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Speaker 1: sit back and enjoy the episode. Once there, they locked
Speaker 1: themselves in, and even though it was the early hours,
Speaker 1: they called the managing director of the security company again
Speaker 1: and again until he answered and agreed to come down
Speaker 1: to their office. Mick Lee got to the security office
Speaker 1: and walked inside and was shocked by what he saw.
Speaker 1: Two experienced security guards who had been part of his
Speaker 1: team for quite a while. In a state of complete
Speaker 1: terror and panic. This is episode sixty two of the
Speaker 1: Haunted UK podcast, and it's time to take a look
Speaker 1: at one of the most haunted stretches of road in
Speaker 1: the UK, the Stocksbridge Bypass. In the early nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: a huge construction development was announced and approved, a development
Speaker 1: that was a long time coming, but one that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be easy. Huge amounts of rock had to be cut
Speaker 1: through to make way for a road that would finally
Speaker 1: bring some relief to the town of Stocksbridge. Were, of
Speaker 1: course talking about the Stocksbridge Bypass, one of the most
Speaker 1: haunted locations in the UK. You'd have to go all
Speaker 1: the way back to season two in episode three Phantom
Speaker 1: Hitchhikers to find tales of ghosts haunting stretches of roads.
Speaker 1: But this five mile stretch of tarmac has much more
Speaker 1: to offer than just phantom hitchhikers. After planning was approved,
Speaker 1: work began in nineteen eighty seven at a cost of
Speaker 1: fourteen million pounds, finishing in May nineteen eighty eight when
Speaker 1: the bypass was officially opened. Congestion was choking the town
Speaker 1: of Stocksbridge and a bypass was way past due. Large
Speaker 1: trucks were finding it difficult to navigate through the narrow
Speaker 1: lanes of the steel making town, and this was causing
Speaker 1: huge problems. But a lot of that changed when the
Speaker 1: bypass opened. It was seen as somewhat of a triumph
Speaker 1: for the town and its surrounding areas. But the Stocksbridge
Speaker 1: Bypass soon began to get the reputation of being a
Speaker 1: terrible accident black spot. Within only the first decade of
Speaker 1: it being open, around fourteen fatalities were reported due to accidents,
Speaker 1: with hundreds more suffering injuries. Police would put this unusually
Speaker 1: high number of accidents down to common mistakes that the
Speaker 1: public were making whilst driving on the bypass, not knowing
Speaker 1: the road, taking unnecessary risks such as overtaking in bad conditions,
Speaker 1: speeding and loss of concentration. And with accidents and fatalities
Speaker 1: come stories, ghost stories, sightings, strange experiences. Yet paranormal phenomena
Speaker 1: had been reported way before even one car had traveled
Speaker 1: along the bypass. During its initial construction, the Stocksbridge Bypass
Speaker 1: carved through land which had a rich and sometimes bloody history.
Speaker 1: As with many cases of large scale construction projects such
Speaker 1: as the London Underground and the current huge undertaking of
Speaker 1: HS two, the building of the Stocksbridge bypass did disturb things.
Speaker 1: Consideration and thought have to be given to the thousands
Speaker 1: of years of history on our small island, ancient burial grounds, graves,
Speaker 1: plague pits. The living are definitely outnumbered by the dead,
Speaker 1: and because of this obvious fact are we unknowingly unleashing
Speaker 1: the spirits of those who were rested, causing them to
Speaker 1: roam the land which they once called home. The stories
Speaker 1: that will go through in this episode have a wide
Speaker 1: range of paranormal phenomena attached to them, and this in
Speaker 1: itself is incredible considering that it's only roughly a five
Speaker 1: mile stretch of road. You'd normally associate these types of
Speaker 1: hauntings with this much varying activity with castles or stately homes.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to nineteen eighty seven. When construction began.
Speaker 1: A private security company had been hired to help not
Speaker 1: only protect the expensive equipment and stock of materials on site,
Speaker 1: but to also keep children and teenagers away from a
Speaker 1: potentially dangerous area. There were a number of small security
Speaker 1: offices which were dotted along the site, and it was
Speaker 1: from these that the various teams worked from. On the
Speaker 1: seventh of September nineteen eighty seven, security guards Stan and
Speaker 1: Jeff were on patrol in their land rover, driving towards
Speaker 1: a bridge which was still under construction. Near to this
Speaker 1: bridge was an electricity pylon, and it was here that
Speaker 1: both men saw something truly odd, a group of children
Speaker 1: who appeared to be playing. As Stan and Jeff got
Speaker 1: closer to the bridge, they could clearly see that these
Speaker 1: children were dancing and skipping around very close to the pilon.
Speaker 1: They decided to get a closer look and pulled their
Speaker 1: vehicle over, both grabbing torches as they made their way
Speaker 1: towards the pylon. Both men said that it appeared that
Speaker 1: these children were playing ring a ringer roses, and they
Speaker 1: could hear them singing, laughing, and talking. But what they
Speaker 1: thought was stranger. Even stranger than the fact that these
Speaker 1: children were out at such a late hour, was what
Speaker 1: they were all wearing. All of them were dressed in
Speaker 1: very old fashioned clothing, which was completely out of place
Speaker 1: in the current time. The security guards looked at each
Speaker 1: other confused, but began to walk towards the children, who
Speaker 1: they could still see very clearly, until they faded away
Speaker 1: right in front of them. Completely shocked, both Stan and
Speaker 1: Jeff ran towards the area of land by the pylon
Speaker 1: where they'd seen the children, and even though the ground
Speaker 1: was soft and muddy because of previous wet weather, there
Speaker 1: were no footprints at all, no evidence or trace whatsoever
Speaker 1: that anyone had been there. Oh, come on, let's go
Speaker 1: out here. Yeah, that was bloody weird. They both quickly
Speaker 1: made their way back to the land rover and then
Speaker 1: backed the security office. The following day, they made a
Speaker 1: point of asking several construction workers on site if they'd
Speaker 1: experienced anything out of the ordinary. To their surprise, they
Speaker 1: were told yes, many others had heard strange voices, laughter
Speaker 1: and singing, as if made by children when they were
Speaker 1: non in sight. But it was on their evening shift
Speaker 1: later that day that events took a truly terrifying turn.
