Investigation Reports:
Investigation Report Index
1.Private House Investigation February 2007
2.The Manor Castle Public House Investigation 21st February 2008
3.The Fat Cat Investigation 5th March 2008
4.The Boardwalk Investigation 5th April 2008
5.Dove & Rainbow Public House Investigation 23rd April 2008
6.Conisbrough Castle Investigation 24th May 2008
7.Return To The Dove & Rainbow 4th June 2008
Private House Investigation February 2007
PRIVATE HOUSE INVESTIGATION
We arrived at the house on Badsley Moor Lane in Rotherham around 10pm on a Friday night in February 2007 having known about the history of the house before we even stepped foot in the property having contacted the Sheffield Star newspaper weeks before. We received old newspaper clippings from 1986 telling the horrific deaths of three young children and two adults who sadly died in a tragic blaze within the property.
Having hearing rumours about this rented property before and the stories that people who rented this house would not stay in the building for long and would move on after a few months, we received a phone call from the tenants at the time to see if we could come down and do an investigation due to the fact the family were seeing and hearing things they couldn’t explain.
We set up trigger objects in some of the upstairs bedrooms and left the digital recorder running in the bedroom where one of the tenants swore he saw a ghost of a young boy stood at the bottom of his bed before it vanished into the bedroom wall.
Investigation team leaders Kirsty and I, Jon split the family into two groups and we both began to investigate the upstairs and living room areas of the house.
As the investigation went on through the night without anything happening and our spirits ebbing away we noticed drawings that were beginning to appear on the wall leading up to the stairs what looked like stick figures of children and these we appearing in one of the bedrooms too (sadly we have lost the pictures of these to back this claim up)
As we were about to take a break one of the members of the family yelped out and held his nose in pain and as we looked we could see scratch marks on his nose which began to bleed and then the scratches began to appear on his neck and as I went into the living room I could feel my arm being scratched and I shouted out for everyone to come look but before they all got in I felt my neck had been scratched and on closer inspection everyone could clearly see these marks.
We asked for whoever was doing this to please stop and we all heard what sounded like laughter and we all agreed it sounded like a young boy who was making this noise.
We carried on the investigation without anything else happening and a few weeks later the family moved out.
Scratches on one of the resident's nose
HRPI'S Jon with a scratch on his arm
Red Marks that appeared on one of the residents which turned out to be scratches
Red Marks that appeared on HRPI's Jon which later turned out to be scratches
Newspaper Headlines After The Familys Tragic Deaths
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The Manor Castle Public House Investigation 21st February 2008:
The Manor Castle Investigation
We began our investigation at the manor castle public house at
Team one selected the cellar to investigate first, team two decided they would investigate the back lounge area of the pub (where activity as been witnessed before such as a pint glass moving of its own accord) Before we began the investigation of the back lounge area, Jon set up two coins as trigger objects in this area which have been known to move in previous investigations and we were ready to begin our investigation.
Team one settled down in the cellar and team two began their investigation in the lounge .We organised each area of the pub, so we had an hour each in all of the rooms. Both teams got settled down and let themselves adjust to their surroundings.
Each team began calling out asking for something to show itself or to make its presence known either by making a noise or by showing a spirit light. Team one started to see spirit lights darting across the wall of the cellar and low drumming noises were heard echoing around the cellar walls, Chris felt and heard breathing right next to him, so team one called for the drumming to get louder and as they finished calling out the drumming became louder and louder.
Team two heard three distinctive whistles coming through from the main bar area into the lounge, so Susan and I who were residing in the lounge area so we decided to move through into the lounge area closest to the main bar and as we did this the remaining members began to hear knocking on the door leading into the room from the toilet hallway. The Susan and I heard knocking on top of the bar and called out for the knocking to get louder and for it to happen again but nothing happened straight away so myself and Susan began chatting about the night so far, until our conversation was abruptly interrupted by the sound of two women arguing and raising their voices at each other.
Susan and I were completely shocked by what we had heard as it was perfectly clear what we had just experienced it was so clear that we had to check with the other members of team two that none of them were walking into that part of the lounge area that Susan and I were sitting or that any of them had raised their voices, but they all said that they hadn’t moved or spoken and that they had definitely not heard the two women arguing. We continued with our investigation even though things seemed to very quiet, until the three members in the back lounge area began feeling cold breezes drifting around the room especially where Hayley was sitting next to the door where the knocking was heard earlier in the investigation as they were experiencing the temperature drops.
Susan and I could hear the sound of what sounded like furniture being dragged across the floor above us, we later checked with the landlady and she told us that the ceiling we heard the noises coming from was a completely flat outside roof, so where the dragging noises were came from remained a mystery.
As we had been experiencing several forms of phenomena upstairs James from team two had seen a figure behind Chris in the cellar, which moved across the floor and turned left behind Jon and then disappeared out of sight. As the first of the nights vigils came to an end both teams reconvened in the main part of the bar.
