Barrow Gurney Investigation # 2

Torches – Check...

EMF meter – Check...

Dictaphone – Check...

Larger team of Investigators – Check!

Barrow Gurney Investigation # 2 – As ready as we’ll ever be!

As you’ll know from reading about our first vigil at this location, this place has such a heavy atmosphere; the second visit really was no exception. To read more please visit our new website here

Our first visit to Barrow Gurney...what an experience!

Scoping the Area

Finally, the WPI team have made it to one of the most amazing locations in our part of the country. It’s not every day that you have an abandoned mental hospital on your doorstep. To read more please visit our new website here

Want to see more from us?

Then follow us over to our new website, this is where you will see all of our old posts in their entirety and any new posts! We are off to Barrow Gurney tonight so if you want to stay posted on our findings see us at www.wiltshireparanormal.co.uk or on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/WiltshireParanormal.

EVP Essentials

“I don't claim that our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere," Thomas Edison told an interviewer of the 1920’s issue of Scientific American. "I don't claim anything because I don't know anything about the subject. For that matter, no human being knows. To read more please visit our new website here

“Oh cool, so you’re a Paranormal Investigator, but what are ghosts exactly?”

Good question! And one we’ve been asked many times over the years. So what are ghosts? Well of course there has never been any real scientific proof of “ghosts”. Paranormal activity does not happen every day and when it does evidence is rarely conclusive. To read more please visit our new website here

Barrow Gurney...

...the name that’s been on WPI’s lips for a very long time now and finally we are heading off to investigate this coming Saturday. I cannot express how excited we are! For those of you that don’t know Barrow Gurney is an abandoned mental asylum just outside the city of Bristol near the Airport. In among the debris and decay of this derelict property lay many stories and an interesting yet unfortunate history. To read more please visit our new website here

WPI on the road - Wolves Wood, Hadleigh Suffolk

A few years ago now I took a trip to Hadleigh in Suffolk to visit one of my really close friends. As well as visiting the famous UFO site Rendlesham Forest (a post for another time), we also took a trip to the local RSPB wood, Wolves Wood.  To read more please visit our new website here.

Exciting News

I am pleased to report some exciting times here at WPI! To read more visit our new website here

Sandhill Park, Somerset...

Good Monday-oon to all you Paranorms out there!
W.P.I have been looking into more investigations to sink our teeth into and have found a potential winner!

We have been doing some research on the Sandhill Park estate which is located in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset and have discovered a rather interesting history on the the place..to read more visit our new website here

Since we've been gone...

Hi There Paranorms!
It's been a while I know, and the W.P.I team have been very busy bee's indeed!
We've finally had our first official investigation, and I don't think any of us expected to find what we did...

Our first investigation took place at the grounds of Atworth Church- The church of st. Michael-
This church is a gorgeous 13th century church and has had some reports of a ghostly monk that wanders the church grounds, and other investigators have also reported being scratched whilst conducting their investigations:

We started the investigation by taking part in a ouija board; Emma kindly offered to film as myself and Jess took part and we found we came in contact with a spirit fairly quickly. It certainly responded to our questions! At one point the spirit was manipulating the planchette so quickly that myself and jess's fingers lifted off it briefly!
Towards the end of this interaction, Emma asked the spirit if they were stood behind her and the spirit responded 'Yes'.

We carried on a sweep of the area, and didn't get much in the way of EMF, although we were certainly feeling spooked.

One of the first events occured when myself and Emma were walking around the church getting a feel for the area, Jess was also doing the same but stayed at the front of the church in the same spot; there was a gap in the wall abouve one of the side doors and as we were walking past I caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye in the gap, I took a closer look in the gap and I saw a face very quickly, I shone my torch in the gap but nothing was there at that point.

At this stage myself and Jess switches positions and Jess and Emma did another walk around the building, a few minutes into this I saw what I can only describe as a black cloaked figure walk around the corner of the church by the side door where I had seen the face; I was convinced it was a person and preceeded to run after it, I ran towards the back of the church but couldn't see anyone other than Jess and Emma who were around the opposite side of the church at the time and they had ran after me when they heard me react to the figure...