Speaker 1: Stan and Jeff had both left their security office to
Speaker 1: begin their patrol and were once again driving up towards
Speaker 1: the construction site and the bridge where the previous night's
Speaker 1: events had taken place. As they approached the bridge, they
Speaker 1: were shocked to see a figure standing on it. But
Speaker 1: this figure appeared to be dressed in some type of
Speaker 1: hooded cloak. Jeff asked Stan to stop the vehicle, and
Speaker 1: for a brief moment they both stared at the mystery
Speaker 1: figure until Jeff got out of the car and told
Speaker 1: Stan to drive back around to the top of the
Speaker 1: bridge while he stayed below, making sure that whoever it
Speaker 1: was didn't make a run for it. As Jeff kept
Speaker 1: an eye on the figure, he could also see Stan
Speaker 1: as he made his way up the hill to the bridge.
Speaker 1: Inside the land rover, Stan had made it up to
Speaker 1: the top of the bridge, and as he drove closer
Speaker 1: to the figure, he could now clearly see that with
Speaker 1: the cloak and the hood, it looked more like a monk.
Speaker 1: But what both he and Jeff had thought was a
Speaker 1: real solid person was now exhibiting a disturbing phenomenon. The
Speaker 1: land rover's lights were shining right through it. Then, in
Speaker 1: the terrifying blink of an eye, the figure vanished, and
Speaker 1: this was seen by both men at the same time. Now,
Speaker 1: what we have to understand here is that the security
Speaker 1: guards weren't novices, as were about to find out, and
Speaker 1: they also knew how to handle themselves, and they weren't
Speaker 1: exactly small either. In a blind panic, Stan put the
Speaker 1: landrover into reverse, and quickly drove down to pick Jeff up.
Speaker 1: Did you see that?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: Quit get it, Let's just go. Then they both abandoned
Speaker 1: the bridge, the whole construction site, and their shift and
Speaker 1: went back to their security office. Once there, they locked
Speaker 1: themselves in, and even though it was the early hours,
Speaker 1: they called the managing director of the security company again
Speaker 1: and again until he answered and agreed to come down
Speaker 1: to their office. Mick Lee got to the security office
Speaker 1: and walked inside and was shocked by what he saw
Speaker 1: two experienced security guards who had been part of his
Speaker 1: team for quite a while in a state of complete
Speaker 1: terror and panic. Something has scared these men very deeply.
Speaker 1: Mick listened as Stan and Jeff recounted the events of
Speaker 1: their two terrifying experiences, and, seeing that they were in
Speaker 1: no fit state to continue working that night, he sent
Speaker 1: them both home. The next evening, at around eight pm,
Speaker 1: Mickley welcomed both Stan and Jeff back into their security office,
Speaker 1: fully expecting them to start their shift, but there was
Speaker 1: no way they were going back on to the construction
Speaker 1: side that night. Once again, mick felt that he had
Speaker 1: no choice but to send both men home. Yet what
Speaker 1: he wasn't expecting was what happened next. The following morning,
Speaker 1: the doors to Stocksbridge Police station opened and in walked
Speaker 1: both Stan and Jeff, and they wanted to file a report.
Speaker 1: They sat down with Police Constable Richard Ellis, who could
Speaker 1: clearly see that something had deeply disturbed them. He listened
Speaker 1: intently as the men, who he knew quite well, gave
Speaker 1: a detailed account of what they'd experienced, including the children
Speaker 1: by the pylon and obviously the dark monk like figure
Speaker 1: on the bridge.
Speaker 2: P c.
Speaker 1: Ellis had never been in a situation where a member
Speaker 1: of the public had reported seeing ghosts, but here sat
Speaker 1: in front of him were two at a loss to
Speaker 1: know what to do. He advised the men that it
Speaker 1: was probably a better idea that they seek advice from
Speaker 1: the church rather than from the police, and that is
Speaker 1: exactly what they did. After leaving the police station, they
Speaker 1: went straight to the local church to speak with the vicar.
Speaker 1: The Reverend Stewart Brindley welcomed both men into the church
Speaker 1: and had no idea that he was about to be
Speaker 1: told in great detail about the sightings of ghosts up
Speaker 1: at the bypassed security site. Although he listened and tried
Speaker 1: to calm the men down. They refused to leave until
Speaker 1: the vicar agreed to go up to the bridge where
Speaker 1: both Stan and Jeff had seen the ghost of the
Speaker 1: Monk and perform an exorcism. The Reverend Brindley had no
Speaker 1: choice but to call the police, As it had been P. C.
Speaker 1: Richard Ellis who'd taken the statements from the security guards
Speaker 1: earlier that day, he was given the task of going
Speaker 1: to the church to sort the issue out. Along with
Speaker 1: Reverend Brindley. Pc Ellis began to talk the men down
Speaker 1: to a more civilized tone, and after a while they
Speaker 1: agreed to leave. Pc Ellis assured Reverend Brindley that Stan
Speaker 1: and Jeff meant no harm whatsoever, something that Brindley already knew.
Speaker 1: He was fully aware that this was a very strange
Speaker 1: but delicate situation and could see that the men were
Speaker 1: genuinely disturbed by what they'd experienced. Stan and Jeff never
Speaker 1: returned to work, quitting their jobs just a few short
Speaker 1: weeks after their encounter. Security company managing director Mick Lee,
Speaker 1: PC Richard Ellis, and even the Reverend Stewart Brindley felt
Speaker 1: that these men were telling the absolute truth. They were
Speaker 1: genuine witnesses who'd seen something that they could not explain,
Speaker 1: something that was completely out of the ordinary, something that
Speaker 1: had scared them so much that they actually quit their jobs.
Speaker 1: Because statements have been taken by PC Ellis and an
Speaker 1: official report had been filed, his superiors told him to
Speaker 1: investigate the matter further and to take down as man
Speaker 1: much detail as possible if anything happened that night. P
Speaker 1: c Ellis and his partner, PC John Beat took a
Speaker 1: patrol car and made their way up to the bridge
Speaker 1: at the construction site. They parked up just below and
Speaker 1: to the side of the partly finished bridge, giving them
Speaker 1: a good field of vision all round, and sat there
Speaker 1: in silence, waiting to see if anything would happen. After
Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes, both officers had got used to
Speaker 1: the dark, and it was a clear night with a
Speaker 1: star filled sky. PC Ellis's attention was suddenly drawn to
Speaker 1: the bridge and to the sight of something moving around.
