1. The Canterbury Ghost Tour
Welcome to the tour, first let me introduce myself.
My name is John Hippisley.
I take it some of you have been on a ghost tour before!
No?
Well, maybe tonight is the night, I can't guarantee seeing
a ghost or even that you will be scared, but you are in safe hands.
Some people ask why did I get involved in Ghost tours,
and I usually give the same reply –
I believe there is more to this life than just death.
For the past 16 years I have been working with the
Church of England as a lay Exorcist.
2. Ghosts are around us at all times. Even now there is one
standing just behind you there, can you feel the cold hand of his
long dead body on your shoulder? No? Oh, well, best get a move
on, there is a lot to see and not much time to see it.
The first place we look at is just behind where you now stand,
this attractively named off licence now called "Discount Booze" -
it must have taken many hours of marketing expertise to come
up with such a catchy name as that. It was here some 8 months
ago that some medical students lived and studied
3. One day they came back here in the early hours after an
evening at the pub and made a Ouija board to contact the
dead. In their semi-drunken stupor it all made perfect
sense. They did not have a board at hand so in haste they
decided to make one using some old cardboard. Within
seconds of lighting a light candle they had made some
contact.
They asked in a bold voice - "Is there anybody there?".
The pointer moved toward the Yes, and according to one
of them, whom I interviewed later, they got a strange
feeling of unhappiness and or misfortune, the lights in the
landing flickered and then went out and the candle flame
flickered before flaring up.
4. They felt sure it was a good sign, and proceeded to ask for a
name, the reply was Abigail.
"When were you born?"
The reply "1846",
"When did you die?2
"1873"
So he or she was 27.
"How did you die?"
The answer here came as a shock to the students, "Joshua
knows how!"
Joshua who lived with them in the house was away in
London and so was not present at the séance.
They asked again: "Did you die of cancer?"
The reply was just as strange -
"David knows the place!"
5. David was getting nernous for he had during the first weeks in
the house felt the presence of something on the stairs. His
colleagues looked towards him for an explanation, but he could
not give one. Then the pointer leapt forward again and spelled
out the name of a person who had visited them just that
morning. "Peter Wilkes was here this morining and last
Monday" it read.
The candle flared up again and then expired plunging the 4 of
them into panic and darkness. David picked up the board and
threw it out of the window. They went to bed and locked their
door to prevent entry by an unseen force
6. David claimed that he slept soundly for an hour or two but
was woken by the feeling of something sitting on his bed, a
heavy man of some kind. Thinking that it was his imagination
he opened his eyes to find that the kitchen mirror, usually
located at the top of the stair, well, was now floating above his
head. As he looked into it he saw the face of an old woman
staring blindly back at him. He screamed and the noise not
only woke his colleagues but caused the mirror to shatter
covering him in shards of broken glass.
I did my own research and discovered that during the summer
of 1873 a young woman committed suicide on these premises.
