'Community Spirit' documentary video cassette

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'Community Spirit' documentary video cassette

Contains amateur documentary film made by the University of Humberside about ghosts and local paranormal investigators. Duration: 29 mins Directed by S Popplewell. Timing. Action on film. (00:02) A tour guide, outside Beverley Post Office, tells participants in the Beverley Ghost Walk about two books; 'Ghosts and Hauntings in Beverley and East Riding' 1987, and 'More Ghosts and Hauntings in Beverley and East Riding' 1988. (01:09) 'Ghost walk' around Beverley (no commentary.) (01:37) View of Well Lane, Beverley. (01:49) A man describes how he experienced a ghostly presence in a bedroom at his grandparents' house in Well Lane, Beverley 1976, with ghostly noises on the stairs. (03:55) BBC Radio Humberside studio. Introduction to a feature involving parapsychologist Robin Firman. (04:54) 'Ghostbusters UK', led by Robin Furman, visit 'The Fleece' public house in North Cotes, North East Lincolnshire, following reported sightings of a ghost with a large hat and a long coat, known as the 'Cavalier'. (07:26). Robin Furman describes some of his ghost detection equipment to Bryan [Cowley], pub landlord. (08:26) Bryan describes having seen the 'vague figure' of a cavalier. (09:41) Robin Furman demonstrates his 'Life Field Detector' and specially adapted glasses equipped with torchlights. (12:45) Resuming with the Beverley Ghost Walk, a tour guide describes how in the summer of 1981 near Lairgate, Beverley, a man called 'Andrew' allegedly saw the figure of a lady in a bonnet, which walked through walls. (13:29) 'Andrew' recounts the story of the sighting in Lairgate. (16:20) The tour guide suggests that this may be the ghost of a lady discovered in the town ditch during the Victorian period. (17:14) Sound recording of an alleged paranormal event in a house in Kintbury, Berkshire. (mainly the sound of a child crying.) (17:40) The mother at the household in Kintbury describes recent 'mysterious' events there involving an alleged ghost. Such events include the levitation of her son, sightings of a ghost in a bedroom, walking through walls, the alleged image of a ghost in a bedroom miror, and a threatening phone call from someone whom the family believed to be the ghost. Also with the accounts of spiritualists and professors who had performed exorcisms on the house. . (29:01) Acknowledgements to Peter H Robinson, James Tims and Mike Osborn. Film and Sound Archive access copy available onsite in the Audio-Visual Room

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Finding Aid: DDX1369/5/13

Title: 'Community Spirit' documentary video cassette

Repository: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies (UK47)

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Description: Contains amateur documentary film made by the University of Humberside about ghosts and local paranormal investigators.Duration: 29 minsDirected by S Popplewell.Timing. Action on film.(00:02) A tour guide, outside Beverley Post Office, tells participants in the Beverley Ghost Walk about two books; 'Ghosts and Hauntings in Beverley and East Riding' 1987, and 'More Ghosts and Hauntings in Beverley and East Riding' 1988.(01:09) 'Ghost walk' around Beverley (no commentary.)(01:37) View of Well Lane, Beverley.(01:49) A man describes how he experienced a ghostly presence in a bedroom at his grandparents' house in Well Lane, Beverley 1976, with ghostly noises on the stairs.(03:55) BBC Radio Humberside studio. Introduction to a feature involving parapsychologist Robin Firman. (04:54) 'Ghostbusters UK', led by Robin Furman, visit 'The Fleece' public house in North Cotes, North East Lincolnshire, following reported sightings of a ghost with a large hat and a long coat, known as the 'Cavalier'.(07:26). Robin Furman describes some of his ghost detection equipment to Bryan [Cowley], pub landlord.(08:26) Bryan describes having seen the 'vague figure' of a cavalier.(09:41) Robin Furman demonstrates his 'Life Field Detector' and specially adapted glasses equipped with torchlights.(12:45) Resuming with the Beverley Ghost Walk, a tour guide describes how in the summer of 1981 near Lairgate, Beverley, a man called 'Andrew' allegedly saw the figure of a lady in a bonnet, which walked through walls.(13:29) 'Andrew' recounts the story of the sighting in Lairgate.(16:20) The tour guide suggests that this may be the ghost of a lady discovered in the town ditch during the Victorian period.(17:14) Sound recording of an alleged paranormal event in a house in Kintbury, Berkshire. (mainly the sound of a child crying.)(17:40) The mother at the household in Kintbury describes recent 'mysterious' events there involving an alleged ghost. Such events include the levitation of her son, sightings of a ghost in a bedroom, walking through walls, the alleged image of a ghost in a bedroom miror, and a threatening phone call from someone whom the family believed to be the ghost. Also with the accounts of spiritualists and professors who had performed exorcisms on the house. .(29:01) Acknowledgements to Peter H Robinson, James Tims and Mike Osborn.Film and Sound Archive access copy available onsite in the Audio-Visual Room

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DDX1369-5-13 COMMUNITY SPIRIT