Speaker 1: Saying nothing, Ellis turned to PC John Beat to see
Speaker 1: if he was aware of the movement as well, and,
Speaker 1: to his relief, he was. They both quickly exchanged a
Speaker 1: few words and decided to walk up to the bridge
Speaker 1: to see who or what was up there. As both
Speaker 1: officers stood on the bridge searching for any movement, they
Speaker 1: saw nothing so made their way back to the patrol car.
Speaker 1: Upon opening the door, the interior light came on again,
Speaker 1: temporarily robbing them of their adjusted vision, but this soon returned.
Speaker 1: As they sat there once again in the dark, both
Speaker 1: Ellis and Bete were sharing a few jokes about the
Speaker 1: whole situation when once again they could see movement on
Speaker 1: the bridge. Pclis said that he would go up alone
Speaker 1: this time to investigate, so he grabbed a torch, opened
Speaker 1: the car door, and walked back up to the bridge.
Speaker 1: As he stared across the bridge into the darkness, he
Speaker 1: could see something moving from side to side, but he
Speaker 1: could also hear a flapping type of noise. As he
Speaker 1: continued to walk across the bridge, he saw a number
Speaker 1: of pallets of concrete blocks wrapped in polythene sheeting, and
Speaker 1: it was the show sheeting on one of these pallettes
Speaker 1: that had worked its way loose. Shouting down to PC
Speaker 1: John beat Ellis informed him that it was just polythene
Speaker 1: sheeting which was moving around in the wind. He went
Speaker 1: up to the pallet, tied it up. The polythene and
Speaker 1: then secured it down with a few stray blocks. He
Speaker 1: then made his way back to the patrol car and
Speaker 1: continued to observe the surroundings. After a while, both officers
Speaker 1: felt that they weren't going to see anything that night,
Speaker 1: and if their friends and colleagues knew that they were
Speaker 1: on a stake out looking for ghosts, they'd be thought
Speaker 1: of as gullible and mad. They both decided to give
Speaker 1: the cause another five minutes then leave, but their night
Speaker 1: was just beginning. Pcllis said that the patrol car they
Speaker 1: were in was a three door Vauxhall Astra, so the
Speaker 1: driver and passenger doors were quite long. Both officers had
Speaker 1: their windows down, and Ellis remarked that his arm was
Speaker 1: resting half outside when suddenly the atmosphere completely changed. Ellis
Speaker 1: said that he went deathly cold, so much so that
Speaker 1: he commented that he found it hard to catch his breath.
Speaker 1: PC John Beat also felt the change in the surrounding atmosphere,
Speaker 1: and as he was trying to sense what was happening,
Speaker 1: Ellis suddenly became frighteningly aware that there was someone pressed
Speaker 1: up against the side of the car where his open
Speaker 1: window was. But there was nobody there.
Speaker 2: P C.
Speaker 1: Ellis, an experienced officer and involved in many challenging and
Speaker 1: dangerous situations, swore that he felt the same shot of
Speaker 1: adrenaline and fear right on that bridge as he would
Speaker 1: in any violent riot. Except in a riot or a fight,
Speaker 1: he knew what he was dealing with, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: so sure. Now. The intense and terrifying feeling of a
Speaker 1: presence right next to Ellis's window became more and more overwhelming,
Speaker 1: and he admitted that he wasn't able to do anything
Speaker 1: about it, not even speak to make John Beat aware
Speaker 1: he'd completely frozen. Ellis shrieked out in surprise. Christ He
Speaker 1: could have sworn that there was nobody there at first,
Speaker 1: So how had someone managed to get so close to
Speaker 1: the car so quickly and silently? The vision of this
Speaker 1: person disappeared instantly, and almost immediately for Richard Ellis, the
Speaker 1: atmosphere returned to normal. He was about to tell John
Speaker 1: Beat what he'd just experienced when he heard John scream
Speaker 1: out loud what the hell, and witnessed him push himself
Speaker 1: off the car seat and up towards the ceiling of
Speaker 1: the vehicle. Ellis quickly opened the car door and ran
Speaker 1: around to the opposite side, fully expecting to see the
Speaker 1: person who he'd felt and now seen on his side
Speaker 1: of the car, but now at John's side, but there
Speaker 1: was nobody there. Ellis didn't say anything at first about
Speaker 1: what he'd seen, but it was obvious by John Beat's
Speaker 1: reaction that he'd also experienced something. Ellis was stunned to
Speaker 1: hear from his colleague that he'd seen the torso of
Speaker 1: a man in a robe outfit standing right next to
Speaker 1: the open window, then inexplicably disappearing. PC Ellis then told
Speaker 1: John to stay in the car as he was going
Speaker 1: to check around the immediate area. He grabbed his torch
Speaker 1: and checked all around the car, underneath the car upon
Speaker 1: the bridge, but found nothing. He mentions that at the
Speaker 1: time the area around the bridge was just soft mud,
Speaker 1: so surely there would be footprints, but the only prince
Speaker 1: he could find in the mud were that of the
Speaker 1: patrol car's tires, his boots, and John's boots. There was
Speaker 1: no trace to even suggest that another person had been
Speaker 1: anywhere near their vehicle. They decided to move location, but
Speaker 1: as PC John Beat turned the key in the nition
Speaker 1: of the car to switch it on. The car refused
Speaker 1: to start up, instead just turn over and over, just
Speaker 1: bloody start. Both officers admitted that they started to panic someone,
Speaker 1: but were relieved when, after a second attempt, the engine
Speaker 1: sprang to life. They went back on themselves, then actually
Speaker 1: drove up to the bridge, switched the engine off, and
Speaker 1: again sat waiting watching. A few minutes went by. Then
Speaker 1: a sudden and loud bang came from the rear of
Speaker 1: the car, as if something had hit it hard, But
Speaker 1: the strange thing was there was no feeling of impact.
Speaker 1: Both officers quickly got out of the car and ran
Speaker 1: to the rear to check to see what had hit
Speaker 1: them and if there was any damage, but they found nothing.
