Ghosts and Coal Mining

One of the common questions our guides get asked by visitors is 'have you ever seen a ghost?' While the answers vary depending on who you're speaking to, almost all of them will have a story to tell!
Today we're joined by Trevor, who explains why ghosts and mining seem to go hand-in-hand, along with some of the spookier stories he's heard during his career.
Do you or somebody you know have any ghostly experiences from working underground? Let us know in the comments!

[@scottmcaninch6255]

I've worked in a coal mines 30 years I heard equipment running on Rails when nothing was around me and my buddy saw cap lights were there was nobody working

[@julianvasey1]

My uncle the Rev Tom Willis was an excorsist for the diocese of york, and has regailed me with many amazing stories about ghosts.

[@johnnyfercik2455]

Yep. I worked at national king coal in southwest ↙️↙️ Colorado. 11 years but now disabled coal miner. Also iv worked in several mines and was in a 5.7 earthquake in Trinidad Colorado in 2011. I was underground and we didn't know until surface was calling and asked about it. Wow and im still alive after idk how many near misses iv had in my career thats over.

[@eileenhall5078]

i worked at markham no 4 mine at duckmanton derbyshire, i was a tackle lad on reg nights, it was my turn to go on the button, i was alone when i saw a light go past it was like a t juction, but one end ended in the rock face, i went to have a look he didnt come back, it was only a minute from were i was, i got there and no one was there and the lads didnt see anyone ..

[@tenodogblu]

I worked at Shirebrook Colliery and one afternoon my mate and I saw an old miner when we were working down disused roadways. I won't explain in detail what we saw but we were both s#it scared. I'm glad he was there because if I'd been on my own I would not have believed it.

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

You can’t say that & not tell 😂

[@daviddrummerrichards2724]

I saw a ghost in our old pumphouse at the colliery where i worked long story but i definetly saw a ghost

[@grahambaston421]

I worked at Thoresby colliery , on the paddy road in the park gate seam where was a x cut to the intake side there was a bench and deputy’s desk , you would be sat having your snap and you could hear foot steps on the track ballast walking inbye or outbye you would get up walk to the return roadway to see who was coming and there was nobody there this happened to me lots of times also lots of other people heard it to. 👍

[@neilwilliams2409]

UDM member

[@grahambaston421]

No nacods

[@greg5639]

Hi gru.Xxx N U M

[@grahambaston421]

Hi Steve old miner 👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

[@greg5639]

@@grahambaston421 Hey up duck 👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@24934637]

I ran a paranormal investigation group for about 3-4 years, and during that time during numerous overnight investigations of allegedly 'haunted' locations, I didn't once see anything even slightly paranormal. Some unexplained events happened, which when further checks were done turned out to have a totally natural explanation. However after the group folded, I had a few experiences when I wasn't looking for them, that I simply can't explain. Nothing spectacular, but enough to convince me that something not 'natural' or 'understood' was going on.

[@johnnyfercik2455]

Try Helper Utah in the kiva club. It's got a dark story to it.

[@jackriley603]

Bit strange how the locker door in the top left hand corner opens !! 4:52

[@MichaelsTightPants]

I can remember my granda telling me when he worked at Woodhorn colliery in ashington if they were in the area around where the disaster happened you'd feel a presence or hear voices. Another the night he died i was sitting next to his chair and I moved to where his feet would be when suddenly the TV remote flew across the room and hit my head

[@xncz7054]

wow, i'd be scared to bits if that happend. chuffing hell haha

[@MichaelsTightPants]

@@xncz7054 he had that type of sense of humour even myself being 10 when he died it was kind of comforting

[@MichaelsTightPants]

@@wraithsol8874 he had the best sense of humour. He was a total gentleman, he had a smile that would put you at ease but if we misbehaved as kids he did'nt have to raise his voice he just had to look at us and we knew enough was enough

[@fofffanddie]

I came across a apparition in 1983 working the six oclock shift at westhope colliery North East Derbyshire they where a four shift system work for 6-months the 6 o'clock afternoon shift was a skeleton shift to increase production for the development of a new District I work the pit bottom coal bunkers nobody around for miles after the afternoon shift left at 8 pm came across a very bright light human figure from the part of the old pit bottom pumping station still a mystery to this day but legend does have it it was called the Burnside ghost from the old workings of the holbrook colliery

[@davidmaclean2239]

Never saw a ghost underground, but I did once touch the hat that a newstart was wearing when he met Scaddie's ghost, in the Lower North West section of Killoch Colliery, Ayrshire, Scotland. It was nightshift and the boy was travelling with a bogey of supplies when he met another miner at a junction. The stranger told the boy to be careful as he, Scaddie, had died at that spot a few years earlier. The boy stopped the bogey, ran out of the section, got up the pit and never returned, but gave his pit helmet to a mate who wore it for years.

