The Warehouse is thought to be the world's largest brick warehouse.Standing 125 foot (38 m) high, the building was constructed in 1901. ]The 14 storey building spans across 36 acres (150,000 m2) and its construction used 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel.
The overall design is by A.G. Lyster, the Dock Engineer, but Arthur Berrington almost certainly played a part.
The dock and warehouse were used up until 1980. They served as a port on the sea routes between the UK and America. Not surprisingly, it was the location for numerous murders. Immigrants and travelers, especially the Irish, were often blamed for the deaths sometimes without any evidence at all.
There are a number of reported hauntings in the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse. It is said that the ghost of the body snatcher shot by the Americans still inhabits in the building as well as the soldier who’s body he tried to move.
Another report tells the sad tale of a woman and a child who, separated by death, spend eternity roaming the huge building looking for each other.
Headless Moll is a ghost more commonly associated with Pier Head – having died in an accident at the Stanley copper works.
The building was used by a morgue for dead American servicemen during the war during which time it became infamous when a body snatcher was discovered and shot dead.
The South West Wing of the building is known to be one of the most haunted areas of the warehouse. The morgue is supposed to be haunted by the spirit of an evil doctor.
We began the night by taking the guests on a walk around the nightclub and morgue areas - said to be the most haunted - and trying to sense the spirits around.
In the nightclub, Michael picked up on a woman who had been strangled with a ligature, and her head had almost been removed. As we looked at people in the half-light, some peoples heads looked as though they had almost disappeared. Michael also thought this woman was a prostitute who had been murdered by a customer. Brian, who was our escort around the building, said that Michael had picked up on a murder, well known to those in the docks, but not available on the internet or in books.
The Morgue area was very eerie and many of the guests saw lights and heard noises in the area as we were going around. I felt a strong sense that black magic had taken place in this area. Brian said he wasn't aware of this, but later on, after checking, he told us that in the early 1900's black magic had indeed been practised in this area.
Table tipping and ouija boards worked well in all areas, but for me, the strangest part of the night was when we made a circle around a table we had used for table tipping. We asked the spirits to knock on the table and we heard two loud bangs coming from the table-top - just as though someone had indeed rapped the table with their fist. Also, in the same circle we asked out loud "would you like us to leave?" - Nearly everyone in the group heard an eerie voice said "yessssssssss".
If you haven't visited Stanley Docks Tobacco Warehouse, I would strongly recommend you do, as it produces some amazing paranormal activity.
We return here on 22/10/11 with Dusk till Dawn - you can join us by booking here
Next week we visit the famously haunted Skirrid Inn.
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