Otherworld Investigations was born

Private Location

Posted by chris whitehouse on May 9, 2011 at 4:53 PM    

April 9th 2011

(We are sat at one end of the large work area)

Six people arrived at an undisclosed location with an uncertainty of what they would have happen. We were pleasantly surprised at our results. We set up a camera and two dictaphones and sat around a small table to take 'Protection'. Marie sensed that there were children running about down the far end of the building. We started with glass divination on a table marked with 'Yes' and 'No'. It took barely two minutes for the glass to move towards Yes. Usually the first hour is unproductive, so it was great having something this early. One man around the building was called Bill and his Grandad, also called Bill, used to work in this building long ago. I shall have to split these Bills into Bill jr and Bill sr to distinguish them. The questions and answers contained these,

“Do the spirits need our help?” “No”

The glass tipped and fell onto it's side.

Once stood back up it fell onto it's side again.

“Is there more than one spirit here?” “Yes”

“Did you used to work in this building?”. The glass tipped over again. We didn't know how to interpret this response.

Debbie joked,”shall we put a vodka in the glass?” The glass moved very fast to Yes.

“Do you still come here when people work through the day?” “Yes”

“Do you recognise anyone at the table?” The glass moved to Bill jr.

“Are you Bills Grandad?” “Yes”

“Are you happy where you are?” A very definite “Yes”

Bill jr asked “Did you used to meet me from school every night?” The glass moved fast to “Yes”

Bill, a psychic artist, is told that he is on the right path with his drawings of spirits and should continue. He only realised he was doodling the dead in the last twelve months.

Bill jr asked “Is Norman (Bill jr's Dad) with you?” “Yes”

The spirit seems to prefer us all to call him Grandad, so we do.

The glass doesn't stay still from this point, either moving as if it is ice skating around the table or staying in one place and yet turning on the spot.

“Is it nice where you are?” “Yes”

The spirit says it will help us through the night and doesn't seem to keen for us to have a coffee break.

(We gather in a small office still using a glass on the table) 65F

Bill jr “Are you with me at all times Grandad?” “Yes”

Marie asks a lot of questions about her spiritualist church and family and friends, some of which are also at the table. The glass at some points tips over again but we still don't know if this means a certain thing. The glass moves to Yes and No without hesitation, so we are none the wiser.

As we sit together in this office, out in the work place there are distant bangs and knocks which I go out to investigate and never hear a thing. As Marie asks questions about her being a Trance Medium, there is a banging repeatedly which gets louder and louder. This is clearly heard on my dictaphone. Some noises sound inside the room with us but also far away. The table itself shifts towards Marie. Then the table moves towards Bill who is sat opposite to Marie. I said that the spirit would get a chance to move the table later and the glass hurriedly went to YES.

“Are you enjoying tonight spirit?” “Yes”

The glass twists on the spot which trips our fingers into each other and yet the glass itself continues to turn. When the glass moves around in a circular movement it would seem to represent “I Don't Know”.

Marie asks who she can hear mumbling out in the work place. It appears to be Norman (Bills Dad).

'Grandad' confirms it to be Norman. Bill jr says that Norman has lifted tables for him in the past in spirit. Even in my coat I feel like my back is freezing and so I ask if there is a presence sat behind me. The glass moves to “Yes” Teela (Marie's Daughter) asks if she would be able to witness this energy and the glass moves to “Yes”. Many other personal questions are asked about people around the table and answers seem to satisfy. Towards the end of this session the glass moves in a figure eight and at the same time rotates itself so that its a real problem trying to keep our fingers on for a moment. Teela asks if there is a spirit dog around, “Yes”

I can say that I kept hearing a dog whining outside the office but I was worried that only I kept hearing it. Sometimes when one of your ears rings like a high pitch white noise naturally and you can hear it loudly but you know nobody else would hear it, that is what it felt like to me. It seemed I was hearing noises which only I could pick up at that moment. It seemed though that some of the others also had it, but not all. I am in no way a sensitive but this was interesting for me.

The moves in a circle faster and faster until it tips over. Marie asks “Will Chris get evidence on his camera this evening?” “Yes”

Although we are talking to Bill all the time Marie ends one session saying “I must ask about a William when we get back.” Before I have got to this audio in my editing, a friend finds out himself that his Grandad used to work there and he was called William. Marie and the rest of us never ask about a William though unfortunately.

