Ghost Hunt report at Doncaster Air Museum

Doncaster Air Museum Detailed Ghost Hunt Event Report.

Date Saturday 18^th of May

Weather Cloudy no rain

8.30pm-3.00am

It was Sam the mediums first time to Doncaster Air Museum, and excited to go. The last place she visited to do with military museums was Raf Holmpton, which unfortunately was quiet and she did not have high expectations of Doncaster, but how wrong was she!. The moment Sam arrived she was bombarded by spirits.

After set up Sam and the guests went on a mediumship walkaround tour and first up was the main hanger. Sam sensed a spirit of a Sargeant and his name was Spencer Otty who had not one plane crash but two. First one being at Ashbourne Derbyshire and she saw train tracks. The second he died in lancaster bomber 6 months later at a place beginning with 'Ep'. She saw a plane befoe arriving to the museum which was grey, had three white numbers, one of them being a 7 and she found the plane she wanted. When she got to the plane there is a spirit she picked up on called Charles Goodwin and although this was not his exact plane, he comes to visit this one on occasions.

The also picked up on a spirit called Seargant Beaumont, Austrailian and he was killed in a Wellington. In Hanger 21 She picked up on a little girl called Tina, looking for in the blitz rubble a little toy monkey and also a female wren called Wendy. In Hanger 19 there was two spirits. George who was not very pleasant and also a man smoking a cigarette called John Russo who was Canadian and died in a Canadian Spitfire.

Delegations: Sam Mediumship vigil in hangar 19

Andy Equipment Vigil in Main Hangar

Pete Victoriana Vigil in Hangar 21

Vigil one. Sam had the first group in hangar 19. Group one consisted of the sensitive guests and in the exhibition room we was getting hot and cold spots and being touched. One of the guests picked up on George and his last name was Pearce and worked in communications. Sam sensed Russo in the room and he had taken a shine to Sam and he was pretty close to her. There was a few taps in the next room where the planes were and they proceeded to hold the next part of the vigil in there. Sam was being touched by Russo on the face and one of the other mediums (guest) went into trance and George spoke through her. Pete's group in the victoriana did not have much luck on the ouija board, but did have a lot of luck on the glass. They accertained the spirit was religeous and did not want to speak on the ouija and was against it. Andys group had some great k2 action in the main hangar by a female spirit called Elizabeth who was looking for her sweetheart and she died in 2009.

Vigil Two Sam in the hangar had seargeant Beaumont, the Austrailian who had followed one of the guests from the main hangar and he did something very special. Under questioning a wooden stand with information about a control panel rattled, so we put it in the centre of the circle so that every guest knew no-one was touching it and he rattled it again. She also sensed Wendy was pregnant. In Andys vigil one of the mediums (guest) brought up the name Peterson and he was attached with the UN helicopter and said on the k2s he was in the Falklands war and served with Andys dad also named the distinguished medal he had. He also claimed he was the one responsible for showing up on the camcorder at the ghost hunt in November The gentleman associated with the grey plane which had 791 on, he also came through the k2's. In the victoriana vigil, on the ouija personal messages were coming through.

Vigil three Sam's group heard a couple of taps in the plane room in hangar 19. In the victoriana vigil Pete had a spirit on the ouija board from the air museum. In the equipment vigil they got the man on the 791 plane, he admitted on the k2 he flew it in anger but would not say where, but confirmed it was between 1951-and 1954 and it was Korean war, and tying up what Sam said, it was Charles Goodwin. There was that many spirits on this vigil that Andy got confused who was talking too as there was that many. There was also an Australian on the k2s that came through with a first name of Ralph.

In the Lone vigils Sam went around and came to a group on the ouija and they had someone called William. He died aged 90 and worked at the airport until 1984. In the mass group vigil at the end Elizabeth looking for the sweetheart came on the k2's but still couldnt find her sweetheart and the guests who had her had the name of Robert. Peterson would only speak to the men, and was creating bangs and taps on the other side of the hangar. He eventually set off the k2's at the end as a goodbye.

Checks of information from what was get on the ghost hunt:

http://www.archieraf.co.uk/scs/1646dickson.html Seargent Beaumont: he did indeed die in a Wellington and was Austrailian too. The Ralph on the k2's could be RAAF, the airforce he was with.

http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/peakdistrict/peakdistricteb338.htm we found that Seargeant spencer Otty was also correct, he did crash at ashbourne and near train tracks like sam said on the mediumship walkaround and it was also the left side (port side) and he did die 6 months later in a lancaster, but the name of the place he died was wrong. It was not Ep, but El for Elsham Wolds.

On Charles Goodwin we had nothing that came up right away, but on the military records there are two c.l and a c.j. Goodwin, both enlisted in 1951, one was in the Queens own and the other in the Royal educational corps, however we did find a recent obituary of a Charles Goodwin who served in korea and was a keen pilot, but was uncertain if he used his piloting skills in the korean war, and he passed away on april 21^st 2013 in las vegas (born kansas) and his memorial was the day before the investigation on may 17^th 2013.

