Woodchester
Mansion | Paranormal
Investigation | Dead
Haunted Nights
On
18th March 2006 Mandy & Paul from 'Tribute
To Most Haunted' & 'Paranormal
United' joined Phil Whyman
( Most Haunted & Scream
Team ) via Dead Haunted
Nights for a night in Woodchester
Mansion. Dead Haunted Nights promo
line is ...Do you want to spend a night in one of
this country's most haunted locations? Do you want
one of the best known personalities, Phil
Whyman, in the world of Paranormal
Television to be your host
for the event? Our answer was YES.
So
Let The Coverage Begin .....
Paranormal
Investigation of Woodchester Mansion
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Woodchester
Mansion Cellars
We
entered Woodchester Mansion cellars at
10.48pm and the temperature was now only 2 degrees c.
Completely unlit we were guided only by our own torch
light. We started in the largest room and Phil
Whyman took it easy while he let everyone find
their feet as to how they were going to conduct themselves
for the night. Being our first paranormal investigation
we were both keen to capture what we could on camcorder
and digital camcorder and tried to seek some quiet and
solitude. There was a lot of dust in the air of this room
and photographs showed very little that could be given
as positive. Leaving the group to table tipping I moved
into the second of the four cellar rooms.
In
this second room I sat in the dark alone for some five
minutes. There was a no feeling of fear or sense of anything
I was unsure of. I look a number of photos and none of
them showed anything that I couldn't put down to dust
or breeze.
I
exited the second room and stood at the end of the corridor,
again in the dark for a few minutes aware only of the
noises of the rest of the team in the larger room. I took
a number of photos in succession and got two a few seconds
a part with a possible orb. Again I leave this to your
view but can confirm that there was no disturbance of
movement in this location.
I
returned to the larger room as the rest of the group attempted
a seance led by one of our group who maintained to have
psychic ability. Nothing appeared to be forthcoming.
All
the other room held seemed to be the left over from a
poor undertaker.
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Woodchester
Mansion Ground Floor
The
investigation of Woodchester Mansion
ground floor began with setting up motion detectors
in the chapel at 00:05am. These detectors work on the
basis of being activated by a solid item breaking the
beams to sound an alarm. As Phil Whyman
had explained since spirits are supposedly transparent
he was unsure on how they would activate such a device.
With
such a large area to cover Mandy & myself were happy
to investigate many of the rooms including the kitchen,
chapel and billiard room room but alas felt no disturbance
or caught anything other than definite dust on camera.
Other
members of our group held another seance this time in
the billiard room. They were convince something was thrown
at them and stated they felt very unsettled in the room.
We had been in there previously and returned after they
had finished but again felt and captured nothing.
It
must be said it was quite unnerving looking up to the
rafters seeing the 'floating' fireplaces and feeling drafts
from the unpaned windows, so it would be easy to understand
how some people would feel un-at-ease.
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Woodchester
Mansion First Floor
We
ascended to the First Floor at 01:20am. The completed
areas of the first floor consisted of three rooms and
a corridor over looking the ground floor, that of course
would have led to the floors of other rooms. Also on this
floor were the public toilets.
The
most interesting room was the bathroom that contained
a bath and a shower room. While in this room with Mandy
we did capture another possible orb above the bath. This
was taken a few minutes after one of our group had had
a panic fit thinking someone was by him in the bath. However
it must be pointed out the first floor contained one of
the most dusty corridors in the mansion.
The
corridor was full of dust and extremely cold with the
wind blowing through the unpaned windows but was probably
the one part of the mansion I disliked most being in alone
and in the dark. With the amount of dust photography would
have been unaffective.
The
one room was barriered off and contained remains of masonry
and a lot of undisturbed dust but photos showed nothing
that could be identified as unusual.
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Return To The Cellar
For
our fourth vigil three of us accompanied by Vince returned
to the cellar at 02:45am. While in the room I had sat
in previously we captured on camcorder what seemed to
be an orb traveling across the floor towards Laura (One
of our group who was studying mediumship.) This was the
only vigil I can say that made us feel un-at-ease.
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Woodchester
Mansion Second Floor
At
03:15am we rejoined Phil to do our last vigil on the
first & second floor. The temperature had dropped
to below -2 degrees c and seemed even colder on the
second floor.
I
admit now our lack of sleep and the cold had taken it's
toll and we only joined our part for 20 minutes out of
the 45 with little to report on. Dust continued to show
on our photos and inspection has showed little more.
We
packed up and left Woodchester Mansion
at 05:00am, tired and cold but both of us having fully
enjoyed our paranormal investigation night. Those who
believe know the spirits do not appear on cue and tonight
there was very little to show for our efforts. Although
with four hours of video footage to go through there
may well be something else to report. We can hope....
Our
thanks go out to Phil Whyman, Vince
and Nick and all the Dead Haunted Nights
Team. We look forward to meeting them again and maybe
you the reader ..... Do you believe ??
