Everything about these episodes are amazing. The presentor and all the cast are great. The staircase at sudeley I always have to turn away. It really is scary. R.I.P Robert Hardy. Should have been given a knighthood for services to TV over the decades and believe a true gentleman.
@@waivedwench Now TLC is nothing but naked people in the jungle, obese people and surgeons popping zits and cysts. Where's the discovery in any of those shows?
In the 1980's we also usedvto have shows like this as well as on Friday something called fridaynight creature feature and on Wednesday wevhad masterpiece theater. These shows need to come back.
My uncle was like a big brother to me and my siblings and he died almost 20 years ago when I was 10. One of my fondest memories of him is staying up real late and watching a marathon of all the different castle ghosts shows. I’m glad these are here, total nostalgia trip
I have been such a HUGE fan of Englands history for so many years. Stuffing my head full of anything and everything British that I sometimes forget (blissfully so I might add) that I'm American.
Jewels Mickey , I agree Robert Hardy was the perfect Host for all 4 Castle Ghosts of England, Ireland, Scottland and Wales series. just like Robert Stack was the perfect host for "Unsolved Mysteries" series.
I remember me and my Mom watching this series back in the 90's and loving the stories! I still love these stories! So glad that I am able to watch them again! Thanks for posting these!
@@spindalis79 The series is "Castle Ghosts of the British Isles;" the theme is haunted castles, palaces and manor houses in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
This is a great ghost haunted video. I remember when it came out in the 1990s. Robert hardy is a great ghost story tell. He will always be remembered. 😃😀
I just watched this and I loved it!!! I'm from México and I've always like England's beautiful cities and I hope one day I can go visit. I also loooove to watch ghosts stories from different parts of the world...this episode is just fantastic!!!!
I hope you get to go. Let's see....the City of Bath is one of my favorites. It's built around an old Roman bath. Windsor is beautiful, London, York, and don't forget about the villages too!
First "phantom" I saw looked like an ordinary girl, but dressed in rather old-fashioned American clothes (San Rafael, CA). I have felt the presence (in a Victorian hotel in Suva, Fiji) of something watching me - and to go to the restroom at the end of the hall I had to have my fiance walk me down and wait outside the door . Later on the porch of the lovely hotel local men told us, laughing, that spirits were everywhere i Fiji - no worries. A few years ago in Northern California, I saw a Native American man, dressed in buckskin pants and jacket, running very fast and a little above the ground rush past my eyes as I did dishes and looked out into the beautiful grounds.........this cabin on sacred Indian land was burned to nothing in the recent DEW fires. I've never seen a "ghosts" - these looked very alive, just a bit "off". cheers
What the Lady of Sudeley had said about how in certain lighting during the day and early evening, how a 'time tunnel' comes alive..."And one can merge with this sense of, 'timelessness'". I found her statement to be =quite= *profound.* And simply as a viewer watching the program: I can feel it too!
How did he know it was her specifically? I mean, how does anyone know who a ghost is? Unless it states it’s name...it’s not like the portraits are anywhere near accurate enough to identify anyone.
Robert Hardy's narration is impeccable. He joins a very elite list of actors known for both their prowess on the stage and screen, as well as their dulcet tones. Always loved him in "All creatures great and small" 🤗
Thank you for putting this up! I watched this in a history class when I was 10! I remember 29:37, when her face looms into the camera - at that exact moment, the teacher decided to put his hand on my shoulder. I screamed the house down!
Thanks for posting these. All of them are very good and love the narration! I kind of wonder if most of these are residual hauntings, places holding memories.
This is one of my favorite programs of all time! Can't believe I grew up watching this obsessively and can now say about Sudeley Castle: "I've been there"! Such a beautiful place and so much serious history in there. There is a lace christening net, woven for baby Elizabeth I by Anne Boleyn and her ladies for heaven's sake! But man, I absolutely hated Thomas Seymour by the end of that tour! He deserved what he got. Conniving fool.
I'm glad you went to England. I've been there too, but I've not visited Sudeley, unfortunately. I'd like to when I go back. I've been to Windsor Castle, the Banqueting House (part of Whitehall), Westminster Abbey, Stonehenge, Bath, and Hampton Court Palace. England is very charming, as well as the people there!
I visited Hever Castle, once home to the Boleyn family, about 5 years ago and stayed in the luxury B&B in the castle grounds. If you stayed there you could walk around the castle gardens before they were opened to the public. I walked from the castle entrance along a path straight in front and climbed steps leading up to a grassy area with a tree. When I stood and looked around I suddenly felt a presence and felt Anne Boleyn there. It was a very strange feeling and one I didn’t feel anywhere else around the castle. When I got down to the lake and saw an old map of the area I noticed the place where I felt Anne’s presence was the start of a path called ‘Anne Boleyns Walk’. I don’t know if it was coincidence or if the name is something to do with where she used to walk but it was weird.
Yaayyyyy an actual documentary and not some kids trespassing on someone’s private property while claiming to being attacked by spirits and recording with their phones!!! I miss catching these documentaries on TV during the 90s. The way they were made was so interesting. The presentation.