Hayley describe what she had seen while in the back lounge, she claimed to have seen a small figure by the doorway while she was sat down in the back lounge. During the break Jon and I went to check on the trigger objects and to our surprise they had moved slightly out of the drawing circle.
Investigation two
We began the second part of the night’s investigations, team one were joined by Janice in the main bar and Susan and I and the landlady all convened in the cellar. The strange thing about the Manor Castle cellar is that it is quite large in size until you are down there in the dark and then it feels very claustrophobic and the walls draw in and then it feels very small.
We didn’t have to wait long for something to start occurring; we all began to hear what sounded like low drumming sounds and several taps and bangs, coming from the metal barrels. Susan began to call out asking for whatever spirit energy was around was around to do something more to us and as she did this a loud shush noise was heard by all four of us coming from near the entrance to the cellar.
Susan then went round to where the entrance to the cellar is and found no logical explanation for the noise we had all heard. So clearly we were all starting to feel extremely uncomfortable down in the cellar. In the main bar area team one were also experiencing different phenomena they had all heard tapping noises coming from one of the tables and when they asked for it to knock back to them the amount of knocks they knocked on the table, it would do so to order and several temperature drops were occurring around the room, they also heard knocking coming from the entrance to the bar. Jon and Chris became very light headed and both of them found it hard to breathe even though several minutes before they were both completely fine and had been fine all night. The cellar was certainly not failing to disappoint us so far and the Manor Castle Landlady and barmaid Hayley felt that they could no longer carry on investigating in the cellar as they were becoming increasingly uneasy so we decided to bring the investigation in the cellar to an end and as we were about to leave we heard a loud maoning noises from the very back of the cellar so we promptly left as we didn’t want to cause the Landlady and Hayley anymore uneasiness. We re-joined up with team one in the bar and we all had a well deserved break as the morning was dawning in.
Investigation Three
As it was now becoming rather late we decided we would shorten the last few investigations to thirty minutes each , so as team one had yet to investigate the lounge they would investigate this area next and team two would have the main bar area. The lounge didn’t fail to disappoint team one either, they also experienced the knocks and tapping noises on the door leading from the toilet hallway and all the members of team one also felt the temperature drops exactly where Hayley had experienced them and the other members of team two. The knockings also began again to order, team one asked if the spirit was a girl to tap once if it was a boy to tap twice, it knocked back twice so they had determined the spirit was a boy and now they wanted to find out his age so they called out to the boy that they would count up from one and when they reached the right age number the boy spirit should knock once to show that they had reached the exact age for the boy. The spirit knocked when they reached seven years old and the knockings became more continuous and the sound of the drumming continued throughout the bar area. Team two in the main bar could also hear the knocks and the drumming sounds, all of a sudden all of team two heard a loud growling sound coming from over by the men’s toilet door, so they decided to shout for team one to come through. When team one came through to the bar Hayley told us about the spirit that as been seen in the men’s toilets, it is an elderly gentleman who as been seen on many occasions by customers and staff. After we had heard about this we decided we would have to investigate this reported sighting. Kirsty, Susan, The Landlady and Hayley all volunteered to investigate the men’s toilets. They all entered the men’s toilets which were very small, they were all cramped in so tight, they were all chatting away to lighten the mood and all of a sudden they heard a very loud males voice groaning from behind Susan it was so loud that everyone became extremely frightened and exited the toilets. We all decided to have a short break, Susan and Kirsty decided they would go back into the toilets to see what would happen if there was just two of them, they decided to go back in with an open mind and not with expectations (as they wanted to look for a rational explanation for the noise they had heard before), but they must have been in the toilet for roughly only a few minutes when they heard the loud groaning noise again, so they decided it was best to leave the toilet as they felt very unsafe and uneasy. It was almost time for the end of the investigation, so we decided to hold a séance for the last experiment of the night but during the séance nothing occurred at all so we drew the night to a close and thanked the Landlady and staff for their hospitality and for allowing us to come and investigate The Manor Castle.
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The Fat Cat Investigation 5th March 2008:
The Fat Cat Investigation
We arrived at the Fat Cat pub on
Before the investigations began we had a small rest bite before the pub became empty from the drinkers downstairs giving us time to meet the rest of the staff who wanted to take part in the night’s vigils and to have a welcoming cup of coffee and a chat with the staff.
We split the members and staff into two groups, group one compiled of myself (Jon) Janice and two members of staff. Group two were Kirsty, Susan and Claire and two members of staff one of these (Hannah) would later become a full time member of the Haunted Realm Paranormal Investigators and would play a keen role within the group.
Group two started the night’s investigation down in the bar area where before long they all began to hear what sounded like knocking noises coming either on the bar or from behind the bar itself and also knocking noises where heard on one of the windows behind Hannah, but the weirdest event of the night was the sound of what only can be described as a horse and cart passing outside the pub and strangely on a cobbled road and not on a modern day road that was outside the pub and all the group heard this, but due to the fact the main door to the pub was locked everyone had to stand up on the bar seats to look out the window but nothing was there.
