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Stony Cottage, Bradford
(name of property changed to protect client)



My first knowledge of this cottage came when I received a call from Eddie Peace (Spiritualist Medium), who told me about a lady who had contacted him about a haunting at this property.

He told me she had recently moved in, and had started to have some strange incidents happening at the cottage so he was called in for his opinion. He went to the house and had a walk round all the rooms, and told the lady exactly what was there; he then suggested that Haunted Yorkshire be contacted, to investigate further...

So, on a very snowy Friday night, we arrived, albeit a bit late, due to the weather, at Stony Cottage, on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire. We were greeted by the lady who lived there, and her family, who started to show us some film footage taken on their mobile phone, of a shadowy item on the staircase of their home...

I had made a note of what Eddie had told me, and I had also spoken to the lady of the house about the incidents witnessed there. No one else in the group knew anything about the cottage we were investigating this evening....

We had an initial walk round of the whole house, and then decided where our investigation was going to be concentrated... After only a short while Graham was already picking up on the spirit of a little boy on the top floor of the cottage, he said he was certain the boy was grounded there and was quite a happy little lad, who looked like a street urchin, of the type you would see in "Oliver Twist". Graham spent a while in the room communicating with him, the little lad had asked Graham if he 'was in some sort of trouble?', to which Graham said no, definitely not.....but whilst they were communicating, Graham could feel a tightening round his throat, as if the lad had had an injury of some sort, or even strangling.....and the overall feeling was that this spirit lad had been here for a long time…….

Meanwhile in the next bedroom, Tracy was picking up on the energy of a lady, wearing a bonnet and a shawl, and a long dress, she said she didn't feel this lady was grounded, but was just in visitation there.....

Out temperature checks fluctuated slightly, only by a few degrees, and the EMF readings were nil throughout the night…..

We set up our digital voice recorder in the bedroom that Graham had picked up this lads energy and we left the recorder going for about 15 mins or so, I have yet to review this footage…..

From the top floor, we went down onto the second landing/floor where the main master bedroom was, and both Graham and Tracy picked up on a lady stood by the window looking out as if looking at a garden that may have been there in the past, both Graham and Tracy felt that this lady was not grounded, but in visitation…...

We spent a while on the second floor, and again the temperature readings and emf readings were 'normal'…...

Graham felt compelled to go back up onto the top floor, and back into the smaller room where the spirit of the boy was felt, again Graham said he was still there, and that he doubted the spirit boy ever left this location, as he felt it was looked on as his 'safe area'…..

From there we went back into the bigger of the two bedrooms’, where Graham was now picking up the energy of a 'big black dog'. A Great Dane type dog..... I was not aware of any such report of a big black dog, until we got back downstairs into the kitchen and spoke to the owner of the house and she confirmed that a big black dog had been seen!...

Our next port of call, was the lounge on the ground floor, no reports of any activity had been told to myself or any of the group, but our two mediums were picking up on a man stood in what was the old main doorway to this building, he is best described as a 'Fred Dibnah' type of chap in his attire, with a collarless shirt, with rolled up sleeves....Tracy kept saying the room 'was all wrong'.....and that it had infact been a much smaller room than it is today, she sensed a passageway as you come in through what was the old door.....an Graham looked into a cupboard under what is now a staircase and said he felt the stairs would have originally gone up there!....Tracy felt the fireplace was different and that it used to be an 'Arga' or a range type fireplace.....Graham picked up on the man now stood near the fireplace with a pipe, and again he picked up on this big black dog, which he said was now in the lounge with us......Tracy mentioned that the energy of an old lady was being felt, age wise in her 60's or even 70's, and the name Bertha came to mind...

By now it was getting late and we decided to call it a draw for this investigation, we recessed to the kitchen area where the owner and her family were sat and we began to tell her what we had found out, once again again I was not privy to any of the information about the 'Lounge', until we told the owner what had been sensed and she confirmed that when she first moved in, the fireplace had indeed been different.....and that the whole layout of the building had been different as it used to be an old basket weaving cottage which was originally a large building, and had been separated a few years back, into three separate dwellings.....

We have arranged a return to Stony Cottage, as we feel this requires a more in depth look…