Investigations

 

 

 

 

St James Cemetery
Liverpool
May 2009
Once a quarry, St james was Liverpool's main cemetery from 1825 to 1936, reputed to hold37,000 bodies, in it's centre is a mausoleum dedicated to William Huskisson the first person to be killed by a train, footsteps have been heard around this monument, on our first investigation of this site at the east end of the cemetery,that has been virtually untouched by recent landscaping we captured photographs of orbs and two photographs that appear to show 2 white figures and one dark figure of a woman, upon reviewing our photographs the figure of what appears to be a young girl dressed in Victorian clothing can be seen sitting against a tree, further investigations are being planned for the near future to return and concentrate our investigation in this area.
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Rothley Station

Leicestershire

June 2009
Rothley is situated on the Great Central Railway line between Loughbrough and Leicester, the station at Rothley has been restored to how it was in the Gas lit Edwardian era, giving the visitor a sense of having stepped back in time 100 years.
There have been reported sightings at the station of a ghostly female figure dressed in Victorian clothing, a phantom station master and the spirit of a young  boy.
After setting up various detectors and trigger objects our investigators split up into small groups and began a familiarisation walk about the platform and station buildings to collect base line readings, almost immediately one group detected high EMF in the area to the right of the stairway at the archway under the bridge, this area proved to be the most active area throughout the night, an EMF detector was used to determine the position and shape of the anomaly, it appeared to be approximately 4 foot from the ground and about 3 feet across at the edge of the platform 10 feet from the bridge archway, later readings where taken and the anomaly was now being detected just to the edge of the arch, photographs where taken and appear to show orbs, on one photograph a human like shadow is seen on the painted area of the arch, it can be clearly seen that there is no one between the light source and the bridge, later in the night a dog owned by one of our investigators sensed a presence in this area, it was observed growling at an unseen entity on the edge of the platform at the spot where the high EMF was recorded.
A photograph taken near the foot of the stairs to the signal box possibly shows a face of a woman wearing a wide brimmed hat, orbs where photographed at other parts of the platform and one of our investigators conducting a lone vigil at the far end of the platform reported hearing footsteps approaching on the path leading from the car park, and a digital recorder situated near the bridge picked up what sounds like a heavy object being dragged along the platform.
Overall Rothley station proved to be a very interesting site and we intend to return here for further investigations.
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Wilsons public house
Runcorn, Cheshire
July 2009
This was our second investigation at The Wilsons public house and it turned out to be a very interesting night all round, our first vigil was held in the function room accompanied by a group consisting of members of the public and two members of staff, one of whom claimed to be sensitive to paranormal occurrences, on two occasions during the vigil he indicated areas where he felt  a disturbance, both times photographs where taken and these appear to show orbs in the areas where he was pointing.
Later in the night this room was locked off and a sound recorder was left on a table, several sounds where picked up, two where very loud knocks on the table next to the recorder and three sounds of a strange groaning noise.
Our second vigil on the night was held in the disused pool room, two photographs where taken of very bright orbs, another photograph was taken when high readings were recorded on an EMF meter this photograph shows the team member holding the meter and what appears to be an anomalous black shape surrounding the area where the readings where highest.
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Allerton Gardens,
Liverpool
Aug 2009
Little is now left of what was once an elegant Georgian house, the ravages of time and vandals has reduced it to just an open walkway and a couple of out buildings.
This was our first visit to the site and as we proceeded up a pathway towards the ruins a large branch fell from a tree right in front of us, while this is not an unusual occurance what happend next startled us when another branch fell right behind us, EMF readings where taken and these showed higher readings than would be expected in an open area with no obvious cause.
At the ruins we took a number of photographs, on three of these outside the front facade an expanding mist can be seen, a large number of orbs where recorded on other photographs taken at the back of the out buildings. We are now planning to return for a night time investigation of this site in the near future.
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St Catherines Chapel
Lydiate
Aug 2009

St Catherine's Chapel, located in Lydiate, Merseyside, England, and known locally as Lydiate Abbey, was built c. 1500 for the private worship of the Ireland family, who held the Lydiate lordship from 1410—1673. Its use as a private chapel probably ceased c. 1550, following Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, though a small cemetery on the same grounds was still in use until the latter 1800s.

