Marsden Grotto - First FLoor

The first floor restaurant consisted of a small bar area cut into the natural rock of the cliffs and then, up a couple of steps, the restaurant area itself. A couple of dividing walls seperated the restaurant out into a few parts and the large central lift shaft connecting the Grotto and the top of the cliffs dominated the center.

Through a small doorway, past a downward spiral staircase, sat the male and female toilets. The Male toilets were the standard faire - while the female toilets once more backed onto the natural rockface of the cliffs.

Baseline Report

Environment Readings

You will find in the table below the baseline readings that were taken at the beginning of the night for The First FLoor.

Next, you will find a series of graphs showing subsequent readings (including baseline) that were taken through the night.

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, Claire, Carol, Mark

The group distributed itself across the 1st floor as follows.
Carol - Bar area
Mark - Restaurant opposite lifts
Jay - Restaurant (Toilet End)
Claire - Restaurant (Toilet End)
Mark sets up a camcorder pointing at the area in from of the lift towards the 1st floor Bar.
It is noted the the ceiling vents regularly rattle due to wind/drafts.
Mark continued to monitor the environment from his position.
12.48 am - Claire laid on the floor where the 'mysterious footprints' were and deliberately, using self hypnosis, put herself in an altered state purposely telling 'her mind' it would have access to any information there was regarding the 'marks on the floor people assumed were footprints on which she was was laid across'.

What came into her mind from doing this follows:
"Claire felt as though she was a woman, wearing a long light coloured skirt was was pushed forward and had something hard (which she felt was a 'tool' of some kind) repeatedly rubbed against the front of her lower abdoman and pelvis,causing friction and soreness. This was forced on her, although Claire got no emotion from it and couldn't get a sense of who was doing it,she experienced it as though she was the woman physically,although like mentioned,she had no sense of emotion or how the woman felt, only the physical activity. She noted the light coloured skirt because she looked down at 'herself' and saw it pushed up. Although the floor she was knelt on was wooden it was a lighter coloured wood then the actual floor of the pub is now. It was still smooth though as though well scrubbed.It was like a rape situation only there was nothing internal involved.Claire felt the 'woman' was left with a sore, red, bald patch on her pubic hair caused by the continual friction.

This then changed and Claire saw a slim male wearing a dark blue or black suit who came forward and went down a tunnel into the ground (the staff member had told Claire, Lee and Carol that there was reputed to be a tunnel going deep into the ground). This was a vertical tunnel as Claire saw it, more of a shaft or a well. Claire felt this male was linked to something she couldn't quite put her finger on, he reminded her of someone, or she had seen him before.

Things changed again and Claire saw a woman in a cave and the water was rising up,it was to chin height and rising fast. Then Claire saw a man there too, and both were shouting to each other, both had dark hair. The water rose and they pressed thier faces up to get the last few centimetres of air before the cave was filled with water.Claire saw the man floating underwater but not the woman. She 'observed' this.

Claire also saw caves with fires in them, far more caves than she saw in the pub, which seemed to be connected by a series of tunnels, and smaller caves. They were empty as she saw them."

At various times doing this Claire felt as though she was physically floating and several times floated forward and rotated the full 360 degrees. This made her feel physically nauseous, and she felt lighter and lighter and had to focus not to naturally jump out of the state which was causing her to feel 'bodyless' and nauseous. Claire has experienced this before and regards it as a part of the process however. A few times she felt several 'strong rushes of energy' coming from feet to head then back down again very quickly, again, something Claire has experienced several times before and something she now regards as being part of the process.

Claire was fully aware of things around her during this time, and was aware of the others moving about and talking quietly etc.After about 15 mins Claire conciously counted herself back up, as this was something she wanted to do specifically as oppose to just seeing what she picked up from the place the rest of the time.

At the far end of the upstairs section of the Grotto - near to the 'footprints' that are part of the wooden flooring, Jay often got a feeling of pressure on the top of his head. There were one or two other areas within the Grotto as a whole where he felt the same - but it was more pronounced and noticeable here.Claire heard Carol scream and Mark and Jay asking Carol if she was okay. As Carol did not immediately answer Claire went into the small first floor cave bar where Carol was with the others, where a sheepishly grinning Carol said she'd tripped up over her own foot or something........

Claire asked Jay to go and sit on the 'footprints' to see if he picked up anything. Jay said he didnt want to sit on the floor but went and sat in a chair in that area. Claire went and sat in the paino room area under the window on the floor.

12.53 am - while Carol was sat on a stool close to the bar, she felt as if something 'touched' her right hand - Carol commented that it "felt like a cobweb had touched her". Carol also felt a cool breeze intermittently blowing in her face, which "wasn't" there previously and it appeared to have come out of nowhere. The breeze then stopped, it was 'more' noticeable this had occurred, because the general temperature in this area was 'always' warm. However, it has been noted in one of the previous paragraphs, there 'were' quite a few ventilation shafts in this particular area because of where it was situated, so this may very well have been the air circulating on a "timer".

