I was just surfing though some articles and I came up with this. I am surprised by this article as I didn't know all this before. I would like to know if any of you have experienced this before.
The Stadium of Light, Sunderland AFC
In 2005, two members of staff at The Stadium of Light spotted a dim shape in a corridor and believed it to be a supernatural being. Shortly after this sighting, Sunderland’s then-striker Stephen Elliot also noticed the figure which caused some of his teammates to believe The Mackems’ ground was haunted! The spirit is thought to be called Spottee, an 18th Century fiend who would guide ships towards the coastal rocks, causing them to crash. This happened at Whitburn and Spottee was said to steal the stranded ships’ cargo.
St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton FC
Spirits were believed to be present around Southampton’s football ground in an act of revenge! It is said that tombs were unearthed around St Mary’s Stadium many years ago and this still disrupts the dead to this day, hence the haunting! A witch was once summoned to try and get rid of the spirits, such was the belief that St Mary’s was haunted. Southampton used to be a church football team, so maybe the spirits were trying to answer the prayers of Saints fans!
Highbury, Former Arsenal FC ground
Arsenal’s most successful pre-war manager, Herbert Chapman, is believed to wander around The Gooner’s old ground, Highbury, which was redeveloped into housing in 2006, after Arsenal moved stadiums. Chapman is understood to have been sighted at Highbury’s grounds along with a horse’s shadow. The horse is believed to have died during the development of Highbury’s North Bank stand. Many fans over the years have had their ashes scattered at Highbury, which gives some speculation to other sightings of spirits around the former stadium. In 2010 a group of fans went to the old ground with a Ouija board to ask the spirits some questions, such was their belief in the haunted goings-on at Highbury!
Stamford Bridge
This one is very interesting, I came across a story from a woman named Rebecca Leros who claims that she was at a game with her husband who is a huge Chelsea supporter, it was a match between Chelsea and Manchester United, Rebecca recalls she was going to get something to eat as it was half time there was a line, so she waited, while she was waiting she noticed a man looking at her smiling, she looked away and looked back and he was gone, Rebecca Leroswas a little creeped out by that and when she returned to her seat she told her husband who calmly replied, ‘oh dont worry thats the Smiling Man, the story is if you see the smiling man at stamford bridge, something good will happen to you’ and sure enough a week later Rebecca won a new car, from a raffle. that she entered, at Stamford Bridge.
Anfield
This one is all over the shop, and by that I mean, there are so many different stories about this one I had to narrow it down to them most consistent, apparently a lifelong member of Liverpool Football Club sadly passed away, in this gentlemans will he asked that his ashes be buried within the goals at the Kop End of the Stadium, this was done as per request, but then something strange started happening, Players from opposition teams started complaining the couldn’t score a single goal at the Kop End, the made claims of seeing a flash of a man behind the goals, staring at them with dark black eyes, eventually the man’s ashes were removed and placed in a plaque somewhere in the stadium.
Old Trafford
Ok now don’t have a go at me for this one, I just do the research and bring it to you to judge, but, from what I found out is originally Manchester United were named Newton Heath LYR Football Club, but the clubs success was failing and it looked like the club was to be disbanded, the owner feeling down on his luck thought he would burn the stadium down and collect the insurance, however as he lit the fire in the middle of the pitch as demon rose before him and offered him a successful club, money, players, everything a successful club could need to thrive forever, there was but one condition, one day the demon will come once more to collect the souls of football player, then the debt would be repaid and the demon will leave forever, it is said you can hear the spirits of the dead footballers playing a match, when the stadium is empty.
White Hart Lane
There is a room at White Hart Lane with the number 28 on the door, now that might seem normal, which it is, however, no-one has ever gone in nor come out of the room, since the the stadium was built it has been locked, there are no records of what this room is used for and it’s not in the blueprints or map of the stadium.
