Fascinating story, thank you. You feature some great places and their ghosts. Do you have to get permission of the building owners before adding their stories?
Thank you so much. I have had to obtain permission to film before but the stories are in the public domain so it’s not usually a problem really. 👻🙋♀️🙏
@@ghostcasebook1266 yes, I see. The only reason I asked is I have visited a couple of famously haunted locations in the past and the manager completely shut me down and denied it when I asked them about it. I think it's a crazy attitude business wise given how popular haunted places are. It was the main reason I was there. If I was ever lucky enough to own such a place I would embrace it fully.
22:00;agreed,a distinct impossibility. Hetty had what we would call now,mediumistic tendencies. In the previous century she would have been nothing more than pretty kindling😕
As a subscribed member, I just have to take a moment to let you know how much I enjoy your work. I have a question, have you ever heard of any stories from Penzance Cornwall or Saint Michael’s Mount off it’s coast? That’s the area where my family is from. Thank you again very much.
What a lovely house and I do believe that something paranormal has happened. I lived in a very old haunted mansion house and not just me but friends and family witnessed things happening, spring loaded doors open fully, footsteps coming up the creaking stairs, taps turn on fully and in the kitchen was a instant boiling water machine as well as the standard hot and cold water taps and my girlfriend saw all 3taps turn on as we walked through the kitchen. Voices were commonly heard and lights would turn on/off. We all witnessed things, also the dog would growl an his fur would stand up and he would follow something around the room we were in. This happened in many rooms. I never saw a ghost but family members did. These things were not regular but sometimes they happened once or twice a week but then nothing for along time. Thanks for another great show 🎉.
Thank you for another extremely interesting and informative video. I always enjoy and appreciate the amount of detail you include in your accounts. I've often read that Hetty was to 'blame' for the alleged haunting but believe that if she was it was on a purely unconscious level. The fact that educated people allegedly witnessed phenomena would seem to point to the case being one linked to a genuine poltergeist. In line with many other poltergeist infestations Hetty would have been about the right age to be the focal point, especially as family tensions at the time (often linked with RSPKE phenomena) would be a significant attribute to the haunting. I am however surprised that any religious defense mounted by the Wesley's wasn't met with a more violent pushback mounted by the poltergeist as seen in many other cases, including the Bournemouth poltergeist. Each case is different though I suppose and whilst there will often be subtle differences between phenomena in poltergeist outbreaks, there will always be a greater degree of commonality it seems; almost as if poltergeists HAVE TO abide by a certain set of 'rules' in terms of how they manifest themselves. Very much looking forward to your next video and thank you once again.
Thank you so much for your kind comment and your thoughts on the Epworth poltergeist. It’s interesting, I think, that the poltergeist came back many years later could suggest Hetty was not the culprit. It really is a bizarre case! I’m glad you enjoyed it for sure 👻🙏🙋♀️
100% this. My thoughts exactly. Interesting point about any attempts to remove the entity usually results in more perhaps angrier poltergeist behaviour. .. I too suspect Hetti may have (subconsciously ) been a conduit creating a "pathway" into our realm. (Same applies to the Bromley poltergiest) .. Futher up into the beginning of the comments. someone visited Epworth in the 80s and felt the attic was very cold, suggesting that what spirit was conjured is perhaps still. there...? Definitely a creepy & weird story.
Hetty comes in for some seriously misogynistic hate in those accounts, imo. "just the kind of girl" what is that supposed to mean? The whole family was terrorized and, in a not so big house, where were all these strings and pulleys supposed to be?? Both Hetty and Old Jeffrey deserve more credit!
excellent narration; sounds like the Wesleys were experiencing something paranormal or as some suggest, the energy created unconsciously by adolescent female. Ive visited this place some years ago. Get the feeling the old property holds onto energies from the past
Thank you so much David and I wonder about the background of the haunting. I’m a bit lost as to where I stand on this one but I don’t believe Hetty had any form of machinery etc. 👻🙏🙋♀️
Glad you like them! Thank you ever so much! You are very generous and this really does help me to create more material for you so thank you again 👻🙏🙋♀️
This case bears a lot of similarities to the Bell Witch haunting in Kentucky, from a not-too-dissimilar time period. Y'might even call this "England's Bell Witch".
Since Epworth happened in 1716/1717 and Bell happened over a hundred years later in 1817-1821, I'd say the Bell Witch Haunting should be "The US's Epworth Poltergeist."
There must have been a lot of repressed anger due to Samuel Wesley's oppressive and domineering presence. Hettie sounds like the type of young woman who does attract poltergeist activity. Often sensitive and intelligent young women experience a lot of turmoil. Anything demonic can only feed off fear and anger.
