Last time I did my neck of the woods south wales, today we are travelling up country to the north, a slightly more welsh place than the south. Also a lot more mountains and even older building exist up in that area.
Today we'll explore 5 of these places, we will start of with:
1. Pool Parc Asylum
An abandoned asylum found in Ruthin is supposedly haunted by a woman in white (usual type of ghost seen in many places) seen in many of the asylums doorways. Here we have a picture of the asylum when it was open:
Many other sightings and sounds have been heard coming from the spooky halls when doing investigations in the site. Many people claiming the screams are like sounds of anguish and regret. Here's what you can expect today:
It's a very popular Urbex place these days, I'm sure there's a few videos on here on some UK YouTube Channels.
2. Pen-Y-Lan House
A large manor house located in Wrexham, it's a very Gothic looking country house. It's also still lived in by residents. Strangely as you can go there on ghost hunting evenings, here's an outside look:
Nights offer group vigils where you can attend table tipping sessions and tours of rooms. For braver folks there's Ouija board usage and single room vigils for lone people too.
Many things involving these activities has said to have produced supernatural occurrences, EVP and ghostly noises have also been recorded in this scary location!
3. Nantclwyd-Y-Dre Town House
One of the oldest still standing buildings in wales built in 1435, making it the oldest wooden framed house too. Here's what it looks like outside:
The place has had special renovated parts to tour around, all furnished with genuine furniture from the era too is really set to immerse you in the time period. Ghost hunting in the building has specific places set up for glass divination, table tipping and some kind of human pendulum thing?
Again for less fearful people there's Ouija boards, these experiments have all had varied joy, such as spirits of the past contacting via the board.
Here's an inside view:
The main thing I've divined about this place is the staggering £25 an hour they ask for entry fees, which is to me a horror unto itself!
4. Ruthin Gaol
An old welsh jail (yes Gaol is welsh for jail) or prison used to house some of the worst people in the area in it's heyday. It was built in 1654 with additional wings built over time.
Here's an outside view:
Lone vigils in cells are on offer as well as lesser or greater ways to communicate with the dead, such as spirit glass or Ouija boards. Only one person was ever hanged here for the murder of his wife one William Hughs. Many have been said to be contacted by his spirit who seems to hate women.
Inside appearance:
This is one place i'd love to do a vigil in and hopefully break me in on seeing something with my own eyes, who knows one day!
5. Beaumaris Gaol
Yes another jail/prison in the Beaumaris area of Wales built in only 1829 it also housed many debt owners as well as harder criminals in it's time. It was expanded a number of years later but then closed, it was then a police station until 1950.
Spookily still it was then turned into a children's clinic until 1974 when it was finally made into the museum it is until modern day.
Here it is outside today:
Two executions were carried out one in 1830 for the attempted murder of his wife by William Griffith, then in 1962 for killing his father in law Richard Rowlands was hung too.
Many ghostly sightings and happenings have been recorded here, from children laughing to the hung men contacting people through various ways. Such as EVP, Ouija board, thrown items etc.
View from inside:
There you go five more spooky places to explore in North Wales this time, we'll be looking at West wales next time, though we might leave east wales out due to there not really being many places there, plus it's not a large part of wales due to the overall shape of the country.
Till next time stay spooky and farewell from THN
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