Shanklin Ghost Walk | Isle of Wight Walks | Cool Dudes Walking Club

A terrifying walk around Shanklin on the Isle of Wight. The walk is about 1.4 miles long.
The ghosts in this walk were from a number of different sources.
Firstly Gay Baldwin's excellent ghost books, which are available here: ghostisland.co...
Also the Vernon Cottage Website and Trip Advisor. (Thanks Sue)
You can find more about the sponsor Occultaria of Albion and get magazines on their website : www.occultaria...
The Spotter's Handbook App is available here:
Andrioid - play.google.co...
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Tom Crowley's Podcast can be found here: crowleytom.com...
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Filmed on a Sony A7CII with Sony E 1.8 11mm lens
Rode Wireless Go II mics
Gear list on website.
Music KZbin Audio Library
Snowfall Butterflies - Asher Fulero
Elm - Marek Larwood & Dave Waller
Rich in the 80s - Div Kid
Confident Kurt - Tracktribe
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchiakovsky Marek on Keepboard

[@paulthurston2883]

Yes, I have personally seen a ghost when I was a kid of about 10. In broad daylight. There was an old abandoned shed/hut surrounded by a small woodland and bushes. Myself and 2 of my friends were riding our track bikes on the scrubland where the old shed was. As I was riding, a tall figure dressed in old fashioned clothing came from the hut, walking towards me. He was a young black african. Probably around 17 years old ? very smartly dressed like a servant boy from the 1800's. He walked in my direction, smiling. Then just vanished as I was about 12ft from him. My 2 mates didn't see it as they were riding some distance from me. True story. That was back in the late 60's in Lowestoft UK.

[@cdwc]

I am going to stay away from Lowestoft!

[@RandomTrinidadian]

Finally!!! Another ghost walk! And yea.... i do believe in ghost. I mean i really deny them since my family have had encounters in the past. I remember after my dad died, i would smell like coffee being made in the kitchen for months after his funeral. He was the only one who drank coffee in the house and we had not bought any since before he passed. He had been in hospital for months prior.

[@cdwc]

Pretty spooky cool dude

[@RandomTrinidadian]

​@@cdwcit was weird, but i would not call it spooky. Kinda enjoyed it really

[@rentaghost]

A chilling reminder that the Isle of Wight is one of the spookiest places in the UK

[@cdwc]

More ghosts than people.

[@kathrynthomas6138]

Hey cool dude! I used to work at Shanklin Theatre from 1995-1997 as part of the theatre company. I have experienced a few strange things during rehearsals there. One evening myself and a fellow performer were standing on the stairs between the dressing room and stage when a cold blast of air whooshed past us!! I frequently saw a figure out of the corner of my eye stood in the wings (which were empty) when on stage. A freind of mine who was the director lived there upstairs for a few weeks when moving house and he heard a party in full swing coming from the downstairs bar. He thought someone had broken into the theatre. On investigation he opened the bar door and the noise stopped, the room was in darkness so he ran back upstairs and slept with the tv on all night!

[@alanmaynard7842]

Isle of Wight at night in the rain. Very spooky. What time was it. No one about.

[@cdwc]

It was around 8pm. Shanklin was actually pretty busy. The weather kept people indoors.

[@michaelwhite8031]

I love your little joke the Twinning, it really tickled my tea leaves :)

[@stephr7637]

Yay! I love a ghost walk 👻I'm open to the idea that ghosts (or something causing people's experiences which we have yet to observe or understand scientifically) exist but I'm highly skeptical. I suspect that with scientific advances, in a couple of hundred years people will be looking back on us nowadays and our theories about ghosts with pity and mirth, in the way that we look back on people of olden times and their beliefs about witches and fairies to explain phenomena that we now understand rationally. I find ghost stories entertaining though.

[@cdwc]

I agree. I was watching 'Uncanny' and there was an interesting theory that mould spores caused people to hallucinate and they are often activated by building work.

[@mikeworkman3593]

Except no one has ever filmed one, so there that.