Thank you so much for this; it is an interesting story and perhaps you are right, it could be repressed anger. There was even a hint at this when he didn’t believe the girls and they wanted their father to experience Old Jeffrey himself! 👻🙏🙋♀️
I've heard a theory on poltergeists that the puzzling events could be the result of escaped excess human energy from a living person, maybe under great stress of some kind. It seems like Hetty had a connection to it. I'd be curious to read some of her writings, especially the poetry. Her story was kind of sad, having been sent away by her domineering parents because of her love interest. She put herself through a lot for love. Frankly, I think her father was disliked by the community because he had miserable energy for a man of God. Thank you again for your hard work and talents. I really get inspired by these stories.
2:17;a real beautiful stone building that!It's similar to the property described by M.R.James in his famous ghost story 'Rats'.(Well it's certainly how I imagine it anyway). 👀&👂!!!!!!!...
I think it was paranormal and centred, as such things do, on a young girl who was an unwitting receptacle. I live not far away and must visit this quite large house.
Love this story. It sounds like a good old ghost story - a classic. Love classic ghost stories weather there real or not. A good story is a good story. ❤ The fact that ‘Old Jeffery’, in the nineteenth century, makes hard to just simply dismiss out of hand.
Spooky and you tell it like a master storyteller. You make it so believable! However, I was startled to see that maid checking her mobile phone while she was churning the butter! I keep a very open mind about the paranormal. I always said i didn't really believe, but since saying that I've had several rattling experiences that makes me even more unsure. Whatever this was, it was certainly unsettling for this family.
Wow, thank you! I am so glad you enjoyed the video. I think she was looking at a book to be honest! I liked the little cat making the most of an opportunity! 🐱👻
After all this time, I think it's next to impossible to know what actually happened. It's even possible the whole story was fabricated for some long-forgotten reason. Whatever the answer, it's a good story very well presented. 🙂👍
There is a school of thought that posits every poltergeist [well 99%] menace a house that contains one or more young girls, and is attracted by their puberty/menstruation starting, weirdly.
Skeptics thought Hetty produced the haunting because she didn't write it down? Unbelievable! Since all of the family had experiences, I doubt we could suspect just her. I, especially, wouldn't take the doubts of an Edwardian man who probably thought it was all due to hysterical women. The situation with the village sounds tense. I wonder what was really driving it.
Very interesting! Thank you! As with other poltergeist occurrences, I really don’t know what to think… supernatural, or human contrived? I am only happy that my home is a quiet one! 😉
I can't bring myself to believe that in that day and time, a young girl being strictly raised would have access to the materials and technical knowledge to pull off a scam of that nature without anyone finding her out.
It is great that you put in the History of the Area and also the people involved. But to blame Hetty as the perpetrator of any of the events is just unfair, I am unsure as to why she was seen that way but unfair it was. As for the apparatus that would have been required to create the knocking and banging, would have been difficult, at the least, to put into place and nobody noticed? But rebelling against her Father I really don't know but what was her motivation? But I am going to stick with Old Jeffery. As it's easier to believe in his involvement rather than Earthly based Hetty being a Rebellious 19year old, Enemies of the Father of the Household. Anyway Thanks Again for a Masterful Episode. All of you have a great weekend, see you soon. TTFN. Oh before I forget, if any of you Guys and Gals are planning on being anywhere near the M25, Junctions 10-11 this weekend don't, that section of the M25 will be closed 9 o'clock tonight until Monday Morning. Don't want to think of any of you getting snarled up in the Mess. TTFN
I agree; it is very easy to point the finger of blame at a teenage girl, rather unfairly. I am so glad you’ve enjoyed the video. Thank you about the M25 but I am well away from the chaos! 👻🙏
On two occasions, years apart and in two unconnected locations, I have experienced a feeling of being brushed past when nothing or no one had been there accompanied by a feeling like that of static electrical tingle. I'm unable to make any account or put a meaning to it. All I can say is that on both occasions, the phenomina was outside of me.
@ghostcasebook1266 Yes, I tend to lean toward being more inclined than not to accept that there is something beyond the veil. One of the two instances I mentioned occurred whilst I was browsing a preview day of antiques and collectibles at an auction house in London. I was in conversation with a member of staff when handling an item I had requested to examine more closely. It was then that I felt this sensation of being brushed past. I immediately looked behind me. There was none near me. I told the member of staff. She said, it happens all the time! It really comes as little suprise as items of personal sentimental value of people who have quite recently passed on are sold. Regards
I believe it's true. Could be related to a coven or ajust one witch. Having seen materializions, some are more sensitive to it. Also family members could have been affected emotionally by other members. I vote true.
I thought that the daughter who declared there was no point running because it would run faster was clearly very brave,…..or used to being bullied. Their father sounds absolutely terrible. I feel very bad for the lady of the house having to put up with him. 19 children is unreasonable for a start. What a sad situation all round. No wonder the locals wanted them gone. I know nothing about religion, but if the leaders family and servants are that miserable it can’t be a good start.
