The Strange Case of the Thakeham Ghost

[@RichardVobes]

Let me know what you think!

[@station240]

Nice little story, think the farmer found his missing moo after all that ?

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks very much

[@RichardVobes]

I wondered about the cow myself.

[@carlnordstrand695]

Great video as always. No wonder you didn't do a nocturnal walk for that one!

[@waywed]

A great tale! There is a brilliant Penguin book I commend to you for more like this. It is "The Lore of the Land - A guide to England's Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys". It is a weighty tome but thoroughly fascinating for stories like the Thakeham Ghost.

[@lesleycouch6557]

Another good story well told. Really enjoying these tales, Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks Lesley - so pleased!

[@JanEncounterBay]

Fabulous story Richard.. 😊

[@orange70383]

Very nice, great story telling sir'

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks Orange - very kind.

[@neilwilliams2409]

Excellent loved the narration.

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you Neil.

[@jamesziegler4383]

Great story

[@robertwilkes2415]

Hello Richard, just watched the Thakeham Ghost story very well narrated felt like l was there. Could see the snow on the hills. From Robert New Zealand. 29c here.

[@RichardVobes]

My daughter is in NZ at mo - enjoying the glorious summer as we shiver here in the Uk! :) Thanks so much for watching.

[@MrGreatplum]

An old story with a happy ending! Great story! Must have taken a while to warm up after filming!

[@RichardVobes]

Oh it did! I was frozen! :) Mind you the Esse helped!

[@3D_Printing]

Great talk video

[@paulandsarahcaravanlife]

I live just round the corner from that cross roads. I will be taking a walk that way soon. Thank you for your great tail

[@RichardVobes]

Don't talk to any strange women!

[@williamambrose3947]

Excellent story Richard especially at minus six degrees gave the story an extra chill

[@RichardVobes]

It sure did when I was filming! :)

[@MrNas42]

Wow. It is Halloween already? Love a good ghost story and that was a good story, well told!

[@RichardVobes]

Very kind - ghost stories can be at anytime I think.

[@andrewhulson4000]

Great story Richard. The woman with the lamp at the crossroads was trying to warn him about the fire but as he was afraid of her he went around her. Seeing this, the woman with the lamp went to the house to save the child herself. That’s my interpretation if it’s worth anything. Love your stories Richard 😊😊

[@RichardVobes]

I think you have worked it out - thank you so much for watching and commenting.

[@clarereynolds9607]

Yes I'd say that's exactly what happened, she couldn't let anyone else's child die, knowing what the agony had done to her..bless her eternal soul.

[@davidbooth3285]

Oh tragic but goodly spirit,I really must thank you! You saved my family,that much is true! Even if you frightened me half out of my wits. In the end I was thrilled to bits!! You surpassed yourself there Richard!!

[@RichardVobes]

You are too kind David. :)

[@cherylconrad1157]

We are loving the stories, well done

[@RichardVobes]

So pleased!

[@simoncattle1434]

What a spooky - but lovely - story. Very well told, Richard.

[@davemacdonald3889]

Spot on Richard I really enjoyed that.🇬🇧

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you

[@timspooner59]

well played Sir Larry

[@RichardVobes]

Too kind!

[@djmossssomjd8496]

What light through yonder window breaks? Tis the bald bard with another tale! Nice one Richard :-)

[@RichardVobes]

Cheers - glad you enjoyed it.

[@urbanrider7981]

Your a great storyteller Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks very much - glad you enjoyed it.

[@kippen64]

Really well done.

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you - very kind.

[@ceeceety2320]

Hello Richard! Tammie here. I too have seen a ghost. Here in the US, in the midwest, as it's called, we used to have what they called 6-mile houses where you could rest yourself and your horses after travel. My mother's home is not even a mile from that old house which is now a museum. One night I woke to a man standing in the doorway of my bedroom. He was standing there facing down the hallway and turned his head to look at me. I closed my eyes and opened them again, he was still there! Standing in red long underwear with a pole over his shoulder and a bandana tied to the end of it which was holding something, sort of like the hobo's did. He looked at me and grinned and then faded away. Many years later, we found out that there were 3 graves in my mother's yard along with a horse. Believe it or not. True story.

[@clarereynolds9607]

The lovely lady spirit couldn't let another child die, I hope it's true.

[@MarqEnglish]

Loved this, well done Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks Marq. More to be done. :)

[@georgetimperley8906]

Well I enjoyed that, very Fascinating well done

[@RichardVobes]

Cool banana

[@bandgeeklee82]

Loving these little historical stories 👌

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much - more to follow.

[@kennethgoodman3230]

One word “spooky” is all that’s needed for that interesting tale

[@RichardVobes]

It sure was. I do not seem bless with a spooky sense, so I felt nothing in the area personnally, although it was daytime I filmed! :)

[@guerrillashadowman]

A chilling story on a chilly day 🥶 great stuff!

