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Thursday, July 9th, 2020
Pendulum, Dowsing Rod & Writing planchette
These are considered the traditional tools of the trade because they have been used for many years to contact and communicate with spirits. They all have other uses too, from finding water and oil (dowsing rod) to healing people (pendulum) to tricking people (writing planchette). The purpose of these tools is to communicate with the spirits using guidelines practised over many years.
Both pendulums and dowsing rods are used for binary questions (i.e. yes/no, left/right, male/female, good/bad) whereas a writing planchette can be used in a similar way to automatic writing; asking the spirit to draw/write something. There are no limitations on what the spirit can do, only their own ability.
On events it is very easy to get “addicted” to the modern devices (KII, Ghost Pro, Ovilus) to get your evidence but there is a better likelihood to get a better answer or a clearer answer using these tools as there is little scope to misinterpret the answer. As with all tools or devices it depends on the questions or how you ask the questions as to the clarity of the answer. We like using these because of that reason. The answers can be personal to the user and the user can feel the answer and know what is right or wrong from how the pendulum or dowsing rod feels. The writing planchette is a little different because its ideal when several people use it at the same time (about 4) with the questioner (the person asking the questions) not touching it.
You can purchase these items from many places including pagan style shops, Rune or Tarot card shops and online at Amazon or eBay. Prices range from £3 – £20 depending on the style and quality of the materials.
Tags: dowsing rod, pendulum, traditional, writing planchette
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Friday, February 26th, 2016
Red Lion Hotel ghost hunt 29th October 2015
Colchester, Essex
The first two sessions were using kit and gadgets in the haunted bedrooms.
My séances sessions were held as usual in the cellar, the first group had the most activity and all hands were lifted and manipulated. The spirit responsible was called Henry, 46 years old and from 1810-12 when he was Hotel Manager.
The second group didn’t have as much movement although there was some swaying and rocking.
Towards the end of the night we were all in the Restaurant using a combination of Writing planchette and Ouija board and met a boy aged about 8 years old who was drawing various shapes and objects for the guests.
Another excellent ghost hunt and we hope to return in 2016
Steve
Psychic Medium
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: arm movement, bedrooms, colchester, energy, essex, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, haunted, hotel, movement, ouija board, paranormal, psychic medium, red lion hotel, seance, spirit, swaying, writing planchette
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Explosion Museum ghost hunt 6th February 2016
Gosport, Hampshire
AREA: P-BUILDING
EQUIPMENT: OUIJA, TABLE TIPPING, WRITING PLANCHETTE, GLASSWORK
We started the evening by having a tour around the Explosion Museum with the VIP’s, being led into some interesting areas that are not seen by the general public. I chose to work in a huge building that would have been used, and still was being used, for storage and boat building/renovation. The weather was very wet and windy at the start of the evening, with the door being continuously blown open and closed, but the skies became clear and still later.
We started with half the group on the Ouija, and the remainder of the group on the table tipping, but with only slight movement on both all seven guests tried the table tipping together. However, before this we were hearing whistles when asking out for them, and one guest felt his chair move whilst sitting in it. The table started moving immediately, lifting up at the side, twisting and spinning randomly. We were also experiencing a coldness moving around us, and some felt they were being touched. We did hear what sounded like the glass being moved across the Ouija table, but on checking the glass had not moved, or if it had, it had been moved back.
With my second group we had a little movement on the Ouija, with the glass twisting, but no communication. The group on the table had some slight movement, they tried the writing planchette, but the table tried moving again. So I brought all the guests together and we all tried the table tipping. We had some gentle rocking, and were hearing noises around us, a mumble or murmur in one area, one guest saw a shadow in a different area at the same time were heard a rustle/movement there too. We all tried the Ouija, the glass moved to the numbers 4 and 5, was this his age? The glass started moving to yes but then stopped.
