Strange Incidents Recorded on 'Haunted' UK Antique Shop's CCTV Once Again Being Shared Across the Internet

A woman reacts to a mannequin toppling over in one of Barnsley Antiques Centre’s videos. (Barnsley Antiques Centre / YouTube) — A woman reacts to a mannequin toppling over in one of Barnsley Antiques Centre’s videos. *(Barnsley Antiques Centre / YouTube)*

Videos of poltergeist activity recorded over the past five years on the CCTV of the reputedly haunted Barnsley Antiques Centre in England are once again being shared across the internet, thanks in large part to a recent article posted to the UK version of AOL’s news site.

The article features a video, first uploaded to YouTube on September 16th, 2014, showing the glass shatter out of a cabinet seemingly of its own accord.

Over two dozen such videos have been posted to the shop’s YouTube page, often recorded via mobile phone off of CCTV footage, with most of the videos dating back to between four and five years ago. The most recent video was uploaded on August 1st, 2017.

The videos include a variety of objects that appear to move on their own, including the one pictured at the top of this article, in which a woman reacts to a mannequin toppling over nearby.

According to Daniel Parker, who owns Barnsley Antiques Center, “peculiar” things have “just kept happening” since he opened up shop in 2014.

“The number of weird incidents that have happened here over the years is absolutely bizarre,” Parker said. “I’m naturally skeptical about paranormal activity and all that, but seeing the things I’ve seen has forced me to think twice. I’ll just be stood at the till and things will start dropping off the shelves, which would be fine if it happened a few times, but it’s all the time.”

“People who know about this kind of thing think there are ghosts, spirits and all sorts in the shop,” he added. “It’s all very strange.”

The activity is largely blamed on the shop’s location. The building it’s in dates back to the 19th century and is said to have formerly housed a funeral parlor; similarly, a graveyard once stood over Doncaster Road in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, where the building is located.

Parker said that a medium, who had heard about the shop on social media and volunteered to spend the night there, told him that the spirits of two small children resided within the store. Their childish playfulness is claimed by some to explain the items constantly being knocked off of walls and shelves.

Someone else told him they sensed the spirit of an indigent old man in the store.

“I’m inclined to say that none of that is true, but to be honest I have no other explanation for what has been happening,” Parker said of the supposed spirits. “Before opening up I was a complete non-believer, but now I’m half-and-half, maybe all the talk about ghosts and ghouls is right, who knows?”

Other articles on the shop’s paranormal video evidence have appeared in The Telegraph in 2014, and Express in 2016; both were written following Barnsley Antiques Center’s videos having gone “viral.”

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