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The moment ghost hunter Mark Ponting reacts as he is hit by a stone from an unknown source at Snuff Mills Bridge in north east Bristol(Image: Tony Ferguson)<\/p>\nThe beauty spot is much-loved by families and dog walkers in the day, but it becomes spooky after-darkThe moment ghost hunter Mark Ponting reacts as he is hit by a stone from an unknown source at Snuff Mills Bridge in north east Bristol(Image: Tony Ferguson)<\/p>\n
A group of ghosthunters said they heard a child\u2019s eerie voice and even had stones thrown at them on a famously haunted bridge in a Bristol beauty spot. The group filmed what happened in the early hours of the morning on the bridge across the River Frome at Snuff Mills<\/a> in north east Bristol, and said they were \u2018shocked\u2019 by how much unexplained activity they had within minutes of arriving.<\/p>\n The group included ghost hunter Tony Ferguson and Mark Ponting from the YouTube channel Haunted The Truth, who set up fixed cameras on the bridge after 1am, and began waiting.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the minute we entered the woods we were not disappointed,\u201d Tony told Bristol Live. \u201cThe atmosphere is heavy and we felt like we were being watched and followed with every step we took. We set up our locked off cameras on the bridge and immediately we heard a child’s voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMark and I positioned ourselves in the middle of the bridge as this seems to be when activity happens, it’s almost like something doesn’t like or want anyone on the bridge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cMark and I heard footsteps rushing towards us, which we caught on camera, yet there was nothing there. Later in the evening more footsteps were captured whilst Mark and I were on the bridge yet still nothing there.<\/p>\n \u201cMark and I were on the bridge calling out and we had what sounded like two stones thrown at us which landed in the water. I tried to debunk this as maybe being fish, but one of the stones can be heard clunking like stone on stone, which would rule out a fish,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n They visited in the early hours of Tuesday, July 17. At one point in the video, Mark leapt up in shock as a \u2018thud\u2019 could be heard beside him, and – amid a stream of expletives – said he had been touched or hit on the back by a stone.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Bristol pub ranked among UK’s most haunted locations<\/a>READ MORE: This is the real reason Snuff Mills got its name<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhilst Mark was on the bridge with Sue, you can hear a thud beside him and then he was touched in the back causing him to run off the bridge as this shocked him as he has never been touched before in all of his previous visits,\u201d said Tony.<\/p>\n \u201cLater that evening as Mark was walking back onto the bridge another stone can be heard landing heavily beside Bev [another ghosthunter] who was on the end of the bridge recording. It would appear that this was also aimed at Mark.<\/p>\n \u201cOn previous visits Mark has had stones thrown at him with other people so this is not the first time. There are claims from other investigators of stones being thrown and unexplained things happening,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cWe captured many disembodied voices, a child was heard a couple of times, a male’s creepy voice was caught right beside the camera yet the two males Mark and Tony were both on the bridge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n There have been ghost stories told about the bridge and the footpath along the river in the Snuff Mills area <\/a>of Bristol for decades, probably centuries. The area, which is officially known as Stapleton Glen, is a forested riverside park that connects Oldbury Court with Eastville Park. It is named after a millworker called Snuffy Jack<\/a> who always had so much snuff his shirt was covered in it.<\/p>\n He is supposed to haunt the area, as is a Catholic monk who held mass in the woods in secret and, legend has it, starved to death because he got trapped in a priest\u2019s hole while he was hiding.<\/p>\n Other legends of Snuff Mills include the ghosts of children who drowned in the river, and the woods are also supposed to be the scene of a 16th century witches\u2019 coven.<\/p>\n Tony said he was \u2018shocked\u2019 at the amount of activity they experienced. \u201cAs an investigator that has documented most of the UKs haunted locations I was shocked by the amount of activity in such a short time.<\/p>\n Tony Ferguson’s video of the evening on the bridge at Snuff Mills – warning, contains expletives<\/p>\n Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n \u201cI tend to stay away from outdoor locations because of contamination but was glad that I actually went to Snuff Mills after hearing of the reports as I had to see it to believe it and document the activity for myself. It’s a place that I will be returning to, to document more evidence in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the more you visit these places you build a connection with the place and what resides there. Mark has visited this location so many times that he has a strong connection with the place and what is there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI would put this in my top 20 locations in the UK for paranormal activity and I have visited a hell of a lot of locations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n clicking here<\/a>Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beauty spot is much-loved by families and dog walkers in the day, but it becomes spooky after-darkThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,9419,16,15,9023],"class_list":{"0":"post-295941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-places","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-weird-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925390166387500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_mt_BRI_21032024_HalfpennyBridgeConcerns_02.jpg\")
The Halfpenny Bridge, also known as Snuff Mills Bridge, is a footbridge over the River Frome<\/p>\n