With my last group we had a little movement on the Ouija but no communication. We then all tried the table tipping and it did start rocking very gently. I encouraged the guests to interact with the spirit, and the more they did this, the more the table moved. We then tried the writing planchette, had no movement, but the table was moving again, so we switched back to that. And again with the guests asking, especially Janet, the table moved and spun as they asked.
With the controlled sessions over, and an hour left of the night, I joined three guests, in the Admin Building. We went to the shower/toilet area in the back left of the building and started with the Ouija board on the table we use for table tipping. The planchette started moving immediately, and went to “Hello”. We then asked for spirit to spell his first name and got “OFUK” – interesting! The planchette went to “goodbye”, but we asked spirit to stay with us for some table tipping. With our fingertips lightly on the table, the table started moving. We managed to get the table to lift towards Mark for yes, and opposite for no, and was able to ask spirit some questions. He was a male spirit from WW2 who had murdered someone here. Mark suddenly felt a coldness behind him and heard a footstep next to him, which made him jump. We had also heard a footstep earlier in a different place. We then put the Ouija board back on the table without the planchette, and with us touching the board asked spirit to move it, to our surprise the Ouija board started moving on the table. We then asked it to rotate, which it did. With only a short time left, we went back to the table tipping, and again the table started lifting, spinning and started to walk out the room. We did also have a spirit box on for some of the time and were hearing corresponding words to the answers on the board i.e. hello and yes.
A fabulous end to the night at a terrific venue!
Kym
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: communication, emf, energy, explosion museum, ghost, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, glass divination, gosport, hampshire, investigation, ouija, ouija board, paranormal, paranormal investigation, spirit, spirit box, table tipping, writing planchette
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Charlton House ghost hunt 20th November 2015
Greenwich, London
Area: Grand Salon
Equipment: Writing Planchette/ Table tipping
Session 1: Group C
Guests (Andy, Rosemary, Daniel and Danielle)
I started this session with the writing planchette. Initially the planchette was really slow to start. Andy (guest) encouraged spirit to step forward and move the planchette for us and draw something on the paper. The planchette then started moving around the paper drawing small circles and the bigger circles. The spirit of a man then entered the room and stood in the doorway watching us. I could not make out his features as they were blurred to me. I kept getting the name Edward in my head over and over again. I did not tell the guests this as some of them might have picked up on the same name. I asked the spirit if he could write his initial on the paper but we got no further movement from the planchette.
We then moved on to the table tipping and immediately heard loud footsteps outside in the corridor. Daniel (guest) went to investigate in case when of the other groups ha finished early but there was no-one there. As he came back into the room the door behind us slammed really hard. We investigated all possibilities but could not come up with an explanation and had to believe this might have been paranormal. After we re-grouped and went back on to the table it began moving straight away rocking gently at first but then tipping and spinning really fast.
Session 2:
Group A
I started the group on the writing planchette. Again the movement was slow to start but eventually with encouragement from the group it slowly started moving around the paper. I told the guests I was thinking of an animal in my head and Eve (guest) asked the spirit if it could please draw the animal for us. The planchette started moving very fast drawing different shapes on the paper but none of them resembled the animal I had in my head. The guests then wanted to move on to the table. Encouraging spirit the table moved straight away. I stepped away from the table but kept encouraging spirit to keep moving the table for the guests. It tipped on to two legs and held this position, then suddenly spun round in a clockwise direction and started walking into the other room. Once I the room the table stopped and we didn’t get anymore more movement. I asked spirit it they could copy me and bang on the table two times. Spirit did do straight away you could feel the vibrations through the table.
Session 3:
Group B
I started this session on the writing planchette. Again the spirit was very reluctant to move the planchette. We kept encouraging spirit as a group but we only got very slow movements. Just about to give up and move on to the table, the planchette started moving and drawing random lines and circles. We all then encouraged spirit to try really hard for us again and see if they could spell out their initials for us and they confirm if they were male or female by drawing the letters. The movement was very quick at this point and I asked spirit when they had finished to lift one end of the planchette up for us. The planchette suddenly lifted and fell on to its side. When we looked at the paper we were all amazed as clearly on the paper were the letter R and N, then a few circles and lines and the letter M in the corner of the paper.