Speaker 1: As they stood there, completely perplexed, another four loud bangs
Speaker 1: rang out from the rear of the car. Both men
Speaker 1: looked at each other. This was a situation which neither
Speaker 1: of them had ever experienced, with Pclis commenting that the
Speaker 1: feeling was at the same as when he felt the
Speaker 1: presence at his window. This new feeling was pure terror.
Speaker 1: They were genuinely scared. The bangs, which were heard clearly
Speaker 1: by both officers, were described as being like someone hitting
Speaker 1: the rear of the car with a bat or some
Speaker 1: kind of club. After this, both John Beat and Richard
Speaker 1: Ellis felt that they had experienced enough for one night,
Speaker 1: quickly got back into the patrol car and left the
Speaker 1: area to go back to the station. As with commercial
Speaker 1: airline pilots who report sightings of UFOs, police officers who
Speaker 1: come forward and admit seeing a ghost or poltergeist activity
Speaker 1: are somewhat of a rarity. You only have to go
Speaker 1: back to episodes forty four and forty eight of the
Speaker 1: show Tales from the Emergency Services Parts one and two
Speaker 1: to see just how guarded people who work for the
Speaker 1: Emergency Services in the military are when it comes to
Speaker 1: submitting official reports concerning paranormal activity. But PC Richard Ellis
Speaker 1: wasn't afraid to report what he and PC John Beat
Speaker 1: had experienced and promptly submitted an official report, which in
Speaker 1: turn was entered into the official log. More experiences and
Speaker 1: sightings were reported by construction workers, security offices, and delivery drivers,
Speaker 1: and these were mainly centered around the monk like figure
Speaker 1: seen by security guards Stan and Jeff. One sighting, in
Speaker 1: particular happened to Melbourne, who was a haulage driver making
Speaker 1: a delivery to a section of the construction site. It
Speaker 1: was early evening, just beginning to get dark, and the
Speaker 1: allotted parking and drop area was already pretty full of
Speaker 1: trucks and trailers. Melbourne found a space and reversed his
Speaker 1: vehicle into it, then got out of the cab to
Speaker 1: begin taking the ropes off which were securing the load.
Speaker 1: As he was working his way down the length of
Speaker 1: the trailer, he said he suddenly went very cold, then
Speaker 1: a musty smell quickly enveloped the area. He then caught
Speaker 1: sight of movement towards the front of the truck and
Speaker 1: saw a monklike figure glide through the headlights, which he'd
Speaker 1: purposely left on. He watched it as it made its
Speaker 1: way further along to the next truck, and then lost
Speaker 1: sight of it. The smell then disappeared, as did the
Speaker 1: cold atmosphere, and although Melbourne admitted that he wasn't particularly
Speaker 1: scared at the time, he did find it a very
Speaker 1: unnerving experience. After this, he would make deliveries and pick
Speaker 1: ups in the same area a few more times, and
Speaker 1: even though he said he never saw the monk again,
Speaker 1: the cold atmosphere a musty smell would always descend around him.
Speaker 1: On the night of his sighting. After returning to the
Speaker 1: depot where he worked, he even made a point of
Speaker 1: telling his manager about the encounter, and was surprised to
Speaker 1: hear that several other drivers had seen the same thing
Speaker 1: in the same area. So was there any evidence of
Speaker 1: a monastery being in the area of the Stocksbridge Bypass
Speaker 1: years ago? Well, the answer is yes. In fact, research
Speaker 1: tells us that there were actually two monasteries. One of
Speaker 1: them was a Cistercian whose monks lived by a very
Speaker 1: strict code of practice and ethics. As with many sites
Speaker 1: such as this, a local legend exists about a monk
Speaker 1: from this very monastery, a monk who fell out of favor,
Speaker 1: a monk with flaws, who floundered within that very strict
Speaker 1: code of practice and ethics. Cast out, he found work
Speaker 1: and a home at a local farm, but upon his
Speaker 1: death he was buried in unconsecrated ground, and it was
Speaker 1: the building of the Stocksbridge Bypass that allegedly disturbed his
Speaker 1: resting place that had been unsuitable in the first place.
Speaker 1: As already stated earlier in this episode, there had been
Speaker 1: various fatalities on the bypass, and that reputation of being
Speaker 1: an accident black spot may run even darker than first thought,
Speaker 1: because it seems highly possible that a percentage of those
Speaker 1: accidents could have been caused by sightings of phenomena which
Speaker 1: cannot be easily explained. Not long after the bypass opened
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine, Judy and her husband David were
Speaker 1: traveling along it in the direction of a village called Wartley.
Speaker 1: It was a clear day with not much traffic on
Speaker 1: the road, and Judy was driving. As she and her
Speaker 1: husband chatted, she noticed a figure standing in a field
Speaker 1: up ahead on the left hand side of the road.
Speaker 1: She pointed this figure out to David and commented that
Speaker 1: while it looked like a person, there was only a
Speaker 1: strange outline to it, no obvious features at all, and
Speaker 1: as well as that it looked like it was floating
Speaker 1: around a foot above the field, they also noticed that
Speaker 1: it had a strange distortion surrounding it, and its arms
Speaker 1: and legs moved in a way that no human could accomplish.
Speaker 1: As both of them continued to watch this strange figure,
Speaker 1: gradually getting closer to it, they were then shocked to
Speaker 1: see it move incredibly quickly, suddenly appearing at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the embankment at the side of the road. Both
Speaker 1: Judy and David were now getting very concerned as to
Speaker 1: what this thing actually was, Was it a person or
Speaker 1: something else? Then, in a split second, Judy and David
Speaker 1: saw the figure rise into the air and drop down
Speaker 1: in front of their car. Judy immediately braked to avoid
Speaker 1: the collision, but watched as the figure disappeared. In the
Speaker 1: aftermath of this sighting, even Judy's more skeptical husband David,
Speaker 1: had to admit that they most likely witnessed some sort
Speaker 1: of apparition or ghost. Another similar sighting happened and number
Speaker 1: of years later. On New Year's Even nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: Paul Ford and his wife Jane were traveling along the
Speaker 1: bypass to visit his sister in Stocksbridge when a terrifying
Speaker 1: encounter left them deeply shocked and disturbed. As they made
Speaker 1: their way along the road, Paul spotted a figure up
Speaker 1: ahead at the side of the road. He initially thought
Speaker 1: it was someone waiting for an opportunity to cross the road,
Speaker 1: but as they got closer to it, Paul noticed it
Speaker 1: was wearing a long hooded type of cloak. He drew
Speaker 1: Jane's attention to this person then noticed something even stranger.
