Sooo.. we have a Ghost!
First big invo for the team of this season, here we are back again with our old friends at Havenstreet Steam Railway – this time it’s a new team, with a guest medium Amunet along with us. To cut a long story short, the first 2 hours of the investigation, didn’t really come to any fruitation – until we entered the Train Story Museum. If you’ve never been before, it is quite a place – packed with Engines and Carriages, many of which you can enter. It’s here that before we have witnessed things previously – such as the ‘little girl’ spirit seen running at the end of the platform, and the feeling of dizziness and dread from a baggage wagon.
Steve one of our most experienced team members has come into harm by an unseen energy before in this museum – something quite forcibly scratched the top of his hand, understandably he is now always on his guard around the area. With the team assembling in the entrance, Amunet and John both picked up on a strong energy swirl – Derek , (IW Steam Railway Director) – reached over to my ear and whispered that there’s been a lot of unexplained ‘going’s on’ lately!
With Marie, John & Amunet – finding strong residual energy in the first carriage we come across, the rest of the team made themselves at home in one of the more graceful carriages further along the platform.
Using their spiritual gifts, they had detected a chair that contained quite a powerful spirit energy of a Victorian gentleman – A tall and proud man, with a cane and top hat. With SarahJayne taking her place on the seat, she immediately felt her features change – a transfiguration! Over the course of the next few minutes, they took it in turn to witness this remarkable abnormality for themselves – while the energy remained firm. Into the second side of the museum, all but 2 of the team had made their way to the top end of the concourse, leaving Steve and Maria down the far end.
It was then that they both noticed that someone was walking up the side of the train!
Steve could see his head, Maria noticing his feet from underneath the carriages – thing is.. there’s no one but ourselves in the museum! – Steve ran round the other side of the train as fast as he could, but as always – our ghostly visitor 
was nowhere to be seen! He later inquired with Amunet what her thoughts on it was – she scanned the area, homing in on an image and the energies.
Apparently he’s dressed in old style traveler clothing – perhaps a local gypsy, no way connected to the railway or its history. Quite why this spirit is here, we do not know – however I’m told he is desperately searching for something that is lost! Although this whole episode was not caught on the team cameras, it is hoped that our ghostly visitor ‘may’ have been caught on the railways CCTV – we await confirmation on this!!
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Would you like to investigate the railway with us? – this year we are offering a very special night out with us, for more details checkout our EVENTS page on the Myths Investigations website.
All photos and media remain (c) 2016 – Myths Investigations & Roger J Millward
Haunted Havenstreet Event – October 17th
Wow what an evening – we had a great time hosting our second Public Investigation at Havenstreet, the weather was kind to us which really helped set the scene for our guests. Two groups were running on the evening, with all the more experienced ‘veteran’ ghosting hunting guests in one group headed by Steve, Paul & Karin – with Janis and John leading group two, with a focus more on experiments and equipment. Team member Roger doing what he does best, taking the fantastic pictures you can see on this very page.
The night began with yours truly (Paul) – doing a quick crash course presentation in ghost hunting techniques and discoveries from past investigations at the Railway. With the General Manager of the Railway taking part – and our two regular railway staff assistants onhand – we had to make sure everything was correct and in place for the night ahead.
With the late news of a completely new location for us – the signal box, our hopes were high that it was to be an active investigation. As the night progressed spirits started to come through, some we were aware of – others not so. Group 2 had quite an encounter with our regular spirit youngster while partaking in a little glass divination. Group 1 seemed to picking up more and more on WW2 connections, could this be down to the new open wagon that had previously seen service during the war?
It should be noted that the more investigations we perform at the railway, the more connected we feel – and consequently more information for the overall story is formed.
As the night went on, it was clear that WW2 was alive and playing out – 3 of our guests partaking in an automatic writing session had written morse code! – as with our investigation the month before, it seems there’s a change taking place at the railway.. something quite extraordinary is starting to take shape. Personally I have a feeling that there’s going to be a time slip – and replay of a past event. What were once spirits of the railway are moving over to echo’s of war time.
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With soldiers said to be stationed in the surrounding area at Havenstreet (used as a holding area) – its not surprising to find that the area – with all the emotions of past – has somehow been recorded into the very ground. On 2 occasions now – Janis has witnessed a small huddle of ghostly soldiers watching her from the railway track opposite. This link between past and present – needs to be looked into in more detail, we hope to continue our investigations at Havenstreet in 2016 – and to be honest.. we just can’t wait!
