The McOrvIlle - The Cellar

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The Cellar was accessed via a doorway that could be found in the bar area. Once you'd made your way down an old wooden staircase (and avoided banging your head on the low roof to the stairs) - you entered the dark and noisy cellar.

In the center of the room were a number of barrels which made a circle that dominated the room. Surrounding the walls were other kegs. It was difficult to walk around in the cellar and the best idea was to find a barrel that didn't rock or cut into your ass too much, and sit on it. Alternatively, you could bag the stairs to sit on.

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 Cellar.

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

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

Prior to the investigation starting, Darren the landlord took us on a tour of the site - the following walkaround will be included in each location.
Just prior to the group walkabout with Darren, Bekki paid a visit to the ladies and as she had been walking out the door, she saw a figure looking as if it was coming in the way she was going out. She stepped aside thinking it was a customer, but then as she refocused my eyes and actually took notice there was nothing there. The figure had been man sized, probably just over 6ft.

During the walkabout Claire felt an 'unease' and had 'strong butterflies' when stood outside stable 2 (the end one next to the parking area/'schoolyard'). On examination Claire noted that the interior of this stable looked pretty empty and imagined it containing a big straw bed. Claire later described the 'butterflies' akin to a 'mild stomach ache' and they were only linked to that one specific area.

Bekki joined Claire in looking in the stable. Claire felt that a male had slept here, and that there was a male with a tall hat sat up in the eaves.

On returning back to the bar area through the pub's side door, Claire saw 'a long strip of something' (just over a 30cm in length). She described it as 'glowing and about the thickness of a normal pencil'. Having first thought that it was a reflection of a bright light source on her eyes, Claire saw that it didn't move when she looked in other directions, so thought it must be something hanging in the air. She went to touch it to see what it was, however she found that she couldnt feel anything, yet it still remained visible to her for a few seconds after this.

Claire asked Mark who was standing next to her what he thought it was but Mark said he didn't see anything. Claire decided that it was probably her eyes after all, although she was still unable to think of a light source that could have caused it. However, 2 minutes later in the bar, Darren said that long strips of light had been seen in the area, which no cause could be found for.

Claire is adamant that this light was not in her eyes because it remained static when she moved her eyes and appeared eternal, which is why she went to touched it. She can't accurately remember the colour but it wasnt white, it was dark but 'glowing'. She does remember at one point on that walk being 'blinded' by someones bright torch, however she recreated these light images from different sources and I couldnt produce the same effect. Each time the images moved as her eyes moved, and didnt remain static.

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 - Mark, Jay, Claire, Bekki

Guests - Hannah

Any EMF readings were impossible to detect accurately with our equipment in the Cellar as there was so much electrical equipment present that the whole place was off the scale. This may account for peoples feelings of discomfort in this area.

Jay sat down on the stairs. The whole time in here he claimed to be "monged out" and he tried to explore the "I don't want to be here" sensation. At one point he got the name 'Dan Wardell' spelt out to me.The letters just appeared one by one in his minds eye.

Claire stood with her back to the barrel hatch facing the opposite wall but looking at the corner where Bekki said she felt a man, and also looking at the doorway and the hatch at various intervals.
Bekki is next to her, and Mark is stood at the stairs end of the cellar recording the rapidly falling temperature and increasing humidity on the digital thermometer.

3.09am Jay feels a change in air pressure which is also felt by Mark.

At one point Claire thought Bekki had breathed in her face as she was talking, but she was looking the opposite way. Claire was also facing away from the draft from the Barrel run and said that the 'breath' felt warm.

Claire then went out to sit on the stairs again to see if she felt the same things she had previously. Sitting a few steps up behind Jay she immediatly felt the same. The venus fly trap, the same little lad and hunching over cuddling into her knees was almost identical only 'deeper' this time. Claire was aware of Jay talking to her a couple of times, but felt no reason to answer him for some reason although she felt that she wasn't purposefully ignoring' him. She also briefly picked up on 'fire' but that soon faded away.

Bekki felt that the atmosphere had became more relaxed than when she had been down there with Phil previously, but she was still getting that feeling that someone was behind the barrels, but it never felt oppressive as it had done the first time. Bekki was able to focus more on it and noticed what looked like man wearing a beret style cap, made from rags or cloth.

Group 2

NGIers - Carol, James, Julie, Phil

The group once again took up their original positions as in the earlier 20 min vigils. Unfortunately this location still had the distractions of the earlier vigil, hence it was difficult to gauge if any paranormal activity was taking place. A few times knocks and shadows, which turned out to be from the generator and machines on the back wall, detracted the group somewhat it has to be said. The core temp at this point was 19.5. The temperature in this particular location is very distracting as the cellar is a cold place to begin with.

Carol called out, in order to ascertain paranormal energy, by asking if the temperature in this location could be either raised or lowered- under or above the normal level.

The group felt no temperature changes, or unexplained events worthy of note occurring in the cellar on this particular occasion.