Well done, i cant help but binge-watch this series with robert hardy aka minister cornelius fudge, really miss this guy, what a story teller with feeling, makes you feel as if youre there. 👍👻 rip mr hardy
i remember watching this series as a kid, and there was always a particular moment in each episode that scared the piss outta me. In this one i think it was the face looming on the staircase. The worst one though was the Ireland episode; it was the elemental, which was always the scariest thing i could imagine. Until I discovered adulthood of course.
That Leap Castle episode was terrifying! The elemental stuck with me for ages, and I believe I have since seen one myself (the only paranormal thing I've ever seen with my own eyes). Honestly, the creature from Castle Ghosts of Ireland is the closest thing I can compare it to. It was in a remote ghost town around 2:30am, standing on two legs in a ditch. It had disgustingly matted, blackish brown hair or fur, was about 5'0 tall, using its front limbs like there were hands attached and not paws, and it had absolutely no muzzle. The face was utterly flat, and there was no mouth or nose visible. It was just this ill shapen mass of black fur with a featureless face and cliche, glowing red eyes. Three of us saw it and none could identify the creature - even though we nearly came to a dead stop in the car to look at it. It wasn't fazed by us or the car at all, and only stared calmly as we passed. Even though the eyes were glowing on their own, we tried to debunk it as eyeshine from our headlights, but only a type of heron has a red eyeshine. This was no bird. I am a great lover of animals, and a student of physical anthropology, and I still could not make this creature make sense in my mind. It felt very, very negative as well and I have never been frightened of a mere animal. I will never forget what we saw that night, and that elemental from that show is the closest description to what we witnessed. The area it was in seemed utterly fitting as well. Can't believe the only thing I've ever seen with my own eyes was this hideous, bizarre thing.
My sister had a experience at the Tower years ago. She saw the boys and heard their laughter and saw the Lady of the Tower, but she thought it was Lady Margaret Pole. She wasn't scared of them, she felt pity and a mother's love for the boys.
Oh I would love To go there. I'm to old now. I love stories like these but later I'm afraid To go To bed. England is such and old and beautiful country.
The portrait at 19:23 isn't Catherine Parr, I've visited Sudeley castle twice now and can say that it's not her. It's a portrait of a unknown woman from the Elizabethan period.
@@sikasiak3545 Well obviously he doesn't know the difference between Tudor and Elizabethan fashion. Plus there's a booklet you can read at the castle that tells you about every painting and that painting is not her
@@deb-1558 I agree, I've also seen it attributed to someone else. Doesn't look anything like the other portraits of Catherine and the cap she's wearing is I think of a later date anyway. The details of Anne Boleyn's execution are not quite correct too - she did not request a swordsman from Calais; Henry had already sent for him before her sentence was passed!
Poor Helwise. I hope when they say she went mad, they just meant she starting standing up for herself more (which certainly would have been considered ‘madness’ back then). 😢
I first viewed this 4 part series when it aired in 95, and I was able to record all 4 installments. It was a great production then as it is now, and the stories as they were re-enacted, are somewhat chilling, but definitely entertaining. The Learning Channel and the BBC did something right!
I have always wanted to go to England because everywhere you go has a story and a history behind it especially if you go to London one of the big reasons I whant to go is to see that city and the infamous Tower Of London one of the most haunted Castles in Brittain.
I live in England and I once visited 2 old churches in Somerset. One in a village called Pitney. I went inside and there was no one else in the church. I heard the pews creak. Another time I visited another church in a village called Kingweston. I was inside and I heard some footsteps walking up the gravel path to the door. I ran outside. No one was there. There is a village in Kent called Pluckley which is said to be the most haunted in England.
Robert Hardy is fabulous--leaves all the wannabe sad sack/freak/inane/stupid ghost 'hunters' in his country AND this one way behind in his elegant tracks....
I love ghost stories. It's funny how ghosts are not a worry during the cold snowy winters of Canada. I don't believe in spirits anyway, but I find forests spooky at night during the summer and fall.
I live in England also and I went there at Muncaster Castle, suddenly while I'm walking alone at night time that I think that was 12:00 in midnight, I saw a white lady on the corner and so I'm very very terrified...and sooooo horrific!!! I think that was 8 years ago when I was 16 years old!!
Been there myself. I bet her white substance was too ghoulish to look at. White spirits can be equally as ghoulish as jet black spirits. They are different types of spirits. They lack colours, when they look so ghoulish like that, but not all ghosts look like that. I had seen them myself. The most beautiful spirits are heavenly types, but they are rare on earth. They have the most beautiful colours that glow like stainglass windows on the sunniest days. They have beautiful souls and beautiful personalities. I saw such two and one of them was of a very beautiful lady who thanked me for what I had done for her bedridden daughter who was nearing 90 at the time. She was the beautiful kind of ghost who could put anybody at ease and make one feel at home with her. She has such warm manners that you wouldn't at all mind her haunting at your home. The other ghost was my late grandfather. He came to check on me after I had sustained injuries.
