Ghostly Suprise

Chilling picture taken inside abandoned asylum sparks mystery after haunting figure of a ‘ghost girl’ is spotted lurking among crowd.

Ghost hunter Phillip Barron, 45, has taken tours of Newsham Park Hospital in Liverpool around 20 times but said he has never seen anything as spooky or unsettling as this picture.

A GHOST hunter has claimed to have spotted a ghoul in a picture he took at an abandoned mental asylum.

Phillip Barron, 45, said he was taking a group on a tour of the disused facility in Liverpool and took a picture of them before they set out for a trip round Newsham Park Hospital.

He said he does this with all the groups he takes round for the Haunted Happenings events company and didn’t look at the picture again until the next day when it was posted on Facebook.

Although the picture looks as though it is of a girl with a shadow over her, he claimed that none of the other group members recognised who she was.

He told the Liverpool Echo: “We always begin our ghost hunts with a picture of the group, I have done this many times and this is exactly what I did.

“I took the picture on my phone and just put it in my pocket, I didn’t even look at it. It wasn’t until the next morning, after it had been posted to Facebook with other pictures from the night, that I saw it.”

The inside of the hospital is littered with broken beds, wheelchairs and trollies with the top floor attic lined with cupboards that were used to punish apparently misbehaving children.

The staircases also have large metal ‘anti-suicide’ grilles extending upwards from the bannisters to prevent people throwing themselves down the flights of stairs.


Phillip, who has been a ghost hunter for 12 years, said: “I have never come across anything like this before, of course we tried to debunk this straight away.

“We asked everyone who was there if they remember this person, but they don’t.”

He also said that the team he works with has no idea who the ghostly girl could be but that the site has been used as a sanatorium and mortuary from the 1800s.

Phillip, who has been ghost hunting at Newsham around 20 times, added: “I have seen shadows, and people have had strange feelings, but nothing like this.

“Newsham is a fascinating building and when we tour, we guide the guests, but they all experience different things.”

Newsham Park Hospital is considered one of Liverpool’s most haunted buildings as it has fallen into a state of disrepair since its closure in 1992.

It was built in 1869 and is now classified as a Grade II listed structure.

It was put on the market in 2007 for £1.5m with the intention of turning the building into flats but the plans received a hostile response from locals.

CREDITS - The Sun