We’re in Margam Park visiting the beautiful castle bang in the centre to meet up with Robert King, a real life paranormal expert. Let’s face it, if anywhere is going to be haunted it’s that big gothic castle on the hill, and Robert says there are plenty of stories about ghosts in the walls of the castle, so let’s go exploring.
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00:00From the time I was 13 or 14, I wonder sometimes if it was provoked by an experience I had
00:09in Neath, in Caddickson Lodge. When I got on the landing of the first floor, I started
00:16taking photographs with my camera, and suddenly there was footsteps on the stairwell behind
00:21me. Somebody or something was climbing the stairs. I looked around, there was no one
00:25there. But even as I looked around, the tread kept on going, the steps kept on coming. With
00:32that, I turned and panicked and ran.
00:36Boo. I'm here in Margam Castle, in one of the rooms that people have claimed to see
00:41ghosts in the past. I'm feeling relatively okay here in the daytime, but I certainly
00:46wouldn't want to be here at night.
00:48When they were kipping down for the night, and suddenly in amongst them all, a light
00:55appeared. A white light. And it grew and grew, and they became both fascinated and terrified.
01:02And the light materialised into a grey-haired lady in grey clothes. They may have been bed
01:08clothes, I don't know, and she was taking exception to men in her bedroom, who knows?
01:13When it spoke to them and said, were you in my room? This room? They panicked and ran
01:18out and they didn't come back here.
01:21Robert's been in the industry for decades. He's done ghost tours, written books, done
01:25talks on the subject, and he says you've got to remember that the ghosts out there are
01:29just as scared of you as you are of them. So if you keep your distance, maybe you'll
01:34get a chance to see one.
01:36The times that I've ever had plucked up the courage to say to a spooky thing that's appeared
01:41in front of me, who are you, what have you done? That is the problem. They don't want
01:45to communicate with us more than many of us don't want to communicate with them. But the
01:49one thing is true, I am sincere in what I do and I believe what people tell me stories
01:55and I will recognise a liar. That's ghost hunting.