Report
By SCFR Member Peter Mould
An
interesting return to the Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton under
Edge for SCFR who were kindly invited by Gloucestershire
Paranormal Research Group.
We
started in the Bishops room, hoping for a repeat of
the Orb phenomenon we experienced on investigation one.
Some orbs were reported by some members of the group
on camcorder, and having reviewed my footage I also
recorded 14 plus light anomalies although I have to
say I think all are explainable as dust or what seems
to be an errant moth doing circuits around the room!
A
séance was held with all but me linking hands.
I wanted to make sure nothing was missed outside the
circle. Suddenly the far side of the circle reported
a very strong smell of burning. This seemed to pass
around the circle, although the two guys from the Brighton
group didn’t smell anything. I eventually smelt
a struck match like aroma from where I was sat.
It was interesting, especially as a girl from an invited
public group had reported that her eyes were getting
"really hot" just before this burning smell.
Nothing else happened at this point.
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Vigil
2, The Witches Room
In
the witches room, there were some planks of wood stood
up in the corner, and three times one of these fell,
nearly hitting some of the group. The weird thing
was the first time it nearly hit one particular guy,
and then as they were telling me about it, it happened
again to the same chap. As you can see from the picture
on the left, there is a light anomaly on the left arm
of the guy to the left of the picture.
After
30 mins we decided to try some table tipping, which
proved to be unsuccessful, but during this experiment
the plank fell again, narrowly missing those sat on
the bed. I checked the floor boards running under this
position, and jumped up and down, but the planks only
moved very slightly, not enough to fall. I think this
goes into the interesting category.
Dave
and Craig from the GPRG had good results with the table
tipping in this room later on in the night.
Vigil
3, The Attic
We then split into two
groups, one in the barn led by Chris, and one in the
attic, led by myself. This is when Dave and Craig
stayed in the witches’ room and did the table tipping.
Sadly the attic was uneventful, except for the howling
wind, and a general consensus that we didn’t like the
feeling of the area. I wonder how much this comes
down to the fact we were in an old attic, just like
the ones that are in all the good ghost stories.
Having said that one of the guys from A Brighton group,
who also joined us, had earlier reported seeing red
orbs in the bedroom off of the attic, with the naked
eye, so this area might warrant a concentrated investigation
at some point.
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4, The Bishops Room
We
later returned to the Bishops Room, and tried some more
table tipping. This time there was limited movement
so it was suggested we use an upturned glass tumbler, this
proved the highlight of the night as the glass started
to move. Having reviewed my tape of this exercise the
glass didn’t seem to me to be being pushed by anyone.
In fact later Chris pushed it and the table went as
well proving that if anyone had pushed the glass the
table would have fallen over.
We
linked with a male spirit who claimed to be named Henry
and said that he owned the Ram and worked there. He
claimed the year was before 1815, which may have meant
his birth date, and that he died in the room.
Somebody killed him, a friend. He said he had 6 children,
and was older than 50. However we asked if he was playing
with us and not telling us the truth and he said yes.
He said he was grounded and resident at the Ram. I
wondered if it was a malevolent spirit trying to deceive
us. In fact later questioning him about his name he
then said it was foreign and beginning with SV. It was interesting,
but as always with this type of communication, it asks
more questions than it answers.
Further
investigation has uncovered a Henry Dauncey who owned
the Ram 1842 – 1849 so this adds to the intrigue. “gloucestershirepubs.co.uk” |
