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Waxing Crescent 1% of Full
Geo. Mag. – unsettled
Solar x-rays – unknown
Initial Walk Round
Rose wallpapered room – felt sick in here as did the Medium, Denise. Outside of the room is the staircase, no-one else is with us at this time, as they are having a brief history tour with the staff of the Castle. I asked Denise whether she had heard anything, she asked what I had heard. It was a very clear “can you hear me”, almost whisper like, quite strange.
I kept being drawn to the wooden panelled room – this is located from the bottom of the steps across from the Sculpture Room and next to the Courting type room. It felt like there was a female sitting in the chair visible from the door although no-one was) wearing a long light coloured flowing dress.
Vigil 1 - Cellars (first area, far cellar)
00:20-01:00 a.m.
I picked up on the name of Joseph in here.
Temperature readings register between 14.4-14.7ºC.
A few people mention sight of a person in the “doorway” to the cellar. I don’t personally experience this. I do have a headache in this area, right in the centre of the forehead. There is a sound on the Dictaphone which I cannot even begin to describe - almost like a synthesised sound?? Rob is sensing pain and torture in this area. Temperature readings now register between 15.5-15.6ºC. However, I should point out that this particular part of the cellar is a small area and there are presently about 7 of us present, including a fridge/freezer. The Dictaphone picks up an almost drawn out breath type of sound, but none of us have made this, it was almost like someone was blowing into something. Someone is picking up on a male wearing a bloodstained apron. Rob doesn’t feel that this person being picked up on is a surgeon.
Cellar 2 area
This is located when you first come down to the cellar area. Temperature readings are 16.4ºC.
Rob is getting the year 1654 and says this is “his words” i.e. meaning the presence he is picking up on. An “orb” is recorded on camcorder coming from the previous cellar area passageway to where we currently are. The temperature is 16.5ºC. Rob is sensing there are a lot of other individuals also giving out the pain and goes onto say it was his job and he enjoyed doing it.
The temperature is now registering between 16.1-16.3ºC. Quite a few people notice the drop in temperature. Rob senses this individual is well educated. Some of the group, myself included, hear a “humming” type of sound. Rob feels this individual comes from the area. A couple of people in the group are feeling like their left eye has been blocked by something. Quite a few of us also hear what can only be described as “hmmm”. The temperature is 16.4-16.6ºC.
Vigil 2 - Billiards Room
01:00-01:40 a.m.
Temperature readings are 18.2-17.5ºC
I didn’t personally experience anything in here. Rob picks up on a female presence, the year being given is 1512 and the name is Elizabeth.
Vigil 3 – Upstairs, Children’s Room/Play Area
02:05-02:39 a.m.
Temperature readings are between 15.5-16ºC
This is the room where there are children’s clothes displayed on hangers.
The group undertook mirror scrying in here with successful results. Both Tom and Lee experienced facial changes, likened to that of a Jewish/Armish man, bearded face (goaty) – I should point out that both Tom and Lee are clean shaven. At this point of the vigil there was an undistinguishable sound picked up on the Dictaphone. When it was my turn to do the scrying my face doesn’t appear to reflect one person. The group report there is a child like face, young, blonde hair; then an old woman with dark sunken eyes, then a female with her hair tied back (mine was untied). I too am seeing these changes during the experiment which are quite bizarre to see.
The only other thing to report in here was that Tom and Lee were both getting movement on the planchette, but nothing which made any sense in terms of the writing aspect.
Vigil 4 - Lowther Room
02:40-02:55 a.m.
When coming through the door to the left the temperature reading is 17.3-17.6ºC, to the right it is 15.4-15.5ºC. I didn’t personally feel anything in this room. Most of the group decided to form a circle with Rob asking out. Temperature readings from the centre of the circle, avoiding anyone’s body heat which would result in major temperature changes, the readings fluctuate between 18.3-4ºC, 18.7ºC, 18.4ºC, 18.8ºC, 19ºC and 18.6ºC.
Vigil 5 - Rose Wallpapered Room
Approximately 03:00-03-15 a.m.
Temperature reading is 19.1ºC.
Rob is picking up on a small girl, aged around 12, in this room and a male who does not appear to be dressed very well. He is also sensing a crashing of doors with this male i.e. banging/slamming. Also being picked up on is an older lady with dark hair, slender build. Rob then goes onto say that he feels that there is a hole in the wall behind the bed, perhaps the result of an explosion and the entombment of 2 bodies. I am feeling sick in this room again, as per the walk around earlier. Rob feels that illness would be sensed everywhere in the Castle. He also provides a name of Tom Jones.
Vigil 6 - Main Entrance
03:47-04:45 a.m.
Temperature readings as coming into this area to the left are 12.6-13.2ºC, to the right 13.1-14.1ºC. I pick up on the name of Michael in this area.
The group decided to undertake what appears to be a very successful glass divination as follows:
Q: Are you the owner of this house?
