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Fagley Investigation
Overview
About a month previous to our investigation, I
was contacted, via email from a gentleman (Brian) who is living
in a three bed semi detached house on the outskirts of Bradford,
with his seventeen year old daughter, Caroline(Names have been
changed). He told me that he and Caroline, had been living there
for approximately six years and all had been well, up to the
last twelve months; he went on to say that also in this time
period, quite a few renovations to the property had been taking
place, and he realised that the activity had started around this
time also… he went on…. things had got that bad that he had
stopped the renovations, and the house upgrade was now halted.
In this last twelve months he had been experiencing an
increasing amount of “strange happenings” at his house which got
so bad he moved out of his bedroom and now slept in the lounge,
on the couch. He told me he had been putting up with the things
that had been happening to him personally, but what had really
started to get to the man, was the fact that this “spirit” had
now started to latch its self to his daughter! And increasingly
it was her that its attentions were turning to.
Brian went on to tell me that when things had first began to
happen, its was him that seemed to attract the spirits
attention, he said he knew when it was “around” because he heard
what he describes as a “cracking” sound like a static crack, as
it came into his home. The spirit would literally turn up
anywhere in the house, but he said that upstairs, in his
bedroom, had become intolerable, and also in the bathroom, and
now his daughters bedroom also. Caroline then went on to
describe how she actually saw a dark shadow of a head and upper
body, get up from what seemed to be a ‘seated position’ and
stand up straight, right in front of her! She reported also
feeling like the spirit passes through her bedroom wall to and
fro, from her father’s room.
Brian jovially told me that at first, although the things that
were happening, were very odd… it was strangely comforting, as
this spirit would seemingly “tuck” in his bedding at night, as
he was going to sleep, and he would feel the weight of “it”
sitting on the end of the bed! Caroline had not been
experiencing anything at this point, but as the weeks and months
passed by it was also beginning to happen to her, the bedding
being tucked in and the feeling of someone sitting on the end of
her bed…and to that end that is when Brian decided to call in
Haunted Yorkshire…
The Investigation
Time: 19.09
Date: 3rd November 2006
Team: Joan, Dawn, Wendy, Russ & Graham:
Our first port of call was the upstairs, straight at the top of
the stairs, was the bathroom, to the right was the first bedroom
(Caroline’s rooms) a large double room, the second bedroom
(Brian’s room) was also a large double room then the third
bedroom was a single room which housed the computer etc.
On entering Caroline’s room, I instantly felt dizzy; there were
EMF readings in the doorway and also for about a meter inside
the doorway, fluctuating from 1.5mg to 3 mg. On entering the
room Graham, the medium, also reported feeling dizzy and Joan
was reporting strange fluctuations with the laser thermometer,
(by 4 degrees) which was fluctuating between 17 dc down to 14dc.
Wendy had 47% humidity on the hygrometer.
Graham sat on the end of Caroline’s bed and it was only a matter
of a few seconds and he was reporting that he had a lady in her
60’s called Mavis Kenyon!, he said she was very aware of us and
was complaining about us all being there in the room. At that
point three people stepped out of the room. He asked her whether
it was her that had been causing Brain a few problems, and she
laughed and said “yes”! Graham asked her what she was doing
there, and she replied, “I belong here”…he describes her as
having curly shoulder length hair and wearing a piny/apron. The
things she had been doing had not been done in a vindictive
manner. Graham mentioned he had another energy coming in also,
of a young male, called Andrew Dews, he was coming here in
visitation, and when Graham asked him why, he said to visit his
Grandma, Mavis!. We asked “Andrew” whether he had done anything
to cause concern at the house and he said that he had not, he
went on to tell Graham how he had been killed at an accident at
a local mill, where his arm had been trapped in a ‘belt’ and
that had thrown him against a wall.
Graham then went on to ask Mavis why she stays at the house, and
she said that she had “no where else to go”, he asked her
whether she wanted to pass over and she said that she didn’t as
she would have to see him! (her husband). Graham sensed that she
had had a bad life with her husband.
Graham went on to say that Mavis did indeed come through the
wall that partitioned off the two larger bedrooms, and Caroline
said she felt also that that was where Mavis stood quite a lot,
Joan said that she was getting a higher reading on the laser
thermometer where Graham motioned to (on the wall) and after
examining either side of the wall, no reason was found for the
rise in temperature at this location. Emf readings were still
present around this location also, (2-3mg).
Graham then reached inside his pocket and took out his crystal
pendulum, after grounding himself he asked Mavis whether she
would like to go over to the light…. The answer of yes came
back. He then asked her what year it was and she indicated it
was the 1960’s. He then asked her if her husband had been a bad
man and again she said yes…She confirmed her age to be 65 yrs of
age.
At this point Graham said a few words and asked Mavis to go into
the light…it was very quiet for a few moments, and then Caroline
said that she had seen a few bright lights near the coving in
her bedroom…as Graham was asking Mavis to go over into the
light…
I asked Graham if Mavis had gone and he said he no longer sensed
her there anymore, and also commented that he was not aware of
any more spirits present.
(I have to make mention that we still had EMF readings at the
same rates as previous in the rooms up stairs).
From there we went downstairs as Brian mentioned some activity
in his kitchen: I had readings yet again on the EMF meter in the
doorway2-3mg) and around the top end of the kitchen near the
microwave, I moved the meter about near appliances and it seemed
that there was no obvious reason for the readings…Humidity here
was 42% and a temp reading of 14.4dc. Graham said he sensed
nothing in the kitchen but on taking a few digital photos, we
did see a couple of orbs.