Wow, thanks. Everything I've ever read about poltergeists says that they derive power by accessing untapped sexual energy from children, teens and young adults. Perhaps Hetty was particularly frustrated and gave off such energy. If she was as unpleasant as suggested by an acquaintance, she may have just decided not to play along with the family decision to "witness" such things. Or perhaps it was an actual ghost, and she had an understanding with Old Geoffrey!
I believe Hetty eloped in her adult life and was perhaps a bit defiant of her parents, but I am not 100%. I think it is a fascinating story with so many opinions and theories. Glad you enjoyed the video for sure. 👻🙏🙋♀️
My ex husband and, obviously, our daughter are descended from Samuel Wesley. Cannot wait to show them this. Xxx
Hi, were you aware of this activity in the house before this video?
Oh wow that’s fantastic. 👻🙏
I grew up in Epworth and the Old Rectory has always been a fascination of mine especially with old jeffery, everytime i walk past i get the shivers and i swear i have seen the curtains to the left side of the house moving before.
That photo of the kitty licking cream out of the butter churn was absolutely priceless!!!!❤
I noticed him too😂
Me too.
Yes I had to include that little fellow! So cute 🐱💕
A beautiful house and fascinating tale. The dog, the levitating bed and the shoving sound paranormal and difficult if not impossible, for some kind of trickery. Now it is a museum I wonder if anybody has had any ghostly experiences there. Great video, thanks for your work, so enjoyable.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you ever so much. I don’t know what to think really! 👻🙏
@@ghostcasebook1266do you have any ghost stories from Yorkshire
OMG I grew up with these tales! I’m from the village right next door. Used to work in The Old School Inn and went to school in Epworth! Thank You for sharing these stories!
You are very welcome and thank you 👻🙋♀️🙏
Great story! I've heard of the Epworth Rectory Poltergeist, but learned new things from you about it. And I love listening to your stories as I go to sleep.
As to why or what it was, I'm wondering if it was the energy from the entire village's hate aimed at them, made worse by the family's multiple tragedies of children dying and father going to the poor house. Not to mention the father being a royal jerk to his wife. If he stayed away from his pregnant wife for a year for something so minor, I bet he was rather difficult to live with daily, and that type of tension would put everyone constantly on edge.
Since poltergeists are theorized to be the result of heightened emotional energy of some type, from people living in the affected house or nearby, that would track. Or maybe it was an aggregor, a being caused by multiple people's beliefs in it. Someone "plants a seed" of belief (in this case, of a demon), others hear it and start believing in it, thinking about it often, "growing" it 'til it becomes strong enough with enough energy to affect things physically.
Whatever it was, it's an interesting story. I feel for the family, especially the women who were blamed. Thanks for bringing us the story.
Glad you enjoyed the story! It is an interesting one being so historic, I think. Lots of different theories! 🙏👻
What a gorgeous building.
It’s difficult to comprehend how Hetti could manufacture the levitating of a bed, or physically push someone. As for the theory of ropes, pulley’s and weights. It’s a bit of a non starter for several reasons.
There is no doubt in my mind this was supernatural, plain and simple.
Superbly constructed video Nicola, beautiful narration; well done young lady, well done.
You take care.
Neil 👻♥️👻👍📷🙏
Thank you Neil. Yes the bed levitating is odd and would be difficult to carry out. Also the fact Old Jeffrey came back many years later too. Thank you for your kind words and glad you enjoyed the video for sure 👻🙏🙋♀️
I appreciate original content creators more and more ! It's again superb editing and thrilling storytelling 💯👍
Thank you so much 😀 Tom. Glad you enjoyed the video 👻🙋♀️🙏
What a beautiful home. Another interesting case, Nicola. Nothing better than a ghostly tale told with a British accent. I’m in bed, waiting for my nighttime meds to kick in and listening to my favorite UA-cam channel.
Glad you enjoyed it and I hope you got to sleep ok in the end. Thank you kindly 👻🙏🙋♀️
Amazing tale--and very sturdy folk fighting back. and well recorded.
Thank you so much 👻🙏🙋♀️
What a fascinating tale. How horrible for the family I don’t know what to think about first ! Thank you Nicola. I so enjoyed your video.
Glad you enjoyed it And thank you! 👻🙏🙋♀️
Fascinating 🎉I love the atmospheric music on your films too ❤
Oh thank you so much 🙏👻
I currently ministering in my mother's parish. When she was 13 years old she and her two brothers encountered a poltergeist in a old house, which is now ruined. Mum always says that she saw the ink pot move across the window sill, as well as the poker shaking in the coal bucket. A scotch man lived there for a short time, but everyone didn't trust him. Rumour has it he was a medium, the parish priest gave him money to go away. This was in 1959.
Oh wow thank you ever so much for sharing this. I am fascinated by this. How interesting to see what your mum saw. Was the Scottish man the medium or the priest? 👻🤔
May you never run out of shost stories, spooks and haunts. Enjoyed the episode very much.
You are very welcome 👻🙏
Dear Nicola,
Ah, nothing better than a hot cider with a little sherry in it on a Friday night with a new ghost casebook video from dear Nicola.
