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Dark Prince Joined: 15/12/2007 Location: Around and about View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 01/09/2011 19:58:19 Reply | Quote Never seen anything ghostly in Cwm, but have smelt the pipe smoke before. Theres only one mine i won't go down on me own and thats Ridge in Wilts....it scared me sillys. DP IP: 87.112.43.186 |
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mistericeman Joined: 04/10/2009 Location: Ashton-under-Lyne (Manchester) View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 01/09/2011 20:07:06 Reply | Quote Hmmm on the subject of odd stuff in Cwm .... We visited there a couple of weeks ago and had a unsuccessful (due to me leaving the plan and route in the car) circular trip  However fun was had by all and much appreciation to the folks that keep Cwm in the order it has been accustomed to being kept in ...Top work fellas  .On uploading some of my pictures (didnt take many as i was "fiddling with my new video cam...More light needed lol) And looking through them noticed this below one of the bridges .... http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l72/spellcaster69/Cwmorthin20-08-2011/DSCF5535.jpg http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l72/spellcaster69/Cwmorthin20-08-2011/DSCF5536.jpg Trick of the light/graffitti/interpretation of "The scream" ..Dunno but gave me a shiver down the spine AND the Mrs noticed it too ...so it MUST be there lol IP: 80.7.233.134 Edited: 01/09/2011 20:09:04 by mistericeman |
dwarrowdelf Joined: 09/02/2011 Location: Lost in Cwmorthin...and Oakeley too !! View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 01/09/2011 20:29:40 Reply | Quote Trick of the light/graffitti/interpretation of "The scream" ..Dunno but gave me a shiver down the spine AND the Mrs noticed it too ...so it MUST be there lo Yes! i'm quite familiar with this bridge on floor B and have also noticed this somewhat spooky formation. If I remember rightly it's in a couple of my photos too and it likewise sticks in my mind! -- 'no one dares to seek the shafts and treasuries down in the deep places: they are drowned in water- or in a shadow of fear.' IP: 93.97.118.21 Edited: 01/09/2011 21:07:10 by dwarrowdelf |
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dwarrowdelf Joined: 09/02/2011 Location: Lost in Cwmorthin...and Oakeley too !! View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 01/09/2011 20:37:30 Reply | Quote .....and here 'he' is, peering balefully at mine explorer!  (click image to open full size image in new window) On second thoughts, perhaps it's Gollum!!  -- 'no one dares to seek the shafts and treasuries down in the deep places: they are drowned in water- or in a shadow of fear.' IP: 93.97.118.21 Edited: 08/09/2011 17:43:08 by dwarrowdelf |
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mistericeman Joined: 04/10/2009 Location: Ashton-under-Lyne (Manchester) View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 01/09/2011 21:03:13 Reply | Quote Glad it wasn't "JUST" me then .... Bloody piercing "eyes" too 
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Llion Joined: 03/08/2006 Location: Ffestiniog/Eglwysbach (haha) View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 01/09/2011 22:31:42 Reply | Quote Brrrrrrr reading about Pinzaguer description just sent a massive shiver through me.... couple of years ago walking up to the Twll at top of Rhosydd, just got past 4 barracks and looking up to the next level above the inclein, a "man" dressed all in black with hat was walking along the top. Didnt think much of it and said to myself il soon catch him up, only 5 mins at the most from where i was...got up there and no one to be seen  I actually made a point of looking for said person but belive me there was no one anywhere !!! Made my way to the level 2 buildings, sat down, had a drink and a fag and kept my eyes peeled, but still nothing. It was a nice sunny day visabilaty perfect, so....same apparition ?????
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RJV Joined: 16/03/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 00:26:18 Reply | Quote Somewhat regrettably I've yet to encounter a ghost underground. I've not seen any little green men from Mars either. I did once think I'd seen Nessie floating towards me in Sir Francis but it turned out just to be a bit of rotten wood... 
