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Preliminary Investigation at The Red Lion On Sunday the 26th February, the members of Haunted Yorkshire Paranormal Research Group arrived at the Red Lion Inn, in the historic market town of Pontefract. The Investigation Team consisted of eleven people:- HYPRG Investigation Team consisted of Dawn, Russ, Tracy, & Graham. HYPRG Guest Investigation Team was Joan, Wendy& Mel Guest’s also present was Student Reporter, James Smallwood, Toby Metcalf, Michael Metcalf, and Mrs Metcalf. We arrived at approximately 1900hrs Sunday night, and with the area for tonight’s investigation being well away from the bar area, we were lucky enough to be able to start investigating these premises early in the evening. By 20.00hrs we had set up our base for the night which was an old disused kitchen, on the first floor of the building, we used this room to put equipment that wasn’t being used on the investigation……& the main investigation team set off to have our walk round and whilst doing so we also conducted our baseline testing….. Because the building is so large, we will be doing an on going investigation at the Red Lion, as there was no way we were going to cover the whole building in one investigation, so we shall be returning at least a couple more times over the next few weeks and months. (With tonight’s investigation, we probably saw about 7 or 8 rooms in total). The first room we saw was the Old Ball Room, we did our baseline tests and also took several still photos in various locations, most of which has some form of anomalies (orbs) etc on them. Both Graham and Tracy commented on seeing people in spirit dancing round the ballroom and also stood in one corner of the room near a window. From there we went into the first room that had been nailed shut, again we did baseline testing and took several photos, nothing particularly was picked up in that room. From there we headed for the now infamous room where we had felt a tremendous cold feeling when we first looked round a few weeks back. As our team entered more or less straight away, everyone commented on how cold it was! I got out my laser temperature gun and we all witnessed that the temperature in the room began to drop like a stone….. It went from being 2 to 3 degrees to minus 10 at one point! The temperature outside last night was above freezing, 4-5 degrees, so we were at a big loss to explain this massive temperature drop. On several occasions Tracy would ask me to point the temperature gun in a certain area, and the temperature would start to drop. Graham also commented that he could see a tall man in his mid 50’s with pointed features, he was well dressed. The man seemed to be unaware we were there in the room and just seemed to be going about is business…. Tracy then became aware of a little girl, who loved nursery rhymes and was singing them as she played…….there was a wardrobe in the room, which no one seemed to have good feelings about, when we opened the door the cold literally hit you, as if you had just opened a fridge door….the temperature in the wardrobe began to plummet and very soon we had minus 9 in the wardrobe. Graham said he felt that someone had been locked in the wardrobe and whoever it was, liked the door to be kept open! As time was now ticking on, and we had taken far longer on our initial walk round, it was decided that team two should conduct a vigil in the attic room, which stretched the whole length of the building, so team ‘B’ got themselves settled, with the infra red camcorder and their clipboard, and we continued the exploration. We walked into several of the disused bedroom, and had varying feelings, some ok and some a bit more uneasy, a couple of the rooms had coldness to them, but not in the same way the other room had….. The EMF meter began to register a reading on about two occasions, the only source of electricity in the room was the wall fitting near the sink and the ceiling light, both of which had no power to them! Interestingly, as I was registering this reading, Russ took a photo with the digital camera and in the photo he had just taken, showed a light anomaly in the area of the reading!….we walked out of this room and on to the landing area. We then shut all the bedroom doors on this landing, and had practically total darkness, we just stood, and listened….The Student Radio presenter was stood beside me, and we both clearly heard the floor boards creaking in the room we had just shut the door of! No one was in the room and everyone in the team was stood with us…. Tracy began to pick up on the spirit of this little girl again, and this time she could get the impression of what she was wearing, both Tracy and Graham agreed that the little girl was wearing a floral print dress with a pinafore; she had mousy hair, and had some form of a hat or cap on her head. Again we began to register a fluctuation on the emf meter, which dissipated as quickly as it came! Tracy picked up on a toy that can only be described as a fluffy dog on wheels that you pull along on a string, and the name Pollyanna came to mind. From there we went down a corridor and on to a different landing, this lead to a doorway and from there lead down a corridor with several rooms leading off to both sides. We walked to the bottom of this corridor, and then slowly made our way back up the corridor, popping into various rooms on our way. Towards the end of the corridor was what used to be the bathroom area for this landing, there were three rooms, two of which had baths in and one was the W.C. Graham started picking up on the spirit of a gentleman of the clergy, who was seemingly pacing up and down the corridor, in a very angry fashion…. He was sensing that this was a man of the “cloth” who had been discommunicated by people, for either helping & or performing abortions. Graham said he felt that on one particular occasion, a female and her unborn child had lost their lives whilst such a procedure was taking place and that the blame was laid squarely at the foot of the “Dean”. Graham had the location of “Wentworth?” put in his mind and said he felt this man was possibly the Dean of Wentworth? His attire was shoes with a large buckle on and ‘plus four’ type leg attire, and a neck ruff, of the kind that a Barrister might wear in court room’s today… Tracy and James were now mentioning that they were experiencing quite a bad headache, so we decided to move on back to the “cold” room and conduct a séance… We were all nicely set up in the “cold” room, stood in a circle, and Russ was just adjusting the tripod, so that he could film the séance taking place. Tracy asked for everyone in the room to imagine a white bright light covering all in the circle and protection was asked for…. Graham then led the séance and after calling out, a couple of the group heard foot falls in the room next door. ….. Russ then called out that the camera had just switched its self off, usually indicating a flat battery, but on switching it back on, discovered that that was indeed not the case, as batter power was now showing that it had 4hours left! Both Russ and the group are at a loss to explain why that might happen. By now it was getting late and we decided to call an end for tonight, but just before we left the Student Reporter said he had put his hand on the wardrobe door to look inside and all the hairs on his hand stood on end….. We called the other group down from their vigil and the investigation was drawn to a close for our first investigation of the Red Lion……We have arranged a second investigation, which will take place shortly.
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