Mr. Blackwell, a renowned fashion designer, was known for his annual Worst Dressed List, which featured the fashion choices of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears. He retired in 1956 after forty years as Chairman and moved to Auckland in 1939 to continue business contacts with the shop.
Mr. Blackwell’s wife, Carrie Elizabeth (Baldwin) Blackwell, continued to operate the business after N.R. Blackwell’s untimely death in 1923. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was also involved in the business.
Mr. Blackwell’s house, associated with the early commercial development of Strathalbyn and its establishment as a regional center, was associated with the township’s early commercial development. His wife, Barbara, worked for Mr. Blackwell in the early 90s and was known for his advanced Parkinson’s.
Mr. Blackwell’s library at the Ham Yard Hotel in Soho was a significant part of his legacy. Following his death in 2008, his widow Carrie Elizabeth (Baldwin) Blackwell continued to operate the business. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was known for her love for home furnishings.
In conclusion, Mr. Blackwell’s legacy continues to be a source of inspiration for fashion and celebrities alike.
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Kudos to John! It’s not an easy decision to make to enter a room alone with the sounds of a screaming woman coming from the other side, but he did it because of there was someone getting hurt, waiting for the police could mean the difference between life and death. The room being empty was the farthest thing from his mind, I’m sure, so he did what he felt needed to be done, and for that, John is a true MPV amongst security officers 💪 💪
This article is highly edited and was created by filmmaker Turner Clay who also directed The Blackwell Ghost. The part of “John” in this hotel clip is Clay himself, who references this article in the Blackwell Ghost. It’s a good article to the untrained eye, but can be ripped to shreds by those who can see the issues with it.
I remember staying in a hotel in San Diego with my parents. In the middle of the night, we constantly heard the volume of a radio in the next room going up everytime we woke up. We called the front desk and they sent someone to that room. No one was there and they relocated us to another room far away.
There’s a reason the Shining is so effective beyond Stephen King’s skill as a writer – hotels are creepy AF, and some are haunted AF. This is one of the scariest paranormal articles I’ve seen. Doesn’t strike me as a fake at all. I’m sure security personnel and police have a lot of stories they could tell.
My wife and I work for the same company, same hours, same days off so we carpool. We came home one night and our landline phone, which sits on top of one of our kitchen counters, was thrown across our kitchen floor in pieces. Freaked us out! Our house is 2 story and at night, we can sometimes hear the banging of the metal handrails and footsteps. We have been there since 2012 and this entity has never hurt us or intentionally scared us. It may be due to the fact that I have some ancient Native American artifacts in my cabinet as part of my heritage. I don’t know for sure but just though I’d share.
True story. About a year before my mother’s death I took her on a trip across our home state to revisit her rural hometown and other places from her youth. A nostalgia trip of sorts. Lasted about 5 days and she thoroughly loved it. We happened to visit old Fort Hays as this was so close to her birth place. It was a quiet Fall day, overcast, cool and only a small handful of visitors. As we and a younger couple, who were walking almost beside us, passed by the infirmary there came from inside the most horrible scream as if someone were in excruciating pain. We all 4 heard it and it definitely came from inside. We went immediately inside thinking that another guest had badly injured themself somehow. NOTHING. No one else. The building was empty of people. And no one even remotely nearby outside. In fact no one outside at all. The office attendant and guard were both in the office hundreds of feet away. No PA system, nothing. We all mentioned this to the guard as we left and he and the clerk just looked at us blankly. Finally after some silence the guard said, very quietly, ” not the first time that’s been reported “. Then he just walked away. I started to ask the desk clerk for details and he cut me off very abruptly and said ” we are not supposed to talk about it!!”. No explanation for this, but it really happened. It was the worst scream I’ve ever heard.
Something like this happened with me just a week back. I and my friend were riding a bike (in India) in a popular tourist intercity highway at 11 pm. I was sitting in the back.there is a patch of road where the street lights arent working for about 100meters, but its no big deal here. We are heading front when suddenly both of us heard a group of people screaming. I looked back and literally there is no one. Not even a single person. My friend who is driving thought i said something to him and asked me again what i said. I am just shocked and said do u heard what i heard. He said yes and he thought i was telling him something. Both of us cant explain what happened but it was very clear. We just stopped dissussing it and continued our journey.
