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You email your ghostbuster mates about a group phantom hunt in northern England. For starters you are going to check out Stockport's "mother of all haunted houses?" In fact, if you so much as mention that weirdo place to your "fans of the eerie", they all want to get in on the Car Hire Stockport deal! They know Staircase House is a place to "die for". It was owned by Thomas Shallcross and his family from 1605 to 1730, and the bad tempered Tom haunts its corridors. Staircase House's creepy phenomena were last spotted by Karl Beattie in 2005. Karl, the Director and Producer of the "Most Haunted Live" show said, "Staircase House is a hidden jewel in Stockport's Crown. It has a lot more to offer than architecture and history - it's very scary and some of the guests are see-through!" However, not only did Karl remark on the spine chilling property, Yvette a "Most Haunted Live" team member, insisted there was something weirdo about the atmosphere when Spiritual Medium Derek Acorah held a ouija board seance, and a peeved ghost wrote the letters "D - I - E"; shortly after, super sensitive Derek was taken over by the phantom of Mr Shallcross himself!
One of your ghostbuster team gets a ghoulie sighting there, and is gasping for a Guinness. Your phantom busting party are delighted you organised a van hire Stockport to drive you down to the Queens Head for a brunch and drink. The pub atmosphere is atmospheric, in fact a www.mypubguide customer said "The stout was the best pint that I have had in years!". But if your ghostbuster mates think a pub lunch means a break from freaky "goings on", they need to wise up! The Queen's Head is host to the ghost of a tortured chappie from the Civil War, the "ins and outs" of his appearance are shrouded in mystery. Most who saw the phantom were so freaked-out, not one more drop of Shandy passed their lips that night, and they went for cocktails! The pub is situated right opposite a location called "The Devil's Steps" where the infamous "pink lady" was said to have been raped by the Devil. Don't let that "little aside put you off your pub food even if certain members of your phanton party are too "spine chilled" to care about exploring more haunted houses at this point in time.
Since there are only four of you left to hit the "light fantastic" you take the van back to the hire company and go for a quick car hire Manchester phantom spotting gig. You pack your torch, EMF Detector and infrared Thermal scanner and check out 35 Northern Drive, where two children saw the ghost of a Mrs Potter, brutally murdered there. She touched one of the little girls on the mouth, and the kid was so freaked she and her mate ended up in hospital! You subsequently speed over to 44 Penny Lane, where so many eerie manifestations were reported the police were called in! After getting your digital cams out to film the UFO once seen hovering over the Banks of the River Mersey, all you manage to hone in on is a flock of disgruntled pigeons. You take in an early evening stroll, hopefully to catch a glimpse of the Poltergeist of Boggart Hole, in Clough. Apparently, this polter, pulled the bedcovers off a hapless family, laughing madly yet managing to be reasonable when the desperate folk said "You or us!" You see nothing, feel nothing, sense nothing!
After a long lie in, you and your mates do a van hire Manchester - finally your ghost hunting devotees are ready to be creeped-out! You drive down to Manchester Cathedral with your EMF Detectors and thermal scanners in hand, hoping you will catch a glimpse of the ghostly Fanny standing in the nave. She just might walk towards you and then demateralize before your very eyes. But the cathedral authorities will not let you in with all that esoteric equipment, so you film everything in sight around the cathedral where a phantom dog was seen by a tradesman. A couple of pugs jump at your ghost hunter buddies, one a snarling cocker. Nothing phantom about them! You then decide to visit the ghosts of Cheetham, as you are all ready to be scared to death. The house is owned privately, you knock loudly and nobody appears to be in it. The house was the subject of a horrid haunting, which included the sound of a crying baby, and two apparitions, one of an older lady and one of a screaming shadow man.
Cooke Bros Car Hire sorts out the next day's quandary, when two of you want to check out the phantom haunting at the public house in Prestwich, and four of you want to speed down to the Fairfield Railway Station in Audenshaw. The Fairway Railway station is haunted by an old fashioned green train. It usually disappears when people move close to it. A ghostly also voice emanates from a nearby railway tunnel, yelling "Mary, Mary!" as it passes. You are all in agreement when it comes to checking out the Cloisters Nightclub, in Oxford street, because the former owner of the club, a certain Bill Benney, appeared on a CCTV camera after his death! Instead, you end up trampling around Manchester with your equipment, bickering about how much money this trip is costing you in vehicle hire, and parking fines, considering none of you has managed to photograph one single orb yet!
