Montgomery Town Hall Wales/Shropshire border ghost hunt march 28th 2015

Night- Rain with a bit of wind

The location is situated in a town full of old buildings, a castle and a haunted graveyard. We investigated Montgomery Town Hall. The town hall is on two levels. The lower floor is where we held the Victoriana vigil. The Kitchen is where we had the ouija and we had got in contact with a man called Cecil although throughout the night the mediums kept wanting to say Cedric. Sam had picked up on the man a couple of days prior to the visit and she sensed he played the Banjo and entertained there. The ouija said he was born in 1923 and died in 1969. A man called Edward Barnam was also coming through. In the main lower floor we did table tipping and glass work. The glass and table did not go but the glass did go when returning back to the kitchen by the banjo player. Sam and a guest went to one of the corners of the lower floor room as she was picking up on a Londoner called Jeremiah who was passing by and addressed her by saying ''alright treacle''.She picked up on that he was involved with trade and commerce and was a coal merchant and Montgomery was one of his trade routes. There was a significant temperature drop and would tap on the fire exit door on command and would stay quiet when they was both talking. Sam went outside to check to see if anyone was banging on the door from the outside, but no-one was about.During the first break Sam was outside the front door and she saw a shadow walking from right to left in front of the cafe just down the road. One of the town hall workers said that was the way to the graveyard where a man called Robert Parker who was associated with John Davies who moved into the area from Wrexham in 1821 where he had earn't a living as a Plasterer. John Davies started working locally for a Widow known as Mrs Morris and her daughter Jane on their run down farm in the area. Thanks to John Davies’s hard work and dedication he managed to turn the farm around so that it was making a profit once more. This did not sit well with a local man named Thomas Pearce who had hoped to purchase the farm at a knock down price as it had been making a loss 
To make matters worse Jane Morris had fallen for John Davies due in part to his hard work in turning the family’s fortunes around, the problem was that she was engaged to a local man named Robert Parker. This resulted in Parker and Pearce plotting to get rid of John Davies so they could both pursue their seperate agendas.  Parker and Pearce committed a violent robbery and left evidence at the scene of the crime that implicated Davies, this resulted in him being arrested and charged with the crime which carried the death penalty. 

At the place of his execution, persons claimed to have heard John Davies declare his innocence and pray that God would not allow the grass to grow on his grave for a hundred years as a sign of his innocence.
He was buried in a portion of the churchyard where there had been no previous burials.It is said that no sooner was the noose placed around Davies’s head that a great storm took place and above the noise of the rolling thunder he was heard to say,”If I am innocent, the grass, for one generation at least will not cover my grave”. As the trapdoor was about to open he cursed the two men who had set him up and called upon them to appear before God to account for their crimes.It is also said that one died soon afterwards in a blasting accident and the other died from a wasting disease. As Davies had stated no grass grew on his grave for over 100 years and even to this day the grass is still patchy around his grave site.

It was upstairs where we had the spirit of Cedric/Cecil and Robert during the vigil. Robert is known not to like women, which doesn't come to a surprise since his fiancee fell in love with another man. He kept saying on the ovilus to 'leave' and 'be gone'. A shadow was detected twice by the shadow meter in front of one of the ladies with a different reading indicating two spirits. The motion sensor also kept going off on the first half of the vigil. The chair was also pulled whilst team leader Andy was sat on it. We also heard foorsteps.

During the break Sam and Rachel went upstairs to prepare the mediumship vigil and as it was going to be on the stage, Sam recited a song '' leaning on the lampost'' and the curtains started to moved. 'Is this you Cedric?'' Loud tap on the window. Sam and Rachel checked the window out and it only seemed to make the same noise when from pushed from the inside and not from the outside, ruling out wind. During the vigil Cedric was making one tap for yes and two for no and one of the things he liked was Ale. People was also sensing something in the bar area so Andy and another guest got behind the bar whilst the others was on the stage. Andy then got a breath in his face which smelt of ale.

The SB-7 came up with the words ''Hi' and ''David''.

Montgomery Town Hall was very surprising. It has this feel to it, like there the spirits are there are excited you are coming and you feel this in the air and it proved to be a very interesting night. We cant wait to go back on September 5th :) http://www.prestigeparanormalevents.co.uk