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Thursday, 29 June 2017
Yeilden Castle Investigation
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Investigation Report: Battlesden
Graham Matthews sensed John nearby, I saw the head and shoulders of a figure walk across from the field into the road then vanish. Further down the lane this same experience was had by Jason. I felt like someone had stabbed me between the shoulders and felt a strong penetrating stab through the left shoulder and out the front of my chest. I have no pre-existing injury here that would naturally cause that.
When we walked back to the cars I then felt as though there was a little too much 'spirit' interaction and got the thoughts of "Cromwellian Scum" and the names "Mary", "Parnell" and "Hanslope". I felt they were connected but got no further sense of the links just assumed they were linked in some way.
We visited the church at Battlesden but this was peaceful and gave us no sense of their being anything remotely paranormal about the place.
Graham Matthews was recording some video and audio so we will wait to see if there was anything to come out of that.
All in all a good call by Jason King to bring up Battlesden just need to set up the next few and hopefully get some indoor ones which we have lined up.
Found this after the investigation:
Can't find any obvious links between John and Parnell and Hanslope. Parnell and the Civil War yes, Sir John Parnell existed but the person we came across was not the same one.
Another snippit from the archives - William Pedder, appointed rector in 1634, was of moderate churchmanship and a royalist. He found the parish in a divided state and encountered much opposition. He was turned out of the living in 1642 and in his place Parliament appointed a group of eighteen “lecturers,” who preached in the church on Sundays and weekdays. However, this arrangement did not fulfil the expectations of the parishioners, many of whom wanted a minister of their own. Less than two years after this scheme was instituted, the town was raided by a party of Royalist soldiers from Leighton Buzzard, who on a Sunday in June, 1644, made an attack on the church during service time. The congregation had barricaded themselves in, and the soldiers forced the doors, shooting a “case of pistols” at the minister in the pulpit and wounding several of the congregation. The incident further embittered the factions. - http://www.dunstableparish.org.uk/history-of-st-peters/
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Ghost 101: Know your ghost
This is most likely because through childhood this is the type of thing they would have seen on "Scooby Doo" or other similar shows. Not to mention pranks from siblings that would simply throw on a sheet to scare you!
Ghosts can come in all shapes and sizes and so below I will describe the different "known" types of ghost. This can be used as a reference if you want to try and determine what may or may not being going bump in the night in your home!
Apparitions:
The most general term for ghosts that we see. Generally apparitions are a "recognisable" ghost shape and don't appear to be solid (transparent).
Apparitions aren't necessarily just human form and may or may not appear to interact.
Cold Spots:
A cold spot is the description given to an area where a ghost is trying to manifest. Generally it's thought that in trying to manifest energy is drawn from the surrounding area. This creates a cold spot.
Cold spots can move around the surrounding area and paranormal investigators normally track this and use as evidence.
Orbs:
Another common type of ghost that is caught on camera.
Most orbs can usually be explained away as dust, water, insects or other floating objects but sometimes they can't be explained.
Orbs can sometimes appear on demand or appear to have other unexplainable features such as a face or emitting light that doesn't make sense.
Residual:
Residual ghosts are like a recording of a past even that is playing on a loop.
Residual ghosts will never interact with you and instead will continue the same "loop".
An example of this would be a story my mum once shared with me.
She said she once saw a ghost hanging up washing. Or rather making the motion of hanging up washing.
Several people apparently witnessed this but the "woman" continues hanging up washing and didn't react to the people around her.
Eventually she faded away.
Interactive:
This one is fairly obvious. Interactive ghosts will interact with you! Simple!!
This can sometimes be confused with poltergeists, however poltergeists cause physical and emotional disturbances (we will cover this later).
Interactive ghosts will perform simple tasks, usually on demand.
An example would be to request a ghost to interact with an EMF detector. Sometimes the EMF detector will spike as the ghost interacts with it.
Poltergeist:
Poltergeists are probably the most heard of ghost. Mainly because this type of ghost was made famous by the Hollywood film by the same name.
Poltergeists are mischievous ghosts and cause a lot of physical disturbance such as throwing items or moving things from one place to another.