This is a great epi, Nicola. Thanks!
❤alex from Ohio
Sounds great! Thank you Alex from Ohio! Glad you enjoyed the video for sure 👻🙏
Hot cider and sherry?
This was amazing! I love how you're able to make me feel like I'm at the places you tell us about and you always deliver the experiences so well. Thank you again for yet another stellar story😊❤❤
Wow thank you Kim. This means a lot 👻🙋♀️
@@ghostcasebook1266 you're welcome darlin. 😊
Here here💯👍 Nicola has a great voice for Ghost tales🎉
I have to agree.
Good story telling and some ery background music to set the tone.
Thank you kindly 👻
Nothing better than hearing a ghost story in an English accent, well I concur, and I’m now becoming attracted to my own voice, jeez thanks, this is asmr stuff, honestly I could listen to this all night
Oh wow thank you ever so much! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos. 👻🙋♀️🙏
Found your channel today. Absolutely fantastic. The history is presented so well and the imagery’s perfect. Have to say I binged watched a lot today. I suppose I like the idea of ghosts but I love the history of houses and people so it’s really right up my street. Thank you for your detailed and excellent work. All the best
Oh thank you ever so much and welcome! I hope you’ll find some of the other videos interesting too and it is always so nice to read other viewer’s stories and opinions. Welcome and thank you kindly 👻🙏🙋♀️
My sentiments exactly!
Always a great day when a new video from you drops! Thank you and hope you had lovely travels.
You are very kind and this means a great deal to me and the channel. Bless you and yes indeed I am still on my travels 👻🙏🙋♀️
The strings-and-pulleys theory is just ridiculous. With as many people as resided in the house, It would be impossible for no one to have stumbled upon the hoax. I believe the tensions and unsettled emotions in the house may have attracted and fed whatever entity was responsible. Great video. Thanks!
I agree; I don’t buy the strings story either. Glad you enjoyed the video for sure 🙋♀️👻
Awesome video Nichola.❤👍👍
Thank you 🤗
Really interesting story with detailed research - I think Samuel Taylor-Coleridge was insightful about "contagious" belief in the haunting but my friend who also watched thought it was a genuine story of haunting. Thanks.
You are very welcome and it was a very interesting case for sure! I wonder if it was genuine or contagious belief. Thank you so much 👻🙋♀️🙏
Thank you for another wonderful upload,it’s fantastic how you transport your viewers back in time and actually make it seem like we’re there 😬😬🙏🏻
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and I’m so glad you enjoyed the video and this historic haunting for sure. 👻🙏🙋♀️
Hey Nicola great to see another great video and what a fantastic way to start off our St Patrick's weekend 😀 going to the gym shortly but I'll be looking forward to relaxing with your video later on. Thanks and hope you have a great weekend ❤.
Oh thank you so much! Happy St Patrick’s day to you and all my Irish friends 👻🙋♀️🙏
Very interesting and creepy story, Nicola! 👻👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you Don 👻🙏
An absolutely perfect presentation of a fascinating story. Thank you for sharing 💚
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much Chris 👻🙏🙋♀️
Thank you again Nicola,a really well presented and atmospheric story,an absolute delight x
Glad you enjoyed it Quentin and thank you so much 🙏🙋♀️
Hi Nicola, awesome live ghost stories video. I enjoyed it. How are you doing? I'm doing well, and so is my cat Benjamin. We have spring-like weather in Ontario, Canada. How is the weather where you are? Benjamin and I always enjoy watching your videos. Have a great weekend. See you next video 😊
Hi Michelle, I’m well thank you, It is raining with me today but I hope you are both well 👻🙋♀️😸
Wow, What a fantastic video, brilliant, really enjoyed this one, an amazing case. I was watching something on the Great British Ghosts series from the 1990's you might find interesting, there is a hotel in Ludlow, Shropshire, that is called the Feathers Hotel and has numerous ghosts, worth watching, but there is one outside the hotel where a girl in 1960's clothing, mini skirt and high boots, is seen to cross the road and pass through cars there, but the thing is that a woman in a different part of Britian says the spectre is her, she isstill alive of course, probally the stone tape theory!! I thought it was a great case too, keep up the great work Nicola, Val in Ireland.
Hi Val and thank you ever so much. I am so glad you enjoyed the video for sure. I do briefly remember the Great British Ghost series but I think I need to revisit it! So glad you are enjoying the videos for sure. All my dad’s side are from Cork! 🙏👻🙋♀️
Great narration, research and presentation Nicola. Well done Hunny 🤩🤗
Thanks so much! 😊
Thank you for another interesting, well-researched, photographed, edited, and narrated video! It seems if it was a sophisticated system of pulleys, etc., that someone eventually would have stumbled upon one of the mechanisms as it would have to have been extensive to encompass the house and elaborate. Also, it's interesting that when someone scoffed at another for being frightened or disbelieved the story, then that person was targeted. Thank you! As always, your videos - short or long - make my day brighter!! Take care.
