Lottery Cash for Swindon's Ghosts (From Swindon Advertiser)

Lottery Cash for Swindon's Ghosts

5:27pm Tuesday 1st July 2008 in

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Swindons Haunted Heritage, run by local educational charity Paranormal Site Investigators, has been given a boost of Lottery cash this week.

The Awards for All grant to PSI will help to fund: h 5,000 Heritage and Tourism booklets, all about Swindons hauntings h 1,000 Haunted Heritage Walk booklet for each Old Town and Highworth, so the public can take their own tour around Haunted Swindon h Free Haunted Heritage Walks in Old Town and Highworth Spokesperson Dave Wood said: Its great that Swindons Haunted Heritage has received this boost. We hope this will encourage people from inside and outside of the town to celebrate Swindons sometimes underrated sense of heritage, culture and history.

The guides will place some emphasis on Swindons free to visit sites, our heritage and cultural buildings and also on places to eat, drink and stay overnight.

The project, due to launch this summer, is looking for help from residents and businesses.

Dave Wood continued: Were looking for people to get involved in the project by suggesting and researching allegedly haunted locations in Old Town, Highworth and the rest of the borough.

Were also looking for buildings and businesses to come forward if they wanted to be included in the guides.

Anyone interested in the project can contact us on 0845 6521529 or through HauntedSwindon.com PSI is an educational charity that has been investigating haunting cases in the region since 2004. The Haunted Swindon Project was founded in 2006 to uncover and celebrate the towns haunted heritage. The project has included a DVD produced in October 2007, and the book Haunted Swindon that is currently on sale in all good book shops.