Ghost Hunters

Guardian ^ | 5 May 04 | Daniel Menhinnitt

[CurlyBill]

Ghost hunters

By Daniel Menhinnitt

A team of ghost hunters experienced some spooky activity when they visited a pub in Thornton Heath.

Jack Bryer and the rest of UK Paranormal Investigations spent a night at the Wheatsheaf Inn on Saturday after landlady Maria Seal told them the pub had been the site of some unexplained occurrences, including bottles moving on their own in the bar and a permanently cold boiler room.

According to Mrs Seal the pub was once a court where prisoners were held before being hanged on Thornton Heath pond, then known as Gallows Green.

The team set up recording equipment including tape recorders and camcorders to try and capture evidence of any paranormal activity on film. Mr Bryer said: "We went into the part of the pub that used to be a court room and next door - now a boiler room which used to be where the accused were held. "We set up the camcorder and tape recorder for 45 minutes and when we reviewed it there was a very faint voice which said hello."

The camcorder also recorded several orbs, lights seen on a camera but not with the naked eye which are believed to be the manifestation of a spirit.

Mr Bryer added: "We went down to the basement and we heard a shuffling sound like someone was moving a cardboard box, which the camcorder picked up as well.

"We returned to the boiler room later and all five of us started feeling sick. Using a digital camera we were able to see lots of orbs and I asked the spirit if it would move the orbs round one of the team's head, which it did. I asked the spirit to do it a couple of times and each time the orbs moved.

"This is the first time I've seen orbs move like that. I'm sure the pub is haunted."

Mrs Seal said: "I watched the recordings, and it's just unbelievable. I'm not worried though, I've been here for four years and if something scary was going to happen I think it would have by now."

3:42pm Wednesday 5th May 2004

[tiamat]

WELL, I was never a "hot" co-ed... i was more the Velma typre from Scooby-doo.... you know...glasses and nerdy! LOL!

I have heard that some get jealous.

So far, I have never had that "privelege"!

Good story!

[gawatchman]

That is a disturbing story. Sounds like the legend of the Bell Witch where a family was tormented by some malevolent entity that was violent, and did cause bodily harm. The spirit being mobile, and following them was even more disturbing. I was reading that these could be evil spirits that may never have had a physical body, and have more power to interact with our dimension which differentiates them from ghosts, but who knows. This is not something I would hope to encounter when I do my own investigating, but I will definitely keep Savannah in mind as it is also beautiful, and historic.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Maple street mansion in Carrollton is a closer one.

Roswell and Marietta squares.

[Vigilantcitizen]

http://dawghouse.topcities.com/georgia.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8697/pgghostindex.html

[gawatchman]

Is it open to the public?

[Vigilantcitizen]

Is it open to the public?

Maple street mansion is a restaurant in a 150 odd year old house.

Talk to the help.

[Vigilantcitizen]

http://www.maplestreetmansion.com/

[in the Arena]

No disrespect intended, the part that was creeping me out was your comment about the recordings...I listened to them all and they made the hair on my neck stand up...

take care,

[gawatchman]

Thanks for the info. This is defintely enough to get me started.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Thanks for the info. This is defintely enough to get me started.

You're welcome. I was hesitant at first to say anything, because I've been down the road you're about to travel.

Let me say this, don't be shocked when you find what you're looking for. Some people think they can handle it, but they really can't.

[Barnacle]

I didn't mean to imply that you would be disrespectful. It is I that must be on guard for that. I knew those people and so the burden upon me to honor their memories. God willing, I will meet them again in Heaven.

[gawatchman]

Yes, I can believe what you are saying. To someone who has never had an encounter with the supernatural, it may just seem like a thrilling new hobby, but I know it must be a different experience first hand. I am not sure I can even handle it although I think I could deal with certain events and seeing an apparition or two but I don't know the scope of what I could experience. I will problably have to find out for myself.

[Calvin Locke]

...that show a rose bush in front.... the rose bush had been dead and gone years before the photographs were taken.

Has anybody considered slow, I mean really very slow, photons?

[in the Arena]

God willing, I will meet them again in Heaven.

Amen...

[#3Fan]

LOL!!! I hadn't thought of that.

You may already know this but it is claimed that Redd Fox does haunt his last home. (just a little aside)

[BSunday]

Ghost plants ????

[BSunday]

Very strange, indeed...

[Sam Cree]

What is a photon?

[Calvin Locke]

...Redd Fox does haunt his last home.

I heard on the radio today that Andy Kaufman clained he'd come back 20 years to the day, and today is the day.

Big party out on the left coast tonight, with or without Andy.

[Calvin Locke]

Photon: Measured quantification of light that strikes the retina. Mass-less, no elec. charge, indefinite life span.