Coalhouse fort ghost hunt Saturday 22nd of june 2013

Coalhouse Fort Prestige Paranormal's first visit to this amazing haunted location.

Date: Saturday June 22^nd 2013

Night: Slight wind, Full moon and cloudy, reasonably warm evening.

Team Members Sam the medium and Gemma.

We found Coalhouse Fort very easy to get to. Despite us being in Nottingham, all it took was a trip on the m1, m25, a13, then a short road down ad we were there.

Upon arrival, Gemma exclaimed, 'wow this is a big venue' and Sam replied 'Yes, sure is'.

We was greeted by the friendly staff that was there and Jamie who worked at Coalhouse Fort, kindly showed us around on our first visit.

After this, we set up the equipment and food for the guests, and on starting the mediumship tour, we first took a detour to the roof of the building which has stunning views of the full moon, shining on the waters of Tilbury.

Jamie explained that Coalhouse fort was used for part of the movie Batman Returns, and one of the archway rooms on the upper level was used for the prison and the path leading up to the upper level was used as one of the fighting scenes.

Mini vigil with Sam Gemma and Jamie in room 8 before the ghost hunt started. Footsteps were heard, and on the sb-7 spirit box, we heard a 'hi'. Sam also said she sometimes gets songs in her head as messages and had the dance tune from the late 1990's ' there's a bullet in the gun'.

The spirits that Sam had picked up on during mediumship walk around with the guests..

Room in quad above the archway front doors: Captain James Swift

Caponierre: Lady called Bridget, and a shadowy figure like a shapeshifter.

Tunnels in Section between rooms 24 and 18- Two boys about 17 years of age with flat caps on who like to blag their way through life for food and clothing and would tug on your coats.

Room 14: A priest, catholic.

Room 8 and the tunnel outside it: An elemental. Not an Earth elemental like a gnome like figure, but female looking with wispy shimmering trails emanating from the back of her, and very small. Definitely not a girl, it was too skinny looking and too small a head but about 3 ft in height and most certainly was not a fairy either as it had no wings. (Since checking when we got home, with the appearance of the elemental Sam was sensing, we believe for it to be a Water Elemental, an Undine)

The water spirits are called Undines. This name was first used by Swiss meta physician Paracelsus in the early 16th century. They closely resemble humans in appearance and size, except for those inhabiting smaller streams and ponds. They are beautiful, emotional, and graceful Nature Spirits who dress themselves in greenish, sea coloured garb that has both a shimmering consistency and a watery texture.

Walkway leading up to the tea room – 'Sully' a world war two gentleman and his home roots are in Lincolnshire.

Vigil One- The Room in the quad above the archway entrance and caponierre (latrines). We held the mediumship vigil here, and with the dowsing rods and pendulums in the room above the archway, we had a gentleman and a female from world war two. We then had a hand held séance, and we heard banging in the room next door when we asked. We asked it to do two taps and it did, one tap and it did. When we was talking, just general chit chat, the bangs and taps would stop. It could have been the wind that was banging against the window frame next door, but was very co-incidental wind. In the latrines the atmosphere changed during the hand held séance and became very unpleasant. Although it was very dark, there was some little light coming through one of the windows from the moon, and people could see shadows in the centre of the circle and also behind the medium Sam. Sam and the lady to the right of her, Wendy, felt a slight breeze against the back of their hands coming from outside the circle, then against their faces coming from the opposite direction inside the circle. Another lady, Angela, got touched on the top of her head.

Vigil Two – The archway room on the upper floor which used to have prison bars in, and room 18 and 24. We held the victoriana séance here, and in the first room on the upper floor, we had information coming through the automatic handwriting, and came out with a male spirit from 1847 and first three letters was 'Nel' and he was a gentleman who worked on the locks and docks on the waters nearby, before Coalhouse was built. There was a female spirit beginning with 'He' from 1836 and could not get any more from this. We then did table tipping in the same room, and we had the table vibrate, and although it did not tip, we did have a knock in the middle of the table. The 'Nel' character said we should go down to room 18 in the tunnels. We was not planning to do this room, and was going to room 24 next, but thought we should stop enroute and see what happens. Sam sensed in room 18 the two 17 year old vagabond boys. We did the automatic handwriting again, and because there was no table in this room, we used our portable table and Sam crouched down to hold the legs in place, as when the pen would move, it would slightly rock the table. As she did this the planchette which holds the pen started to spin around and around and the guests had to walk around the crouched Sam and the table, much to the amusement to the other guests.

