NGI

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Queens And Mezzanine Chamber

The middle floor of the Keep was designated as the second location and consisted of 2 separate areas with a side room attached to the first of these two areas - The Queens Chamber.

Just on the inside of the the entrance was a fairly large room with a number of display cases telling the history of the castle. To the side of this was another room which contained a mock up of a bedroom from olden times with a couple of waxwork dummies taking up the role of the rooms occupants.

Just down a set of stairs was the Mezzanine Chamber - a relatively small room with absolutely no furniture and only a single small window that looks out onto the streets of Newcastle. On one wall there looks to be a disused and blocked up fireplace.

Group 1 Report : Jay Beth Felicity Stephen Andrea Paul

The middle floor seemed to be the quietest of the three areas we had to cover on the night, with little or next to nothing to report in the way of activity.

Even the Mezzanine chamber - which on previous visits to the Keep by NGI - had always felt as though it had some type of atmosphere contained within failed to deliver.

We were joined by Fay in the Mezzanine chamber and she said she could pick up on the spirits of two young boys in the room who seemed to be linked in somewhere - they were refusing to come forward, but Fay figured that they were probably brothers and died at the same time.

Back up in the Queens Chamber, we had an 'almost' moment that certainly woke everyone up. Jay was calling out and at one point he asked for any spirit present to make a double knocking sound if they could hear him.

Immediately there was a loud knock-knock in the room which caused everyone to stop and look around at each other with eyes wide open and hearts beating a little faster than previously.

Sadly, we later found out that someone upstairs had dropped their torch at roughly that time and described exactly what the noise sounded like as it hit the floor - exactly what we'd heard in the Queens Room. Oh well. Nearly.

Group 2 Report : Carl Sharon Carol Cath Wayne

As Andrea and Sharon were setting up the trigger object in the Queen?s Chamber they left the room for a second and the sensors went off, they went back into the room to find the coins they had placed on the divider had moved. They reset the sensors thinking someone may have accidentally lent over and broken the beam. At about 21:35 the sensors went off again, even though we thought they weren't turned on, this time all the coins had moved, some had even changed the order in which they had been placed by the team. The camera Carl and Sharon had charged that afternoon suddenly stopped working at the same time.

At 12:30 we started our vigil in the Mezzanine Chamber - 19.6 degrees 61% humidity. We sat silently for a few minutes so we could get used to the room and the darkness, One of the ladies saw a green light on the wall, it disappeared after a few seconds. We weren?t getting much down there so we decided to move up to the Queen?s Chamber.

Queen's Chamber 17.7 degrees 79% humidity.

Wayne got his pendulum out and started asking questions, he got a young lady in her mid-thirties, there was more than one spirit with us. Some members of the team separated from us to investigate the Base Room while the rest of us stayed in the Queen?s Chamber. We weren't getting anything more from the pendulum so Wayne left Sharon on her own and joined the rest of the team in the Base Room. After a couple of minutes the sensors in the Queen?s Chamber went off, giving Sharon a fright!! When she had calmed down she explained she saw what she thought was a white light pass through the sensor beam and heard someone breathe a second before they went off, everyone joined her in the chamber after this and Carl and Wayne both got the name Ann and Wayne heard ?be gone?. This was the end of our time in the chamber.

After we held the s?ance our last location was the Garrison Room 19.4 degrees 68% humidity

We were joined at this time by Faye. Faye said it did not feel the same as before the readings were 18.6 degrees 67% humidity

We went into small room up steps in Garrison Room. Carl thought he saw a flash on the wall. Everyone then saw a light on the wall.

Faye sensed a man possibly in his 50's he was wearing jeans and jumper, he had dark hair seamed to be wheezing. The name Peter was also sensed by Faye he was an intelligent man. There was a flash in the doorway at this point. Peter liked cars and was into Antiquities possibly Archaeology.

At this point we moved to the Stone Room and Chapel nothing really happened at these locations only thing is Carl heard a whistle.

Group 3 Report : Lee Kris Sue Anthony Julia Claire

We found this location to be the quietest of all the locations in the Keep.

After we went into the mezzanine, Sue and Kris sensed a male presence but no response was found after our communication attempts. One of the guests thought a female was present when asking her pendulum for a response.