[@krabbers]

oooOOOOOooOoooooooh sorry just found the emojis ,been listening to OoA podcast most excellent recommendation , Stay Cool

[@christopherselway2274]

I remember sitting in the pilot boat way way back with the owner and the head barman. It had been a busy day and we where having one for the road, when suddenly the kitchen door behind the bar flew open with a loud bang and a cold breeze past my back sending the hairs on the back of my neck up as i saw a strange shadow pass the port hole window. My boss turned white and the barman gave out a holy @##$! What was that? I

[@cdwc]

Ghost wind.

[@mikeworkman3593]

That 'ghost' was just a water droplet on the camera lens, the light refracted in the water droplet like a prism and split it into those light rays on the lens.

[@cdwc]

The ghost was disguising itself as a droplet.

[@Joiujzd]

Cool dude! What a pleasant Sunday evening treat!

[@cdwc]

Hope you enjoyed it.

[@Joiujzd]

@@cdwc I was scared to near death

[@1525ism]

I was on the IoW this week and went to the shanklin chine. I didnt see any ghosts there. But i have seen a ghost when i was a child.

[@LeanneModenPoet]

Love the Occultaria of Albion! So nice to see you repping such a fun and spooky indie zine/podcast!

[@cdwc]

Yes, his stuff is brilliant. I hope people buy his zines.

[@IslandGooner]

Fair play for braving the weather. Hopefully it gets better for another episode

[@cdwc]

I don't think it has stopped raining this month.

[@IslandGooner]

@cdwc It really hasn't. Might be time to create a green and white "Cool Dudes" brolly for us to use.

[@Niac022]

Just after Thanksgiving dinner while up at the cottage my hubby and I went for a walk along the road after dark. Nice, quiet country road walk next to a lake where most of the cottages were already closed for the year and the moon was bright enough to let us not need out flashlights all the time. One side of the road was the lake and cottages, the other side open fields. Sounds quite nice right? Well, out here in Canada when people pass each other on walks we wave and say hello. We're walking along and in the dark and think we see a person so we wave but they don't; also we notice they aren't walking. Worried we've stumbled across a weirdo I say hi aloud but no response. At this time I turn on my flashlight and aim it at the ground hoping the light will splash on our silent friend there but where the light touches is empty space. My husband responds about how there is someone there why can't the flashlight find them. I point my flashlight directly at it and it wasn't there, move the flashlight away and it was there. My hubby then says; "Behind us." I turn and look and he's doing the same thing to a 'person' who is also only there when the light isn't touching them. Same shape, same height, exact same everything. Things really went to pot when we both agreed that we saw more in the field now too. I asked him to say how many on the count of three and we both said three at the same time. They always stayed about 3 meters (10ft away from us) but a couple more did show up before we made it back to the cottage. The next morning when the sun was fully up we decided we would go back on our walk and find the mailboxes, fence posts, or whatever that had spooked up the night before. Problem is there was nothing that could have caused it. The field didn't even have bushes. I don't know if we encountered ghosts or what people call 'shadow people' but from then on we only did our walks at that place when the sun was out.

[@davis123321123]

Jen & Mike both do not believe in ghosts

[@cdwc]

I am with you both.

[@janecarter6994]

I don't believe in ghosts but would shit myself if I saw one!

[@cdwc]

Ha ha. I would be the same

[@WalksWithOlly]

I don't believe in ghosts as per the common perception. Although I've met people who've had otherwise unexplainable poltergeist experiences. When someone talks about a ghost that appears at the same time each day and completing the same movement or routine, I like to believe it's some kind of energy left like a scar in the passage of time. There's also a possibility that we don't understand what we might see because we can't comprehend anything beyond the four dimensions we're aware of (including time).

[@cdwc]

I don't believe in them either, but I agree, it would be nice if they did exist to prove there was something else out there beyond our understanding.

