Haunted Weekend Borders
Tour Friday 3rd of May and Saturday 4th 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 3rd 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.
so visit keilder on halloween 2013 night at http://www.prestigeparanormalevents.co.uk
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