Something like this happened at my house. We lived on a ranch at the time out here in California. I was about 7 years old. One day I got home from school and I heard intense screaming. Almost as if there was people arguing. My parents at the time were always fighting so I assumed it was that. So I walked to my grandmas, who lived next door to avoid the chaos. I told her I came over because I didn’t want to deal with any drama. She looked at my weird and said my house has been empty all day. My grand mother and I went to check it out. We open the door and find the house completely empty.
This isn’t real! The footage is supposedly from the Wingate Hotel in 2003. The CCTV is in HD, which not even Casinos had back then. The indoor swimming pool is not the same one from the actual hotel and the camera shakes when he’s on the elevator. I found the information about this from Snopes. Apparently it was just a self promotional project.
Things wrong with this article, judge for yourself: 1) We can hear the screams from inside the room, so there’s something recording them. Why can’t we hear anything John’s saying when he’s standing in front of the door? 2) Apparently there’s “reports of screaming” so at least a few people can hear it, yet there is literally not a single guest out in the hallway to check what’s going on? 3) The article says the footage is not edited, yet there’s some semi-creepy music going on in the background. 4) Why is there a camera pointed at one specific room? 5) Why does John use a flashlight instead of just trying to turn on the lights in the room? 6) The FPS is awfully high for 2003 security footage, cameras like this cost a fortune back then. This also suggests the grainy quality of the footage is just a filter added in afterwards, a high FPS expensive camera with grainy article makes no sense. 7) If they have these expensive cameras in the hotel, wouldn’t they at least set them up properly? Camera 2 shakes when the elevator moves, camera 7 has 50% of it’s vision blocked by a wall, the outside camera gets blocked as soon as a car pulls up etc. 8) The camera names are inconsistent, “Camera 2” “Pool Camera” ” South Stairs” there is no logical order or anything, which a professionally set-up camera system would have. 9) Does it really make sense for hotel management to send in a single guy, after several reports of screaming and literally hearing constant, almost inhumane screams coming from a room?
Many years ago, similar situation, I worked security for a hotel who’s presidential suites were attached to a nightclub on the top floor via a fire escape hallway. About 3am, we had the hotel owners staying in the pres. suite and they called down to say that we better get security up to the club because someone was tearing it up. The club was closed and should’ve been empty. The guard who took the call claims he could hear the ruckus over the phone but when security showed up, nothing was wrong. About 6 months before that, there was a suicide in the hotel, followed about 3 months by one of the waitresses seeing a figure standing by the bar after closing time and the figure just sank through the floor when she acknowledged it, thinking it was a coworker. She came downstairs, hyperventilating, trying to tell us what happened.
This article is like a time me and my parents were visiting family in Northern California and we stayed in a hotel. In the middle of thr night we heard knocking on the walls coming from the room next door we also heard people talking and what sounded like people moving stuff on the floor. People in the room below and next to that room also said they heard the noises. The knocking and talking lasted for a while so my dad got up went and knocked on the door he said the room went quiet and he could feel someone perusal him through the peek hole he came back and called the front desk to complain they said no one was checked into that room and they sent a security guard to go check it out when he went it the mattress was on the floor and the phone off the receiver that was still on a call to an unknown number
Further research uncovered the uploader’s identity as Turner Clay, an independent writer-director-editor with several horror films to his credit — including the zombie features DISASTER L.A. and STATE OF EMERGENCY. Biddle suspects that the YouTube clips may simply be unused footage from one of his projects, or possibly a clever way of promoting his effects work.
I stayed at circus circus hotel in Las Vegas with a couple of friends. We constantly heard what sounded like a baby crying next door but only after 1am. One of the days we were there we were walking out of our room to go down to the lobby and there was a housekeeper cleaning the room the sounds were coming out of. We asked her if anybody was in the room or had just checked out and she said no one was staying in the room. Super creepy we never stayed there again!
after the ghost left the light by the room flickered, but the other lights didn’t. It didn’t look like anyone was turning off the light and turning it back either, like it looked like a electrical flicker. This all sounded real too because it’s not like the guys in the article were screaming like idiots like in other fake articles, they actually sounded just like normal people working there. This is creepy. Only thing is though, why didn’t they take pics of the room after? Also when John paused before he got to the room, when he heard the scream it looked really natural, like he was thinking “wtf”…normally in fake articles ppl can’t act these sorts of reactions out. I think this is real.