After hummng and ha-ing, you go for a Cooke Bros Van Hire, and troop down to the Queen's Head. Haunted or not, they do a great glass of shandy. As you eat your peanuts, you all agree it takes a certain kind of person to be a ghost hunter. Someone who does not believe in "status quo" reality. Someone who is not worried about the expense of metaphysical equipment, or of being scared to death. To lift everybody's spirits, you recount your very own scary encounter with a spook in Manchester General Hospital, when you had your ingrowing toenail removed! It all got very nasty when you saw the ghostie flushing empty toilets in the Mens, but it got impossible when the critter started throwing bed pans around. "Laugh all you want" you yell to your ghost busting friends, "but this is a true story!" After a few more rounds and rows, you decide to "go the whole hog" and get into doing a huge metaphysical trip around the North West.
You seek out a suitable van hire north west area, and all pile in, your "equipment" stacked in the boot. You decide that it is time for a UFO search, and that van hire north west was a great idea! Your cameras at the ready, you are actually shocked when you finally get the breakthrough and film the ghostly woman in white as she haunts the manor house in Lymepark, Cheshire. She is a looker, rather tall with a nice dress on, and she winks at you! You first heard about her through Elio Cenzaleghe, a former butler, who said that her ghost had been seen so many times, her existence was an indisputable fact! You realize that as you all run screaming for the door. You get your white-as-ash mates together, and decide you will move on down to the Norton Priory, in Runcorn, Cheshire and film the ghosts of a couple of monks singing "oh Come All Ye Faithful" but instead you bump into another group of Ghostbusters.
You ask them how they get around and they reply they had no problem with their car hire North West. None of them felt like driving a van, so they had stuffed all their paranormal gear into one small car hire North West vehicle. You all decide to go to Lancashire, check out Chingle Hall, Near Preston, and film the Haunted Room. In August 1968 two small boys were snoozing there when they heard footsteps, and saw a very odd light floating in the middle of the room. In fact, Chingle Hall has been one of the most filmed haunting sites. Unfortunately, whatever ghost hangs out in the place, they are not giving you a look in, so you pack up your cameras and move on to the Royal Umpire Museum in Croston. You get a compass out, and start tuning into various walkie talkies, but the "hauntings" are as "dead as a dodo". You decide to return to the UFO idea and buzz off down to Atherton.
One of your group insists that a car rental Atherton is the answer, they want to "go it alone!" You do nothing to stop them, even though you are certain that car rental Atherton is a big mistake. They go speeding off at a high speed, and you hope they won't be kidnapped by an alien especially since on 1 January 2009 a guy and his family caught sight of a couple of bright orange orbs flying around the heavens, only to shoot off and dematerialise . That sighting was followed by others, some of them were put down to Chinese Lanterns. You doubt that hypothesis when what looks like a lizard man seems to be walking around the streets of Atherton, or is it your friend with too many lagers down him? You try not to fuss about the incident, instead you decide to film everything that moves, including stray dogs, a couple necking on a bench, and a man with a very big head. Ahhh, now could he be an alien....?
You friend suddenly speeds up to the curb swearing that he is going to Warrington, and he does not want to use a car hire facility in Atherton any more. He decides car hire Warrington is the only answer. You warn him, you have heard that some car hire firms are haunted, and people find themselves sitting next to men with dog headsm smoking cigars in the front seats of old Rover models. Your friend is obviously about to have a nervous breakdown, he looks so agitated. You let him off the hook, go back to the hotel and have a drink with your girlfriend. She thinks ghost hunting is a waste of time, she likes to spend her evenings in Italian restaurants. She has an amazing way of bringing you back down to earth as she shovels macaroni down her gullet, and laughs hysterically when you tell her you saw the White Lady of Lymepark and you have her on camera!
That evening you all troop back to Manchester and sort out facts regarding varied car and van hire Manchester modules for your next trip. They are cooperative. They obviously think you are a group of nutters, so they take a therapeutic approach. The girl behind the desk speaks softly, she says as long as the vehicles are not ruined by cigarette burns, animal sick, children tearing up the upholstery and body work damage, everything is okay with them. You hire a taxi to the airport and fly off to London, from whence you came. You just could not bear to take that train. As you put all your special paranormal gear back on the plane, your electromagnetic field sensor, your multiple meters/detectors, and your Dr Grauss Master EMF Detector with Ghost Meter, you do not mind the excess baggage fee, only a metaphysical miracle will pay for the expense of this particular ghost hunting trip. You smile to yourself, at least you got a couple of ghoulies on camera!
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