Private Investigation - Bradford-on-Avon

December 2012

During December Phoenix of Wessex received a plea through the website from a private residence to see if we would be willing to go and see if we could get to the bottom of a few spooky goings on in their house. Well, of course this was far too good an opportunity to miss so we said yes straight away.

After an initial meeting with the household owner the team agreed to come out to the house at the next available opportunity which happened to be that weekend.

The owner had experienced the feeling of being watched while in the kitchen and bathroom area, felt very cold in one particular area of the front room, had the feeling of being followed down the stairs and had concerns with a particular bedroom upstairs. She also said that members of her family and friends said they do not like staying at her house and had the feeling of being stood over while sleeping on the sofa.

Interestingly enough the area on which the housing estate was built on was the site of a fatal air crash. A Halifax bomber crashed there on 26th March 1944 killing 6 of the 9 young men on board.

We decided to go upstairs to start the investigation. It was during a talk with the owner that she told us that her ex-husband had seen a figure of a young man walk through her bedroom so we decided to stand between the master bedroom and the other smaller room that the owner had advised us never felt warm and had a horrible atmosphere most of the time. She said that the previous owner despite having 2 children used that bedroom as a store room her children used to share a room.

Experience has taught me that spirit activity never happens while you are waiting for it. Start talking among yourselves and have a laugh and a joke and hey presto something happens. It’s almost like the spirits are saying "hey, we are here you know, notice us". During our chat our other medium and his partner arrived and he took this opportunity to chat to the owner on his own.

One of the members of the team had brought a long a spirit box. These are devices that constantly scan the airwaves and the spirit that is communicating back through the box uses this to stop the scan when a channel is playing a song or presenter is saying a sentence with the appropriate word or answer in it to the question we may be asking. I have always been very open minded about these sorts of gadgets but I must admit after seeing one of these in action I was actually amazed. During our investigation the spirit managed to say Luftwaffe more than once, confirmed the spirits needed help, confirmed the number of spirits there and also a few of the names. We had inkling that it maybe the airmen that the owners were sensing and this box confirmed this. In true military style one of the airmen also said they didn't like talking to me and told me to be quiet in a way only an American man can. When Maria and I asked if they were able to actually show themselves, as clear as crystal a voice said "of course" through the spirit box which actually made Maria and I jump together in shock.

In the meantime one of our mediums who had come along to the investigation had been having a chat with the owner and had also picked up on 2 female spirits. The houses are also built on the grounds of the town priory and 2 nuns had made themselves known. They were here for a reason which was linked to one of the owner’s children. The nature of this guidance is for a personal reason but I will say that the name of the youngest nun in visitation was also confirmed through the spirit box a little later on in the evening.

After a little break we decided to split into teams of girls and boys. The girls tried glass divination in the front room and the boys tried communicating with the spirit box upstairs.

During our glass divination we made further contact with one of the airmen who said they were all unhappy and wanted to move on. He told us a little about himself saying he was engaged to be married and that he was sad and cold. He also told us what part of Canada he came from.

When the boys came down they said that they too had spoken to some of the airmen and also that the youngest nun had come through. After a discussion we agreed that a common message that we had been given either through medium ship, modern gadgets or glass divination was that the airmen were desperate to move on so we decided that we would try to help the airmen. With all of us present one of the mediums directed the airmen to the light and said that as the last one walked through into the light he turned and saluted us which I thought was quite touching.

The owner has emailed me after the investigation to thank the team for our help and said that the house feels much lighter and more welcoming that it had before.