We started with all members in a sacred circle at the foot of the stairs, and a few personal spirits came through to different people. All of us could hear footsteps and voices all around us and we were seeing shadow figures at the top of the stairs. The cat balls were going off and one member got poked. We could see orbs above where we were standing and at the top of the stairs, and then heard thumps and footsteps coming from upstairs. The spirit box was continuously kept giving answers to our questions that tallied with answers being given in the circle. Members around the circle kept feeling hot, then cold, were being touched, could feel static electricity and cobwebs on faces and arms. George came through. He said he was around in the 1940’s and that he was a German. He was a POW in Coventry and American soldiers murdered him out of malice, but then he said it was an accident and that it was an American firing squad who killed him. He said he was killed in 1945 and was buried in Coventry but didn’t want to be there. George didn’t want to join the army but became a spy working for the German SS. George said his parents were British but that he believed in the Nazis. He said something that belonged to him was in the building (but we couldn’t find out what is was). All the time George was answering questions in the circle, the spirit box was calling out the same answers and quite often spoke in German.

We split into two teams (A and B). Team A stayed in the building and team B went across the road into the Manor House.

Team A were in the far back room downstairs. They had cat balls going off next to where a German helmet is for sale and could see someone leaning behind one of the cabinets. The laser lights were set up and they could see a shadow figure standing in front of them. One of the members had a personal friend come through on the Ouija board with a message. The team felt the corridor had become very dark. They could hear a dog barking and the faint voice of a woman. The smell of urine and petrol became very strong. They were speaking to a different spirit on the board and they asked it to knock. The group heard two knocks. After that, some personal spirits came through with messages for some members. George came through on the Ouija board and said he had died in Coventry but had been held here (in this building?) during the war. He said he was born in 1934 and died aged 25. Cat balls were going off and footsteps could be heard. One member felt someone walk in front of them.

Team B were in the cellar of the Manor House. The cat balls in Dolly kept lighting up and were going on and off by command. Then teddy’s lights lit up. We could hear a growl followed by children laughing. Maria, aged 10, came onto the Ouija board. She pointed the planchette to one of the members and told us he reminded her of her daddy. George came through on the board. As soon as he did, the spirit box kept saying swear words and obscene sentences. Suddenly, one of the members shouted out in a loud, bellowing voice, ‘ My name’s not important’. He continued to shout out random sentences and all the while, the spirit box was saying so many swear words. The member who was shouting, said he felt like he was being possessed. He said he felt incredibly angry and had a lot of hatred inside him. He said it felt like there were multiple spirts in the room and that bad spirits were stopping good spirits from communicating with us. George was communicating on the Ouija board. He said he liked the ladies on the board and wanted to see them naked. One of the members whispered, ‘Do you like men?’ and the spirit box answered ‘Nein’. The cat balls were continuously going off whilst we were on the board, but as soon as we came off, they completely stopped.

The group went upstairs and were calling out. Every time George’s name was mentioned, the Dolly’s eyes lit up. The member was still being possessed and kept randomly shouting out sentences and swearing. At the same time, the spirit box was saying lots of foreign words that we couldn’t decipher. We asked George if he liked the ladies and the cat balls went off. One member did the Nazi salute and played the German anthem which made the cat balls go off again. We tried filming this, but every time we turned the camera on, the balls refused to light up, yet when we turned the camera off, the balls kept lighting up. We asked George to open the door and could see it opening slightly. One member felt her hair being tugged and a faint orb was seen by her head as this happened.

Team A went over to the Manor House and into the cellar. On the Ouija board they spoke to someone called Steven Tubbs. He had worked in the building in 1645 as a chef and died aged 26 in 1654. He said he was treated poorly in the house and was murdered by being poisoned. The group asked him to set off the cat balls and he did so on command.

Team B went back to Warwick Lane and into the far back room downstairs. Teddy’s lights were going on and off by command. George came through again but seemed to be different, although he was still spelling out swear words. Then Fred came through, aged 3 years. One of the members had a torch in their pocket which was turned off. The same member felt a child’s hand touch their stomach and when the torch was pulled out, it had been turned on. Then we spoke to a man called Piggie who said he had worked in the building in 1975 when it was a hardware store. He said Rachel and Liz worked with him but he thought it was still 1975. Still on the board, we spoke to a cat called Emma. One of the members confirmed they had once had a cat called Emma, and another member said they felt a cat jump up on their leg. Whilst we were talking to Emma, the REM Pod was continuously going off – not fully but sounded more like morse code. When we investigated, the REM Pod was surrounded by cat ornaments.

All members joined together again and did some table tipping at the foot of the stairs. Not much was happening until we played German music, air raid sirens and the sound of bombs going off. Then the table tipped over five or six times in quite an aggressive manner. We all moved to the far back room downstairs and set up the Ouija board. Once more,George came through. The member who had been possessed earlier started shouting out random sentences again. We played some gentle German music and the planchette started moving around the board, almost like it was dancing. Then we played German marching music, but George said he did not like that. Next we played battle music (the sounds of guns going off) and George said he liked that. As we were packing up to leave, the dolly suddenly leapt off the shelf and landed in a heap on the floor.