Thank you ever so much Laura and glad you enjoyed the video. Yes I’m not sure about the pulleys theory at all! 👻🙏🙋♀️
Interesting. All of it, not just the poltergeist. They're supposed to be attracted to, or manifested by adolescent energies, aren't they? I wonder if the youngsters there did have an effect - not consciously, of course. I love the way people kept saying - oh you're easily frightened. It won't scare me.......famous last words. Great episode. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this case. It is an interesting story with all sorts of factors that could explain it. Bizarre. 👻🙏🙋♀️
Poltergeist actively is often recorded around young people in their teens. I wonder if this was such a case given that there were several teens in the house.
This sounds like a genuine poltergeist case, and the fact that another rector experienced similar disturbances some time later would suggest it had nothing to do with the Wesley family and more to do with something attached to the house.
Yes I am not sure quite what to make of this case really! I can see so many different points of view but what you’ve said it how I understand Poltergeist cases to operate. 🙏👻🙋♀️
I always enjoy your videos. Well researched and excellently put together. Keep up the good work
Glad you like them! Thank you so much 🙏👻🙋♀️
Loved this story 🖤
Hi Nichola
I’ve watched a few of your stories over the last couple of days since I discovered your channel, I really love the fascinating locations you’ve filmed at and the many different opinions given as to what happened
This story particularly resonated with me as many of the experiences the residents experienced happened to me in a property I lived in for years!
I have to say the idea the events were merely ‘manufactured’ by ‘pulleys’ Id find difficult to accept personally!
Thank you so much for your fab contact I love your show!
Valerie 👻
You are very welcome and I am so glad you enjoy the channel and the videos. The Epworth video was very interesting to make and research and it is interesting that Old Jeffrey returned years later. I think they just blamed Hetty because it was an easy option! 🙏👻
As always I appreciate your presentations on these most interesting subjects.
Glad you like them! Thank you 👻🙏🤔
Sorry I’m a couple days behind. Thank you so much for all your work to bring us these excellent videos!! Honestly another great video!! Again thank you!!🙂🙂
No worries! I’m all over the shop at the moment as I’m abroad but I am really glad you enjoyed the video for sure 👻🙏🙋♀️
This is very interesting. I have a lot of genealogical links to Epworth, so it is interesting to think my extended family may have been contemporaneously aware of this.
Thanks for sharing! That’s interesting. The locals were very wary in those days, I think! 👻🙏🙋♀️
Thanks!
Thank you ever so much. You are very kind and I am glad you enjoy the content so much 👻🙏🙋♀️
Thank you for this interesting video. I've just found your channel and I actually went to Epworth rectory museum with my parents in the 1980's as my mum was a member of the methodist church. I've never seen a ghost in my life but all I can say it was a hot day outside and we went upstairs and one of the rooms was freezing cold. This was the only place I've been that was supposed to be haunted that I thought was haunted. I didn't like that room at all. I've thought about the rectory many times over the year and tell people that is the only place I've felt was haunted.
Wow thank you so much for sharing your story. This is so interesting. I wonder if you were in the attic room that’s meant to be very active? I am so glad you have found the channel and please feel free to subscribe if you’d like 👻🙏🙋♀️
@@ghostcasebook1266 It was the attic room. I was a bit nervous in there.
Wow this is great real time information.
It's interesting that the attic felt cold.
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Perhaps this leads credence the story.
Thanks for sharing.
Glad your back excellent stuff as always 👍
Thanks again! 👻🙏
Glad to hear you again, been a while.😊
This is interesting, because there's a two pronged issue here.
It's long known that religious buildings, (current, ruined and the land where they once stood) seem to contain energies that long persist.
The second prong is the curious catalogue of cases of methodist sites that were and are haunted by perceived malevolent but definitely violent activity, a lot of investigators assaulted and hurt testify to this, this seems peculiar to these places from what I have read.
Curious indeed.
Thank you ever so much indeed for this. That’s very interesting about Methodist Sites. I didn’t know that. 🙋♀️🙏👻
Thanks for another fasinating video Nicola.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much 👻🙋♀️
Excellent as always ❤😊
Thank you so much 😀👻
Many thanks. I'd like to know more about when Old Jeffrey returned after the Wesley's were there which led to the that rector leaving, and if there has been any more recent incidents.
Yes apparently he did return. I wonder if the staff have experienced anything there too 🙏👻
great video, thank you
Glad you liked it! ❤
Beautifully narrated !!🩷
I guess they would never call a priest...much less a medium..
Thank you ever so much 👻🙏
Fascinating story, thank you. You feature some great places and their ghosts. Do you have to get permission of the building owners before adding their stories?
