In The Beginning...
The original York Ghost Festival was started in 2004 by York-based paranormal investigation group PSI.
Since then, it has run every October, usually around Hallowe'en. In 2007 PSI experimented with running mini-festivals on other dates as well, an idea they are hoping to resurrect next year. October/November will still be the biggest festival, the others being mini-festivals.
Details of all of our investigations are stored in The Vault
2009
'Orribly Original: Haunted, 35 Stonegate, York
October 24th: Our first live streamed event, jointly with Hull Paranormal Ghost Society'Orribly Original: Haunted, 35 Stonegate, York
Hallowe'en Investigation, again with HPGS and others. Charity fund of the night was the SOS appeal (Shoeboxes for Soldiers).2008
WinterFest: Undisclosed Business, York City Centre
Argh! Sadly little we can say as it was private, but what a night!
'Orribly Original: Haunted, 35 Stonegate, York
It certainly was a Haunted evening!
'Orribly Original: Ebor Inn, Bishopthorpe
No return of the figure in the mirror sadly*************************************************************************
2007
Midsummer Madness: York Tyburn
The night of the Humpty Back Monster!
'Orribly Original: York Tyburn
No monsters... or much else*************************************************************************
2006
'Orribly Original: Lendal Water Tower
Amazing building, amazing night
'Orribly Original: Thomas's Hotel
Musical chairs and the magic slippers*************************************************************************
2005
'Orribly Original: The Ebor Inn, Bishopthorpe
THAT photograph...
Look
carefully in the mirror: we were amused by the orb under the sign (it
says "double up on spirits for £1" but when the photograph was put on a
computer, I spotted the reflection which does not look like anybody
present on the investigation that night. This is the area isolated and
enlarged:
The darker shape behind the 10 of the date is medium Diana Jarvis walking past the bar. We have no idea who the person in white and blue is. I later returned to the pub to try 'staging' a shot of it to see what it looked like with some of the staff, including the landlord, Gordon, stood behind the bar as a comparison:
We've never found out who the person was in the first photograph, however we have, since it was taken, uncovered more stories about ghostly happenings in the pub prior to Gordon taking over involving moving furniture, doors being wedged shut and other poltergeist-type activity. Whatever is in there though seems to like Gordon, with orbs on video cameras appearing to following him around the room - this is also the only place I have seen coloured orbs on a video camera, these particular ones being golden.
'Orribly Original: Ye Olde Starre Inne, Stonegate
The return of the potato-geist
'Orribly Original: York Dungeon, Clifford Street
Mannequins and malevolence. Also, our first charity fund-raising night, raising money for the apprentices divison of the Sealed Knot re-enactment society.*************************************************************************