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| Great Hall and Kings Chamber |
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Great Hall and Kings Chamber
The uppermost floor in the Keep was classed as Location 3 and consisted of one main room - The Great Hall - which had a number of little rooms attached to it, most notable of those was the Kings Chamber.
The Great Hall was a large room with little in the way of furniture - a couple of display cases at most. In a side room, the Kings Chamber had a small amount of furniture and a small corridor leading off to what was once upon a time, a lavatory.
Up a set of stairs and through a small open doorway there was a small empty chamber with a pitched black corridor leading to another blocked toilet area.
On an even higher level, overlooking the Great Hall, was a passageway that was known as The Galleries. This passage circumnavigated the Great Hall and allowed people to look down on the Great Hall. The stairs up to the Galleries also led to the roof of the Keep.
Group 1 Report : Bekki Derek Jen Susan Shirley Diane Val Sandra
We moved onto the second location and waited for the lights to go out. We let ourselves adjust to the environment, then some of us went into the Kings Chamber and tried some call outs, but got very little, I sat on the box I had sat on earlier to see if I could provoke a response. Although I felt a slight hostile atmosphere, I got nothing else.
So we went back into the great hall, where some of us decided to set up the Ouija board, We grounded ourselves before starting by calling out for any spirits in the room to come forward. At first we got nothing, but then something started to come through:-
- It spelt out FU and started to move toward the C
- I asked if this was who I thought it was (Someone we had come across on previous visits)
- It replied Yes then
- I asked if this was Derek to which it replied Yes
- We then asked if it had anything to tell us and it started to spell PIS and move toward the S again
- Did he die here? No
- Did he live here? No
- Did he work here? Yes
- Did he have anything else to tell us.
- He then started to spell out SHALL I SAY and after a bit of struggling he spelt out EDGIN.
- We asked if this was his surname and he replied Yes.
- We asked if he wanted to say anything else
- which he spelt out the word COFFINS
- We asked him what he wanted to say about coffins, he replied I DUG THEM UP
- We asked why PEDDALAR
- We asked if he meant he was a peddler, he replied Yes
- We asked what he peddled in, and he started to spell out BQD
- We asked him to start that word again Which he started to spell out BOD, but the lights then turned on and we where distracted
- we asked if he was still there, but he seemed to have left
- I believe he had been trying to spell out the word bodies.
Group 2 Report : Jay Julie Norma Thea Chris John Charlotte Christian
In truth, we got very little whilst in the Great Hall - bits and pieces, but nothing major.
At first, everybody split up and explored all the little rooms which connect to the Great Hall before we all got together again around the Ouija Board.
It did appear as though there was a lot of unconscious movement of the planchette as it jerked around randomly to begin with but after a little forceful encouragement to have any spirits direct it towards Yes if they could hear us, it did begin to move constantly in that direction.
However, it stopped instead on "B" and then moved over to "1", "2" and "2" again before the random jerkiness came back.
While we were doing the board, we heard the floorboards creaking in a circular fashion around us as though somebody was walking around where we sat. Norma, who was sat with her back to the Kings Chamber, had previously said she had felt an icey breeze come from this room as though somebody had just come into the Great Hall and on a couple of occasions claimed she felt cobwebs over her face and that something was tugging the collar of her jacket.
We never felt we were going to get much more from the board and so instead tried a little table tipping. However, the table did not move at all. Jay got the sense that something was watching on asking What ARE you doing?. We stopped our attempt after a while.
We entered the Kings Chamber itself and Normal immediately got drawn to the corner to the left of the doorway where she felt uncomfortable. Jay mentioned that a man who didn't particularly like women was known to inhabit this room and so Normal herself began calling out to him to try and have him remove her from the room.
At one point, Julie commented that the corner oppopsite to where we were was getting darker and darker and when Jay went to investigate, Norma suddenly cried out. She heard what sounded like somebody scraping their feet 3 times behind her and pushing into her.
Later, when we left the Kings Chamber, Jay thought he saw a dark figure standing in the doorway of the Kings Chamber when somebody else was randomly waving their torch around. It was quite possible the shadow of an object or person, but it was something we couldn't replicate even though everybody remained stood exactly where they were.
Group 3 Report : Claire Phil Kathryn Susan Gillian Sheena Wendy Julie
We sat in the Great Hall and Pam asked for any spirits to come forward. After about 5 minutes she and some of the guests felt as though the doorway to the Kings room was darkening.Phil said he could feel this too. Pam went over and then came back saying it was horrible and dark and strong.
