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Title: Hampshire Ghosts with Richard Felix  | views:476 |   Hampshire Ghosts is a collection of ghost stories from around the county of Hampshire with Most Haunted historian Richard Felix.
The DVD only looks at about 10 stories from around Hampshire so there loads of room there to improve and expand the dvd for future editions.
The information is well presented and Mr Felix is good to watch and makes the stories interesting. There is only one major fault that I picked up on that was the story concerning the The White Swan Inn which Mr Felix visited. The pub he was in was indeed the white swan but not the white swan that is haunted by the ghost he was telling the story about...that pub is in the other end of the city.
Good watch though and strange to see your home county on DVD
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| Review submitted: 04/12/2009
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  Title: Haunted Britain & Ireland By Derek Acorah | views:335 |  I know everyone sighs when Derek launches a ghost book but must admit this one is not bad at all!
He lists and details stories of hauntings from over 100 sites in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern and Southern Ireland.
There is very little mediumship input on his part which I feel is a good part to the book and it’s written with both the context of giving a little historical information and then what’s supposedly haunts the places he has visited.
There lots of interesting locations discussed and it opened up my eyes to how many sites would be willing to let the Hampshire Ghost Club investigate them, especially in Southern Ireland.
There’s also an interesting story in there about how Derek got his two front smashed out whilst surfing!
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David Scanlan
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| Review submitted: 04/12/2009
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| Title: Haunted Hampshire | Rating: 8.00 views:207 |  This book has to class as one of classics of ghost literature.
The book is really hard to get hold off now as it was written many years ago, your best bet is to try ebay or secondhand bookshops for a copy of it, but it contains so much information on the many hauntings of hampshire that it is a must read.
Where the book is old it contains many stories that have either been forgotten or neglected to be including in books since Haunted Hampshire was released.
The book is written in a serious and honest way although a little tongue in cheek at times. If you can get a copy of this book……..get it!
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| Review submitted: 02/11/2004
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| Title: Haunted Hampshire by Rupert Matthews | views:414 |  First of all let me tell you how I came to get hold of this book and the co-incidence that occured that day.
November 7th, I travelled to Eversley Cross near Yateley with my football team for a cup game, we had played here before using the club website directions of M3 Junction 4 but this time we went by satnav which took us off at Junction 5 and down some country lanes.
On one of the roads we passed a pub, I commented on the name of the pub (Crown and Cushion), because it seemed so unusual. Anyway on my return to Eastleigh I went shopping to Tesco and spotted a book, Haunted Hampshire, but not by our own Dave Scanlan, this publication was one by Rupert Matthews, so i picked the book up, flicked through the pages to see what sort of read it was, the pages stopped at, yes, youve guessed, the Crown and Cushion on the Minley/Blackwater road.
Anyway onto the book which I bought after that. This isnt an A-Z of hauntings and locations, this book is broken down into areas of Hampshire and the stories from that area, which include a lot of background information, for instance the Crown and Cushion story delved into the life story of a one Thomas Blood (aka Thomas Ayloffe) his military career, his attempts at murder, deception, bringing his mistress over from Ireland (Cushenor Cussans) and his ill planned stealing of the crown jewels from the Tower of London (now you see where the pub name comes from), consequent arrest and death sentence.
Somehow Blood got King Charles II to give him another chance but on the proviso that if he commited another crime the death sentence would be carried out. Unfortunately Blood' mistress had died within 4 days of his arrest, apparently suicide. Blood died in 1660 owing about 10 thousand pound, a lot of money even today!
It appears from the story that the pub (and road outside) is haunted by his mistress, shes still apparently asking people if they have any news from London.
All in all a decent read if you want stories of alledged hauntings, including statements from eye witnesses, but you do have to wade through a lot of background information to get to the crux of the story.
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| Review submitted: 19/11/2010
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| Title: Haunted Sussex Today | views:140 |  The recently deceased paranormal investigator Andrew Green wrote this book sometime ago but it has gone through various re printings and updates.
The book covers many of the major haunted locations in sussex and also many many sites that are haunted but you don't tend to hear about.
Although the book is well researched and written the book does tend to detail more of the history of the sites and only leaves a small section to describe the actual haunting which is a little disappointing when you consider you have just bought a ghost book.
Well worth a read though just for the stories about those sites you don't read about in other books
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| Review submitted: 29/06/2004
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