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]

Oh i believe you.

I don't need to do that though.

The house we are in now is haunted. Plenty of voices, knocking, footsteps, etc....

[Choose Ye This Day]

No way! Really? How old a house is it? Do you know its history? I've never spoken with anyone with a haunted house before. Is it unnerving and creepy, or just annoying?

[HungarianGypsy]

I'm too much of a wuss. Guess I'm afraid of what I'd find. For the longest time I have felt a presence behind me from time to time when no one is there and have even seen people out of the corner of my eye. At our last house my son really got freaked when he said he saw an angel in a blue dress that he thought looked like me. A year later I was looking through my dad's old slides and found a slide of his first wife wearing a beautiful blue dress. When my son saw it he said that was who he had seen and did not want to see the picture again.

[Fedora]

Cool story! I haven't heard of that before, but in the history of photography there's a lot of cases of weird images showing up--it's kind of an interesting subject in its own right.

[Blue Eyes]

EVP recordings are cool, yet creepy. Seems like it would take a lot of patience to listen to the recordings in search of the ghost whisper. Wonder if the recordings are of voices from another time, somehow caught in some sort of time shift.

[Blue Eyes]

Thanks for the ping!

[Choose Ye This Day]

I'm not sure. And I'm a major skeptic; I don't actually believe in ghosts...but I'm not ready to say there are NO ghosts either. How's that for a waffle? Firmly perched on the ectoplasmic fence, as it were.

[ConservativeVoice]

Very Cool!

Can you add me to the ghost ping list please.

[Ditter]

BOO!

[tiamat]

I have lived in several haunted houses.

( I attract them, I guess)

The main part house was built in 1838 by German immigrants ( LOTS of them in our area) .

The creepy factor depends. There are two children here, a little boy and a pre-teen girl. They are no problem.

There is also an old lady, who mostly just sits in the corner.

There is a man, and I do not like him at all. I believe he was an abusive alchoholic. He's the most active, and I occasionally see him in the fields around the house. I've also heard his boots n the stairs.

The house was in the same family for a long long time, and I believe some of these people are related to one another.

[tiamat]

That's a col story!

Kids are often in tune with this sort of thing! It's easier for them, because they haven't learned to "not see" yet!

[foolscap]

They can make the hair stand up on the back of your neck if you listen to them alone, at night, with a wild imagination.

That is really the truth! I was house sitting for a friend of mine who lives way out in the sticks. The house sits back in the woods and it is pitch black out there on a moonless night. I was listening to Coast to Coast as is my usual habit and they had on the EVP people. The electricity had gone out which it does a lot over there. I was listen with my beloved C.Crane Radio by battery. It took awhile before it got to me but when it did I really creeped myself out. I had to light a bunch of candels and oil lamps plus bring in the dog and the two cats because I was too afraid to be by myself. Now that a good radio program!

[Choose Ye This Day]

Whoa. So you've actually seen them, even during broad daylight. Do they ever try to interact with you or your family? Or does it seem like they don't know you're there?

[Sam Cree]

The idea that a plant, instead of a person, could be ghost, is pretty strange, but why not, I guess.

[Fedora]

The idea that a plant, instead of a person, could be ghost, is pretty strange, but why not, I guess.

I don't know if plants can be ghosts per se, but maybe--pure speculation FWIW--their bio-em fields generate something which cameras can pick up--like along these lines:

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Ultra Violet: These waves have very high energy and very short wave lengths; shorter than visible light. Some animals like honey bees can see ultra-violet light. Some plants have white flowers, at least you think that they are all white, but they may appear to be different colours to a honey bee because of the amounts of ultra-violet light which they reflect.

[DollyCali]

Whoopie..

Good post

I have lots of "obrs" that I have personally recorded on digital.

In next few weeks lets have an "orb" thread where we can share stories/pix.

I have orbs of "whatevers" & of animal spirits. Here you understand. If I post this on many threads, I would be banned & the guys with white shirts & straight jackets would show up

Happy Cinco de Mayo

[DollyCali]

Now, THAT is too scary!

[in the Arena]

Check out post #15...don't forget to take out the trash tonight :O)

[Mike Bates]

Now here's a real ghost hunter:

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[WinOne4TheGipper]

BOO!