During our investigation of the chapel 3 of our team members experienced equipment failures, a camera inexplicably blanked out all the pictures taken in the chapel grounds but was working perfectly before and after, another camera was affected when the batteries drained, a new set of batteries where used and these too where drained within minutes, a digital sound recorder was also affected when its batteries where also drained, despite all the failures to certain electrical items one recorder fom the cemetary area picked up a mysterious unexplainable sound.

After leaving the site all the equipment was checked and found to be in perfect working order.

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 September 2009

---------PRIVATE RESIDANCE WIDNES CHESHIRE-------------------------------------------------------WE WERE ASKED--BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS HOUSE IF WE WOULD COME ALONG,AND HAVE A LOOK,THEY SAID THAT THERE CHILDREN,KEPT SEEING A FIGUIRE WHICH FOLLOWED THEM ,AROUND THE HOUSE ,SO WE WENT ALONG AND SET UP SOME EQUIPMERT,AND THEN WAITED TO SEE IF ANYTHING HAPPENED,AS WE MADE OUR WAY AROUND THE HOUSE,WE PICKED UP SOME VERY STRONG,EMF,READINGS,THERE WAS AN INFRARED VIDIO,TAKEN WHICH CLEARLY SHOWED ,SOMTHING FOLLOWING THE CHILDREN,AROUND THE HOUER AND WHERE THEY POINTED TO WHERE THIS THING WAS,WAS THE SAME PLACE WE WERE GETTING OUR READINGS, IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING NIGHT---------------------------------------

 

Norton Priory

Cheshire

Sept 2009

Norton Priory was a priory established as an Augustinian foundation near Runcorn, Cheshire, England in the 12th century. In 1391 it was raised to the status of an abbey. The abbey was closed in 1536, as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Nine years later the structures, with the manor of Norton, were purchased by Sir Richard Brooke, who built a Tudor house on the site, incorporating part of the abbey building. This was replaced in the 18th century by a Georgian house. The Brooke family left the house in 1921 and it was demolished in 1928. In 1966 the site was given in trust for the use of the general public.

Two senior investigators conducted  a daytime investigation of Norton Priory, several areas where photographed and produced some intereting pictures, on one a misty form can be seen in a doorway on another a shape resembling a human face and a skull can be seen.

on a path near a stream high EMF readings where detected and the sound of a womans voice can be heard on a digital voice recorder.

 

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ALBERT HOTEL WIDNES,CHESHIRE    

 WE WERE INVITED TO THIS LOCATION,by the owner,in  HIS  hotel,he informed  us that a number of sightings had taken place there,over a number of years,we went along and had a look around the place,we found some interesting things,so we arranged a to go along and do an overnight,investigation,our team got there for 10pm in the evening,we went around the building both inside and out taking base line,readings,we then set up our equipment,which took around an hour,we set up infrared camera,s and vidio,motion,detectors recorders,emf,meters,and lots of other equipment,we started at 11pm,upstairs a figuire was seen to walk passed a doorway,in the long hallway upstairs,a number of our team went into the hall and got very strong emf,readings where the figuire had been seen, we took many photgraphs ang some showed,2 very large,orbs we also picked up the sound of a young child,in the hallway,but there were no children in the hotel ,we then made our way downstairs,and into the celler,we got some interesting things here,there was an old funeral table which we got some very strong,emf readings,we took some photograps which showed a young coloured boy ,around,8 to 10 years of age in another photo it showed,a shadow but there was no one there to cast it ,we also got a large number of orbs,we will

be visiting this place again.

 

flint castle,september 2010

we arrived around 7pm in the evening at the castle,we had a walk around the whole place and took some base reading,with emf,meters,we then sent a number of teams around the castle,we took camera,s vidio,recorders,emf meters,and other equipment,we got some interesting photographs,and some very strong emf,readings,a number of our team heard a voice ,on two occations,but there was nobody to be seen,we also heard the sound of the main gates,into the castle itself making the sound of them being opened,but they were locked tight,we will be doing an overnight stay there in the future,it was a very interesting night there we then left at 10pm and went

on to  another site we were doing that evenin  .