There’s a house on the street where I live where people will move in and move out in a matter of days, they never give a reason as to why, they just pack up and leave, and even once a family that was staying there over a year ago left in the middle of the night and left all of their furniture behind, just took personal belongings and left. The house used to belong to a family, but it had become vacant for years, no one lived in it from the time I was 5 until I was 16 years old. It was recently bought again after being up for rent for so long, the family came and they left just like everyone else. For some reason when I went for my daily run I ran by the house and was interested in looking through the windows (because I’ve never seen the inside myself), I walked into the yard and walked up to the living room window, and as I looked into the vacant home I hear what sounds like something running at me, a gust of wind hits me and I hear something growl in my left ear. The wind was so strong I was knocked to the ground. Lets just say I’m never entering into that yard ever again. (This is 100% true, by the way.)
This article has been identified by Snopes as a hoax. Among the many issues are: the camera was high def which was quite rare in 2003 and this was an inexpensive hotel so it would be unlikely to have invested in expensive equipment. You can see the camera shake at 0:13 which indicates it was likely on a tripod, a security camera would have been affixed to the wall or ceiling. The hotel had two security personnel on duty at once, again the hotel was inexpensive so this would be unlikely, and so on. See Snopes, “Is a Wingate Hotel in Illinois Haunted by a Ghost?”.
There’s an article expose with evidence showing that this “John” is actually John Will Clay, a film producer. There’s a photo of him floating around on the internet of him wearing the exact same outfit, cap, lanyard and all, and holding a camera with a shotgun mic. The interior shots are of a Wingate hotel but the outside and pool shots are from a LaQuinta hotel he went to to get cover-up shots so nobody would know what hotel he was at. The room he entered in the article was his own room he was staying in during a filming tour in Illinois. Footage was likely taken early in the morning before sunrise so he wouldn’t capture anyone on camera which is why you don’t see people in it. Also, CCTV cameras cannot legally record audio, so it’s not possible that they derived the audio from these cameras. Even if they did, why didn’t they capture John’s voice? You can’t argue that it was coming through his radio because it’s a push-to-talk, so he’d have to literally hold it in the entirety of the time, and there’s parts we can hear the screaming better than we can hear John, so that’s out the window. It’s just a cool film made as a side project by a film producer. It doesn’t NEED to be real to be creepy.
I’ve worked in hotels for over 10yrs and I’m pretty sure this is fake. 1- We should have been able to hear all the radios at equal quality. Of course this happened a decade ago so maybe they all had different radios with fixed websites. You also need to hold down the buttons to talk. Its unlikely they would have picked up the screaming when John was not talking. 2-The cameras seem too well placed. Most of the upper management at hotels are fkn idiots and wouldn’t place them in such a way where we could get a clear view of most events. Typically the cameras only catch persons of interest at exits and entrances. There are cameras that can pick up sound but most hotels wouldn’t spend the money for it and just choose cheaper ones that don’t pick up sound. 3- Why didn’t John turn in the lights in the room?
there are so many things that could’ve been done to make this more believable…first of all, what a coincidence that this room has at least 2 security cameras trained on it, one of which is perfectly centered on the room…secondly, if the screaming noise was supposed to be heard over the radio, that’s impossible because the button wasn’t being pushed…there are other things but I’m too lazy to get into them…it’s probably a student film and a cool one at that
Iv’e been a patroling security guard for about 8 years, and been at the most creepy places like old castel, cemeteries, abandoned hospitals etc. etc. where the alarm has been activated, and I have never, as in NEVER had any occult experiences. This is a exciting and good article, but i have my skepticism about it.
This is SO fake. “John” is actually Turner Clay who produced / directed / and starred in The Blackwell Ghost. If you watch this article closely, you will see edits. In the Blackwell Ghost, he is so in love with THIS article, he actually calls “John” to get more information about the event. He’s actually calling himself.
“Due to legal matters, I am not allowed to say any more information regarding the exact location of this hotel. Please stop asking. ” Translation: “I made a fake article about a ‘ghost’ by editing a light traveling from the door to the hallway, alongside a very well scripted act. Please believe this.”
I think this is fake. First of all why security guy didn’t turn on the lights when enters the room? Why use flash light? is he trying to spook himself? I mean its logic, if there is something weird or maybe robber inside the room. The first you would do is to turn the light switch on if there are someone inside. They’re trying to make this dramatic lol.
