The McOrvIlle - The Bar

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The bar was L-Shaped and had within all the standard things you would expect of any bar in the world. From this room - access could be gained to the Cellar and the Gents and Ladies were nearby and observable. Access to the Stables could also be found from this area.

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 Bar.

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

Jay was stll in a "monged state", wanting to sit down (overwhelming urge again!), so he sat in the same corner as he did when doing the 20 minute sits at the beginning of the night. Jay invited Claire to join him to 'see what she got'. Claire sat facing the wall opposite just further down from the window as Jay had his legs out. She then moved and sat with her back to the cellar door and her feet facing Jays. She didnt feel anything especially at that moment.

Julie, Phil and Hannah decided to call it a night and the remainder of the group decided to join Jay and Claire round a table in the back of the bar and hold a seance to see if anything could be persuaded to come forward.

Mark sets up the night vision camera on the group.

Jay says he felt like his foot was being massaged.
Claire calls out for hers to be massaged too, which causes her to feel her foot start to feel warm and tingly like it was indeed being massaged. Jay said at the same time his foot stopped feeling like it was being rubbed.

Jay, Mark and Claire called out for a while.

Claire stressed that we were after definite 'contact' as opposed to 'vague' noises etc.

Mark called out to 'Gus' who was the spirit of a boy who had been picked up by a team of 'mediums' on a previous visit to the inn. No response was forthcoming.

Claire called out in a very permissive and conversational style, to ask Robert and the little lad to come forward. Claire felt the spirit presence of 2 people- adults. Instead of using a glass in order to instruct spirit response, Claire called out using 'our' energy to do so. Claire spoke to the spirit energy as if she was conversing with non-paranormal activity, hoping that this would evoke a response. Claire said she felt drained. No other activity was forthcoming.

Bekki said several times she was feeling monged out, and towards the end of the vigil Claire laid down and can't really remember much of what was happening around her. Still very much awake, but disconnected from everyone else. She felt physically heavy, her mind was clear but it was miles away. She could move but didn't want to.

Nearing the end of the night, Jay suddenly jumped up and his urge to sit just vanished. He felt his energy levels soar and the slightly menacing "I don't want to be here" feeling just went.

Other Observations :

While having a ciggy outside the back door at one point, Jay kept seeing white elongated "bars" of something out of the corner of his eyes. At one point, he saw a dark shadow pass over the shed wall (low down) as tho a "dog" had ran across the light.

With Jay's increasing menacing "I don't want to be here", he had become quite frightened to walk along the path leading round to the stables on his own. he just couldn't do it. Earlier when Jay had told Claire of his unease in this area, she said that she had also felt a slight apprehension there, but had put it down to psychologically obvious reasons such as the fact that it was dark, isolated and outside etc, and the fact that she heard the name 'Robert' shouted in her head loudly everytime she went down there. Jay remarked that there was one area in particular where he had to check whether or not there was a person and Claire also had done this too. When Claire and Hannah walked round there and came back, Claire got that feeling very strong on both occasions.

When the "I don't want to be here" feeling left Jay later on in the bar, he immediately went out there alone, to test it out. Jay found that he could walk up and down that path by himself easily and with no worries.

Group 2

NGIers - Carol, James, Julie, Phil

The group took up their original positions in the bar area, as in the earlier 20 min vigils. Carol called out to ascertain any paranormal activity. Temperature fluctuations were recorded, 22.5 being the core temp at this point.

The group moved to different areas, notably table near the fireplace at rear of the bar near the cellar door. Apparently past witnesses had seen paranormal activity in this part of the bar, especially around the table. On this occasion nothing occurred. The bar was very quiet and nothing was felt by any of the group.