Assistant to a Ghost Hunter
“Want to come and release a ghost?” asked Margo Williams.
Most days that’s what she did. She pulled on anorak, grabbed bag stuffed with wads of paper, pencils, sharpener and a thermos. Off out in search of the unlucky dead trapped in a haunting.
St. Helens. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.
Tall tales of ghosts and legends accrue like mist to this old church tower in St. Helens. A whopper of an untold story features an A-List celebrity Roman resident.
The Belgae. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.
Old maps identify an area of the island as definitively Celtic. Chances are a rich DNA vein runs through its residents to whom we owe not only our belief in ghosts, but acceptance of religion.
Knighton Gorges House. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams
Most extraordinary ghost site on the Isle of Wight is Knighton Gorges manor, not least because no such house exists. But sometimes it appears, Brigadoon-like. Locked Haunted Room and everything.
Carisbrooke Castle. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.
A sinister spectral figure sometimes is seen drifting along this battlements walk in Carisbrooke Castle. Guesses gather like mist around the mystery of its identity.
Appuldurcombe House. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.
One ghost-hunter's theory is that ghosts are 'atmospheric photographs'. Emotionally intense moments imprinted into an environment. This may be true, but on a bigger scale, can it explain a curse?