(we are back in the office using just fingers lightly on the table)

We sit and gather our energies for a couple of minutes and ask for the table to lift up. The table rises onto two of it's four legs. I ask for the table to lift at the other end instead, baring in mind that everyone's fingers are lightly not moving on the top of the table only. The table does as asked and raises at the opposite end. Then the table lifts onto just one leg and when asked if it can twist on one leg it proceeds to rotate three quarters of a full rotation. Someone asks if the table can stand on each one leg in turn. The table goes from leg number one to only leg two and then just number three and finally leg four. This shows that at we all faking at one point or the table is really not controlled by us. The table stands on the very point of a right angled leg. We asks for the table to jump up off the floor and levitate but sadly doesn't. We ask for the table to tip towards people by name and it does so without error. We ask for the table to be thrown over and it tips completely down with a bang.

Finally the table is dragged under our finger tips on all four legs towards Bill jr.

We charge up a glow in the dark ball under a light and place the ball on the table. My none night vision camcorder struggles to see the evidence during this session but my eyes could see. The audio still provides interesting moments. With fingers on the table the table tips to roll the ball towards a named person and stays on the table edge each time unless allowed to fall. The table starts making strange wood creaking noises for the first time which the audio confirms on my camcorder. We take our hands off and the table continues to creak for two minutes as if its under pressure. 39 mins in the table is asked to move and it falls over, ball and dictaphone hitting the floor. We ask for a bang and I capture a soft bang. One minute later another bang is recorded. The table starts to creak without being touched and the table does not move from the very corner of the table.

We start another session of glass divination. The glass moves freely.

“Is that Grandad bill?” “Yes”

“Did you move the table at the end of the last session and make it creak?” “Yes”

There follows more questions which are personal to the group and so can't be used here.

The glass spins and there is a bang outside of the office.

“Did you make that noise outside Grandad bill?” “Yes”

Marie hears a dog barking and says that dogs are related to spiritualist protection.

The glass starts to spin out of control and Teela asks if the spirit would stop and it immediately stops. Then Teela asks “How fast can you go?” The glass goes as fast as I have ever seen.

Marie says “Can you stop please?” The glass stops.

The glass continues to spin as we all hear noises outside.

As the glass spins Teela asks if it can spin in the other direction and it stops and goes in the other direction at once. I capture a noise which sounds in part like a bird outside but also like a baby crying. Two minutes later I say I hear a dog howling close by. Four minutes later I hear a dog again.

Teela asks if the spirit can take the glass to each of the four corners of the table in turn which it does. The glass spins to a point where it falls over. We hear noises outside in the work place and ask if this is Norman and the glass says yes. Grandad Bill seems to dominate our sessions and he admits via the glass that he won't let anyone else have a go. Marie says she is hearing marching in the work place and I capture a Bang. I put the dictaphone on the floor a capture another Bang which I felt under my feet. A few more bangs are heard and felt. Debbie asks if two young boys named Thomas and James are with us and the glass responds “Yes”

“Did the boys have an accident with the trains?” (We are very close to a train track outside.)

We hear a bump. The glass moves to Yes. Three more bumps occur as we continue to a close for a break.

(We move to the other end of the work place out in a large area)

We start table tipping and have results straight away. The table crashes to the floor.

Then the table sands onto one leg. I ask if the table can be dragged. The table spins and pulls towards me a little so I reach out a hand and ask for the table to touch me. It twists and drags until it is touching my outstretched hand. Soon after I ask if the table will drag on all four feet it does so. Debbie asks if it will come to her as she is in the opposite direction. The table drags a lot towards her and then tips on two legs into her. We ask if the table can be thrown over and it crashes down.

As we discuss what to try next we hear a further loud bang.

(We move into a small office again to use the Ghost box)

A ghost box is a radio which scans all the stations without ever stopping on a station therefore there is a lot of white noise and snippets of radio chatter which some believe spirits can manipulate to speak through. Where some noises can be twisted to fit what you imagine, I try to only document the words that are most roundly formed no matter what they are. This is my first time using a Ghost box.

I start the machine running just after my dictaphone but before my camcorder. As I explain to Bill jr what this machine does we hear a voice appear to say “Hiya” before I have turned the lights off.

Here are the words which I recorded.

“Hi”

“Can you give us a name?” “Bill”

“Losers”

“Can you say CROSS?” “CROSS” At the time this went unnoticed.

“Bill”

“Bill”

“Bill”

“Bill”

“Can you give a name of someone around the table?” “Chris” (female voice)

“Chris” (male voice)

“Here”

“Bedtime”

Then there is a break where we try and get the energies up again.

We start with a prayer and sit quietly and hear a knock on wood in the room.

Teela and someone else reports that they think they can feel a pulse in the table.