We then eventually went to room 24. As there was no table in here, there were chairs, so thought we would sit for 10 mins and just simply call out. Sam sensed the 'Sully' character from outside, and when she called out his name, there was a scuffling noises emanating from the corner of the room. This corner had a hole which you can bend to get into which leads into a chamber. One of the Coalhouse staff members went to check and there was no-one there. We also heard footsteps outside as well as more scuffling in the chamber next door.

Vigil Three- Equipment vigil. Room 8 and 14. We set up the k2 meters and in room 8 we did not get much, but when placing the k2s in the centre of the room and one by the doorway, one guest, Pauline, said she had seen the k2 meter move by the doorway on its own. Also in room 8 we heard a moan and when the Coalhouse fort staff had checked the fort and its perimeter, there was no-one around. We all stood around the k2 meters and took out the shadow meter, to try and see if the spirit could produce a shadow. Then there was an almighty scream from Helen, another guest, and something had touched her arm. When everyone had sat back down to the edges of the room again, Helen was again touched on the leg. In Room 14 we sat down with the k2 meters, but this room was quiet.

Lone Vigils – Sam had taken Des and Wendy, two of the guests, to the latrines. We was accompanied by one of Coalhouses staff and enroute, we stopped in front of the quad. The staff member, (sorry lovely chap, but could not remember his name) asked Sam what she sensed in the quad area. Sam had the words 'cheap prostitute' come first. Then she said she was not from outside, like a worker from the streets, she worked in the building and was on the top left hand balcony. (As you look at the railings at the top, it bends on the corner and it was on the left hand side of that bend, about 3 ft from the corner) She then had the words 'drugs' and felt like opium or something like that was used. Also the words 'depression' came to mind. She then saw the lady falling backwards over the balcony and with her feet flipping over her head in the fall just the once, she landed face down. It was confirmed there and then by the staff member that a lady, a nurse was married to a soldier, had an affair with another soldier and the married man found out and shot her in the head, causing her to fall backwards over the balcony and land on her front, as Sam had seen.

Could this have been related to the song 'bullet in the gun' that Sam had earlier?

We then went to the latrines and the staff member then told us there is a spirit called Harry who does not like soldiers, or anyone who dresses up as a soldier. Perhaps this could be the spurned husband? Des aka 'braveheart' as we named him afterwards, said his name was 'Private Wood of the queens regiment' and then was followed immediately afterwards with a big tap in the furthest corner of the latrines. We then turned the sb-7 spirit box on and it said the name ' Harry'.

Group vigil at the end- We finally held the last vigil in room 24 and the latrines, but everything had quietened down by then and no more activity was recorded.

On one of the breaks, Jamie at Coalhouse Fort confirmed a documented elemental in 2006, and there was indeed a man called Captain Edgar James Swift in the Essex area of the time of the war.

All in all it was a very good night at Coalhouse Fort. It was very good for personal experiences, and we did get a bit of equipment going off and was impressed with the sb-7 saying the name 'Harry' when there was a spirit called Harry in the same room. We liked the layout of Coalhouse fort too, with upper and lower floors and the quad, making it very easy to separate large groups into 3 smaller groups. The staff are very welcoming and we was very glad to have them accompanying us on the vigils, so when things did kick off, they could go and check to see if it was anything natural and could verify if it was paranormal.

Looking forward to the next time we go, which will be October 19^th 2013.

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Ancient Ram Inn Ghost Hunt Report June 1st 2013

Ancient Ram Inn Ghost Hunt Report

Saturday 1^st of June 2013

Night Clear and Starry

Temp 8 degrees centigrade

Group 3 in the bar

9pm-3.30am

Was greeted by the lovely John again, bought him a glazed donut this time and he settled down with that and nice cup of tea. The guests arrived and we held the welcome meeting in the bar. On the mediumship walkaround Sam kept the barn secret to the spirits that was in there. She had been there enough times to know who was in the barn so the guests could find out themselves later by dowsing and pendulum work. In the witches room, Sam picked up on Mary Gibbons the high priestess and also Charles Lancery the preist who killed his illigitmate daughter Rosie, aged 7. In the Bishops room Sam picked up Skuse the highwayman. In the Bar she got a man called Adam from Exmoor who was trading parts for ships and lodged here during the 1700's and also Tom, the Innkeeper also.