A: No answer
Q. Is your name Michael?
A. Yes
Q. Are you a lady/female?
A. No
Q. Are you male?
A. Yes
Q. are you with the building?
A. Yes (the glass is twisting here rather than going back and forth)
Q. Can we see a picture of you in this room?
A. Yes
Q. Are you the man by the clock?
A. Yes
Q. Are you William?
A. No response
Q. Are you John Williams?
A. No response
Q. Are you William?
A. Yes
Q. Is that your first name?
A. Yes
Q. Are you definitely with the building?
A. The glass just moves in circles at this point
Q. Do one of us know you?
A. Yes
Q. Rob then says if it is him to move the glass in a circular movement
A. Circle
Q. Rob then says – do I know you?
A. Yes
Q. Rob asks - Is your name really William?
A. No
Q. Rob asks - Did they call you Billy?
A. No
Q. Rob asks - Are you Peter?
A. No
Q. Robs asks – It’s not Jacob is it?
A. No
Q. Rob then asks – are you sure I know you?
A. No
Q. Are you definitely male?
A. No response
Q. Does your name begin with S?
A. Yes
Q. Have you got a middle name?
A. No
Q. Rob then says - answer truthfully, do you know me?
A. No
Q. Again Rob asks – answer truthfully, do you know any one of us here?
A. Yes
Q. Answer truthfully – do you know anyone on the table/glass?
A. Yes
Q. Take the glass and point to the person you know (there is Nikki, myself, Tom and Lee on the glass at this point)
A. Yes to Lee
Q. Rob then asks - are you messing?
A. Yes
Q. Are you bored with people coming and asking questions?
A. Yes
Q. Are you aware of the markings by the front door?
A. No
Q. Can you make a noise in the room (are you able to do this?)
A. Yes
Q. Can you make the clock stop?
A. No
Q. Can you take the glass to where you are in the room?
A. The glass moves but Rob says – “It’s a fib isn’t it?”
Q. Did you work here?
A. No
Q. Did you die here?
A. Yes
Q. Were you a soldier?
A. Yes
Q. Did you live in the 1200’s (and then 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800)?
A. The answer to all of these questions was no
Q. Did you live in the 1900’s?
A. Yes
Q. Were you in World War One?
A. Yes
Q. Were you stationed around here during the War?
A. No
Q. Are you English?
A. No
Q. Are you Australian?
A. Yes – glass then moves around in a circular manner
Q. Are you Welsh?
A. No
Q. Are you Australian?
A. Yes
Q. Have you got a sense of humour?
A. No
Q. Did you die here with your friends?
A. Yes
Q. Did the explosion happen to you?
A. No
Q. Did you die of illness?
A. No
Q. Did your friends die of illness?
A. No
Q. Did you die of your injuries?
A. No response
Q. Were you shot?
A. Yes
Q. Were more than one of you shot at the same time?
A. Yes
Q. Have you come to us because there are 2 ex-servicemen with us?
A. Yes
Q. Was the shooting an accident?
A. No
Q. Were you shot by your own side?
A. No response
Q. Are we upsetting you?
A. No
Q. Were you shot by your own side?
A. Yes
Q. Were you shot for something you didn’t do?
A. No
Q. Were you shot by a firing squad?
A. No
Q. We you shot by the officer in charge?
A. No
Q. Did they think you were the enemy?
A. No
Q. Did you shoot yourself?
A. Yes
Q. Was this so that you could injure yourself and be sent home?
A. Yes
Q. Did it kill you?
A. Yes
Q. Did shock kill you?
A. No
Q. Was it an infection?
A. Yes
Q. Were you under 20 years of age when you died?
A. No
Q. Between 20-25?
A. Yes
Q. Were you 21, 22?
A. No (at this point I am feeling this person is 24 years of age)
Q. Were you 23?
A. No
Q. Were you 24?
A. Yes
Q. Is your name Michael?
A. Yes
Q. Does your surname begin with J, P?
A. No
Q. Does it begin with M?
A. Yes
Q. Rob then asks if it is Meakins, Middleton?
A. No
Q. Is it an Italian surname?
A. Yes
Q. Is the second letter O (and then go through as follows A, I, E and U)?
A. Yes to U
Q. Is the third letter S, R?
A. Yes to R
Q. Is the next letter V, L, S, G, R, A?
A. Yes to A
Q. Is the next letter C?
A. Yes
Q. Is the next letter E, C, T?
A. Yes to T
Q. Is the next letter I?
A. Yes
Q. Is that your surname?
A. Yes
So at this point we have identified someone called Michael Muracti
Q. Did you die in 1915, 1916, 1917?
A. Yes to 1917
Q. Was it January, May, February, March, April, June, July, August?
A. Yes to August
So at this point we establish he is aged 24, and died in August 1917
Q. Were you born in 1892?
A. No
Q. Were you older than 24 when you died then?
A. No
Q. Were you born in 1892?
A. Yes
Q. Were you born in August, July, October?
A. Yes to October
Q. October 1892 to August 1917 – is that correct?
A. Yes
Q. Was it just you who decided to shoot yourself?
A. No
Q. Did you shoot each other?
A. Yes
Q. Is that so you could all get sent home?
A. Yes
Q. Are they with you now?
A. No
Q. Are you here by yourself?
A. Yes
Q. Is there something keeping you here?
A. Yes
Q. Do you know where you are buried?
A. Yes
Q. Do your family know you are here?