As the vigil continued the group began to see spirit lights above the bar and then they noticed a bar stool had moved on its own and was resting on one leg up against the seating that was around the bar. Also the group tried scrying within the bar area were upon two of the people trying this had apparently changed into an old woman and the other one into an old man which matched the two pictures hanging on the backroom wall in the other room which the group was unaware of at the time.
As the night continued group two moved down into the cellar and began to hear tapping noises coming from where the bottles were being stored and also heard a noise of what sounded like someone breathing out. They also saw what looked like a black shape crawling towards them in one of the side rooms leading of the cellar. Group one at this time where in the backroom and like other vigils where picking up very little apart from very faint tapping noises.
After a short break group two moved into the backroom of the pub where the pictures of the old woman and man were hanging on the wall, they began to hear knocking coming from where the bar was and also whistling could also be heard.
We decided that the night was coming to a close and group one where picking up very little so we all teamed up together to do a séance in the main bar area, apart from myself who was filming this everyone got themselves into a circle and Kirsty asked out loud if work house Mary was with us, who is said to haunt the public house but we got very little activity except for a strange noise from the kitchen area to which the staff were puzzled to what the noise could be.
And this brought the night to closure and an end to the investigation in The Fat Cat.
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The Boardwalk Investigation 5th April 2008:
The Boardwalk Investigation
We arrived at the Boardwalk in Sheffield in the most diabolically weather conditions of the year so for , with driving snow in our faces we headed into the warmth of the Old Mucky Duck an old name given to what is now the leading music venue in Sheffield. We was greeted inside by the owners daughter Felicity who gave the group a walk round the old and intriguing building including area’s not normally seen by the general public, this included the old caretakers rooms where most of tonight’s activity would take place.
We split the members of HRPI and the staff of the Boardwalk into two groups; group one consisting of Kirsty the co-founder of the Haunted Realm Paranormal Investigators and the following paranormal investigators Susan, Hannah, and Dawn also included were Felicity and two other members of staff.
Group two consisted of myself (Jon) co-founder of the Haunted Realm Paranormal Investigators and the following paranormal investigators Mark and his son Paul and female investigator Janice and a member of the Boardwalk staff.
Before the vigils would begin Mark and Kirsty began to set up trigger objects in certain parts of the building this included three Chinese coins which where placed on plain white paper and then drawn around and a picture was taken to prove the exact precision the coins where placed. Also an Oujia board fridge magnet was placed on paper and then drawn around and like before a picture was taken on a digital camera to prove the object was perfectly placed before leaving them to begin the investigation.
Group one elected to take the old caretakers room first to investigate while group one set themselves the task of investigating the stage area so with forty five minutes in each room set a side we began the first of the nights vigils.
Mark, Paul and Janice and the member of staff and I all sat round on the stage, Mark began to say out loud “if anyone was with us from the spirit world, could you please show us a sign that you are here” after a while we all began to hear noises coming from the left hand side of the stage and also the temperature began to flux from fairly warm conditions to freezing cold and this would happen on severely occasions while we was in this section of the building, we also thought that we could see what looked like a mist which briefly appeared to one side of the main room where the general public would stand while watching any concerts that where being performed there.
Group two by this time were settled into their small surroundings in the back of the building which was once used by the caretaker of the property, the room consisted of two sofas, a old arm chair and two wicker chairs and a piano and a table in the middle of the room, the curtains were closed and the room began to get fairly dark once all the torches had been turned off, within minutes the women’s eyes adjusted to the darkness and they all began to notice spirit lights appearing on the ceiling then they began seeing them on the walls too and while Kirsty was glancing round the room she noticed what looked like a dark shadow that moved in the other room leading of the place where they were investigating it was only there for a few seconds but it made the group feel uncomfortable especially when tapping noises began to be heard in that room, so the group decided to investigate within that room which consisted of a few chairs a table and a huge free standing mirror.
Within five minutes Susan decided to go back into the other room to film on her own, she sat on one of the sofas and began to film the empty room and clearly when we played back the video you could hear the commentary and also a creaking noises coming from the wicker chairs like someone was trying to sit down or trying to make themselves comfortable in one of them, as she got up to move to a better location within the room to film you can see the footage as she swings and pans round on video and you can clearly see nothing has moved but while she was filming you can clearly hear the wicker chairs creaking to the left of Susan and you can hear her saying they are moving on film, but this wasn’t to be the most interesting part of vigil, but what happened next puzzled all the people who investigated with us that night and it still does to this day. Kirsty was stood with her back to where Susan was filming and turned round to see if she was alright and out of the corner of her eye she noticed that all the cushions on the sofa across from where Susan was filming had piled themselves on top of each other, she shouted to everyone to come and have a look, but unfortunately the next day when we played back the footage we didn’t capture the cushions moving, we tried to re-enact the movement in the caretakers room how the cushion might have been moved but without success we tried sitting down and getting up quick to see if the cushions might move but they didn’t we even thumped and slapped them but once again without success we couldn’t get them to move at all. Also while the vigil was continuing in the backroom the temperature began to drop in certain parts of the room. By this time the allotted time was up so we are reconvened in the main part of the Boardwalk where upon group one was given the information of what occurred within the back room, so some of us went back into the caretakers old room and to everyone’s surprise the cushions had moved again so we set up a video camera filming the sofa but unfortunately our luck wasn’t in that night and we never captured the movement of them moving.