Many thanks to our guests for what we hope was an enjoyable evening, and the Staff at Havenstreet for their continued support & friendship. Would you like to investigate Havenstreet with us? – we will be offering more dates for our very popular Public Investigations in early 2016. Please see our website for full details: www.mythsinvestigations.co.uk
Myths Team Update – July 2015
So what have we been up to recently??
It’s been a really busy start to the season for us, not so much with Investigations, but training – bonding and arranging projects that will see us right through to 2016!
The training side is always important to us as it allows us to come together and learn from each other, the team should have experience and the knowledge of using every piece of equipment we have.
It’s also a time for us to take out possible new recruits with us, give them a taste of what its about. This year it was the turn of ‘James’ – our parapsychologist. (in training)
Newtown was the chosen location, always a place for us that seems active – and thankfully didn’t let us down this time. Janis picking up on a strong spirit that was trailing us about 20 foot behind, it wasn’t long before it made its move on John. Totally draining him of energy and leaving him a little worse for wear. Luckily Janis our resident Wiccan stepped in to push the spirit back and share a little energy with John.
Spirit is just about to make its move on John, draining him of energy
August looks a busy time, with some of the team heading off for an investigation at the very haunted Littlecotte Manor, (close to Swindon) – followed by an investigation in a rather grand hotel a little closer to home.
We have a continued contract with the Steam Railway this year that will see us performing another fantastic Public ‘Paranormal Investigation’ Event in early October, followed by our showcase ‘Paranormal Tour’ Event at Havenstreet on All-Hallows-Eve.
This year we are really pushing the boat out (train!?) – as we will be incorporating a number of hi-tech effects to really give you the scare factor. (suitable for families)
And then its the big one.. in November the entire team will be heading off on a road trip, to one of the biggest locations to date for us, as we investigate a former Naval Base! – cant wait for that one..
But let’s pull back a little before I leave you once again.. I briefly mentioned our Public Investigation Event in October, our first one at the beginning of the year (in February) was such a roaring success, we thought we’d do a ‘pre-halloween’ event to get you in a spooky mood for the big night. If you havent been out with us before, this is your chance to enjoy an incredible evening – up close and personal to the age of yesteryear. The atmosphere can become soo charged – who knows what might happen!
Checkout our website: www.mythsinvestigations.co.uk for the full details, and book your tickets with us – as they are going fast already!
As always, many thanks to the team – especially Roger Millward for the amazing photography shots.
The Tunnels of El Carmoli
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Many Thanks to Neil for sharing his exploits with us!
Supernatural Book Review
And now for something completely different… a book review! – yes, I have been known on occasion to read a good book or two.
I wanted something light but entertaining to read in the evenings on my kindle, so I started to hunt around for a book that would hold my interest – I ended up settling on a little known title entitled ‘Will Storr vs The Supernatural’, and to be honest I haven’t been able to put it down since starting it.
If you have an interest in Ghost Investigating this is the book for you, it follows reporter Will Storr on his quest to prove that ghosts and the paranormal exist.
Starting with a very limited skeptical knowledge of the subject, Will takes a life journey to try to experience EVERYTHING, from Mediums to defeating Demons.. Poor Will really does struggle.
Being a Ghost Hunter myself I can relate to most of his experiences.Just about every major location and past mainstream paranormal investigation is mentioned at one stage or another – including The Enfield Poltergeist and quizzing a local Ghost Invo team on their thoughts of the TV show Most Haunted! (it did raise a chuckle of two with me.. hehe) And it’s not just based on UK investigations either as Will travels to America to deal with a rather nasty possession. But its not all doom and gloom as you’ll find the pace fast and the wit fresh – all in all, a very good entertaining read, even if you have no personal experiences of ghosts or ghost hunting. With it also being available on Kindle as well as paperback, you have no reason to pass this up! Recommended! – Click HERE for the Amazon Book Page
Arreton Barns Investigation
Its a very chilly February evening, the team is assembled and chomping at the bit for our first investigation of 2015. We are at Arreton Barns, which is located within the grounds of the lovely Jacobean ‘Arreton Manor’ here on the Isle of Wight.
