Hello and welcome to the next podcast. Today it's going to be a bit different. I'm going
to talk tiny little bits and pieces about MS related but actually today it's Halloween.
Woooooo. Yeah I'm not the greatest impressionist I know. I know. I get it. You can all laugh.
It's acceptable. Tell me I can't do impressions. That's fine. The ghosts can laugh at me when
they're ready. Not a problem. Casper shhh. Not now. Even when you're trying to do sensible
stuff. Old Casper never goes away does he? There you go. Such is life. Right so yeah
today we're going to talk ghost hunting. I know that's a bit different. Many many
years ago it's a hobby that I had. We had a team. We would go round to haunted locations.
We were very very lucky with some of the locations actually that we did manage to investigate.
I won't give full names for them but yeah I mean there was a castle. One of the castles
I tell you what it was absolutely superb. I don't know if I'm allowed to give the
name so I won't do. But it was absolutely fantastic. I mean in terms of kit we were
very kitted out. I had a K2 meter which anyone that doesn't know it flashes lights when
it's around electrical energy and apparently the ghosts are electrical energy. They can
give off that. And yeah this K2 meter at the time wasn't used very much anywhere outside
of the United States so I actually had to have it imported. Both me and Richard, my
brother, we actually had one each imported and they were quite useful. I had my trifield
meter which cost an arm and a leg back then. I'll be honest it was very very expensive
but again very very helpful. We actually spent money on a proper night vision CCTV outfit
which did cost a lot of money. There was quite a few bits and pieces I'll be honest with
you that we had. And I'll be honest with you I've actually still got my kit. I haven't
used it in a very long time I'll be totally fair. But yeah my kit is still floating about.
I just haven't had a chance. We actually got invited a few times to go to private homes
to try and help homeowners and whatever else with any kind of issues and whatever they
was having. So yeah we did that a few times. But there was one place in particular, a castle,
I won't name it. But this castle, we were there and we were investigating using all
our expensive pieces of kit and we just decided let's try something a little different. We
were getting good reactions off some of our equipment. But we actually got a tea light
candle. We took this tea light candle and there was supposed to be a spirit in the area
where we were and we lit the candle and we're talking to this spirit and we asked this spirit
to light the lights on our K2 meters and set off tri-field meters. We actually had a motion
sensor barrier which got set off which is very very impressive I'll be totally fair.
But what we did with the candle, we said to the spirit can you extinguish that candle?
Literally within a few seconds candle went out. We were like okay that's a bit strange.
So we relit the candle, it sat there for a couple of minutes perfectly fine flickering
away as the candle does. All of a sudden another member of the team says oh go on then extinguish
that candle again. Instantly the candle goes out and as a team we're looking at each other
and we're going alright this is actually quite interesting. So we did it a third time,
we lit the candle, we actually moved the candle to a different area and it's still in the
same room but we moved it to a different area and again asked for the candle to be extinguished.
Give you two guesses what happened to that candle. Yep you're correct it went out. Very
very impressive bit of evidence I'll be totally honest about that it was fantastic. I mean
the room temperature was cold and all sorts and from time to time you'd be stood there
and actually it would feel quite warm. All of a sudden you'd just get this tiny little
cold breeze. Yeah it was quite interesting, it really was quite interesting. That particular
castle there was quite a few bits and pieces that went on, a lot of it was temperature
changes and the K2 meters and trifield meters going off. There's another one that we investigated
which is a pub in Nottingham, a very old pub and we investigated it a couple of times and
downstairs there's look a small cave system. Now we actually didn't realise what we'd
done because we was helping out at the time, we was helping out an investigation that was
going on and we'd left a toy down there which we used from time to time which when you move
this toy it would light up but we left it sat in a particular place. We went upstairs
for a bit of a break, everyone sat up there, there was no one downstairs, we had the CCTV
system set up down there. So we goes back down after a break, toy's on the floor. Didn't
think anything of it thought okay we'll leave that for the time being, it may well have
just fallen. When it come to do evidence review a couple of days after we checked back, that
toy, okay that little toy, we actually saw it lift up a couple of inches straight in
the air and then it got, I'm not going to say thrown but it didn't fall as a toy would
fall. It starts lighting up while it's in the air which it never used to do, it's normally
when it hit the floor it would start lighting up or if you shook it. So again that was a
really interesting piece of evidence and one that we was quite pleased with. There was
a place in London that we investigated actually which the rumour had it was incredibly and
this is a very famous place, I'll be honest again I don't think I can give the name so
I won't do just in case. But it's a very famous building, really famous building and it was
myself and Richard investigating it. Actually nothing happened, we investigated that building
twice and it was nothing, literally quite as a mouse and allegedly it's one of the more
haunted buildings in the area of London it is. Nothing, dead quiet, silent. It was a
good night out, don't get me wrong we enjoyed ourselves but there wasn't a great deal going
on. Again I mean there was one where a few of us went out and investigated a disused
air force base which is now just a woodland. Very strange woods, very very strange woods.