 

ST,JOHN,THE BAPTIST CHURCH,AND GROUNDS

 

we were told that a lot of activity,had been going on over quite a long time,so we were asked,if we would come along and have a look,one of our teams went along,with some equipment,we wnt around and took readings we then set up some camera,s recorders,vidio,and left them running ,we went outside after locking the door,we went around the grounds and got some interesting,photo,s,but it was when we went back into the church,there had been a significant,tempereture,drop,and a stange odour, in the churge of burning,candles,but none were lit ,when we looked around the church,a figuire was seen to be sat at the front of the church,we made our way towards the front,as we drew levil with the figuire,it appeared to be an old man,as we ,got near to him ,he nodded to us,and,faded away in front of us,we went to were he had been,with emf,meters,which went off the scale,also the tempereture returned to normal,a very interesting place it turned out to be,we got some very good results we have been asked to go back again .

 

 

The Lamb Hotel

Liverpool

Sept 2009

Two ghosts have been seen at the the Lamb hotel, one is of a man seen on numerous occasions in the area of the main bar the other is a nun dressed in all white robes, she has been seen in the function room on the first floor and also more recently in the cellars where she was observed going up a flight of old stone steps that are now blocked off, members of staff have heard their names being called when they where alone in the building, there have also been reports of glasses being smashed in the bar area when no one was nearby.

During the night two investigators held a vigil in one of the rooms on the top floor, while there a black shape was seen crossing the room, at the same time the room temperature dropped from 15 deg to 12 deg in less than a minute, another investigator conducting a lone vigil in the function room reported seeing a similar black shape and hearing the sound of a woman sobbing, later in the function room the hatch that allows access to the bar was found to be down, photographs show that the hatch was open when the investigation started.

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Chester, city walk

Cheshire

October 2009

------ON THIS INVESTIGATION,WE DID,3 OF THE TOWERS,ON THE OLD ROMAN WALL ,IN CHESTER,WE TOOK QUITE A BIT OF EQUIPMENT WITH US,WHEN WE WENT INTO THE FIRST,OF THE TOWERS WE TOOK EMF,READINGS,BUT PICKED UP NOTHING,WE ALSO TOOK SOME RECORDINGS AS WELL,BUT AGAIN NOTHING,WE TOOK PHOTOGRAPHS,AND VIDIO,BUT GOT NOTHING AT ALL,SO WE MOVED ON TO THE NEXT,OF THE TOWERS,AS WE MADE OUR WAY UP INTO THE TOWER,A NUMBER OF OUR EMF,METERS,ALL WENT OFF AT THE SAME TIME,ALSO A STRANGE ODOUR WAS NOTECED BY A NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE,WHO WERE WITH US,IN THE TOWER,BUT WHEN WE LOOKED,ACROSS  THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM WAS A LARGE BLACK CAT,WHICH WE ALL SEEN,IT WAS JUST SECONDS,LATER WHEN IT STARTED TO FADE AWAY IN FRONT OF US ALL WE MANAGED TO GET A NUMBER OF PHOTOGRAPHS BEFORE IT WAS GONE ,WE WILL BE RETURNING AGAIN,FOR AN OVERNIGHT INVESTIGATION,

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Croxteth Hall

Liverpool

October 2009

--------------A NUMBER OF OUR INVESTIGATORS WENT AROUND THE HALL ON A NUMBER OF OCCATIONS,WE PICKED UP A NUMBER OF EMF READINS,AND QUITE A FEW EVPS,AS WELL WE TOOK A NUMBER OF CAMERA,S IN WHICH PRODUCED SOME VERY INTERESTING PHOTO,S WE GOT A LARGE NUMBER OF ORBS,IN SOME ROOMS BUT NONE IN OTHERS,THE ROOMS AND CORRIDORES WE GOT THE ORBS IN ALL HAD VERY HIGH EMF READINGS AND IT WAS IN THE SAME ROOMS AND AREA,S AS THE EVPS, IN ONE OF THE STAIRWELLS A FIGURE WAS SEEN TO BE DECENDING DOWN THE STEPS,AND ANOTHER WAS SEEN ALONG ONE OF THE LONG HALLWAYS,WE HAVE BEEN INVITED TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN .------------------------------------------------------------------