I couldnt really see or feel anything so I went over and stood next to the glass case in the doorway. I then sensed energy strongly in the doorway and coming towards me. Pam said that she could see a dark energy coming to 'overshadow' me and that I should move but I felt fine and stayed where I was. I could feel this energy but this is what we had come for so I was going nowhere.
Pam and 2 of the guests said they could see me 'changing'...I ad gone all black,they couldn't see 'me',just that I was a 'tall black shadow'. I could sense the energy strongly now and I shouted for it to ''come on'' repeatedly...I felt as though it 'had to build' or what was the point?
Pam was telling me to move away but I wanted it to 'come on' ,although I didnt really know what ''coming on' entailed. My voice deepened and got s'tronger' as I shouted this.
I wanted to turn and look behind me.
Phil and another guest were saying they could see a dark shadow on the steps.
Pam turned het attention to this and said I should too.
Both she, Phil and 2 of the guests said the could see little lights in the darkness.
I 'strode' (only was I can describe how I felt I moved) over towards this area and at first I couldn't see anything unusual. Then I saw it and it 'hit' me with a 'wave of energy'.
It was a dense solid blackness but in this blackness I could see shapes and figures shimmering. I could see one coming down the steps towards me.
Pam was saying this too and was shouting for it to go back and for me to go back but again I felt that although this was a bit stronger than the energy in the Kings Room it was ok and it was only its 'strength' that was unsettleing,and this is what we had come for.
I felt a big injustice that we should 'ask' these people to come forward and share things with us only to run off screaming when they did,and whatever happened I knew I wasnt moving this time.
Pam was saying the energy was coming towards me and Phil and the other guests could see an area of darkness. I then saw from the dense energy a clear shape of a figure (slightly drawn out by a silvery colour; I said it looked like a silver 'readybrek man',and then laughed and said this was funny as I'd mentioned about Ready Brek earlier in the night when stood in almost the same area.)
I couldnt get anymore details visually,only that it was taller and slimmer than me,very thin. (I said it was 'like manhattans', and what I meant by this was I was seening it how Ihad seen the bloke thing coming down the stairs in manhattans,the same sort of 'energy figure',however it was a different colour and nothing like that)
I started shaking and felt 'bent' over'.
Pam came over and said for it to leave me but again I said no,I wanted it to come stronger,I was ok and this is why we were here.
I felt the ball of light in my stomach pushing upwards and stupid noises started coming out of my mouth again. My legs were shaking violently by this time and I was almost bent over double. Pam came and stood behind me and asked it to leave but again I said no.
I then started to move 'violently' backwards and forwards. As much as I am loathe to say this cos I know I'll get stick for it it was as though I was being bent over and 'entered' from behind quite violently by a man.
I felt nothing sexual or any other sensation either physically or energetically, but the 'movements' and 'position' I was being 'held' in (I couldn't move from this position) seemed to indicate this.
Also the movements got faster and faster (as can be the case in those moments) and then as my legs suddenly 'spasmed' it suddenly stopped and left me. (I can only say this was a very similar 'movement' to a man 'finishing off' in those circumstances).
I then stood up and felt fine.
At no time did I feel anything other than the sensations I described, no emotions or other sensations.
Pam said the energy had gone and Phil and the guests said they could not see it any longer.
We then split into 3 smaller groups.
Phil and I went into the 'dead end passage' room and stood.
As soon as we went in I felt as though I couldn't breathe deeply enough however I wasn't gasping for breath.My chest felt very heavy.
Phil said (as I was feeling this and thinking about it as he said it) that his chest felt really heavy as though there was a great pressure on it.
This lasted in both of us for about 2 mins then stopped. We both said it had gone at the same time.
I then sensed a younger male energy to my right (in the doorway down the thin passage) and he seemed to by holding his hand out to me 'so I could join him in a dance'. I wanted to hold my hand back out to him and had a strong urge to laugh.
2 guests then joined us and we stood in a circle.
Then one 'jumped' and said she had seen a black shape move to the right of her and she moved to stand in another area.
I sensed nothing else and left.
I went to the Kings Room and stood in the doorway.
Pam and the guests again said they could see lights and energy around this area.
I entered the room with Pam. She said Bekki had said something to her 'that no one was able to sit on the chest' in the far right corner, so she went and sat on it.
Almost as soon sa she sat down the jumped up and ran over to me saying a man had shouted at her to get off it.
We stood in the doorway just inside the room.
Pam said she could see and sense a dark energy in the far left corner of the room near the fireplace.
She said she felt as though it was stood and wanted us to go.
