Paranormal – A very Medium Experience at Saltmarshe Hall

Last month a friend and I went on a ghost hunting night at Saltmarshe hall.

Here we are, my first “selfie” err... a wrinkly selfie. No we’re not the ghosts - I’m the one in the dark glasses. Saltmarshe Hall is in the background.

Set in the middle of nowhere, we stayed at a super B&B adjacent to the hall. Apple tree Cottage – thoroughly recommended.

The event began at 9pm. There was a lead Medium and a number of assistants. The various bits of equipment intended for use were described. There being about 16 participants, we were split into two groups.

Here are my experiences of some of the activities:

The human pendulum.

     We all stood around the edges of this cellar (lights off), held hands and created energy flow (could have been more effective if done differently but hey ho). My friend was selected by spirit to be the first pendulum. She stood in the centre and with one medium in front and one behind she swayed to and fro to give a yes or no answer,

This "before" picture has been cleaned up IE "brightened" :

During the episode one assistant took another photo showing a red light. Here it is before 

and after cleaning up the image:

Well it is not on my friend but above the medium’s arm. Could it be that a night vision slow-time camera picked up his watch or button shine as he moved his hand down? Any ideas? Was it spirit? I certainly saw a large vortex of faint light coming down into my friend’s head. It was there most of the time. The camera did not pick that one up.

The Tipping Table

Whilst there was a lot of information coming from the pendulum, and this occurred throughout the event, there were many leading questions and auto suggestions coming from some of the mediums. Almost forcing spirit to communicate through mass hysteria.

A young woman came though. We were trying to determine her name. With no luck initially, I thought I would put in one of these “suggestions” myself. Well, all the names received so far had been connected with royalty (Edward, George and so on) so how about “Victoria”. This was immediately snapped up by the medium.  Who’s to say that was real or not but hey ho again.

The most funny tipping table episode was:

Are you a man – NO

Are you a woman – NO

We pondered and then someone asked:

Are you a lady – YES

In another part of the building (a different cellar) the tipping table connected with a participant’s departed friend and not someone from the Hall. She was asking many questions about this person yet maintained contact with the board. I asked her to take her finger off it to reduce the likelihood of her physical influence – basically just to let the spirit come though. I thought our guide medium could have done that. Things worked here better than other parts of the building we tried.

Ouija board

Nothing to report – it barely worked for our group. Although I gather the other group had more success.

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Other items of equipment etc

None used. Well there was something on the floor that lit up occasionally. I have no idea what it was and as there was no feedback given either at the time nor at the end of the night, we were left in the dark. I was disappointed that other bits and pieces of thingamabobs had not been tried out.

No orbs were seen nor ghostly sounds heard.

Overall, it was a worthwhile fun spooky experience but could have been a lot better and more informative.

Grand National Tarot hay hay – what are the Odds?

I was goaded into betting a small amount on the Grand National yesterday. I remember winning a fiver with Red Rum in the 70s but certainly had not bothered this century.

So which horses?

Let’s use the tarot as an experiment …

I shuffled the deck and these were my four “winners” listed in order dealt off the top of the pack:

The World – obvious choice was Rule the World. It won;

Ten of Swords – this took a while to find going through all the names of the horses to reflect something about this card. Was it Many Clouds?  – No a bit watery. Was it Double Ross (as in double cross). No, not really. Then I spotted it – the Last Samurai. Of course! The last pip card and it is a sword. It came second.

Then deciding the other horses became a bit foggy, I was obviously running out of steam.

Ace of Wands – Was it One Night in Vienna or Vieux Lion Rouge? Both a bit passionate, I chose the wrong one as the latter managed to finish coming 7^th.

Queen of Swords – Too much choice here with Many Clouds (16^th), Black Thunder and On his own (neither seemed to run). Presumably, Black Thunder stormed off after I had chosen the old battleaxe.

So next time, I’ll continue the experiment but pick only two cards.