Coalhouse Fort Prestige
Paranormal's first visit to this amazing haunted location.
Date: Saturday June
22nd 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)
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 19th 2013.
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