After a short coffee break group two decided to investigate what they called the Stain glass room due to the fact the windows in that room looked like stained glass, while group one decided to investigate the backroom where all the activity was taking place, Mark Paul and Janice decided to sit on the sofa opposite the one where the movement of had been taking place and the member of staff who joined us sat down in an arm chair while I stood up to film, we began to take temperature readings using infrared thermometers and the room was at a constant level until Mark began to ask “if anyone is with us can you make the temperature drop” and in the view finder on the camera you can clearly see the red infrared beam of light double in size which was very strange and also it changed colour to white and then Mark asked “can you make the temperature drop” and on command the thermometer dial started to drop from 12 degrees all the way down to 8 degrees then Mark ask for the temperature to rise and on command it did back up to the normal room temperature.
Group two at this stage where getting a little fed up of nothing happening in the stained glass area until they began to hear footsteps and someone talking with the main part of the Boardwalk so Kirsty and Susan went to investigate to see if anyone from the other group where talking and walking about in the main area but on closer inspection of the darken expanse on the main bar area they couldn’t see or hear anyone within there, after that all group two had joined them on the stage to see what was happening then everyone heard footsteps apparently coming up a small set of stairs but no one was there. This was the same area where the owner of the Boardwalk had his own experience on the same steps, while talking to a singer before they went back on stage he felt someone grab him and it felt they were stopping him moving and this has also happened to many singers and groups who have played there.
By now the forty five minutes were over and group one walked back into the main bar area and this ended this part of the night’s vigils.
Kirsty and Janice and I decided not to have a coffee break but to have our own vigil back in the caretaker’s room, we turned of the lights and we began to see spirit lights and also we heard the wicker chairs making the same creaking noises as before, we also kept seeing a light the kept appearing on the ceiling but we couldn’t work out from where it was coming from.
As the night was coming to an end it was time to check out to see if the trigger objects had moved and to our amazement the Oujia fridge magnet had been moved not by a few centimetres but had been turned by a great distance also one of the three Chinese coins had moved too.
The last part of the night was taken up in the back room of the caretakers old apartment by doing a séance with all the people who attended on the night we saw the same spirit lights as before and the light upon the ceiling, we heard what sounded like water running in the kitchen area which was next door to where everyone was sat, it was elected that I would go check out the kitchen and to see if anyone had left a tap running, where upon entering the kitchen it was very noticeable that no taps had been left on, so we never found out where the sound of water was coming from. and this ended what was a fascinating night at the Boardwalk in
The Cushions That Moved
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Dove & Rainbow Public House Investigation 23rd April 2008
The Dove and Rainbow Investigation
We arrived at the Dove and Rainbow on St Georges night the 23rd of April at around
We split the members into two groups of three, group one compiled of myself (Jon) Janice and Mark and group two Susan, Hannah and Claire
Before the investigation began we set up trigger objects in the cellar and left a digital recorder running in the lower basement area then we began our 30 minute vigils in each of the rooms, group one started off in the kitchen and before long we caught a light anomaly on video which could be seen clearly by the naked eye and then Mark and Janice both could hear what sounded like a bell ringing but very faintly then Mark began to pick up the presence of a girl called Charlotte aged roughly about six years old she was a timid and a shy little girl according to Mark.
As the vigil carried on in the kitchen, group two where down in the basement, after getting use to there dark surroundings and getting there barings the vigil began, the women struggling with the strong damp odious smell of the basement began to hear faint tapping noises and could see small light anomalies appearing on the view finder of the video camera, but the smell of the damp got better of the team and they left after about 15 minutes.
After a short coffee break group one went into the cellar, we noticed that the trigger objects had not moved and with permission we turned of the cooling fans and lights, after awhile we got used to the sound of the pumps working and other noises so we dismissed them as nothing paranormal and we carried on with our vigil in there after about 29 minutes of our allotted 30minutes in there of nothing happening at all we all heard clearly a sighing groaning noise but we couldn’t work out in which direction it was coming from.
Group two went in the kitchen and managed to capture a few strange lights on camcorder just like group one did earlier in the night, as the vigil continued the temperature began to drop and Hannah and Claire began to notice the sudden decrease in coldness, the oddest occurrences of the vigil in there was when Susan had taken her fresh hot cup of coffee from the bottle storage area into the kitchen where apon it went cold instantly which baffled everyone in there.