Throughout the course of the night we asked questions and tried to communicate with any spirits that may have been present there, we did get a few odd feelings and certainly heard some strange noises when we listened back to the voice recorder...for instance, I heard several moans at the start of the recording and also a baby cry which was very strange as there were certainly no babies present-
Later on in the evening we offered the spirits to use the energy from our equiptment to manifest and sure enough as soon as we mention it, there was a strange beeping sound on the recorder as if a mobile phone was going off next to it- but I can confirm that I did not have my mobile phone near the voice recorder at the time and this only happened that once.

The most amazing shocking piece of evidence we caught during that evening was also on the voice recorder, and the most prominent experience preceeded the evidence that we caught...this was around 50 minutes into the investigation and we were feeling a little un easy walking around the church grounds, so we decided to sit on the wall faceing the amazing stained glass window at the front of the church; Jess gasped as she kept seeing movement in the corner of the window, I hadn't seen anything at this stage but I watched, and sure enought I saw movement as well- it was almost as if someone was peering out and back in again:
we decided this would be a good opportunity to try and communicated with any spirits that may be trying to interact with us so we asked it a few questions, at one stage we asked it to come closer and oh yes...it certainly did that! We heard some russling coming towards us from just below the stained glass window and around towards the left side of us, at this point I felt someone poke me in the left side of my leg- I will admit, I did jump and understandably this startled the others as well and we did hastly retreat from the church...as we were leaving and just about to approach the gate my voice recorder switched on on it's own and a very loud giggle came from it, again frightening us! We were very shocked as it seemingly switched on and immediately off again on its own, it was in my hand but to create those actions I would have had to locate a giggle on the file, pause the recording just before I played the giggle and then stopped it all in the space of a split second which is very difficult to manage, also the recording only stopped just before we would have heard the giggle so this doesnt fit either.
We listened back to the recorder shortly after we left the church and fast forwarded to that same area that we had experience the giggle and we were not prepared for what we heard...the first instance happens at 52.26mins and you hear very clearly some heavy asthamatic breathing coming through over us talking amonst ourself, this happens a few more times and them you very clearly sounds like 'Hello' in a breathy whisper. It then goes quiet.

We are looking at getting this recording onto here for you to listen as soon as possible but are unfortunately having a few technical issues uploading it due to my ammature mistake of using a non-USB compatible dictaphone! However we will resolve this and hopefully you can have a listen for yourselves very soon.

We were very please with the investigation and would like to go back to Atworth again for a bit of a longer investigation to see if we can unearth any other spooky happenings...

~W.P.I  - Truth is both a passion and a science~

Strange goings on in the Wanted_Spirit household...

Good Morning Guys!
I had a strange experience last night and had to share it with the W.P.I team and fellow Paranorms...

It happened at my house (the one that I mentioned I heard the door open and close in when no-one else was around quite some time ago) yesterday evening around 8.40pm, I was sat on the sofa in my front room watching telly and for some reason started to feel like someone/ something was watching me- I assumed one or both of my cats were the cause of my feeling and kept looking over to the opposite corner of the room expecting to see one of the cats, but no sign of either of them...after a few minutes of peering over my shoulder and feelings of being watched the computer suddenly started itself up out of hibernation mode, bearing in mind that our computer is only set to come out of hibernation mode when you move the mouse or press the keyboard...this of course startled me a little, so I went over to investigate and check if there was anything leaning on the keyboard or if the mouse was slightly askew on the mouse mat, but I couldn't see any reason for this occurance.
After this had happened, I felt a bit uneasy in that area for a while whilst I was investigating what could have happened, but this wore off after a short while.
I did check that the computer wasn't on some sort of timer either and it wasn't, so I really can't explain what happened. I'm going to keep an eye on the activity and see if anything else happens or if there's any other way that I can explain the odd event, so I will keep you posted!
Until next time, happy hunting!

~W.P.I  - Truth is both a passion and a science~

W.P.I investigation update...

Hi There Paranorms!

It's been a while I know...<clips ear> The W.P.I team have been busy bee's indeed, but we're here now to update you on the teams antic's! It seems we've had a bit of bad luck come our way and unfortunately none of the investigations we had booked actually got past the moment of agreement for various reasons...so we have decided for now, to take it into our own hands and arrange some outside investigations to start with, so therefore we will not have any booking issues with nature! We hope!