[@drummerboy6464]

Nope. Happy Halloween 🎃

[@cdwc]

[@jafwilding]

I didn’t see a ghost, but I saw the activity of a ghost, possibly. Stayed in a very large, old house in Wales that was being run as a hotel. Shared a room. At bedtime, went to check the door was locked. Tried the handle. As I walked back to bed, I heard someone rattle the door handle behind me. Looked around and saw it’s final movement. When I stopped, I asked the other bloke if he saw that. He had. I went to the door, and opened it, and there was nobody there. Was a long way to any door or passageway. Not convinced that a prankster could have run away so quickly.

[@cdwc]

I bet you were glad you weren't alone cool dude.

[@amandacope9072]

Very scary, and even scarier when I saw cool dude 247 in his black cloak.

[@cdwc]

He will start wearing that with his suspenders underneath.

[@lolly5453]

Well if I didn’t believe in ghosts before, I do after seeing this video. Never seen a ghost but pretty sure I heard one coming up the stairs one day, n I then noticed the phone had been unplugged. So must’ve been a ghost… either that, or one of dem horror film type killer dudes I heard sneaking in. Preferably the ghost 😬 Just a nice little ghost prank then, isn’t it 🫤 Happy Halloween Marek 🎃🖤👻

[@cdwc]

Let's hope it was a ghost rather than psychopath killer! Ha.

[@alanfielder3157]

Excellent! Brilliantly done, thank you. Terrified of Shanklin 😮

[@cdwc]

It might be scarier in the day time.

[@alanfielder3157]

@@cdwc can’t argue with that

[@jmcgonnell]

'The Twinning'. GENIOUS.

[@1oldgit]

Wondering if any ghostly ? This ghost thing has me wondering why clothes are also supposed to be seen along with the ghosts? ...No from me but open to being proved wrong 🤔 By the way I was t.v. channel surfing and discovered you on something called CelebAbility with a clipboard as a sort of judge...is the host the lovechild of Alan Carr?

[@cdwc]

Ha. Don't watch that. That is how I fund continuing to do this KZbin channel.

[@1oldgit]

@@cdwc Have to say I didn't watch it all as was a bit rubbish...this is far more interesting Cool Dude 👍

[@stuartscott8099]

Great night time setting

[@systemSkynet]

If zombies eat brains why don't they eat each others? Unless it's cos someone packaged them and sold them as sweets. Spooky episode cool dude

[@lisaperry345]

They like fresh brains.

[@cdwc]

This is a good point, and I agree with Lisa's excellent answer.

[@infidelcastro5129]

I’ve seen a ghost but I don’t believe in them…

[@cdwc]

[@orangeedo]

I think a lot of ghosts are actually people's inherited memory. If you put people from the modern world into an old building while their senses are heightened, they're going to get a strange familiar feeling. Like a polar in a zoo might have never seen snow, but the first time he does he'll feel excited and know exactly what it is. Same thing really. Or maybe I'm a ghost leading the alive people of the scent.

[@cdwc]

This is a very good theory cool dude.

[@mikeworkman3593]

Yeah right, they steal those polar bears from the snow.

[@lisaperry345]

Ahh great vid! We'd just come back from a ghost walk in York when we watched your vid so it was perfect timing. No, I don't believe in ghosts but I love ghost tours because you get to learn about the dark history of a place and the stories are fun. By the way, the Blair witch mini Marek picture at the end was genius. Haha!

[@cdwc]

York is an excellent place to go for ghosts. Yes there were some excellent pictures in this one.

[@jdanielpUK]

I can believe that ghosts have more manors...

[@cdwc]

8/10 on the ghostometer

[@garrymartin6474]

I was in Shanklin only yesterday ! Luckily the ghosts did not cause any inconvenience 😥 I have seen something I cannot explain but it does not mean it was a supernatural occurrence as you can misperceive things and the mind play tricks, so I don't know 🤷🏻👻

[@cdwc]

The ghosts don't work in Shanklin on the weekend I think.

[@chumon1992]

I believe in ghosts but i dont think anyone really understands the true nature of being of them yet.

[@ErinN43]

I don’t believe in ghosts, but am still scared by them

[@davis123321123]

Woop woop 🙌

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

12:10 Ha, Christmas peering round the corner, I love it. Honestly neutral on the subject of Ghosts, but wouldn't begrudge anyone spinning a yarn to get that sweet tourist cash.

