19/01/14 The Picture House, Keighley. visit 4.
We arrived to investigate the final areas which had claims attached to the place. We were told that since we had been last time there had been instances where paranormal influence had been possible. On one occasion as a staff member sat alone towards the end of a shift, their peripheral vision had seen a figure coming out of screen one. The short height had indicated a child wandering out in to the lobby and so the staff member instinctively wanted to turn and help the child whether they were looking for the toilets or buy a drink etc. When the child was identified to be a young girl wearing a satin dress with a ribbon tied around her waist , the realisation came that there were no children in the place at that time as none had bought a ticket. No sooner had the worker turned to look full on at the figure, they had already vanished. On another occasion whilst staff were cashing up at the close of business there was a slam of a cellar door heard as well as felt directly under the staff area. Obviously the first thought was that an intruder had gained access to the cellar but when staff went down there was nobody there and the suspect door was still wedged open. Along with these more physical moments came electrical oddities which have question marks next to them. As staff added a coat of paint to the gents toilets during a showing, a woman and a child came out of screen one and brought it to attention that there was a very bright light on spoiling the usual darkness of the cinema. It became apparent that this was one of the cleaning lights which are used between showings to illuminate the room better for cleaning up. With this mistake being so unlikely, an intruder upstairs seemed the most rational source but again nobody was detected. Staff scratched their heads. The final complaints revolved around the music which plays before the trailers come on.These are delivered by CD players and it seems that they won't play all the time when staff member David activates them. No one else had witnessed a fault which was thought to perhaps be a faulty laser or something. It was when David was cleaning out the rear fire escape that he left the CD on repeat successfully as opening time approached. When his work in that area was done he walked through the screening room to silence. It was later that a second staff member asked david if he'd been in projection room one and he hadn't. The second guy said "I found the CD player paused". Could this be a spirit interfering?
We made notes and decided to spread out into three small groups and see if we could find anything.
David, Lee and Kevin had a walk around as Sue and Gill were asking out in Screen one as Si and I sat in projection room one. We shone a laser grid through the projector window which shot an array of beams across their room. If a shadow person was solid enough we'd hope the beams would be interrupted clearly on that form.
There was a hum of electronics in the projection room but Si and I got used to that noise and spoke to any spirits listening about the claims, the laser grid and the other groups of us around the place. I asked for either of the other teams to be touched on the leg. This would be good evidence if it was reported back to me to have occurred. After fifteen minutes Kevin comes in to let us know that the three of them were walking through where Sue and Gill were and into the back area which used to be the theatre. Because we had split up we had used our walkies and we radioed to Sue and Gill that Kevin etc were coming. Si continued to ask questions to try get a response of some kind but we heard nothing we couldn't put down to natural. However, as Si finally asks for a sign to be given now before we leave to another area, Gill buzzes our walkie asking if we made 'a long sound' on our walkie. We hadn't been touching it at all when this was heard. We got nothing other than that and moved up again into projection room two. We asked out as we sat quietly and got a K2 hit which seemed to disappear at the top of the stairs but nothing else. We all met up downstairs and reported nothing significant. A little deflated we agreed to all go to the upper rooms at the very top of the building which look out over the road outside.
We had continued our recent approach of methodically working though different forms of communication in order to leave no form of spirit expression unavailable. However we eventually arrived at the simple YES/NO table with the glass on top. It was very quick for the glass to start its movement.
Si "Did you work here?' YES
"Were you happy here?' NO
David "You cared about this place though didn't you?" YES
Si "Are you male?" YES
The glass moves to in front of David who works here and just stop, often. We ask another question and the glass moves to David again. We worked through the opinion that the spirit just wanted David to speak or that he must do the asking. The reason seemed to be more an indication that the spirit wasn't answering either YES or NO. It didn't seem to be I DON'T KNOW but more I'M NOT ANSWERING THAT.
David "Were you born in the 80's?" YES
My gauss meter starts to crackle but we see the room has a fridge in also.But even when the fridge then stops its buzzing , the crackle continues for a minute or so.
Si "Is it you whose messing around here?" no answer.
"Did you do some of it?" YES
David "So there's more than one spirit who messes?" YES
The spirit takes responsibility for the CD player trouble.
Lee says "Someone keeps touching my head"
We ask for handwritten letters as we are not using the ouija board yet. It's around this stage that the glass seems to be changing its movements noticeably. We are of the opinion that there is a different spirit trying to muscle in on the board. Perhaps its who was touching Lee's head?
The glass seems to be in some sort of tug of war with itself.
Si "Is this a new spirit?" A strong YES.
This spirit claims to be a customer of old. I say "Since you interrupted so strongly I take it that you have a message for us?" The glass goes absolutely still. Empty.
We then ask for the first spirit to return to the table and we see the original kind of glass movement return.
Si "Did that spirit push you off?" YES
Si "Was it stronger than you?" NO (Just let it on).
This spirit refuses to describe the table intruder. We get a load of NO COMMENTS. This first spirit doesn't seem to have a message as such either and Lee feels noticeably less sickly.
Si "Is there another spirit who wants to come through?" The glass moves to YES.