Source - http://dailyentertainment.com/soccer-stadiums-in-the-world-that-are-haunted/
http://www.sportsdirect.com/News/entryid/5673/Haunted-Stadiums-in-the-UK
The Stadium of Light, Sunderland AFC
In 2005, two members of staff at The Stadium of Light spotted a dim shape in a corridor and believed it to be a supernatural being. Shortly after this sighting, Sunderland’s then-striker Stephen Elliot also noticed the figure which caused some of his teammates to believe The Mackems’ ground was haunted! The spirit is thought to be called Spottee, an 18th Century fiend who would guide ships towards the coastal rocks, causing them to crash. This happened at Whitburn and Spottee was said to steal the stranded ships’ cargo.
St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton FC
Spirits were believed to be present around Southampton’s football ground in an act of revenge! It is said that tombs were unearthed around St Mary’s Stadium many years ago and this still disrupts the dead to this day, hence the haunting! A witch was once summoned to try and get rid of the spirits, such was the belief that St Mary’s was haunted. Southampton used to be a church football team, so maybe the spirits were trying to answer the prayers of Saints fans!
Highbury, Former Arsenal FC ground
Arsenal’s most successful pre-war manager, Herbert Chapman, is believed to wander around The Gooner’s old ground, Highbury, which was redeveloped into housing in 2006, after Arsenal moved stadiums. Chapman is understood to have been sighted at Highbury’s grounds along with a horse’s shadow. The horse is believed to have died during the development of Highbury’s North Bank stand. Many fans over the years have had their ashes scattered at Highbury, which gives some speculation to other sightings of spirits around the former stadium. In 2010 a group of fans went to the old ground with a Ouija board to ask the spirits some questions, such was their belief in the haunted goings-on at Highbury!
Stamford Bridge
This one is very interesting, I came across a story from a woman named Rebecca Leros who claims that she was at a game with her husband who is a huge Chelsea supporter, it was a match between Chelsea and Manchester United, Rebecca recalls she was going to get something to eat as it was half time there was a line, so she waited, while she was waiting she noticed a man looking at her smiling, she looked away and looked back and he was gone, Rebecca Leroswas a little creeped out by that and when she returned to her seat she told her husband who calmly replied, ‘oh dont worry thats the Smiling Man, the story is if you see the smiling man at stamford bridge, something good will happen to you’ and sure enough a week later Rebecca won a new car, from a raffle. that she entered, at Stamford Bridge.
Anfield
This one is all over the shop, and by that I mean, there are so many different stories about this one I had to narrow it down to them most consistent, apparently a lifelong member of Liverpool Football Club sadly passed away, in this gentlemans will he asked that his ashes be buried within the goals at the Kop End of the Stadium, this was done as per request, but then something strange started happening, Players from opposition teams started complaining the couldn’t score a single goal at the Kop End, the made claims of seeing a flash of a man behind the goals, staring at them with dark black eyes, eventually the man’s ashes were removed and placed in a plaque somewhere in the stadium.
Old Trafford
Ok now don’t have a go at me for this one, I just do the research and bring it to you to judge, but, from what I found out is originally Manchester United were named Newton Heath LYR Football Club, but the clubs success was failing and it looked like the club was to be disbanded, the owner feeling down on his luck thought he would burn the stadium down and collect the insurance, however as he lit the fire in the middle of the pitch as demon rose before him and offered him a successful club, money, players, everything a successful club could need to thrive forever, there was but one condition, one day the demon will come once more to collect the souls of football player, then the debt would be repaid and the demon will leave forever, it is said you can hear the spirits of the dead footballers playing a match, when the stadium is empty.
White Hart Lane
There is a room at White Hart Lane with the number 28 on the door, now that might seem normal, which it is, however, no-one has ever gone in nor come out of the room, since the the stadium was built it has been locked, there are no records of what this room is used for and it’s not in the blueprints or map of the stadium.
Source - http://dailyentertainment.com/soccer-stadiums-in-the-world-that-are-haunted/
http://www.sportsdirect.com/News/entryid/5673/Haunted-Stadiums-in-the-UK
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