[@cdwc]

That was an excellent picture. Agreed

[@Manoghosts]

Fantastic as ever, both educational and terrifying (Especially all the 'e' numbers in the brain.)

[@cdwc]

My brain is now turning into a zombie brain after eating that.

[@thekentishpilgrim]

Scary stuff #1! I hope that when you were eating those candy brains a little old lady was walking past and just saw a random, bald man feverishly chomping on human brains in the middle of the night and passed out from fear! Lastly, catch me all month as Shrek off, off, off, off, off Broadway in Shanklin!

[@cdwc]

TheKentishShrek. I felt bad saying it afterwards but I didn’t know who else to pick on. Ha

[@jacquettabanana]

I was in Shanklin at the end of September 👍

[@cdwc]

I hope Frances gave you 5p.

[@jacquettabanana]

@@cdwc no, he stole my phone 😤

[@Theresa-h7f]

Was this man on Shakespeare and Hathaway ?

[@oggie114]

The storm of '87 aka the day I was born! I've always felt a tad responsible for the loss of piers and trees that day, though I've yet to be haunted by either so they don't seem to bear a grudge... 👻 Spooky walk Cool Dude, the darkness and rain really added to the fear factor!

[@cdwc]

It is true, the storm was 100% your fault I am afraid.

[@oggie114]

@@cdwc 😂 fair

[@Vurtonable]

No, but my car boot opened itself yesterday morning while at home. Did you know that in Victorian London few hobbyists had more enthusiasm for the breeding process of Pigeons than Charles Darwin. He owned a diverse flock of Pigeons, joined several London pigeon clubs and hobnobbed with famous breeders. Darwin's passion for Pigeons influenced his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, which has not one but two chapters about pigeons (dogs and cats share a single chapter).

[@cdwc]

I don't believe in pigeons.

[@Skunkola]

Yes Mate

[@cdwc]

Hope you don't see any this Halloween cool dude.

[@Skunkola]

@@cdwc Oh I don't mind, bring on the scare!

[@steveharris5017]

Yes absolutely. I was a sceptic until I saw the ghost of Derek Acorah which I thought was ironic. Now Sam visits me regularly. Great walk as always Cool Dude!

[@cdwc]

Say hello to Derek.

[@indobleh]

Well done to the *Zombie Brains* supplier !

[@cdwc]

It is a cool sweet. I expect it sends kinds absolutely mental.

[@maryjordan7482]

I dreamt about Shanklin 10 years before I went there and when I went years later I felt so at home. ❤❤❤

[@cdwc]

I hope there weren't any ghosts in the dream.

[@christinemay859]

I experienced a visit from a ghost at the age of seven while living in East Africa. I opened my eyes one night to see a small female figure with round black rimmed glasses approaching my bed. She then put her hands through the mosquito net I was under while laughing. I was terrified and went under the blankets for a long time. My parents told me it was a dream but I have always known it was a ghost.My great grandmother died in England around that time and wore the same style of spectacles so maybe it was she who paid me ghostly visit.

[@cdwc]

I am going to stay away from all people wearing spectacles from now on. The laughing bit makes it more scary.

[@BigBadBender]

fantastic video as always Marek :) nice to see you going on walks which i consider local! happy halloween

[@cdwc]

It was surprisingly busy around Shanklin that night (I think because of half term).

[@kraven512]

Not sure on ghosts, except for Ghosts BBC. Two thumbs up from our 7 year old.

[@cdwc]

[@monkeezorg]

Was out and about with Mike Down dressed as a skeleton, last night, talking about Marek. Now a new video! Thanks dude.

[@cdwc]

Good old Mike. I love Mike!

[@nataliebsketching]

Very spooky video! No I don’t believe in ghosts but I’m a big fan of ghost stories

[@cdwc]

Yes, I love the Christmas adaptations of M.R.James' stories.

[@jackspring7709]

Hey, Marek: there's a ghost standing under the street light behind you at 7:03!