While we chatted and drank more coffee in our break within vigils in the bottle storage area myself and Hannah both heard what sounded like a groaning or moaning noise coming from behind us near the door way leading up to the bar area so we both went to investigate to see if anyone was either on the corridor leading up to the stairs or on the stairs its self, we couldn’t hear or see anyone and we even asked a member of staff if anyone had been down stairs in the last few minutes but we was told no one had left the bar area due to the pub was getting busy.
As we reconvened into the next part of the night’s vigils my self a Mark ventured down into the basement area while all the women teamed up to investigate the lift area, but they found this to be a waste of time and moved down to the bottle storage area where events would turn interesting. As the night continued I noticed a bright light on Mark but I couldn’t work out from what direction it was coming from and out of the corner of my eye I noticed someone walking behind the basement door and to our surprise the door opened so I contacted the other group using the walkie talkies to ask them if anyone had just walked past the door and opened it, but no one had as they where all in the bottle storage area at that time.
Janice, Hannah, Claire and Susan began their final vigil and this would prove to be the most interesting of the Dove and Rainbows vigils that night, having spent time in the bottle storage area before, the women were used to the noises that the pumps in the cellar made so any unusual noises they might hear would be unfamiliar to them so when they began to hear faint noises that gradually became very distinctive they knew it was nothing the women had heard before and these noises seemed to emanating behind Hannah.
As they sat around the edge on the room a very loud male sounding groan could be heard from the very centre of the room which made them all jump and scream which turned into laughter which Mark and I heard in the basement. After the door incident in the basement we heard what sounded like footsteps and movement in one corner and strangely it seemed to be darker in that area then any other part of the room. We also heard faint tapping noises that could be heard on the wall between both of us.
The time was getting close for the investigation to come to an end we headed upstairs and we was greeted by Jason the owner of the Dove and Rainbow and his lovely dog Emma who on occasions had to be carried into the property due to the fact she seemed scared of the building. While we was all chatting about what had happened downstairs Mark asked the bar staff if they have a ghost in the bar area who wore black clothing this gave Dawn Goosebumps as she told us about the ghost of John who is seen on a regular basis, so much the regular drinkers in there try to buy him a drink. According to history a man named John was murded and his body thrown in the river Don where it was washed up in the tunnels that lead under boots the chemist and the Dove and Rainbow. The only strange event that took place in our final vigil was a hand drier turned on while Susan was in the ladies toilets and this ended what was a fascinating night at the Dove and Rainbow.
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Conisbrough Castle Investigation 24th May 2008
Conisbrough Castle Investigation
Date:
My Group Included Myself Kirsty, Jon, Janice & Two Guests
Part 1 The Bedroom of The Keep
We all stayed in one big group in the bedroom area of the Keep, we all took our places scattered around the room. It wasn’t long before we started hearing strange noises that sounded like footsteps coming from the roof area of the castle which were echoing down the stairs leading to the roof. Upon inspection the footsteps seem to stop and all we could hear was the sound of the flag flying in the wind, these footsteps kept starting and stopping and a few of the team members assumed that the footsteps were just the sound of the flag. HRPI co-founder Jon went to the roof area as the footsteps were happening again and when he had got there the footsteps stopped and so did the sound of the flag in the room below him where we were, we could hear nothing from the roof at all which we heard clearly most of the night and Jon himself also commented that the flag didn’t seem to be moving around that much and was not making much noise at all so what had the noise been that we had been hearing?. We all composed ourselves and returned to our places after a while I started to pick up on the presence of a man in the room who I felt had religion connected to him and as he became clearer to me I realised he was a monk but as soon as he had come he went and I saw or felt nothing more of him throughout the night. Time passed on and everything seemed to have gone quiet until I started to feel un-easy so I stood up and decided to go and sit next to Jon for a bit of comforting and as I stood up I felt something push me from the right hand side not with a very forceful push but strong enough for me to spin round I was completely shocked and stunned by what had just happened. The investigation in the bedroom was drawing near to the close so we decided to call out for something to happen one last time and as we did this I saw a white lady like figure gliding up the stairs towards the roof so I gave chase after it after yelling out for everyone to follow me and explaining what I had just saw, as I reached the bottom of the stairs I could hear very loud heavy footsteps bounding down the stairs towards me they sounded like heavy high heeled footsteps and very menacing I took this as a warning to back off and to be honest it really frightened me as I have never experienced footsteps that loud or that menacing and to have them bounding down the stairs towards me and knowing that no-one was there it was un-nerving. That brought the Investigation to a close in the bedroom.
After the Investigation in the bedroom area HRPI Co-founder Jon took our team and Joined HRPI member Dave’s team in the Great Hall of the Keep, I Myself Kirsty joined HRPI member Michelle for an Investigation in The Lodge -The tea rooms along with a member of staff.