Halton castle

Cheshire

October 2009

---AT THIS LOCATION WE HAD ARRANGED TO DO A TALK ON THE PARANORMAL,WHICH HAPPENED,TO BE ON  HALLOWEEN-IT TURNED OUT TO BE A VERY INTERESTING EVENING FOR EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED,WE DID OUR FIRST TALK,WHICH,WENT VERY WELL,A LOT OF PEOPLE TURNED UP,SO WE SPLIT THEM UP INTO TEAMS,WE EQUIPT THEM  WITH SOME OF OUR EQUIPMENT.SOME WITH CAMERA,S SOME WITH VIDIO,S AND OTHERS WITH EMF,METERS, SOUND RECORDERS-AND TORCHES ,WE TOOK SOME TEAMS AROUND THE --CASTLE AND LET THEM HAVE A LOOK AROUND USING THE EQUIPMENT ,IT WAS THE 2ND TEAM THAT WE WENT AROUND WITH THAT WE GOT SOMTHING,A DARK FIGUIRE WAS SEEN TO HAVE STEPPED OUT OF ONE OF THE SOLID CASTLE WALLS ,ADD WALKED ABOUT  10,YARDS AWAY FROM IT ,THEN JUST FADED AWAY,INFRONT OF AROUND,30,PEOPLE, THE FIGUIRE WAS VISABLE FOR AROUND 20,SECONDS,AND WAS THEN GONE A LRGE NUMBER OF ORBS WERE PHOTOGRAPHED DURING THE ,EVENING.IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING EVENING.-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Residential property

Liverpool

November/December 2009

 

We received a request from the residents of this property who have been disturbed in recent months by strange noises and sightings of  a figure in their home, the most disturbing sighting witnessed was when a family pet was attacked in its cage, the terrified animal was seen to be held in mid air by an unseen hand.

The property is a terraced house built in 1902, prior to this date the land was used for farming.

On our initial investigation during our recorded interview with the rsidents we picked up an unexpected EVP, on the tape a whispering voice can be heard to say "IT'S GONE DARK."

We decided this property needed an overnight investigation, we where not to be dissapointed, during the investigation we discoverred that the disturbances where also happening in the ajacent property next door, at both these properties we witnessed phenomena, EMF meters where recording very high readings that appeared and disappeared without any explaination, a motion detector on the landing  of one house was activated when two of our investigators where conducting a vigil, On reviewing our recordings two EVP's where found one is a womans cry saying "LEAVE  ME ALONE," the second more disturbing one is a mans voice saying "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE" followed by what sounds like chanting, the voice then repeats its demand that we leave, there is also a second different voice at the same time that says "GET OUT"

Follow up visits are continuing as the family are reporting that the strange events are still happening after attempts have been made by a medium to clear the house of unwanted spirits.

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St Catherines Chapel
Lydiate
Jan 2010
Our second visit to this location, it was a crisp winters night, a blanket of snow lay on the ground a full moon giving the site any eerie glow, all the ingredients for a truly eventful night,
photographs where taken in the chapel ruins and the ajoining grave yard, in several photographs strange whirling mists and orbs where captured with two seperate cameras at the same time, first in the chapel and then later hovering over the graves.
On reviewing our photographs of the garaves it was noticed that on all the gravestones lying flat on the ground, all but one was covered with a blanket of snow, one explanation for this could be that it is hollow underneath, legend has it that there is a lost tunnel at the chapel that allowed priests to escape either to the hall or to the nearby inn, could we have stumbled upon the entrance by chance on this snowy night?

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The Nook, Public House
Liverpool
Feb 2010
The Nook public house in Liverpool's chinatown district, on entering this hostelry it makes you feel like you have been transported back 50 years as it remains almost unchanged since the 1960's, however it also has a darker side and a somewhat chequered history, it once served as the local chinese brothel during the days of Liverpool's busy shipping era,
During the 1930's the landlord got himself  heavily into debt, it is believed that he took his own life and his body was found hanging in the cellar.
Is it his spirit that has been seen in the bar? so lifelike that he has on more than one occasion been spoken to by the bar staff before mysteriously dissapearing without a sound, another spirit that is often seen in the bar is that of a woman dressed in Victorian or Edwardian clothes who glides past the bar towards the main door.
 