After the kitchen we then drew a close to the proceedings…
We said our goodbyes and thanked the family for allowing us to
come and witness for ourselves any strange happenings.
*****
Then on the 5th November, I received another phone call from
Brian, saying that we had only been gone from their house about
an hour or so and things hotted up, with the activity levels. No
one had been touched, but things had moved and the settee had
been vibrated whilst Brian was laid watching the TV!
I immediately contacted Graham and the rest of the team, as I
had told Brian that we would be over within the next day or two
to conduct further investigations! So on the Monday, which was
the 6th November, HYP&PRG again pulled up outside what we now
call the “Ghost House”!!
This time we had arranged to stay much later, and this time we
brought extra monitoring items with us.
Monday 6th November 2006
Team: Dawn, Joan, Graham.
Guests: Brian & Caroline.
Time: 21.30
Solar Rays: Active
Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Current Moon Phase: 99% Waning Gibbous.
Humidity: 55%
It took us about one hour to get the various infrared cameras
situated and ready for the off. This time we had an IR cam in
the downstairs hall way, one upstairs in Caroline’s room and
also one in the Kitchen area.
After a short brief, Graham set off for Brian’s bedroom, and the
girls began monitoring the other bedroom on CCTV, from the
lounge area which we were using as base for the investigation.
After a short while Brian stood up and walked to the bottom of
the stairs and I joined him looking up into the darkness. Only a
few minutes had passed by and I was taking some emf readings, in
the downstairs hallway and at the bottom of the stairs, the
readings were now reaching the 3mg mark, earlier there were
none!, practically at the same time as I was getting the
readings, Brian said to me “It’s here, I can feel the atmosphere
change”, I was getting strong 3mg readings up the staircase…I
slowly walked up the stairs in the dark with Brian close behind
me, and even though I knew Graham was up stairs in the front
bedroom, I felt quite wary. The readings remained the same on
the landing and just into both bedrooms and the bathroom. I had
Graham telling me now that he had another spirit here, & that it
was most definitely not there the first time we came, last
Friday! And that this was male. He entered Caroline’s room and
said that it was in here that the energy was the strongest. He
was sensing a big man, huge, about 6 feet 3-4 and of wide build,
this energy was not being very forthcoming to Graham, but after
a short while he was getting the name of John Coulson? I was
getting readings of between 2 to 3 mg in this room also, and
temp readings were between 16 & 17 degrees C.
I have enclosed Grahams own words here to describe things:-
“On our second visit I encountered a completely different spirit
in the form of John Coulson who had murdered his own child
during infancy, John had been in hiding in that area ( before
the present housing was built ) and had been caught and taken
away to Leeds to be executed for his crime ! I feel that this
was in the 1860's, John was a huge man standing around 6 foot
four / five, at one point I felt that John tried to enter my
aura as I felt as though I had been pushed which caused me to go
off balance, I also feel that if I had let him in he would have
used me to communicate with the team, he showed me the noose
which was self explanatory , he also showed me caves / tunnels
and flames for which I have no explanation, John was reluctant
to go into the light as I believe that he had a fear of what lay
beyond, after we explained to him that the crime had been dealt
with and that he had paid the price for his crime he agreed to
go into the light and I believe that he did just that, prior to
that John just liked being in the shadows and hiding in corners.
On both visits I am convinced that all the activity was centred
in Caroline’s bedroom, on both visits the atmosphere in the home
was quite calm with no malicious entities being present.
And here is Grahams report on the footage that he has reviewed
from his camera on the investigation:-
On the camera which was first placed in the kitchen, there was a
noise unexplainable after 4mins 22 seconds at 6 mins and 12
seconds the camera was touched ( maybe cat ) after 16 minutes
the camera was touched again and there seemed to be whispers in
the background.
Another unexplainable noise after 23 mins.
The camera was then moved to the landing at 41mins 15 secs a
small black shadow was seen at 46 mins 16 secs Brian asked if he
should turn computer off, a very clear voice was heard saying
NO, it was not one of us. At 59 mins there is a very faint voice
(the one we all heard) and on 1 hour 7 mins and 13 seconds an
“out breath” (HUH) when the camera was moved into Caroline’s
bedroom a new tape was put in the camera! a period from 38 mins
30 seconds to 46 minutes very clear orbs were seen coming from
Caroline’s headboard two more were seen at 1 hour 41/42 seconds
, at 1 hour 19mins and 53 seconds there is a dragging sound
picked up by the camera, at 1 hour 30 mins and 34 seconds
another feint orb was seen.
During our coffee break as we all chatted about the
investigation, people mentioned that they had seen various orbs
with their naked eye by people the investigation team in the
lounge, who were monitoring the CCTV camera. Brian then went on
to tell us that in the last 2 or 3 month’s he has had various
people (clergy and then another medium) in to try to get rid of
what ever it is that has been bothering the family, he went on
to say that although nothing malevolent had happened towards the
family, he was now considering selling the house for a fresh
start somewhere else…
I have to mention that during the investigation, Graham’s new
CCTV monitor stopped working completely, why we don’t know. And
my footage revealed some evp (Electronic Voice Phenomena). It
was only two words, which were “John’s Son, or “Johnson”, this
was a male voice, very deep and sounding nothing like any of the
men present on our investigation.
All emf readings dissipated to nothing after approximately an
hour.
I spoke to Brian via email and to press it has been quiet in the
“Ghost House of Fagley”, except the odd visual orb.
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