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The Experience

This location consisted of 2 parts.

Firstly, a small seating area that could be plunged into darkness that allows visitors to the museum to experience the dark conditions that the miners would experience.

Next to this seating area is a recreation of a very early mining tunnel complete with rail-track, rail truck and wooden support beams. The tunnel was approximately 35 foot in length and 6 foot wide.

Once the lights were turned out, this room was plunged into pitch blackness.

Group 1 Report : Jay Sue

Similar to the North Drift, we were plunged into complete darkness in the Experience when the lights were switched off.

We both began calling out to any spirits who may have been present and who wanted to make themselves known to us - and it at first appeared that we were getting some success.

However, Paul - one of the museum guides and who was with us within the Experience claimed that the noises that we could hear may have been a result of 'wood wasps' that had burrowed themselves into the wooden timbers in the location and which periodically dropped out of the wood.

Upon investigation with torch in hand we did find a couple of the 'wood wasps' - huge ugly monstrosities if the truth be told - in the area where we could hear the sounds.

We asked Paul to call out - with him being someone who worked in the museum we hoped that perhaps a familiar voice may encourage any spirits present to make them self know, but we got no response.

Group 2 Report : Pam Bruce

Immediately upon entering the Experience, Pam picked up on the fact that the far wall had been blocked off and that there was something beyond (EDITOR : We later found out that there was indeed a continuation of the tunnel beyond the bottom wall).

A number of flashing lights were also reported in different parts of the Experience (blue and white).

Pam also picked up on a couple of names : James Brolin and a Stanley Richardson. She was told by the latter : "Through the wall and down the lift, you'll not like it. They are weary of people".

Pams reported a cold feeling down her left-had side and when she called out to any spirits that were present both her and Bruce reported tapping on the walls or wood (also, a reading of 2.0mg was picked up on the EMF sensor at the point).

Group 3 Report : Mike Andrea Joan Linda

We spent most of our time in The Experience in the small room next to it known as the Sound Room and we all sat down around the benches which were in there.

It was very dark. Andrea and Mike called out. Mark (guide and member of Abbey Paranormal group), Mike and Andrea heard a small laugh like a child laugh.

Andrea was surprised at what happened next as it had never ever happened to her before but she was getting a picture in her head of a Boy who was about 9 or 10, he had jet black hair and had a tooth missing at the front, she got the name Ralfie.

While Andrea had called out before she kept hearing someone saying "Shhhh". She then said the boy was talking about a older boy named John who looked out for him. Andrea could also see a box with pebbles in it, it was next to the boy.

Mark then told us a story about young boys sitting in here years ago when it was a working mine. He asked Andrea to called out for them. Andrea did and still kept getting the feeling that someone was saying "shhhh".

Mike then started to laugh and say silly things. This was out of charactor for Mike and was extremely weird. He could not stop laughing for about 5 minutes.

Linda caught some flashing lights on her camera.