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I've heard many urban legend to do with moorhead high school. The one that sticks to my mind is about a student dying at the bell on Cromwell building, heard that one by someone few years above me when I was in year 8. didn't believe it for a second (honestly)

have any of you heard any urban legend?

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I left Moorhead in 1984 and have never heard of the student dying at the bell :confused: can you elaborate on that one. Who was the student? When did this supposedly happen?

I'm a nosy ****** aren't I? :D

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lol

i dont know when it happen. i just heard it off someone who heard it from someone else. thats why i didn't believe it.

Another one i heard was that before the school was built there was a farm and on it some kid was riding a horse at night and somehow became headless. anyway apparently his headless 'ghost' has been seen in corridoors at moorhead. saying "give me my head" i don't believe this one an'all (honestly)

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Hehehe, never heard that one either.......School was obviously very boring when I was there.

The headless horseman used to ride the canal path inbetween Church and Rishton when I was a kid. People used to say that they had seen him near the Dunkenhalgh. I think it was a ploy to keep kids from playing near the canal..:D

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No ploy.......he has been seen many times.

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have you seen him yourself or just heard it from someone who heard it from someone else?

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No, I've seen him twice. Fear roots you to the spot; your bones freeze and your hair falls out.

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Are you sure you didn't just see your reflection in the canal? lol

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The first time was many years ago. I suppose I was 13 or 14 at the time, and with several chums. It was a cold december evening, and we had set off down the Dunkenhalgh with air rifles and a few flagons of Strongbow to kill a few riverside rats and rabbits. I remember there was ice on the ground and it was very dark as we left the canal bank and proceeded down the path past Ponthalgh farm.

In those days, of course, there was no motorway cutting through the estate, so there was no artificial light. We reached the bridge where the Aspen/Tinker brook joins the Hyndburn and walked into a wall of mist...and absolute silence. You could see no more than your arm's length...suddenly, from behind, came this eerie, low pitched sound and as we turned, a wind hit us in the face...and yet the mist did not appear to move. Then suddenly, upon us was a hugh black beast of maybe 16 or 17 hands, and on it was mounted an English Roundhead, one arm outstretched with mighty sabre in hand, the other holding the reins. But where his head and helmet should be...there was nothing...just a plume of blood erupting from his neck and cascading over the front of his silver breastplate. He was past in an instant and behind him the mist slowly cleared.

Needless to say, we shot neither rat or rabbit that night.

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Is Moorhead a real school?

Thought that was an urban myth.

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Oooh, how spooky. I used to walk from Church to Rishton every weekend as a teenager. We worked at the riding school in Rishton and used to walk the canal route every Saturday and Sunday morning at about 5am. Never did see the headless horseman but being a gaggle of teenage girls we used to talk about it. We never hung around on the canal path though......it was always a fairly brisk walk..:D

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Thats because he only comes out after closing time. :D

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I've heard one about coppice
Two friends going up it at night, saw a house half way up. They went inside all the lights were on with screams coming from upstairs. looked at the wall, had human on the wall (like how hunters have animal heads). they ran out returned next day while sun was out and there was nothing there.

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best urban legend i heard was that there was a shop in accrington that wasnt a everything a pound shop

scary thought.

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Ace tale Mr Tealeaf I got goose bumps reading that then ... :D

Kash I think you and your mates having been watching to many horror movies ;) :p

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Only thing i know for fact about Moorhead is that a pupil was struck by lightening on the link path:rolleyes:

Fact of of a headless horseman ghost is in Blackburn [watch too much most haunted] :eek:

Any more ghost stories though not as hugely reported in Accrington:rolleyes:

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i was driving back from blackpool at 5am the other day and drove thru salmesbury and i was like right mani just drive head on... dont look around dont look at the rear view mirror...

when was the last time anyone actually saw anything at salmesbury?

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Last year or so when most haunted spent the night:D

My Aunty lives near there & she says its very spooky at night & ghosts has been witnessed

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Theres some on this link to read about

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/spooky/haunted_houses/

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I've never seen anything spooky.

I've spent hours wandering in the dark looking for head

-less ghosts.

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Hehehehee Rindy you may of got some without realising......... best not yawn too wide when you take a brisk walk in the dark - that fly you thought you may of swallowed may in fact be something else :eek: ;) :D hehehehe

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I've never seen any ghosts just heard stories from people.

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Location: Clayton le Moors - Dunkenhalgh Hall (currently a hotel?) and nearby bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This former maid at the hall fell pregnant after a torrid affair with the master - he wasn't interested in her long term future, so she took her own life. Her misty white form now comes back around Christmas to remind others of her fate

http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/la...e/lancdata.php

http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/Dun...tory/index.htm

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a young lad was actually killed by the lightening up there mel, it was me mates lads mate. if that makes sense.

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no it doesn't
oh wait..........wait
now it does

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I remember the lad being killed by lightning on the link path it was in the papers.

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when did this happen?

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The foot holes were there on the field when I was at that school. Around 79/80 a year or so before I was sent to that hole.

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Peter Britcliffe is a sound upstanding leader of the community.

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I'm all for bashing the Bishop...I mean Commissar, if called for, but what has he got to do with urban myths....unless you are trying to start one with that outlandish statement?:eek: :D

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Rumours can start a myth outlandish or not.:D

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Did you know Chav is actually Scottish?

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no i didn't but that explains a hell of a lot.:D methinks oneday he will become an urban legend.

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whats that got to do with urban legends?

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Tealeaf
I think the Strongbow would kill a few rats and rabbits, are you sure you weren,t drinking the stuff when you saw the ghost.

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the pupil at moorhead was walking on the field when they were struck by lightning

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I was just going to say that myself. He wasn't killed on the link path, he was struck on the field.....

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Blimey picky pedantics:D:p lol

Still a pupil got struck by lightening outside Moorhead buildings be it feild itself or link path:rolleyes:

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No thats quite ok mel!! can't be right all the time ;)

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No suppose not im not a youngster anymore hehehehe:D

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yes it was the field but not near the tree like people tend to think

there are what appear to be 2 scorch marks the size of feet near the tree and peopel say thats his foot prints burned into the ground

that is part is teh myth but the rest is true

i know somone who saw it happen and from what i remember he ran out into the rain across teh field and was struck by lightening , somthing about 2 girls he knew were on teh field at the time and he was running to help them out of the storm

thats what i remeber the tale as anyway but it was a long tiem ago so things get added and altered through time

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The unfortunate lad was called Gary Robinson,he was killed outright about half way between the now demolished Queens building and the Cromwell building.Several friends with him were rendered unconscious and a couple were temporarily blinded.I was at the school at the time so it was probably about 1979-1982 .It was very traumatic for pupils and teachers;esp the 2 teachers who tried to revive him;Mr Lowe and Mr Windle I believe.

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My ex was working alongside the mother at the time and was extremely traumatic, so think best if we get back to the headless horseman that Tealeaf thinks he saw ! Personally, think he is winding you up.

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my grandad is supposed to have a photo of the headless horseman, i duno if its true or not.

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Next time you see him, instead of asking for a Wurther's Original ask to see the photograph.:D


Since there isn't a documented photograph of a ghost, that may be your inheritance tucked away at your Grandad's.:p