A. No
Q. Did you have any brothers or sisters?
A. Yes
Q. Were they in the service too?
A. Yes
Q. Were they with you?
A. Yes
Q. Did your brothers shoot each other?
A. No
Q. Did you all end up here?
A. No
Q. Was it your sister that shot you?
A. No
Q. Did your friends who shot each other survive?
A. Yes
Q. Is that why you are by yourself because they survived?
A. Yes
Q. Do they know that you are buried here?
A. Yes
Q. Do you come here all the time?
A. No
Q. Have you come because we can see you?
A. Yes
Q. Do you want your story told?
A. Yes
Q. Is that because you feel like you have been forgotten?
A. Yes
Q. Were you in the corridor before?
A. No
Q. Did you march past banging your feet?
A. No
Q. Do you know who that was?
A. No
Q. Can you see other spirits in the building?
A. Yes
Q. Can they see you?
A. No
Q. Rob then asks if he can see the people stood with him?
A. No
Q. Are there many spirits in the building tonight?
A. No response
Rob then proceeds to say that he is going to ask the other spirits to show themselves to Michael and then asks:
Q. Can you see then now?
A. Yes
Q. Can you see the Indian?
A. Yes
Q. Can you see the spear, tomahawk?
A. No to both questions
Q. Does he keep changing?
A. No
Q. Rob then asks - Are there 2 people stood with me?
A. No
He then thanks Michael and we close down the glass thereby ending this particular vigil for a break prior to moving to the next vigil.
Vigil 7 - Sculpture Room
05:05-05:45 a.m.
I sense the name of Douglas in here and the age 81 when he apparently died.
Some of the group are on the planchette where this is movement occurring.
Temperature readings – on entering through the main door as follows:
To the left and right = 15.8ºC
The bottom left and right corners = 15.6ºC
The people on the planchette are asking for it to be moved and to either write something or to try and draw something. This resulted in what appeared to be the beginning of a bird and it’s beak. They then proceed to ask questions as follows:
Q. Are you male?
A. Yes
Q. Are you part of/belong to the building?
A. Yes
Q. Do you own the building, work here, live here, are you part of the Williams’ family, are you Michael?
A. No to all these questions
Q. Are you a soldier?
A. Yes
Q. Did you just show Rob the lake?
A. No
Q. Do you know Michael?
A. No
Q. Are you an English soldier?
A. Yes
Q. Were you stationed here?
A. No
Q. Were you hospitalised here?
A. Yes
Q. Did you die in the building?
A. No
Q. Did you die after the War/
A. Yes
Q. Do you just visit?
A. Yes
Q. Could you move the table for us?
A. Yes
The people on the planchette now attempt table tilting and get some slight movement, but nothing more than that. Rob is picking up on 2 males. The EMF is on the first green light. The group on the table decide to revert back to the planchette. They get the name of Douglas and that he died of old age.
Q. Were you 81 when you died?
A. Yes
Q. Were you in a local regiment?
A. Yes
Q. Can you give us the first letter of the name of the regiment?
A. Yes
This resulted in the letter A and the fact that it was a local Welsh regiment who are still active.
Q. Did you die in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983?
A. Yes to 1983
Q. Were you in World War One?
A. Yes
Q. Rob asks if his surname is Evans?
A. Yes
Information provided by Bodelwydden staff after the event
During the first World War there were lots of Australian soldiers staying here and there was a flu epidemic, a lot of them died and are buried in the Bodelwydden churchyard just down the road from where the Castle is. Going back to the initial walk around and my sense of a female in the panelled room – the layout for this area is what they call the Courting Room (opposite the Sculpture Room), then the panelled room, then a red coloured room at the end. In the latter room there is a picture of a female which I subsequently saw after my own personal feeling of a female in a dress that I would feel appropriate to this incident. I do not know who the female in the picture is as I did not have the time to investigate this further.
Information provided at the end of the night by the staff prior to leaving this venue, was that in the “Courting Room” as you walk in to the left there is a large painting roughly central to the room, where apparently some bones of a tall man were located.
Also provided by the staff at the end of the investigation was the fact that the rose wallpapered room and the hole picked up on. Apparently some bones had been located here, they don’t know who they belong to, don’t know whether they are male or female, but they had been put in there for whatever reason – unbeknown to them. Also, if you look from the outside of the Castle there is a statue to where that hole would have been.
