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The Rastrick Investigation
This investigation was instigated not by the occupiers of the house, but by the lady who actually owns and rents out this stone built property nestling on a hillside in the Rastrick area of West Yorkshire.
The people who live in the house have been experiencing some strange and uncomfortable things happening since their arrival there, approximately 8 weeks previous to our investigation there.
The present occupiers have reported very loud noises from the cellar area and on investigation have found no logical reason for these noises. Footsteps have been heard, across the upper levels of the building, when the only person in the house was downstairs… & things happening that have been affecting the whole family and causing a general feeling of depression and tension all the time. The family pet (dog) was also acting very unusually since the move there, pacing round and round and round in the kitchen, then digging for something under the floor...as if to reach something in the cellar area…
The family have reported troubles sleeping, and have also said that activity levels remained there more or less, all the time.
24th November 2006
Team Members: Dawn, Russ, Graham, Wendy & Joan
Moon Phase: Waxing 14% full
Geomagnetic Fields: Storm
Solar Rays: Normal
We arrived at approximately 7pm and started the investigation shortly thereafter setting up various cameras etc at the location.
The Boy’s Room
Temperature 12.6 d cel.
EMF: 2mg in doorway only.
Graham set off upstairs straight away (please note that Graham was not privy to any of the details of things happening here). And had no prior knowledge of where we were going…
It was only a very short while before he said that he had the energy of a lady and her daughter in what is now the boy’s bedroom on the second story of the building. He said the timescale would be approximately in the early 1900’s possibly, and that the lady looked to be in her early 50’s… the girl would be about 8 or 9 years of age…
He had the name of” Kathleen Ballatyne” for the lady’s name and Sara for the girls name …He sensed that the lady had been a school teacher and that they had both passed during what he describes as an “explosion”…. From there we ventured back down stairs.
The Parent’s Bedroom
Temperature: 19 d Celsius
Hygrometer Readings: 76%
EMF: none
The Lounge
Temperature 15 d Celsius
Hygrometer Readings: between 52% & 57%
EMF: 2mg
There were no significant EMF readings anywhere in the house, except in the lounge area & the boy’s room (doorway).
The Kitchen
Temperature 13 d Celsius
Hygrometer Readings: 67%
EMF: none
Russ had been observing the family dog as he started his circling of the kitchen table once again. The owners said that they had taken the dog to the vets to be checked out and that he said the dog was ok. It is possible that this activity may be more anxiety based, as it is a repetitive behaviour that the dog is displaying, and some animals display a repetitive motion/action’s when bored or at times of anxiety. Graham said that he sensed nothing at all in the kitchen area.
The Cellar
Temperature: From 11.4 to 14.2 d Celsius
Hygrometer Readings: 81%
EMF: none
Graham had a quick look in the cellar and decided to set up an infrared camcorder on a tripod. And myself, Joan and the lady of the house decided to stay down there for a few minutes…we stayed in the cellar for approximately half an hour of which included doing several readings and sitting quietly. On two or three occasions we heard what sounded like movement, and radioed upstairs to see whether anyone had made any noises, it was decided that we couldn’t totally be certain it wasn’t the dog so sat for a few more minutes. We were sat more or less straight in front of the camcorder; I was sat on what I would describe a stone shelf like slab on bricks, there was a cardboard box behind me on the slab. A wall & doorway that partitioned off the next part of the cellar, was directly behind me and the cardboard box.
We were just quietly sitting, when something quite loud, felt like it had dropped right at the back of me, making everyone jump up, including me! The box was still there, and nothing seemed out of place. I cannot explain what it was but the noise was caught on tape. I was sat still, so it certainly wasn’t anything that I had knocked or moved…
From there we headed back up stairs to the lounge to report what had just happened.
The Boy’s Room
Graham once again wanted to go back up stairs to the boy’s room … he said that he thought that he needed to go back up there… this time he decided to use a divination technique called dowsing with a pendulum.
This time I had no EMF at all, where there had been some before. On this visit, Graham was picking up something else, and after a short while the name of “Charlotte” was on Grahams thought’s…she was about 45 yrs of age, and the time period would be approximately 1927. She confirmed she had passed over, of natural causes, in this building. Graham felt that this entity was not sure whether she liked people being here in what was her house and on further questioning, he came to the conclusion that this spirit person called Charlotte, had downs syndrome. She said also that she didn’t’ like the family pet (dog) and was responsible for the ‘footsteps’ that the family had reported hearing… Graham asked her whether she wanted to see her family again, to which she indicated that she did, and at that point Charlotte was moved over, to the spirit realms.
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By now members of the team were feeling drained and we decided to draw things to a close, on returning downstairs, we discussed what Graham had picked up and told the proprietors and owners of the property, our findings. It was at this point that the owner brought out an old photo album that she had found in the cellar from previous occupants, going back years ago. Graham was browsing the pictures when he came across some old black and white photographs of a lady and her daughter, with the names of Kathleen and Sarah written underneath! We were all pretty impressed that the very things Graham had picked up, upstairs were confirmed in the album. I can say without any doubt that NONE of the team, including Graham had any prior knowledge before this investigation started, and that I was the only person that knew where we were investigating on this night.
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