[Music] hi i'm ned welcome to port chester castle [Applause] porchester castle is over 1 700 years old it's near portsmouth a city on the south coast of england the castle is part of english heritage english heritage is a charity which manages over 400 old buildings and monuments in england with so many old buildings there are also lots of reports of ghosts and ghosts are sometimes a problem for staff and visitors at english heritage in fact some staff decided to leave their jobs because of the ghosts i've come here to port chester to find out more
about reports of not one but four ghosts and many of the ghosts come from different times in port chester's long history port just a castle dates back to roman britain the romans built the original castle here in the year 290. [Music] the first ghost report also comes from roman times visitors report that they see the ghost of a roman soldier guarding the walls but they say they don't feel frightened in the middle ages porchester became a favorite castle for the kings and queens of england during this time a small monastery was built there's a church
here now in place of the monastery people say that they see a man dressed in black here and they think he is the ghost of a monk from the monastery surprisingly people don't feel frightened when they see him they say that he disappears when they look at him our first two ghosts are not very frightening but the next ghost really frightens people the white lady some people believe that this is the ghost of charlotte white she was a woman who visited the castle in the 19th century charlotte's baby fell into the water and poor charlotte
also died when she tried to save her child the most frightening ghost of all is a man on a black horse both castle visitors and staff say that they see him one of the staff who saw the ghost said it got bigger and bigger it started to come towards me and i screamed and ran away people also say they hear the sound of horses one visitor even heard the sound of horses on a video he filmed one of the strange things about the man on the horse is that we don't know who he is or
which part of port chester's long history he is from [Music] i was quite sure i didn't believe in ghosts before i came here but after a day at porchester i'm not so sure [Music]