I tell the spirit which seems to be tiring to do what it needs to do to build its energy. The glass suddenly gets up to a moderate speed. “Can you stop the glass please?” It stops.

Another Bang in the room.

(We continue with the Ghost Box)

We ask for a name of someone around the table and I did think that I heard a Chris said twice in a gruff voice but i'm not convinced that it is not just the glass scraping on the table as it moves.

“Can you tell us a name?” “NO”

“Chris”

“Do you like this machine?” “NO”

“Would you like us to take it off the table?” The glass moves to Yes.

We close down with a prayer to finish the session. We hear a strange noise that I cannot really describe.

As we all leave the office and chat a little my dictaphone continues to run with our faded voices in the background.

After five minutes I capture a Breath next to the recorder. Its fascinating but creepy.

I am left alone in the building and leave my recorder running until the very last second. I talk out loud to the spirits listening that they have only a minute or so left to be heard. I capture another noise of some kind that was not heard at that moment.

Cavendish Court

Posted by chris whitehouse on May 29, 2011 at 5:34 AM    

Our team had the cafe and the main section of the courtyard to ourselves for the evening with the owner giving us some stories to go on before she left. She said that she had seen a tall black figure pass her out in the courtyard before and also felt that she had three spirits in the shop who she coexisted with pleasantly. The cellar had a history of a suicide by a male but again he didn't cause problems for the owner. As most of us gathered in the cafe awaiting the last of our group I set a dictaphone running in the cellar for five hours before retrieving it. I left to go outside as the last people turned up and re-entered the cafe to have people tell me of twelve footsteps coming up the stairs a moment ago. At least three people confirmed that they had heard them. All I recorded on my dictaphone was one bump. This is strange though because if their ears heard it but not my equipment, then it was not a normal sound frequency as even in the cellar my recorder hears every word spoken by the group a lot further away and yet only picked up one bump from the footsteps climbing the cellar steps. We sit down around a large table and ask out. My recorder picks up a bump in the cellar. At the table we ask the glass to count out in rotations how many spirits there are in the building, to which it answers 19. Sue sees a male and female looking into the café window but thinks that the public have a way through the yard, but all the gates are locked and only I have the keys. As the table upstairs makes brief contact with a 'Tony', my recorder hears a bump and then a knock. Tony was identified as a Medium friend of members of the present circle. The next name to come forward is 'Darren'. Darren says that his son worked in this area. As I retrace my steps around the shop (where earlier I found no other electrical surges other than the fridge and microwave) I walk near one corner and my Gauss meter rises and shrieks up to four and a half Mg. for thirty five seconds and then it stops dead. People had seen flashes of light in this corner and now we are drawn towards it. I fail to make it happen again. We ask for the spirit to go back to the Gauss metre which I have now left on a handrail. The glass indicates that yes it will do it again. All we hear is the device click briefly. The spirit is asked to go near me as I stand close to my device and I can see the needle wobbling but the sound not activating. Later when I check my photos there are lights caught in that area. We decide to relocate to that corner where a heavy brown high topped table is for us all to stand around. There are a pile of toys over there that start to sing their electrical tune as we move a couch out of the way. The sound is coming from a box at the bottom that we cant actually touch. Two minutes later the toys sing again. Three minutes later they do it again. We are finally ready to start glass divination on this heavy table but are surprised to find the large table is tipping and so hurriedly remove the glass. This was a shock to me too as the weight in this table would have stopped me from attempting to table tip with it. However the large table rotated and leant dangerously and cold air was detected. Later photos of the table base caught lights beneath it. But it doesn’t last long enough to get more communication. We relocate again to a small table and contact 'David Peterson'. He table slides around the floor impressively but again few answers are taken. Bill has to back away from the group as he feels his body is being taken. My recorder picks up a bang in the cellar. I decide to go down the stairs alone in the dark for ten minutes while the group ask for any spirit to come down into the cellar and touch me. I sit there waiting to be touched but feel zero.

The next name we get is 'Victoria'. She says that she has a message for the owner we cant seem to get it. Victoria says that she passed over fifty years ago. Vague answers follow and so I get frustrated and we stop. We refresh and then get David again who thinks Victoria is confused and he says that he is definitely not. David says he goes in the courtyard and the car park sometimes. We did catch a photo out in the seating area with four lights in a square formation but had no other communication.

Any interesting communication was annoyingly brief and it was as if they didn't want to communicate with us. There seemed to be some electrical field walking around but other than that it was all vague.

The next day though the owner said she felt a forth presence. She went down to the cellar and asked aloud who it was. A voice said 'John' in her ear. Two other members complained that they seemed to have taken an entity home with them.