I looked at her and I saw she had a dark veil over her head and face.It was very dense, more like a thick material than a 'gauzy' one. I blinked, shook my head, moved slightly, looked away and looked back again yet still I could see this as clearly as I could see anything else; it was not made from 'energy'.I felt I could have touched it. Pam seemed smaller and I said what I could see.
I then noticed she was shaking slightly and then I realised she was quietly sobbing. I put my arms round her and asked if she was okay.
She was speaking very quietly but in between her sobs she said she felt as though she had a dark shroud' on. She didn't say anything else,she just cried and asked for it to leave her alone.
I then briskly rubbed all round her to dispel any energy around her and after abour 1 min she said it had gone. She then left the room.
As she did I was aware of a guest behind me in the doorway. I moved slightly to let the pass, and I wondered who it was as they had a strong 'aura' which felt very nice and warm. As I turned to see who it was (they felt 'familiar') I saw there was no one there.
I asked Pam and the guests who had just been in the doorway and they said no one, only Pam leaving it. I had been aware of 1 definite, but I had thought there were 2 guests stood behind us and one who had enter the room who I had moved to let pass when Pam ahd just left. They had been looking at this are all the time so would have seen if anyone was there. I had felt this so strongly I just presumed it was a guest,or at least a 'real person'.
2 guests then came over and stood in the door with me and Phil joined us.
One guest stood to the left of me more towards the centre of the room.
The energy now felt very different, rhythmical. I felt as though someone was being comforted,or 'lulled' to sleep.
I felt as though I was swaying and I could see the guest to the right of me swaying.
I remarked on this and she said she didn't feel as though she was moving at all. The other guest and Phil both said they could see her moving and swaying.
We seemed to be swaying in conjunction with each other. None of the others in the room/doorway could sense this energy however the guest continued to 'sway' until the lights came on.
I stayed in this room for a while as I felt it was still full of energy. It felt a nice,peaceful,soothing energy energy.
Group 4 Report : Mark Carol Gail Liane Angela Michelle Aileen Jean
Once the lights had gone out, Mark & I led the group in to the Kings Chamber. We felt this was the better location, rather than the Main Hall, as the Hall location was too noisy with other groups moving around the Gallery area above. This Mark & I felt was quite distracting, so we decided the Kings Chamber, which is just off the Main Hall was a better proposition. The group and ourselves, quickly got adjusted to the dark and we let things settle down a bit before actually calling out.
In the Kings Chamber, one of the guests Michelle felt very cold, even though no one else in the group felt like this at the time. However, another 2 guests felt drawn to, what they described as a "gravity pull" towards a cabinet, which had a gravestone enclosed within it, in the corner near the Kings Chamber loo area (on your right hand side as you 'enter' the Kings Chamber). Unfortunately, apart from that gravity pull towards the cabinet, this was the only thing to be felt in this room. We carried on calling out, including a number of guests, but this particular location was very quiet, so we decided to try another location.
Well Room & Room off with toilet:
A number of the guests had ventured in this particular location on their own, and all of them said that they felt nothing unusual, or that they certainly didn't feel anything untoward in this area. As a group we did collectively enter the Well Room, but we all felt that this location was also very quiet. From there we took the group into a room off the Main Hall, which is next/near to the Well Room and up some stairs. Now this location the last time I was at the Castle Keep, I have to admit my hackles rose in this particular area, as if I was being watched -and for me to say this, you know there has to be something in it. Again this area didn't disappoint.
This room was very dark so we all had to get adjusted to the light first. Because this room is quite confined and narrow, the group had to be separated into different parts of the room. A few guests were stood in the corridor area, closed off by what looks like a cell door, and others in the corner area where the toilet is situated. The rest of the group including myself and Mark, stayed in the main area of the room. It was at this point that activity started to occur. One of the guests a young girl called Liane, suddenly felt very cold, and commented that she felt that someone was standing near her. This was in the corridor area of the room, Liane was standing near the cell door at this point. Another guest then commented on seeing red or blue dotted lights (can't remember what colour), but they weren't that of a laser torch either, and I must admit a few other guests commented at different times that they could also see these lights too.
Mark & I thought this would be a good opportunity to do a 'Circle', to help build up some form of communication using our own personal energy. We did this, and Liane again felt that someone was next to her, as she went very cold down one side. This was felt also by the guest standing next to Liane, which makes it appear that the spirit or whatever, was standing by her side. Again lights were seen in the centre of the circle by a number of guests, and there was a distinct drop in temperature felt by certain members of the group as well. Sadly the lights came back on, so we had to leave this location, but we all felt this particular location was the 'most' active.