Thank you so much. I have had to obtain permission to film before but the stories are in the public domain so it’s not usually a problem really. 👻🙋♀️🙏
@@ghostcasebook1266 yes, I see. The only reason I asked is I have visited a couple of famously haunted locations in the past and the manager completely shut me down and denied it when I asked them about it. I think it's a crazy attitude business wise given how popular haunted places are. It was the main reason I was there. If I was ever lucky enough to own such a place I would embrace it fully.
22:00;agreed,a distinct impossibility.
Hetty had what we would call now,mediumistic tendencies.
In the previous century she would have been nothing more than pretty kindling😕
As a subscribed member, I just have to take a moment to let you know how much I enjoy your work. I have a question, have you ever heard of any stories from Penzance Cornwall or Saint Michael’s Mount off it’s coast? That’s the area where my family is from. Thank you again very much.
Thank you ever so much! Yes I have and actually I was just looking at some stories from there in the last few days. It is firmly on the list 👻🙏🙋♀️
What a lovely house and I do believe that something paranormal has happened. I lived in a very old haunted mansion house and not just me but friends and family witnessed things happening, spring loaded doors open fully, footsteps coming up the creaking stairs, taps turn on fully and in the kitchen was a instant boiling water machine as well as the standard hot and cold water taps and my girlfriend saw all 3taps turn on as we walked through the kitchen. Voices were commonly heard and lights would turn on/off. We all witnessed things, also the dog would growl an his fur would stand up and he would follow something around the room we were in. This happened in many rooms. I never saw a ghost but family members did. These things were not regular but sometimes they happened once or twice a week but then nothing for along time. Thanks for another great show 🎉.
Thank you for another extremely interesting and informative video. I always enjoy and appreciate the amount of detail you include in your accounts. I've often read that Hetty was to 'blame' for the alleged haunting but believe that if she was it was on a purely unconscious level. The fact that educated people allegedly witnessed phenomena would seem to point to the case being one linked to a genuine poltergeist. In line with many other poltergeist infestations Hetty would have been about the right age to be the focal point, especially as family tensions at the time (often linked with RSPKE phenomena) would be a significant attribute to the haunting. I am however surprised that any religious defense mounted by the Wesley's wasn't met with a more violent pushback mounted by the poltergeist as seen in many other cases, including the Bournemouth poltergeist. Each case is different though I suppose and whilst there will often be subtle differences between phenomena in poltergeist outbreaks, there will always be a greater degree of commonality it seems; almost as if poltergeists HAVE TO abide by a certain set of 'rules' in terms of how they manifest themselves. Very much looking forward to your next video and thank you once again.
Thank you so much for your kind comment and your thoughts on the Epworth poltergeist. It’s interesting, I think, that the poltergeist came back many years later could suggest Hetty was not the culprit. It really is a bizarre case! I’m glad you enjoyed it for sure 👻🙏🙋♀️
100% this.
My thoughts exactly.
Interesting point about any attempts to remove the entity usually results in more perhaps angrier poltergeist behaviour.
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I too suspect Hetti may have
(subconsciously )
been a conduit creating a "pathway" into our realm.
(Same applies to the Bromley poltergiest)
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Futher up into the beginning of the comments.
someone visited Epworth in the 80s and felt the attic was very cold, suggesting that what spirit was conjured is perhaps still. there...?
Definitely a creepy & weird story.
Hetty comes in for some seriously misogynistic hate in those accounts, imo. "just the kind of girl" what is that supposed to mean? The whole family was terrorized and, in a not so big house, where were all these strings and pulleys supposed to be?? Both Hetty and Old Jeffrey deserve more credit!
Yes. I am with you on that. If in doubt, blame the girl. Very much the way of that time and to a degree, even today! 🙄
Thank you for another superb and intriguing video! ❤👻
Thank you so much 👻🙏
Hi Nicole thank you for another great article, I would love to encounter a ghostly haunting as nothing exciting happens to me love Kim xx
Hi Kim, well I hope one day something might happen, probably when you least expect it! Take care Kim 👻🙏🙋♀️
excellent narration; sounds like the Wesleys were experiencing something paranormal or as some suggest, the energy created unconsciously by adolescent female. Ive visited this place some years ago. Get the feeling the old property holds onto energies from the past
Thank you so much David and I wonder about the background of the haunting. I’m a bit lost as to where I stand on this one but I don’t believe Hetty had any form of machinery etc. 👻🙏🙋♀️
Appreciate the longer videos! 👻🤍
Glad you like them! Thank you ever so much! You are very generous and this really does help me to create more material for you so thank you again 👻🙏🙋♀️
@@ghostcasebook1266 I have now officially watched every single one of your videos! Despite that, I still learn something new when I replay them.
Very interesting account. Thank you.
Thank you for watching 👻🙏🙋♀️
This case bears a lot of similarities to the Bell Witch haunting in Kentucky, from a not-too-dissimilar time period. Y'might even call this "England's Bell Witch".
Since Epworth happened in 1716/1717 and Bell happened over a hundred years later in 1817-1821, I'd say the Bell Witch Haunting should be "The US's Epworth Poltergeist."
