Eight team members present. As the team were setting up in the main hall, teddy’s eyes kept lighting up. The team moved to the inner hall next to the cafe and opened a sacred circle. A maid came through who used to work in the building. She was the mistress of the man who owned the house and was forced to have an abortion. We could not get any names nor any dates. Dolly’s eyes kept lighting up and so did a cat ball on the radiator. The K2 Meter often went to green then up to yellow as we asked questions. The SLS camera was picking up stick figures. At one point, a stick figure was seen coming out of the body of one of the team members, another was on top of the toilet door and another was hovering over the cat ball that kept going off. The spirit box was confirming many answers to questions, although nothing significant was coming through and very little in the way of names or dates.

A nasty spirit came through and one of the team members started to sway as if their shoulders were being pushed. Another team member started having bad pains in their shoulder. A stick figure was seen on the SLS camera. It looked as if it was dancing, then it jumped up and down and waved it’s arms on request. Suddenly, the lights in the kitchen came on by themselves. The spirit box said, ‘Turn them off’. We asked the spirit to turn the light out and the spirit box said, ‘I’m trying. I’m looking’. Every door that led to the kitchen was locked and there was no sign of any person or creature in the room. We opened an Ouija board at 8.35pm and immediately the kitchen light went out. At the same time, the spirit box said, ‘He’s gone’.

The locked doors that led to the cafe started to make noises like they were trying to be opened and a shadow figure was seen walking past the door. One team member on the board felt a cold breeze on their hand and at the same time, a stick figure was seen through the SLS camera flashing on and off the board. Several people on the board could feel cold breezes. One team member made some knocking noises on the door and asked the spirit to knock back. The spirit box said, ‘I’ll try. I’m doing it’, but we could not hear any knocks.

Someone called Bonny King aged 26 came through on the board. She was English and said that Bonny was her nickname. She said her real name was Loretta King and she was a patient in the building in 1856. We think she was talking about the hospital. One team member had a sharp pain in their neck which felt like a needle stab. We checked the neck area but could see no sign of any skin damage. We heard what sounded like a bell or it could have been a high pitched whistle and the equipment kept losing power. Then we heard what sounded like cooking equipment being moved about in the locked kitchen and some faint whistles. We shone our torches through the window in the door but could see no one nor any movement in the kitchen area.

Another stick figure came on the SLS camera and started to interact with one of the team members. Lots of knocking noises were heard coming from the corridor that leads to the locked kitchen door used by staff, but when we investigated, the corridor was empty. Orbs could be seen shooting from the bar area across the locked glass doors that lead to the cafe. Some personal spirits came through on the Ouija board and the spirit box continued to answer questions we were asking. One team member standing in front of the cafe doors felt their head being touched and teddy’s eyes lit up. The kitchen/cafe area appeared to be going light then dark then light again and a stick person was seen hovering above and watching people on the Ouija board. A face was briefly seen high up on the window that looks out to the courtyard, but we could not see anyone outside.

We moved up to the staircase and stood in the first landing to do some calling out. Footsteps could be heard and one team member felt like they were being pushed against the door. Stick figures were seen through the SLS camera on the stairs and behind one team member, and orbs were seen hovering over one team member’s head. At the same time, that person said they felt very cold.

We moved further up the stairs to the top of the building and stood in the old back bedroom note: (We have never been in this room before as it’s usually locked). A cat ball kept going off on the top landing. We opened an Ouija board. The cat ball continued to go off, a shadow figure was seen on the landing through the grid lights and a stick person was seen near the doorway. A female came through on the board and spelt out DALFM and said the number 6 was significant. The planchette on the board was toppling as if it were trying to flip over. We started to talk about the war and the planchette became very lively. A stick person was seen high up on the doorway and people on the board became very cold. A shadow was seen through the grid lights, looking like a head followed by a hand poking round the doorway. The name ‘Steven’ came through on the board and we started talking about stick men on the ceiling. The spirit box said, ‘ Ceilings are cool’. Orbs were seen on the landing outside the room and a stick man on the SLS camera could be seen mimicking one of the team members. As we closed the board, the spirit box said, ‘Ouija board’.

