Miners that disappear into thin air
My town, like many other towns “Ooop Norf” is riddled with mine shafts all over the place. Word has it, that you can walk from one end of where I live to the other underground (in theory). And locally to me, a few houses collapsed asunder due to a collapsed mineshaft that couldn’t take the weight. My town is one of those 1960’s “New Towns” where they built tonnes of houses and banged an industrial estate on the outskirts.

Panteneman Snr was a security guard many moons ago, and many of the factories had been built over where the mines used to be and were long sealed off, concreted over and factories stuck on top of them after they were closed down some time ago.

He once mentioned a factory that he used to do night watch on, and one area of the factory was strangely cold, a cold patch if you will that was just in a random area of the factory. The guard dogs would often not walk through it, and often walked completely around it as if it was some strange circular “no go area”, and would bark randomly at it for no apparent cause.

One time, he had heard word from a terrified employee from one of the factories and he had quit working at said place. It turns out that one night during the nightshift, the employee was reported to have seen a miner walk through the factory, in full mining regalia and davey lamp, and then vanish into thin air.

It turns out that some 150 odd years ago (excuse the inaccuracy) there was an underground explosion in one of the mine shafts that took out something like 50 miners or thereabouts. There has been reports of strange instances like this occur in other factories that are nearby in the same location.
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 21:13, Reply)