Cordoba Room

Members of group D Howley, A Morgan, M Roberts, M Harding and S Pippen.

Initial readings:-

Temperature 24.9 ?c

EMF – normal

After spending around 15 minutes in this location M R reported hearing a noise in the room which sounded like a purring cat – other members of the group could hear something, however nothing could be found in the room to be making such a noise.

A séance was conducted at approx. 11.30.  All members of the group felt a distinct drop in temperature, however on checking the thermometer the actual temperature remained constant at 24 degrees.  A loud bang was heard by all members of the group, however this could have been caused by someone upstairs and has been discounted as paranormal activity.

Drawing Room

Following a break and debrief the second vigil began in the Drawing Room.

Initial Readings:-

Temperature 21 ?c

EMF – Normal

During this vigil the group decided to try table tipping.  All members of the group sat around a small table and placed the tips of their fingers around the edge.  A number of questions were asked by both myself and M Roberts and the table appeared to move in response.  The responses we appeared to receive were from a female who was murdered.  She was not from the village, did not have any family in the Much Marcle area and died more recently than the war. 

Some members of the group were become agitated by this experiment and it was decided to stop and come back later with those who wanted to continue.  The group thanked the spirit for communicating before closing the circle.

Members of the group had mixed feeling about this experiment, all I can say for certain is that I was not moving the table myself and can vouch for at least two other members of the group.

Bedroom One

The group settled themselves down for the investigation of the bedroom where an occupant was said to have been locked for most of her life after marrying someone not worthy of her class.  In this room was a rope going up through the ceiling to a small bell tower which has reportedly rang of its own accord.  To encourage some paranormal activity the group joined hands around the bell and conducted a séance.  No paranormal activity occurred other than members of the group feeling colder.

Bloody Marys Room

An earlier group had obtained some very good poltergeist activity in this room earlier in the evening and the group were optimistic about this investigation.

Previous activity had centred around the bed and this is were we began. 

At this part of the investigation many of the group were feeling extremely tired.  Movement was noted on some of the hangings around the four poster bed, however movement caused by other people walking around on floorboards could not be ruled out as the cause.

As dawn began to break, this part of the investigation was concluded.

Drawing Room

The final part of our investigation of Hellens led us back to the Drawing.  This is the area were we had received some interesting results with table tipping.  This time the four of us (myself, M Roberts, M Harding and S Pippen), used an upturned glass on the same table and seemed to get in touch with the spirit of a young girl.  The answers we obtained this time round are as follows:

·        Girl aged 13

·        Born 1950, died 1963

·        Visiting relatives with her brother.

·        Both from Glasgow.

·        Two people were involved with her murder.

·        On of the murderers took his own life in 1996.

·        Her body has never been found but is in the Much Marcle area.

·        Her and her brother were on their way back to Glasgow.

·        Her brother was not killed.

Again some of the group began to get agitated so we thanked the spirit and closed the circle.

Conclusion

For GPRG’s first investigation of Hellens Manor activity seemed to be recorded by the majority of the groups.  There certainly seems to be something at Hellens and GPRG will be returning to further this investigation at a later date.

Dave Howley    20^th June 2005