WARWICK LANE SHOPPING CENTRE, WICKHAM
1st September 2023 – Ten members present.
We started with a circle at the foot of the stairs. A male came through from WW1. He told us he liked to drink ale. The volunteer in the centre of the circle were acting as if they were drunk and couldn’t stop laughing. The volunteer in the centre said they had a pain on the right hand side of their stomach. The spirit told us he had been in a fight and had damaged his stomach which is how he died. A member of the team listening to the
spirit box through head phones was answering all of our questions giving the same answers as the spirit was. Lots of orbs were flying amongst us as we were talking to the spirit and several of us had cold breezes in-between us.
We had placed a teddy with cat balls on the bench and one ball started to go off. We said ‘stop’ and it stopped. Then we said ‘start’ and it lit up again. We said ‘stop’, ‘start’ several times and each time the ball did as we asked.
Next we opened a Spirit Board at the end of the building. Someone called Harry came through and said his nickname was Adob. He was 59 when he died in 1934. He said he had worked in Warwick Square but when he tried to spell out his job it made no sense. Then Bobby came through. He was 30 when he died in 1630. He said he died in Wickham and was killed by his friend, Dell, in a prank that went wrong. Dell hit him on the head with a bat and Bobby died instantly. Bobby said it was an accident. One of the team members was having sharp pains in their head. Then one of the team members had their father on the board. He was able to answer many questions able a recent family event, telling us the names of guests and the clothes they were wearing. Next we had Mary, who was a witch attached to a bakery in the building, then Edward came through. He started swearing on the board and one team member said it felt like their t-shirt was being pulled up. As we were talking, we kept seeing dark shadows around us, and many orbs were consistently flying around the spirit board.
We headed upstairs to the cafe and one team member noticed a can of coke had tipped forward in the fridge and was laying against the glass door. We sat two team members on a chair with a fixed camera directed at them. We watched them on the security screens, and as they held their hands out, and we could see orbs bouncing on and off their hands, sometimes several at a time. Then we noticed another camera was moving left and right but when we investigated, the camera was solid and fixed to the wall. A team member said they could hear things being moved in the cabinets.
We moved to where the camera was moving and tried calling out. The cat balls kept going off, team members sensed a presence standing next to them and that children were hiding and watching us. Several members felt angry. On the spirit box, words were spoken like, ‘I am here and watching things, We’re friendly, It’s all fun, isn’t it’. One of the team members started to feel a bit strange and nearly fell over. The spirit box said ‘We got her’. We said, ‘do you mean (team members name)?’ and the spirit box said ‘Yes’.
We realised one of our cat balls had gone missing and were discussing where it could be. A team member was facing in one direction and the spirit box said, ‘It’s down there’. When we looked, we found the ball. Then the spirit box said, ‘Love this game. Love this place’. Several team members heard growling in their ears and one member saw a red orb (this means passion, anger and restlessness). Throughout the evening the cat balls were going on and off by request and all equipment kept losing power.
We moved back to the foot of the stairs to do table tipping. The table eventually starting moving in a circle, then did it again. Next it headed towards a team member then towards another before it flipped over. The whole time we could all sees loads of orbs on the floor next to us and shooting up the stairs. We had grid lights pointing up the stairs, and suddenly we all heard a very loud bang coming from upstairs and the grid lights went out. After some investigation we found a large bottle of dish washer liquid had been knocked off it’s shelf and was laying on the floor in the kitchen.
We opened the spirit board upstairs and had some connections with a team member and the names, Amy and Chrissy who was born in 1978 and died in 1990 from bowel cancer came through, but nothing could be confirmed. The spirit box was saying the same things that were being spelt on the board. Finally, Babs came through. She said she was born in 1020 and was a witch connected to Mary and had twelve sisters. She was extremely strong on the board. She said she died in 1939 in her last life.