Thank you for your story ❤
You are very welcome 👻🙏🙋♀️
Excellent once again Nic-oh-la!
thank you.😊
☮️🩵🖖🏻✝️♾️🕉🪬⚛️
Thank you mad Ian! 👻🙏
If it had been a pulley system, wouldn't they have found some evidence of those when renovating or repairing the building?
I would think so. It would be a lot of effort to create that without being detected! 👻🙏
Great video Nicola. I have been unwell, but okay now, take care.
Oh hope you are on the mend now Lance. I hate being ill. It seems so unfair! 🙏👻🙋♀️
I am now germ free, hoorayyyyy Thank you for your Lovely reply.@@ghostcasebook1266
Loved your narration! Your voice is very calming.
Oh thank you ever so much. I’m glad you are enjoying the videos 👻🙏🙋♀️
Never been so early before but it makes my day!
Oh wow thank you so much 👻🙋♀️🙏
There must have been a lot of repressed anger due to Samuel Wesley's oppressive and domineering presence. Hettie sounds like the type of young woman who does attract poltergeist activity. Often sensitive and intelligent young women experience a lot of turmoil. Anything demonic can only feed off fear and anger.
Thank you so much for this; it is an interesting story and perhaps you are right, it could be repressed anger. There was even a hint at this when he didn’t believe the girls and they wanted their father to experience Old Jeffrey himself! 👻🙏🙋♀️
Another great story!
Thank you so much 👻🙏🙋♀️
I've heard a theory on poltergeists that the puzzling events could be the result of escaped excess human energy from a living person, maybe under great stress of some kind. It seems like Hetty had a connection to it. I'd be curious to read some of her writings, especially the poetry. Her story was kind of sad, having been sent away by her domineering parents because of her love interest. She put herself through a lot for love. Frankly, I think her father was disliked by the community because he had miserable energy for a man of God. Thank you again for your hard work and talents. I really get inspired by these stories.
I tend to agree.
Perhaps Hetti was the conduit allowing old Jeffrey a pathway into our realm?
Thank you ever so much and I’m am so glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for sharing your thought too 👻🙏🙋♀️
the classic story well retold, thanks
Thank you so much! 👻🙏
2:17;a real beautiful stone building that!It's similar to the property described by M.R.James in his famous ghost story 'Rats'.(Well it's certainly how I imagine it anyway).
👀&👂!!!!!!!...
I enjoyed this very frightening for that family though thank you 👏👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it and it is a bit of a mad case to be honest! 👻🙏🙋♀️
Great video.
Thank you so much. 🙏🙋♀️
I think it was paranormal and centred, as such things do, on a young girl who was an unwitting receptacle. I live not far away and must visit this quite large house.
Oh please do and report back if you can! I’d love to know more. Thank you so much 👻🙏🙋♀️
Love this story. It sounds like a good old ghost story - a classic. Love classic ghost stories weather there real or not. A good story is a good story. ❤
The fact that ‘Old Jeffery’, in the nineteenth century, makes hard to just simply dismiss out of hand.
Yes, that adds to the mystery. I liked this old story too 👻🙏🙋♀️
Spooky and you tell it like a master storyteller. You make it so believable! However, I was startled to see that maid checking her mobile phone while she was churning the butter! I keep a very open mind about the paranormal. I always said i didn't really believe, but since saying that I've had several rattling experiences that makes me even more unsure. Whatever this was, it was certainly unsettling for this family.
Wow, thank you! I am so glad you enjoyed the video. I think she was looking at a book to be honest! I liked the little cat making the most of an opportunity! 🐱👻
Thank you for another fantastic video! From New Zealand
Thank you for watching my friend 🙏👻🙋♀️
This is great! Old Jeffrey certainly had time on his ghostly hands! Amazing episode.👻☠️👻💀👻☠️
Thank you so much James. Yes it was all a bit bizarre! 🙏🙋♀️👻
After all this time, I think it's next to impossible to know what actually happened. It's even possible the whole story was fabricated for some long-forgotten reason.
Whatever the answer, it's a good story very well presented. 🙂👍
I agree, we won’t know but I was interested that it returned in the 1800s. I am so glad you enjoyed the video 👻🙋♀️
fantastic video😊
Thank you so much indeed 👻🙏
Interesting tales of ghosts
Thank you ever so much. Glad you enjoyed it 👻🙏🙋♀️
Thanks again. Love from NZ.
My pleasure! 👻🙏
There is a school of thought that posits every poltergeist [well 99%] menace a house that contains one or more young girls, and is attracted by their puberty/menstruation starting, weirdly.
Yes indeed, so I hear. That is often the case 👻🙏🙋♀️
1:21;Definitely were both a bit shonky if their portraits are anything to go by!
18:11;there layeth the answer methinks.Thankyou Nic-oh-la 😊👍🏻
You may be right! 👻🙋♀️🙏
"...let the devil flee from me! I will not flee from the devil!" A steadfast determination to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ !!