Speaker 1: It seemed as if he was hovering above the road.
Speaker 1: Then the figure turned to face them, and both Paul
Speaker 1: and Jane were shocked to see that the figure had
Speaker 1: no face. It then quickly glided out in front of
Speaker 1: their car, causing Paul to hit the brakes to try
Speaker 1: and avoid it, but also causing Jane to grab the wheel,
Speaker 1: steering the car away from an almost certain terrible accident.
Speaker 1: Stating in a newspaper interview, Paul said, quote, from a distance,
Speaker 1: it looked like someone trying to cross the road, but
Speaker 1: as I got nearer, I could see it was like
Speaker 1: a man in a long cloak. Then I realized it
Speaker 1: had no face and it was just hovering above the road.
Speaker 1: I just slammed the brakes on and swerved to avoid
Speaker 1: hitting it, and it was only through Jane grabbing the
Speaker 1: wheel that we managed to stop the car from crashing.
Speaker 1: End quote. Jane also added quote, if I hadn't have
Speaker 1: been in the car, Paul could have been killed or
Speaker 1: seriously injured, and it left both of us badly shaken up.
Speaker 1: It was a very frightening experience, and I think it
Speaker 1: might explain why there have been so many accidents on
Speaker 1: that road end quote. This encounter cuts so deeply with
Speaker 1: both Paul and Jane that neither of them have traveled
Speaker 1: along the bypass since, choosing instead to take alternative routes.
Speaker 1: It's not just people driving along the bypass that have
Speaker 1: encountered this terrifying monk like creature. Retired bus driver Neville
Speaker 1: Campbell had a very strange encounter one day whilst out
Speaker 1: walking in the fields which lined the bypass each side.
Speaker 1: It was a bright and clear day, and as Neville
Speaker 1: and his partner walked up the lane which led to
Speaker 1: the field in question, they were suddenly hit by a
Speaker 1: very cold atmosphere which seemed to descend from nowhere. Neville
Speaker 1: described it as if someone had opened an industrial freezer
Speaker 1: door and you'd walked inside it. This atmosphere also had
Speaker 1: mass to it, a thickness which almost stopped them in
Speaker 1: their tracks for no reason whatsoever. Neville and his partner
Speaker 1: began to shake uncontrollably, and as they entered the field,
Speaker 1: they also started to experience a very heavy and oppressive feeling. Then,
Speaker 1: something completely out of the ordinary immediately caught their attention.
Speaker 1: A cloaked, hooded monk like figure moving around the field
Speaker 1: at incredible inhuman speed, exactly like what Judy and David
Speaker 1: witnessed as they were driving along the bypass. It also
Speaker 1: seemed to display a type of teleportation characteristic as one second,
Speaker 1: it would appear in the far corner of the field,
Speaker 1: but in another it would be in the complete opposite corner.
Speaker 1: Was this some sort of distortion, an artifact from a
Speaker 1: different time or dimension? Could there also be other factors
Speaker 1: involved with the appearance of spirits, such as the monk
Speaker 1: in Stocksbridge? After all, it is a steel making town,
Speaker 1: so that means iron ore deposits huge factories consuming great
Speaker 1: quantities of power, electricity pylons, and large power substations. Could
Speaker 1: any or all of these be contributing factors to the
Speaker 1: paranormal activity in the area. Is there a strong magnetic
Speaker 1: field in the area because of all of this disruption
Speaker 1: to the land, as well as the presence of so
Speaker 1: much electricity being used, generated and carried by the pylons.
Speaker 1: Scientific studies concerning the effects of strong magnetic fields on
Speaker 1: the brain have been carried out to great success, with
Speaker 1: many reports out there in the public arena. It's quite possible,
Speaker 1: but there's one problem with this theory the activity only
Speaker 1: really started when work began on the bypass. This then
Speaker 1: takes us back to near the beginning of this episode
Speaker 1: and the notion that the huge undertaking of building the
Speaker 1: road in the first place may have been the catalyst
Speaker 1: for the activity during and after the work was completed.
Speaker 1: Another very strange sighting happened as work on the bypass
Speaker 1: was nearing completion, and the details which were shared by
Speaker 1: the two witnesses paint a very picture of how old
Speaker 1: the apparition of this monk could be. Living in the
Speaker 1: local area and watching the progress on the bypass almost daily,
Speaker 1: keen runners Graham Brooke and his son Nigel had roots
Speaker 1: which took them to not only finish sections of the road,
Speaker 1: but also to those still under construction. Graham and Nigel's
Speaker 1: encounter happened early one evening at a section of finished road,
Speaker 1: and it really is a very fascinating sighting. Graham said
Speaker 1: that both he and Nigel decided to take a route
Speaker 1: towards Wartley, a route that they'd both run many times before.
Speaker 1: As it was in the summer months, daylight stretched into
Speaker 1: the early evening, and although they'd both taken a little
Speaker 1: longer than usual to get to Wartley. They still had
Speaker 1: plenty of time to run the return leg before it
Speaker 1: got dark. With Graham quite a distance ahead of his son,
Speaker 1: he decided to stop near a new lay by to
Speaker 1: wait for Nigel to catch with him. Being a finished
Speaker 1: section of road, vehicles were already using it, and a
Speaker 1: steady stream of traffic past Graham as he waited. As
Speaker 1: Graham continued to stand near the lay by, he could
Speaker 1: see Nigel in the distance, slowly getting closer and closer.
Speaker 1: He turned his attention again back to the vehicles moving
Speaker 1: along the newly completed section of road, but quickly became
Speaker 1: aware of a figure a short distance away that had
Speaker 1: its back to the traffic, walking directly towards Graham's location.
Speaker 1: He quickly looked over his shoulder to check on Nigel,
Speaker 1: who was now almost at the lay by, then turned
Speaker 1: back to see if the figure was still there. It was,
Speaker 1: but as it got closer still Graham noticed something very disturbing.
