Isle of Wight News on Ventnor Blog

There is a Psychic Supper taking place tonight (as if you didn’t know already).

The Culver Haven Inn is the location for an evening of clairvoyance with Caroline McReynolds.

A fish and chip supper is included in the ticket price of £15 per person.

Starts at 8pm, call 406107 to book your place.

Image: Chiara under CC BY-SA 2.0

If you need more than a few kids dressed up in Hallowe’en gear to spook you out, perhaps this latest DVD from a group of Islanders could be just the ticket.

It’s been three years in the making, but a new Charity Ghost DVD titled Haunted History and based upon the Royal National Hospital in Ventnor, has just been launched.

The team behind the ‘Myths, Ghosts & Legends’ Website are responsible for the DVD, which uses state of the art computer effects as well as real-life ghost investigations of the area to bring you the story of the hospital.

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In a continuation of Ghost Stories set around the Ventnor Area, Gay Baldwin’s next instalment features young Milly Pugsley who lived in Newport but at the long-gone Royal National Hospital. Ed

MILLY MEETS A GHOST
From the moment Milly Pugsley saw the old Royal National Hospital, she loved the place. As a student nurse, she spent two happy years there, despite several encounters with the hospital’s ghosts.

Now a retired nurse tutor, Milly lives in Newport, with a collection of elderly cats which she claims moved in when she wasn’t looking.

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Many thanks to Gay Baldwin for his next instalment of ghostly goings on in Ventnor. Ed

For almost a century, the Royal National Hospital at Ventnor was at the forefront of the fight against the highly infectious disease, tuberculosis.

More than 100,000 patients were treated there. Many were cured. Others weren’t so fortunate. Much pioneering and experimental surgery was carried out in the operating theatre, but until the discovery of new and effective drugs, consumption was a highly infectious killer disease.

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Following on from Gay Baldwin’s introduction earlier in the week to spooky goings on on the Island, here, as promised is the first instalment. We take a trip down to the Ventnor Brewery. Ed

Wight Spirit – Brewed Supernaturally
The ghost of a long-dead brewer who still keeps a watchful eye over the beer-making has had a modern-day ale created and named Wight Spirit in his honour.

Wearing old-fashioned clothing, complete with starched wing collar and rolled up shirtsleeves, the phantom brewer has been seen at a third floor window, once the labelling room, surveying the yard at Ventnor Brewery, while his spirit is also heard whistling in empty rooms.

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VentnorBlog offers a warm welcome to Island ghost writer, Gay Baldwin who has put together for us, a collection of spooky stories set in the Ventnor area. She starts with an introduction to the Island, but over the next few weeks we’ll have ghostly stories from the Ventnor Brewery, the old Hospital and Botanic Gardens amongst others. Ed

See The Darker Side of Wight
By day the Isle of Wight is a place of sunshine, spectacular countryside, beaches and great sports and leisure activities. But it has a darker side too. For it is also known as Ghost Island – the most haunted Island in the world!

Ghosts and spirits abound here, for the Isle of Wight has a supernatural energy that’s particularly evident in some very haunted hotspots. This diamond shaped island off England’s south coast, a covering just 147 square miles, has some 130,000 ‘living’ residents who share their home with hundreds of ghosts.

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