There was a door on the right hand side down the stairs from the bar, which might have been into the Kitchen. Twice this door 'opened and closed' and no one was seen entering or leaving this room at the time. Mark joined Carol in this area sometime later and spoke into his dictaphone calling out the name "Jack". Unfortunately there was a lot of "buzzing" noises coming from behind the bar from the pumps, which made this distracting for Mark. When Carol told Mark about the 'earlier' door incident that was witnessed, he then tried the 'said' door and commented that it was quite easy to open. So this could have been members of staff entering the building from another entrance, or going outside hence causing an air flow, which could have caused this to occur.

1.14 am - Mark sees a streak of light go across the doors of the lift. He describes it similar to 'car headlights' going pat although there are no windows in this area. No explanation is found for these lights.

1.16 am - A loud band is heard from the 1st floor bar area where Carol is situated. Claire, Mark and Jay rushed to the small bar where Carol was, who said the bang had come from the room and she thought it had come from a machine in the corner.

Claire said although she didn't know for definate she felt sure that it was something to do with metal expanding/contracting due to changing temperatures. Others were not so sure. Claire remained with Carol in the small cave bar and they both scaled the huge stools and sat at the bar, listening and quietly chatting about what could have caused the noise.

The machine where Carol said the noise had come from had an orange and a green light on, so both were watching that machine for any other noises or changes. They both heard it change and make a different noise, which was mechanical and persisted, indicating that it was doing something which was timed. Claire pointed out that as the pubs own camera was focused in that area we would be able to show the staff it and ask if it was definately the machines and 'normal' etc.

(This noised is heard throughout the night at approximate 50 minute intervals and is found to be the Ice Making machine.)

Jay decided to take a trip to the Gents. Firstly, upon entering the Gents, there was a small section between the outer and inner doors which was semi-lit as he entered. Upon immediately opening the inner door to enter the toilets proper, he faced an uncomfortable sensation as the room itself was quite disconcerting. To his right was a section containing urinals that actually thrust back over his shoulder the way he came. Being "around the corner" from the couple of small windows which gave a little light into the toilets - this area was almost pitch black and the usual "whats in the darkness" feeling overcame him.

After doing his business, Jay turned and opened the inner doorway when ready to leave and entered a truly disorientated sense of being. As mentioned above, on coming into the toilets, the small space he was now entering was semi-lit - but now coming out of the toilets - this section (with no light source behind him to light the way) was plunged into pitched darkness - which completely threw his senses to pot.

Jay stayed for a short while between the two closed doors before deciding to leave and join the others. As he stepped out of the main door to the toilets - there was a loud buzzing noise just to the left of his ear. It was as though a large fly had suddenly appeared next to his left ear - buzzed for a second or two - and then vanished. There was no coming or going with the buzzing. One moment it was quiet - the next moment there was a buzz - then, the next moment it was quiet again. He spent a couple of minutes checking around the top of the stairs for any fly or insect that could have been responsible, but nothing could be found.

Claire joined Carol in the bar area shortly after the banging incident. Claire thought she saw a "heat shimmer" on the stair railings near the Kitchen door, which earlier had been seen opening and closing by Carol. Jay joined Carol and Claire at this point, and said that he had been in the upstairs toilets (near the table with the so-called footprint markings) and "didn't like it" and couldn't wait to get out of there. Jay said he felt a "buzzing" sensation and felt on edge. Claire went with Jay to see for herself and Carol remained in the bar.

Claire then went with Jay to the male toilet, leaving Carol still watching the machine. They both stood in the dark area between the 2 doors which was pitch black, and Jay explained what he had experienced in there and they both tried to find explanations for this.

Claire then went into the actual toilet area and immediately wanted to leave. She felt very unwelcome, as though she had entered a private area for men only, and that there was a male in the far corner who wanted her out straight away. Just to note, as shifty as it sounds Claire is used to being in male toilets and normally doesn't feel uncomfortable in them due to the fact that they are male toilets. She felt this was a place she did not want to be in on her own at all and she struggled to stay there, despite Jay being just on the other side of the door. She tried to find a cause for this however nothing obvious sprang to her mind. She felt constantly watched and constantly unwelcome and constantly had the urge to get the fuck out of there. Jay then joined her in there and they both talked about possible reasons for what they both felt in there.

They then went back into the gap between the 2 doors and stood there. Claire didn't feel anything in there really, but could see why, as it was so dark that Mark had felt disorientated. Just as they left Claire felt a 'dizziness' just as she stepped back onto the landing. Jay said that was the area where he had felt the 'buzz' in his ear. She was still experiencing this when Mark came up, and when Claire and Jay said about the toilets as he said he'd not been in the main toilet area he went in for a look.

1.36 am - Claire and Jay ask Mark to go into the gents toilet as they have been 'picking up' on things in there. Mark entered the toilet where he remained for a few minutes. Although being very dark and a bit smelly, Mark did not feel anything 'strange' in this area.

1.47 am - Mark feels a lot colder and has to put his jacket on even though the room temp has hardly changed. His body temp is 32.6ºC but he had not been feeling too well for the last two days.

