Ghost Hunts
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This 600 year old building has a well-deserved reputation for unexplained happenings and so it attracts paranormal investigators from all over the world. And the more investigations that have been carried out, the more intriguing things have become. To enable local people to experience a paranormal investigation, we have several PI organisations with whom you can reserve places to attend a 'Ghost Hunt' event here. You do not need any prior knowledge or experience as the investigators - will guide you through the techniques typically used by paranormal investigators. There is no need to be scared, as the 'spirits' (or whatever they are) here are all harmless - although they can be quite mischievous! No-one can predict what may happen on any given evening, so we cannot guarantee that anything dramatic will happen, but we have never yet had a PI where nothing strange has taken place. The event you attend could turn out to be the most intriguing evening of your life. Events normally run from 8pm (but please arrive a bit earlier) to 1am Moot Hall curator and local historian, Clive Arnold, will carry out a de-brief at the end of the night, to compare what the group have experienced with the known history of Elstow and previous paranormal occurrances at Moot Hall. If you would like to take part, why not book a place? Costs vary depending on the PI group operating the event. Coffee and biscuits are usually provided but you may also want to bring other snacks or drinks (but, please, no alcohol.) You will also need to bring a torch, soft-soled shoes and something warm to wear. |
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PI Organisations
If you would like to run an investigation at Moot Hall, either as a private group or commercially, you would be made very welcome. Please contact the Curator.
Paranormal Event Diary 2020
Ist February - Private Investigation
29th February - Private Investigation
28th March - 8pm to 1am
For more details and to book places; ghostly gatherings
26th September - 8pm to 1am
For more details and to book places; ghostly gatherings
31st October - Times TBA
For more details and to book places; Beyond This World
Paranormal Happenings, Investigations & Reports
Here are reports, photographs and videos of some of the strange things that have happened to Moot Hall staff and/or to PIs during paranormal investigations.
(Click on the images to see full size photos.)
19th October 2019. Members of the PI group Beyond This World returned to see if they could again capture infra-red images of the boy Thomas. This time, they videoed and photographed what appeared on the infra-red camera's screen, as back-ups in case the camera's file vanished as it had done the month before.
Having sensed the boy being present, the PIs positioned one investigator near the west end of the hall and asked the 'spirit' boy to stand near that person. Then they set their 'Stick-man' video camera running. (These are infra-red cameras which detect heat sources in the dark and, in the case of the heat source being vaguely human-shaped, software tries to overlay a stick figure so as to aid detection of such figures and to show any movements such figures may make.)
The following pictures and video of the camera screen show what it was picking up at 1207am. The PI is visible in the first photo and, standing next to and somewhat behind, is a child-sized figure. (Note. there were no live children, small adults present at this PI.)
Pictures and video by kind permission of the members of Beyond This World ©
Having sensed the boy being present, the PIs positioned one investigator near the west end of the hall and asked the 'spirit' boy to stand near that person. Then they set their 'Stick-man' video camera running. (These are infra-red cameras which detect heat sources in the dark and, in the case of the heat source being vaguely human-shaped, software tries to overlay a stick figure so as to aid detection of such figures and to show any movements such figures may make.)
The following pictures and video of the camera screen show what it was picking up at 1207am. The PI is visible in the first photo and, standing next to and somewhat behind, is a child-sized figure. (Note. there were no live children, small adults present at this PI.)
Pictures and video by kind permission of the members of Beyond This World ©
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21st September 2019. Members of PI group Ghostly Gatherings made a video, of a child who identified himself as 'Thomas', jigging about on top of the large table in the upstairs hall. They used an infra-red camera equipped with software which assists the viewer to identify human shapes and movements by overlaying a 'stick man' type figure onto the infra-red image. The film of this boy was shown to Moot Hall's curator during the debrief at the end of the evening and the owner of the camera promised to email us a copy. But, when he went to he review the film the next day, it was gone! The group decided to return a month later and try again. (See above report.)
9th March 2019. During a paranormal Investigation by the 'Paranormal Sisters' group, some incredible images were recorded, in Moot Hall's Exhibition room.
At 22.09pm, a short video clip. was filmed. (This can be downloaded from the link immediately below this text.)
In the first few seconds of this video, a figure appears to move from right to left, dodging behind the upright stud timber (in the centre of the picture) toward the Bunyan Pulpit. The film is somewhat dark, as the only lights on at the time were the investigators' torches, but there is clearly something, about the height of a man, that moves from right to left.
The figure was not actually noticed live by the investigators - they only saw it when reviewing the video a few minutes later. They then took screenshots from that video and these show a figure - shadowy but pretty distinct - standing between the Bunyan Pulpit and one of the vertical timbers dividing that bay from the bay in which the photographers were standing.
In the photographs, the image on the left is the screenshot taken from the video at 22.12pm. The centre picture is a slightly enhanced version and, on the right, a picture taken in daylight, from the same position, in order to show the location more clearly. In the first two pictures, what looks like the head of the figure fully obscures the bottom third of the white notice on the Bunyan pulpit, enabling us to estimate the height of the figure at about 5'6" tall.
The investigators are sure that the figure was not one of their group, because half of the group were engaged in a vigil in the cellar below Moot Hall, whilst the rest of the investigators were standing behind the photographers. Neither could any outsider have entered the building without the investigators knowing, because there is an alarm on the main entrance door of the building.
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The mysterious 'self-opening' door.
Download the Word document to read a full account.
The two photographs, below, show the door ajar, its pneumatic closer and the steel drop-latch.
Download the Word document to read a full account.
The two photographs, below, show the door ajar, its pneumatic closer and the steel drop-latch.
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