Si "I just got a breeze on my hand". As i jot this down the walkie talkies, which are both on the side table, spark into some sort of life. They seem to be fluttering static at us and then doing the musical bleep which it makes to alert one that its ringing the other. Both are right there with us and nobody is holding the TALK button. We stay very quiet waiting for words. We then ask for words. The noise gets louder. We openly discuss the levels of interference form the club bouncers not too far away but point out that there is no chatter filling the talk static. When we move one away from the other we notice the static is just coming from one handset. It stops at a distance and when I return it closer at just the right point I can control when its happening. I said "If I can control the noise surely It means its natural?" But why did it begin after so long? We've never had it happen before anyway. The interference of static only came through one handset though.
We return to the board when the two walkies are a distance apart which allows quiet. We all hope they will go off again at this distance.
A male who worked here returns to the board.
Si asks if the walkies was this spirit but the glass just goes to in front of David again.
David "Was this your office?" YES
The spirit says it was in charge of important decisions here.
We ask this spirit if it would be ok using the ouija board for easier communication. He says YES.
Again though there is this struggle with the glass as it fights itself.
The glass is now moving stronger and faster than it had been.
Si feels pins and needles and requests that the male spirit lets whoever this is through.
When we ask if this spirit is male the glass pulling to and fro continues.
David feels that this is a child. David "Did you turn the cleaning light on?" YES.
Lee says he felt a child earlier on his walk around.
David explains a word of mouth story about a child to the team.
Gill "Can you tell us how you died?" NO.
The gauss rises. (Just another tie in of the gauss getting hits in response to emotionally charged questions).
Si "How old were you?" 7.
Gill "Can you tell us your name?" NO
"Can you tell us what year you died?"
The glass yet again starts is pushing and pulling. Are we to assume the spirit is changing again?
The gauss starts clicking once more.
The glass now circulates the board wide and fast. I wonder what its building towards. The energy feels ready to burst. The glass has lost all but Si and Davids fingers as it just goes to each corner of the table. Davids finger is the last one off.
Things get confusing here as with all the changing we are unclear what we have currently at the board.
If we are correct it seems we ended up with the old customer back.
Gill "Did you enjoy coming here?" Q.
Someone suggests that maybe that is short for 'Question?'. The glass says YES it was that.
The glass moves to Y. Someone corresponds this to mean 'Why?'.
"Why are we here you mean?" YES.
Gill "Are you always here?"
"What is your name?" V-I-C.
"Are you male?" YES
This next section is a new experience for us and we are feeling our way through in the dark unsure of if we are on the right path. The spirit seems to be unsure of how it ended up at our board. It agrees that it was 'minding its own business' one minute and with us the next. The spirit has never visited any other location and says he passed recently. He also says he lived in keighley and still has family here.
David informs the spirit that he is at the cinema in keighley.
David "Do you know where you are?" D-R-U-I-D-S. Does he mean the Druids pub nearby at Long Lee which is now called The Dickie Bird?
"Did you drink in the Druids?" L-A-N-D-L-O-R-D.
I've gone as far as to check with the regulars up at this pub as some of my friends family have frequented this place for a long while. Firstly there never was a male landlord called VIC and it has never sold Landlord beer. So that was two options of meaning ruled out.
Gill "Do you know what the pub is called now?" NO.
The spirit wants to know why its here with us but we can't explain exactly how either. The spirit confirms that it isn't stuck though.
David "Did you ever come and see any films here?" YES
"What was the last film you saw here?" MAD MAX 1-2. (Mad Max 1 was 1979 and Mad Max 2 was 1981)
The walkies do the same static weirdness again even though they are separated.
Gill "Vic, how did you see this board from the other side? Did you see a light or....? P-E-O-P-L-E. (Interesting)
Si "How many people do you see here?" 8.
"Are you just people without bodies?" YES.
David "Do you see other spirits as just solid?" YES
"Clothed?" YES.
I time the gaps between static outbursts and find theres a repeating 15/16 seconds between noises. Does it being so constant and organise make it natural?.
David "Vic, can we do anything to help you?" NO
"Did you come here instantaneously?" YES.
Si "How did you see us when you arrived?" [From] A-B-O-V-E.
The spirit lets us know that it looks down on us as it floats above us.
Si fumbles through his thoughts but the spirit gets his meaning that in a sense a spirit can "Have one eye in one place and another in another place' at a single time. Science itself says that the spirit world need only be one millimetre away from us co existing. We talk about spirits possibly being a 'projection of energies'.
Si "Can you manipulate energies?" YES.
Si feels a draft.
David "Where were you before you came here?" Will not answer. Possibly due to THE RULES which seem to be in place in the afterlife. These rules are broken by some, other spirits have told us. Just like in the living realm of laws, the laws are set but are often bent and broken.
We wrap up.
A jumble of information tonight has brought answers giving more questions. How much can a spirit be taken at its word when the 'facts' it provides us with go unproven? There's a definite 'pinch of salt' rule to communication.
More work needs to be done to test the link between us on the board and the knowledge of the spirits.
C Whitehouse 2014.
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