First set of Vigils:

Sam was with group 1 in the barn to start off with. Dowsing rods determined the Charles Lancery in the room as well as Johnathan the blacksmith. On the hand held séance we had some taps, some louder than others and people felt energy around them. They later moved onto the witches room and Sam picked up on a David, who was impaled in the left shoulder by a metal spike object. He was working with cattle (cows only) and someone came in to rob something, and he died of his injury.

It was very quiet during this vigil, apart from the tap or two in the barn.

Gary with Group two in the bar and barn later on. Unfortunately the ouija did not go successful as we would like. We think the big ouija board has too much friction and the surface isnt right so it doesnt slide across very well. It did move bit by bit but not enough to get a message.

Pete with Group three in the attic and bishops room. There was some k2 action, but it proved to be random,not enough to start off a yes no conversation and the sb-7 spirit box had the odd blip but not long enough to make out a word.

So the first set of vigils turned out to be very quiet.

Second set of Vigils:

Sam was with group three in the barn and witches room. We did get some good taps and one of the guests was mediumistic and there was a female and through dowsing we discovered her name began with a P and with guess work it went to yes for Polly. Polly is a 17 year old Prostitute and the guest said she felt very sad and died of some sexual disease. Skuse the highwayman was also in the barn and we did yes no answers by touching us which he did. On the entering of the witches room, Sams torch started to flicker. So she set it on the table and sat down. The guest who was a medium picked up on a 9-10 year old girl from victorian period. So we asked her to take the energy from the torch so she did make it flicker a few times. We wanted more, so we asked her to turn it off completely. She did just that. Then we asked her to turn it back on and she did. Sam and a guest saw a shadow whizz past to the left of them as they were sat on the bed. There was also a female whine as well which we think was mary.

Gary was with group One in the bar and barn. The ouija board was moving and on the table tipping session in the barn, that tilted to a gentleman who was skeptical, which is good because that means if it was humans doing it, he's the only one that could have done it as it was tipping towards him and not away, and since he's skeptic he would try to disprove it anyway he can.

Pete with group two in the attic and Bishops room. We had some crazy k2 action going on and was answering to questions also.

Third set of vigils:

Sams was with group 2 and we had some good activity. The dowsing had charles again and there was some good taps. The torch was flickering again but this time in the barn. We asked for it to turn itself off which it did and back on again, which it did. Strange because this didnt happen inbetween during break times and we checked the torch afterwards and it did not do it during lone vigil times either. In the witches room one of the guests had a camcorder. We put sams torch as a trigger object in the middle of the room on the patterned carpet and set it in the middle of one of the diamond patterns. One of the ends moved a bit. There was lots of light anomalies captured in the witches room and when asked it would move to the person we wanted it to. It even danced around the chap that was camcordering.

Garys group 3 got the polly on the ouija board in the bar. And Petes group 1 had a permanent emf spike to orange all the way in the attic, they moved all over and it was always there. Phones were off so we have no idea what caused that. At this point some of group 1 left as they had to get home. Then the activity really kicked in. the sb-7 box said a name of jason.

Lone vigil times:

Sam had gone with some of the guests in the witches room. James from group 2, group 3 (nics group) and hannah and annie from group 1 was with the k2s. They told me about jason and then jason set off the temperature k2 and took it to its highest level. Then dropped it again. He did this several times on command and they also got a cat on evp meowing too.

Sam then went downstairs to help pack up some of the stuff and then heard a shriek in the barn. She raced in and Sharon from group 2 and Karl and Alison's group in group 2 said they saw a shadow in the barn on the right wall (as you look at it with the doorway in front) Then they did the automatic handwriting and it kept spelling out Karls name and a 'B' which they think is their grandfather. We asked on the automatic handwriting and the 'B' said it was not responsible for the shadow. Then there was taps and what sounded like a dragging noise also. It was very spooky.

So all in all, the night was quiet to start off with, then built up during the evening and got very very active at the end of the night.

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