Speaker 1: Whoever or whatever this figure was, it wasn't walking on
Speaker 1: the road, It was walking in the road. By now
Speaker 1: Nigel had caught up and he was looking at the
Speaker 1: exact same figure as his father, and notably, he couldn't
Speaker 1: see the lower portions of its legs either. According to
Speaker 1: both witnesses, these parts of the figure's legs were deep
Speaker 1: in the road, but it was still giving the impression
Speaker 1: that it was walking. Graham also started to notice details
Speaker 1: about this strange person's clothing. It was wearing some sort
Speaker 1: of old fashioned, dark brown hooded cape which appeared to
Speaker 1: be buttoned down the chest every inch or so. It
Speaker 1: was also carrying a type of bag, but the bottom
Speaker 1: of this bag couldn't be seen either, as it appeared
Speaker 1: to be hidden under the road. But probably the most
Speaker 1: frightening thing about this ghostly apparition was its face. Both
Speaker 1: Graham and Nigel said that it didn't have any facial
Speaker 1: features at all that they could pinpoint. Its face looked
Speaker 1: like it was covered with a thick, dark dust, as
Speaker 1: if it had been down a coal mine. Where its eyes, nose,
Speaker 1: a mouth should have been, there were only dark voids.
Speaker 1: Although father and son both realized that they were witnessing
Speaker 1: something very strange and completely out of the ordinary, their
Speaker 1: impression of this figure was that of a solid person.
Speaker 1: It didn't look in any way faded or have any
Speaker 1: value of transparency to it, and disappeared right in front
Speaker 1: of both Graham and Nigel as they watched in utter disbelief.
Speaker 1: But even after the figure disappeared, another phenomena suddenly manifested itself,
Speaker 1: something which hadn't happened to any of the previous witnesses,
Speaker 1: but something which another witness years later confirmed happened to them.
Speaker 1: It was a smell, a specific smell. Graham described it
Speaker 1: as if you were in a bookshop which sold nothing
Speaker 1: but very old books and had a musty kind of smell.
Speaker 1: At the time, he didn't mention anything to his son,
Speaker 1: so he was surprised when Nigel commented on a smell
Speaker 1: and described it in the same way as his father.
Speaker 1: So it seems quite obvious from the story so far
Speaker 1: that this monklike apparition is not shy about appearing in
Speaker 1: front of more than one person, and that's not only
Speaker 1: astonishing but very rare. You'll usually find that one person
Speaker 1: will see the apparition but the other can't. Whether this
Speaker 1: has something to do with one person being more susceptible
Speaker 1: to picking up on the paranormal isn't clear. But when
Speaker 1: more than one person is seeing the same thing at
Speaker 1: the same time and then experiencing other sensations related to
Speaker 1: that encounter. Again, at the same time, it does make
Speaker 1: the argument about the brain playing tricks on our minds
Speaker 1: that little bit weaker. How could two people be experiencing
Speaker 1: the same thing which allegedly doesn't exist. A few years
Speaker 1: after Graham and Nigel's encounter took place, Lucinda June was
Speaker 1: traveling along the Stocksbridge bypass. As she got to a
Speaker 1: specific area, the inside of her vehicle became extremely cold.
Speaker 1: She was also struck by the smell of musty books,
Speaker 1: the same as Graham and Nigel, and if that wasn't enough,
Speaker 1: a black mass began to appear to the left of
Speaker 1: her as she drove. Lucinda is a psychic and said
Speaker 1: that the black mass gave off a very heavy and
Speaker 1: negative type of energy that frightened her immensely. But it
Speaker 1: was at this point that she picked up on a
Speaker 1: vision of a monk. A few seconds later, the vision ended,
Speaker 1: the black mass disappeared, and the inside of the car
Speaker 1: returned to a more normal temperature. Still, the sightings and
Speaker 1: encounters continued to be reported, including the terrifying experience an
Speaker 1: anonymous motorcyclist had at night as he rode along the bypass.
Speaker 1: The person said that it was approximately three am, so
Speaker 1: the road was pretty deserted at the time, apart from
Speaker 1: a strange figure which he spotted at the side of
Speaker 1: the road walking towards him. As he got closer to
Speaker 1: this figure, he noticed that it was a woman walking
Speaker 1: with her head bowed. She was wearing a long white
Speaker 1: dress and her hair was a similar color and long.
Speaker 1: It fell all around her head, obscuring her facial features.
Speaker 1: The biker slowed down to get a closer look, and
Speaker 1: as he passed her, he quickly turned around, but she disappeared.
Speaker 1: It seems this person was either speeding at the time
Speaker 1: or made a sharp and quick getaway, because not long
Speaker 1: after he was pulled over by traffic police. He told
Speaker 1: them what he'd seen and asked them if they'd also
Speaker 1: seen the woman, but they hadn't. Whilst a lot of
Speaker 1: these stories have made it to the media in some way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, many more remained largely unheard, but they
Speaker 1: are shared occasionally. An anonymous man who was driving from
Speaker 1: Manchester to Sheffield in the early hours of an October
Speaker 1: night had a very strange experience on the bypass, and
Speaker 1: he had passengers next to the driver was another man,
Speaker 1: while in the back of the car there were three people,
Speaker 1: a man and two women. As they got towards the
Speaker 1: end of the bypass, they navigated the island to head
Speaker 1: in the direction of the M one motorway, when suddenly
Speaker 1: two of the passengers saw a strange looking figure standing
Speaker 1: on the verge between the lanes. This figure was incredibly
Speaker 1: close to the car and was leaning forward looking inside.
Speaker 1: As they drove past, the two passengers commented on who
Speaker 1: the hell the person was and why were they standing
Speaker 1: so close to the road now. The strange thing was
Speaker 1: only two out of the five people in the car
Speaker 1: saw this figure, but they both described him in exactly
Speaker 1: the same way. He was wearing a long dark coat
Speaker 1: and an old deer stalker type hat with the flaps
Speaker 1: at the sides to cover the ears. He also had
Speaker 1: a handlebar mustache and a beard. They didn't bother to
Speaker 1: turn around and go back to see if the figure
Speaker 1: was still there. They'd already heard so many stories of
Speaker 1: the bypass and surrounding areas being very haunted. In another
Speaker 1: fascinating account, a couple called Vicki and Paul were traveling
Speaker 1: down the bypass after watching an ice hockey game in Manchester.
Speaker 1: Neither of them had consumed any alcohol, and even though
Speaker 1: it was dark and getting quite late, both were wide
Speaker 1: awake and fully aware of their surroundings. As they neared
Speaker 1: per Royd Bridge, a location where a lot of activity
Speaker 1: has taken place, Vicki noticed a musty smell inside the car.
