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Upstairs - Right Of Stairs

The large upstairs area of the Castle Eden consisted of numerous guest rooms that were each in a different state of repair. The landlords were at the time going through a process of restoration and decorating to get the rooms to a livable standard. In all, there were approximately a dozen different rooms in the upstairs part of the inn.

Due to the size, we split the upstairs into two separate location - one being to the right of the stairs and one to the left. The rooms to the right were the actual guest rooms and ranged from almost empty to half furnished and half decorated. A long straight and windowless corridor ran from the top of the stairway to the bottom room with numerous other rooms accessed from this corridor.

Group 1 Report : Jay Mark Claire Carol

Our first port of call was in the 2nd furthest room from the entrance to the upstairs section of the inn. We had set up beam barriers in the room next door and so positioned ourselves on the bed and sofa in this next room.

I began calling out as we all sat in silence. There didn't seem to be much in the way of response although we could hear a noise from the corridor which ran outside the room. Mark went to investigate and couldn't find any obvious reasoning for it - although we couldn't rule out raindrops that had began to fall outside. Maybe there was a leak in the room and water was dripping through occasionally.

We moved further up the corridor to another room and split into two - Mark and Carol went into the room near to the entrance with a sofa inside while myself and Claire sat in the almost empty room next door.

We sat in silence for a while and then Claire began to respond in a strange fashion .. she seemed to fall into a trance like state and then began talking. One of the things I could make out from her (she was talking very quietly and in a deeper voice) was her repeating of the words : "down down .. take me down" .. over and over. I tried questioning her about what she was getting but she just kept saying the same thing and derivitives of it.

She suddenly said "Jack" and her words seemed to have changed to "Drown Drown" and no longer "Down". (By this point, I'd turned on the sound recorder on my camera - however, it later proved difficult to transcribe due to the quietness of Claires voice and it not being dedicated to recording sound)

This continued along the same theme for approximately 10 minutes and then slowly Claire came out of her stupor.

We could hear Mark and Carol calling out from the next room, so myself and Claire sat in silence listening carefully for any responses from their efforts. At one point we heard Carol state she was going to tap on the wall and any spirits present should respond if the could. Carol knocked twice ..

.. and there was a definte response. At first it was difficult to locate, but on further attempts and further responses, it seemed that the tapping was coming from the room next to where myself and Claire were situated and two rooms from where Mark and Carol were. We passed on this information to our group mates and they went to sit in the room in question - a bathroom. However, despite further efforts there were no more noises to be heard.

We grouped up together again in the furthest room with the beam barriers inside and Claire lay down on a mattress to see if she could make contact again with "Jack".

She kept getting an image of a man dressed in a black and wearing a strange hat (I can't remember the way she described it). Was this a mysterious Jack? One thing about him was he seemed to soaking wet. In this time - she began to talk about a ship and seagulls and various themes associated with seamanship.

Again, we left the room and split again into our small groups of two. Myself and Claire now taking the original room Mark and Carol had took in the sofa room.

A strange feeling had overcome Claire in this room as we sat on the sofa. A sense that her "lover / husband" had come home safely from somewhere and she felt so happy and safe now that he was here.

I couldn't feel it in truth - but as we sat longer on the sofa - a sense of well being came over me, gradually at first and then stronger as time went by. I couldn't describe it in the detail that Claire could - but I could understand what she meant.

We had a slight break before heading again back upstairs to investigate the other half of the 2nd floor.