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Records Room

This room was an extension to the main reference library and was once used as a patents room when the library first opened. Today it was a periodicals room and small computer suite.

The room contained a few desks, chairs and computers with the walls surrounded with shelving for various books. In the right hand corner was a staircase which led up to a gallery which overlooked the room on one of the long and one of the short walls. Again, various bookcases backed up against the walls along the gallery.

Group 1 Report : Jay Claire Bekki Mark Dell Bob Christine

While Jay was being interviewed in the main reference library the team investigation was already going on in the records room with Dell calling out and guests reporting seeing shadows, Dell saying they had some taps in response perhaps to them calling out and there was a odd low temperature readings in an area on the gallery. Claire stood near the swing doors for a 2-3 minutes before going up the stairs to the gallery.

Claire stood at the top to the right next to the first pillar you come to on the right. She sensed a 'thickening' in the atmosphere up here but it was not as strong as on her previous 2 visits during the day. Bekki came up and stood near and Christine came up and went on the small section of gallery under the window and Mark was also joined us.

Claire walked down to the corner and then around onto the opposite end of the gallery to Christine. As Claire stood here she was looking about half listening to what others were doing and saying and half being aware of herself and her senses etc. Claire was looking directly opposite when suddenly the whole area under the window began to 'warp and bend'. It was not the whole wall just the area under the window. This lasted approx 2 -3 seconds and she could not recreate this with her eyes or also recreate the 'pull' 'tuning in' feeling she had with it. She didn't say anything and made her way further along the gallery towards this area. She stood on the other long gallery looking down but couldn't sense anything. She was asked to call out at some point which she did but there was no noticeable response.

Downstairs below the gallery both Dell and one of the guests both reported almost simultaneously that the area which Claire had seen 'warp' had suddenly darkened as though a large shadow had passed in front of the bookshelves. Upon investigating, it was decided that nothing could have obviously created this shadow.

Near to where this shadow was spotted, Christine began to comment on how her right hand side had suddenly gone cold. She was squatted down low at the time and could feel as though a breeze was blowing against her. Behind her was only a bookshelf with a sold brick wall yet the breeze seemed to be coming from the bookshelf. Dell checked the temperatures in this area and noted a difference in temperature on her right side compared to her left.

We investigated the area and commented that Christine was crouched below a window - but the window was high up on the wall and even standing up someone would still be some 6 feet below the bottom of the window and besides, we detected no noticeable breeze flowing down from the window.

Jay and Bob had come into the room and Jay had began to call out to try and make contact with any spirit that might have been present but without much success although Dell did continue to record various temperature fluctuations throughout the room as Jay was speaking.

Claire went back to her original place on the long side with the shelves and alcoves. She felt a big pressure on the back of her neck which was so strong she had to really concentrate to be able to lift her head up. Bekki was picking up on a magnetic field here so Claire set up an iron filing experiment.

Claire then moved further along and was stood facing the shelves on the wall (approx the middle of this gallery) when suddenly she saw them 'warp' and go all 'moleculey' and felt as though she was going to 'fall' through them. She felt dizzy and disorientated and her head went thick for a bit like it does when you've been making yourself go cross eyed but her eyes didn't hurt like they do when you have been doing the cross eyed thing.

She went over and touched and felt all around this area and could feel several warm and cold spots. Claire asked Bekki to come over and see what she sensed. Bekki said it may have been Claires eyes causing this as all the books were in straight lines which may have caused an optical illusion but almost just after saying this Bekki said she got the same thing and felt a magnetic field in that exact area.

At this point Michele said she thought she had seen something/someone move in this area but an area where no one was actually in, she'd presumed it was Claire or Bekki but when she looked she realised there was nothing in that area. Mark came over and took readings and Claire asked for the medium to come up. The medium said when she got to the top of the stairs she felt dizzy and disorientated and even more so in the area where Claire saw the books 'warp'.

Mark was taking readings and Bob came up and was asking what people had experienced for his show - the EMF meter that Mark had in his hands suddenly started to go off as it had done earlier in this area but it was ascertained that the radio equipment Bob carried with him was adding to the interference so nothing was drawn from this.

Claire went and stood down in the floor and deliberately opened herself up. She got the fleeting image in her head of a smallish man older man with a flat cap on hiding/skulking down at the far end of the gallery and going into the shelves to hide behind them. She felt he had a long coat on but was not totally sure of this.

As she was stood here for a bit she started to feel a bit claustrophobic and hemmed in and a bit angry. The irritation and slight anger was growing and she felt she wanted to get out of here because there were too many people in here and it was just stupid what everyone were doing. This wasn't how Claire was personally feeling, it seemed to be coming from someone however she thinks it was someone in the room rather than anything else but can?t say who or be sure exactly on this.