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The Barn

Accessed from the car park situated next to the Busby Stoop stood what was once a bricked barn in the days that the inn was an actual coaching inn. Currently, it was being used as a storage area for bikes and old furniture.

The Barn was split into two halves - one half was the storage area while the other half was the home of the current landlord and landlady's Yorkshire Terrier family. We could naturally only gain access to the storage area.

Approximately 20 foot by 10 foot, the section of the barn where we gained access to wasn't the largest of locations and when the barn door was closed, the barn itself was pitched black.

Due to a alight gap under the barn door and a couple of small holes in the roof, it was possible that drafts that people experienced or noises that would heard, could be a result of the wind blowing. There was also a possibility that the sleeting conditions outside would result in small drips and taps that could be heard in the barn.

One thing that wouldn't be mistaken (hopefully) for anything else was the growl of mother Yorkshire Terrier in the 2nd half of the barn who wasn't best pleased at a few ghost investigators interrupting her pups sleep.

Walkaround With Guest Medium - Ralph Keeton

Immediately upon arriving, Ralph was drawn to the barn area and straight away could smell burning and the presence of 2 men.

One of the men was a stronger presence than the other. Ralph felt that this man was somebody associatedwith the coaching inn and he would have been what Ralph initially described as a policeman or a warder or someone similar who was in charge of the comings and goings at the inn.

He felt that this man suffered from an affliction as Ralph had pains in his arms and his joints and then he was finding it difficult to put his left foot flat on the floor, needing to stand on the front part of his foot, rather than his heel.

He felt this man would be responsible for tapping sounds in the barn and would upset and aggravate the dogs in the inaccessiblepart of the barn. Ralph also felt that the man moved a around a lot in the barn and would possibly be seen as fast wispy movement out of the corner of a persons eye.

Ralph also pointed to a small living area associated with this man - although at first he thought it had been demolished - but when he came across the small wash room accessed from the kitchens, it was exactly what he had seen.

Later in the night, Ralph described this man some more and associated the name or title of "Squire" to him or something very similar.

Group 1 Report : Jay Sue Danny Kris Nikki

We headed off to the barn as our first location and stood quiet while we waited for everything to calm down. From the room next door, where the dogs were to sleep for the night, we heard periodic movement and growling.

We began to call out - with Ralph leading the way - and did get a few responses that were notable. Sue mentioned that she could see a dark shadow in the rafters of the barn and took a photo of the area which did show something not quite right (photo coming soon!).

Jay commented on how he felt he was being shoved slightly in his back. Or thats how he described it. Although he could not feel anything on his back, he kept feeling himself swaying forward as you would if you had been pushed. At one point he stumbled forward slightly as a result of this.

Kris began to complain about a pain in his lower leg, andRalph confirmed that he too had earlier had pains in his lower legs whilst in the barn. No explanation for this could be found.

Group 2 Report : Nikki Dell Carl Sharon Chris Karen

Sharon, Carl, Karen and Chris did not take part in Location 2's Group Vigil so Nikki and Dell headed outside to the Barn.

We spent 25 minutes in the barn. Both Nikki and Dell thought they could see a shadow at the bottom of the door, they thought maybe it was the dogs but on closer inspection they could confirm that it wasn't the dogs. Other than that, we felt the barn was not very active at all. However, just before leaving the barn after 25 minutes Dell's batteries had gone flat on his torch even though they were new that day.

Group 3 Report : Dave Bruce Andrea Zoe Michael

This was our final location, Zoe and Mike did not come with us to the barn, so Andrea, Dave and Bruce headed over in the freezing cold to the Barn outside within the car park.

We stood in the barn for a few minutes to let everything calm down as we heard the dogs barking. Once it was all quiet Andrea started to call out. She asked for a spirit to knock, as soon as she asked there was 2 knocks coming from the left side corner of the room bruce heard these first. Then after calling out again Andrea heard them as well.
We heard taps or clicks coming from around us, we could also hear the rain so maybe thought it was the rain.

Dave now called out and we could hear another slight knock coming from in frontof us. Andrea thought she could see a dark shadow in the corner of the room but she was unsure as it was very dark in the barn. Even though the barn is very cold we felt like there was a breeze going around us it was so cold. After 15 more minutes we left the barn and joined the rest of Northern Ghost Investigations.