West Riding pub in Leeds.

Posted by chris whitehouse on July 5, 2011 at 1:29 PM    

West Riding Pub July 2nd. 2011 We were told in the bar area that damage done by spirit was becoming a problem for the owners because repairs are costing too much. We were led up one floor and in the middle of this long corridor I felt a little thick headed and there was a fuggy smell. We entered a second staircase to the floor above and saw a run down corridor with eight rooms off from it. The furthest end was dark and had one room where a lady had taken her life. Staff wouldn't come up to this level if they could help it. This was creepy due to it's appearance and so understandable that you would feel uneasy. As we set up, we discovered a staircase which led back down to the corridor below but it was blocked off. Sue took some photos and said she did not like this set of stairs. I walked over with my Gauss meter. I descended the stairs and my metre crackled into life where a glass door was propped up against a wall. The metre wouldn't go off in front of it or behind it, just up close to the glass. I went back up thinking there was probably an electrical source around that I couldn't see. The electricity was not connected to the floor where we were to be working. I reached the top of the stairs in time for the gauss metre needle to jump around from 1 to 10 to 5 to 8 to 2 and the accompanying noise was a first. It was like an eager puppy happy to greet us. Then it stopped as I asked for it to let us set up first. The fire alarm went off three times whilst we unpacked. The owner scratched her head. Whilst I was finishing setting up, I heard the others already communicating in the entrance end of the floor with the K2 metre illuminating fully in answer to questions. Once we were finally set up we did protection and started with a glass on my table. Two minutes in the glass weakly moved but not to yes or no as asked. Was it possible that this spirit didn't know what sex it was? Through trying different facts we decided that this seemed like a young child. We asked if it wore a dress and this time it went to yes. We put marbles under the glass and invited the girl to play with them. The glass moved excitedly and the marbles spun inside the glass. We added more marbles as we went on, as a reward. we couldn't get a name but what was arrived at was that she was an orphan and a lady spirit looked after her. We later learnt that an elderly patron of the pub was chased off this land when she was a girl, by a spirit child on a bike. We asked the girl if she would go and get an adult. Si said he felt cold at his left side. I took a picture towards that direction and got a large bright light in the doorway. The next spirit was a male who used to drink here. Was this the same man who was seen sat drinking in the bar by staff at 6:30am when closed? He said yes. We found his name was Norm, not Norman he said. He had died as recently as 1984. This information was likely to be true to other stories, said the barman afterwards. This was not the man responsible for the damage in the bar area. Near the end of the session i felt dizzy and i would describe the feeling as having had one or two drinks. My arms trembled and i felt short of breath. We took a break and moved to the other end of the dark corridor because we were on a very short tome allowance. Throughout the breaks we picked up an unease in the corridor below. Each time I walked through I got a headache until I went to another area. I have never suffered with headaches even when Ill so it's becoming common for me to assume that it means a slight sensitivity to feeling spirits near. I think it's just a case of the more you investigate then the more you get used to the signs that you would previously ignore. The final room brought a different spirit. It was an adult female called Mary. She was the one who caused havoc downstairs. Mary just wanted to he noticed obviously. She had come up from London on a train, leaving all her friends behind. Mary was so very lonely and was desperate for acknowledgement that she was around in spirit now. We were in room 22 and this was a room that Mary said was her favourite. We explained that we were short on time but would return. We said she liked to wave from the window and we promised to wave when we left. My throat felt sore and I got a headache. We asked if this was the uneasy presence from the second floor and Mary said yes. I asked for Mary to take him off me and in an instant I felt absolutely fine. She said she would protect us until we left from the man. Upon telling the bar staff what had happened with us, it was backed up by a story of a man who had waved at a lady in the window one time. Also on the night, a staff member had seen a man in overalls in the cellar. This must've been Norm. Two staff members had glasses smash in their hands too. Mary admitted that she was responsible. We asked the staff to say Hello and Goodbye as part of their day to make Mary feel included. I look forward to coming back for a full night.

Private Location visit 2

Posted by chris whitehouse on July 5, 2011 at 3:46 PM    

We returned to my work place at short notice. I arrived alone and unpacked my equipment before the group arrived. As I washed up some cups in the kitchen downstairs I heard someone had entered the workplace and was walking along the upstairs flooring. I walked upstairs to find noone there.