Poltergeists can also cause electrical disturbances and have even been reported to cause fires.
Entities:
The least common of ghosts and can also be referred to as demons.
This type of ghost is the most unpleasant and are thought to have never been human (hence the name demon).
They can attach themselves to a building or person / family and cause great torment.
Entities show high levels of intelligence and thrive on negative emotions.
So there you have it. A short list of potential ghosts which will help you recognise the type you may be experiencing. Lets just hope you don't bump into the last one!
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Investigation: Segenhoe Church 2017
Setting up and unknown to me Jason was outside the front and I was getting bits of kit ready.
I felt that someone was behind him and turned and saw a 5'7" figure standing about 8 feet away.
I did a double take and the figure had disappeared. I could not explain the figure as the background wall was a light grey colour and this was a distinctive dark figure separate from the building and not just paredolia.
When I called out for Jason he came in and said 'did you hear it as well?' Jason had an experience at the same time only he heard voices nearby.
When I explained that I had seen someone in the church he told me of the mumbling he heard just outside.
A little later we set up a K2 meter on the old font stone and when we were asking out the K2 illuminated briefly and seemed to be responding to questions by lighting up as a YES when a question was asked.
The question was asked "are you male?" and the meter spiked to 7mG EMF which was curious. Using the Lutron EMF Meter we found no explainable sources of EMF and background EMF readings stood at 0.02mG.
I saw again another shadow figure but this was when asking 'can you show us a sign of where you are?" Out of the corner of my left eye I saw a figure raise an arm and point to the South Eastern door to the chapel.
At about 23:45 we ended the investigation as the air seemed to lighten and feel less heavy.
Only hoping something was captured on EVP or film...
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Investigation Report - Grendon Hall, Northamptonshire
Entry Dated: 02/04/2016
By: Rob Dennis
Brief Summary:
The Hall, formerly the manor-house, is on the north side of the village, near Nether End, on the road to Wollaston. It is a 17th-century two-story house greatly altered in the 18th century, when the principal or east front, which has slightly projecting end wings, was rebuilt in Corby and Ketton stone. It is a simple but very pleasing design, with square-headed windows, drafted quoins, wooden modillion cornice, and slated hipped roofs. The windows have architraves and heavily barred sashes painted white, and the squareheaded doorway has a circular hood supported on brackets. The 18th-century facing is continued along the shorter south front, but the longer north front remains substantially unaltered and retains its mullioned windows. There is a partly panelled open staircase and two of the bedrooms contain tapestry. To the northeast of the house are the stables and dovecote, the latter a rectangular limestone structure with gables east and west, and square wooden cupola, apparently of 17th century date.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp249-252#h3-0002
Grendon Hall – 20 room manor house with converted stable, dovecote and walled gardens. Site now in use as an outdoor activities centre. MVPI set up equipment all focussed on the first floor. CCTV was later set up covering a connecting walkway between the rear staircase and the front staircase where earlier activity was detected.
Report:
Of all the incidents of note Andy, Paul and I were mainly working together for the whole evening. We began in Room 1 on the first floor. Andy used the Ovulus, Paul was using the spirit box and I arranged a few EMF devices and a trigger object. I felt that I was being drawn to a year in time along with a reference to cavalry. The was one incident where floor boards on the first floor could be heard but after going to find the source no plausible explanation could be offered. I went into adjoning rooms as well as up the front staircase but no one in room 1 reported on my return any sort of noise that would explain what we had heard. After a few further attempts at communication we felt that we had spent sufficient time in that Room and moved on to Room 2 next door.
