The Catalyst

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By Peter ShuttleworthBBC News

A child's gravestone in The Garden , a monk-like figure supposedly appearing over a sleeping baby and words carved on Walls . . All reported at A House once known as the UK's Most Haunted .

About 300 apparent paranormal phenomena was documented at a remote 17Th Century house that had national media coverage because of supposed spooky goings-on.

The multiple claims of The Unexplained was a tale that interested Hollywood.

It came after A Family started to speak about their Penyffordd Farm nightmare.

Reports of muffled voices in Empty Rooms , figures appearing, hearing children singing and carvings and stains appearing on Walls were brought to national attention by mum-of-four Rose-Mary Gower Who Said she was desperate for answers.

There were also claims of a huge wooden owl moving across The House on its own, and a Pregnant Girl appearing on the patio of their farmhouse in North Wales And Then vanishing.

Rose-Mary documented what she believed to be unexplained experiences, and was so spooked that she got a psychologist into her home in Treuddyn, Flintshire, to do a study - and he found no rational explanation.

What's The Bbc documentary Paranormal about?

Now those reports of supernatural stories have been investigated in a who heard from those who say multiple spirits were doing stuff at Penyffordd Farm that no-one could explain.

" One Day I was moving some dried flowers that had started to look a bit manky so I decided the throw them away, " Rose-Mary wrote after she started documenting the goings-on in the late 1990s.

" I took them from the lounge to The Kitchen and put them on The Counter , dropping petals All the while.

" Somebody came to The Door and I was about 30 seconds, and when I came back every single petal had disappeared. They had been replaced by dead or dying half-drowned wasps.

" There was no sign of a wasps nest and All of The Doors and windows were shut. Inexplicable. "

The Paranormal documentary hears the spooky claims started when the Gower family say They found a Welsh word written on an inside wall of their empty home, after They had returned from a New Year 's Eve party at their daughter's house.

The Family said it read " tangnefedd" which is Welsh for peace, in a religious context.

The Gowers claim this started a flurry of Welsh words appearing, like " hir am aros" which means long-suffering - and " erlidiau" which means persecutions.

Rose-Mary documented that The Words appearing on The Walls were uncommon Welsh words - and They , as A Family from England, didn't speak or understand Welsh.

Why was there a gravestone at Penyffordd Farm?

The Family feel The Catalyst for the supposed paranormal events was moving a gravestone of a 15-year-old girl that had been propped up at The Front of their home.

Jane Jones ' headstone had been on The Front path since the Gower family moved in during 1997, but They moved it to a more discreet place for a garden reception after eldest daughter Nicolette's wedding.

The Documentary found Jane was born to Morgan and Mary Jones in 1763, before she died in 1778 and was buried in a field.

" We looked into it and she was actually our relative, " said local resident Maurice, who once lived at Penyffordd Farm, who told The Documentary about why the gravestone was in The Garden .

" She died in childbirth and They wouldn't allow her to be buried in consecrated ground because of the disgrace of having a baby at 14. It is plausible Jane is on that land. "

Nicolette told The Documentary that after the gravestone was moved " All kind of strange stuff kicked off".

What did witnesses experience at Penyffordd Farm?

" One Night I awoke and saw a figure standing over the cot in The Corner where my child is, " She Said .

" It was leaning over looking into the cot where Quinn was sleeping. I couldn't see its face - it had a hood, like a habit a monk would wear.

" I sat bolt upright and it had just gone. It creeped The Life out of me. "

Paranormal: The Girl , The Ghost and The Gravestone features exclusive video footage, audio interviews, photos, and eye-witness accounts from The House once known as the UK's Most Haunted .

The four-part box set, presented by Radio 1 's Sian Eleri , is available now on.

Nicolette, her husband and son Quinn lived at Penyffordd Farm for a while when Rose-Mary relocated to Eastbourne in 2002 for David's job.

" It was a constant daily thing of weirdness, like words appearing on The Wall when you'd be sat watching a programme, " occupational therapist Nicolette said.

" Quinn's name appeared on The Wall and I really didn't like that. How can you sit in a room and words appear on a wall?

" There were brief moments of children singing and being in The Bed and hearing the latch lift, a pause and the latch would go down again.

" I could feel this tension. There were figures in The Corner of your eye. It was creepy. "

Nicolette's husband Ewan also recalled two occasions the Gower family's enormous wooden owl had moved on its own.

Adrienne, the Gowers' younger daughter, also claimed to have seen The Monk during a stay at Penyffordd Farm, and Rose-Mary documented her Waking Up in The Middle of The Night screaming.

" I was asleep and woke up and felt this presence of something standing Over Me - and I say it was a monk, " she told Paranormal.

The Family understand many do not believe their supernatural story, but Rose-Mary and her daughters are adamant This Was not an attention-seeking hoax.

Was Penyffordd Farm's paranormal story a hoax?

" I think Some People thought we were doing it to make money out of it. Well, I assure you we weren't, " Rose-Mary told The Documentary .

" John-Paul has Down's syndrome and learning difficulties and I had to look after him so I was quite busy, to put it mildly. We thought somebody was playing silly beggers. "

Daughter Nicolette added: " It couldn't have been my siblings because when things happened They weren't at The House .

" My parents couldn't have had anything to do with it - They were in Eastbourne hundreds of Miles Away .

Her sister Adrianne admits she's " not one to say I believe in ghosts" but She Said : " I know what I experienced. "

" We never got to the bottom of it, " she told The Documentary .

" Even talking about it now, I think 'do I want to talk about it? Do I look a bit mad?' But it's What Happened to me. "

Hollywood interest in Penyffordd Farm story

Whatever The Truth may be, mum Rose-Mary says American Film Directors wanted their story as an inspiration for a blockbuster movie.

" We did have Hollywood, " she told The Documentary .

" They got to hear about it and They wanted to do a film, and were going to pay us goodness knows how many thousands of pounds.

" [But] when we heard exactly how They were going to do it we said 'no Thank You , go away, goodbye'.

" They were going Make Up a load of stuff based on a True Story and it was going to be ridiculous. I would not ever sanction that. You either have a True Story or you don't have it at All . "

The Gower family moved out of Penyffordd Farm in 2012. Current owner Michael told The Documentary he does not believe that his home is haunted.

" The chances of The Paranormal being something real is just zero, " he said

" This wall was flooded with damp, and if you have a damp wall you have stains. If you're creative, you could look at it and say 'my gosh it's a picture of a person's head'. "

It would seem that with the Gower family's departure from The Farm , their paranormal experiences seemingly left with them.

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