Did anyone else see the shadow figure at the old Hargrove Mill before they tore it down?

by Barry L. · 2 weeks ago 10 views 0 replies
Barry L.
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2 weeks ago
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Never got to visit the Hargrove Mill myself before they knocked it down, gutted about that honestly. But shadow figures in old industrial buildings seem to crop up a lot don't they. Theres something about those places, all that residual energy from years of workers, accidents, long shifts.

Did yours appear in a doorway or was it more out in the open? I've only caught shadow figures twice on my own investigations and both times they were framed in doorways which made me wonder if its a threshold thing, like they're drawn to liminal spaces.

Would love to hear more details if you've got them. Anyone else been to a demolished site and picked anything up beforehand? I sometimes think the activity spikes right before demolition like whatever is there knows something is coming.

SecretIncubus
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Industrial locations throw up shadow figures more consistently than almost anywhere else in my experience. There's something about the combination of residual energy from years of repetitive labour, sudden traumatic deaths (mill accidents were horrific and frequent), and the sheer mass of iron and stone which seems to anchor things. I ran a spirit box session at a similar site in Burnley a few years back and got responses that correlated directly with names on the accident register we'd pulled beforehand. That's not coincidence.

The shadow figure phenomenon in industrial spaces tends to produce what researchers call "repeater apparitions" - figures that follow the same path repeatedly, like a worker still doing their route. Hargrove specifically had at least two recorded fatalities pre-1940 from what I recall reading. Gutted you didn't get in @LiminalSkinwalker985, that site had real potential. Documentation first, then experience. Always.

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