[@stevenlepine1883]

Seems a lot of mines had a ghost called laloo? All you needed to do on.Seeing a ghost was to show it a shovel,well that used to make most of the live men I worked with vanish pretty quickly

[@jackking5567]

I'm ex-coal miner and although I've not seen any in coal mines, I have seen ghosts in old mineral mines. The smell of damp tobacco smoke is always a giveaway that somethings happening. You might hear sounds and even light flashing from behind a corner. I've even had stones and small pieces of clay thrown at me. Weirdly it has never bothered me. Above ground and at home yes - this house has something. Random knocking begins, even when others are sat there with me. The knocking comes from a central partition wall. (I live in a detached house) The smell of old fashioned scent can happen and even a hint of cigarette smoke at times. Never seen visible things except what look like random dark patches or shadows from the corner of my eye. The worst time I've ever encountered a spirit was at a disused farm. I was with others and they witnessed that nights events too. Really really threatening stuff and some random things such as a trapped sheep in a building, what sounded like a bull snorting and scuffling toward us and even an horrific smell that churned our stomachs. I never went back to that old farm!

[@secretsix6]

i worked in a house while the owner was on holiday i was doing a job in the bathroom i had measured for a piece of pipe an went out to cut it being old i had forgot the number by the time i had got through the door turned round an there it was the loft access door stopping me from getting in now this door needed a key to open it an it was quiet loose i.e. it would swing if you let it go the door was as still as anything, later that day i was clearing my tools away i was in the kitchen an there was door between the kitchen an diner that needed dragging to shut it i turned round in the kitchen to check i had not left anything behind an the door was closed at this point i went cold an scarpered i spoke to the owner when they came home an his wife told me that the priest had been a few times to try an shift it to no avail

[@cherylbostock9265]

I’ve seen the ghost of my great grandma who died 30 years or so before I was born. I also live in a haunted bungalow. Many members of my family have had paranormal experiences

[@MikA-db2]

Stone dust has made some wonderful ghost!

[@karencarroll1324]

Bert the shirt,your having a laugh😊

[@webbieuk]

wak from kellingley was rumoured to be inbye ....must of been a ghost 😅

[@LuckyLuqmaan9]

OH MY GOD I WENT TO COAL MINING MUSEUM IN MY SCHOOL I WENT TO UNDERGROUND SAW BLOOD ON THE WALL HEARD LAUGHING NOISES AND THE WORST BIT I WAS AT THE BACK WITH MY SCHOOL AND WE WERE IN THE HALLWAY THAT THEY SHOWED IN THAT VIDEO WITH OUR LIGHTS AND I TURN AROUND AND I SEE A RANDOM BOY WITH BLUE CLOTHES AND I RAN FOR MY LIFE THIS PLACE IS CURSED DON'T GO ON YOUR OWN!

[@historyhunter5846]

I want mine today

[@stuartreadman118]

Once saw a head at the end of my bed, it was on full colour, looked like a an Indian

[@drendahenson9698]

Did anyone see a video about a mine in the UK that you could hear the devil scream and ghosts

[@drendahenson9698]

Walking around . Especially and old man with a cane. It was the most frightening video I have ever seen I would love to have any information on it as I lost my copy of it.

[@keithchegwin1604]

Is this man called trevor is it wistow or big k iknow you from

[@NCMME]

Yes it is Trevor.

[@davehayes6331]

Trevor charkly under manager Harworth

[@prospectorrodders7771]

Yes when I was in bed and the ghost opened my wardrobe doors it was so weird !!

[@davidcameron8163]

Maybe some of those ghosts should haunt the tory government. 🤣🤣🤣

[@benstevinson764]

I Believe in the Existence of Ghost's! 👻

[@explodingsausage6576]

Ghosts don't exist, and anyone who believes in them is an easily-led fool.