NGI

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St. Catherines And Lady Pecketts

We decided to join the two rooms at the back of The Fleece into one even though they were on two different floors. The reason for this was because Lady Pecketts room was quite small in comparison to the other rooms in The Fleece and it would have been awkward and difficult to fit everybody inside comfortably.

St Catherines room, with its uneven floors which made you think you'd stepped into a room from Alice in Wonderland, contained two single beds, a wonky wardrobe, a few smaller pieces of furniture and an adjoining bathroom with the usual accompaniment.

Lady Pecketts room was furnished the same albeit the room was maybe half the size of St Catherines and with no wonky floor.

Group 1 Report : Jay Kelly Michele Liam Chris

Our last location of the night proved to be the most active. We'd split into 2 groups to cover the two rooms albeit not an even split .. 5 of us in St. Catherines and 2 in Lady Pecketts. This report is from the St. Catherines group.

Initially the room was quiet and we actually spent 5 minutes or so just talking about the night in general. It had been quiet, we all had to admit that, but still enjoyable.

Suddenly, there was a large creak from one of the beds. Somebody was sitting on it, but they claimed they hadn't moved and the bed had just creaked itself.

Whilst talking about it, the bed creaked again. The person sitting on the bed stood up and nobody was now touching the bed and so we began to call out.

Over the course of 5 minutes, there were numerous creaks and cracks coming from the bed seemingly in response to requests being made. Its entirely possible that this was just coincidence and while interesting, we didn't really place much importance on it. However, to check whether we were talking to a spirit or just an old creaky bed, we asked that a noise be made - 2 taps perhaps - in another part of the room.

Immediately, from a cabinet on the far wall, there were 2 taps. We asked for a repeat and then once more got an immediate response. Given our quiet night in regards to activity, the people present were really thankful for finally getting something that could be something more and shouted out their appreciation to which we got a series of taps one after the other that sounded like a round of applause.

Sadly, though, that was it and we left the room and the Fleece for the night.

Group 2 Report : Carol Claire  Fiona Anna Carol Rob

St Catherines

We all came in here and sat on the beds. The room smelt slightly better on entering but that?s was because the bathroom door was shut. I checked it by opening it and was again hit with the nasty smell from here. Although there was no obvious visual source for the smell it was definitely coming from here.

We sat around the room, the guests on the beds and Carol (NGI) and I on the chairs. After about 5 minutes I noticed a white light flash in the bathroom to my right from the corner of my eye. I turned my head to see if it did it again and about 30 seconds later I saw it again. I asked Carol (NGI) if she had seen it and she said no. We realised the air conditioner was on a timer and gave out a green flash every 30 seconds or so. Carol (guest) said this was not what she had seen; she had also seen a different flash twice, it was smaller like a white ball, not anything like the air conditioning flash.

This was how I had seen the flash twice but I'd not described it like that out loud, I'd just asked if anyone had seen a flash in there. It was low down and local on the ground and definitely white, which was very similar to how Carol (guest) described it. We tried to recreate this because I wondered if it was a reflection from something in the flash of the air conditioner but no explanation could be found for it in the brief way we explored. We sat for a further 5 minutes and as nobody was feeling anything we decided to go to the other location.

Lady Peckitts

We all sat on the beds except for Carol (NGI) who sat in the bathroom on the toilet with the door open. After 7-10 minutes as nobody was getting anything, and after Carol (NGI) calling out with no obvious response we got chatting about the other experiences of the night and other things.

We referred to the 'dark presence' Anna straight away said she felt uneasy doing this as though just talking about it was drawing it to her and she felt she had to leave the building again. Rob went with her and we remained in the room chatting.

I was in the bed next to the mirror and Carol (guest) and Fiona were on the bed next to the window. At one point whilst we were chatting I saw a dense black shadow about 4 feet tall quickly move from the wall to about halfway along the foot of the bed. It didn't happen again and I didn't sense anything so I assumed it was just my eyes. I didn't mention this.

About 5 minutes later Carol (guest) said she was picking up on a lady and a man and she felt that the lady had been attacked by the man. She felt the lady was in her late 20s/early 30's, with dark hair. She was stripped down to her underwear, which had frills and lacy bits on but the bloomers were made of a 'rough cotton' and she kept getting the word 'calico'.

The male was fat with a big beer belly. She felt this lady was a 'whore' and had been picked up that night by the man, who had been drinking. He had become aggressive under the influence of the alcohol and it had ''all gone wrong''. She felt the lady had not been raped or sexually assaulted but that the man had turned on her and attacked her. She could 'see' a large candlestick which she felt was used by the male to hit the lady with on the right side of her head. It was quite large, with a chunky square base, and she said it was yellow but not gold or brass, more like a sandy matt yellow type of marble. It had lines on the square base.

When Anna and Rob returned Anna sat on the bed next to me again and after a few minutes I felt her jump. When I asked her why she'd jumped she said she had seen a 'black shape' come from the mirror (left side of the bed) to the foot of the bed. She said it was not very tall and that it had moved quickly. I had not mentioned that I had seen something which sounded similar earlier and she was not in the room at the time. I did not see it when she did and neither did anyone else.

No one was moving and we could find no explanation for the black shape unless we had both imagined it, although there was no moving light source to have caused a shadow.

Group 3 Report : Mark Chris Julie Bekki Phil

The group stars off in St. Catherine's Suite before we moved onto to Lady Pecketts later.

We attempted a table tipping experiment in this room but got no results at all - possibly the table used was too heavy.

Wolf then feels a pain in his temple as if he has "been hit by a hammer" which seemed to last for a few minutes before easing and the the room seemed to go darker a couple of times as we were sitting in silence.

Some of the group remained in St. Catherine's while Mark and Bekki go up to Lady Pecketts Room although we find this room is as uneventful for Mark as was St. Catherines. Bekki may have sensed a few things in the room but noting really notable ? just little flashes here and there. Whilst trying to call out, we were disturbed by the screams from the Shambles room when Carol was attacked by a wardrobe (!!). Unfortunately, even though it didn't happen to us, that was the highlight for us in these two rooms!