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Brewers Witness Statements
Jim Bridgeman

Well first of all me and Ian conducted a vigil in the Charlie Chalks area, nothing much to report there, it did have a weird up and
down temperature if I remember rightly and the CCTV handheld monitor turned off by itself. The monitor did this a few times
through the night and seemed to have no pattern to it so I have to check the handbook for an auto shut off function. If there is one
it’s very random! (5 mins, 20 mins and 10min).

Second me Ian and Dave in the out buildings. Started downstairs with nothing really to report, found a strange EMF signal but
put it down to possible under floor cabling as it seemed to follow an arcing line on the floor. Moving upstairs we went in the first
open door which was the room with the two windows, one very large and low on the left and the door leading into the female
changing rooms. Nothing strange with the temperature really in here apart from it seemed to take a long time to settle and we all
felt as if it had got colder when in fact it hadn't at all. A few knocks and bangs were heard, one was put down to an air vent by
the large window and one came from outside so could have been anything. We all felt a little off colour in here, Dave saying he
felt disorientated and sick in the stomach. Ian had been having a bit of a bubbly stomach and I felt a bit off but put it down to not
being so well. On returning to the base camp it turned out other members of the group had felt these things earlier in the night
whilst we were playing around with equipment.

Another strange thing to happen in this room was interference with the walkie talkies. It started just after I started feeling a bit
apprehensive, I have no explanation for that feeling as I had felt totally fine in the room before hand while Dave was saying how
uncomfortable he felt, I decided to take a temp reading due to an atmosphere change and after doing so my walkie talkie went
mental. It sounded as if someone was pressing the button at the other end but without the beep at the end of transmition. At this
point I started talking EMF readings around the unit and they were doing nothing, which I would have thought wasn't right in the
first place but will experiment with later on. Ian noticed I had knocked the handheld monitor onto AV channel and at first this
seemed to explain the noises as whenever we moved the monitor around the walkie it fluctuated. But then on trying to recreate
it a few mins later it did not have this effect at all. We thought it may have been interference from a taxi which had come to pick
up some of the staff but Andy's walkie did not experience this interference and it had been a fair few mins since hearing the taxi
had turned up until this happened. From my investigating on location I cannot find a sound explanation for this.

Last vigil for TEAM TECH was in the cellar with Andy. Nothing weird to report really apart from an area of the cellar with a
draft felt warmer to some of the team than the far side of the room where the air was still. I did try a bit of transfiguration with Ian
seeing my face turn to a skull. As I called out for spirit to come close I personally felt as if I had been wrapped up in a breeze and
the team said that a large draft had started. After this we just started discussing why we thought they had shut the caller and
discovered that there is a space of about equal size behind the right wall as u walk in.

Martin Gregory

This was my second investigation with the ISP team, and my first as an official crew member, so I had been looking forward to
the opportunity of a more formal, scientific investigation. Armed with a fully operational wireless CCTV monitoring system and a
host of equipment hopes were high for the night ahead. Again we were joined by other fellow members of the Paranormal Tours
crew as we embarked upon an initial walk around and some early vigils in the Out Building adjacent to the pub which would have
probably once served as stables and living quarters. Joined by Andrew Marsay and medium Stewart Keeys we started with a brief
glass divination upstairs where a number of the team, including myself, began to feel an intense swaying sensation and as if being
pulled towards the table. This was something of a first for me, and I did start to exhibit feelings of sickness, as if being on a rocking
boat. Jenny, Andrew and Stewart expressed to feeling much the same way, and it was certainly something I could not quite put
my finger on. I hadn't eaten much that day, which is sometimes a reason for these feelings, however I was puzzled as to why 3
other team members were suffering from the same sensations. I don't necessarily think it was paranormal, as there could easily
have been EMF or infrasound at work in this part of the building, and no other signs of activity were recorded, however it was an
interesting start to the night. Stewart also suggested feeling the presence of a lady in a bonnet, not richly dressed, but who had
a strong presence. Moving downstairs Stewart expressed concern that he sensed a darker energy, "elemental" in form, although
no evidence of any thing out of the ordinary was recorded.

The second vigil took us all down to the cellars where Stewart and Andrew connected with who they felt would have been a
former owner of the building, and a man who would have been aware of what we were looking to achieve with the investigation.
They felt he too would have been fascinated with the paranormal, and for that reason may have welcomed our efforts to make
contact. Stewart did suggest however that he did not take kindly to Dave for some reason, and that he also could hear sounds
and chants which he could only describe as being something similar to incantations. Besides that and a few suggestions of a small
shadowy figure by the doorway, which was more likely a trick of the low level light conditions, there was nothing to report.

We then returned to the Outbuildings and made further attempts to connect with the energies picked up by Stewart and Andrew
earlier in the night, and during glass divination we again experienced the swaying sensations and feelings of sickness. Beyond
that the vigil remained uneventful as by this time the temperatures were dropping rapidly outside and the unheated outbuildings
were becoming less inviting, so it was a welcome relief to return to the main building for the final vigils. Of interest however is
that locked off cameras in the outbuildings later recorded an anomalous loud bang while all of the crew were over in the main
building. Click here to view the video footage.

The final vigils of the night took place in the Charlie Chalk Play Area located adjacent to the Base Camp, and these were for the
most part uneventful. The only interesting experience was while downstairs in the ball pit where on a number of occasions it did
appear as if the plastic balls which were scattered on the floor had begun to move and knock against each other lightly. We did
manage to discount some of these as the netting against which I had been sitting had been causing some of the balls to move
behind me, however we were unable to account for the plastic knocking sounds opposite me where Liz was located.

Other vigils during the night did reveal some interesting experiences, specifically some rapidly falling temperatures, EMF readings
in the Outbuildings (where it must be noted there were large amounts of hidden cables and electrics behind the walls) and Ian
and Dave also feeling sick in the same room as I had done earlier in the night. For the most part an interesting night, but
nothing significant as far as genuine activity.