Part 2 The Lodge-The tea rooms
Myself Kirsty, Michelle and the member of staff entered the lodge-tea rooms and we decided that Michelle would investigate the tea room area and that myself and member of staff would investigate the upstairs rooms which consisted of a staff room, a filing area and an office, we decided we would sit in the staff room area as I was told that many people had experienced some sort of phenomena there but I wasn’t told what. We sat down and started chatting about HRPI in general and then the member of staff asked me if I picked up on anything in the lodge and all I said was I can see a little dog sitting on the landing area and I felt that this dog had been witnessed many times before and as I said this she was totally shocked and said I am so happy you picked up on the dog as many people have reported seeing a dog in here. We decided we would start calling out for any spirits in the lodge to make themselves known and as we did this the handle on the door leading into the staff room started moving up and down of it’s own accord and kept doing it for several minutes, we both stood up and went to check that no-one was on the landing or in any of the other rooms but no-one was there. We sat back down and the member of staff told me how the door that the staff room door handle had been seen to move before and the door itself had been seen to open on its own and as she did this the door handle started to move again so I asked if that was a spirit making the handle move to movie it faster and as soon as I said it the door moved up and down in such a fast motion. At this point Michelle called up from downstairs for us to go down and join her in the tea rooms as she was experiencing phenomena in there. When we arrived in the tea rooms Michelle began to tell us how she had become very frightened instantly and how she was hearing strange noises in the room which sounded like bells ringing as she was telling us of her account all of a sudden the motion detector that Michelle had set up started to chime erratically at different time sometimes it would chime six times others just one or two and it would stop and start again with no logical explanation at this point myself and the staff member decided to return to the upstairs rooms we went back into the staff room and the door handle continued to move up and down for a while but then it suddenly stopped so we decided to go into the filing room, as we were about to enter the room the door from the staff room opened on it’s own even though it was definitely closed by the member of staff. Upon entering the filing room I picked up on the spirit of a little boy that had died in the room and I was told I was correct by the staff member and she went on to tell me how he had been seen in this room and throughout the lodge I also asked her if staff members had ever noticed people looking out of the lodge windows when no-one was in there and she couldn’t confirm this but later on that evening I got confirmation of this from another staff member. At this point we decided to have a well earned break and meet up with the others in the visitors centre.
Later on that evening I re-joined up with Jon and we went into the tea room-the lodge with the member of staff but nothing occurred in any of the upstairs rooms until we got called down to all re-join back up in the visitors centre as the fire alarms were going off with no explanation for it happening and as we were heading downstairs the door to the staff room opened on it’s own myself Kirsty, Jon and the staff member all witnessed this happening.
Report 2 By Mark Phillips
My group were
Mark, Susan, Claire and 3 guests
Part 1 outside near the keep
We all sat near the keep and called out but we had no success very windy and cold
Part 2 middle floor of the keep
We all took our places and sat in the room lights turned out after 10 mins I saw a light near the downward stair case also 3 of our guests started to feel a draft over there shoulders the Susan who was sat in the alcove noticed a shadow of a hooded figure I also picked up on a French monk also could smell garlic and as soon as it came the smell went, I could sense the presence of a man near the downward staircase Susan moved over and said she could here someone down stairs so I move towards her after a further 10 mins I to heard someone moving around down stairs Susan and the curator both went down to investigate but no one was found we then all sat around the table and one of the guest felt a cold draft around her right side and one of her colleagues had a cold back.
During this time I saw some light abnormalities and both Susan and Claire saw movement behind the guests. I also felt a man say that it is all false the doors and tables and chairs when asked the curator he said there only 15 yrs old quite new but made to look old,
We all called out several times for some thing to bang or make a noise but got no response
Part 3 bedroom of the keep
As we all moved in the room I felt an unease and the presence of a woman she was not happy but not at us, also Susan kept hearing a woman’s voice saying lies this happened for a while about 15 mins, I was too picking up that she was not happy at what they had done to the room as it was not a bedroom we all sat down around the room and called out we saw quite a few orbs near the bed and the guests took photo’s and got results in the pictures
Our battery on the camcorder died at this point also one of our guests was having problems with her camara.
Paul came in the room to see if we were all ok and to join in whilst he was here we heard whistling and foot steps upstairs the whistling I think was caused by the wind from the turrets but when outside we never heard it.