Moving onto the table we only got very slight rocking back and fourth, but we heard lots of noises coming from the other room. Creaking floorboards and loud knocks and bangs were heard by the whole group. We all went to investigates and asked spirit if they could make the noises again for us please. Spirit did so but this time back out in the other room.
Really active areas of the building making everybody feel uneasy and some very tired like they had been drained of energy.
Louise
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: charlton house, door slam, footsteps, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, greenwich, investigation, london, loud knocks, noises, paranormal, paranormal investigation, spinning, spirit, table tilting, writing planchette
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Town Hall ghost hunt 28th November 2015
Colchester, Essex
The Mayor’s Parlour – Pendulums, Ouija, Writing Planchette
At the start of my first session we began by using the pendulums, and each guest had movement although some were taking longer to get going than others. Most of the guests established their yes and no directions and were communicating with spirit either out loud or in their heads.
We didn’t have much movement with the glass when doing Ouija, as it seemed spirit did not want to communicate in this way and kept moving the glass to goodbye.
We did however have a very successful session with the writing planchette, as it started moving more or less straight away, and was continuously doing so around the paper. We kept asking spirit to draw something for us or write their name or initial, and when we looked at what had been drawn, it looked like a bird. We also had a lot of activity on the ghost pros, and it was as though two different spirits were arguing with each other, as one kept contradicting the other. During this time, we started to hear taps on the table next to us where no one was sitting. I then asked spirit to copy my taps, to which it immediately did so. Guests were amazed by this, and a few of them also did some taps, to which spirit once again responded.
In another of my sessions spirit drew the letter J and the letter I with the writing planchette.
During my final session we contacted a spirit named Robert via the Ouija. He told us he was from 1865 and had a wife called Gill and a 6-year-old son, Anthony. He then told us that his son was strangled by a man called George, so Robert killed George and then killed himself by running under a horse and cart. He said that George was always with him tormenting him, and that they are both bad men. We asked Robert if he had a message for us, and he spelt out “will see you”. When asked if he meant he will see us in the cells downstairs, as this is where we were planning to go afterwards, he responded with yes.
At the end of the night we had a free session so we went down to the cells, and myself and Kym held a séance with the guests. Some of the guests including myself were being pushed slowly to the right and a couple of people’s arms were raised. We also heard some whistles, which sounded like they were coming from one of the cells.
Kerry
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: arm movement, cells, colchester, communication, dowsing rods, energy, essex, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, jail, moot hall, ouija board, paranormal, paranormal investigation, pendulums, seance, spirit, town hall, writing planchette
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Red Lion Hotel ghost hunt 29th October 2015
Colchester, Essex.
Area: Cellar
Equipment: Ouija & Table Tilting
We tried the Ouija, but unfortunately no movement, however with the table tipping it started rocking very gently, with creaks and taps coming from underneath. After seeing a shadow walk past the tunnel Adam (guest) stood there and could feel alot of coldness around him. When he stepped away the coldness stopped, when he stepped back the coldness was there again. Then we all heard a whistle next to us. With the second group we again had some gentle rocking on the table, and guests could feel a coldness between them, when Jasmine (guest) moved the coldness moved with her. Then she had a cold blow in her ear which made her jump a little. With the Ouija the guests communicated with three slaves from Nigeria, the first one called Zaf year 1243. The second was called Nag, but was killed by the third spirit who was Alf the slave master. Then another spirit stepped forward who knew one of the guests. His name was Nev, and knew Joanne (guest) from childhood, which left her quite emotional.
