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Room 30

Rooms 28, 29 and 30 could be found on the top floor of the Schooner Hotel and had the reputation - specifically Room 28 - of being the most haunted rooms in the hotel.

Each of the rooms we're identically furnished (except Room 30 which had only one bed as opposed to two in the others). Once, it was said, these rooms weren't separate and the walls in between had been added at a later date to turn one large room, into three.

Group 1 Report : Jay Claire

This was group 1's first location of the night and Jay and Claire settled themselves down and let the room quieten.

Immediately Claire, who was laying on the bed, started to report that the bottom of her legs we're cold and stated that she could smell, although slightly, the smell of ginger that she had picked up in Room 29 on an earlier walk-about. Jay confirmed that her lower legs we're colder than the rest of her.

Jay began to call out - asking that any spirit in the room would move the cold sensation to him so that he could experience it. It did appear to move to a point in the room that was between the two of them so that he could feel it down his left side.

Later, Claire got a funny feeling about the wardrobe in the room and began to examine it. She claimed she could see it as though it was 'warping' slightly and has she hovered her hands over the wooden door, she claimed she could sense little vibrations. Jay asked if any spirit could make a noise on the wardrobe - either just a knocking or a movement of the door - but nothing occurred.

Other than the cold spots, a slight smell of ginger (which Jay confirmed) and a slightly vibrating wardrobe - nothing else was experienced in this room.

Group 2 Report : Bruce Pam Dave

EDITOR : There is no group 2 report available for this location. Assume nothing of note occurred.

Group 3 Report : Wayne Carl

Again a teabag was placed on the end of a bed. Nothing was sensed at this all to start with.

Suddenly, Wayne went icy cold and felt a draught on his right hand side. Both Carl and Wayne thought this could be from the door but were not sure. Wayne felt the draught on his arm, Carl felt draught on his face and right arm.

Wayne tried the pendulum for the first time in this room and according to it, there was no presence in this room at this time. We asked if a spirit could make itself known and come forward but we weren't sure of the result. Carls? leg went cold a few minutes after this was said.

Later during the vigil, Carl went icy cold. Wayne got the sense of a man and kept stroking his top lip as if he had a moustache or beard. Wayne now sensed the man more clearly - with a beard and who was possibly a fisherman. Wayne says he is a "Captain Birdseye" look-alike, but with a more weathered furrowed brow he was slightly hunched looking.