The Newmarket Report
- Ros' Experiences

             
This venue was one of Lee's favourite haunts after a long day beating knowledge, in a pure health and safety way, to his students. We started off in the kitchen picking a lot of EMF readings up from all the equipment and started Wayne's fascination with freezers (!) (see the report from my place...)
This did indicate to me that there could be some connection between electrical equipment and suspected paranormal activity.

 


The 1st photo of the moving barrels


However, once in the cellar with all the beer barrels, I began to think that there were things occurring that couldn't be explained just by the influence of electrical equipment. I know every member of the team will possibly be telling you about this 'incident' but, trust me, there seems to be no logical explanation for the sound of the barrels being dragged across the floor when there was no-one anywhere near the barrels. As you can hear on the recording, we had decided that taking photos was aggravating whoever was instigating the movement so I continued to take them in an attempt to annoy the 'presences' that Wayne had picked up on to continue to perform.


Wayne gets closer to the barrels
Bron, the landlady, provides most of the swearing on the recording and, to be honest, it was definitely a swearing moment! The scrapping noise continues for what seems an age, and to experience that in the pitch dark is not good for the heart. As indicated in the photo on the left Wayne does get closer to the barrels but is still far enough away not to be able to be a logical option that he dragged them. In addition, the doors shown on the photograph were locked meaning there was no way anyone from outside the cellar could be responsible. As you can see from the photos it appears that the barrels have not moved.


Wayne and the barrels

   
But, it certainly sounded like they had moved!
Check out the recording.


This incident did shock all members of the team but proved too much for Ben who collapsed onto the floor.
Once we had returned to the relative safety of the beer garden, and ensured Ben was well, discussions on what had happened led to theories of rats moving the barrels amongst other suggestions.
To be fair it would have had to be some hell of an Arnie Schwarzenegger sized rat to cause that noise! (and, to be honest, I don't know which would be scarier!)

Lee's Experiences


Wayne's Experiences

 

Ros' Experiences