There is one most regular ghost in my life. It is one that I never see. He never reveals his appearance to me and never his name. He is the one spirit who most watches over me. He has numerous times saved my life from various dangers. He freed me from first demonic attacks. He came in response to my prayers for deliverance and has been with me ever since. I awoke one night to find a demon in a room. He looked so ghoulish that I had to shut my eyes tight and look no more. With my eyes still shut, I prayed during demonic attacks, my way to defy a demon. Too afraid to open my eyes, I sensed a second spirit in the room. He freed me from the demon's clutches and swiftly returned me to sleep as I was that afraid of hauntings. From that night onwards, this second spirit has stayed with me and kept me safe from many dangers like crimes, few heart attacks, fire, choking, etc. He is ever the quietest ghost in my life as he makes no foot sounds. I have long believed he is my guardian.
Bernadette Gordon I never been to England and I live in America. Where I live is Virginia, however the most historical places such as Fredericksburg and Williamsburg is haunted.
To know more about the legends have shown in this program, I can recomend these books. "Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I" (Patrick McGrath). "England under the Tudors (G.R. Elton). "The mid Tudor Crisis" (Withney Jones) "The age of the three kings: 1483" (Giles St. Aubyn).
9:57-10:02 Seeing this in a different perspective as not some ghost story to scare you, but no doubt it is pretty sad.Even the second story😔. Hopefully Helwise and her lover are finally reunited and in eternal peace.
I have visited Muncaster Castle it a magnificent place. When I heard if the ghost there and my brother felt uneasy in the tapestry room and I felt sort of cold I looked it up online and found this brilliant documentary. The funny thing I watched this on the 9th of August just 6 days after the death of the narrator Sir Robert Hardy.
If I could talk to ghosts I would love to go to one of these castles and have a conversation with Anne Boleyn or one of the people close to Henry. I'm sure they would have some stories to tell.
Henry was a bastard ..im sure you would get that answer for sure.. Abusive and a cheat. But sure makes for a good history lesson...i feel sorry for the women he had killed...
@@crystallopiccolo4595 You're so right. Look how he split the church, There's still bigotry between some protestants & Catholics. As a Protestant, I don't know why my ancesters sided with that murderous scumbag ?
@@nutcracker2916 because it was better on hos side than not except when his daughter Mary came to the throne..omg bloody Mary was just as bad if not worse than he was...
Without being rude Patricia or disbelieving you, but it's amazing how many folk claim they are descending from Royalty or famous people, especially Americans. I am an indigenous Briton, My ancestors go right back to when hell knows when, there have been hundreds of kings, queens, chieftains and legendary folk heroes through all those centuries, and not one of them met and married one of my ancestors or even tupped them in the hay or barn!!! Mind you, we were an ugly and hairy lot with disgusting table manners which would explain it and were probably too sober when and if they met them... over 5 thousand years plus of peasantry, makes you want to cry really..
@@johngrindley169 As one of those Americans, just remember that some of those people had rather large families and second sons and daughters of these families had to go somewhere.
It's so tragic how it was believed that the male chose the sex of the children. So many women were executed because of this, perpetuated by horrible lies. It will always break my heart.
+Jonnyskia it reminds me of mr. krabs, i believe he always want to have a son not a daughter, cause during his daughter's 16th birthday, the banner he use is when pearl was born and it says: happy birthday it's a boy and then cross out and replaced with girl.
Genetically male sperm is the determining factor of gender though. Hell gender selection through sperm is a thing now....even im going through it to insure 4 male children. The belief that women were the factor back then sadly did cost women their lives.
@@patricew.4010 Yup which is why King Henry VIII's only legitimate son was chosen to be king way before his daughters got the chance. King Henry VIII from what I had heard had a few illegitimate children. I think one of them was a son by Anne Bolynn's sister. Most of his kids were either stillborn, miscarried, or nothing but false pregnancies. Mary I even wanted to secure her reign by having a son so that she could prevent her younger half sister from taking her throne. But because of the poor living standards back then, she got screwed over.
Pinup Charmer, In history the heir to the throne had to be male, but it was not obligatory, a female could become the heir to the throne as is the case of Elizabeth 1st and Mary and Elizabeth II, Obviously every king wanted a male heir. Henry wanted a male heir but couldn't, he was a nasty piece of work and didn't want a woman that couldn't give birth to a child, hence invented the protestant religion so he could divorce or just behead them as traitors
Unfortunately this episode is missing about 4-5 minutes, during the Muncaster Castle segment, where Hardy talks about "The Luck of Muncaster." Other than that, it's great.
Well Ann Boleyn’s Ghost certainly gets around sighting’s at the Tower of London, Hampton court, and her families ancestral home Hever Castle, and there was me thinking they can only haunt one place !
Let me point out that Richard confined the princes to the Tower and then had them declared illegitimate, not the other way around. The Bloody Tower was known as the Garden Tower at the time, and it was considered a royal residence. But, they were definitely prisoners.
In deal castle i have seen a green apparition and one of my friends taken a photo of on of the holes in the walls and happed to be where I was looking and it appeared on camera photo it was spooky but cool I think I always about 6 or 7 years old at the time
These older documentaries are the best!
