Undisclosed Investigation

January 24th 2014

Undisclosed Location

This year has got off to an amazing start and we found ourselves embarking on our 3rd investigation of the year.

(The owners of the building have asked us to keep the location anonymous so there for all I can tell you are it is located somewhere in the Southwest.)

Once the team had arrived, we split into 3 small groups and agreed to spend roughly 30 minutes in each room or area. Dave and I started in one of the smaller guest rooms and the rest headed off to the upper level of the house.

Room 1

Dave and I chat about what we know about the building (Dave had been here before so knew a little about the history). While Dave is talking I noticed that I would see light anomalies on the camera and when I spoke or called out, the light anomalies would disappear. I pointed this out to Dave and asked him to call out (as the spirits may recognise him from his last visit.)

We try this theory and much to my dismay the light anomalies stop (typical). I call out and ask if any spirit people could make a noise to let us know they are around. We hear 3 knocks on the wall. (This is captured on video which can be viewed on the Facebook page). We ask a few questions and get a knock (which seemed to reply) then the tapping stops.

We call out again and for a while nothing happens at all. After some time Dave starts to talk and I see another anomaly go towards Dave. We continue to call out. I address the spirits directly and say to them it’s been a while and now it’s your chance to talk to us. Can you say hi? Dave thinks he can hear faint taps but is not sure if it is the house settling. He then asks for the cupboard doors to open. Nothing happens (though I am secretly pleased about that.) Dave gets up and I ask him what he is doing. He turns around and pulls a face at me and we laugh. After about 5 minutes I comment that his face (which I am viewing through the night vision cam) resembles the face I saw imprint on him at the previous investigation. After I say this I see a very bright light anomaly on the camera. Dave goes and tries some scrying in the mirror. Again I see a light anomaly that seems to follow him over to the mirror. He turns to me again and I comment that he doesn’t look anything like the Dave I know. He says that I look different too. I ask him what I look like (through his night vision camera). He replies that I look blonde. (Well that I can believe). I laugh and tell him he must be seeing my true self.

Dave says to me that the ghosts don’t seem to want to come out to play today. Just as he says that we hear a noise like a tap letting out water. I then see another light anomaly near him. (There is a sink in the corner of the room). Dave goes over to the sink and the bowl is dry. We notice that we are both drawn to that corner and have subconsciously been watching this area the whole time we have been in the room.

It is here that I am aware that I can hear tapping noises from that side of the room that are starting to sound like footsteps. I then hear a noise that sounds like a mattress when you sit down on it.

We continue to call out in this room for another 10 minutes or so but apart from a few more light anomalies, nothing else is captured. We decide to change rooms.

[We go to the sitting room (where Maria and her team are). They swap with us and we settle down. Just as we do Matt, Ben and Andrew come down from upstairs. While we are chatting Dave’s camera decides to switch off and I capture a light anomaly by his camera on my camera. (Dave tells us he has a full battery). We then decide to swap with them.] *Before we go they advise us that they have heard a chain rattling but could not find the source.

Upstairs (Room 2)

We go and settle in one of the top rooms. This building does have a very long history and I can tell you it has had some rather dubious history and also some very upstanding history. The location of this building made it an ideal position for a house of ill repute. I will say no more.

To begin with I do not feel anything about the room at all. I felt at ease and it felt very welcoming (as did the entire house). Dave tells me that when we were looking around when we first of all arrived, he felt uneasy up here but did not now. We started to call out and I asked that if there were any spirit people around, could they show themselves in light form? Much to my amazement I see a light anomaly on the camera. I thank the spirit then ask if they could possibly affect the lights on my EMF meter and change them from green to red.