This reminds me of the time when I use to work as a front desk clerk at one of the town’s hotels. The GM at the time was looking at the surveillance cameras for something that happened with someone using a room without giving paying for it or staff giving the rooms keys directly to them (Another bizarre story). The hotel has 16 cameras, nine of which he was looking at. While quickly glancing at the bottom frame, in one of the upper frames he saw something white. He brushed it off and continued searching the articles. A couple hours or so later, he remembered what he saw and went back. Now a little background info; the hotel has stairs to go up the second floor but they are located in the middle of the hallways. Okay, so he went ahead and reakized what he discovered were floating white steps. They came out of the stairs door and stepped through a bedroom three doors down. They were all white and looked like whitw floating boots. He continued to watch to see if anything else happened but no, everything was clear after that. He showed me at my next shift and could not believe it. This is why I believe this to be true. You cannot make this up.
I worked in a hotel where two people died one was a girl who drowned in the pool. The other was mad female cook who locked herself in the freezer. The last kitchen doors to the outside would be partially open and a slight smell of tobacco would hang around. Turns out she would smoke cigarettes at the edge of those doors. I would seal off the party rooms at night and get a overwhelming feeling of being watched and get really really cold. One time I sealed off the second doors and was just sealing the last when I heard a laugh on the other side I hurried trying to seal it but right when I almost had it a face popped in between about six inches from my face I booked out of there. I muscled up the courage after twenty minutes to finish closing the curtain door in the dark only to find it was closed. I thought someone who worked there closed it for me so I asked around and no THEY DIDN’T.
This well scripted, predictably produced, great editing etc…. but one thing would get you and your hotel(name) in a serious serious lawsuit would be that one guy sh ttng and my wife accidently hold rhe door open too long and theres my naked asz shitting, shitting naked. The angle shows all the way to the toilet…. right?😮 and #2 phantasmic energy does not look like a sore achy figure everytime, the light gave it away, typical. Bit hey. Im high as shit, and, I liked your article anyways.
To the person that pose this article, if you made the address public, it would be great advertisement for this hotel/motel. 3,187,445 viewers, I’m sure over 100,000 of these viewer would love to come to your hotel to get some ghost excitement in the middle of the night. Imagine how much more money you’ll make. Come on, give us the address.
The elevator “mounted” camera shakes pretty violently, indicating the usage of a tripod for theatrical purposes. Additionally, the pool shown in the top right corner when all four camera feeds are showing is not consistent with this hotels pools shown on any website, indicating it is most likely stock footage obtained anywhere but from the hotel mentioned in the article. Furthermore, how many HD cameras with widescreen do you think were being used in 3 star hotels in 2003? My conclusion based off these details: it’s fake
This was kinda my experience at the Leela Hotel in Dubai, around 2-3AM, i heard something that was a bit faint but loud, it got louder that my parents woke up. We called the reception and they said they heard it too, the popo was called and ghost hunters, the more you approach the room, the louder it is, it was room 90, usually the “Suite” of the 3rd floor. This happened in 2016, the hotel was closed for 2 days before opening back up, there was noises coming from that room when we left. This was the scariest hotel experience I’ve had, I’ve never went back to hotels, especially one with over 10 floors, cuz some crazy $hit goes down in them lol. Thanks for reading! -Taniiyah L
I read about a murder that took place inside that room. A young lady was raped and murdered by an unknown man, possibly an ex. She haunts that room to this day, which is why nobody rents the room and management makes people sign an agreement if you want to rent that room for the night. What people should do is try to communicate with the spirit and find out who killed her. Maybe then, she’ll be at rest.
You can clearly see the white, ghostly figure leave the room, when John had entered…..The outside light also flickered, once the spirit left the room…..I noticed the other lights along the corridor were fine…? Thank you for sharing this article. It’s very disturbing and I believe that it’s authentic….Some things defy explanation!
These cameras seem kinda sus, first off, 100% of cameras ive ever seen in any article show date and time to know when something occurs, these cameras have no time displayed what so ever….weird. The formating of article and how they have a weird line on the very top seems almost like a weird design for a security system, almost like someone was trying a little to hard on the presentation of the articles…who adds aesthetics to a security camera display. Also, they display the date twice per shot? I ant every seen that before either. Also, is it normal for the conversations over the comms to be recorded like this? That doesnt even happen on military bases( i would know) so would seem weird to be a thing for a hotel. Also let it be known, ppl have pointed out that there is an insane amount of camera positions for a hotel, no hotel i know, has cameras facing a room, not even the most expensive ones in las vegas have this. Lastely, the guy who released this footage is a article effects specialist XDD still creepy tho huh?
