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Page 1-2Ghost of Platform 4

Page 5-6Who Believes in Ghosts

Page 7-8Why We Believe In ghosts

Page 9-10Ghost Hunters Equipment

Page 11-14Birminghams Viil Aiiiuntie

Page 15-16Council House Haunting

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GHOST OF PLATFORM 4Ghosts are seen by p

eople as usually a nebulous

image, otherwise just an orb or whisp. The

y can

appear from the soul or spirit of a dead

person or

animal in a visible form or other manifes

tation.

Ghosts are particularly described to haunt

a

specific location or objects or people they

were

associated with in life.

One of the most haunted areas of Bir-mingham is right in the heart of the city at Birmingham New Street Station, many

deaths have been listed through the

years in the station, in the 1930’s a train derailed and over 20 people were killed.

Birmingham doesn’t have a river, therefore a train would be the most likely choice for a person to commit suicide. It is believed

that a man names Walter Hartles haunts

platform four, the 68 year old has been dead for 75 years, he used to work at the station, it was ru-

moured his marriage broke up then he

started having finan-cial difficulty which

Another character has often been seen at

New Street, his name is Claude. Dressed in a Victorian costume, he is often sighted at platform 4, Claude

poisoned himself, the reason for his death is unknown. The original New Street station was built in 1848, a total of 4 suicides have been documented on plat-form 4 it is considered the most haunted rail-way station in Britain.

lead to depression. One night Walter went

to the station with a revolver and shot him-

self in the chest. His ghost has been seen

by numerous people in working at the station

mostly at night.

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G H O S T C H A R T

Birmingham is a place which is sur-prisingly full of ghost sights and haunted buildings, you would ex-pect nothing out of the norm in a place which is so busy. People go about their daily lives without wit-nessing anything. For a place with so many reports of ghost sight-ings, it made us question how supersticious is birmingham? Af-ter some surveys and research on the matter we came up with an estimated proportion of who believes and doesnt believe in ghosts, and everything in between.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

It is our conclusion that Birmingham is generally a place where the majori-ty of its inhabitants are indeed super-stitious. This includes those who are unsure or slightly suspicious, these people are still capable experiencing ghost sightings and other supernat-ural things. This possibly explains why Birmingham has had so many ghost sightings, but we cant be sure, maybe people who dont believe in ghosts have experienced them, but there could be another explanation.

Where you get ghosts, your likely to find ghost hunters. These people either proffesionally or in their spare time track down ghosts using a range of equipment spe-cificaly made to detect the deadt.Here at Void we find it fascinating that this sort of stuff hap-pens . We decided to look into the

This is what is known as the Ghosttech full spectrum light. This gizmo utilizes the full range

of colors in the spectrum, it is meant to attach to a camera to supposably expose ghosts in the

photograph. For a fee of £55 you can buy yourself this tool, whether or not it actuelly works, we will let

you be the judge of that.

GHOST HUNTIERS EQUIPMENT

The laser grid maps out the surrounding area which can then measure the speed and dimensions of a anomoly and even map out a 3d model of it.

When paranormal activity takes place, this device aparently detects them through their

electro magnetic disturbances.

These two measurements which this device de-tects are supposed to fluctuat when there are ghosts around. Our guess is this is another essential tool which the ghost hunters need.

This device known as the ‘Mel Metre’ Is supposed to measure magnetic frequencies and air

temperatures.

What appears to be one of the most simple tools of which a ghosthunter carries, surprisingly has one of the most sophisticated purposes from the ghosthunters arsenal.

Simple called the ‘Ghost Metre’, this device is considered the most important tool for a ghost hunter.

T H E S T A T ESM A NLike with many people who have watched DIY superhero films such as Kick Ass 1 & 2, the notion of being a real life superhero seems quite ridiculous but at the same time achievable.

Scott Cooke has achieved what many have only dreamed, the chance to be a real life superhero. Operating in Birmingham, The Statesman found fame in 2011 when his story was covered in the local and national papers, but that was two years ago, and with it being impossible to locate or contact him, we can only speculate what has happened to Birmingham’s only vigilante.

After a voluntary unmasking on the internet , his identity was exposed, with people in his life such as his mother and neighbour commenting on his soft nature, and general lack of fitness for vigilante exploits. But we doubt that, police reports state that he managed to outrun police and catch a felon whilst Cooke was on a team up in London with fellow real life superheroes. So where is he? From research fellow RLSH members, Cooke seemed the toughest and most able in this country at least; Angle Grinder Man seemed content with Grinding clamps off of peoples cars and the Night

Warrior and his sidekick/girlfriend Night Maiden retired when the attempted stopping of a crime ended in a night in A&E for the duo.

It’s quite possible that Crime fighting life in the UK is not stimulating enough for anyone to consistently fight crime. During his unmasking, the Statesman mentioned that crime was low in Birmingham, so he resorted to tending to the homeless, escorting the drunk and not much else. In America, RLSH is popular, Phoenix Jones and Purple Reign featured on Newsnight and commented on the lack of criminal activity in the UK, Jones himself has been recently taken to court over assault, in which attempts to control a crowd outside of a club in Chicago ended with racist remarks towards Jones, a trained Mixed Martial Artist who then challenged someone to a fight and the rest was history/uploaded onto Youtube.

Maybe RLSH activity better suits the US than the UK, Scott Cooke seems to think so or the Statesman would be patrolling the streets of Birmingham as you read.

BirminghamCOUNCIL

HOUSEMike and Ian have been running the

ghost walk in Birmingham for 5

years, a lot of people ask if the stories are true? They are not to

frighten or scare, but only to share.

They gather information from news articles or

passed down stories from down the years. A question commonly asked is why? Why

are there ghosts here and why do they lin-ger on for so long, and why are they

situated at the par-ticular place.

Suicides are the most common reason for

hauntings. The spirit or person would of h

ad a lot of trauma in their life,T

which prevents it from resting

peacefully. The spirit may be linked to a

place where they used to spend a lot of time in their lifetime, or

a place of great sorrow and upset,

anything with something relating

strongly to the per-sons life, even objects

can be haunted if the spirit was strongly related to

the object in its life.

The seat of local Government, built between 1874 and

1879, this building is full of haunt-

ings as many suicides and deaths have been linked to this build-ing. Security guards

and cleaners are the victims to most of the sightings of

ghosts, when its dark and quiet at night,

that is the best time to notice the ghosts, they dont just appear at night. A figure is most often seen above the stairs as

you enter the Coun-cil House, it is seen just floating in the air above the stairs, it is known to be a local counciler who took his own life, by hanging himself in the entrance hall.

The sound of quiet tapping of a keyboard has also been heard by many coming from the storage room, but once you enter

the storage room the sound stops. It is as if a recorder is re-peatedly playing the same sound, the noise is linked to a man who had died in the room, the room was

then converted into a storage room because nobody wanted to work

in there.

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