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Barney Joined: 01/12/2005 Location: Warwickshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 01:14:01 Reply | Quote simonrl wrote: Two mine explorers I know, Mark and Barney had an encounter on DE floor (just beyond the boiler chamber) at the collapse. Recounted in detail elsewhere (I'll have a look for it now) but Barney said they were using a hurricane lantern and it went out three times and on the third time time swung violently where it was hanging. He also said there was as strong smell of tobacco smoke. Shortly after the collapse shifted quite a lot. . I have copied/pasted the story from another thread from 2007 .... Last night Barney, Sharon and I went for a quick look around Cwmorthin - the plan was to get through to Oakeley and return via the Lefel Ffrench and Back Vein incline. For a bit of fun I took along a Storm Lamp mainly to see how much light they actually gave off! On our return I had just crossed the collapsed section when Barney and Sharon shouted to say that there was a pungent smell of tobacco in the air - at this very moment my lamp went out! I relit the lamp and hung it on a hook on the ceiling and awaited the other two explorers. As they came over the top, the lamp, with no contact and no draught in the air at all began to rock violently on the hook and again extinguished. Once the group had reassembled I checked the lamp hoping that the paraffin had run out as I really wanted there to be a natural explanation at that point. To my horror the lamp was still full of oil! Continuing from Merddinemrys story.... While he was being gracefully entertained by the spooks of Cwmorthin, i was having a spot of bother, on the other side of the collapse, with a cloud of white smoke that appeared in the shape of a face, then promptly disappeared. This was about a metre in front of me. It seems that the Cwmorthin spook warns of danger, the 'face' appeared and was clear and detailed. This all cracked off as i was about to attempt to crawl under the DE collapse -- |
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 03:51:53 Reply | Quote I've taken a few trips into Wheal Bellan over the years and from the first trip, the place always made me feel slightly uncomfortable, though not enough to say give me the willies. The funny thing is, that others on the same trip have spoken of hearing voices in there which I have not. It's a bit of a strange one that I've never been able to explain. I once saw a light in Cligga at the end of a blind heading. Thinking it was my two companions I walked down to meet them, turned the corner believing that they were hiding there with thier lamps out ready to leap out and frighten me, and was greeted with an empty end. A surprise, but I didn't feel scared. So walking back down the drive I scanned the floor thinking my lamp beam may have glanced off a puddle on the floor, but no puddles at all...........Stumped! -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 86.178.18.175 |
christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 08:21:54 Reply | Quote Having no belief in the paranormal whatsoever, so have you ever come across the theories about infrasound making places feel "weird" ? I'm sure I saw a documentary years ago about a 'haunted' tunnel on the underground and when they measured the infrasound. Ah yes, the wonders of the internet (10 minutes in) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6580797882726006855 IP: 82.5.179.238 |
stevem Joined: 21/08/2006 Location: Wirral View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 11:46:45 Reply | Quote mistericeman wrote: Hmmm on the subject of odd stuff in Cwm .... We visited there a couple of weeks ago and had a unsuccessful (due to me leaving the plan and route in the car) circular trip However fun was had by all and much appreciation to the folks that keep Cwm in the order it has been accustomed to being kept in ...Top work fellas .On uploading some of my pictures (didnt take many as i was "fiddling with my new video cam...More light needed lol) And looking through them noticed this below one of the bridges .... http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l72/spellcaster69/Cwmorthin20-08-2011/DSCF5535.jpg http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l72/spellcaster69/Cwmorthin20-08-2011/DSCF5536.jpg Trick of the light/graffitti/interpretation of "The scream" ..Dunno but gave me a shiver down the spine AND the Mrs noticed it too ...so it MUST be there lol While we are into seeing things have a look at the rock just to the left of 'the scream' in the foreground. Looks like head in profile straining to be free from the slate -- May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch. IP: 192.171.196.149 |