The quality is second to none I love them
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Love them. Especially the music they use
It's because they are all Americanised now. It's all screaming and really superficial content.
The Narrator has quite possibly the most relaxing and pleasant voice I’ve ever heard
Agree 100%
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Robert Hardy lived to be 90+.
Rest in paradise, good sir. 🌛✨️
He was a great actor RIP Dear Sir
He is Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic in the Harry Potter movies
Sheesh!
Everything about these episodes are amazing. The presentor and all the cast are great. The staircase at sudeley I always have to turn away. It really is scary. R.I.P Robert Hardy. Should have been given a knighthood for services to TV over the decades and believe a true gentleman.
I remember seeing this, when it first came out, back in 1995. Rest in peace Robert Hardy!
Love this. Why isnt stuff like this being shown om tv anymore... Now we just have shows that dumb down out youth
I agree!! Back in the days when The Learning Channel and A&E had GOOD shows!!
@@waivedwench Now TLC is nothing but naked people in the jungle, obese people and surgeons popping zits and cysts. Where's the discovery in any of those shows?
In the 1980's we also usedvto have shows like this as well as on Friday something called fridaynight creature feature and on Wednesday wevhad masterpiece theater. These shows need to come back.
Kids and people have become so stupid so all they'll enjoy watching is stupid shit for the stupid people.. Thanks for asking
they deleted the youtube channel docspot
My uncle was like a big brother to me and my siblings and he died almost 20 years ago when I was 10. One of my fondest memories of him is staying up real late and watching a marathon of all the different castle ghosts shows. I’m glad these are here, total nostalgia trip
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I have been such a HUGE fan of Englands history for so many years. Stuffing my head full of anything and everything British that I sometimes forget (blissfully so I might add) that I'm American.
Me 2
Both sides of my family came from England and I'd love to check out my family tree 🌴
Both sides of my family came from England and I'd love to check out my family tree 🌴
British isnt English as England is only one of four nations that make up the United Kingdom.
I love this! Robert Hardy was just so perfect to present this!
Jewels Mickey , I agree Robert Hardy was the perfect Host for all 4 Castle Ghosts of England, Ireland, Scottland and Wales series. just like Robert Stack was the perfect host for "Unsolved Mysteries" series.
I remember this being on all the time years ago. Miss when these channels actually cared about having good paranormal documentaries.
I remember me and my Mom watching this series back in the 90's and loving the stories! I still love these stories! So glad that I am able to watch them again! Thanks for posting these!
Ghosts do exist.
My late father had the series recorded on VHS, long before RUclips...so I am pleased to partake in the nostalgia, especially this close to Halloween
I saw this series on TV and I did have them on video tape
I remember watching this as a kid. Documentary bothered me for a long time. I couldn't sleep. Nothing like good old documentaries! Thx for posting!
I couldn't sleep either, Believing Ghosts do exist.
The actors were great. The stories were interesting. It was such a well put together documentary! Beautiful work!
These ghost documentary's with Robert Hardy is the best of their kind
I have ever seen.
I am really sad that there is only 4 episodes.
TOTALLY! There should have been more episodes! The host is phenomenal!
K.L. Hardy's voice is sublime.
There are? Are there?
I guess going outside of the United Kingdom was out of the question.
@@spindalis79 The series is "Castle Ghosts of the British Isles;" the theme is haunted castles, palaces and manor houses in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
This is a great ghost haunted video. I remember when it came out in the 1990s. Robert hardy is a great ghost story tell. He will always be remembered. 😃😀
I just watched this and I loved it!!! I'm from México and I've always like England's beautiful cities and I hope one day I can go visit. I also loooove to watch ghosts stories from different parts of the world...this episode is just fantastic!!!!
I hope you get to go. Let's see....the City of Bath is one of my favorites. It's built around an old Roman bath. Windsor is beautiful, London, York, and don't forget about the villages too!
I picked the perfect night to watch this it's storming, thunder, lightening and rain, in stereo! 👻👻⚡⚡
BOO!!!
Halloween night.🎃🎃
@batty boy 😂🤣😅😆😁
First "phantom" I saw looked like an ordinary girl, but dressed in rather old-fashioned American clothes (San Rafael, CA). I have felt the presence (in a Victorian hotel in Suva, Fiji) of something watching me - and to go to the restroom at the end of the hall I had to have my fiance walk me down and wait outside the door . Later on the porch of the lovely hotel local men told us, laughing, that spirits were everywhere i Fiji - no worries. A few years ago in Northern California, I saw a Native American man, dressed in buckskin pants and jacket, running very fast and a little above the ground rush past my eyes as I did dishes and looked out into the beautiful grounds.........this cabin on sacred Indian land was burned to nothing in the recent DEW fires. I've never seen a "ghosts" - these looked very alive, just a bit "off". cheers
Sir Robert Hardy is a pleasure to listen to whatever the topic!
What the Lady of Sudeley had said about how in certain lighting during the day and early evening, how a 'time tunnel' comes alive..."And one can merge with this sense of, 'timelessness'".
I found her statement to be =quite= *profound.* And simply as a viewer watching the program: I can feel it too!