On George Pearce, is still uncertain, as well as John Russo the Canadian spitfire pilot and peterson, the quest is still ongoing.

haunted weekend borders tour may 3rd and may 4th 2013 northumberland and scotland

Haunted Weekend Borders Tour Friday 3^rd of May and Saturday 4^th of May 2013

Location Kielder Castle Northumberland and Jedburgh Jail Scotland.

It was a long drive to Kielder Castle Northumberland, about 3 and a half hours, but boy is it worth it. Its fantastic scenery with the scotch fir trees everywhere and the wildlife is just worth the visit alone, and that’s not even counting the lake and the castle itself. Stopped at Scotch Corner on the A1 for our needed boost of energy – the good old burger king and stocked up on m and s sandwiches for later.

We arrived at the castle at 5pm and we met up with Malte who runs the castle and he is pleasure to meet. He’s very passionate about the wildlife and the fact it is a dark sky zone which means, no street lights so you can stargaze to your hearts content.

We set up the equipment and the food and drinks and had a well earned coffee and our sandwiches. The ghost hunt did not start till 8pm and because Gary our team member had not been before, we showed him around the place.

The guests finally arrived and we held the welcome meeting and got to know a bit more about the guests on the evening. Some were from Manchester, and Cheshire and also up as far as Glasgow.

We split the guests into 3 groups and we designated the rooms for the following vigils:

Sam’s Mediumship vigil – Marie’s Room, Charlotte’s Hobby Room, Television Room

Andy Victoriana Vigil – Auditorium and Attic 2

Petes Equipment Vigil – Attic 1 and Emmas Room.

First was the mediumship walk around with our medium Sam. In Emma's room Sam could smell roses, and told the guests about the Romeo and Juliet book she used to like. The book is on the side of the mantelpiece and although its not a very old book, it has been left for her. One of the guests picked it up and placed it in the middle of the mantelpiece. In the far back room of the attic, Sam sensed Emma and also the Blacksmith, to which the guest decided to call him George. They also felt a cold spot where Sam said he was stood in a particular part of the room. On the way back down, one of the guests collared Sam and told her that they placed the Romeo and Juliet book in the middle and on the way down they checked and it had been placed at the end of the mantelpiece and that it had moved. In charlottes hobby room, Sam got a sense that Charlotte like to do embroidery here and grow plants. She also sensed a man in a waistcoat, a worker there called Michael, and he was a strong character. She sensed him even stronger in the TV room. In Marie’s room, Sam sensed Marie and told the guests what she did prior which was to stoke up the fire. In Attic 2 Sam picked up on the boy Tom and also the grounds keeper that used to abuse boys and when 2 of them grew up, they murdered him in revenge in the courtyard, and he died eventually in Attic 2, where his room was.

Equipment Vigil. Unfortunately we did not get any k2 spikes in any of the vigils, although people did sensed they were being watched.

Victoriana vigil – One of the groups did a table tipping session which culminated into one of the tables legs coming off and flying across the room making everyone scream in that group. Another group witnessed a chairs spindles coming off the back of the chair. The grounds keeper called James came through the board and he said they hung him in the end in the attic 2 and anyone who was stood at the stairs wanted to moved and they felt like they was being watched. Table tipping sessions, all three went very well. The little boy Tom was playing with the automatic handwriting planchette and he took a girls earring out and bent it in the Auditorium.

Mediumship Vigil – The dowsing we had Michael and he said he was in cahoots with the grounds keeper. The psychometry we had on two separate groups 1 and 3 ( we asked them to to talk what they picked up on to each during break times so they wouldn't influence) and they got Clara. Group one got James and he wore a white wig and black bow at the back. Two guest who were a couple also got a lady called Joan. Sam got Michael and said he was about 6 foot with a receding hair line, with hardly any hair. In Marie's room Hugh Percy came through and he was messing about as usual. He is the 3^rd Duke of Northumberland and he was touching the guests, prodded Sam in the back, tickling. Michael was also tapping to questions in Marie's room and also the TV room. But Marie's room we had disembodied breathing which scared the life out of group 2 from Glasgow.

On group vigil at the end we heard footsteps and bangs were captured on evp machine when everyone was accounted for downstairs. The evp machine was in Marie's room all night.

Some of the guests left after the ghost hunt, very happy, but wanted to get back to either commitments, or just didn't fancy sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor.

We had 12 guests that decided to sleep over. The Glasgow girls slept with Sam in Marie's Room. The rest decided to stay in base room.

7am arrived and the guests were greeted with coffee, tea, croissants with Jam and pan au chocolate.

Everyone had a great time and we left very pleased that the night went very well and organised.

