Castle Howard 23rd July
2005.
First of all I would like to say
thank you to Mr and Mr Howard for allowing us to visit this
magnificent building. Thanks to Bob Sharp for staying with us
throughout the night and stopping us from getting lost.
We arrived at 9.30pm and assemmbled in the Estate office. After obtaining
our security passes Bob showed us to the room where that would
be using as our base for the night.
Bob took us for a walk around the
areas of the building that we would be investigating. Whilst
on the balcony overlooking the Main entrance hall brenda got
the impression that someone had either jumped or fallen from
the balcony. She said she couldn't get anything else about it
just a feeling of deep sorrow. Several of the members of the
group said that they got a strange feeling on the servant's
stairs.
We went back to our base and had
a coffee before going to the first 'guest' bedroom to hold the
first vigil of the night. Once in the first bedroom Mick took
some baseline readings. There was no real reading on the EMF
and the temperature was a steady 20 degrees all around the room.
brenda thought she caught a glimpse of a child or a small animal
in front of the fireplace. Several of the group smelt a 'musky'
perfume. Brenda felt like there was something moving in the
corner behind the chair she was sitting in. She also thought
she could see someone standing between Gaz and Dave. Several
of the group felt 'cobwebbing'. Brenda said it felt as though
a cat was sat on her lap. There was no reading on the EMF. Brenda
asked for any spirits present to show themselves, still no EMF
reading.
After a few more minutes we all moved to the
next room. Brenda said she could smell babies nappies. Everyone
said that it felt colder. Brenda went into trance and started
speaking in what sounded like German or Austrian and broken
English. She said she was cold and asked if we would 'Make fire'.
She appeared to be elderly and confirmed that she was female
and lived in the house. She said ‘Ask Frederick to make fire’. She said she had no husband
because he had died and she had no son. .She was not born in
this country, born in Austria. She said something that sounded like Ashwen.
Mick asked why she had come to this country. She told him to
ask Frederick. She said the year was 1892 and that she was
visiting. She seemed to be struggling to talk. Mick asked how
many spirits live in the room and asked to speak to someone
else. Someone else came through who also seemed to be old and
seemed to have a stroke like condition on the right hand side
of face. Brenda
then came out of trance and we all went for a coffee.
1.06 am we started the 3rd
vigil in the corridor. Mick did baseline tests. Brenda asked
if the corridor went round in a big circle and said that the
layout had been changed.
Apart from a few shadows, which may or may not have been
something, not a lot was experienced in this area.
After another break we decided to do the last
vigil in the entrance hall. Mick did the baseline tests as normal.
Apart from a few creaks and groans which are quite normal in
old buildings we did not experience much in this area. At 3 am we decided to call it a night.
A couple of things that were quite interesting,
Bob the caretaker told us afterwards that there was mention
of an Austrian woman in one of the upstairs bedrooms. Steve
was reading up on the history of Castle Howard a few weeks later
and found mention of a Frederick. We are awaiting further input from the rest
of the group.
A
very interesting and beautiful building.
