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!
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
@@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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was once in Sainsbury's near Prestbury and was busy going through the clothes sale rail when all of a sudden I was viscously grabbed from behind I swung round about to slap whoever it was only... nobody was there, I ran to the end of the aisle and nobody in sight! It shook me up I tell you! On a number of occasions when I've been in my Grans house in Prestbury I have seen a lady walk into the dining room which was never used, or walking past the living room door only to jump up to check and you guessed it, nobody there...
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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 .
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
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
Back in 1975 i had just left my girlfriends house and was walking home at 3am. as i passed St Annes House in Pitville Circus Road i heard an ear piercing scream come from the direction of the front door, but could see nothing there. i got a spurt on after that, i can tell you. never did find out what it was. another famous ghost in Cheltenham is the ghost of Hester, relating to the Hesters Way area of the town.
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.
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.'
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!
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
@@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!
What a romantic way to describe our town. Love this.
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.
I couldn't agree more!
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.
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.
Fascinating! Anything else?
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My parents bought a house on Prestbury Road in the early 70's we had our fair share of experiences there.
I remember hearing a horse man riding lived very close to prestbury not all the time but now and again
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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
Ooooooooooo going to a talk on Cleeve Hill later .
We live out here in Prestbury ,very much haunted .
Love your work , your voice is very calming and your narration is brilliant. 🌹
Agree 👍
Great production values. Very well narrated. Love this channel. Thank you.❤
Thanks for sharing these spooky stories. 😉
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.
Love your tales, your voice is so unique. Do you do TV work? If not you should!
And/or audiobooks (Ghosty ones)
Please come and visit Worcester!
I was once in Sainsbury's near Prestbury and was busy going through the clothes sale rail when all of a sudden I was viscously grabbed from behind I swung round about to slap whoever it was only... nobody was there, I ran to the end of the aisle and nobody in sight! It shook me up I tell you! On a number of occasions when I've been in my Grans house in Prestbury I have seen a lady walk into the dining room which was never used, or walking past the living room door only to jump up to check and you guessed it, nobody there...
There are no supermarkets in Prestbury.
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
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Love love ur videos and that heavy mysterious feel .. Truely spooks u
Love re-watching all the time. Great voice! ❤❤
I live in Cheltenham! Looks like I've got some new places to visit. Thank you!
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.
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
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
Great video, I live in charlton kings Cheltenham
I lived in CK in the mid 70’s
more please Robin 🙏 keep up the spooky stuff 👻💙💚
like the John Hurt tones
You definitely deserve more subs! Liked and Subbed 👍👍
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
Thank you for all the work you put into your beautiful videos. 💚
Great story telling voice. Bravo 👏
Hi Robin, very very well done. Beautiful storytelling and fiming. Excellent. Thanks
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.
Love this!!!! Keep them coming! Awesome job! 💓💓💓 It's in your voice... 😍🥰🤩
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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.
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.
Been living in prestbury for a year. Just watched this, now I'm terrified 🤣🤣🤣
i live in prestbury and i have heard these
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
The clock on church was the same time for me in real life watching video 11:36.. 😮
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.
The shot just after it is Chipping Campden, so I suspect the stone tower is somewhere else entirely.
I have lived at garden reach/st annes for 18 years.
Great stuff! Many thanks :)
Down with the Roundheads, up the Cavaliers up the King.
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.
I think he actually has audiobooks.
@@cindchan Hi. I found 'A Christmas Carol' on COTSWOLD EXPLORER . Do you know of any others?
Robin does indeed narrate audiobooks, there's a whole collection of ghost stories here: cotswoldshop.co.uk/collections/audiobooks
@@ghostlytrails That's great1 Thank you. 🙂
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@sphynxster06 nice to know I didn’t pass up a bargain for nothing!
Amen.
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 .
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
i live here currently and its a very spooky village at night but all the people are lovely
Please do Worcester/Worcestershire!
Great video one correction its Bella's Knap as in the ladies name Bella 😊
Very enjoyable video!! You have a lovely voice to listen to! New subscriber here! ❤
You should take me on a ghost tour around cheltenham, im into all that spooky stuff 😂
I would love to live in the country side
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
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So maybe Brian Jones doesn’t appear in this town where he is buried. Just as well. RIPeace.
Can somebody explain to me which episode has the domesday book in it cuz I have no idea what he's referencing
Back in 1975 i had just left my girlfriends house and was walking home at 3am. as i passed St Annes House in Pitville Circus Road i heard an ear piercing scream come from the direction of the front door, but could see nothing there. i got a spurt on after that, i can tell you. never did find out what it was. another famous ghost in Cheltenham is the ghost of Hester, relating to the Hesters Way area of the town.
hello from the future oct 22 2023
well isnt that lovely , now knowing the town i got raised in has haunted places 😂
My Only Home Of 43 Years
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
I saw it.
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.
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.'
You guys in the west truly believe ghost story or just enjoy it as entertaintment??
I know it's real cause I've heard it my self
'Haunted' in as much as it's not remotely haunted since the paranormal is total and utter BS.
That's your opinion and you are welcome to it but if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all...