Diary of a Ghosthunter

Peter Underwood, Ghosthunter at Large

By RUBY LANG     February 28, 2005
Source: Phenomena

World famous Ghosthunter Peter Underwood, Life President of The Ghost Club Society, has seen his fair share of spooks and haunted places. Here he talks about his favourite haunts, spookiest cases and his new book - Haunted Gardens.

Q. What first inspired you to get into this field?

A. Probably seeing what I (and my mother) took to be the ghost of my father the night he died suddenly when I was nine years old; and learning that there was a famous ghost story associated with my grandparent's home, Rose Hall, where I often stayed during holidays.

There was a so-called "haunted" room' and often people who had read about the historic ghost called at the house and asked to see the room and hear the ghost story.

When I was staying there my grandmother would delegate me to do the honours and, very much tongue in cheek, I would tell the story to scores of strangers. And very often they would say words to the effect "Well, we're not surprised because we've got a ghost!".

Eventually it seemed to me that perhaps there was more in this than I had thought and before too long I began to take notes of the ghost stories people told me. I began to look for haunted houses and as I grew older I sought out and joined the societies and organisations interested in such subjects and eventually carried out investigative visits to anywhere that had a substantial story of a haunting.

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