Old Hack Green write up

June 4th 2011. HACK GREEN SECRET UNDERGROUND BUNKER.

  I had found a few reports on this location when researching it and the ghost teams all seemed to talk of it being highly active. The main ways spirits manifested was either visually or physical contact. I was excited at the prospect. The journey past Nantwich became scenic and we took a quiet country lane to the location passing massive signs which read 'Secret Bunker'. It seemed rather than radars with which to find it, all that was required was a good pair of reading glasses. 

We were the first to arrive and speaking to Lucy who was running the evening we discovered that 'Nausea' and 'Fainting' was the chief way spirits affected the teams. 

West Yorkshire Paranormal Group arrived a while later after I had taken some photos around outside. 

The investigation started. My sister Becky and I were in Pat's group luckily and we made our way along a long corridor which was the spine of the top floor. At one end we stopped at the top a staircase near the toilets and the Contamination Room. Pat said that she felt this corridor was strong with spirit energy. Paul H indicated a problem with the infra red on the camera. It was due to a full battery draining. All batteries are brought full. Pat picks up on a lady with dark hair tied back and she was wearing an RAF uniform. After a change of battery Paul H announces that battery two is near dead. Teri senses a woman too. This woman is extremely distraught. Battery three is up and running. Battery three is dead. Pat asks politely that the spirit doesn't continue to drain batteries as we don't have enough to last us. Then Pat feels a movement of energy in the corridor and asks us how we feel. It feels muggy and warm like a stuffy summers night. Some of us have slight  headaches. Pats description is of static electricity pulling at her hair. We are stood in darkness and the torch which is in Pats hand illuminates  briefly and surprises us. Pat holds the gently between her fingers but the switch is actually on the base. A similar thing happened whilst I was at Bolling Hall. “Can you please do that again?” The torch flashes. Teri senses a presence stood in front of Pat and the torch comes on and stays on. Pat says that has the feeling that she fell from a great height, maybe down some stairs but not the ones that we are at. The torch goes out. Teri sees a light near Pat as she describes the actual staircase. “The stairs that I picture are wider and they descend down and to the right on their way, yet these that we stand at go to the left.” We ask if any of these names are the spirits.”Joan?...Janet...?”

“Can you please light the torch again if we say your name?” 

“Jean?...Janet?...Joan?..Juliet?” No answer. So with other stairs described we decide to show Pat the other staircase at the opposite end of the building. Pat is excited to see the ones she pictured and described. A large stairway winds in a right ways direction downwards. This stairway is painted bright yellow. Lucy explained that when in this underground building there was no natural sun driven day and night as there are no windows. So after 72 hours your body loses the sense of how long you've been in there. If you go stir crazy under these conditions, the most obvious place to kill yourself would be to throw yourself over this stairway. It's noticeably colder on these stairs and the torch lights back up. Pat asks “Why are you so upset?” The spirit is said to be absolutely distraught. 

We list options to be identified as the reason for the unhappiness. The torch indicates that its a personal life problem. We ask if this lady was involved romantically with another woman. The torch says yes and indicates it as a very emotionally intense moment of passing over and the other woman being the reason. The spirit doesn't ask to move on but is waiting for her girlfriend to come back to the building too. With a little trial and error we work our way through the alphabet for her to spell out each of the letters in her name. We land at JOAN. 

“Did you take your own life?” “NO”

“Was it the lady who you were involved with?” “YES”

Pat says again that the Joan is sobbing. It would appear that the relationship had already ended but Joan wanted to come out and profess to all her love for this woman. The other woman was ashamed. The military took a dim view of homosexuality. 

The torch changes hands to Becky as Pat becomes tearful too. Ian asks if there was an investigation carried out over the incident and Joan says NO. “Was the event covered up?” “YES”

“Did your collegues know about your relationship though?” “NO”.

Some of us hear a walkie talkie type radio noise, we ask Lucy in the office if she heard it. Lucy says that her radio just fell off her desk. I get Becky to put the torch on the floor. It lights up still and then Paul H's flashes too. Paul H asks if Joan used to work on radio communications and his torch flashes wildly. 

We move to a room close by which was and is still set out as the ladies dormitory. We sit quietly in the dark to get a feel for the room. Pat hears soft music whilst Paul H reports that he has seen the top bunk facecloth move as he filmed it. Pat now hears fluctuating Country and Western music in her head. We straighten all the beds over the fence again so that we have a more controlled area. We try to make all three top bunks symmetrically square and tidy. Now Pat has a strong sense of the music that she picks up, it's the song which goes, “Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye heart..”

Paul H sees one bed with a large imprint in it as someone had sat down on the edge but we haven't been concentrating on those beds enough. 