I've watched this documentary several times, but the story of Catherine Parr and her daughter Mary always breaks my heart.
I used to go out with a Coldstream guard that used to guard the Tower of London and he said he saw Anne Boylyn twice during night time !
How did he know it was her specifically? I mean, how does anyone know who a ghost is? Unless it states it’s name...it’s not like the portraits are anywhere near accurate enough to identify anyone.
Sylvia, he said that just to make you jealous, She's been dead for a few hundred years...
By the clothing match. And Ann Boleyn has been seen on more than one place both with and without her head.
@@unhooked25 Most people in Tudor times wore similar clothes.
what a magical story this country has, fills me with a feel of ancient castle cold and rainy gardens all over....beautiful
At one time, these programs were available on DVD from Amazon. I purchased two sets. I'm so glad I did. I gleefully watch them every Halloween. 👻
I remember taping this on tv and watching it over and over again when I was a kid.
Robert Hardy's narration is impeccable. He joins a very elite list of actors known for both their prowess on the stage and screen, as well as their dulcet tones. Always loved him in "All creatures great and small" 🤗
Thank you for putting this up! I watched this in a history class when I was 10!
I remember 29:37, when her face looms into the camera - at that exact moment, the teacher decided to put his hand on my shoulder. I screamed the house down!
you've watched it in your class when you where 10?
Sure did.
+William Craig did you get caught?
What do you mean 'Caught?' The teacher put it on as part of a lesson.
Wait a lesson?
Very scary. I love to see the old castles and learn about their history. The music is also good. England is such a beautiful mysterious country.
I am English it is a creepy sinister place in some parts the forests and castles across the land.
I am visiting the UK in two weeks. I would be so pleased if a ghost met me...I can’t wait!! I’m watching everything I can to be prepared.
England is a cesspool
And this comes from a floating Turd called Scarlet Poof!
@@lordeden1475 poof?. And wow what u said is incredibly rude lord poopy pants
I saw this in 1995 or so and have looked for it on RUclips for years. Glad to find it.
Nice to see a video not overrun with ads.
Thank you for posting this. I wonder if Robert Hardy is having a laugh haunting places and asking passersby if they believe in ghosts. RIP Mr. Hardy.
Thank you so much for posting these programs. I am from the US and watched these with my late mother when they were first aired.
Own this series on DVD. Love it as much as the first time I saw it in 1995.
You can buy the full uncut version of this on amazon called Castle Ghosts which is on DVD!
Where? Do you have to purchase online?
I love these series with Robert Hardy there really good. I'm a new subscriber
I've always loved docus like this! Before RUclips, I'd have to wait for each October for the TV to air the spooky ghosts and hauntings programs. ❤❤❤
Wonderful series. Head and shoulders above the ghost hunting shows of today. Such a shame that Mr Hardy didn't do a second series.
Great documentary. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
That bit where the housekeeper's face appeared scared the life out of me.
Thanks for posting these. All of them are very good and love the narration! I kind of wonder if most of these are residual hauntings, places holding memories.
This is a most excellent series, surprised not to have seen it when first aired !! Robert Hardy ('just call me Tim') is a good bloke!
This is one of my favorite programs of all time! Can't believe I grew up watching this obsessively and can now say about Sudeley Castle: "I've been there"! Such a beautiful place and so much serious history in there. There is a lace christening net, woven for baby Elizabeth I by Anne Boleyn and her ladies for heaven's sake!
But man, I absolutely hated Thomas Seymour by the end of that tour! He deserved what he got. Conniving fool.
I'm glad you went to England. I've been there too, but I've not visited Sudeley, unfortunately. I'd like to when I go back. I've been to Windsor Castle, the Banqueting House (part of Whitehall), Westminster Abbey, Stonehenge, Bath, and Hampton Court Palace. England is very charming, as well as the people there!
Why can't they make some more interesting documentaries like this again. Great old names and history captured .
I quite agree! I'm tired of the nonsense that's on. So-called reality shows, news shows that exhibit arguments, etc.. I prefer programs such as this!
I visited Hever Castle, once home to the Boleyn family, about 5 years ago and stayed in the luxury B&B in the castle grounds. If you stayed there you could walk around the castle gardens before they were opened to the public.
I walked from the castle entrance along a path straight in front and climbed steps leading up to a grassy area with a tree. When I stood and looked around I suddenly felt a presence and felt Anne Boleyn there. It was a very strange feeling and one I didn’t feel anywhere else around the castle.
When I got down to the lake and saw an old map of the area I noticed the place where I felt Anne’s presence was the start of a path called ‘Anne Boleyns Walk’.
I don’t know if it was coincidence or if the name is something to do with where she used to walk but it was weird.
Interesting tell me more!
I watched a similar program like this around 24 years ago on discovery channel.. Those days, those memories ❤❤
We know these locations well and have had the privilege to investigate some of Britain's most haunted castles. a very cool video
Oh my God
Yaayyyyy an actual documentary and not some kids trespassing on someone’s private property while claiming to being attacked by spirits and recording with their phones!!! I miss catching these documentaries on TV during the 90s. The way they were made was so interesting. The presentation.