Our next investigation will be 'Sally in the Woods' in Bath!!! This is something we discussed not long ago actually and the lovely (previous W.P.I member) Destiny K very kindly gave us all the history on the area. **Please see post from 26th Jan, 'The Brown's folly mystery' for further details**

Just to re-itterate,

Walkers in Brown's Folly @ 'Sally in the Woods' have reported seeing the strange apparition of a gypsy girl known as Sally. Screams from disembodied voices have also been heard.

A child's ghostly figure has also been reported on the road and the crying of a baby has been heard in the woods.

We are going to be doing this investigation at the end of this month and will of course update you on any spooky goings on and findings once we have analysed the evidnce by the end of 1st week in May, so watch this space...
Who knows we may meet the infamous Sally herself?

Until next time Paranorms, happy hunting!

~W.P.I  - Truth is both a passion and a science~

A tale of unfortunate events...

Happy Monday Paranorms!:)
Apologies for the lack of investigation update;
The reason for this is that unfortunately, due to various reasons, our first investigation in Trowbridge was cancelled last Friday.
At the moment we are not rebooking with this case, however we will keep you updated as always!

We are not going to let a little set back stop the W.P.I team, Oh no!!! Our first investigation in this case, will be at the end of March and we are all very excited as this will be an all night investigation! (As opposed to our initial first investigation in which we only had 5 hrs to get our groove on!)
Watch this space for more details regarding this case to be posted soonest!

Until then, happy hunting Paranorms!

~W.P.I  - Truth is both a passion and a science~

Haunted Places in Wiltshire - The M's

Sorry for the hiatus guys! We are still here, just very busy. We have out first investigation on Friday, which we are all very excited for! In the meantime here is your long awaited dose of Haunted Wiltshire. 

1) Maddington - General area - Young Girl - Wearing a long white dress, this young girl barely in her teens has been reported in several parts of the village. It is thought she drowned in a flood which swept through the area in the mid nineteenth century. To read more please visit our new website here

Always come equipped…

As a Paranormal investigator, you must always prepare for an investigation and make sure you have the right equipment to gather successful and scientific evidence. But at the same time we believe that you do not need to be burdened with too much equipment to find what you are looking for; 

Here are the items you will need to conduct a successful Paranormal Investigation and gather sufficient evidence:

·       Audio recording device

·       Video Camera with night shot capability

·       EMF (Electro magnetic field) Meter

·       Torch

·       Digital Camera

·       Thermometer Laser or Air and Surface Digital Thermometer

·       And finally your most important and in-expensive tool of all…a notebook and a pen.

Happy hunting Paranorms!

~W.P.I  - Truth is both a passion and a science~

The W.P.I team’s first official investigation is coming up!

Yes, you did indeed read it correctly; we finally have our first official paranormal investigation confirmed for next Friday!!!

We will be conducting an investigation for a lady who wishes to remain anonymous in the Saxon county town of Wiltshire, Trowbridge.

I’m afraid that we cannot confirm the address or exact whereabouts of the building for confidentiality and safety reasons, but I can tell you a few things about the place…

This historic building was built in the 1800’s, with records of residency dating back to as early as 1835. It is a shop on the ground floor with a flat covering the first, second and third floors.

For all you history buffs, there is evidence that the land on which Trowbridge is built was being farmed more than 3,000 years ago. In the 10th century there is evidence of Trowbridge's existence and in the Doomsday Book the village of Straburg (as Trowbridge was known in that age), was recorded as having 100 residents.

There was said to have been a castle built at Trowbridge (or Straburg as it would have been known then).

The first mention in the history books of Trowbridge Castle was in 1139 while it was attacked.

The castle has been researched to have been a motte-and-bailey castle, and its influences can still be seen in the town today - Fore Street follows the path of the castle ditch, and its name is given to Castle Street and the Castle Place Shopping Centre.

Another interesting thing that I’ve found out is that most of the buildings in the area that we are investigating in were built with Limestone which is exciting and may prove the investigation to be more fruitful in this case. (*For an explanation of why we believe this fact may improve our chances of activity being caught, please refer to our earlier post “5 Types of Hauntings – Haunting #1 Residual Ghosts” written by ZombieGirl).

 The paranormal reports given to us by the home owner are mostly audio and uneasy feelings.