I called out for the sprits to show us a sign and felt the presence of a dog Irish wolf hound type standing near one of the guests as this happened they said they felt cold nut the other 2 who were sat right next felt ok
Susan moved to sit near the front of the bed we called out that if the spirit is unhappy with the way the room was set up please show us a sign, I called this several times then we heard two bangs come from top of the bed and the floor to Susan’s left it was a noise like a stone falling we all checked the floor and found a screw next to the bed it was a type that electricians use for safety with an Alan key top after the initial shock we asked if they could do it again may be move the bed or throw some wood near the bed and make a noise but we had no luck yet
Part 4 the tea house
We had two more guests join our group they had brought a table with them and put a glass on it the 5 of them then started to ask if there is anyone there after about 5 mins the glass started to move slightly they carried on for a further 5 mins then decided to do a table tipping exercise they had a slight movement then we split up into 2 groups they moved upstairs we stayed down whilst down there I felt the temperature drop and the presence of a old lady from the 1930’s type person just passing through it whilst looking out the windows we saw a shadow of a grey man near the wall of the castle just for a moment
Part 5 the bedroom of the keep again
We all moved into the room were we asked the lady to give us a sign I felt her still there we waited for the curator to come and turn the fire exit lights out then heard a winding noise for about 2 mins then a loud bang coming from the roof at this time we were asked to leave due to the alarms being set off so I said good bye and we went to the meeting point.
The main point I have to say is that just before we left last time I asked for a sign make a bang and move something she sure did I think she set of the alarms which opened the wooden hatch and made a loud bang what we asked for
After all I feel that the night was very good and would love to do it again but stay a bit longer to get more out the place as it’s full of activity
Report 3 By Dave Porter
My group included David, Michelle and 4 guests
Part 1 Outside near the keep
We split into 3 groups of 2
Group 1 - Michelle & Guest
Group 2 - 2x Guests
Group 3 - David & Guest
We split into the groups to cover the large outside area, G1 (group 1) sat in the 2nd alcove, G2 sat in the 3rd and largest alcove with fencing, G3 closest to the keep and inside the wall.
G1 - had experienced large temperature variances raising form 11.7c to 15.8c while outside and only in response to questions asked. They also noted large levels of sound interference on the Environmental metre which were in-audible.
G2 – Witnessed a white light in the tree tops outside the castle G1 also witnessed this.
G3 – Guest said that they felt the presence of a small boy around 7 dressed in a silver coat and brown half sleeve top underneath, who the guest felt was of the period that the castle was in active use and that the child was involved with kitchen work
Michelle was left on her own during the team swap over during this time Michelle heard the sound of bars being rattled (as in jail bars being rattled) coming from alcove 1.
Part 2 The Great Hall of the keep
We joined Jon’s group during this vigil, after the lights were turned off number of people called for any sprits to show themselves or respond in anyway.
After around 10 minutes 3 guests using the EMF metre reported a sudden spike up to 30 Milligauss (from 0).
Janice reported a cold feeling around her feet this was correlated by a guest’s environmental metre which recorded a room temperature of 17.3c dropping to 12c
A few minutes later a guest (from G3) reported a cold spot at there waist this was again correlated by the metre.
The same guest reported the presence of the child from the grounds, however this only lasted a few moments.
Two guests reported a heavy feeling on top of there heads which happened at the same time and in the same area that the child presence was felt.
Part 3 The Bedroom Of The Keep
After the group explored the main room and adjoining rooms we ventured to the roof.
After a short time we descended to the main bedroom to conduct our investigation, the lights were turned out and Jon began to call out, after a short time footsteps were heard coming down the stone steps from the roof. To which David and Jon went to investigate but nothing was found.
At this point a communication from Michelle and Kirsty was received advising that the Tea Room was very active. Jon and I sent the group members to investigate.
Part 4 The Tea Room
Group Members
Michelle, Kirsty and Staff Member
Michelle set up the test consisting of marbles on a tray of talc monitored by a camcorder secured by a motion sensor. The motion sensor chimed erratically for no explainable reason for several minutes. The marbles were not moved.
The camcorder did record the sound, however when the test was set there was an image shown on the screen but it did not record any images just a blank screen.
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Return To The Dove & Rainbow 4th June 2008:
Return To The Dove & Rainbow
First Report By Jonathan Slater
The Dove and Rainbow never fails to let us down, so we were very pleased that we was asked back to investigate the place, so on Wednesday the 4th of June around 9pm we set foot back into one of Sheffield’s friendliest real ale pubs and once again we received a more then friendly welcome by the staff.
Like the last investigation there in April we started the night by showing the members who hadn’t been there before around and gave them a tour of the places were the nights vigils would take place, we also like before set up trigger objects in the kitchen and bottle storage area’s before splitting the members of HRPI into two groups of three.
Group one was compiled of co-founders myself (Jon) and Kirsty and HRPI member Dawn, group two was headed by team leader Mark and HRPIs Janice and our new member Sean, we all agreed forty minutes would be enough to investigate each of the rooms so group one started of the nights vigils in the bottle storage area and group two would investigate the kitchen.
Kirsty, Dawn and I set up vigil for the next forty minutes in the storage bottle area and the small office we where later joined by two keen wanna be investigators from the general public who heard we was there and asked by a member of staff if they would be welcome to take part in our investigations. This time the bottle storage seemed to less active then before we only picked up a presence of someone who seemed to have a keen interest in one of the members of the public.