Yes I can imagine him shouting it whilst hitting the floor with his cane! 👻🙋♀️
Skeptics thought Hetty produced the haunting because she didn't write it down? Unbelievable! Since all of the family had experiences, I doubt we could suspect just her. I, especially, wouldn't take the doubts of an Edwardian man who probably thought it was all due to hysterical women. The situation with the village sounds tense. I wonder what was really driving it.
Yes it’s easy to blame one person, ideally a girl right? 👻🙏🙋♀️
Excelant case again love watching them
Thank you ever so much indeed. It’s an old case but still interesting. 👻🙋♀️🙏
Very interesting! Thank you! As with other poltergeist occurrences, I really don’t know what to think… supernatural, or human contrived? I am only happy that my home is a quiet one! 😉
Glad you enjoyed it and I am the same. I don’t know what to think! 👻🙏🙋♀️
I can't bring myself to believe that in that day and time, a young girl being strictly raised would have access to the materials and technical knowledge to pull off a scam of that nature without anyone finding her out.
As lad, knew a Wesley. Reddish hair, tall, lean, piercing intellect, but could be beaten on the chess board, after gruelling and tiring endeavour.
It’s my sister’s Dachshund’s name 😊
Read the Epworth haunting in a book not long ago, was planning to visit aswell.
Yes please report back if you find out anything else on it for sure 👻🙏🙋♀️
It is great that you put in the History of the Area and also the people involved.
But to blame Hetty as the perpetrator of any of the events is just unfair, I am unsure as to why she was seen that way but unfair it was. As for the apparatus that would have been required to create the knocking and banging, would have been difficult, at the least, to put into place and nobody noticed? But rebelling against her Father I really don't know but what was her motivation?
But I am going to stick with Old Jeffery. As it's easier to believe in his involvement rather than Earthly based Hetty being a Rebellious 19year old, Enemies of the Father of the Household.
Anyway Thanks Again for a Masterful Episode. All of you have a great weekend, see you soon. TTFN.
Oh before I forget, if any of you Guys and Gals are planning on being anywhere near the M25, Junctions 10-11 this weekend don't, that section of the M25 will be closed 9 o'clock tonight until Monday Morning. Don't want to think of any of you getting snarled up in the Mess.
TTFN
I agree; it is very easy to point the finger of blame at a teenage girl, rather unfairly. I am so glad you’ve enjoyed the video. Thank you about the M25 but I am well away from the chaos! 👻🙏
On two occasions, years apart and in two unconnected locations, I have experienced a feeling of being brushed past when nothing or no one had been there accompanied by a feeling like that of static electrical tingle.
I'm unable to make any account or put a meaning to it. All I can say is that on both occasions, the phenomina was outside of me.
Oh wow thank you Philip! That’s so interesting and a bit freaky! 🙏👻
@ghostcasebook1266
Yes, I tend to lean toward being more inclined than not to accept that there is something beyond the veil.
One of the two instances I mentioned occurred whilst I was browsing a preview day of antiques and collectibles at an auction house in London.
I was in conversation with a member of staff when handling an item I had requested to examine more closely.
It was then that I felt this sensation of being brushed past. I immediately looked behind me. There was none near me.
I told the member of staff. She said, it happens all the time!
It really comes as little suprise as items of personal sentimental value of people who have quite recently passed on are sold.
Regards
I believe it's true. Could be related to a coven or ajust one witch. Having seen materializions, some are more sensitive to it. Also family members could have been affected emotionally by other members. I vote true.
Thank you for sharing. It is a strange case for sure 🙋♀️👻🙏
Wow. Just in time.
Hooray! 👻🙋♀️
I thought that the daughter who declared there was no point running because it would run faster was clearly very brave,…..or used to being bullied. Their father sounds absolutely terrible. I feel very bad for the lady of the house having to put up with him. 19 children is unreasonable for a start. What a sad situation all round. No wonder the locals wanted them gone. I know nothing about religion, but if the leaders family and servants are that miserable it can’t be a good start.
IKR.
19 children.
Poor women must have been constantly pregnant throughout her life..
Yes indeed. She was brave but I can imagine it not being a terribly happy home! 👻🙏🙋♀️
And how would Hettie make beds levitate?
Yes, I wondered that too. 🤔
Thankyou 🖤 🖤
You’re welcome 😊
Wow, thanks. Everything I've ever read about poltergeists says that they derive power by accessing untapped sexual energy from children, teens and young adults. Perhaps Hetty was particularly frustrated and gave off such energy. If she was as unpleasant as suggested by an acquaintance, she may have just decided not to play along with the family decision to "witness" such things. Or perhaps it was an actual ghost, and she had an understanding with Old Geoffrey!
I believe Hetty eloped in her adult life and was perhaps a bit defiant of her parents, but I am not 100%. I think it is a fascinating story with so many opinions and theories. Glad you enjoyed the video for sure. 👻🙏🙋♀️