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The Bar Area

Our second location of the night included the main bar / restaurant area and the attached kitchens.

The L-Shaped bar and restaurant also served as our base room. The bar ran the length of the inn - the serving bar at one end and a pool table situated at the bottom end. Here we set up a stationary camera that took in and recorded any activity in the bar.

Attached to the bar was a large kitchen area with ovens and fridges. Dominating the center of the kitchen was a very large metallic table where we set up a couple of experiments and also a couple of motion scanners. Through the back door situated in the kitchen, we could access a small courtyard area - one half of the barn containing the dogs could be accessed here and also a small wash room which showed signs of once containing a fireplace and chimney - old living quarters.

Walkaround With Guest Medium - Ralph Keeton

Upon entering the bar area Ralph, walking around, felt that something didn't want him to walk to the bottom part of the bar near to the pool table - he felt as though something was physically pushing him back.

He had the sense that the bar was all backside first, as though it had once been arranged very differently to what it was today. He also felt that there had been a "men only" area joined on to the bar once.

Ralph picked up on a well which he said was underneath the bar andwe later found out that the original cellar was directly under the bar area and it was constantlyflooded with spring water.

Ralph picked up on the presence of a big burly man who seemed to be acting as a peace maker between two competing spirits in the inn, but it seemed to be this man that was objecting to Ralph making his way to the bottom of the bar.

Group 1 Report : Jay Sue Danny Kris Nikki

We found the bar area to be extremely quiet in the way of recognisable activity. As a team, we split ourselves up with Jay and Nikki heading to the kitchen and courtyard while the others stayed in the bar.

This, however, brought no luck andour time in this location was completely uneventful, although Jay did spend some time in the laundry room whichcould be found off the courtyard at the back of the inn (which Ralph had earlier described as being a former living quarters) and he did pick up one or two sounds that were out of the ordinary, though he could not discount the weather outside.

Group 2 Report : Nikki Dell Carl Sharon Chris Karen

We found this area of the location to be extremely quiet from an activity point of view.

Nikki didn't pick up any spirit communication and upon calling out, we didn't get any notable responses.

Ralph was still talking to the landlord and landlady about things that had been brought up in the seance and so we spent some of our time listening and contributing to the conversation.

Group 3 Report : Dave Bruce Andrea Zoe Michael

We went to our first Location which was the bar area, kitchen's etc.

At the beginning our guest medium was in the room with us conducting his walkabout. Once Ralph was finished we started our Vigil. We sat quiet for a while and Andrea called out. Bruce said he felt a very cold draught around his face and also Mike felt cold as well.

Andrea thought she could hear something behind them near the pool table it sounded like something been dropped. After 15 minutes we decided to spilt up and Andrea went into the ladies toilets, Dave into the men's Toilets, Zoe in the kitchen, Mike went into the dining area and Bruce stayed within the bar area.

While Andrea was in the Ladies toilets she felt a very cold draught around her hands but on checking the door and window there was no draughts and the temperature did drop from 14.3 to 14.1c within the matter of seconds. She also thought one of the corner's in the toilets looked like it was getting darker all the time after 5 more minutes she left to join the rest of the group. Zoe and mike felt ok, Dave felt very cold in the men's toilets and Bruce was ok as well.