Haunted Breaks At The Black Swan Hotel
Ravenstonedale (Cumbria)

Haunted Weekend Breaks

The Black Swan Hotel is full of haunted places which are perfect for one of the most haunted weekends you will ever experience. Telephone calls have been made to previous guests by their dead relatives. Guests have been inexplicably overcome by emotion. This really is a haunted house. To learn more about this most haunted of hotels, and what the itinerary will be please click here Enjoy your ghost hunting.

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Black Swan Hotel Paranormal Weekend

This imposing Victorian structure, built of Lakeland stone in about 1899, lays nestled in the peaceful and unspoilt Westmorland village of Ravenstonedale, between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks.

The historic village of Ravenstonedale lies at the foot of the Howgills. It takes its name from an ancient custom in which a bounty of two pence was paid for a raven's head. The village retains much of its historic charm and plays host to a derelict Gilbertine priory and church, now the site of the church of St. Oswald.

The east window honours a woman martyr who was burned at the stake for performing an act of kindness in the name of her faith!

A former tower contained a church bell that served as Rights of Sanctuary bell. A fugitive ringing it was ensured a fair trial and possibly a pardon. Ubiquitous yew trees inhabit the churchyard where excavations revealed a purported Gilbertine cell!

The main street that once housed a blacksmith's shop that served farmers and miners on the fell, now offers visitors the haunted King's Head and the ghost of Lord Wharton who started the High Chapel dissenters group.

We invite you to an exclusive paranormal investigation inside the Black Swan Hotel.

Our previous experiences have proved unnerving and exciting.

Telephone calls have been made to previous guests by their dead relatives. Guests have been inexplicably overcome by emotion. Guests, who have never experienced psychic phenomenon, have suddenly started receiving psychic messages for other guests that have proved accurate! We would like to find out more and to see whether our findings can be supported by historical evidence.

Our psychic's first visit unearthed the spirit of a gentleman, called Joseph, who walks the cellars, the spirit of a young woman who also walks the cellars and disappears underground and a coffin lying in the breakfast room accompanied by the ghost of a lady in mourning. Interestingly, she also smelled smoke in one of the upstairs rooms. The owners, who had been researching the hotel, confirmed all these sightings.

Historical evidence suggests that a fire had taken place on this site during 1897, that the cellars were possibly joined to another building by an underground tunnel and that a gentleman with the name of Joseph owned and worked in another building just a few meters away along the street.

Join us?

The programme:

• Full introduction to Haunting Breaks
• 3 course dinner with wine
• Practical dowsing with crystals and rods
• Group vigils and seances with psychic in active locations
• Group tour of the most active locations with psychic
• Full discussion and presentation of findings
• Full English Breakfast

The area of Cumbria is steeped in stories, myths and legends of witchcraft, not least, of which are Long Meg and Her Daughters. This Bronze Age stone circle is the third largest prehistoric stone circle in England. The sixty standing stones, marked with carvings of concentric circles, spirals and a "cup and ring" are said to be the remains of witches who danced on the Sabbath and were turned into stone by a magician.

In 1725, when the owner of Salkeld Hall attempted to use the stones for mileposts, an inexplicable wild storm descended on the workers and they fled for their lives! William Wordsworth, who stated that he learned of Long Meg during his childhood, immortalised the stones forever in his poem,

"A weight of Awe not easy to be borne Fell suddenly upon my spirit, cast From the dread bosom of the unknown past, When first I saw that family forlorn;- Speak Thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years-pre-eminent, and placed Apart, to overlook the circle vast"