Area: Rooms 6 & 7
Equipment: Dowsing Rods & Pendulums, Glass Work, Scrying
With both groups we learnt how to use the dowsing rods and pendulums and was able to communicate with the spirits there. We tried some scrying too. With the second group using the glass to communicate with spirit, we had a young boy with us. The boy was drawn to Jasmine (guest) in particular, and said he would like to do some drawing with us using the writing planchette. So we moved down to the restaurant to try and was amazed with the drawings that came through, the first in particular was the number 8 which we believe was his age.
Some guests were trying the Ouija again and were talking to another slave called B9
Kym
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: colchester, cold spots, communication, energy, essex, ghost, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, hotel, investigation, ouija board, paranormal, red lion hotel, scrying, spirit, writing planchette
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Marwell Hall ghost hunt 24th October 2015
Winchester, Hampshire
Area: Library
Equipment: Ouija, Table Tipping, Glass Work, Writing Planchette
With the first group we had some slight movement with the table rocking gently. In the second group we had a little communication with spirit on the Ouija – young girls with the initial F R or the first two letters of her name. However, in the third group we had much more interaction on the Ouija: Vera aged 78 and lived here. Then Anna aged 82 who was friends with Vera. They lived here together, and passed away together. Anna had 3 children but one died. Guests were also asking the spirit to spell their names, which to their surprise spirit did, spelling Cath and Donna. However, I wanted to try an experiment and asked the guests if they minded being blindfolded. With their consent we asked spirit to spell their names again, to which the two names were spelt correctly, and with ease. I also asked spirit to spell another guests’ name, of which Amy was spelt, who was also on the table. Spirit also stated the ages of Amy & Cath correctly. We then tried some table tipping, and the table started moving quite easily. Rocking, spinning then walking out the room, and tried going up a few of the stairs. We then asked the spirit to walk the table back into the library which it did. One of the many questions asked was do you have a favourite book, and the spirit, whose name was Michael was able to direct us to his favourite book on the shelf about horses.
Kym
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: energy, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, hampshire, investigation, marwell hall, ouija, ouija board, paranormal, paranormal investigation, spirit, table tilting, winchester, writing planchette
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
Charlton House ghost hunt 10th October 2015
Greenwich, London
Area: Grand Salon
Equipment: Ouija / Table tipping / Writing Planchette
Session 1 – Group B
This is the area I decided to work in as it was felt to be the more active area in the building. We started our session with some table tipping. Initially it took a lot of effort to get any movement on the table, and then there was a gentle rocking motion for some time until eventually the table tipped up on one side and held this position. I kept encouraging spirit to move the table again or in some other way, but it just went back to a gentle rocking motion. After a while the table suddenly went up on to one leg and rotated anti- clockwise and stopped. Asking spirit to do this again, it did so this time clockwise.
During the Ouija session we had a spirit join us by the name of Tom. He was 4 years old and died in 1906. He told us that he was lost and looking for his parents, and there were 4 spirits in the room with us and he knew two of them. Tom then left us and there was another spirit moving the glass. We established this was the spirit of a young girl of 12 years old named Rebecca. She went on to tell us that she looked after Tom after his parents had passed away and that she was hung in 1906 for stealing bread to feed her and Tom. We then sensed that we were joined by a stronger energy. One of the guests asked if we were speaking to a male spirit to which he confirmed. He went on to tell us that he was 45 years old and that he had hung Rebecca and Tom for stealing.
Three of the guests (Fay, Gemma and Nicola) decided to use the writing planchette. Once the planchette started to move Fay asked the spirit if they could spell out their initials which to their amazement spirit did so. They then asked if the spirit would draw them a tree, and straight away spirit drew a tree.
Session 2 – Group C
In this session the table tipping was quiet and all through the session we only had gentle rocking. We all tried to encourage spirit but to no avail.
