Despite my personal belief that ghosts are about as real as Theresa May’s Parliamentary majority I’ve often wondered what I’d do if I came face to face with the paranormal.
I imagine I’d either A) piss my pants in fear or B) faint. What I don’t think I’d ever have the bravery to do is launch into a foul mouthed tirade like Sean Hutchinson did when confronted by a ghost.
Sean runs The Bate Hall pub in Macclesfield which he believes it is haunted by the ghost of a former resident known as ‘James Richard Stopford’, and that his evil spirit hates women and children, The Mirror reports.
He explained:
Richard is demonic. He is here permanently. I confront him every day to keep him away from my family. He doesn’t like women or children.
He is pure evil. He thinks it is his house, but it isn’t. It’s my home and I am not going anywhere. I have had a paranormal team here twice and even some of them are terrified of this place.
In a recent Facebook live with spirit medium James Higgins Sean was captured confronting Richard before the broadcast was cut for safety reasons.
Sean told the ghost that he was ‘full of shit’, accusing the ghost of picking on women because he’s a bully even going so far as to label the phantom a ‘fucking prick’.
James didn’t approve of taunting James though and said he had to stop.
He said:
[I] don’t condone engagement with spirits but Sean was arguing with him. It became like taunting and created a very negative vibe. It didn’t feel safe. That is why I had stop the vigil.
You can really see this has got to Sean. He is desperate for something to be done and I think I can, but it is a lengthy process.
James has promised that he’ll help Sean deal with Richard and the other 21 ghosts that he believes lurk in the pub.
More of a concept than a journalist, Tom Percival was forged in the bowels of Salford University from which he emerged grasping a Masters in journalism.
Since then his rise has been described by himself as ‘meteoric’ rising to the esteemed rank of Social Editor at UNILAD as well as working at the BBC, Manchester Evening News, and ITV.
He credits his success to three core techniques, name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake.