Borough Hall - The Dressing Room

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This was a large open room that was sparsely furnished – merely a couple of hard backed chairs and a small dressing area. The room would be used by acts that would be performing on stage.

With no windows, when the lights were out, this room was perfectly dark without any chance of seeing anything at all unless it gave off its own light source.

Baseline Report

Environment Readings

No baseline readings were taken in this location

Group Vigils

What follows are the group vigils that took place in this location.

Note : These vigils are presented purely in Group Order and in no way reflect the order
 in which each group visited the location during the night.

Group 1

NGIers - Jay, Michelle, Carol

Guests - Various

Our fourth and final location was the dressing room off of the ballroom. During the group’s visit to this room, Claire and Iain joined the group. There was not a lot of activity in this room but everyone agreed that it was a comfortable, relaxing environment.

At one point toward the end of our time in the room, Claire began to experience the sensation that there was something that predated the Headlands itself. She experienced the sensation of dark religious rituals. The visual imagery of the ground composed of a big disc, like a necklace woven with shapes, began to emerge to her. She sensed people walking the patterns of the disc/ground and thought the patterns were meaningful to them. Jay suggested that, perhaps, there was some sort of demonic group here.

At this point, Jay began to experience some pressure in his head. The pressure felt like someone was squeezing his head above his ears.

Group 2

NGIers - Bekki, Julie

Guests - Craig, Michael, Lauren, James, Sharon

For this location Di and Kirsty the two mediums joined us. We turned off the lights and adjusted to the environment, the one of the mediums suggested that we do a mini séance. The group sat on the floor in a circle, holding hands; Bekki stood to the side of the circle to observe. The group started to call out and the atmosphere changed, the corner of the room began to darken and one of the mediums tried calling out to a female spirit she had picked up on her earlier walk-around. She felt this spirit, who is believed to be named Ella was present. Some of those in the circle commented on a breeze and coldness from the corner of the room, this was identified to be coming from a door that leads to the outside. One of the guests chose to leave the circle after felling uneasy.

During the circle, Bekki felt the presence of a male spirit. This spirit seemed to be moving around by the wall, behind where Julie was sat. He seemed reluctant to come forward and she got the impression he was a soldier, the mediums attempted to make contact with him, and at one point he moved to stand above one of the mediums, who then felt that he was reluctant to come forward, because he was afraid they would attempt to move him on and she felt he had done something bad in his life, and did not wish to leave. Bekki got the name Theo with this man. One of the male guests commented on a feeling of two people fighting.

We decided to use the Ouija Board to see if we could find anything else. We called out to see if any spirits where present, then attempted to call out to this soldier. At first he seemed reluctant to communicate and Bekki spoke out : “We are not here to judge you”. She could feel his presence and in her head she said “I’m hardly in a position to judge anybody am I?” at this he seemed to respond and identified himself as the soldier we had picked up. He spelt out his name on the Ouija board as Theo Jones, we asked him if he had died fighting and he said yes, we also asked him when he had died and he indicated the year 1914. He was asked what rank he was, to which he replied ‘Private’. We asked who he had been fighting with, He spelt out the letters SGERRIES, some members of the group believed this to mean Gerry’s as in Germans, and some believed he had been trying to spell out SGT, meaning sergeant.

Group 3

NGIers - Mark, Lee

Guests - Mark, Sinead, Deborah, Delyth, Richard

After what felt like a very quiet time we moved onto the 2nd location at 11.50, just off from the stage in the ballroom. This was the dressing room area. Straight away there was a strange smell about the place that reminded Lee of a mortuary. Richard the 2 Marks and Lee attempted a Ouija board but after 5 minutes gave up as nothing happened. Sinead complained of pins and needles in her legs but this was probably due to the positional way she sat rather than anything paranormal.

The group spread out between the various rooms in this area. The first dressing room did have an atmosphere about it and the second felt fine. Lee felt the atmosphere was purely caused by the smell though a couple of the guests felt quite unnerved in the room.

The group tried the Ouija in the second dressing room and called out by had no success. The whole group felt that the atmosphere in this location was empty. The group then wandered around to the main entrance, which is a glass and metal covered structure. After what felt like many minutes we decided to move to the next location.