The Greenbank - The Bar

The bar was a fascinatingly decorated room with military memorabilia adorning every square inch. Uniform dressed mannequins; old canons; toy soldiers; photographs, letters and medals upon the walls and sideboards. A real military buff’s wet dream really.
The bar had 2 areas – an upper area (containing a pool table – not a military pool table though!!) and a bottom area were the actual bar was situated.

Baseline Report

Environment Readings

No baseline readings were taken in this location

Pre-Investigation Walkaround

Before any investigation starts some members of Northern Ghost Investigations including our own resident medium (or guest mediums if present) like to have a walk around the investigation site and then record their own first impressions. What follows are details of the first impressions of those who did do a walk around.

A Walkaround With All

During the group walkabout Claire, Jay, Bekki, Mark and Tillie made their way up the second floor family room area. They decide to enter Room 17 (Lady Emma Hamilton) but Bekki could not open the door. Claire decided to have a go at turning the key in the lock but it still wouldn't budge. Bekki decided to have another go and the key did turn. She managed to open the door although she said it did 'put up some resistance as if something was pushing on the door from inside'. Claire thought the door may have been being wedged against the carpet but this was checked and found not to be the case.

Various other members had a go at locking, unlocking and opening the door. They managed it every time without too much problem but did report that both the door and lock were a bit stiff.

Mark set up a camera at the foot of the second flight of stairs where people had reported seeing fleeting figures.

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 - Claire, Bekki

Guests - Shaun, Michelle

As Claire was about to enter here she saw Bekki stood still in the doorway, and she said she was picking something up there. The other group were still in there when the dog started barking and growling at Bekki. When Claire went in the room and asked what had happened it seemed that at the same time Bekki had felt something in the door the dog had leapt up at her barking. Shaun said it was because Bekki had startled the dog. Claire can’t comment as she was out of the room at the time, see Bekkis / Jays / Dells report for this. However Bekki was just starting to tell Claire about this (Claire had seen Bekki 'startle' slightly and asked her why) when the dog came at her, so he hadn’t just got to the doorway at that moment.

Once the others left Claire sat in the chair in the window, Bekki was to her left, Paddy to her right in the other chair in front of the bar and Michele and Shaun were over near the far wall in chairs, all of us in the bar bit of the room not the pool room.
Claire had now decided not to use the laser temp to take baselines with, especially as it was such a large area to cover. Bekki said there were too many electrical things to get any useful EMF readings.

They sat in this location just observing etc. The previous group had remarked that Paddy was behaving oddly, however he didn’t seem to during this vigil. Shaun said it was probably because they were with him now.

At times Bekki sat in Paddies chair when he sat on the floor.

When she was to the left of Claire Bekki said she could see the light moving. Claire could also see this but Michele and Shaun couldn’t. Claire said although she could see it moving the shadow of it wasn’t, which made her think it wasn’t actually moving. When the light was put on it was plainly seen by all that it wasn’t moving, but when the light was off Claire and |Bekki could both see it moving, even though they knew it wasn’t, as they put the light on and off several times with the same results etc. They put it down to some kind of optical illusion for want of a better explanation! As it wasn’t paranormal once this was ascertained interest in it was lost.

Bekki and Claire both called out for anything present to come and make the light move, yet no change was observed.

A guest returned during this location and his footsteps could clearly be heard, however the exact time was not noted.

Group 2

NGIers - Jay, Dell

Guests - John

This was our first location of the night and we settled down for a quiet sit throughout the bar. Jay was separate from the rest for a while, choosing to sit in the upper area alone with his sound enhancing headphones on while the other sat at the bottom end of the bar.
Almost immediately Jay picked up on footsteps seemingly walking along the corridor outside. He thought it was possible that he could be hearing footsteps from deeper in the Greenbank, but Dell quickly dashed this idea when he called up to Jay that he could hear footsteps from beyond the wall.

Jay went out to the corridor to check that nobody was present and found it to be empty. When he came back into the bed, he joined the others in the bottom area of the bar.

Dell mentioned that he felt there was somebody in the room with us standing just behind where he was sat. Indeed, the Paddy the Dog kept climbing to his feet and staring at the spot where Dell was talking about before settling down for a few minutes.

Jay began to call out hoping to make contact with any spirits that may have been present. At first there was quiet; no response at all. However, shortly into the spell, a loud bang was heard. The noise wasn’t in the bar area where we were sat but was outside the bar. We made sure to check with the other groups later to discern whether they had heard the bang themselves and whether or not the noise was from one of them (a door slamming, for instance) – both queries produced a negative : No one was responsible and no one else heard it. Quite strange given the loudness of it.

Group 3

NGIers - Mark

Guests - Tilly

Mark and Tillie sat in silence in the comfy leather chairs near the bar. Nothing of note was reported and Tillie drifted off in a light sleep.