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John Lawson Joined: 09/12/2010 Location: Castle Douglas Dumfries & Galloway View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 15:46:25 Reply | Quote Hi Chris,sorry to disappoint you all the "atmosphere " is downstairs! I am not unduly worried about the S.R.T. Rope after all I put it in place 20years ago on the 24 th of Feb according to my note book. The top has always looked a jumble of iron mongery but since it rests on the G.Limestone it is pretty safe. The only problem in the Flats is the poor air quality as has been commented on previously. It was a pity the V.M. Miners did not connect these flats, on High Raise 2nd Sun Vein the other workings on it associated with those close to Wellhope Shaft there is about 1000ft of Hard Rock between the two sets of workings. I still would not linger at the base of the rise. IP: 92.8.157.145 |
hymac580c Joined: 28/05/2007 Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 02/09/2011 17:56:34 Reply | Quote I have not physicaly seen a ghost underground at Cwmorthin. But no doubt there are quite a few spirits that have not crossed over still down there cosidering the number of accidental fatalities underground. My Great grandfather Evan John Evans was killed at Cwmorthin by falling from a precipice in 1875. His body was brought home to his familly in a sack. Only people with similar abilities to this person could really find out what is down there - http://www.lisawilliams.com/?page=AboutLisa -- I'r pant yr rhed y dwr. IP: 195.93.21.39 |
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christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/09/2011 23:22:24 Reply | Quote I've taken thousands of photos like that, who knew it was ghosts ! 
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superkev Joined: 27/07/2009 Location: west cumbria View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/09/2011 23:40:41 Reply | Quote Slightly related but not a photograph taken underground, rather a photo taken on the streets of Edinburgh last November, what do you make of this....... Photo No1  then taken less than a second later (because I thought photo No1 had came out blurry) Photo No2 
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Brakeman Joined: 10/10/2007 Location: Cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/09/2011 23:44:37 Reply | Quote You breathed out just as you took the photo, done it myself loads of times underground in cooler or damp mines, I now have to remember to hold my breath before taking some photos..  -- The management thanks you for your co operation. IP: 86.27.164.254 |
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Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 07/09/2011 02:09:56 Reply | Quote I was told to hold my breath and take one step forward to clear the immediate 'funk' area. No probs!  -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 86.178.18.175 |
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Posted: 07/09/2011 09:52:25 Reply | Quote Fag smoke ? lol IP: 81.109.226.72 |
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dwarrowdelf Joined: 09/02/2011 Location: Lost in Cwmorthin...and Oakeley too !! View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 08/09/2011 17:10:02 Reply | Quote hymac580c wrote: I have not physicaly seen a ghost underground at Cwmorthin. But no doubt there are quite a few spirits that have not crossed over still down there cosidering the number of accidental fatalities underground. My Great grandfather Evan John Evans was killed at Cwmorthin by falling from a precipice in 1875. His body was brought home to his familly in a sack. Only people with similar abilities to this person could really find out what is down there - http://www.lisawilliams.com/?page=AboutLisa The tragic accident mentioned by 'hymac' above seems to be documented in 'Cwmorthin Slate Quarry' by Graham Isherwood. On page 98 2nd ed, he gives details of the official list of fatal accidents at Cwmorthin between 1875 and 1892. The reference as it appears in Isherwood's book reads: - '1875: A labourer was killed when he fell over a "precipice" ' Perhaps in light of such events we should talk not of spooks etc, but 'spirits of a past life' which I actually prefer and find much more respectful. -- 'no one dares to seek the shafts and treasuries down in the deep places: they are drowned in water- or in a shadow of fear.' IP: 93.97.118.21 Edited: 08/09/2011 19:10:41 by dwarrowdelf |
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hymac580c Joined: 28/05/2007 Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 08/09/2011 17:55:17 Reply | Quote Here is a copy of the local newspaper report 1875 which reports two fatalities. One at Cwmorthin and the other at Gloddafa Ganol. In short it reports of one man killed by falling to his death at Cwmorthin and the other killed by an explosion in an underground chamber at Gloddfa Ganol. (click image to open full size image in new window) -- I'r pant yr rhed y dwr. IP: 195.93.21.72 Edited: 08/09/2011 17:55:55 by hymac580c |
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