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I will have a report coming up soon from the most recent ghost hunt at Annisons funeral parlour in Hull, but right now I have a live stream running from a haunted location through Facebook live over on my Holy Creep Sauce page.  Please do join us.

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The Change Over

Hi guys, just a quick entry to say that Pontefract Paranormal have had a switch up.  We were mostly just doing local investigations but our lovely founders and owners David and Emma have taken it to the next level and instead founded Haunted Britannia which is much more wide spread.

You can go visit the new page here and find all the planned events and see where to buy tickets so you can join us.  There are some really amazing places in the pipeline.

See you there peeps.

A spook in my house again

I had a strange thing happen in my house today.  We have some little bottles of bubble stuff on the kitchen work top with the lids off.  They had been left out from earlier bubble play time.  I was sat on the soft with the hubby when we heard one of the lids clatter to the kitchen floor.  The door to the kitchen is right next to us and wide open so we can see straight in.  There was nothing near it and the cat was sat right next to me.

This on it's own was very strange.  I picked the lid up and put it back on the work top with the others and I called out.  I asked that if it was someone trying to get in touch then could they do it again.  I went back to watching telly and a little while later I had forgotten about it.  I went to put some washing in that was on the floor of the kitchen waiting it's turn for the cycle.  I bent down to pick it up and found the lid on top of it.

I do get the odd strange thing happen in my house now and then but this was an interesting one.

Sheffield Emergency Services Museum Ghost Hunt

The hunt took place on the 4th June 2016.  The place does feel a bit creepy anyway with the number of mannequins all over.  They are on the stares and lurking around corners.  It's a nice place though and I quite liked the feel of it apart from one spot, but I will get on to that as we go along.

We all got settled in, the public turned up and we had the whole safety tour with the staff and did some grounding.  Had a bit of psychic circle time which didn't bring much and then split off in teams.  My team started on the top floor of the three and we kicked off with just sitting and calling out.  I had a lot of tickles on my face and itching all over as I did all night.  I also had a split second vision of the wall across from me being hit by a falling bomb.  There was a lady said it felt as though a cat had brushed past her leg and our medium Susan was picking up a few things.  Then Mark put on the ghost box (scans over radio waves to pick up on possible messages from spirits) which for some odd reason I just felt like I needed to be close to.  I went over and sat by it.  Mark and Susan were not getting much response but I asked if anyone there could tell us their name and it said "Paul".  I asked it to confirm the name and once again it said "Paul".  I asked if anyone else was there, it said a few names including Paul at the start and end.  I can't remember the other names but there was an Earnie and a Sam.  I asked if we would get movement on the table if we did some table tipping, it said yes, then I asked if he would be the one tipping the table and we got the answer "what table?" The table was still folded away so it seamed like a legitimate question.  Mark got all this on his voice recorder and I will try and get it on here if he is happy to share the files.  Aside from the Nostall Priory laughing incident this has to be one of the strangest things I have heard first hand from the ghost box.

We had two lots of people on different tables but my lot only got a gentle rock, the others had a little tip going on.

We had break time then moved on to the ground floor.  There is a room with old police vehicles in it so we had a human pendulum in here (a person in the middle of the circle tipping back or forth as yes or no).  I kept out to one side as I pick up on more when I am away from other people.  I wasn't getting much down at one end but when I decided to move I started walking and then suddenly realised I was walking like a shackled prisoner, shuffling my feet close together in tiny steps and holding my hands together in front of me. 

Mail Online pic of Scream Queens cast demonstrating 'shackle walk chic'

I moved around the room to the other side where the door was.  This door led out to a corridor with the holding cell.  I hated that corridor.  I could feel someone nasty there on the other side of the door so I stood there for a while and then I felt it come through the door even though it was closed.  It was almost a threatening feeling.  The human pendulum was all the while talking to a man who said he was a guard and he protected people who came to the building from the bad people who were still there.  I started to feel uncomfortable in that corner and went to the other corner where I felt a good presence and think it might have been the person they were talking to.

We headed out to the corridor and I still didn't like the feeling there.  A few went in the cell and I joined them briefly but I was not getting anything in there though one man said something touched his leg.  On the Ouija board in the corridor it spelled out 'fuck off'.  Susan was not happy to keep on with the board when it was swearing at us.  

We tried a few other things on the middle floor but got nothing and then went back down to the corridor.  There was a room that had display cases containing actual murder weapons and one even had the photos of the victim with it.  In here we tried the ghost box again.  The man with us here tried his best at a demanding voice of authority as a guard might have talked to them.  He demanded a name and we think the voice that came back sounded like "fuck off".  He demanded a name again and it sounded like "go away".  This was not recorded though.

At the end of the night we tried a Ouija board in the back of the old police van which did nothing, but the torch of a guest which had been fine all night suddenly started to flash, going dimmer and brighter when it was put down.  A lady started asking questions and asking for flashes in response and it seemed to mostly correspond.  When we stopped talking about it the flashing would stop and then start again when the questions started back up.  The torch then stopped flashing after this.  There are obvious explanations for this but non the less it seemed very strange.

This brought us to the end of the night.  It was a wonderful place and there was some odd goings on and some strange feelings, but on a whole I didn't feel we got anything very solid other than the ghost box conversation which was compelling.  I can't wait to hear it back again outside of the building.

30 East Drive Ghost Hunt

I didn't write this up at the time so this will be a short one, however there wasn't really much to tell anyway.  This hunt was Pontefract Paranormal crew only that was conducted on April 21st 2016.