During the Ouija session, Rebecca came through again. She went on to tell us the same stories as the previous session only with the difference that she was born in 1906 not die. Her spirit came through really strong in this session. We asked her if she could spell out some of the names of the people around the table. She went on to spell out Kevin, Chris and Louise. Kevin and Chris (guests) were mother and son. We then asked Rebecca if she would like to communicate through the writing planchette and play a game to which she replied yes. The game consisted of a set of cards numbered 1-10. Setting the cards out face down, I asked Kevin to pull on forward but not look at it. Once the writing planchette began to move, we asked the spirit to write the number on the paper. The spirit drew the number 2. When we turned over the card we were all in shock as it said number 2. We tried this experiment another four times and spirit got two more right, drawing them out on the paper. I then asked the spirit to draw the animal that I was thinking of in my head (fish). The spirit went on to draw a perfect fish shape. Spirit then went on to draw random things. At the end of the session, when we looked at the paper, there was a perfect heart shape with the initial R in the corner. We assumed at this point that we had been communicating with Rebecca.
Session 3 – Group A
Again we started the session with table tipping. Movement to start was initially very slow with steady rocking from side to side. Encouraging spirit to move the table more or in another way, it went up on to one leg and gently spun round and then stopped. No more movement was experienced on the table despite encouragement from the guests.
During the Ouija session, to start to the glass never moved. With plenty of encouragement from the guests however, the glass began moving in a circle around the table very quickly first clockwise and then anti-clockwise. As the glass was moving around in a circle it was also spinning around under the guests fingers. Once the glass had centred we were joined by the spirit of a young 7 year old boy by the name of Richard. He went on to tell us that he was at the location in 1059 but unfortunately we couldn’t get the reason why or how he was connected to the land. One of the guests asked Richard to take the glass to where he was standing in the room. He took the glass to Sue (guest) and kept the glass at this point. I asked him if Sue reminded him of anybody and he spelt out mum. He went on to tell us that he was lost and trying to find her, but was in the company of two other spirits ‘Smith aged 9 and Eli aged 7’.
Very enjoyable evening, with lots of communications and footsteps and tapping noises also being heard
Louise
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: automatic writing, charlton house, communication, energy, footsteps, ghost, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, greenwich, investigation, london, noise, ouija, ouija board, paranormal, paranormal investigation, spirit, table tipping, writing planchette
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Rye Castle ghost hunt 9th October 2015
Rye, East Sussex
Area: Womens Tower/Prison
Equipment: Writing Planchette, Glass Work, Table Tipping, Dowsing Rods, Pendulums
Group B – We started by using the dowsing rods & pendulums and everyone had movement except the male guest and Ted (curator). There were several female spirits communicating with us, and we could feel the energies walking amongst us. Ted was getting pushed back, sensing the energies didn’t want the men in the room. We tried some table tipping and had continuous gentle rocking, no difference with females only touching. We tried the writing planchette, but the table just kept rocking. Tried some glasswork but only a little movement and again the table still rocked. Switched back to table tipping which moved a lot, but gently. Chloe (guest) started feeling sick, and felt like someone was holding her hips and gently rocking her. She went outside for a short while, and came back when feeling better. She also had an odd sensation of feeling like she had been here before. We were all feeling a lot of energy around us, and were also being rocked with the table.
Group A – Started with the rods & pendulums but not much movement, although using my pendulum spirit confirmed he was the male spirit I had encountered before, and he would move the table for us, so we tried table tipping. The table moved immediately however Tania (guest) felt the spirit did not want her on the table, and when she stepped back the table moved a lot more. Again we were sensing when the spirit was behind us, and some of us felt unwelcome prods to our backs and arms. We did also hear one heavy footstep near us, then a loud tap, then also a tap on the door, but when we looked out there was no-one there, and we hadn’t heard anything in the gravel outside. We did some glasswork and got some answers: male spirit, was a jailer here, abused 30 women prisoners here, and other women that he brought here. He was here in the 1200’s. Using the writing planchette he drew the letter B. Asked if this was his first initial he said no, asked if this was the initial of someone here – yes, however no-one had a name starting with B. I asked if he knew someone here from a past life, he said yes, and that person’s name started with B. Not everyone was comfortable knowing who it was so we didn’t ask. We had some more random writing, then finished that session with some table tipping.