Well done, i cant help but binge-watch this series with robert hardy aka minister cornelius fudge, really miss this guy, what a story teller with feeling, makes you feel as if youre there. 👍👻 rip mr hardy
i remember watching this series as a kid, and there was always a particular moment in each episode that scared the piss outta me. In this one i think it was the face looming on the staircase. The worst one though was the Ireland episode; it was the elemental, which was always the scariest thing i could imagine. Until I discovered adulthood of course.
Rebekah Lee lol
Rebekah Lee Me too! I jumped when the lady’s face got close on the stairs, and the way the elemental looked haunted me for ages.
This and the blue kid turning at the bar in that one episode of Unsolved Mysteries are the things I still haunt me.
That Leap Castle episode was terrifying! The elemental stuck with me for ages, and I believe I have since seen one myself (the only paranormal thing I've ever seen with my own eyes). Honestly, the creature from Castle Ghosts of Ireland is the closest thing I can compare it to.
It was in a remote ghost town around 2:30am, standing on two legs in a ditch. It had disgustingly matted, blackish brown hair or fur, was about 5'0 tall, using its front limbs like there were hands attached and not paws, and it had absolutely no muzzle. The face was utterly flat, and there was no mouth or nose visible. It was just this ill shapen mass of black fur with a featureless face and cliche, glowing red eyes. Three of us saw it and none could identify the creature - even though we nearly came to a dead stop in the car to look at it. It wasn't fazed by us or the car at all, and only stared calmly as we passed. Even though the eyes were glowing on their own, we tried to debunk it as eyeshine from our headlights, but only a type of heron has a red eyeshine. This was no bird.
I am a great lover of animals, and a student of physical anthropology, and I still could not make this creature make sense in my mind. It felt very, very negative as well and I have never been frightened of a mere animal. I will never forget what we saw that night, and that elemental from that show is the closest description to what we witnessed. The area it was in seemed utterly fitting as well. Can't believe the only thing I've ever seen with my own eyes was this hideous, bizarre thing.
@@rachelectroDC-84 That is a terrifying story. Chills.
My sister had a experience at the Tower years ago. She saw the boys and heard their laughter and saw the Lady of the Tower, but she thought it was Lady Margaret Pole. She wasn't scared of them, she felt pity and a mother's love for the boys.
Yeah I would feel sad for the spirits as well. Like wish there was a way to comfort them or help.
Lonely Traveler
I wish, but they have to want help too
There's no evidence the boys were even murdered there...
@@johnnyfive222 I know, especially the ghosts of children. That makes me sad. 😞
I may have photographed a ghost at the Tower.
Thank you for posting! Been looking for this for ages.
RIP Robert Hardy, you are missed already. Rest easy.
Dam he died 😢
Michael Rogers Right I was gonna say that🥺
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Bet he's a castle ghost now :0
I've always enjoyed Mr Hardy's work. He is very much missed!
I live in a town called Great Yarmouth it's so old pretty much everywhere is haunted. Even my school!
I've been there like 12 times, never knew it was haunted that much, where I live in derby, it's the most haunted city in Britain.
Suz V2017 Wow... that was uncalled for and incredibly rude 🤦♀️
My Grandfather's family immigrated from Great Yarmouth a couple hundred years ago to the U.S. 😊
@@ThomasinaJefferson-ke7xs And incredibly and unfortunately true.
Oh I would love To go there. I'm to old now. I love stories like these but later I'm afraid To go To bed. England is such and old and beautiful country.
Now these were the real shows!
Thanks:)
I love this documentary. I’ve been watching it repeatedly for over 4 years and get creeped out every time.
Ghosts do exist, they do, they do. 👻👻💀
Love watching these old programs. So glad that this is in HD so I can actually SEE it on television!
the part where the maid's face looms in still scares the crap out of me, even after many years since I watched it. gives me shivers
Daniel waugh lol yeah that just scared the shit out of me
yes to this day i look away whenever that scene comes up
I found it very funny. Troll ghost. Hahha.
I have just jumped out of my skin.
Rest In Peace Queen Catherine Howard 1523-February 13, 1542
The portrait at 19:23 isn't Catherine Parr, I've visited Sudeley castle twice now and can say that it's not her. It's a portrait of a unknown woman from the Elizabethan period.
Deborah du Parc So you know better than the caretaker of the castle
@@sikasiak3545 Well obviously he doesn't know the difference between Tudor and Elizabethan fashion. Plus there's a booklet you can read at the castle that tells you about every painting and that painting is not her
Yes it doesn't look like all the other images I've seen of her
@@deb-1558 I agree, I've also seen it attributed to someone else. Doesn't look anything like the other portraits of Catherine and the cap she's wearing is I think of a later date anyway. The details of Anne Boleyn's execution are not quite correct too - she did not request a swordsman from Calais; Henry had already sent for him before her sentence was passed!
I love stories like this one .i have always wanted to go to England and take a tour of the haunted castle of London England
Omz Cornelius Fudge talking about a Grey Lady and doing and episode on haunted castles?! Amazing!! RIP Sir Robert Hardy.