Room 2 was not very interesting and I felt personally nothing was of interest in this room. After a few minutes in here we decided to move on. We made our way off the first floor at 2120 hours via the front staircase, as we opened the door onto the staircase Andy, Paul and I all heard a clear female voice say “WOO HOO”, all three of us confirmed we heard this independently and I called over the radio to see if any team member had made that noise. No one other than Grahame Young was on the first floor and the other teams all confirmed no one had made that noise. Andy identified that there was a ladies shower room on that floor so we went in there. I left Andy alone in the room while I set off and got a Full Spectrum Camera and EMF device. When I returned Andy reported feeling that he was not alone in the room and described a definite cold spot he experienced in the shower room. I set up the F/S in the window pointing down and to the right towards the shower cubicles and aiming at an EMF device on the floor. (Sasha revealed later in the evening the same type of sensation in this room, there had been no prior discussion about this experience)
During this period also we spoke with Grahame and his group who reported that prior to our radio message about the female voice they heard footsteps along the first floor connecting walkway and were in the process of trying to debunk this by walking along that area in various different way (heavy footed, sneaking, with and without footwear).
Andy, Paul and I decided to make our way from the first floor down to the ground floor via the front staircase when at 2140 hours all three of us stopped as we heard a male voice say “WOAH”, again I called over the radio for any team member who called out this word but no one responded that they were responsible. On both occasions with the location as it was and the fact that all members had been accounted for and only one member of staff was on premises in a disconnected building to the investigation site we could not find any plausible explanation at the time for these two occurences.
ROOM 8C
Andy, Paul and I after coffee set up in Room 8C on the second floor. Room 8B was occupied by Sadie and her team. Both rooms were separated by a stud wall forming bedrooms. The floor boards connect between both rooms without any break at the foot of the stud wall. There is a wall mounted light on the wall along with a Central Heating Radiator. There was no heating on in this part of the building. The room was cold but it had no carpet (which 8B did have) as well as a single pane lead window which looked out onto the gardens.
In this room I used a pendulum and a glass in order to attempt communication and invited any energies to use this as a means of doing so. I invited a single tap on the glass as YES and two for NO. I ascertained from this experiment a male energy, deceased during WWI as a result of a single gunshot wound to the chest. Andy using the Ovulus came up with a name 'PAUL', the pendulum gave a confirmatory YES. There were several questions then around this persons existence in the physical plane, he was unmarried, had no children, had received award and was happy for us to be here. The Ovulus warned of DISASTER, GRAY and WATER. Upon research the next day I found the following:
On 29 August 1876, a battle took place between local farmers and their men over water rights. The scene was commemorated in a poem by a local poet.
There was also elevated EMF readings found on two of the K2 meters one was on a shelf above a radiator and one on the bed opposite. No physical source of EMF could be found to account for the activity on the bed, however we found that a cable running through the stud wall may have accounted for some of the activity from the radiator one. It should be noted that this K2 meter for ¾ of the time in Room 8C was dormant and presented no readings whatsoever, but we cannot rule out possible man made sources at this time. The K2 on the bed cannot be as readily explained away. There were also footsteps outside the room coming from directly outside 8C near the door but when Andy opened the door there was no one standing anywhere on that landing and after further investigation I found that the team next door were in no position to stand where the noises were coming from due to there being a bed in that area. That team were using equipment linked to an XBOX Kinect and they reported not long before I came into the room that the device had detected someone sat on the bed.
Conclusion:
Based on the investigation, experiences, the experiences fed back on the the night and some early research without reviewing the physical evidence as yet, this site has to be regarded as being of Significant Paranormal Interest. If nothing else happened on the whole event other than those two witnessed voices this would warrant further investigation at a later date and on that one we would also be able to involve better coverage and experimentation around this venue.
For further info on Grendon Hall see HERE.http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp249-252#h3-0002
Monday, 5 September 2016
Investigation Report - Potton Wood
Report Last Updated: 07/11/2015
Entry Dated: 24/09/14
By: Rob Dennis
Report:
I heard a name 'Jim' come from the lower treeline area of the wood in line with where the crash site would have been. There were no other persons on the site and we had accounted for everyones location on site and possible cross contamination with conflicting conversations. Nobody else heard this sound so this is going to have to go down as personal experience. Further research after investigation shows that W.O Jim POTTER died in the crash on 18th September 1945.
Entry Dated: 24/09/14
By: Rob Dennis
Report:
During a test session where I played Glenn Miller music from my iphone I saw a grey misty shape appear about 15' in front of me walking from LEFT to RIGHT towards the treeline. No one else saw this phenomena - written up as personal experience.
