Longdendale Valley

For centuries, strange lights have been reported in the skies along the Longdendale Valley. It is the route through the Pennines which runs from Manchester to Barnsley.

According to legend, this is the most haunted place in Britain. And that is why Longdendale is known to some as the Haunted Valley.

Longdendale has long been a favourite with UFO spotters and believers in the paranormal, with reports of lights appearing as ghostly images of Roman soldiers walk in the valleys, or strange spacecraft land on the moors.

One person who has seen the lights for himself is Sean Wood. He remembers vividly the first time he encountered the eerie phenomenon.

"It was a cold November night and it was clear so you could see the stars," says Sean. "It was as though somebody had driven an articulated wagon up of the road and pointed the lights on full directly into the front room so much so that it was coming through the corridor and lighting the kitchen."

"We went to the front of the house and above the house just below the plateau of Bleaklow was a really, really large white ball that was shining directly in our direction." says Sean.

Since that first sighting 20 years ago, Sean has seen the Longdendale Lights in many different forms. The fact that the lights of Longdendale have been seen by so many over the years has led enthusiasts and scientists from a wide range of fields to attempt to explain the sightings.

From geologists, through Ufologists at Jodrell Bank, to paranormal investigators, a legion of theories has been put forward for the existence of the lights, many of them simple, others incredibly complex.

At night lights can play tricks with the senses. A car headlight can often be mistaken for something sinister, and aircraft lights can take on a supernatural quality to the nervous traveller in dark, strange landscape.

Many other sightings are thought to have more natural explanations. A growing body of scientists believes the lights occur after layers of rocks are pounded against each other during earth tremors. Energy is released into the atmosphere and becomes visible as balls of light.

For Sean Wood, though, the explanation is simple: the lights are linked to those who have lived and died in Longdendale Valley. "There's almost a feeling that the people that were here before are still around, in a way, there's the feel of past lives," he says. "Not threatening, nothing frightening, but the feel that people have lived and died and hurt and loved and cried in this valley. It's a comforting feeling."

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