Speaker 1: It was weak at first, but grew more and more potent.
Speaker 1: Then the temperature dropped dramatically. It was then that the
Speaker 1: hares on the back of her neck began to stand
Speaker 1: on end. Not wanting to alert Paul to this as
Speaker 1: he was driving, she kept quiet, but noticed that he
Speaker 1: increased speed for some reason, and they were now hurtling
Speaker 1: along the road. As they got to Wartley, the smell
Speaker 1: disappeared almost instantly, as well as the temperature inside the
Speaker 1: car returning to normal. Still, Vickie kept quiet, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't long after that that they reached home. As they
Speaker 1: got inside and settled, Paul asked Vicki if she had
Speaker 1: experienced anything strange on the drive home. She told him
Speaker 1: about the musty smell and sudden drop in temperature, but
Speaker 1: it was what Paul told her that really gave them
Speaker 1: both chills. He admitted that he felt the car get
Speaker 1: very cold. Then as he looked in the rear view mirror,
Speaker 1: he clearly saw the figure of a monk walking at
Speaker 1: the side of the road. What apparently freaked him out
Speaker 1: the most was that he'd been checking his mirrors frequently,
Speaker 1: as he always did, and never saw anything. It was
Speaker 1: as if the figure just suddenly appeared at the side
Speaker 1: of the road from thin air. As with many others
Speaker 1: who have witnessed terrifying apparitions on the Stocksbridge bypass, they
Speaker 1: very rarely travel on it now. On the rare occasions,
Speaker 1: this figure of a monk has been known to do
Speaker 1: something that would disturb even the most level headed and
Speaker 1: skeptical of us. At around ten p m. One evening,
Speaker 1: an elderly couple who were driving across the Perroi Bridge
Speaker 1: began to take note of that familiar musty smell that
Speaker 1: so many other witnesses have reported. It became so strong
Speaker 1: and pungent that the woman likened it to that of
Speaker 1: a rotting corpse, and then the inside of the car
Speaker 1: when cold, like a freezer door opening. She then became
Speaker 1: aware of someone or something sitting in back of the car,
Speaker 1: and as she slowly turned her head to look saw
Speaker 1: a dark cloak sitting on the back seat. It had
Speaker 1: fallen to it, but nothing else, and radiated a terrible,
Speaker 1: ominous atmosphere. In shock, the woman cowered down in her
Speaker 1: seat and whispered to her husband that there was someone
Speaker 1: sitting in the back of the car.
Speaker 2: Yes, sort.
Speaker 1: The mark, But as she said this, the temperature went
Speaker 1: back to normal and the figure had vanished. A similar
Speaker 1: incident happened at a location near the bypass called Underbank.
Speaker 1: The witness was driving up through Underbank one morning when
Speaker 1: as they neared the corner, they experienced the phenomena of
Speaker 1: a dramatic drop in temperature. Not being able to see
Speaker 1: an apparition, but only feel it. The witness said that
Speaker 1: they became very aware of something sitting next to them
Speaker 1: in the car. In their mind's eye. Whatever this was,
Speaker 1: it was giving the witness the impression that it was
Speaker 1: a monk. It sat there with a type of basket
Speaker 1: on its lap, giving an evil and malevolent vibe. The
Speaker 1: witness also said that they were fully aware that this
Speaker 1: entity knew it was frightening, knew it was causing discomfort,
Speaker 1: even that it wanted to cause an accident, then as
Speaker 1: quickly as it appeared, it went. This sighting is also
Speaker 1: interesting because of its location. We've already heard about the
Speaker 1: monk who fell out of favor at the monastery and
Speaker 1: went to work on a farm, But another story tells
Speaker 1: of a monk with a similar reason for being cast
Speaker 1: out by his fellow colleagues. But instead of going to
Speaker 1: work on a farm, he went to work at Underbank
Speaker 1: Hall as a gardener, where he lived out the rest
Speaker 1: of his life. As with the other story of the monk,
Speaker 1: he was buried on a nearby hillside, a hallow ground,
Speaker 1: and this hillside decimated when work on the bypass began
Speaker 1: built in fourteen eighty. Under Bank Hall is certainly old
Speaker 1: enough to have been thrust into legend of the ghostly Monk,
Speaker 1: and still stands today, obviously renovated over the centuries and
Speaker 1: passed on to various owners. It's now back in private ownership.
Speaker 1: But was there any trace of a monk ever having
Speaker 1: worked there? Unfortunately we'll probably never know for sure. But
Speaker 1: what about the sightings of the children by the electric pylons,
Speaker 1: heard singing ringo ringo roses dancing holding hands? Is there
Speaker 1: a story to explain their existence. Well, yes, there are
Speaker 1: two possible stories which could shed light on why they
Speaker 1: continue to haunt the Stocksbridge bypass, one more believable than
Speaker 1: the other, I might add. The first involves the bridge
Speaker 1: which has been involved in many sightings of apparitions and
Speaker 1: entities over the history of the haunting of the area,
Speaker 1: the bridge which Pcllis and PC Beat had one of
Speaker 1: their experiences. Now, obviously that bridge was only just being built,
Speaker 1: but there were other ones in the same location years before.
Speaker 1: There have been a number of stories involving a coach
Speaker 1: and horses overturning and killing a group of children, but
Speaker 1: just as with the stories of the monk, these have
Speaker 1: been hard to actually nail them to an element of truth.