We went for a tea break and afterwards, continued our investigation in the main hall. As we turned all the lights off, ***it appeared that the locked room next door (the bar area) suddenly lit up. We asked the spirit to turn the lights off. The spirit box said, ‘Idiot, I’m waiting’. A stick person was seen mimicking a team member as they pretended to dance on the spot. Several orbs, some looking like shooting stars, note: streaking orbs can indicate spirits trying to manifest or are reaching out to those close by , were seen in the area where the team members were standing. We asked if there was anyone there in the room with us and the spirit box said, ‘I’m here and ignoring you’. We opened a sacred circle and round orbs and streaking orbs were seen (filming on a camera) hovering above the circle. A pink orb was seen, note: pale pink orbs indicate a child spirit is present. They can also mean openness, affection, compassion and love. One team member saw a green orb on the door leading to the bar area. note: green orbs appear if you need healing or are mentally or physically unwell. They also represent communication and physic development.

We opened an Ouija board and a female nurse from WW1 came through. She would not give us her name but said she had died in 1934. She then said she couldn’t spell. Again, pretty much every question we asked on the board was answered by the spirit box. A couple of team members heard a weird whooshing/ heartbeat? sound and couldn’t detect where it came from.

On the board, two team members started to feel very wobbly, a bit like they were drunk, and started to sway. A female slave from Kenya came on the board and said it was she who was affecting the swaying team members. She said that’s what it felt like when she was in the hold of the ship that brought her from Kenya to England in the 1950s. The whooshing/ heartbeat sound was heard again, this time by everyone. It also sounded a bit like heavy footsteps and the noise was coming from the passage that lead to the staircase.

Another female spirit came on the board and said she was related to the building when it was an asylum. She said she was a nurse and had treated patients badly. We asked if she had treated all patients badly and the spirit box said, ‘Most of them’. We asked, ‘Do you regret it?’ and the spirit box said, ‘No’. The spirit said she used to give patients the electric shock treatment.

A loud squeaking noise was heard. We tracked it down to a door in the corridor that leads to the stairs. The corridor was empty, yet one of the doors made a squeaking noise just like we had heard when it was opened. We could hear tapping noises coming from the locked bar area, but when we looked through the door window, the room was empty. On the SLS camera, a stick person was seen standing behind one of the team members. We asked the stick person to touch the team member’s head. The spirit box said, ‘I will’, and we could see the stick person patting the team members head. Meanwhile, on the board, the planchette appeared to be building it’s own energy by moving in fast circles on the board before trying to lift off the board.

Then we suddenly heard the camera alarm going off at the foot of the stairs (this only happens if someone or something passes it). Three team members went to investigate. The alarm keep going off and wouldn’t stop until we physically turn it off. We walked up the stairs to the first window and looked out. We could see the caretaker of the building walking in the hall at the rear of the building and the spirit box said, ‘He’s coming’. We could see loads of tiny, shiny orbs whizzing about on the window sill.

All the other team members joined up and everyone went back upstairs to the back bedroom at the top of the building. One team member said they saw two shadows in the doorway and the spirit box said, ‘Two people’. Another team member sat in a chair and said they felt as if the chair was being lifted up and down. When we looked, it did look as if the chair was being moved very slightly. We all heard a bell being rung and the spirit box said, ‘Deal with it’. A team member said they were being touched on their leg and we saw flashes next to some rubbish bags.

We went downstairs back to the main hall and noticed the lights were still on in the bar area. ***We tried turning the lights in the main hall on and off. When the hall was in darkness, you could see the bar area lit up. But when the hall had it’s lights on, the bar looked to be in darkness. Therefore, we had to conclude that the bar lights had probably been on all the time and was not the act of anything paranormal.