Rotherham-Ghosts
Ghost sightings in Rotherham and the surrounding areas.......They are closer than you think!!
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Rotherham-ghosts visited a haunted pub/old coaching house on the 8th April 2007.
We can confirm has a group collectively that this was the most haunted place we had ever been to.
Rotherham-ghosts, don't normally investigate pubs but when we heard about this one we just had to go, and so glad we did.
Please keep calling back for the report and video footage!!
The Red Lion, Pontefract
Location: The Red Lion, Pontefract
Date: March 2007
Time: 1830 Hours
E.M.F. Reading: 0.2
Temperature reading: 12.4 Degrees Centigrade
Investigators: Richard, Joe, Mike, Wez
Equipment used: E.M.F, Digital Cameras, Night Vision Camcorders, Digital Voice Recorder, Thermometer, Torches.
Experiments: None
Over view:
Pontefract has had its fair share of stories over the last few years regarding alleged ghost sightings throughout the town. Rotherham-ghosts were quite excited when they were invited by the landlord to go and do an investigation in the Red Lion Pub over night.
The 1600 century building was originally a coaching
Not deterred or worried by the local stories he re-opened the rooms, but by doing this opened up something else and the strange occurrences started to happen again. The current landlord says that he has experienced all sorts of strange happenings which include footsteps, objects being thrown, strange lights and dark shadows.
A medium visited the building and uncovered an alleged dark past which tied in some of the history of the building which included, the third floor being used as an illegal abortion clinic. A sole of a lost child in one of the hotel rooms and evidence of black magic taking place in the main hall.
When the Rotherham-ghosts team arrived, they were expecting the usual run of the mill pub investigation, but were shocked and surprised at the shear size of the building and the fact it had been closed up and untouched for so long, even the screw holes were still in the frames of the doors where the landlord had removed them.
The Investigation
Upon arriving at the location, it was a very mild night, we started by getting ourselves familiar with the building before settling down to conduct the evening investigations.
After Toby (The Landlord) showed us around, we decided to start in the main all, all the group felt that there was something in there, what many of us described as from another realm.
The Main Hall
We set the cameras up and as soon as they started to roll, orbs of all shapes and sizes seem to come from out of the mirror over the grand fire place. The temperature readings were going up and down and an uneasiness was felt by the team. Then both Mike and Joe saw a large orb appear which we caught on camera.
Later on during the investigation, Joe said that he had seen a black shadow lurking around a door way in the great hall, but the camera didn’t pick anything up. All of a sudden, both Richard and Joe let out a shout. They had seen what they described as a figure appearing from the floor in the middle of the room, unfortunately the camera wasn’t pointing in the same direction, so we did capture anything on film.
The Priest Corridor
The team tried to get themselves comfortable, in what we all described has a very tense atmosphere, the feeling of being watched by something that clearly didn’t want us there. (Looking back it was quite amusing that 4 full grown men daren’t be in the place alone). Again this place was very eerie and many orbs and strange noises were witnessed by the team. We didn’t spend much time in this location due to the very oppressive atmosphere.
Bedroom 14
The team spent time both inside and out of the room, the story is said that a young girl is trapped there. We all thought that the atmosphere was quite cal in there and nothing much seemed to happen, until went out into the corridor where orbs again were witnessed visually by the team, unfortunately not all of these were caught on tape, but we did manage to get some of them (see video)
The Attic
Not much was known about the attic, only that there was a presence of a man up there, after spending around a hour conducting a vigil in there the team decided there was not much happening but we’d leave a camera locked off just in case. Upon reviewing a total of 18 hours of footage of the night’s whole investigation, we found that in the attic where the camera was locked off, the door had actually opened and closed all by itself.
The Rotherham-ghosts team can confirm that there was no one in this room and the time.
Conclusion
The team left the Red Lion around 0400 hours, a little spooked to say the least at the nights events, we all agreed that this one of the most haunted places that we had investigated, not only by capturing things on film but actual feeling the atmosphere in the place.
Many strange things happened on the night that had no rational explanation, this was unlike any other investigation that we had ever been too.
Rotherham-ghosts would like to thank Toby for his hospitality and look forward to returning in the future.
Video report