Kirsty and Dawn thought they heard what sounded like a cat meowing and they also saw spirit lights in the small office that is connected to the bottle storage area.
After forty minutes we moved into the kitchen area and before long a knocking noise could be heard on the closed kitchen door and this was heard by all of us who where in there and Kirsty being closer to the door decided to open it to see if anyone was there from the other group or a member of staff who might have wanted access to the kitchen, but when she opened the door no one was in the vicinity of the corridor or the bottle storage area and group two were near the lift and some distance from where we where.
We carried on investigating the kitchen and not before long we heard the knocking again on the kitchen door so I decided to sit outside on the corridor to keep an eye on what was happening and to see if someone was knocking it as they went past it. I waited outside and kept an eye on the door while the others kept a vigil in the kitchen.
Kirsty was picking up a presence of a man with cuts on his face and later on that night we found out that new HRPI member Sean also picked up on the same man in the kitchen area and neither of them discussed this while we had breaks so this was interesting information.
When we left the kitchen area to have a break we were informed that HRPI member Janice had been scratched on her arm while she was investigating the lift area, after taking a few pictures of her arm we decided that the lift area seemed to be the most active area in the Dove and Rainbow that night so investigators Kirsty, Dawn Janice, Mark and I set up vigil in there and while I was entering that area I heard tapping noises on boxes piled up against the wall and when I told the others to come have a look it stopped.
Kirsty and Mark felt uneasy in that area and soon picked up on two presences one good and one negative. One was a man who was crushed to death maybe during the war and his body was just left there. We heard footsteps and a few tapping noises while we was there and we also heard noises on the corridor but no one was there.
After all the customers had left from the upstairs bar area HRPI and the remaining staff of the Dove and Rainbow decided to hold a vigil in there, in an experiment using the EMF meter, Mark asked for the equipment to increase in sound and to order it did and then on request of mark saying can you please slow this down it did. Behind the bar people were seeing a black shape moving and also sprit lights were also seen and Kirsty and Mark felt that the negative energy was coming up from downstairs and was hanging around the steps leading down to the cellar and officers and this made them feel uneasy.
The investigation came to an end and we thanked the members of staff for another wonderful night and their fantastic hospitality.
Second Report By Mark Phillips
This is my second investigation of the dove & rainbow, It is a great place and is full of different phenomenon
1st part of the investigation
Kitchen
We split into 2 groups I was with Jan, Sean and myself
We sat in the kitchen and as soon as we walked in I immediately picked up on a small girl she was in the corner crouched down near the lift very scared of the man we called out for a noise but did not have any luck then after about 10 mins both Sean and myself felt the presence of a man enter the room this made the small girl very frightened the man was wearing a long coat scruffy in manner and a cut on his face also came across as having a hat or a cloak on covering his head when he entered the room it went darker also the door banged several times we called out again but still no response after a while both the girl and man spirit left we left after being in there for 45 mins
2nd part bottle cellar
we sat around in the cellar and asked for any spirit person to make a noise after about 10 mins we heard a bang come from behind us we asked for this again but no luck we left this area after about 35 mins
3rd Bottom Of the stairs
We started of at the bottom of the stairs near the lift area to the back of us was a cupboard this is opposite the lift both Jan and myself felt a presence of a man buried below us, he is not to happy as he unhappy about not being found just covered over during the ww2 bombing also in the cupboard the presence of an entity was coming forward this is quite an uneasy feeling, after about 20 mins Sean left us and the other group joined in .
We asked them how they were feeling and dawn Kirsty both said they don’t like the cupboard also Kristy said she felt the presence of a man buried under the stairs too.
We all asked for something to happen and the cardboard boxes moved and rattled after about 10 mins ;used the emf meter this then went faster when asked and slower as well this is very strange as it should not alter.
We called out for more to happen then Jan was scratched on the arm
We carried on to have noises happen for about 40 mins also everyone said they did not feel at ease in this area I felt that someone was sat at the bottom of the stairs watching us
4th part The bar
We all went up into the bar, were we are joined in by 3 members of staff I felt the presence of a man stood in the corner of the bar area also the man from down below in the cellar was near the entrance to the bar I feel he pops in and out touching the staff and rattling the glasses for fun.
Whilst in the bar I gave my meter for one of the bar staff to look after he pushed the button in and we asked for a sign after about 2-3mins the machine started to make a noise going faster when we asked it also slowing down between questions this was very interesting
Whilst in the bar a spirit of a woman came and asked me to ask about a barmaid who used to work there called 3 yrs ago ish Carla pick unsure of the surname but wanted to let the owner know this asked the barmaid she said she would be in touch
Dove & rainbow is a fantastic place haunted with plenty of spirits both friendly and not so especially the one near the lift
All in all would like to thank Jason for being so kind in letting us investigate this public house
And Jon & Kristy for finding such a great place for us investigate
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