[@RichardVobes]

So pleased you enjoyed it - thanks for watching.

[@ramibu239]

You are a very good storyteller! Well done👍

[@RichardVobes]

Many thanks! :)

[@Red_____________]

Awesome

[@RichardVobes]

Cheers Tom

[@suzyq7284]

Brilliant,loved this video.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much.

[@alexandratitley3232]

Absolutely loved this. Really well told x

[@Mattriver7]

What a fascinating story and so well delivered, very dramatic you old thesp!

[@RichardVobes]

Oh I say, thank you!

[@johnhorne6586]

It's surprising, how many times a skeleton is found at crossroads on road widening..They are not often reported in the press but I have read reports of this in some of the books in my collection.

[@RichardVobes]

How interesting. I wonder if the remains are ever traced back tot heir lives. Interesting stuff.

[@mazlambert1]

A great tale. You told it so well. I was so engrossed in it, i could have listened for hours 😀

[@abicat6158]

What a great tale. Had me hooked listening. Thank you

[@sisyphus9252]

Great story Mr. Vobes

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you kindly

[@lisal5262]

Fabulously told in atmospheric surroundings.... so pleased I’ve discovered The Bald Explorer 😊👻

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much.

[@ladyshep]

More ghost storys bro, you tell them so well, subbed

[@RichardVobes]

There is a fresh story today - thanks for watching.

[@andrewnorris2]

Its one thing to hear a great ghost story but your leading us to the place from where the story originates really brings the story to life, and besides you are a wonderful story teller!

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you so much - I hope I can do more like this.

[@izzytaylor5655]

Great Video!

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks very much

[@maggiedoor6093]

Thoroughly enjoyed the story telling.

[@Rovinman]

Wonderful tale, Only just found it ! I was hoping he was going to go back to the Crossroads and thank the Ghost ................ Stay safe, and well ! Stu

[@thekingstone8632]

I love these tales if old Sussex, you did a brilliant job,telling thus tale ! I have read all of M R James ghost stories ,a very English tradition listening to tales in front of a roaring fire.Great video xxxShaz

[@RichardVobes]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@seanodoon]

Great story well presented, you would be welcome here on Ireland's west coast as a modern day Seanachai

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you Sean - a place it would be fabulous to visit one day!

[@robintripp8164]

This is the second time around for me on this one Richard and it is as still as good, you tell a great ghost story so can you record some more please whenever you have time.

[@Jazzwayze]

An enjoyable tale; well told; provided me with a good few minutes of 'escape'. Thank you Richard; and thank you for showing me what wonderful scenery there be down that way. I must bring my easel and paints down Sussex way! A like and a subscribe from me. Thanks again. John in Brum

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much John for saying so - so pleased you enjoyed it. Yes come to Sussex and paint. I will come and video you!

[@Jazzwayze]

Richard. As soon as they fix my cataracts I'll have my car back on the road; then I'll hold you to that! Cheers. John

[@Jazzwayze]

Only if you can guarantee no ghosts Richard! Lol!

[@oldschoollondoner4674]

Nice storytelling Richard, more Sussex ghost or paranormal stories please, sending some wonga soon.

[@WiltshireMan]

What a nice tale and very well delivered. Your a story teller thats what you are:)

[@RichardVobes]

Very kind of you to say so!

[@sandracrosse4237]

Really enjoyed your tale. Just come across it in lockdown, April 2021. Am going to look for more...

[@RichardVobes]

Cool, thanks!

[@kennethbailey2616]

Fantastic tale!

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much.

[@NootkaSeaGlass]

I resonate with this. Myself and my family were saved from a house fire by a cat. A cat who had been put out for the night. I was aged 8.

[@erikroberts1899]

Nowt like a jaw swinger story aye Richard. Love it.

[@starbuono825]

love how you tell the ghost story very interesting ! Thank you ! PS I love your accent. too ! 😁👍

[@timbhaovard1327]

That is a brilliant story

[@jbradshaw4236]

Watching this today wishing it was a crisp cold winter day!! I'm not one for this heat !! Good Video Vobes

[@RichardVobes]

Hopefully the cooler weather is on its way.

[@984francis]

A very mooving story😬

[@RichardVobes]

Hahahahaha - yes very!

[@jmeyer3rn]

Oh my goodness. Can't believe someone had the nerve to say that!!! Hilarious.

[@bamboo782]

Another good story. Had a nice ending.

[@snacklofter]

That was very good indeed - thank you. You seem to operate better in these lower temperatures! atb snack

[@RichardVobes]

The cold makes you want to get on with it! :)

[@sarahstrong7174]

Having lived in several haunted houses I can tell you that it is quite possible this tale is quite likely to be true. In one house I lived in, I was woken by a presence who spoke to me very calmly in what felt like an extremely trustworthy voice, telling me a friend, who had a room in the roof above me, had fallen asleep leaving a candle burning in an unsafe place. I immediately went up the stairs & found that the candle was burning in a flat wooden holder, on a rush mat, under a wooden beam, only inches from my friends bedcovers.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks for watching. Interesting comments too.