[@cdwc]

How embarrassing talking about a ghost, when one is standing right behind me!

[@highlandexplorer990]

Hey there, cool video! 👻 Really enjoyed the ghost walk in Shanklin. The spooky stories were fascinating. 🕷 📖 And those Halloween snacks, yikes! 😱 Keep up the awesome content! 🎃

[@srbrans]

When I lived in Israel I used to take a bus from the kibbutz to the local town. I always felt really creeped out as the bus passed a certain spot. This was just outside Caesarea. Many battles took place in the area. My hair almost stood on end.

[@cdwc]

I went to a Kibbutz too. It was the only place I could afford to go on my year off.

[@srbrans]

@@cdwc Interesting!! Where were you? I did many months at Dafna in the far north and then some time after at Sdot Yam on the Med. 1976/7.

[@chad7131]

Perfect video for a Halloween night. To answer your question...yes. I saw one when i was a young lad. Scared the hell out of me

[@RJ-444]

At night? In the rain? Terrifying! My brother has a ghost in his old cottage. It turns on the taps. (I don't visit my brother often).

[@cdwc]

Are you are sure it is your brother and not your sistern. (that is so bad it isn't even a joke - apologies)

[@RJ-444]

@@cdwc it's so bad it made me laugh though, so that still counts. Apology accepted.

[@ChewyBacAaaah]

Paid promotion; Pampers for adults, ghost hunters edition.

[@nightheron5892]

Yes. I saw a female apparition in my hometown one time circa 2000. V

[@josey777cat]

No

[@tinasavage674]

Yes😊

[@iamgod6464]

Next stop.... Sandown Golf Course Ghost Clown Walks.😊👍🤡

[@cdwc]

Zine coming soon.

[@andyryan4061]

No

[@andyryan4061]

But yes i did

[@bobbito79]

I don’t believe in ghosts.

[@chegeny]

Excellent ghost walk, Marek. Thanks, enjoyed it very much. Poor Albert... I like theatre ghosts. Yes. My wife and I witnessed a ghost descending stairs one night around 2-ish. It was a luminous human apparition. It descended the stairs and walked to the kitchen. I had no idea my wife saw it as well until she she grabbed my arm and asked me if I saw the ghost. We were doing renovations at the time and the builders complained about missing tools found in other rooms and footsteps in the loft.

[@cdwc]

I was watching an episode of a ghost programme called 'Uncanny', in which an expert said that ghost sightings often take place after renovations to a house.

[@herewardparry-jones841]

No

[@cdwc]

I think you might be a ghost Hereward.

[@elaineforse5914]

Ghost walks are the best ❤ cheeky little sideline for you ghost walk guide?

[@grahamcope2196]

Thanks for letting me tag along CD, it was a lot of fun. I have only ever seen ghosts when I have had too much to drink so not sure if there is a correlation there or not . Amazing Halloween keyrings and photos!

[@cdwc]

The pumpkin one is incredible!

[@grahamcope2196]

@@cdwc I have a penchant for the two Dracula photos if I am being completely honest

[@judybee]

My best friends are called Sue and Dave👫. Have been together for hundreds of years, so that's quite scary! 😵‍💫Don't remember them ever living upstairs at The Crab though! I've had lots & lots of spiritual type experiences but never seen an actual Ghostbut there's definitely something twixt heaven & earth for sure. I've had things happen personally I really can't explain. Happy Halloween Marek.🎃Super ghostly vid in Shanklin for the 31st! x J x

[@cdwc]

Maybe all people call Sue and Dave eventually get together. Happy Halloween to you too.

[@isolationstation5157]

No

[@EccentricAuntWanda1]

NICE ONE

[@cdwc]

[@gregmcleod7597]

Nice 1

[@cdwc]

[@SweetNigeyB]

I believe in ghosts. I saw something when I was on a ghost tour in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh but it may have been a trick of the light because it was only there for a moment. The spooky atmosphere probably contributed to me thinking I saw some fell spirit.

[@cdwc]

I am never going to Scotland again now.