Speaker 1: Crashes have indeed took place on the old now demolished
Speaker 1: bridges from over one hundred years ago, but there doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be any records of fatalities. Now that's not
Speaker 1: to say that some sort of accident involving a coach
Speaker 1: and horses didn't happen, and that's not to say the
Speaker 1: children weren't killed. It's just that there aren't any records
Speaker 1: of it, such as in newspapers from the time. Another
Speaker 1: storyline which could explain the apparitions of the children, and
Speaker 1: the one I'm more tempted to believe in, revolves around
Speaker 1: the mining industry in the area. Years ago, open shafts
Speaker 1: allegedly littered the countryside, and many children are said to
Speaker 1: have perished as they felt their deaths down one of
Speaker 1: the many shafts. Also, let's not forget that it wasn't
Speaker 1: until the Mines and Collieries Bill, which was passed in
Speaker 1: Parliament in eighteen forty two, the children and whole families
Speaker 1: were working down coal mines. But even this law only
Speaker 1: stopped the mining companies from sending women down and children
Speaker 1: under the age of ten years old. So it's quite
Speaker 1: possible that the spirits of the children which have been
Speaker 1: seen near the bypass are those who were maybe killed
Speaker 1: in a mining accident, a cave in or tunnel collapse,
Speaker 1: maybe even an explosion. Psychics, including Lucinda Jane who was
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, have attempted to tap into the energy and
Speaker 1: spirits that roam the countryside around the bypass as well
Speaker 1: as on it. Some have had mild six others not
Speaker 1: so much, and the area is a hotspot for paranormal investigators.
Speaker 1: Ghost hunters and organized tours. One paranormal investigator called the
Speaker 1: Stocksbridge Bypass his most terrifying investigation yet. Phil Sinclair was
Speaker 1: up at the bypass one night with a few colleagues
Speaker 1: on a routine investigation. The group packed various pieces of
Speaker 1: equipment to help them in their research for paranormal phenomena
Speaker 1: in the area, and their night wasn't to be a disappointment.
Speaker 1: With his actions being filmed, he carefully navigated a number
Speaker 1: of locations along the bypass in the dark. Armed with
Speaker 1: a device called an ovolus. He began asking questions out lauds,
Speaker 1: such as quote, I would like to talk to any
Speaker 1: spirits that reside in this area. I mean you no harm,
Speaker 1: Please manifest yourself end quote before we carry on. It's
Speaker 1: important to understand what an ovolus is and what it does.
Speaker 1: An Ovolus comes in a number of different formats, but
Speaker 1: the basic function of this device is as follows. It
Speaker 1: is equipped with an onboard electromagnetic field or EMF for
Speaker 1: short detection system which scans the area hunting for changes
Speaker 1: or anomalies in the electromagnetic field of the area you
Speaker 1: are in. These changes in the EMF are linked to
Speaker 1: a database of words, and it's these words that are
Speaker 1: either spoken out by the device or displayed on a
Speaker 1: small screen. The theory behind an ovelus is that spirits, ghosts, entities, apparitions,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, can manipulate a location's
Speaker 1: electromagnetic field, converting those changes into words and thus making
Speaker 1: contact with the world of the living. These devices are
Speaker 1: a favorite amongst ghost hunters and paranormal investigators because they
Speaker 1: can encode compus a number of tools in one unit,
Speaker 1: an EMF meter, an EVP or electronic voice phenomena detector,
Speaker 1: and a spirit box or radiofrequency scanner. Depending on the model,
Speaker 1: they can carry more options such as environmental senses, which
Speaker 1: can pick up changes in humidity and temperature, all things
Speaker 1: that are allegedly signs of a ghost, spirit, apparition, or poltergeist.
Speaker 1: So now we have a better grip of what an
Speaker 1: ovelus is and what it does. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: what Phil Sinclair experienced during his investigation. As he was
Speaker 1: asking questions, the ovelus began picking up strange fluctuations in
Speaker 1: the surrounding electromagnetic field. Initially, it seemed like Sinclair felt
Speaker 1: that the presence was a child and actually called out
Speaker 1: to it to make itself known. But then the ovelus
Speaker 1: converted the EMF readings to sounds, and what they said
Speaker 1: was quite disturbing. He raise was the first word, followed
Speaker 1: by you need. But when Sinclair asked the presence, what
Speaker 1: do you need, it chillingly replied your soul. Sinclair then
Speaker 1: felt a shift in the atmosphere, claiming that he now
Speaker 1: felt an evil presence. Then, in complete shock, shouted out
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ as he said that he'd seen the figure
Speaker 1: of a man standing in amongst undergrowth. After this, the
Speaker 1: tension racked up even more, with the sounds of a
Speaker 1: growl allegedly being heard, as well as more voices. But
Speaker 1: the peak of the investigation came when Sinclair asked the
Speaker 1: spirit do you want us to leave and got a
Speaker 1: three word reply, hate and get out. The group then
Speaker 1: decided it was probably a good idea to quit while
Speaker 1: they were ahead. But what do we think think about
Speaker 1: investigations such as these using tools which are frowned upon
Speaker 1: by the majority of the scientific community, Tools which are
Speaker 1: being used to detect phenomena which they feel doesn't even exist.
Speaker 1: We have to try to put these investigations and all
Speaker 1: the other accounts, experiences and incidents into context. Is it
Speaker 1: in our nature as human beings to concoct stories, to exaggerate,
Speaker 1: to lie? Are we to believe and come to the
Speaker 1: conclusion that every single person who has witnessed strange phenomena
Speaker 1: on or near the Stocksbridge Bypass are lying? Have they
Speaker 1: all been mistaken with what they've seen, confusing their experiences
Speaker 1: with something which is not only not paranormal but also
Speaker 1: easily explainable. To this day, PC Ellis and PC Beats
Speaker 1: stand firm by their experiences, as do many others who
Speaker 1: have had encounters with the strange and unusual to many.
Speaker 1: In their opinion, this clearly very active area is testament
Speaker 1: to the possibility that the dead do in fact come
Speaker 1: back to roam the earth long after they have passed,
Speaker 1: that spirits, apparitions, ghosts can somehow interact with the living
Speaker 1: in our dimension, and maybe, just maybe, all of this
Speaker 1: could go some way to proving that the Stocksbridge Bypass
Speaker 1: really is the most haunted stretch of road in the UK.
Speaker 1: So the next time you're out at night driving along
Speaker 1: and lonely road, just be sure to double check quickly
Speaker 1: look at both sides of the road for strange figures,
Speaker 1: keep the heater on in case the inside of your
Speaker 1: car suddenly feels ice block cold. And finally, last of all,
Speaker 1: double check which road you're actually on, because if you
Speaker 1: find yourself traveling alone on the Stocksbridge bypass, then the
Speaker 1: next person to come face to face with the paranormal,
Speaker 1: specifically a monk like being who has a pension for
Speaker 1: appearing on your back seat and locking dead eyes with
Speaker 1: you in the rear view mirror, well, the next person
Speaker 1: to endure that could be you.
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