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Has pub’s CCTV captured ghosts on film?
9:11am Wednesday 3rd September 2008
Comments (17)A LANDLADY thought whisky, gin, vodka and rum were the only spirits in her York pub – until she spotted some ghostly goings-on on CCTV.
Janine Robinson and her husband, Steve, are tenants at the Light Horseman pub and hotel in Fulford Road.
On a Saturday morning, the first thing she usually hears downstairs is the cleaner coming in at about 8am.
But on August 23, she heard an unusual sound at 7.30am. “It sounded like the hand dryers you get in toilets,” she said.
The pub has digital cameras in all communal areas constantly recording. “I put the cameras on in the office upstairs to have a look,” she said. “I saw what I thought was a man going up the stairs. I saw something else going behind it and going into the poolroom.
“But when I switched to the camera in there, it was all locked up and there was nothing there.”
Janine had to go downstairs to make breakfast for her guests. Later, she went back to look at footage from the camera in the downstairs hall and saw ghostly orbs floating up the stairs.
“I’ve no idea what it is,” she said. “We’ve had the camera looked over. There’s no fault on it, nothing hanging down on to it and no torch because you’d see the beam – it’s just weird.”
“If someone can tell me what it is, I’d love to know,” the sceptical landlady said.
The Robinsons took over the premises four-and-a-half years ago. Janine said she had been told it had been purpose-built as an officers’ mess for the nearby Imphal Barracks in the 19th century.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” she said. “But if they’re checking into the B&B, I want paying!”
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Eddie Hitler, United States of Haxby says...
9:36am Wed 3 Sep 08
They will investigate this mystery for you but watch the hippy and the dog, they get the munchies alot and will go through your fridge.
They had some success the other week. They unmasked two criminals who had been terrorizing the public with taxes and stupid laws. Galloway and Reid I believe they're called. Galloway was heard to say "If it wasn't for those meddling kids, we'd have got away with our plan to raise taxes, embezzle cash and mislead the voters".
Top Banana, The Moor says...
9:38am Wed 3 Sep 08
ch, york says...
10:00am Wed 3 Sep 08
Coupaman, York says...
11:17am Wed 3 Sep 08
HappyDaze, Malton says...
11:27am Wed 3 Sep 08
Top Banana wrote:Nice idea but a web cam does not use video tape! I strained at this video and could see no evidence of a man at all and as for the orbs these are just dust particles that are floating infront of the lens (it is just coincidence that these look like they are floating up the stairs). Sorry no spooks there!
I can't beieve people don't study videos like this! It is soooooo obvious that it is a double image repeated of the same man walking in the same pattern over and over again. The wonders of old video tape!
pedalling paul , York says...
11:48am Wed 3 Sep 08
Top Banana, The Moor says...
12:07pm Wed 3 Sep 08
Yorkenstein, Copmanthorpe says...
12:17pm Wed 3 Sep 08
The Press make a habit of filling their pages with adverts like this..
Pepper, york says...
12:27pm Wed 3 Sep 08
chillout, rawcliffe says...
12:27pm Wed 3 Sep 08
emma mc, York says...
12:59pm Wed 3 Sep 08
Eddie Hitler, United States of Haxby says...
2:06pm Wed 3 Sep 08
3 weeks ago on a very gay day some scores appeared on the doors and a lad who seemed like a nice boy turned up to deliver some 'khaki coloured furniture'.
If it isn't Larry Grayson haunting the place, the chap says it could be one of his dead friends from the generation game namely Slack Alice, Pop-it-in-Pete the postman, Self-Raising Fred the baker or Larry's close friend Everard Farquharson.
Coupaman, York says...
2:31pm Wed 3 Sep 08
momentofsurrender, york says...
8:23pm Wed 3 Sep 08
IN THE 19TH CENTURY,you're having a laugh aren't you. The press sinks to new a low, don't reporters check their facts?? obviously not at The Press!!
lilythepink, york says...
9:36pm Wed 3 Sep 08
momentofsurrender wrote:but the Imphal Barracks were built in the 19th Century, so I don't get your point??
'Janine said she had been told it had been purpose-built as an officers’ mess for the nearby Imphal Barracks in the 19th century'IN THE 19TH CENTURY,you're having a laugh aren't you. The press sinks to new a low, don't reporters check their facts?? obviously not at The Press!!
Chris1982, York says...
8:51am Thu 4 Sep 08
Light Horseman landlady Janine Robinson in the area of the pub where ghostly orbs were recorded on CCTV
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roberts, york says...
9:22am Wed 3 Sep 08
something on the lens of the camera