Sue and Bill turned up and as they chatted we heard the gauss metre spring to life. This happens three times prior to starting. We have eight people in all and we start with table tipping. We expected more so sat a larger coffee table on top of my usual small table with a glass on top. As we do protection the gauss metre crackles again. Two minutes in the glass does not move, the table tips though, even though we only have a finger on the glass. Because we have two first timers, I instruct to everyone not to automatically move the glass back to the middle once it has moved. With the tables tipping I know we have a spirit.

“Have we met you before?” “YES”

“Bill is that you?” “YES”

“Were you upstairs when I was washing up?” “YES”

The spirit says that it would prefer that we call him Grandad Bill.

Si tells Grandad Bill that we have sealed envelopes with cards inside that have different names of colours on. We asked if he could identify the contents later. Grandad Bill didn’t seem to be able to see inside the envelopes. Si asks if it was Grandad who kept setting the equipment off earlier and he says “YES”. I take a photo of the group and see a ball of light next to the team. We take off the top table since the tables are tipping. My torch comes on whilst sat on a chair. With the gauss metre going off and a ball of light as well as a torch lighting up untouched, I ask “Is there more than just you here?” “Can you spin the table if......” The table spins with a force. “WAIT Bill, I haven't finished...Can you spin the table if there are more spirits here?” The table spins. Hayley feels like she has been prodded in the back. Then there’s a breeze felt near the table. Next Sue starts feeling ill and very sick so she has to sit on the floor to regain composure. Sue said he foot was freezing and she starts coughing. Bill asks his Grandfather if he can make the table jump. We all see the table lurch a couple of inches. The table seemed to hop and having it so soon was surprising. We find five spirits working with us and they make for a very strong alliance. Our equipment surrounds us and goes on and off at different moments. A couple of people describe seeing a shadowy figure stood in a far corner and a cold spot next to the table. I take a picture and get lights right in the cold spot. The loading bay seems to scare some people too and I get lights down there too. Claire hears noises in the kitchen and bravely offers to go down there with Laura as we ask for the spirit to touch her. She seems to hear cups clinking and feet shuffling behind the closed door. The torch glares brightly and the gauss crackles. The rest of us put only one finger on the table each and still the table tips and falls to the floor.

Six of us move to the small office and Claire and Si shine a ghost grid (A laser beam grid)into the shadow figure corner. The six of us see the K2 light up as we settle. We ask Grandad Bill if he likes the light of the ghost grid and he replies “YES”.

I place my Dictaphone in the kitchen for the next three hours and catch mutterings and knocks. The wooden chairs definatly slightly rock at one point. Claire comes close to entering the kitchen and there are a few bumps from within and she gets a little freaked out. In the office we get the table to jump even more violently from one leg to all four. Each time we try and coerce the table into levitating it seems to get closer. We sit in the dark now to bring the spirits closer and my none nightvision camera cannot see the following events. Our excitement made concentrating on our equipment secondary to be honest. Our efforts paid off as I had my fingers on the end of the table which still had contact with the ground. I was unnerved when I felt the pressure from under the table when it skipped violently from two legs to the other two legs. We gave the spirits a round of applause and asked eagerly that it was repeated. But even better than we expected....the table rose in a uniform fashion up and up until we all gasped as it was obviously flying off all legs. As that dawned on us the table which was not being held underneath crashed from six inches off the floor back down. Stunned at what we had seen we asked and received this a second time. Sue and I swapped places with Si and Claire so that they would witness it too. Sue and I were left scared of going down to the kitchen. We edged closer down the steps but the office we were just in was suspended over where we just were. We could hear movement in the kitchen we thought. As we strained to hear there was an almighty bang and then a cheer as the table levitated the highest yet and crashed down. I’m told that the table must have risen twelve inches into the air!!

The atmosphere was becoming too strong for my liking. I got into this to experience spiritual presence but I actually wasn't prepared for it so full on. I felt uncomfortable to be honest and out of my depth. I felt I had lost control of the night, even though it was thrilling. What if the force I had felt pushed one of us off the loading bay?

We changed offices and bangs on the floor were stronger and stronger and you could feel them under foot. I had to ask Granddad Bill if I was still in his good books because I was ill at ease. He said yes it was fine. It reminded me of when a puppy jumps up in your face to be friendly but hurts you by accident and I was scared that Granddad Bill could hurt us by mistake. We wanted to take advantage of this strong spirit and speak to him via a ouija board but Granddad Bill gave the biggest bang I have heard a spirit make to signify No. So we respected his wishes and promised that we wouldn't. We all felt excited and shocked at the flying table. Also a few of us investigated spiritual protection more thoroughly for next time. It was so amazing that I invited Pat and West Yorkshire Paranormal Group to share the experience the week after.