[@rogermolineux9741]

'The Lady with the lamp' did her good deed: she had lost her own baby, but saved another, if all to be believed. Well told, and a happy ending. It would have been even more atmospheric if filmed after dark, with perhaps a wind stirring the trees and hedges, and especially at the crossroads!

[@RichardVobes]

I will let you make that version then in a creepy dark ghost ridden lane! :)

[@shaunlaverick5793]

great story..Richard...I was wondering who published the book....as I found nothing in relation to author and title

[@RichardVobes]

It says it was published by Pimlico Publishing - a London firm I am guessing. More to follow!

[@shaunlaverick5793]

ummm this is an interesting little find Brighton had a street/lane called Pimlico. infamous and once considered one of the worst streets in Brighton which by the time of the Ordinance Survey 1876 was replaced with a new street called tichbourne st....via this link it has quite interesting stuff about the area.though it seems that maybe a tad later than the book when that Pimlico came into being .www.mhms.org.uk/content/street-history-orange-row-0

[@shaunlaverick5793]

not finding anything via publisher...rather odd perhaps its a private printed book with a limited run the publishers did..a mystery in itself the book lol

[@lindasmith1128]

Very interesting

[@mickyjb2003]

Great story Richard, has any one seen the lady of the lamp since?

[@RichardVobes]

That is a good question. I wonder if they have. Thanks for watching!

[@danielsedgwick5476]

What a lucky escape!

[@RichardVobes]

It certainly was.

[@saadbodla]

Very enjoyable....

[@RichardVobes]

Many thanks!

[@kelrogers8480]

Great story! You mention 'religious people', Richard. But everyone was religious back then. It was just the way things were.

[@RichardVobes]

Very true.

[@ander1725]

Nice ghost

[@thehootsforce4201]

A simular grave lies between the A14 and Newmarket where the Gypsy Boy is buried. It's believed that they took their life after they thought they had lost a farmers sheep he was looking after and in those days sheep theft was punished with death so they took their own life instead and so they were buried at a cross roads. The grave is still there today and people still tend the grave. It's said that the colours of the ribbons on the grave are also the colours of the winning horse at that year's Derby.

[@michaelwhite8031]

Life is sacred

[@susanolson3611]

I'd like to think that later he went to the crossroads to thank her, but she wasn't there any more. Maybe her good deed got her into heaven 🙂

[@RichardVobes]

Yes, it would be nice to think that somehow she moved on from the lonely road.

[@anonanon6612]

poor cow.

[@RichardVobes]

Yeah - I never heard what happened to the cow!

[@10wanderer]

Ghosts are a strange phenomenone , there are 2 kinds No 1, where the the apparition / event is memorised by the surroundings . it,s a like Video recording that repeats and repeats . the Ghost is long dead , In the late 80s there was a programme called Ghost Hunters Willam Wollard narrated it , in one programe was a plumber working in a cellar below nearby York Minster. , he heard music in the background thinking it was someone upstairs , suddenly a horse appeared through a wall with a Centurian mounted, he could not see the the bottom of the horses legs as they were obscured by the platform attached to the wall, as the horse cleared the short platform the legs appeared walking on the original Roman Road , they were followed by Legionaires marching behind . he could hear the noise of the horse and men on the cobbled road and could smell the horse and men as well . They then disappeard through another wall , The guy went upstairs to report his job had finished, looking quite shocked, the office guy said whats up with you? have you seen the Romans then ? how did you know asked the Plumber , people see then all the time here,!!! it,s thought that for some unknown reason that the event is recorded by the surroundings , this applies to ghosts seen in haunted houses etc they are just recordings No 2 deals with Ghosts that are real . they have conciousness and awareness that they had when alive , now they are in Limbo stuck between the 3rd and 4th Dimension , some chose this for their own reasons , others ar lost souls, Sorry it was a bit long

[@RichardVobes]

No problem on the length - I enjoyed reading your explanation! :)

[@10wanderer]

@@RichardVobes As a footnote some Roman Experts quizzed our Plumber on the dress of the Legionaires , he said that they had round shields amongst other comments, the experts replied that,s wrong because the Roman shields are rectangular, To show the veracity of what he saw the experts discovered that Legions of British origin troops were given round shields unlike the Roman soldiers .

[@maxlee1816]

You're doing it in the light cos you're really scared

[@realgreendress2330]

I smell smugglers!

[@RichardVobes]

Are they wiffy then?

[@realgreendress2330]

@@RichardVobes When they are waving a lamp about to stop people going by the cross roads after dark, yes. I smell foul doings. Saving people from burning buildings was the work of another and more kindly hand, perhaps from beyond the grave.

[@RichardVobes]

Oooh I see what you mean. Could be - who knows?