Fat
Cat 27th January 2006
Fat
Cat 12.45am 150 year old public house . Trigger objects placed
around house. Temperature, humidity and Emf reading taken for
base test, found high Emf readings around the fires. Brenda
asked if the Emf readings were due to back boilers which I doubt
due to no electric being used for these. To start with I gave
the group a tour of the pub and a little history of the public
house. The Public house is reputedly haunted by a Ghost called
Work house Mary who loves to play tricks and move things around.
The cellar has now been replastered. Prior to the pub being
built there was a mill on the site which burnt down. In the
upstairs room there has been a figure of a woman seen by a previous
landlord who was working across the road. He ran back to the
public house to see who the intruder was, but found no one but
his wife that had been in the kitchen at the time. We split
into two groups. One group took the upstairs while my group
took the back bar room. Gaz took a picture in the bar area with
a strange orb shape that could not be reproduced. I tried to
contact Mary "the ghost" by asking her to do something
describing how she got pregnant, was placed in the work house
and had her child taken from her. How she went mad how she was
beaten and locked up until she died of a fever. I could not
contact the entity so I tried to taunt it. I also asked who
the mischievous spirit was at which stage Brenda started to
go into trance. An entitiy came though called Tommy Wincanton
though I found it hard to hear what she was saying. I brought
pen and paper which seemed to confuse the spirit. Possibly Tommy
Wincaot? He told us he was 42 years old. He said he did not
work here but made pots. I asked if he could see us but was
told he could see Masie not Mary. He did not know what trams
were but knew what carts were. The date was thought to be 1897.
I asked which school he attended and was told Brightside school.
I was told he left school at 14 and went into potting Apparently
he dug hearths or holes? for potting. The last thing Tommy remembered
was being ill in the pub. I asked if Masie was here and was
told yes she was. I asked if Masie was here girlfriend and was
told yes I asked if it was his child she was carrying and the
answer was yes. I asked if he left her and was told no, left
her to go into the work house I said, again no he did not leave
her. I had problems again hearing what he was saying. I could
not understand what his reply was. I asked for Masie's surname
and was again unable to understand what was being said. Tommy
seamed to be talking to himself which we could not understand
but there seemed to be some concern regarding 4oclock and behind
the clock????. I asked for something to be moved in the room.
on further investigation afterwards I found one of the trigger
objects had moved. Our next investigation was in the upstairs
function room. Again in the upstairs room I tried to contact
any spirits First spirit to come through was Jack who is one
off Brenda’s guides. While in trance a young soldier came
through called Frank Constar? who was travelling through to
Derby. This spirit seemed to be very disoriented and could not
understand where he was. I told him he was in the Alma Public
house " pubs previous name" He told me he came from
up Thorn a place where he lived in Derby. I asked why he was
here and he told me he was in the army, I asked what regiment
he was in but got no sense from him. I asked if he was in the
Crimean war or the second war, told the date was 1915, first
world war. I was told he was not training here. He is apparently
looking for home, I asked if he was injured he said ‘bomb’
he was from the boing? His eye was injured. again I asked if
he was on his way home and was told no. He doesn't know where
he is. I asked his rank and was told no he would not say. I
demanded he told me his name rank and number by law which he
replied, Lance Corporal Frank Cartel, the number I could not
make out. He is married and trying to get home but doesn't understand
this. I asked what it was he didn't understand and he replied
‘here‘. I asked what the last thing was he remembered
and was told Big flash but cannot remember coming home cannot
remember leaving France.Last thing he remembered was Big flash
and explosion.We finished the investigation upstairs with no
more occurrences. We believed the soldier either never returned
from France or was suffering from Shellshock Downstairs are
picture of various soldiers, could this be one of the soldiers.
Our next investigation we split up and each took up a vigil
in what ever place we wanted. I took up a vigil in the Cellar
area and found nothing at all out of the ordinary. At the end
of the night we all discussed what had happened during the investigations
The other team picked up on two children in the function room
and also an old lady who sat and stared. Mikey described a man
stood at the bar. One of the team had a peanut thrown at them
and a red thimble. We all found the most active area to be the
function room. While giving the descriptions we all heard banging
coming from above as though some one was moving about. When
we investigated no one was there. Mikey told of a lot of movement
and noise while they were doing their investigation which he
presumed was us downstairs but we were not in the area he described.
Noises were also heard near the coal shoot. We found the night
very active and interesting.