Entry Dated: 24/09/14
By: Rob Dennis
Report:
During our investigation there was an occasion where I looked to my right and past Sasha down her LEFT hand side I saw a 5'6" figure standing next to her. It was dark in shape and was stood with its arms down its side. I told Sasha of this as I stood back to try to get my bearings and see if I could debunk it. At this point XXXXX took a photograph and then claimed he saw something standing behind Sasha and to my LEFT. Sasha claimed to have had the experience of feeling like something had covered her face prior to my experience of seeing whatever was next to her initially. There were several debunk attempts at this cluster of experiences but no explanation could be reached.
Entry Dated: 24/09/14
By: Rob Dennis
Report:
While walking away from the site XXXXX said he felt like we were being followed and he turned and shone his torch up the field in line with the horizon of the curve of the field and I saw a figure dressed in grey/blue standing in the torch beam. XXXXX also saw this figure along with Sasha. No other person/s were present and we could reach no conclusion as to what had made this happen.
Graham Matthew's Background Info
My story is a bit different. I got involved in Ghost investigations by chance in 1999 when a friend was starting up a small TV production company.
Whilst looking for ideas for TV programmes another friend invited me on one of his investigations (pub in the Bedford area). I could see the potential for a TV programme and drafted a basic idea on paper.
What followed was the formation of our own group, a series of research investigations and then a TV deal for 9 broadcast programmes under the title of the Ghost Detectives.
For various reasons too boring to describe here the TV shows dried up. I carried on with my own group 'Night Watch UK'.
The team comprised mostly of the TV investigators plus others who joined us. Between 2001 - 2006 we were regularly investigating any location rumoured to have ghosts which included museums, castles, stately homes, old mills, pubs, clubs and a few private houses all over the country.
We were always evidence driven and thus kept the location of the investigation secret until the last minute. We worked slightly differently to MVPI in that all investigators worked in pairs, plotting their findings onto a floor plan, sharing their evidence only at the end of the night, which always concluded with a seance.
Due to work pressures I had to close the group in 2006 but maintained my links to my friends and kept all the 'evidence' we gathered. The strangest thing I discovered is that far more action happens when the cameras are off, or if (as we did on several occasions) we carried out a continuous 5 day 24 hour round the clock investigation.
All our best activity happened on day 4 or 5. MVPI I challenge you.....
Written by Graham Matthews
Marston Vale Paranormal Investigation History
We quickly realised that this was a vastly unknown pastime and so with every investigation me and Gavin Truslove would research and verify any findings we accumulated. We quickly found many plausible explanations and with Martin Ward on board we set about compiling every natural source of 'orb' creating matter and photographed it in the grounds of Someries Castle, Bedfordshire.
By 2010 we had covered 23 investigations and of those 23 only three stood out as being as we categorise them as being of 'significant paranormal interest'. These places were Segenhoe Church, Brogborough Manor Farm and Sopwell Nunnery. I remember calling Gav while he was in Southampton as I first discovered the EVP “James is the only...”, that was an exciting discovery and one that pretty much set in stone that this is what we were after.
By 2011 three became six with the addition of Datchworth, Tewin and a pub in North Bedfordshire.
Marston Vale Paranormal is a strong team, its a great team and having worked with other teams I feel that we have the best team. We are striding into the next year with a strong internet presence thanks to my brother in law Peter, and along with him has come a lot of tools that I can use to get evidence out to the team to review and send back anything that may prove to be paranormal (Google Drive is brilliant for this and will save time). Evidence review is king, its what makes the hours of being in the field worthwhile, I am going to need a team of people who will give time to look at video and audio footage to find those nuggets of evidence that tie in with what we experienced in the field. Marston Vale Paranormal is a well respected and very well known brand, we always hear people tell us how they know about us and have seen the van with the stickers, or the twitter page of Facebook page.
So, back in 2009 would I have ever dreamed that my little hobby with my son Isaac and best friend Gav ever turn into the team and reputation we have today...no did I heck as like
Written by Rob Dennis, Co-Founder of MVPI
