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Storthes Hall - Have A Read...
scene as im going to storthes hall this year, i figured id read up on the place and i came across this on some 'ghostsuk' forum. anybody came across this? its quite freaky tho...
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As promised down another thread, I'd like to detail my experience on the Storthes Hall campus of Huddersfield University.
The campus (soon to be transformed into a housing estate or Hotel and corporate leisure centre) is situated a few miles out of Huddersfield on the grounds of an old Asylum.
I'm not sure when the Asylum closed, I know my Father worked there in the late seventies as chef. A friends Father worked there about the same time as an orderly.
Anyway, this happened about three and a half years ago.
My girlfriend at the time (now long time ex) was a drama student at the university... I had left my course a long time ago and was working as an Analyst Programmer in Leeds.
As part of her course, my ex had been invited to a piece of outdoor ritual theatre by a director called Phillip Zurilli. It was an excellent piece of interactive theatre, depite being held in the woods around Stothes Hall.
Now I knew what to expect up there. I had been before and fellt the presences in the trees. Still, the things we endure out of love...
The performance itself had us blindfold and placed in imagined Longboats that took us to the underworld by means of us walking to drum beats... when we removed our blindfolds, we were in the woods and the sun was setting. There m,ust have been 80 or mor of us. As we walked teh woods we were shown set pieces by Zurilli's troop. All discourses on the human condition. It was like a live action play of the Divine Comedy. I could feel the woods waking to the performance... the energy they drummed up was invigorating (which was the purpose of the performance... to cleanse us of all ills and focus us onto the purpose of our lives).
The performance ended with a shamanic dance round a bonfire... in which we were supposed to burn our negativity ... yadda yadda yadda... all well and good... and I have to admit it worked.
We then were blindfolded and led back in our imaginery longboats to the field from which we had set out.
Walking back to the campus building, my ex was speaking to her friends behind me... I was a fast walker and the woods felt WRONG. it was not a comfortable sensation... everyone of my spidey senses had kicked in and were telling me to get the hell out of there. As always, i remained and walked slowly... concentrating on keeping it out. There was a short lady walking next to me, I could see her on teh edge of my vision... not a foot away, so short as to be a midget. I had not seen her at the performance, I tuned to her to ask her what she had made of it all. There was nobody there... 12 foot ahead were people, 3 foot behind was my ex and her friend... nobody next to me... at that moment of realisation I could hear... no feel laughter from the trees... the occupants of the woods around Storthes Hall had enjoyed the performance.
I asked my ex and her friend if they had seen a dwarf lady... neither had.
Not a great tale but one that had a profound affect on me at the time. I'm no stranger to the paranormal but that one event moved me.
A few months earlier, my ex had actually been into the old hospital building there. The School of Drama (or whatever it was called) used it for storage and she had been helping a friend stage manage a performance. She was physically ill upon entering the hospital... she claimed she fellt sickness and death. I would love to go there and see... there are places the University staff will not go.
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***********quote*************
As promised down another thread, I'd like to detail my experience on the Storthes Hall campus of Huddersfield University.
The campus (soon to be transformed into a housing estate or Hotel and corporate leisure centre) is situated a few miles out of Huddersfield on the grounds of an old Asylum.
I'm not sure when the Asylum closed, I know my Father worked there in the late seventies as chef. A friends Father worked there about the same time as an orderly.
Anyway, this happened about three and a half years ago.
My girlfriend at the time (now long time ex) was a drama student at the university... I had left my course a long time ago and was working as an Analyst Programmer in Leeds.
As part of her course, my ex had been invited to a piece of outdoor ritual theatre by a director called Phillip Zurilli. It was an excellent piece of interactive theatre, depite being held in the woods around Stothes Hall.
Now I knew what to expect up there. I had been before and fellt the presences in the trees. Still, the things we endure out of love...
The performance itself had us blindfold and placed in imagined Longboats that took us to the underworld by means of us walking to drum beats... when we removed our blindfolds, we were in the woods and the sun was setting. There m,ust have been 80 or mor of us. As we walked teh woods we were shown set pieces by Zurilli's troop. All discourses on the human condition. It was like a live action play of the Divine Comedy. I could feel the woods waking to the performance... the energy they drummed up was invigorating (which was the purpose of the performance... to cleanse us of all ills and focus us onto the purpose of our lives).
The performance ended with a shamanic dance round a bonfire... in which we were supposed to burn our negativity ... yadda yadda yadda... all well and good... and I have to admit it worked.
We then were blindfolded and led back in our imaginery longboats to the field from which we had set out.
Walking back to the campus building, my ex was speaking to her friends behind me... I was a fast walker and the woods felt WRONG. it was not a comfortable sensation... everyone of my spidey senses had kicked in and were telling me to get the hell out of there. As always, i remained and walked slowly... concentrating on keeping it out. There was a short lady walking next to me, I could see her on teh edge of my vision... not a foot away, so short as to be a midget. I had not seen her at the performance, I tuned to her to ask her what she had made of it all. There was nobody there... 12 foot ahead were people, 3 foot behind was my ex and her friend... nobody next to me... at that moment of realisation I could hear... no feel laughter from the trees... the occupants of the woods around Storthes Hall had enjoyed the performance.
I asked my ex and her friend if they had seen a dwarf lady... neither had.
Not a great tale but one that had a profound affect on me at the time. I'm no stranger to the paranormal but that one event moved me.
A few months earlier, my ex had actually been into the old hospital building there. The School of Drama (or whatever it was called) used it for storage and she had been helping a friend stage manage a performance. She was physically ill upon entering the hospital... she claimed she fellt sickness and death. I would love to go there and see... there are places the University staff will not go.
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hi ste im adele im goin huddersfield uni this year n will be staying at storthes.my sister also went huddersfield n stayed at storthes n said that she had been in the old hospital when her and her friends were drunk n they got trapped in some old gas chambers n it was awful. i love scary things like that though so am intrigued
adele2
hi ste im adele im goin huddersfield uni this year n will be staying at storthes.my sister also went huddersfield n stayed at storthes n said that she had been in the old hospital when her and her friends were drunk n they got trapped in some old gas chambers n it was awful. i love scary things like that though so am intrigued
wow! u live in stalybridge! i live just near u!
Hey I'm going to Huddersfield uni this year and will be staying at the Storthes but please don't freak me out I hate spooky stuff like that! Will also try and avoid going to that old hospital as much as I can!
I really wanna explore everything when i get there, it sounds so interesting 
ste8901
wow! u live in stalybridge! i live just near u!
Oldham is also near Stalybridge!
The 408 bus goes past my house, it is the third stop from where the route starts at Buckstones.
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