It all started when the home owner was in her bedroom very early in the morning and she heard a sigh as if someone was coming up the stairs to the bedroom; she assumed that it was her partner at the time coming back from leaving the building earlier that morning maybe because he had forgotten something (due to the sigh), however no-one revealed themselves and apart from her cat, the home owner was alone in the building. The interesting point of this as well is that it was unlikely she was hearing things as her cat, who was sat on the bottom of her bed at the time, also looked towards the door and stairway as if he had heard something at the same time as she had heard the sigh.

Another experience she explained was an account from a member of staff:

The member of staff was in the first floor of the building in the kitchen and the home owner was on the shop floor just below her; the member of staff at the time called up to the home owner saying “Did you want me?” the home owner, a little confused replied “No, why?” and the member of staff responded “Don’t worry.” Later on, the member of staff decided to tell the home owner why she had thought she was being called; the member of staff explained that she had heard what sounded like the little girl stood right next to her sighing. The member of staff thought logically at the time thinking it must have been the home owner calling her and she hadn’t heard her properly, however the more she thought about the occurrence after it had happened she felt she had to explain to the home owner what she thought she had heard.

Another employee experience that was explained to the home owner was when the employee was entering the shop in the morning, not long ago in fact, and as she entered there was a distinct giggling coming from back of shop that was not a familiar voice to the employee.

She checked the area and she couldn’t see anything that could have caused the noise and there was no-one else around at that time.

On a separate occasion, the home owner and the same employee were both on the shop floor stood next to each other whilst working and they both heard very clearly what sounded like a males laugh in the area between them.

There were no males in the building and no explanation for the noise found at the time.

The home owner has stated that she always feels as if she is being watched in any part of the building, things have been moved and fallen when there has been no rational explanation or cause for this happening and no-one else around to cause the happenings either.

W.P.I are very excited about this investigation, and would like to thank the anonymous Trowbridge Home owner for being our very first client.

Hopefully we can help solidify her claims of paranormal activity or help her to understand the experiences and if there are any rational explanations’ or causes – we will do our best to pay attention to every detail possible and I’m sure we will come up with some interesting stuff!

To be de-bunked or not to be de-bunked? That is the question…
Watch this space folks to discover our findings which will be posted within a week or so after the investigation once we have analyzed all the evidence.

Until next time Paranorms…

~W.P.I  - Truth is both a passion and a science~

Tips On How To Use An EMF Meter

An EMF meter is readily acknowledged as one of the more common items of ghost hunting tools now available. The primary concept of it is actually that experts claim spirits can give off a strong electro-magnetic field because of the reason that they will be applying energy within the surroundings to be able to reveal themselves. To read more please visit our new website here

Haunted Places in Wiltshire - The K's & L's

Afternoon everyone :) busy busy with me recently, so sorry about the delay!

1) Kilmington - Churchyard - Lord Stourton - Lord Stourton and his gang of murderous friends still lurk in the churchyard - Stourton was executed for killing his father's servant. The inside of the church is haunted by the murdered man. The GhostHunter blog did a post about this place last year, you can see it here. To read more please visit our website here.

The W.P.I team's Bath ghost walk adventures...

Good Morning Paranorm's! And happy Wednesday to you! ^_^

Well folk's, sorry for the delay as we had a few things to go over and analyse, but it's finally the moment you've all been waiting for... our review of the chilling Bath Ghost walk that the W.P.I team participated in last Thursday evening!!!

A lovely gentleman guide took us around the reported haunted sights in Bath which started at the Garicks Head public house (This itself also has its own chilling history). It was a small group as it was just the four of us doing the walk: the guide, Jess, Emma and myself.
The experienced guide told us tales of various buildings' histories and the lives of their former residence, some of which are thought to still remain within these areas today. I must say, we were hanging on his every word! If you would like to read more please visit our new website here

Haunted Places in Wiltshire - The H's

Today is the day of our ghost walk guys! We are all looking forward to it and will have fun writing up our experiences tomorrow :). So here's your daily does of the cold shivers.

1) Hannington - Jolly Tar public house - Scruffy Man - BBC Wiltshire reported that the landlady, chef and customers had all encountered a phantom middle-aged man, just under six feet tall. Paranormal group PSI reported recording strange sounds during a vigil. To read more please visit our new website here