In the free session we wanted to try an experiment: in the main tower we had some guests on the top level doing writing planchette, and some guests in the basement doing glasswork. Some guests with Steve chose a number/shape for spirit to copy on both experiments, and was very pleased when the glass copied the number correctly.
I then joined some guests in the Women’s Tower and we started with table tipping. We had the male spirit again, and were amazed by the amount of energy the spirit had. We felt this by trying to push the table back down but was unable to. The table would spin and walk around the room too. We tried some glasswork and the spirit confirmed he was the jailer. Asked if had done another job, yes he was a fisherman. Neither paid well, but he stole. He was caught and sent to prison. He was murdered in prison. Whilst he was a jailer he confirmed again that he abused the women here, but that he also liked men sexually. Asking the colour of his hair, he had ginger hair and beard. As the spirit seemed very willing to work with us we asked him to rotate the glass fast around the table, and then guests took it in turns whilst not touching the glass asking in their head for spirit to stop the glass and change directions, and to their amazement this happened correctly every time. Guests also took it in turns to think of a shape/letter/number, and spirit would draw this about 50% of the time.
A fabulous night at Rye Castle, and we all look forward to returning there in Spring 2016.
Kym
Paranormal Investigator
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: castle, dowsing rod, east sussex, ghost, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, investigation, paranormal, pendulum, rye, rye castle, spirit, table tilting, writing planchette
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Rye Castle ghost hunt 9th October 2015
Rye, East Sussex
Being that this event was the last ghost hunt here for 2015 we had decided to try an experiment after our normal controlled sessions. It was a partial success and one in which we will try again at other venues as well as Rye Castle.
As usual my sessions were in the upper floor of the Keep, both sessions we had active spirit in the room with us and both times they (the spirit) were able to move people on command. In the first session there were two jailer spirits, one aged about 18, the other 32, both were dressed more in military uniforms than what we would regard to be police or jailer uniforms. White or cream trousers with red jackets and black hats. Both looked a little scruffy but gave the year as 1735. Neither one gave their name, but both responded to us and when people asked to be moved or pushed eventually the request was fulfilled.
The second group we were joined by Tobias who preferred to be called Toby, aged in his late 30s, Toby was able to move just about everyone in the circle either by lifting their arms, pushing or swaying them or by dragging people to the floor by their arms.
The Experiment was carried out by using a glass on a table and a writing planchette, with each table in different parts of the tower. The writing planchette on the top floor of the Keep and the glass on a table on the lower floor (the old mortuary). I stayed on the ground floor and held a numbered set of cards (0-10) and selected one at random. The object was to ask the spirit to move either the glass or the writing planchette and once movement was underway, someone on each table was to ask “their” spirit to go and see what card I was holding and the shape that I drew on a piece of paper and then repeat it on either the glass or the planchette. The first experiment didn’t really work as few people understood what they were supposed to be doing. However once we swapped the groups for another chance. The number was successfully drawn by the glass table but not the planchette. The shape no group managed to get.
We have tried this type of experiment before at other venues and have previously had some great results. Usually it is with a child spirit that this can work well, but we will continue to experiment with this idea at future events.
Whilst this event was the last of 2015 and we will be returning in 2016 although we are only holding two events at Rye Castle in 2016.
Steve
Psychic Medium
Ghost Hunt Events
http://www.ghosthuntevents.co.uk/
Tags: arm movement, castle, communication, east sussex, experiment, ghost, ghost hunt, ghost hunt events, investigation, noise, paranormal, psychic medium, pushing, rye, rye castle, seance, spirit, swaying, writing planchette
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