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Mathos · 20-09-2008, 06:26 PM

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Wandering Walter Wrote:-

Hi Mathos, the house I lived in at Higher Walton was built on the remains of an old coaching house, my then girlfriend owner said it was haunted, well there was more than me living there at the time! When I first moved in things started to disappear and footsteps could be heard upstairs! On one particular night around 11.00am a bedroom door or several were slammed shut! , I raced upstairs only to find all the doors were open! I learned that previous tenants had complained of similar experiances, After some months it all went quiet, my friend said they had got used to me.

Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,

Hi Walter, it’s right nice to see you back on the thread mate. Your input has been missed by many I’m sure of that. Thanks for paying a visit.

I couldn't help but notice you are building up a selection of ‘Reds’ Walter. What on earth have you been up to?

Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

I do Walter. However, I also obtain levels of enjoyment from some of the unbelievable stories I hear from time to time. It’s quite amazing what the human mind is capable of creating you know. Just think of Bram Stoker as a brilliant example.

There’s some background and facts here with regards to Stoker, which in a manner illustrate the need for interest in such amazing thinking characters, who use their thoughts as skills, beneficial to the interests of mankind. Such creations on paper make their ways to the box offices and the producers along with their fraternity gross millions from such a man’s thoughts.

It’s clever.

But I totally disregard the actual existence of anything remotely like ‘vampires’ or other such phenomenon as ghosts, spacemen kidnapping folk who live in America and other such amazing wishful thinking anecdotes.

The following is taken from:- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

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Stoker was bed-ridden until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."

After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864 – 1870), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. On 31st December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son that they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables,

James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world. In the mid 1890s, Stoker is rumoured to have become a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though there is no concrete evidence to support this claim.[5][6]. The Golden Dawn was a fraternal magical order that also included among its members author W.B.Yeats, occultist Aleister Crowley, author and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Arthur Edward Waite, London stage actress and musician Florence Farr and others. Although there is no evidence that Stoker was actually a member of the order, one of his closest friends was J.W. Brodie-Innis, a major figure in the Order, and Stoker himself hired Pamela Coleman-Smith, the artist who created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, a major instrument in the Order, as an artist at the Lyceum Theatre.

Stoker supplemented his income by writing a number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which was published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspirations for the story were a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, and a visit to the crypts under the church St. John the Baptist where Stoker was baptised

The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow Florence Stoker. The first film adaptation of Dracula was named Nosferatu. It was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred Max Schreck as Count Orlock. Nosferatu was produced while Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker's widow and literary executrix, was still alive. Represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors, she eventually sued the filmmakers. Her chief legal complaint was that she had been neither asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. Some copies of the film survived, however and the film has become very common in current times

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There is no doubt in my mind that ‘Stoker’ had a brilliant thought train, perhaps an unhealthy fascination with the dead, or maybe he fantasised with regards to finding a way to obtain eternal life. Who knows?

There are others of course.

The Invisible man, a novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison.

Dennis Wheatley really got carried away with his meanderings. But he didn’t half sell some books.

These are simple examples, we must not rule out The Mid-West Preacher, who for a monthly Standing Order to his bank account can get you a guaranteed place in heaven. If you up the Standing Order and give him a decent motor car to use on a regular basis, you can have a guaranteed seat on the right hand side of Jesus for eternity.

Wow! I need some of that.

Then there are matters closer to the truth of our history in general.
One book well worth reading if you can handle it, has to be;

The Malleus Maleficarum by Kramer and Sprenger.

With regards to your experiences at Higher Walton though Walter, I would imagine there are some very logical reasons concerning sounds like footsteps and closing doors. Plus people connected with or living in such places with a bit of a history of ‘ghost like apparitions etc’ do have a tendency to ensure the tales loose nothing in their originality.

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Walter wrote:-
PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,

That sounds a real bargain Walter. Well done. I take it you will be having it shipped across to Thailand then?

They are a nice car. Heavy on the old juice of course but if you only do a low mileage and considering the cost of fuel in LOS it has to be a great deal for you.
I’m not sure what shipping costs will be, I once priced up a container for a load of furniture to be shipped from LOS to the UK (Liverpool) that was a little over a thousand pounds, but it was a few years back.

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Walter wrote:-
Hi Happyman just to piss you off further I am building a house in Thailand ,its going to include a small lake about 1/3 acre, going to stock it with Rainbows! not the same as Brownies from the stream but it will do for me! That house in lived in at Higher Walton was set in 6 acres of woodland, the Darren ran around its limits, there was a 2 acre fresh water lake within containing Brown Trout, the lake was originally a water supply for the Dye Works Steam Engine that existed then.
Walter

Hope you don’t mind me making comment on your post to Happyman Walter.

Just wanted to wish you all the best with you’re ‘House-Build in Thailand.’ I hope you are going to do a thread on the same, you know land and everything before you start, then foundations and everything up to completion. Those threads can be spectacular at times Walter and with you having such a bonus as a 1/3rd of an acre lake to go with it, it will make great reading. Make sure you put plenty of photographs on the thread as well.

I really wish you well with your project, new house, lake and Jaguar.

They’ll be saluting you up there Walter.

Have you decided on the style of house you intend building, modern Thai, Traditional Thai or perhaps an English Cottage appearance?

Keep us all up to date with this project Walter, it's great.

Just thought I would mention for your benefit too Walter, Preston is about to undergo a massive transformation. Virtually the whole of the City is to be demolished and rebuilt.

There was only a snippet of information on the Granada News the other night, once they start printing information up in the LEP I'll put some info. on here.

Bus Station is apparently the first to go under the hammer.