At 9pm, we left Kielder Castle to head towards Jedburgh town centre. The drive is approx 30 miles, but takes about an hour, as it is a single track road with passing points. It was a gorgeous morning and the sun was shining and with it being May we couldn't help stopping a few times to look at the free roaming sheep and lambs as its lambing season. We arrived at the picturesque Jedburgh and it has a huge derelict abbey which was attacked several times. There is also Mary queen of Scots house which is well worth the visit.

We hung around the centre of the town for a while and stocked up on food for the Jedburgh Jail ghost hunt that night, and got some great fish and chips and word had already got around there was 'ghost hunters' in town, even at the local co-op.

Check in time at the hotel was at 1pm, (we got in early, nice one and thanks to the manager). The hotel used to be Robert Burns the poets house and Sam and Andy had room 6, and Pete and Gary had room 4 and room 5 we was told by the manager was meant to be haunted and he saw an actual ghost there. Tired and weary we fell asleep till tea time, and grabbed a pizza just before the event started.

We was let in at 9pm on the dot and set up the equipment and the guests had the welcome meeting, whilst Sam went on a walk around with the curator to pick up on spirits. The jail comprises of a middle wing, a west wing (Bridewell) and East wing. The west wing housed people that owed money and the more hardcore criminals were in the East and Male prison in the North (the north is under repair).

Sam's vigil took place in the main wing on the top floor. The main wing as glass cabinets and artefacts in there and is not in total darkness, but there is one smaller room up there which is in semi darkness. Sam picked up on the Jailer with a 'Jo' name and we later learned this was Joshua. With the dowsing rods, one of the guests got a gentleman from the 1300's called William and the moment that Sam said his name, one of the guests got touched on the thigh. We had a hand held calling out seance and some of the guests arms went up in the air, caused by William. Sam's vigil later went on to the cells in the Bridewell on the top floor. In one of the cells one of the guests picked up on a spirit called Jack and Sam sensed he was around 5 foot, elfin style face, and was a character and was done for pickpocketing. The guests all saw red and white lights above Sam's head, about 1 foot above. Sam and another guest called Sam was touched on the thigh and ear. There was a child called Jess which was also picked up on by a guest.

During the Victoriana vigil, this was held in the room next to the base room, and also a small room which is next door and this was the Jailers room. In the Jailers room we did the Ouija session and we had Jake(was Jack) on the board and also the Jailer called Joshua. Jake and Joshua never met and when Jake died, Joshua came to work there 4 years afterwards in the 1800's and stayed for 7 years before being murdered by inmates. In the room next to the base room, to which I can only describe it as a 'stocks' room because of the stocks, and the mannequin. We had the spirit of Georgina who lost her children and was looking for them. Sam sensed the children was in spirit world already and it was just a case of her having a leap of faith and joining them.

In the Equipment Vigil we was on the top floor of the East wing and in one room we had excellent k2s by a man called Samuel who was African origin. We then split the group, boys and girls and the ladies went into one of the cells at the bottom end of the corridor. No k2 spikes for the ladies, but the men who stayed in the first cell, had k2s going off again and the spirit wanted the ladies in there. So we did a switch. The ladies went in, and also we had some k2 spikes, for a yes answer he was supposed to spike the k2s and on listing the crimes so he could confirm which one he did, he would not answer, so Sam picked up the k2s and said they are leaving, when one of the guests let out a scream and so did her mum next to her. The guest Vikki said 'I've just had whisper in my ear, Don't go -stay'' and her mum, who was wearing the super hearing enhancers at the time said ' I just heard it plain as day on these things too'.

During a group vigil in the Bridewell West wing, Jess was making the k2 spikes, would run off and hide, make a noise in the cell she was in and the guests would have to find where she was. It proved a very good game.

Finally in the stocks room, Sam and the guests helped Georgina into the light, and afterwards the feelings in there was less oppressive.

We retired back to our hotel at 3.30am and finally left after a good hearty Scottish breakfast at 10.30am.

Prestige's opinion on Kielder Castle and Jedburgh Jail.

Both very different in their own rights. Kielder was well worth the visit because of the scenery and the fact you can sleep in location with your sleeping bag. Its got many rooms to explore and our vigils didn't even cover the two base rooms, and the study and the puzzle room and the nature room.

We do love Hugh Percys personality and came across him twice now and he has made audible's before and his character and jokey nature, just him alone is worth going to see, let alone the other spirits there.

Jedburgh Jail, there’s about 20 cell rooms to visit, so very easy to do lone vigils in. The building when the lights go out it is frightening and sets the scene of death, violence and incarceration very well. Was very impressed with the personal experiences here and the k2s as well as the super hearing enhancers. Would love to revisit here just to add more to the story of the Jailer Joshua and prisoner Jake, plus also work more on the equipment and get some good trigger objects going in some of the cells.

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