I was the first to go in.  I collected the keys and headed in alone.  I was greeted to the sight of a kitchen knife in the speaker of the old radio.  Lovely.  I had a walk around the house and then just sat for a while calling out.  I put a ball on the floor and asked for movement, I asked if any spirit could make a sound, move anything or touch me but I got nothing.

The others started to turn up slowly and once we were all in we started on setting up experiments up stairs.  We had cameras rolling with light bars that flash to sound, balls that flash when moved and some trigger objects.  Then it was back to the living room for food and a chat, bit of chill out time.

After food we all sat in the darkness and did some calling out with the K2 flashing now and then.  I don't remember anything really happening.  We went up stares and spread out over the top floor.  The feeling up there was quite uneasy.  I am normally nerves of steel but I didn't like being there and even though I had walked around earlier alone and felt ok about it, at night I didn't like the feeling up there and would not go up stares alone.  This is from someone who went alone down the pitch black corridor at the abandoned Newsham Park Hospital to what was once the morgue.

When we were up stares calling out, twice one of the others said they had felt someone touching them and the second time lead to screaming.  Even Susan, our lovely medium didn't like that room and didn't want to go back in.  She was feeling something that was never human to start with.  I was feeling as though there was someone else in the room with us before the screaming part, but I didn't really pick up on much all night apart from the uneasy feeling.

Once we had done up stares we went back down and I looked over the footage I had from before.  I did find that the ball that lights up to movement did flash on it's own but that was all I got.  I did test the ball out but unfortunately didn't get that part on film.  I knocked in, threw it about and dropped it.  It would take one hell of a bump to set it off, yet there it was flashing away.  Fresh batteries in there too and it only did it the once.  Not sure what to make of that.  I thought I had caught a creepy floating shadow but that turned out to be a crane fly.

We did have the place until 12 mid day but we didn't stay as planned.  I had wanted to sleep over and had got my pillow and sleeping bag in the car but there was nothing going on, we were all tired and I really didn't like the feeling I was getting and didn't want to try and sleep in that atmosphere.  Most of us just went home and the few that stayed back a bit longer said that still nothing happened.

I would like to have another night in the house just to do more tests and see how it feels but it just costs too much me.

Been away for a while - Halloween night 2015

Hello again spook people.  I have not posted for quite some time I know.  We have not really been going out to hunt for Slimer and co with the PP management getting all married up and we did a hunt I forgot to blog about a bit back so I am not going to attempt to remember the details of it now.  It would come out all wrong and I like to report finding as accurately as I can.

So we came back with a bang on Halloween night at Knottingley town hall.  The hall is one of the most active places we have found in this local area.  There was plenty of fancy dress going on too.

The night started out with entertainment in the form of a Friday the 13th screening followed by food and a raffle.  The proceeds went to the Make a Wish childrens charity.  I have never watched the film before and found it more funny than scary.  It did keep me entertained though and the food after was wonderful.  The atmosphere was very friendly, relaxed and chatty, but when the hot pot and cake was gone and most of the fancy dress had been shed it was time to get down to the real stuff.

There were a lot of people there so we all gathered on the ground floor to kick off with a sit in the dark calling out.  We all spread out over the hall way and some in the side rooms.  I was in the dance hall.  While we were just calling out and listening a few people had various feelings and could hear little sounds.  The lights on the K2 were flashing a lot so I was told but I couldn't see it myself.  I felt an odd sensation in one spot on my back that I can't quite explain and then I went from being a comfortable temperature to quite quickly really very cold.  Susan the medium was picking up on a man and a dog but I can't recall the exact words about them.

We split in to three teams, one on each floor.  I was in team one on the top floor.  We did a human pendulum which did bring a few answers from a female spirit who worked in the building.  It worked with two members of the public but not with another.  We then tried a seance and I moved away from the table as I feel things better when away from other people.  I felt as though someone was stood near the doors and then that they moved closer to me but did not want to go over to the table.  Then they left.  As I may have said before, I do get these feeling from time to time but I am still unsure as to what they are.  Could be real, could be in my head.  I do believe there is something but I take quite a bit of convincing.  We also then tried some table tipping which did give a small result but nothing dramatic.  However the people around the table, all public, seemed to feel it was very real and it left them scratching their heads for an answer.  We ended the session out in the hall near the toilets where nothing much happened but there was a girl who kept feeling like something was messing with her hair.

Everyone came back together to have a cuppa and swap stories before heading out as two groups.  The energy seemed to be better in larger teams.  We headed down to the cellar where I spent the rest of the night.  We tried calling out but again had little response and then some table tipping with a stronger result but still nothing OTT.  We had public trying their hand at scrying with wax and crystal balls as well as using pendulums and a Ouija board.  We had another go with table tipping but got nothing.

After all the public had some more tea and cake they cleared out saying they had had a great night and some had seen or felt things that they couldn't explain.  For me the night was very flat and had little energy but that is the nature of ghost hunting.  You don't know what you will find and the spooks do not come to order.  We had some very strange things happen in that building before, but this time I didn't really find anything.

Later on, when it was just a few crew left, Mark saw something in the doorway.  It made him jump.  It was a very tall figure in a long black cloak or coat but it was a momentary, fleeting glimpse.  We gathered in the cellar for one last go at calling out.  Lindsay got very creeped out but nothing really came of it.  We had the Franks box on with what sounded like the odd reply but nothing really made too much sense.  

The night was fun as always but the spooks didn't come out to play.  It is a bit disappointing but as I said, you can't make it happen.  If you do make it happen then you are a theater company, not a ghost hunting company.  Forced results are pointless results.  I do still have some audio and video footage to look through but I am not expecting anything special.  If I do find anything I will get it posted up.

There is a crew only hunt coming up later this month.  I shall be sure to give you guys a write up on the results of that one.