Drew Ponds - Private Investigation

February 18th 2012

On Saturday 18/02/2012 we had the privilege to investigate a private house on the grounds of well-known local mental institution that closed its doors in 1995.

The team has been to this location previously on an outdoor investigation of the grounds.

The house is situated in what was once a ward at the hospital. We believe this to of been the infectious diseases ward but has not had this verified.

The residences of the house have experienced a number of phenomena and believe this to be caused by more than 1 spirit. The residences have been living at the property for 6 months.

Most active areas of the house are the kitchen, upstairs hall and main bedroom.

During the initial tour of the house, we got unusual reading on the EMF meter on the upstairs landing, by the door to the spare bedroom and by the bathroom. This would prove to be very interesting later on in the evening.

We decided to split up into groups of 3 covering 2 rooms downstairs and 1 room upstairs.

My team (3) started in the kitchen where a figure has been spotted stood in the corner of the room by a cupboard door on many occasions. We started by asking if there were any spirit people with us. We had video cameras and a digital voice recorder with us to see if we could capture any spirit lights or sounds during our vigil. We didn’t get much but Dave did capture a few orbs travelling over the kitchen table and we saw flashes of light in the hall through the video cameras.

We decided to swap to the front room. Not much is experienced in this room but we did become aware of a tall figure stood in the hall way to the left of the door frame which we could see with our peripheral vision. This tall figure has been seen by a resident of the household which we did not know at the time. After a while I was also aware of an energy building up to the right of the door frame. This figure was much shorter at around 4.4ft but did not manifest itself as a decipherable figure.

I was becoming aware that since I walked into the house I felt very relaxed but I also felt very numb. It struck me that if I was a patient at the hospital I would have been sedated most of the time and wondered if this was why I was feeling so lethargic.

After a break we decided to swap with the other team and head upstairs. Straight away I noticed that the upstairs had a very different feel to it. I remarked that I would not like to sleep upstairs alone which other members of the team agreed with me. Looking back I notice that we did not ask if any spirits were with us. We all felt very uncomfortable with the lights out completely so Dave decided to keep a torch on but shaded so it only gave off a subtle light. Dave said that he was aware of a figure crouching just outside the door to the bedroom. I moved so I was able to see the door way but was not able to see anything. We were just talking about this when Dave suddenly cried out which made us all jump. He said he saw a shadow enter the room which at first he thought was one of the cats that lived in the house but realised that the shadow was far too large. The shadow moved into the room and around the bed out of sight. After we had got over our shock we refocused our attention to the door when I noticed there was a shadow that looked like an arm about 2 ft. from the bottom of the door. Dave could see it too. We put the torch on and the shadow disappeared but when we switched the torch off it came back. The more we looked the more we could make out. Dave could see that this was the same figure he had seen crouching but this time it was stood but stooped with one hand holding the door and the other arm pointing to the wall. It was this arm I could see clearly. We then heard something quite solid bounce off of Dave’s leg and roll on the floor. We switched the torches back on but could not find the object. The shadow figure stayed with us for about 10 minutes but disappeared as suddenly as it appeared to us.

During our time upstairs we also heard someone yell and I could also hear someone singing. I first thought this was Maria singing but she later told me she hadn’t been singing. We also saw flashes of light which we thought might be the other team taking pictures but this also turned out not to be the case.

After another break we set up the kitchen table for some glass divination. We quickly got some energy going and the glass started to move. We determined that we were talking to the tall man seen in the hall way who said his name was Henry. He was wrongly admitted to the hospital as a young man with epilepsy and died around 1891. He was aware of other spirits around him and was quite happy to share his home with the present occupants. Sometimes a music box is heard in the house which Henry told us the staff used to play to the patients just before they received their treatment. It was also determined that Henry was the spirit who whispered “hungry” into the ear of one of the occupants of the house the first day they moved in while the occupant was having breakfast. As Henry seemed to be tiring we decided to close the séance down and call it a night.

Other things that happened whilst we were there was during the other teams vigil upstairs they made contact with a doctor using the EMF meter to communicate and also an intense spirit which psychically attacked Matt. We believe that this spirit is the same one that our team witnessed pointing to the wall. Also the tall man was seen by team 2 and the same flashes of light were witnessed by team 1. Names were also suggested which we are to have verified. Chris of team 2 said he was aware of someone shouting at him clairvoyantly from the moment he entered the building but he couldn’t make out what was being said or by whom.

I would like to thank the residence of the house for inviting us to their lovely home and also Maria for arranging this for us.