Thanks for the documentary on ghosts mister Minister of Magic, Earl of Leicester, sir.
Poor Helwise. I hope when they say she went mad, they just meant she starting standing up for herself more (which certainly would have been considered ‘madness’ back then). 😢
I first viewed this 4 part series when it aired in 95, and I was able to record all 4 installments. It was a great production then as it is now, and the stories as they were re-enacted, are somewhat chilling, but definitely entertaining. The Learning Channel and the BBC did something right!
love this, I have the cd's, thank you for uploading!
I have always wanted to go to England because everywhere you go has a story and a history behind it especially if you go to London one of the big reasons I whant to go is to see that city and the infamous Tower Of London one of the most haunted Castles in Brittain.
I decided to keep history! Please bring her back! Thank You!
I live in England and I once visited 2 old churches in Somerset. One in a village called Pitney. I went inside and there was no one else in the church. I heard the pews creak. Another time I visited another church in a village called Kingweston. I was inside and I heard some footsteps walking up the gravel path to the door. I ran outside. No one was there. There is a village in Kent called Pluckley which is said to be the most haunted in England.
Robert Hardy is fabulous--leaves all the wannabe sad sack/freak/inane/stupid ghost 'hunters' in his country AND this one way behind in his elegant tracks....
+windstorm1000 He's awesome. Always liked him.
I love ghost stories. It's funny how ghosts are not a worry during the cold snowy winters of Canada. I don't believe in spirits anyway, but I find forests spooky at night during the summer and fall.
anne bolyn once walked up to a youmg guardsman and warned him to beware of losing his head.
How? Did she have her head with her?
I live in England also and I went there at Muncaster Castle, suddenly while I'm walking alone at night time that I think that was 12:00 in midnight, I saw a white lady on the corner and so I'm very very terrified...and sooooo horrific!!! I think that was 8 years ago when I was 16 years old!!
Been there myself. I bet her white substance was too ghoulish to look at. White spirits can be equally as ghoulish as jet black spirits. They are different types of spirits. They lack colours, when they look so ghoulish like that, but not all ghosts look like that. I had seen them myself.
The most beautiful spirits are heavenly types, but they are rare on earth. They have the most beautiful colours that glow like stainglass windows on the sunniest days. They have beautiful souls and beautiful personalities. I saw such two and one of them was of a very beautiful lady who thanked me for what I had done for her bedridden daughter who was nearing 90 at the time. She was the beautiful kind of ghost who could put anybody at ease and make one feel at home with her. She has such warm manners that you wouldn't at all mind her haunting at your home. The other ghost was my late grandfather. He came to check on me after I had sustained injuries.
There is one most regular ghost in my life. It is one that I never see. He never reveals his appearance to me and never his name. He is the one spirit who most watches over me. He has numerous times saved my life from various dangers. He freed me from first demonic attacks. He came in response to my prayers for deliverance and has been with me ever since. I awoke one night to find a demon in a room. He looked so ghoulish that I had to shut my eyes tight and look no more. With my eyes still shut, I prayed during demonic attacks, my way to defy a demon. Too afraid to open my eyes, I sensed a second spirit in the room. He freed me from the demon's clutches and swiftly returned me to sleep as I was that afraid of hauntings. From that night onwards, this second spirit has stayed with me and kept me safe from many dangers like crimes, few heart attacks, fire, choking, etc. He is ever the quietest ghost in my life as he makes no foot sounds. I have long believed he is my guardian.
+TruthAlways really?,cause the are famous..
Bernadette Gordon I never been to England and I live in America. Where I live is Virginia, however the most historical places such as Fredericksburg and Williamsburg is haunted.
Ashley Nave ok..really? im so terrified oh my gosh....i live in UK by the way
Robert Hardy is very good. Please document more
thankyou for your efforts , great selection you have uploaded ! top work ms stoermann.
To know more about the legends have shown in this program, I can recomend these books.
"Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I" (Patrick McGrath).
"England under the Tudors (G.R. Elton).
"The mid Tudor Crisis" (Withney Jones)
"The age of the three kings: 1483" (Giles St. Aubyn).
watched all these and they are the best ones.and Robert Hardy makes it better
I recall video taping this in January or February 1997 from when TLC was still....well...entertaining.
Love a good doc with no ads.
Best presenter ever! Great documentary too.
When I look at the castle I see so much beauty but sense so much sadness...
ghost can't hurt me so i don't fear them.. but i don't trust the living
Especially corrupted politicians who are many, left or right.
cosmicVox13 How so
@@garymay799 it only hurts the gullible and delusional, that are afraid of dying...
@cosmicVox13
Agreed!
9:57-10:02 Seeing this in a different perspective as not some ghost story to scare you, but no doubt it is pretty sad.Even the second story😔. Hopefully Helwise and her lover are finally reunited and in eternal peace.
I have visited Muncaster Castle it a magnificent place. When I heard if the ghost there and my brother felt uneasy in the tapestry room and I felt sort of cold I looked it up online and found this brilliant documentary. The funny thing I watched this on the 9th of August just 6 days after the death of the narrator Sir Robert Hardy.
