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Beastfair Vaults
Town: Pontefract
Time: 23.00hrs
Team Members Present: Dawn, Russ, Graham, Tracy,
Mel, Wendy, Joan.
Locations for Investigation: Cellars, main bar areas
& upstairs (Briefly)
Note: The only two people aware of where we were
going, was Joan and myself, the rest of the crew
were unaware until we arrived that evening at this
location.
Our investigation of the Beastfair Vaults started in
the cellar area in this old pub which pre dates the
1700’s. As with the majority of buildings in this
ancient market town, the main buildings above street
level can only be dated back to around the 1700’s,
but there is strong evidence to say that the cellar
areas date back much further, as brickwork subsides
away to reveal sandstone/limestone, once you go into
the basement areas.
Our pre investigation checks with the EMF were just
about a waste of time, as there was so much
electrical equipment in most of the areas, there
were fluorescent light fittings in most of the rooms
and with the ceilings only being at best about 6”6
ins and in other areas about 5”6!.
Hygrometer readings were approximately 64% and the
air temperature was approximately 21.5.
Before we started the investigation, the landlady,
Cate, asked if it would be possible for Tracy &
Graham, our Mediums, to take a walk round up stairs,
but as the kids were in their bedrooms asleep,
quietness was uppermost…. Our two Mediums agreed
that they would indeed take a quick look upstairs…
On their return to the cellar, where we were setting
up for the investigation, they both began to tell me
what they had sensed whilst on the walk round…Both
Graham and Tracy had picked up on a female, who’s
age would have been about in her mid thirties, she
was dressed in an Edwardian type of dress with a
high collar and a broach. The name of Elizabeth
Jones was in Grahams thoughts with this lady, and
she told graham that she was “Learned”, when he
enquired about her….He got the impression she was
maybe a teacher or some sort of head teacher…He also
felt that ‘Elizabeth’ was a grounded spirit.
Further in to the walk round upstairs, a male energy
was sensed, and the name of Charles Treadger, came
up, Graham felt also this man was grounded….he was
dressed in a black waistcoat and had a bowler hat
on, Graham felt this man was a ‘business’ type man,
he was of a medium build, and the date of 1876 was
brought to mind…
They then both went into another of the upstairs
rooms, where a bed settee was situated, in this room
was a trap door into the roof space and a little boy
was sensed, the feeling was that this little boy was
scared of someone downstairs and was in fear…whilst
on this walk round Tracy reported her torch battery
drained.
The team’s investigation in the cellar area was now
getting started. There were 5 areas in the cellar,
all different rooms… and our first room to be
investigated was what we call the small staircase
room, which has the remains of a stone spiral
staircase of the sort you would expect to find in a
castle!...The rest of the team were having a look
round the area as myself and Graham went into this
room, after a short while, Graham was picking up on
small animals… a goat possibly, but he kept saying
he was sensing animals…he mentioned later to me that
he was also seeing a stone bock or slab, with meat
on it…
By now Tracy had also joined us in the room and she
too was picking up on the animals in this room, but
over by the staircase, an energy of a male, who
Graham describes as a big man, age wise about 45,
with brown short curly hair, was now being sensed,
Tracy said she could feel the man quite close to her
and asked him to back off…The energies of another
male was being picked up, but Graham kept referring
to this man as being disabled in some way, with a
spinal problem and possibly also of a diminished
mental state, but he was not sensing anything nasty
about this disabled person…During our time in this
area we asked out on several occasions for a sound
to be made and on several occasions we did hear a
sound from various areas in this room.
Other members were wandering about in the other
rooms in the cellar and Joan and Russ informed me
that some small lights and an odd shaped anomaly was
seen in the area of the cellar where the beer
barrels were dropped down from the outside. They
both agreed that what they saw was very odd and was
at a loss to explain what they had seen.
Throughout the investigation, most of the rooms were
very warm, with all the various electrical
appliances running etc….
From there, myself, Russ, Graham and Tracy went into
the cold storage area where the beer barrels were
kept, this room was chilled down…. Tracy mentioned
that she saw a man with his sleeves rolled up and a
‘fag’end in the corner of his mouth, he was
wrestling with the barrels, the name of Archie
Pearson was mentioned...the barrels were not the
ones here, but wooden ones from bygone years…after a
short while we moved on to another area… (It was
felt this man may be from about 1900)
The last room in the cellar that we were to
investigate, was located at the bottom of the main
stairway from upstairs….we had to move some items
before we could get in to investigate. The room had
a very low vaulted ceiling, it was of a stone
construction and not brick, and unlike elsewhere in
the cellar…it was very cold and damp and had no
window, just a door.
As we were setting up, Russ mentioned that either
his jacket had moved by its self or something had
tugged the back of his coat…
There were three of us in this cold low ceiling
room, and Russ was filming the proceedings, Tracy
and Graham were both picking up on different
energies….Tracy was picking up an energy which was
kneeling down; she interpreted this as a man of the
cloth, in some way… But Graham was picking up on a
different energy …he did mention that the room was
very cell like, and we all agreed, as with no window
and the low ceiling and just the wooden door it did
have that feel. It was unlike any of the other rooms
and had an uneasy feel to it… By now it was getting
quite late and we decided to start drawing this
visit to the Beastfair Vaults to a close…
I don’t think it will be too long before Haunted
Yorkshire will be making a return visit to this
location. We all agreed it had been a busy night and
is definitely worthy of further investigation…
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