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Fort Perch Rock
New Brighton
March 2010
Fort Perch Rock is a coastal defence battery built between 1825 and 1829. It was built to protect the Port of Liverpool and as a fortified lighthouse to replace the old Perch Rock Light. It was originally built on an area known as Black Rock and was cut off at high tide, but now coastal reclamation has made it fully accessible. It is currently open as a museum.
During an event at the fort an employee noticed a figure entering a restricted area of the fort, as he went to investigate, a large wooden door at the entrance to a passage within the outer wall slammed shut in front of him with sutch force that a large stone being used to keep the door open was thrown several feet by the force of the impact, on investigating the passage which is in the oldest part of the fort no one could be found, the passage leads to a dead end so nobody could have got out without passing the guard.
When we investigated this area, on three seperate occasions we recorded extremely high EMF readings, we could find no reson for these as there is no electricity currently in this unused part of the fort. 
 
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St James Cemetery
Liverpool
April 2010
--------we decided,to do training,evening on this night ,to see what we could find ,we had a number of new members,and we took them around,with some equipment, to see how they did,it was an interesting evening,we picked up a very good,evp,in the first hour,we had some very high emf,readings in a number of places ,that we had found on other visits to thtst spots,we3 took some really good photographs of swrling,mists and what appeared to be figuires,and,faces,which seemed to come and go,later on in the evening,one of trainees said that he had been touched by somthing that could not be seen,we took readings and all around him the emf,was very strong,we took photographs and it seemed to show that the lower half of him was covered in a strange swirling mist and over the top of his head,could be seen,two strange floating shapes,it turned out to be a very good training session.--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
The Pied Bull Public House
Chester
April 2010

..WE WERE APPROACED,BY THE OWNERS OF THIS HOTEL AND ASKED IF WE WOULD COME ALONG AND HAVE A CHAT AND A LOOK AROUND THE PLACE WHICH WE DID,A NUMBER OF OUR INVESTIGATORS TOOK SOME EQUIPMENT AROUND WITH THEM,AS WE MADE OUR WAY AROUND THE BUILDING WE GOT SOME VERY INTERESTING RESULTS,WE MOVED FROM ROOM TO ROOM AND THEN FLOOR TO FLOOR.ON OUR WAY AROUND WE PICKED UP SOME VERY HIGH EMF,READINGS,AND A NUMBER OF TEMPERETURE DROPS,THERE WAS A STRANGE ATMOSPHERE ABOUT THE PLACE ,WE TOOK MANY PHOTOGRAPHS AND SOME VIDIO,AND ALSO TOOK A NUMBER OF RECORDINGS,WE WILL BE RETURNING BACK TO THIS LOCATION IN THE NEW YEAR.............................................................

 

Rufford Hall
Lancashire
May 2010
The ghost of the lady in grey is the most frequent of the three apparitions seen at Rufford Old Hall. Elizabeth Hesketh became ill while her husband was at war overseas. She vowed she would not leave this world without saying goodbye to her dear husband, who never returned.
Three members of our group attended a daytime visit to the hall where we were able to take photographs in areas inside the hall not normaly accessed by the public for photographic purposes, orbs where captured on a couple of pictures, the rest will be kept for future reference.
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St Peters Church
Northampton
June 2010
-------a number of our investigators were invited to this location in northamt,WE TOOK SOME EQUIPMENT IN WITH US, WE HAD A GOOD LOOK AROUND THE PLACE ,BOTH INSIDE AND OUT IT HAD BEEN AN OLD SAXON CHURCH,BUT WHEN THE NORMAMS CAME ALONG MOST OF IT WAS DEMOLISED,ONLY A SMALL PART REMAINS,IT WAS THEN REBUILT BY THE NORMAS IN THERE OWN STYLE,WE WENT ALL AROUND IT AND TOOK BASE LINE READINGS,WE--FOUND NOTHING,BUT WHEN WE WENT IN AT NIGHT WE GOT SOME VERY HIGH EMF,READINS A NUMBER OF EVP,S AND A PHOTO  OF A FIGURE THAT SAT 3 ROWS FROM THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH IT WAS NONE OF OUR TEAM AND THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THE CHURCH AND THE ONLY DOOR WAS LOCKED AND WE HAD THE KEY THERE WERE ALSO MANY DROPS IN TEMPERETURE ,WE WILL BE RETURNING THERE AT A FUTURE DATE.-------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

 

                     

 

 

Investigations for 2012                 

 

  Penmaenmawr druids circle                        Wales

 

 St Catherines Chapel                                 Merseyside

 

 Private Residence                                      Cheshire

 

  Public House                                              Merseyside

 

  Public House                                              Chester

 

 

 

 Upcoming Public Events for 2012