21st Century Antics the 3rd visit

25th February 2009.

This week has turned to be a very busy week for Wessex of Phoenix Paranormal with the fore planned investigation at the end of the week on 27th and an impromptu investigation called at one of my favourite places ever to visit.

21st century Antics is a lovely brick-a-brack shop in the heart of Salisbury and it is a family-run business owned and managed by Dave and Gerry Scott with their two sons John and Ben. It was Ben who called Maria of Twilight shadows paranormal and asked if she would like to join them for a last minute investigation in the shop. I was absolutely delighted that Maria called to invite me along also Dave from Phoenix of Wessex also came along with me.

After we drove down to Maria's place to meet up, all 3 of us then proceeded to join Ben, Dave and Aaron plus guests of Half life Paranormal for what turned out to be a very interesting evening.

When we got there we all proceeded to the small room just off of the main entrance. This part of the building seems to be the most active room historically speaking from previous investigations. Ben and co had already started setting up and were in the middle of choosing a nice heavy table big enough to have us all sat around for our vigil. After trying out a few we decided on this lovely heavy pine table and so we pulled up some chairs, locked off the camera's and prepared to begin.

Maria had brought her infra red lamp. Apparently the red light is supposed to attract spirits and encourage supernatural activity. Maria began with opening a protective circle. This is where we visualise a bright protective light surrounding us and preventing any harmful spirits or entities from entering the circle and causing mischief. Once this is done you then visualise the white light flowing from one person to another in a clock wise direction. This is said to help get the energy going and help any spirit beings make contact.

It wasn't long at all until we felt the table vibrate. (21st Century Antics is one of the only places where I have seen and been party too table tipping actually being successful.) The table started to rock back and forth quite violently and this seemed to un-nerve the boys.* This was also our very own Dave's first visit to the shop and he seemed very impressed by the activity that happening at this very early stage. It often takes a while to get the energy going and for any paranormal activity to eventually happen. This never seems to be the case in this particular shop though. Activity always seems to start very quickly. The shop also seems to be very cold. You really notice as the energy starts to build just how cold the place starts to get. I felt that while we were asking out for any spirit people to make contact or when ever we were talking among ourselves, there was always something catching the corner of my eye or a knock or thud would happen. There seemed to be lots of movement within the shadows this evening and many people present witnessed movement or some type or other. Some members of the team saw someone walk up by the entrance of the shop. Myself and a few others could see someone, (I thought was male) stood up by the entrance watching us. Others heard shuffles and something like fabric being dragged across the floor. Many, many taps, bangs and knocks where heard and even though we though we had poltergeist activity it turned out that one of the guests could not help himself and decided to try a bit of deception.

While we were sat around the table. Something quite strange and unique happened. Some of the other members had decided to go to another part of the shop. Who was left was myself, Dave, Ben, Maria and another member or half-life paranormal. The table had been moving and vibrating which is amazing to witness in itself but it suddenly started to move in a circular direction going from right to left. From underneath the table was a series of very rapid taps very much like miniature footsteps running around and around the underside of the table. The table was moving in exactly the same time in the same direction and this tapping was getting louder and louder. Then the table seemed to pause and then it started to go in the opposite direction. Maria, Dave and myself found this amazing and we were getting very excited about it. Ben and the others were not finding it very amusing and Ben was getting very un-nerved. We felt that as the table activity was dying down a little we would take a break and then resume.

After our break we sat around the table and began to ask out again. The table almost immediately started to move and in a very pronounced manner too but whoever this spirit person was, they didn't really want to give too much away. The atmosphere changed again and the table moved in a different way. Maria decided to try and see if the spirit person could copy what she was tapping on the table. She tapped out a pattern and asked the spirit person to complete the sequence. To our amazement it did. To see if this was just a fluke she did it again. Once again the sequence was completed in the correct was and this was an almost immediate response. She tried tapping our the nursery rhyme "ring a ring a roses" and again the spirit person was able to complete the sequence. Hopefully this is all caught on cam as we had quite a few camera's rolling. The atmosphere changed again and the table took a couple of violent jumps to the right which did alarm me a bit. We were just deciding to call it a night as it was getting late and being a weeknight some of us had to be up early. Maria asked if the spirit person could finish the evening with something spectacular. After a couple of very definite jumps to the right again, the circular tapping started. Along with that pattern the table started to move in the direction of the tapping as before. We thanked the spirit for trying so hard to join us this evening and we then closed down the circle.

During this evening, other than the activity mentioned we also witnessed lights of various types, green being seen by many members of the team. Also extreme temperature changes, Smells that went from burning wood one minute to almost like burnt pastry the next. Cold icy blasts of air and a few members felt like they had been poked or had clothing pulled.

I would like to thank Half life paranormal for once again having the amazing opportunity to visit this wonderful location and also Maria of twilight shadow for inviting us.

*On a last note. Boys, I'm afraid the whispering you heard may have been me. I was laughing to myself at how scared you all seemed but didn't realise you may have heard me. I'm sorry… :o)