We are next on the lower levels of the building around the very centre of the corridor below. We enter the small cinema room and Pat sees an orb in the doorway so I stand in it to see if I get anything. The rest of our team get comfy in the cinema seats. My camera shuts down and I think that I must've run out of tape or battery but I have just changed it all ten minutes ago.  Now Pat senses a male who she describes as 'Sneaky'. She struggles to expand on that word but also hints at 'Spy'. Paul H sees a light on camera and then his camera turns off. There is a loud noise in the room and we find a cinema seat up. We put it back down to find that these seats have no play left in them to spring up or down automatically. We put all the seats down to control any more movement. Paul H's camera turns off. He starts recording to find it shut down again. Then when its on again it goes into EDIT mode which he doesn't know how to do. Pat says that he may have knocked a certain button but Paul is sure he didn't. There is a bleeping of equipment that is obviously quite common but when it continues we ask “Who's is that?” We all think it is someone else because it is not ours, we all say. We struggle to get a good communication but Teri does feel a breeze. It becomes frustrating so we move after a few photos of mine have lights on. As I leave I throw the camera over my shoulder in case something is loitering My picture is amongst the ones on the website and there is a smudge but it could be reflection only. Hey it's always worth a shot

As we leave a torch from Pats pocket has jumped quite a way in front of her and a similar thing is about to occur in the next room. 

We now go to the Government Departments Room. The room is behind a tall metal fence and is full of tables with in/out trays and computers and desk lamps. This room is cold and straight away Pat senses a female busying herself in this office. Paul H sees a light on camera and asks for it to happen again in the same place. A light rushes the camera again. “Do it again” Paul repeats and it does it immediately.  Teri and Pat report a tap sound towards the desks. I sit on a chair watching all of them face into the room. I see a light but discover that it is just Paul's walkie in his back pocket. Thirty seconds later there is a loud plastic to carpet noise and Paul discovers that his walkie is now a metre over the fence near a desk. We can see that we would have heard him accidentally rub it on the metal fencing and the fence is way too high for it to go over anyway. Interesting stuff. 

We hear a scraping sound from the back of the desk room so Paul H and I jump the fence (We are permitted to do so) and sit in the two back corners and film the rest of the team. Shortly after Paul H calls me over to him as he hears whispering but its barely audible and I don't catch any of it. 

I ask “Can you make a noise by us please?”. There is a plastic noise moderately loud just on a desk by us. We ask each other “Was that you?”

The energies seem to back off further unfortunately but the temperature seems to still fluctuate. I have since learnt how to use a piece of equipment which measures air temperature and humidity and logs the minimum and maximum change. I will use this in future investigations. Paul H says his battery has dropped down to low again. Ten minutes later Pat hears a hissing noise which represents her having spirit contact. 'Veronica Haskell' she declares. We continue to ask Veronica to show stronger evidence. We believe that we hear a low bump. Pat and other Paul think that they have heard whispering over by them. Now Paul H sees a light on camera near Pat and Ian feels a cold breeze come over him and stresses that it's unusual for him to feel such things. There is another tap on a table sound. As Pat sees a light emitting from one of the rear desks she also becomes very very cold. We decide to call a break and Teri flashes with camera and Paul H thinks that he saw a shadow stood in the far corner of the room during the flash, I guess the photo will answer that one. 

During the break Paul H and Teri call me into the ladies loo because a woman entered and walked into a person who she couldn't see. We couldn't seem to get communication again.

Everyone entered the ladies dorm and we had downloaded the song that Pat had heard, I believe by Willie Nelson. We played the song out from a laptop. We commence with a table tipping session. First we determine what action the spirit wants to indicate YES and then asks it to give us the sign for NO. Once this is established we ask questions of the two female spirits who are felt to be here. 

The table shakes and there's a light documented on camera. The table tilts at no question and stays there. When Paul H asks for the table to go down it doesn't move, until a female asks. We ask if the spirits don't like Paul H being in the female dorm and they say NO. There is another light and we determine a time of the 1950's. The ladies worked for the Local Government. Lucy explains the details that she thinks we are on to and the table strongly agrees. We come up with the name 'Veronica' possibly with the surname of 'Banks' for spirit 1. the second spirit becomes reluctant to speak but we think she is called 'Charlie' or 'Charlotte'. Lucy says that better results are got if we speak about love and relationships rather than focus on their sadness. The table stands firmly at a forty five degree angle and we almost get all contact off it. There is yet another light on camera. As Pat tells us that the girls are about 23/24 she is pushed from behind . It seems to be believed that a third entity has entered and this stops communication with spirit 2 who is scared of spirit 3. Paul H then pulls me to the bunk beds that we straightened to show me the top middle bunk has been untucked at the bottom. Lucy sees a flicker of light in the room herself. Eventually Pat gets to communicate with spirit 3 and tells him he's not nice and a bully. We all hear a bang in the corridor and Lucy recognises it as the barrier at the top of the stairs. It becomes apparent that spirit 3 had a romantic fascination with one of these women and was spurned so that is why he makes things difficult for them still. 

A group of males leave mostly girls to continue with that table session and we visit three more locations but get nothing. 4Am arrives and Becky and I start the drive home. 

The building has a lot of potential and I feel this was a quiet night for spirit and that is why I want to get back. My return is booked for July 2nd. I look forward to it.