Woodchester
Mansion | Paranormal
Investigation | Most
Haunted Nights
On
18th March 2006 Mandy & Paul from 'Tribute To
Most Haunted' & 'Paranormal United'
joined Phil Whyman
( Most Haunted & Scream Team
) via Dead Haunted Nights
for a night in Woodchester Mansion. Dead
Haunted Nights promo line is ...Do you want to
spend a night in one of this country's most haunted locations?
Do you want one of the best known personalities, Phil
Whyman, in the world of Paranormal Television
to be your host
for the event? Our answer was YES.
So
Let The Coverage Begin .....
Paranormal
Investigation of Woodchester Mansion
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Woodchester
Mansion Cellars
We
entered Woodchester Mansion cellars at 10.48pm
and the temperature was now only 2 degrees c. Completely unlit
we were guided only by our own torch light. We started in the
largest room and Phil Whyman took it easy while
he let everyone find their feet as to how they were going to
conduct themselves for the night. Being our first paranormal
investigation we were both keen to capture what we
could on camcorder and digital camcorder and tried to seek some
quiet and solitude. There was a lot of dust in the air of this
room and photographs showed very little that could be given
as positive. Leaving the group to table tipping I moved into
the second of the four cellar rooms.
In
this second room I sat in the dark alone for some five minutes.
There was a no feeling of fear or sense of anything I was unsure
of. I look a number of photos and none of them showed anything
that I couldn't put down to dust or breeze.
I
exited the second room and stood at the end of the corridor,
again in the dark for a few minutes aware only of the noises
of the rest of the team in the larger room. I took a number
of photos in succession and got two a few seconds a part with
a possible orb. Again I leave this to your view but can confirm
that there was no disturbance of movement in this location.
I
returned to the larger room as the rest of the group attempted
a seance led by one of our group who maintained to have psychic
ability. Nothing appeared to be forthcoming.
All
the other room held seemed to be the left over from a poor undertaker.
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Woodchester
Mansion Ground Floor
The
investigation of Woodchester Mansion ground
floor began with setting up motion detectors in the chapel
at 00:05am. These detectors work on the basis of being activated
by a solid item breaking the beams to sound an alarm. As Phil
Whyman had explained since spirits are supposedly
transparent he was unsure on how they would activate such
a device.
With
such a large area to cover Mandy & myself were happy to
investigate many of the rooms including the kitchen, chapel
and billiard room room but alas felt no disturbance or caught
anything other than definite dust on camera.
Other
members of our group held another seance this time in the billiard
room. They were convince something was thrown at them and stated
they felt very unsettled in the room. We had been in there previously
and returned after they had finished but again felt and captured
nothing.
It
must be said it was quite unnerving looking up to the rafters
seeing the 'floating' fireplaces and feeling drafts from the
unpaned windows, so it would be easy to understand how some
people would feel un-at-ease.
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Woodchester
Mansion First Floor
We ascended
to the First Floor at 01:20am. The completed areas of the first
floor consisted of three rooms and a corridor over looking the
ground floor, that of course would have led to the floors of
other rooms. Also on this floor were the public toilets.
The
most interesting room was the bathroom that contained a bath
and a shower room. While in this room with Mandy we did capture
another possible orb above the bath. This was taken a few minutes
after one of our group had had a panic fit thinking someone
was by him in the bath. However it must be pointed out the first
floor contained one of the most dusty corridors in the mansion.
The corridor
was full of dust and extremely cold with the wind blowing through
the unpaned windows but was probably the one part of the mansion
I disliked most being in alone and in the dark. With the amount
of dust photography would have been unaffective.
The one
room was barriered off and contained remains of masonry and
a lot of undisturbed dust but photos showed nothing that could
be identified as unusual.
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Return To The Cellar
For our
fourth vigil three of us accompanied by Vince returned to the
cellar at 02:45am. While in the room I had sat in previously
we captured on camcorder what seemed to be an orb traveling
across the floor towards Laura (One of our group who was studying
mediumship.) This was the only vigil I can say that made us
feel un-at-ease.
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Woodchester
Mansion Second Floor
At
03:15am we rejoined Phil to do our last vigil on the first
& second floor. The temperature had dropped to below -2
degrees c and seemed even colder on the second floor.
I admit
now our lack of sleep and the cold had taken it's toll and we
only joined our part for 20 minutes out of the 45 with little
to report on. Dust continued to show on our photos and inspection
has showed little more.
We
packed up and left Woodchester Mansion at
05:00am, tired and cold but both of us having fully enjoyed
our paranormal investigation night. Those who believe know
the spirits do not appear on cue and tonight there was very
little to show for our efforts. Although with four hours of
video footage to go through there may well be something else
to report. We can hope....
Our thanks
go out to Phil Whyman, Vince and Nick and
all the Dead Haunted Nights Team. We look
forward to meeting them again and maybe you the reader .....
Do you believe ??
