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Captains Tower

Situated seperate from the main Keep - the Captains Tour was placed over the main gate into the Keep courtyard and would have been used previously as a rally and offices.

The tower was split into 2 main levels - a main gathering area for on duty soldies which containd 2 long plastic tables and a couple of chairs and then down a staircase what appeared to be a large unfurnished single room which was probably a office of some kind when the Keep was in use as a garrison.

Group 1 Report : Bekki Claire John Pete Ally Helen

In this location Bekki again picked up on the lady in tartan with the child and also the soldier shooting the ghost, but it felt a little strange as she felt the soldier had been alive when he had shot the ladies ghost, but then she could also feel the presence of this soldiers spirit, which confused her. Bekki also felt that the woman had been connected to this room, and Ally also picked up on this, she felt the woman had paced the room waiting for her executioners. She also got a connection to the Catholic faith, which Bekki had previously picked up on in other locations.

The English Heritage guy told us about a story in which a guard on duty one night had challenged a figure of a woman and when she had not responded he had charged her with his bayonet, only to find it went straight through her and he died from the shock of the incident soon after. This description seemed to fit with what Bekki had picked up about the soldier shooting the ghost.

Bekki wandered into a small opening which seemed to be bricked off, and got the feeling of being barricaded in - we were then told this that was where bones of two skeletons had been found.

Group 2 Report : Carol Mark Dell Virginia Camille

Dell carried out a temperature reading before we conducted the investigation, it read as 39.3.

We brought along a pendulum to this location as we felt it would be a good idea for the guests to have a go at using this apparatus. It was felt this it would give the guest's a feeling of being involved, also they could then gauge for themselves that we as paranormal group were not out to fake things.

It has to be noted that in this particular location we did manage to turn off the lights, which made the atmosphere more conducive. Apart from the very strong wind rattling the window frames, which was bit off putting at times, we still called out, but sadly the wind did hamper things.

Virginia was the 1st to use the pendulum. Once she got the hang of how to hold it, she appeared to be getting movement quite rapidly. This is the conversation Virginia had with a male spirit via this form of communication. Mark was videoing this as it happened.

• Virginia.... "is there any spirit presence here"?
• Pendulum...."yes"
• Virginia..... "are you a female spirit"?
• Pendulum... "no"
• Virginia..... "are you a male spirit"?
• Pendulum...."yes"
• Virginia..... ."are you a young male"?
• Pendulum...."yes"
• Virginia...... "did you live in the castle"?
• Pendulum.... "no"
• Virginia......."did you work in the castle"?
• Pendulum....."yes"
• Virginia........ "are you alone in this room with us"?
• Pendulum......"no"
• Virginia........."did you die in this castle"?
• Pendulum......"yes"
• Virginia..........."is your family here with you in this room"?
• Pendulum......."yes"
• Virginia.......... "can your family see us"?
• Pendulum........ "yes"
• Virginia........... "did you die with your family"?
• Pendulum....... "yes"
• Virginia........ "how many in your family"?
• Pendulum ...... 4
• Virginia......... "do you have a brothers & sisters"?

At one point Camille took over the pendulum.

To hasten this part, the pendulum stated that this particular spirit had 2 brothers....the older brother was aged between 20-25, we eventually established his actual age as 23, but he had no sisters. He died at 17 years of age, and was killed in the 14th century. His parents were Italian, but he was English. He had the nickname of BANK. It appeared that at this point something, or someone, was playing a little joke with us as things became slightly erratic, and when asked the pendulum said "yes" it was. It was stated that he didn't work in the castle after all, worked in Carlisle itself, but had a job related to the castle...i.e. maintained/repairs, and that his family helped him in his work, especially his brother. He had a girlfriend she was English and his real name was between H-I. He worked with money and had 2 jobs in the castle. Yes he was called BANK, he was only joking, this was not his christened name.

A new spirit entered the equation, it was related to the previous spirit. It appeared to be a parent, female and the age of death 30-40, eventually established actual age as 34 years. She too died in the 14th century, name between A-H, eventually established as Elizabeth, she had 2 sons, connection Italy.

At this point we had to move on as our time slot for this particular location had been fulfilled.