Fake as heck….Riddle me this, the camera can pick up the screams but not the guy talking into the walkie talkie right outside the door. Also he is saying “he says the furniture is upside down and hold on…he also says blah blah” and the guy hadn’t talked into his thing since…. I don’t get why people make fake articles….
The audio is a mix down between the security camera audio and a separate recording from inside the office (which is specifically there to record in case of robbery to the hotel). People will always come to there own conclusions why a article is fake (like cameras pointed at the door). What they don’t realized is that there are about 80 cameras in the hallways around the hotel, all pointing at doors and hallways Read more at liveleak.com/view?i=d5e_1380536685#URDcYghIcmX75Gr1.99
A great piece of film-making and very clever. This is film-maker Turner Clay playing a role as a security man at a hotel in a ghost clip for his film, The Blackwell Ghost, which includes this clip at the beginning of the film. Who would have thought it would have fooled 11 million people (including me, initially)? BTW watch his film, The Blackwell Ghost, it’s actually really good and so much better than the ridiculous Blair Witch Project. All I will say is, if you do watch it, just allow yourself to be entertained but please don’t take it at all too seriously, it’s just a film and it’s 100% fiction.
Primero, es mentira que en un caso asi el tio no espere a la policía y entre armado solo con una linterna, segundo, ¿Qué pasa, que las habitaciones que no se alquilan no tienen luz?, no hubiese sido mas fácil prender la luz al entrar en lugar de montar el numero con la linterna. Otra tomadura de pelo mas. siguienteeee..
LOL I love the fact that they are completely keeping it so confidential on what city it’s in or where the hotel is located, all it says is that it’s located in “Illinois” all over the internet. They really don’t want people to find out where that hotel is because chances are it’s really got some rich history to it. I mean come on, it’s plain as day on the article what just happened, what more proof do people need that things like this do happen and not everything is “Fake” as people claim everything to be
Love it…. although my conclusion is that it is fake. 3 reasons: 1. Any man hearing a woman scream like that the natural reaction would be to yell loud (like HEY!)… to initially stop any further violence to a woman. 2. Protocol would be to knock on the door, or in this case a man would bang on the door to further stop any violence. Did not happen and he entered the room cautiously.. highly unlikely as one would rush in to stop the violence. So premeditated to look like a spook event. 3. The hotel camera (camera 17) would never be positioned where it is, with access into the room, one can see the torch on the security guard way into the room… no hotel would ever position a camera peering into a room for obvious reasons and privacy laws. Also coincidental that a camera is right outside the room. The number of the camera is unlikely, they would normally be sequenced and I have never been to ANY hotel in the world where there are 17+ cameras on one floor. The room is half way down the corridor which means there are possibly 34+ cameras on ONE floor.Still cool article though… would make for a good spook movie.
So I have a theory I may be wrong but I have a prediction. There’s legends that state sometimes ghosts are trapped where they died, or maybe they stumble in and there’s some sort of supernatural object, blessed or cursed whatever, that can trap spirits. It seems to me that the ghost was unable to leave the room, and so it freaked out and started screaming, maybe they didn’t even know they had died. The reason I say this is the moment John opens the door, the screaming stops and the spirit leaves. It doesn’t attack John, which given the damage to the hotel room it’s perfectly capable of doing, and he doesn’t even seem to notice anything when it passes him. So in short I think the ghost was trapped there and started freaking out that it couldn’t leave, and like I said it might not know it was dead. So when John opened the door it was relieved and became docile.
The cameras were too good for security cameras. They were recording all frames which, for 2003, would have taken up a relatively large amount of storage space. There would be no way you could run them continuously like that. And the quality is too good (and 16:9 so not VHS) for 2003. The screams were added in later. The voice actors were very obviously working from a script.
None of us perusal this article ever saw the inside of this room, so we’re just supposed to assume that the furniture was upside down and somebody tore the carpet up and the shower’s on and the strange anomaly fog passing the hallway, that anybody could’ve photo shopped in the article to believe that that’s a ghost, RIGHT
At 1.30, u can see a white blur leave the room. It’s obvious if u pay attention once the guy enters. It’s like a invisible white blur disorientation in the camera. Seriously. Am I the only one who sees it??? It’s not super fast, but fast enough to leave the scene into the hallway. …just finished the article. It wasnt just me