Ok so a few of us decided to camp in December 2012,much to the amusement of other camping friends and family.
We chose a site that backed onto a Pub,just in case emergency shelter was needed.
Skipton Arms.
Learning that the pub was also haunted just added to the adventure.
Below is the story as reported in the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph.
WHEN it comes to watching the World's Most Haunted, it would take more than a dark room and a puff of cold air to freak me out.
Even a creaking floorboard would not have me rushing for the light switch.
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MAKING CONTACT: Medium Susan Drury and researcher Steve Dinsdale outside the Skipworth Arms in Moortown. Pictures: Rick Byrne
So in a bid to find out the truth behind the torches and
whether it was possible to talk to the dead, I was inquisitive enough
to join Steve Dinsdale, investigator and audio-video researcher, and
Sue Drury, medium, investigator and researcher, for their sixth
investigation at the Skipworth Arms in Moortown.
Heather Chuck, 54, has been landlady of the pub for the past four
years and she has experienced activity since the day she moved in.
She said: "It was happening straight away. When I'm with
somebody I'm not bothered, but when you're on your own it's a bit scary.
"There's definitely some- thing in here. I had a barmaid who
worked here and every time she worked, glasses fell off the bar. We
thought she was making it up, but we saw it on the CCTV."
Heather's presence attracts the orbs – a glow of light that shows
the energy of a spirit and is only visible on digital photographs.
She said: "Something happens at least once a month. A customer
was stood having a pint at the table and when he went to take a drink it
exploded. He thought somebody had shot a pellet through the glass
window. It wasn't a warm glass and it wasn't ice cold. The top of the
glass was still complete.
"I also got grabbed on the arm last week. I shouted 'Oi' because I
thought it was someone winding me up, but there was nothing there."
Among the spirits present in the bar area are believed to be Jim and Mary Parker. They used to own the pub 40 years ago.
Heather's husband, David, 43, said: "When I was cleaning the
pipes one day, I thought there was a little lad or lass in a baby walker
and it came whizzing past me. There's lot's of noises and stuff like
that going on."
Grimsby medium Sue has had spiritual powers from the age of five,
but she has only explored her abilities over the past 10 years.
" We use glass tipping on the table top and the rods to call the spirits to come forward.
"Most of the spirits are grounded, they're not hostile, but they
don't want to move on, but we can move them over if we want them to go.
"On our investigations, we get people to join in and feel it for themselves."
Steve said: "You don't have to be a psychic or a medium to pick up spirits, you can just be sensitive to it.
"When we use a yes-no board, we place a glass on top and put our
index fingers on it, and ask questions. The spirits use our energy to
come through.
"A lot of the spirits, when present, have a massive drop in
temperature, so we register it with a digital thermometer. We also
measure the electro-magnetic frequency that spurs them to come through
using a ghost metre shipped in from Singapore."
So with the chance to experience first hand the reality of making contact with the spirits, I was passed the divining rods.
Unsure of what was going to happen, one thing I was definitely going to do my utmost to keep the rods still.
We called for Jimmy to come forward.
Sue said: "Jimmy, if you're in the room, can you cross the rods over for us please."
And in less than 10 seconds, the rods were moving. I was stunned, but still sceptical.
Jimmy was asked to use the rods to point to where he was in the
room and with that instruction, my heart almost leapt into my mouth. The
rods swung round from pointing forward to touching my shoulders facing
behind my back. But they didn't stop there. They continued until they
crossed my neck in a headlock.
At that point I could sense something behind me and was in no doubt the spirit had moved the rods.
Then things started to get even weirder, when Jimmy moved the
rods independently of each other like he was playing a game – at which
point I was quivering in my shoes.
To further strengthen my new-found beliefs, I had a go at contacting the spirits myself.
"I asked for Billy, the young boy, to come forward and cross the rods if he was four years old.
A slower movement saw the rods cross over in front of my very eyes and I had no control over their movement.
My arms were a good 30cm apart, so I knew I wasn't crossing them.
But the motion was a softer one, as you would expect for a young
child.
In a bid to trick Billy, I asked him to do the same if he was six
years old. And with every mental power I was trying to get the rods to
cross and contradict the previous answer. But there was a strange force
that was firmly keeping the rods apart – even if I tried to give them a
helping start. Seeing is believing.
So with five tents set up,we were ready to visit the pub.
No we didn't bump into ghosts,though we did witness the constant re-fill of our glasses,but didn't complain.
The only complaint we did have was it didn't snow!
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