Fascinating vid, tyvm for posting, I find the paranormal interesting, the manifestations that have sad stories attached to them.
If I could talk to ghosts I would love to go to one of these
castles and have a conversation with Anne Boleyn or one of the people
close to Henry. I'm sure they would have some stories to tell.
Henry was a bastard
..im sure you would get that answer for sure.. Abusive and a cheat. But sure makes for a good history lesson...i feel sorry for the women he had killed...
bring the spirit box and you may talk olde English 😈
@@crystallopiccolo4595 You're so right. Look how he split the church, There's still bigotry between some protestants & Catholics. As a Protestant, I don't know why my ancesters sided with that murderous scumbag ?
@@nutcracker2916 because it was better on hos side than not except when his daughter Mary came to the throne..omg bloody Mary was just as bad if not worse than he was...
@@crystallopiccolo4595 very true
Through the ancestry of my Denny relatives I am supposed to be related to Ann Boleyn. Who really knows. Nice video, nice narration.
Without being rude Patricia or disbelieving you, but it's amazing how many folk claim they are descending from Royalty or famous people, especially Americans. I am an indigenous Briton, My ancestors go right back to when hell knows when, there have been hundreds of kings, queens, chieftains and legendary folk heroes through all those centuries, and not one of them met and married one of my ancestors or even tupped them in the hay or barn!!! Mind you, we were an ugly and hairy lot with disgusting table manners which would explain it and were probably too sober when and if they met them... over 5 thousand years plus of peasantry, makes you want to cry really..
Anne wasnt a brit but a German !
Go to the tower. She might talk to you.
@@johngrindley169 As one of those Americans, just remember that some of those people had rather large families and second sons and daughters of these families had to go somewhere.
I remember waiting to watch these telecasts as a kid... Good ol' TV days.
Hampton court is the most haunted place i have ever been.The tower of london has plenty as well.
Yes quite
My youngest daughter fainted in what is now the Armoury at the Tower and I nearly did too. The atmosphere was so heavy we couldn’t breathe.
speke hall is the real thing Liverpool I worked that its very haunted
Any chance Mr Hardy could narrate programs still? In spirit? Rest in peace and thank you!
I loved Robert Hardy in Sense and Sensibly as well.
He was great as Siegfried Farnon in the t.v. show All Creatures Great & Small.
R.I.P. Robert Hardy.
Awesome series - thanx for downloading :)
It's so tragic how it was believed that the male chose the sex of the children. So many women were executed because of this, perpetuated by horrible lies. It will always break my heart.
+Jonnyskia it reminds me of mr. krabs, i believe he always want to have a son not a daughter, cause during his daughter's 16th birthday, the banner he use is when pearl was born and it says: happy birthday it's a boy and then cross out and replaced with girl.
Genetically male sperm is the determining factor of gender though. Hell gender selection through sperm is a thing now....even im going through it to insure 4 male children. The belief that women were the factor back then sadly did cost women their lives.
@@patricew.4010 Yup which is why King Henry VIII's only legitimate son was chosen to be king way before his daughters got the chance. King Henry VIII from what I had heard had a few illegitimate children. I think one of them was a son by Anne Bolynn's sister. Most of his kids were either stillborn, miscarried, or nothing but false pregnancies.
Mary I even wanted to secure her reign by having a son so that she could prevent her younger half sister from taking her throne. But because of the poor living standards back then, she got screwed over.
@@Neku628 that would be Anne's sister Mary and his name was Henry 😊
Pinup Charmer, In history the heir to the throne had to be male, but it was not obligatory, a female could become the heir to the throne as is the case of Elizabeth 1st and Mary and Elizabeth II, Obviously every king wanted a male heir. Henry wanted a male heir but couldn't, he was a nasty piece of work and didn't want a woman that couldn't give birth to a child, hence invented the protestant religion so he could divorce or just behead them as traitors
The music in these 90s British ghost programmes always makes me picture someone bashing passionately away on an electric keyboard with one finger
This documentary is always awesome amazing good great ever I cant get tired of it, love it want to visit that places soon!
Unfortunately this episode is missing about 4-5 minutes, during the Muncaster Castle segment, where Hardy talks about "The Luck of Muncaster." Other than that, it's great.
Wonder why they didn't mention the ghost of Katherine Howard, Henry the eight's 5th wife, who is said to haunt the Long Gallery at Hampton Court....?
Well Ann Boleyn’s Ghost certainly gets around sighting’s at the Tower of London, Hampton court, and her families ancestral home Hever Castle, and there was me thinking they can only haunt one place !
I've been told that the female who shrieks at Hampton Court is Ann Howard.
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Robert Hardy rest in peace he sure could tell the story well
RIP Sir Robert Hardy.
Let me point out that Richard confined the princes to the Tower and then had them declared illegitimate, not the other way around. The Bloody Tower was known as the Garden Tower at the time, and it was considered a royal residence. But, they were definitely prisoners.
In deal castle i have seen a green apparition and one of my friends taken a photo of on of the holes in the walls and happed to be where I was looking and it appeared on camera photo it was spooky but cool I think I always about 6 or 7 years old at the time