Claire and Jay decided to try the female toilets for 'comparison'. On entering Claire immediately got the same 'unwelcome' feeling, and said she would struggle to remain in here on her own for long. She said she would force herself to do it but would rather not. They both noted Claire was unusually jumpy in both these areas, especially in this area. Claire said she didnt usually feel this indoors,however did feel it outdoors in certain places and situations, but could find no reason why she felt this now.

Claire said she felt the urge to pick her legs up, as a person who was scared of spiders might do in a room where there was several on the floor (or rats,anything really,Claire didnt get spiders or rats and neither is she scared of them, she just used it as an analogy to describe the feeling she had. At one point Claire felt a warm sensation on her lower legs, although Jay couldnt feel anything on her.Claire said that whatever was making her want to pick her legs up only went to knee hight, if that.Jay remarked how jumpy she was.

At one point Claire thought she saw a person stood down towards the far end of the room, but put this down possibly to the fact that a piece of rock jutted out, and although she was aware of this,seeing it out of the corner ofher eye it had looked like a person, in the gloom.

She felt uncomfy with her back to the internal wall. She heard the words shouted ''come on'', closely followed by''alacazam!'',which were repeated many times.She asked Jay what this word meant, as she said she had it in the sense of 'open sesame' and an ali baba type thing.She also got the words ''jackety jack'' repeated several times, which she said to Jay. Jay said he felt that the wall should go back further than it did, which he was proved correct in as on checking there was a room they couldnt get in behind it. Claire felt as though the whole pub should be 'deeper' than it was. Claire and Jay sat with thier backs on this wall, and Jay said a few times he thought he saw a low shadow towards the corner of the room,near the sink area and the cubicle.

At one point Jay walked into a counter that sat underneath the mirrors and upon commenting that he had done, Claire gasped out "What Counter!?!?!" as though the shear idea of something in the female toilets such as a counter was completely abnormal.

Any bumping together between Jay and Claire in the near pitch dark of the toilets caused discomfort and shocks.

The door to the toilets opened flush against the right hand side of the wall (although, the wall was angled). Although this area was seriously black and not a thing could be seen - both Jay and Claire had the sense that the toilets were much larger than they actually were and this coming together of wall and door seemed to be where the "extra dimensions" should be. Jay commented that he felt he could just walk and walk in that direction and ended up in pain a couple of times from trying it and walking into the wall!

2.08 am - Mark Joins Carol and they did a bit of 'calling out'. This produced nothing of interest.

2.15 am - The group left the area as thier time was up. Claire went into the cave and spoke to Carol, who said that the noise was definatly coming from the machine, and that as the lights had changed to both green she had heard it again. Claire asked Carol if she had been in the toilets, as Carol replied she hadn't Claire asked her to go in and see what she thought. Although Carol was present when Jay was describing his 'buzzing' both Claire and Jay had said they wouldnt tell her what they'd experienced in there after as they were interested as to what she felt.

Immediately on entering the male toilet Carol said she didnt like it in there, felt uneasy and wouldnt stay in here on her own, which she said (and Claire can vouch for) was unusual for her. She couldnt say exactly why but she felt it quite strongly. They then went in the female toilets where Carol said she again felt uneasy and wouldnt stay in there on her own, and again they both remarked this was unusual. Claire then filled Carol in on what she'd experienced in those areas, and they both left to join the others down stairs.On passing the window overlooking the veranda they spotted Jay on his own and decided to have a bit of fun with him by shouting his name out of the window in strange voices then hiding when he looked. Giggling like schoolgirls,especially at Carols 'voice' they were sure Jay had heard them and was straining to see where the noise had come from, hoever when they told Jay this he said he'd not heard them.......

Group 2

NGIers - Lee, Julie, Bekki, Phil

2.30 am - The group looked about, checked windows for breezes and while doing this we heard a rasping sound. It was quickly found this to be the air vents in the ceiling, which rattled even louder when a door in the far end of the restaurant was opened.

2.45 am - The Ouija board was the groups first choice of communication, but this produced no significant results. A glass divination was then attempted. Just as the group started Lee was showered with dust and grit from somewhere. Lee looked above his head and could see a gap between the ceiling and the rock face, which forms part of the interior wall. He put the dust shower down to air circulating in the ceiling space blowing the dust and grit through the gap.

2.50 am - A loud clatter in the small bar drew the groups attention but again they quickly picked up on an ice machine dropping its hourly load. While the group was in the bar they tried the Ouija again as well as calling out for anything to happen from affecting the EMF meter to rattling glasses on the shelves. All remained quiet.

3.10 am - The small bar was very warm and uncomfortable so the group returned to the bigger restaurant. The tables were quite large and heavy but as the group had not tried table tipping, this would be their next attempt at getting some sort of result. Again they were disappointed.

3.30 am - Lee and Bekki decided to go into the two toilets on this floor as these were a lot darker. They could stand being in there no longer then a couple of minutes in each due to the over powering smell of urine. Not a pleasant place to be at all.