NGI

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The Cellar

The cellar of the Schooner Hotel is a dank dark and unused area of the building. Scattered on the floor are various wooden crates and rubbish. There are two chairs for people to sit upon and those are the only pieces of furniture. There is a blocked up window at one end of the cellar and a pipe runs across one wall. It should be noted that this pipe has a meter attached to it that, seemingly random, 'clicked' at various different rates.

Group 1 Report : Jay Claire

Jay and Claire settled down on the two chairs in the Cellar and sat in silence for a short period of time while they let the location settle and allowed their eyes time to adjust to the darkness.

Once settled, Jay began calling out for any spirits that may have been present to make themselves known. Other than a quickening of the clicking meter, there was no other response noted.

Another moment of silence before Jay reported getting images flash in his mind. They seemed to revolve around Room 29 on the top floor and where this group would be heading later. Crazily to Jay - he kept getting shown two animals in this room - an Elephant and a Ginger Cat.

Earlier when walking around, Claire had stated that she could smell "ginger" specifically in room 29 and in fact felt she had made contact with a spirit who she called the "Ginger Bread Woman".

On a previous visit to the Schooner, Jay - when alone in room 29 - had experienced an incident in that room where upon calling out, he managed to get repeated tapping in response to the questions he'd been asking - right on cue.

Maybe a long shot - but Jay was interpreting the images he was being shown as a message to himself : "Don't forget" .. (EDITOR : elephants - never forget - ermm .. do they?) .. " .. Room 29 .. the Ginger Bread woman" .. (EDITOR : Don't ask he how he got the woman from a ginger cat .. this is a family website - use your imagination) ...

As mentioned it was a long shot - but read what happened in the Group session NGI had and when Jay and Claire spent time in Room 29.

Group 2 Report : Bruce Pam Dave

As we entered the cellar it was cold and foisty, Jaque is here,he belongs to a schooner ship called the Cross keys. He carries merchant wears,wine and the likes,also gunpowder in small barrels.

He is shouting at Pam to save his daughter,saying that Pam had not done her job. There are bottles facing us, all were the same when we entered but one bottle had turned round as we were leaving, small taps are heard. Bruce claimed to see his grandfather at the bottom of the stairs.

Group 3 Report : Wayne Carl

We entered the cellar and took to the chairs that we're present there.

We tried calling out for a while, but no matter how much we tried, we couldn't get any response. Wayne couldn't pick up on any spirits present either so it seemed the cellar was devoid of anything of note.