Post by verydisconoir on Jun 23, 2005 21:48:42 GMT
Another one for you.
You seem like a level-headed bunch, so I have another one or two for you! I'd like to know if any of you have been to Alverstoke?? It's hanging off the bottom of Gosport, however it's much nicer :-) Until recently we had a weekend apartment in Crescent Road that overlooks Stokes Bay. The apartment was Georgian and ghostless, but opposite is a small, trust-maintained garden that has a ghost gardener - he's there at 6am but the grass still grows. I'm not taking the p**s and suggesting that we was lazy, he just wasn't real - unless gardeners that have the ability to walk a few inches below ground level are a new fashion trend that I don't know about. I saw him about once a month for about a year and eventually (yes it took that long - I'm a coward) I ran out to see him at close range, only to find the garden empty and myself locked-out wearing my wife's dressing gown - not good.
However, Alverstoke has more to offer - If you're ever feeling like you're 18 years old again and can stay up all night, I recommend driving to Alverstoke car park (where the lifeboat station is) and spending the night sitting on a bench on the seafront (it gets very windy even in summer, so be prepared). If you're lucky, you'll hear the sound of people talking and walking on wooden decks and a boat mooring up at the pier that's no longer there (the pier was built for Queen Victoria's train so she could get to the IOW. Again, it's no longer there - look at a map and follow the old railway line, mostly now a cycle lane/path, and the original route ends next to the lifeboat station). If you don't hear that, you're bound to see something on the sea or in the sky that shouldn't be there - it's a great place. It's also worth spending another couple of hours next door at at Gilkicker Point. I've heard French-screaming from within (one goes blind at the same time - pitch black. Horrible.), which doesn't tally with any historical record of the site that I know of. It's an old fort, and it has an active radar station on top so you can't get in, so just climb as high as you can and tune-in! Do bare-in-mind that you can hear stuff on the IOW - the water plays tricks with sound.
Well, if you've got nothing beter to do, it's worth a visit. I've met other people in the locale who have experienced similar events, so I know I'm not mad, but I'd love to know if anyone with the ability to 'tune-in' and just turns up on the off-chance experiences anything. The going blind stuff is the most intense I've ever experienced second to Berry P - which BTW, having looked at your pics, I can't believe 'the room' is painted white and has light coming through the windows! Gob-smacked.
You seem like a level-headed bunch, so I have another one or two for you! I'd like to know if any of you have been to Alverstoke?? It's hanging off the bottom of Gosport, however it's much nicer :-) Until recently we had a weekend apartment in Crescent Road that overlooks Stokes Bay. The apartment was Georgian and ghostless, but opposite is a small, trust-maintained garden that has a ghost gardener - he's there at 6am but the grass still grows. I'm not taking the p**s and suggesting that we was lazy, he just wasn't real - unless gardeners that have the ability to walk a few inches below ground level are a new fashion trend that I don't know about. I saw him about once a month for about a year and eventually (yes it took that long - I'm a coward) I ran out to see him at close range, only to find the garden empty and myself locked-out wearing my wife's dressing gown - not good.
However, Alverstoke has more to offer - If you're ever feeling like you're 18 years old again and can stay up all night, I recommend driving to Alverstoke car park (where the lifeboat station is) and spending the night sitting on a bench on the seafront (it gets very windy even in summer, so be prepared). If you're lucky, you'll hear the sound of people talking and walking on wooden decks and a boat mooring up at the pier that's no longer there (the pier was built for Queen Victoria's train so she could get to the IOW. Again, it's no longer there - look at a map and follow the old railway line, mostly now a cycle lane/path, and the original route ends next to the lifeboat station). If you don't hear that, you're bound to see something on the sea or in the sky that shouldn't be there - it's a great place. It's also worth spending another couple of hours next door at at Gilkicker Point. I've heard French-screaming from within (one goes blind at the same time - pitch black. Horrible.), which doesn't tally with any historical record of the site that I know of. It's an old fort, and it has an active radar station on top so you can't get in, so just climb as high as you can and tune-in! Do bare-in-mind that you can hear stuff on the IOW - the water plays tricks with sound.
Well, if you've got nothing beter to do, it's worth a visit. I've met other people in the locale who have experienced similar events, so I know I'm not mad, but I'd love to know if anyone with the ability to 'tune-in' and just turns up on the off-chance experiences anything. The going blind stuff is the most intense I've ever experienced second to Berry P - which BTW, having looked at your pics, I can't believe 'the room' is painted white and has light coming through the windows! Gob-smacked.
