Back in 2008, I was shooting a horror film in this derelict mansion house you see in the photo above.

We were shooting mostly nights so we didn’t have to black out all of the windows (I made all of my films on a budget of 50p) and had gone in early so I could do some paperwork.

A Ghostly Voice Spoke To Me

I was in what we were calling the green room and I was tidying up a bit because it was a mess. Most of the young cast were staying in the house on camp beds and such, and so the green room was covered in coffee and sugar, and food wrappers.

As I was tidying up, a voice said ‘hello’ in my ear, so I assumed somebody had walked in behind me, but when I turned around, I was still alone.

Thinking it a bit strange, I went to the door that led to the outside to see if anyone was playing a prank, but there was no one there. I was facing the door at the other end of the room when it happened so I know nobody had come through that. So all that was left was that a disembodied voice had spoken to me.

An Old Hospice With Many Ghosts

The house used to be a hospice run by catholic nuns, and was the final destination for many people on their life’s journey, so many people in the area have thought it to be haunted by hundreds of ghosts.

There were a few people on the cast and crew who wouldn’t come in there alone, especially at night time, but I wasn’t one of them. The experience certainly didn’t frighten me.

There was no glass in any of the windows in this room, and local neighbours would come in to feed feral cats on the property. Dog walkers would also wander through the grounds. With it being so quiet and serene, could people outside have been saying hello and the sound just carried?

It’s something I’ll never know, but I’m convinced it was someone outside.

I then had to make my way in to the building to where we’d built a morgue, fighting past a particularly vicious spider sitting on the handle of the inner door. Now that was scary.

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