Things that go bump in the night

On the night of the 28/29th March, Hussein Al-alak spent the night exploring the supernatural at the Didsbury Parsonage in Manchester

The building is said to be haunted by a number of spirits and as a listed building, the first record of the house is from 1646. 

Just imagine how many people have passed through the Didsbury Parsonage between then and now? 

Pictured is a guided ‘tipping table’ experiment, which was popular back in Victorian England. The 'tipping table’ is a type of séance in which participants sit around a table, place their hands on it, and wait for rotations by the supernatural. 

In 1832, Sam Newell let the house to Rev W J Kidd. Mr Kidd stayed there for ten years but left because the servants said the house was haunted by the ghost of Mrs Newell, and would not stay. 

The Moss Family moved into the house in 1864. At this point the name changed to the Old Parsonage. After his mother’s death, Fletcher Moss lived there alone until his own death in 1919.


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