Pregnancy Community Chat Forum - Ghost Hunt

OK well, I've always been sensitive to this kind of stuff.
I saw my great grandma when I was a child (she died before I was born), my great grandfather (died when I was about 7) and I've more than dabbled in several forms of mediumship and also the occult.

I was prepared to be terrified - as I said I'm scared of the dark - heck I'm scared of my own shadow half the time Laughing

So, off we went - I dayum near joined the spirit side on the TREK from the gates to the castle, jeesh that hill was so long and so steep - at least the walk back to the car was downhill at the end of the night.

It was still semi light when we got there so we had a wander about, went and stood quietly in some of the remains - nothing - it felt seriously quiet - too quiet, like you would expect at least some sort of residual energy, just due to the age of the place let alone there are numerous documented deaths there.

So we went and stood up on the keep and looked out to the other part of the castle, let our eyes soft focus and let instinct draw our eyes - NOTHING.

By now I'm like what? Thinking this is going to go one of 2 ways, either it's the quiet before the storm and all hell is gonna let loose, or this site is spiritually empty tonight at least.

Then there was a talk by Richard Felix (nice enough bloke) about the history of the castle, his personal feelings on spirits/paranormal - made it clear he is very much a sceptic - OK...

Bit more wandering about - got annoyed at the fact that they had a bar open and a number of people appeared to have gone just for the fact they could drink.

By midnight 2 of the 3 groups had gone into their vigils and so the open ground were much quieter (we chose the latest vigil).
So spent more time stood in the now moonlight just allowing ourselves to feel.... Nothing.

Seriously I've felt more psychic activity in the grocery store.

12.30 time for our vigil.
Richard greets us and we all (about 30 people sigh) into this round room for the first seance.
Richard (the sceptic) asks for tapping, or effect one of us - nothing, keeps asking for about 10 mins - nothing.

Moves us to another room where they have an ancient wooden ashtray on a table and he get's people to put their fingers on it and he (Richard) asks for spirits to come forward (he did do protection before each thing we did, although I also did my own as well).
Of course Richard points out that he isn't touching the ashtray so it can't be him that makes it move...
Oh and it moves - odd because I really really can not feel anything - I have I suddenly become psychically blind tonight?
Surprise the "spirit" claims to have been an employee who was raped and later murdered by the "master" of the castle.

So Richard can help her move on - wait - he's a sceptic... hmmmm
Guess what the spirit doesn't move on, so the next people to have their fingers on the ashtray try to send her energy to help her move on - I'm still not feeling anything.
Richard asks another lady (real life) to step forward and help - she tells the spirit to follow her guide to the light and the ashtray stops moving...
Won't start again for the next group - so we move on to another room.

Richard tells us it's so cold in here - can we feel it? Um no, actually I'm so hot (I'm usually cold anyway) that I have removed my jumper.
Richard tells us that this cold is totally paranormal because there is no reason for it to be so cold...
Wait - he's a sceptic...
I mean the cold couldn't possibly be due to the fact that it's an old building (it's actually a Tudor manor house built within the castle walls) with stone walls and no heating could it Richard?

We walk through the room that used to be the shop, Richard tells us that we feel really cold here - umm no? And we exit back into the courtyard to be greeted by Dr David Dudley to be take to...

THE CRYPT
The crypt is above ground?? Since when are crypts above ground - they're below ground to keep them cold so that the bodies are preserved... OK who screwed up there then?

Supposedly the chapel was above the crypt and while religion was practiced upstairs in the public view, witchcraft was practiced down here in the crypt.
Oh wait you have to go through the crypt to get to the chapel...
Anyone see a problem with that?
Anyone else think we're being told porkies yet?
So we're going to do another seance in this "crypt".
OK I admit at first when the lights went out I was SPOOKED, I'm holding Steve's hand real tight LOL, not because I feel anything but there was NO LIGHT at all.
You know when it goes sudden dark and after a few minutes your eyes adjust and you can see a little bit? Well, this was proper dark not the slighest bit of light, even after 10 mins my eyes still couldn't actually "see" anything.

Dr Dudley points out a "spirit" coming through the wall...
umm that's the glow of the rear view finder of the camera, they are filimg with, reflecting off the stone work.

I still am not feeling the slightest "paranormal activity".

Oh wait what's that over there, OK I see something (not feeling anything though) oh it's gone, it's back it's what?
Dr Dudley: "can anyone see the glow over in the stage area?"
Oh yeah I can.
Dr Dudley: "that's a jar of eyeballs (what?) used for the show they have in here, but can you see how it fades in and out?"
yes....
Dr Dudley: "that's because a spirit is walking up and down the stage".
umm no that's because my eyes can't focus because it's so flippin dark.

He asks people if they can feel the cold behind them, if they can see anything - some woman screams and says someone pulled her hair - hmmm?
Dr Dudley tells us that children are running around in the middle of the circle - as kids to in crypts y'know...

While he's waffling I think I see a faint glow in what I think it the corner of the room (very disorientating in such darkness) but I can't focus on it to be sure.
I think I see a small shower of gold stars, but again not sure - I've seen similiar when I squeeze my eyes tight shut.
Uh are my eyes open or closed - oh heck I'm not sure - that's freaky - poke eyes to check - yup open LOL

When the lights go back on the faint glow wasn't in the corner at all but happened to be a glass/plastic window (part of the show set - daytime entertainment thing) that was reflecting the exit sign (luminous yellow exit sign).

Still haven't felt anything remotely paranormal by now and the night is over - and I'm not the sceptic.

Richard is bouncing about "I truly believe that's paranormal - there is no explanation for that, I'm a sceptic but that has to be paranormal, tonight was so active, I'm a down to earth guy, I'm totally sceptic, I believe 80% can be explained but not all of it but tonight was so active, truly paranormal"...

OK Richard, umm you just lost a lot of respect from me, I'm afraid time to move on, chalk this up to experience.
We'll go on another, there's a few places we want to go, so we'll pick our next choice by location rather than anything else.
However, we won't be going to Derby Goal - Richard owns it and does ghost tours there.

Oh and for a sceptic you'd love his car registration plate - I'll not post it but let's say it has his initials RF and the word ghost in it - very clever very expensive.

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