EMF is measurements of ambient (surrounding) electromagnetic fields that are performed using particular sensors or probes, such as EMF meters (often used by paranormal investigators as part of their ghost hunting kit)

The lights do not change however I do see another light anomaly on camera. I ask again if there are any spirit people in the room, could they please either make a noise or tap on something. There is a brief pause and we hear a tap. I say thank you. I ask if we could hear their footsteps. We hear another tap. I ask if the spirit is a lady. TAP. I then ask a series of questions which we do not receive a response too. I ask if the spirit is still with us. We hear a quiet tap. I say to the spirit not to be frightened and try to reassure her that we are not going to hurt her in anyway. I ask some more questions and but do not get a response. I ask if the spirit is still with us and urge the spirit to come back to us. TAP. I ask if she used to live in the village. TAP. I ask if the lady is aware of any other spirits but there is no response. I ask if she isn’t aware of any other spirits and get a loud tap in reply. The taps then stop and I do not get any more responses to any other questions. Dave tells me he has a funny pain in his head and suggests we move rooms.

Room 3

As soon as I enter this room I notice I feel very uncomfortable. I have selected a place to sit on the floor but I feel I have to stand. I tell Dave this and he laughs and says he feels fine in here.

We are not in the room for very long when I start to capture lots of light anomalies that seem to be all around Dave. He doesn’t seem to be capturing them on his camera though (despite capturing most of the light anomalies on our last investigation with his camera).

Dave tells me that he sees a very dark shadow. I say to him “please don’t say that” (already feeling very uncomfortable). I place my EMF meter on the bed and ask again if any spirit people can affect the lights and turn the lights from green to red. I see a light anomaly go from the meter to Dave. I ask for any spirit people to make a noise. We do hear a tap but this does not sound up on the camera footage. I ask if we can hear footsteps in the room. After a while we do hear lots of taps around the room. I turn to Dave and say “well we did ask for this”. Just as I direct the camera at him I think I see a dark figure just over his shoulder in the corner of the room. (I saw this with my naked eye and not with the camera). Dave tells me he has gone very cold. (It is not cold in this room at all). As we are nearing the 30 minutes allotted for this section of the investigation we thank the spirits (take a few pictures) and move to our next room.

Room 4

We try again in the sitting room. Maria and her team head up to the upper level (with Andrew) and Matt and Ben join us.

I start to call out and ask for any spirit people to show themselves in light form (as they had been doing so well doing this). I do get a lovely bright light form and I thank the spirits for joining us. I try again with the EMF meter and explain what it does and not to be scared of it. On my camera I see a very bright light form appear momentarily above Bens head. I ask out to see if we could encourage any spirits to manifest in full body. I ask Dave to try asking out. He goes to speak but finds he is struggling to get his words out. Matt says he is feeling very drained and then says he had a nasty pain and a cold sweat in one of the rooms upstairs. (It is the same room as Dave experienced pain in earlier). I go to speak and I too am having trouble getting my words out. Ben is visibly tired too. (The house used to hold a Dr Surgery and we debate whether Dave and Matts shared experience maybe due to this). Nothing much is happening here so we decide to all try the dining room.

Room 5

Whilst setting up in the dining room, I did not notice until reviewing the footage that I had captured 3 light anomalies. We start to call out though I notice now watching it all back we all seem to be very distracted and our focus soon strays. Maria discusses that they heard some dubious sounds from the ghost box.

A Ghost box is a device used to supposedly communicate with the dead. Ghost boxes are simple radios with a scanning function allowing them to search airwaves until they find a station to stop on.

Seeing that we know the history of the house we find this quite compelling. Maria also advises us that she felt very uncomfortable in the same room that I did. We spend about 20 minutes in this room. I do capture a few light anomalies and at one point we hear a jingle sound that I at first think it is china clinking together. We find out a bit later that one of the teddy bears in one of the chairs has a bell in its chest and Dave accidently set this off without realising this so we rule this out.

We decide to call it a night.

Although this was a fairly quiet investigation (as to what we have been used too of late), we still managed to capture light anomalies and audible tapping noises. Matt, Ben and Andrew thought they heard a chain rattling upstairs but could not find the source. We also had reasonable success with the ghost box.