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**hogspawn** · 22-02-2009, 20:35

Originally Posted by PoisonDwarf

And remember the bloke allegedly crucified upside down in the church on the trg area. Spooky.

wasnt that supposed to be bollox though? a regurgitation of a WW1 story from France?

**righthandmarker** · 27-02-2009, 10:59

Was up to my neck in this marsh too, inevitably on a freezing winter night at stupid o'clock. I tried to aim for a part submerged log, slipped off and fell forward. Started sinking rapidly under all the weight i was carrying and started to genuinely believe it was endex for me. Somehow managed to get my foot on something solid under me which gave me just enough push to get me within arms reach of my mucker. Because it was a tactical infil all the the panicing and rescueing was done without a sound, that was until my CSM gave me a viscious bollocking for carrying a dirty weapon, the same CSM that was in front of me when i went in and turned his back on the whole drama. Any respect i had for that bloke was immediately blown into orbit at that precise moment.
Anyway back to the point in hand, I had a Blair witch moment when I was doing a night navex here on my own once and as i was bimbling through a plantation (can't remember which one) i fell flat on my face after tripping over something solid that was overgrown. When i started pulling the vegetation away i realised i had just tripped over a clump of grave head stones. there were three (maybe 4) of them. Scared the living sh*t out of me. A closer inspection showed they were graves for horses, couldn't make out the dates though and they were in the deepest part of the training area. That's absolutely gospel, so be careful where you dig your shell scrapes!
Stanta is quite a spooky place. A lot of history there which isn't immediately evident.

**polar69** · 27-02-2009, 11:10

Whats the grid ref for Madhouse plantation ?

**Pull-up-a-sandbag** · 27-02-2009, 11:32

Spoke to a friend about this place who is a bit of a nerd about such places. He informed me that a temporary hutted camp was put up there in '41/42 for US flyers who were thought to be on the verge of flipping out, a sort of septics Sandy's home and some of these blokes reported strange events. He has promised to give me web links which I will pass on.

**msr** · 27-02-2009, 11:37

So how often do I need to turn up in my WW1 uniform at odd hours of the night to keep the myth alive?

**polar69** · 27-02-2009, 11:42

I reckon its the "other" Polar having a laff

**box-of-frogs** · 27-02-2009, 12:45

Originally Posted by polar69

Whats the grid ref for Madhouse plantation ?

IVO 910 947

**box-of-frogs** · 27-02-2009, 12:45

Originally Posted by msr

So how often do I need to turn up in my WW1 uniform at odd hours of the night to keep the myth alive?

Once a month? Every halloween is a must too!

**Cant_Reach_Beer** · 27-02-2009, 13:32

Been to madhouse a number of times in the past few years. Even though I only started hearing the rumours about six months ago, I always thought that it was a spooky place. As stated previously it is pitch dark and unnaturally silent.

I was there last week on an ATR final ex, nothing has changed. I got a little geographically embarrassed whilst checking the sentries (couldn’t see my hand in front of my face and the comms cord had snapped, honest

), so I walked away from the harbour to loop round and come back in at the 6 o’clock position. I must have been about 100 metres from the harbour when I heard a high pitched scream. Immediately remembered the stories, proceeded to brick it and contemplated sprinting through the wood back to my nice safe doss bag, probably not the best plan ever, but circumstances persist. Then I saw a small shape darting out the wood onto the track. F**king Muntjacs’, those little deformed deer things that run around the area, the whole lot of them should be culled. Still, it’s a horrible place.

Never, never going through that wood by myself, or without a big f**k off torch again.

**jockass** · 09-03-2009, 15:52

I've been digging into this some more and some academic from middlesex university who I think studies UK asylums (or maybe one of his personalities pretends to...) didnt have any immediate records of it. However he did point me towards some documents he found from Norfolk records office. There was a document from the 1770s that refers to the old madhouse near tottenham. So obviously there is a bit of history of insanity going back to well before then. He didnt have anything on the more recent history up to WW1 and 1938 as Bossdog suggested. I will keep looking every now and then as sure there must be something more somewhere. Maybe locked up in some MOD vault. But yeah, as with the others I am pretty sure I won't be doing any nightime field trips their without calling ghostbusters.