Now we're all very affray with animal noises and whatever else. There was all sorts of
these screams and just about everything going on and in all truth we're sort of looking
around at each other going that's not a fox. No matter what we did, where we went, looking
around we couldn't find anybody. It was really strange but brilliant, really entertaining
and it sort of opened our eyes a little bit to okay maybe there is a little bit more to
it because there have been a lot of stories of this woodland and yeah as I say those screams
were very interesting. Sent a shiver up your spine that's for sure. And again I won't
discuss private dwellings too much but some of the private buildings we did, some bits
and pieces going on and some hits on the electrical meters and whatever we had, very surprising.
Really, really surprising. There's another pub that we'd investigated in Lincoln. Now
it's probably one of the best EVPs I've ever heard. The electric voice phenomenon, a voice
you're not going to hear with your ears at the time. It's one that imprints onto your
device. We had no end, no end of voice recorders that we would use. EVPs something we always
used to try and pick up and yeah we did pick up quite a few over the years but this one
was fantastic. There was two of our team members. They were in the back area of the pub. Now
they came out, they'd done all their calling out asking if anyone's there, all that sort
of stuff. Now on reviewing they came out, we sat down, we had about five or ten minutes.
On reviewing there was a voice when they were asking if anyone was there and that voice,
very, very low raspy voice and I'll try and sort of get it as close as I can. I'm not
going to be able to get it brilliantly but a voice it said, you are not one of us. As
I say, not great impressionist but that's what that voice said on that EVP and I'll
be honest I don't know if ever from any other investigations anywhere else I've ever heard
an EVP quite so telling and quite so chilling. It really did send a chill up your spine when
you listen to it but I'll be honest with you, it was very interesting. We actually
investigated that pub again a few weeks after and I made the suggestion that we play that
EVP while we're investigating and just see what happens and again we've got our video
recorders playing, we've got a CCTV system recording, all that sort of stuff. So we played
that noise and the feeling in that pub was ridiculous. Genuinely it went from feeling
just like a normal pub to almost like a freezer. It went stone cold, it went deathly quiet,
it was strange yeah I must admit from our point of view we were sort of thinking have
we woken someone up here because all the way through the remainder of that investigation
it was as if he was being watched but nothing else happened. Literally nothing else happened,
it was all feeling and again it could be the sort of thing where we were sort of putting
that feeling into our own head but at the time it was a little bit freaky I'll be honest
but yeah it was brilliant. I'll say those days was involved in the paranormal side of
it for a very long time. Again there was an investigation where there was allegedly a
very nasty spirit and me being me I'll try and get some information see if I can get
some kind of reaction from this spirit so I was being a bit mean I'll be honest I was
saying to it you know if you think you can come and show us what you can do and at the
time I was on my own at the back end of the building the others were down the far end
they could see me and they all started calling up saying it's looking really dark around
you and I'm like it feels a bit weird I'll be fair and all of a sudden I felt this burning
feeling at the bottom of my stomach actually on my skin I thought that's a bit strange
so I carried on and all of a sudden one of the others went we need to get you out of
there so I come walking down the bottom and I'm thinking that's a bit sore you know so
I lifted me top up and there was a scratch three fingernail scratch on my stomach very
weird very very weird very sore until I took one step out of the building took one step
out scratch disappeared odd very Halloweeny absolutely but yes these are stories they
are experiences I've had I just thought I'd share these seeing as it's Halloween we'll
honour the day and yeah in terms of the MS side of things same as nothing different from
the last podcast I'll be honest with you I'm plodding along and doing the best I can well
thank you all for listening it is a bit of a different one today as I say I just wanted
to honour the fact that it's Halloween you all have an awesome Halloween and I will talk
to you all again soon bye bye.