Paranormal Discovery

Digital cameras: Sony cybershot 3.2mp, Lumicron LDC4013 4.1mp, Epson Photopc 2100Z

Digital voice recorders: 2 Olympus set at high quality recording, Sony cassette recorder

Thermometers: 2  in/out digital thermometers, Infrared thermometer, minimum/maximum mercury room thermometer

Here are Tori's thoughts prior to and immediately after entering the castle:

1. the pink room and adjoining room
2.the little room with low ceiling (room 15) 
3.the Victorian room.

The pink room and adjoining room
As soon as I entered this room I felt that there was something
 in this room, like the feeling that ‘we were not alone’or that
of being watched.  I mentioned this to the curator and asked if
there had been anything linked to this room.  He said that he wasn’t 
going to tell me.  Then I told him that there was something in the room.
He then said that 'yes' there have been reports of things linked to this room. 
When we walked through the room next to the pink room I saw a
 figure beside the lamp near the fireplace.  It was quite little and I saw the shape of
 head and shoulders as it faded away towards the floor.  Mike took
 a photo but nothing unusual was caught on this picture.

The pink room vigil.
I felt the presence of two spirits in this room.  One male and one female. 
I felt slightly uneasy as we sat quietly.  I could sense a lot of 
movement like people walking backwards and forwards across the hall. 
We weren’t getting much on camera so decided to try the small room next 
to the pink room.  In the room I sat on the floor and felt breezes across 
my face.  I felt like the temperature dropped.  I felt more uneasy in this room. 
I did get the impression of children though dismissed this due to me 
thinking it could have been an assumption based on the height
 of the figure I had seen and never said anything about it (I think).  I did 
mention, however, the fragrance of candles at one point.  I sensed somebody
watching me from corner of my eye and looked round to see a little girl of what
I thought was aged between 8 and 12 in front of the window area.
I couldn’t see her very clearly in the dark but she was only a few feet away staring
straight at me and was completely solid.  She had what appeared to be puffy 
sleeves/shoulders on her clothing/dress and had long hair, which I think may have
 been blond though I cant be sure.  She had a cloth over her hair with some sort 
of lace on it, reminding me of the lace material that Catholic women sometimes wear
to cover their hair.  Her clothing was a pale grey or green colour.  I looked away
and when I looked back she had gone.  Mags felt very cold at this point and I felt like
 I was getting colder.  I think that was because we were both sitting on the floor,
 that this child wanted to play with us.  I had the thought that she was curious and 
wanted to reach out and touch my nose ring.  I felt uneasy at this.

The little room with the low roof

This room was small and had nothing in it.  I didn’t like this room as it 
made me feel slightly sick and just not pleasant at all.  I never saw or sensed 
anything else about this room but I didn’t like it and found
that it had a very strong atmosphere.  I wanted to leave it quickly.

The Victorian bedroom

When I walked into this room I felt all horrible and shivery.  I had the sensation 
of getting my hair touched and I felt a pressure on my head.  My limbs felt
tingly and it was very intense.  I think there was a female in there.  Perhaps the 
lady of the house.  I was in this room a few other times and it was never as intense as the
first time I went in.  Mags felt horrible in this room as well and felt that it wasn’t as bad
as the first time we had gone in.

The rest of the castle

There was a feeling throughout the castle and I found that the quietest place was
the kitchen area.  The shop did feel strange but I put this down to it being a narrow
 room painted dark red.  I did feel a change from halfway through the shop and
 this feeling continued through into the corridor for about the length of another room then
changed again back to a quiet feeling.

I didn’t pick up on anything in the Victorian wing and felt a pressure on my head and I sensed 
something in the attic area but due to the fact that it wasn’t extremely strong and that
 there were bats there we opted not to waste too much time in there. The bats could
 have given us false positive readings.  The two other bedrooms felt fairly strange
and all the other small rooms felt about the same.

Prior to the investigation

During the weeks leading to the investigation I picked up on a fair bit of 
information about the castle.

I felt that the main spirit in the castle was a lady of nobility, perhaps the lady
of the house.  She was quite a flirt and mischievous and I felt she would offer a lot
of interaction.  I felt that there were two other men who were with her, but I couldn’t
tell anything else about them though I thought one might be of nobility as well.

I picked up on a man with his head in bandages quite disoriented being pushed back down
into his bed though he tried to get out of bed.  I picked up on a woman who died in
childbirth, though I wasn’t sure if she was nobility or had been in service there. 

I picked up on something in the garden and was told there was something to do with ‘dragon’ or I should talk
about a ‘dragon’ but I also think that this may be something to do with an old myth or story from way back
that is associated with the area.

I picked up that the gardens had been very important to a member of the family who took great pride
in them and may have even tried to introduce plants from other countries. I wanted to say that
he was the lords sons but I wasn’t 100% sure of that.

I saw a lot of violence and blood linked to the place. I saw that a man had been slashed
across his gut with a large knife or sword. Not stabbed but cut right across. 
 I believe this now to have meant dismemberment.

At the castle

I picked up that the lady of the house was well aware of us in most of the castle 
but not in the kitchen areas downstairs.

I picked up on there being two or more children there. One girl and I think there
may be a boy as well though I never encountered him.