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The Ambulance Room

Adjoining The Experience location were 3 small rooms.

The First was a small extremely dark seating area. Next to this was a small workshop complete with a blacksmiths forge and smithy tools.

Finally, the largest of the 3 rooms contained an authentic and original horse drawn ambulance that would have been used to ferry injured or dead miners away from the mines.

Group 1 Report : Jay Sue

We found the Ambulance room to be extremely quiet and we felt totally relaxed.

Maybe it was due to the emergency lights over the fire exits which lit up the room which caused us to relax a little too much (always better in the dark!!) but we picked up on no sign of activity whatsoever.

The only moment worth reporting was in the couple of minutes before we left.

A loud explosion/rumbling was heard but it sounded as though it originated in the Experience next door and not in the room where we were. We knew that there were one or two sound effects that were played within the Experience during the tours that visitors took during the normal working hours of the museum and so figured that one of the guides may have demonstrated it for the group working in there.

Upon leaving, we enquired with the group if that had indeed been the case, but they all said no and in fact, claimed not to have heard the noise at all!

Both Jay and Sue found this to be impossible as the noise was just too loud, but the group within the Experience claimed not have heard it.

At the end of the nights investigation, Jay found out that the exact same noise had been picked up on a stationary camera that had been placed in the Ambulance room by an investigation group who had previously visited the Mine and the same noise had been reported by other people - staff and visitors alike.

Group 2 Report : Pam Bruce

We found the Ambulance room to be quite active - particularly Pam who got quite distressed being in there.

What follows is Pams account of what happened in the Ambulance Room.

There was a woman who was busy walking backwards and forwards. Lilian? Being busy. Another exit/Way in .. I'm freezing. "Cobbled Stones" could be covering something, lots of people came through this room. Perhaps people 'clocked on' here.

A shadow walked across the room, passed through the wheel on the ambulance and through the wall.

Lillian McCarthy (Red Cross?) aged 26. She was caught up in it all. A Man called Matthews is here and Gregory. One of them is blowing in Pams ear.

A small piece of metal is thrown and hits Pams leg. A blacksmith is here and he keeps knocking Pams safetly helmet from her head. There is a bang on the wall and a gasp of breath. She sensed : "Who do you think you are wearing a helmet! Your not a miner!"

Judy Ladler (?) is here, she works on a nearby farm and sells eggs and bread to the miners. Shes 19 years old and died at the same time as the other miners here. She would wear a black dress with flowers.

An orb is seen against one of the walls. The bellows next to the forge are creaking and the door to the room is opening and closing slightly by itself. A Mr Wilson enters.

Group 3 Report : Mike Andrea Joan Linda

We all went to our 1st Location of our night's Vigil which would be the "Ambulance Room".

We settled down for a few minutes to let everything quieten. Andrea kept thinking she could see something at the side of her near the old Ambulance and also Linda felt the same, like someone was there hiding.

Andrea and Linda both looked but there was nothing there.

There was another small room next to the ambulance rooms so we went in there and all sat down. After a few moments Andrea called out. Andrea and Mike both said they thought they saw someone walking past the door in the next room, Mark the guide also said the same.

Linda caught a few flashes of white light with the night vision camera. This room seemed quiet.