The McOrvIlle - The Stables

This image is merely a representation of the location and not to be taken as an exact

The stables were in fact one big stable that had partitioned walls to give the impression that there were a number of them. Although brick walls gave a sense of seperation between each individual room - the roof area was completely open and noise would easily travel from one area to another. Each of the separate partitioned areas was filled with a variaty of junk.

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

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

Due to an extended stay in the Bar area - we never got chance to individually investigate the Stables.

Group 2

NGIers - Carol, James, Julie, Phil

For these next vigils, all 3 areas were investigated again. This time however the group were not undertaking vigils in silence.

For this particular investigation Phil joined the group. Phil had mentioned that when Bekki (NGI Team Sensitive) and himself were in the 3 stables at the other side of the pub earlier on, heard knocking on walls in response to their knocks. The group tried to recreate this scenario again, but nothing occurred. Phil also mentioned that Bekki and himself, felt that 'they' had both been followed out of the cellar into the stables by some kind of presence earlier on in the evening too.

In the 1st stable near the pub entrance, the group called out to see if the light would swing when given instructions e.g. like a Pendulum. Apparently this had been witnessed by other people on separate occasions in the past. On this occasion the light 'didn't' respond and nothing else worthy of note was felt by the group in any of these locations either.