The complex itself consists of the Dairyman’s Daughter Pub, and a collection of outbuildings that surround the area which now demonstrate local handmade crafts. It really is a charming place – and perhaps my most favorite location on the whole of the Island.
Everywhere you look they’ve tried to keep its history intact with collections of old signage and various nik naks from a bygone age.
Tonight’s investigation is going to see us start off at the Dovecote, a former building that was used by the Monk’s on the island. A small hole in the wall can still be found round the side of it, that was allegedly used in its time to pass out food supplies to the local lepers.
Marie is the first of the team to sense something, she can see the outline of a man – wearing a long robe, with a baggy hood over his head hiding his facial features. This energy feels to her as though its more of a replay of time, than an active spirit energy – he walks from the gatepost further down the lane to just outside the Dovecote before disappearing, and repeating the journey over and over again. As you can imagine, this type of personal experience is impossible to gather any form of evidence from. The team spent some time in the Dovecote, trying to zone into its history – but that evening it just wasn’t happening.
Over to the Shipwreck museum next, it must be said that they have had no reports of ghostly activity prior to our visit. Upon entering both Janis and Steve – who are sensitive to spirits, both remarked that the museum was absolutely pulsing with energy, It seems the collection of artifacts have quite a history – and want it to be known.
Steve picking up that one of the bronze diving helmet’s felt ‘warm’ to his touch. Janis, on the other side of the museum feeling drawn to a wooden ship’s figurehead. “I can’t feel much from it, but I can see a lot of material, perhaps sails”
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Time to move to our next location now, the pond area. Janis is aware of a young girl in a pretty bustle dress that has materialized close to where I am standing. Over the course of the next 10 minutes we learned that ‘Sarah’ likes to sit and read near the pond. She loves being with people, and will walk with anyone that goes down to the pond either day or night. Jan tells us she used to work at the Manor, perhaps a companion for the lady of the Manor.
(On further inspection, after the investigation – we have since found a record of a Sarah, aged 19 years of age, who was a general cook and servant to the Manor House. Could this be our girl? )
Finally we move into the Dairyman’s Daughter Pub, we’ve known for many years about the spirit of the ‘old man’ that sits at the bottom end of the pub, next to the backdoor, perched in his old leather backed chair. Every-so-often the staff like to move it, and believe me.. it does not bode well when Jan visits. (On one occasion following her right through the building to the restroom, where he screamed his displeasure at her for it being moved! – thankfully, the staff are quick to move it back whenever possible)
A SB 7 session resulted in my name clearly being shouted out at me – but little else. There’s nothing like a ‘PAUL!’ to wake you up. Although we had some of the latest gadgets and gizmos to hand, it seemed this spirit was in no hurry to divulge any personal information about himself, other than the fact that he enjoys sitting there listening to the bands that regularly play.
Both Janis and Steve have a strong feeling that he suffered a great pain in his lower abdomen later in life, (perhaps a gunshot wound!?) – and there seemed to be some sort of a connection with him and animals – could he possibly have been a former Gamekeeper at the Manor!?
Steve made himself comfortable in the chair next to his with the Mel Meter, it took a while but he managed to gain the spirit’s trust – getting him to alter the temperature slightly with the Mel probe. With an ambient temperature of 21.2c, Steve was able to ask for different temperature readings on command – up to 21.6c and back down to 20.9c.
It may not be a substantial change, however after asking for a specific value and watching it struggle to reach it – is quite something to behold!
Apart from the long-forgotten energy of a woman dressed in white, stood by the old-style pinball machines that Marie could sense, and a ghostly swirling misty outline of a black cat that Janis could see around the fireplace, the atmosphere in the pub was starting to dampen. It was time for us to bring our investigation to an end.
Overall it had been a fascinating night, we had gleaned snippets of information from Arreton’s past from the spirits of Arreton. Let’s hope we get the invitation for a return visit in the summer, as I’m sure with the turning weather there are many more secrets to uncover!
Many thanks to the Management & Staff of Arreton Barns for their cooperation with our investigation. Special Thanks to Mr Lee Hext (Manager)
Make sure your stay on the Isle of Wight involves a visit to Arreton Barns – believe me, you won’t be disappointed. Arreton Barns website: www.arretonbarns.co.uk
2014 Season Review
It’s been quite a year! We started early, and don’t seem to have stopped! we’ve been lucky enough to investigate some amazing places this year, our little spooky family has bonded closely and we seem to be getting the results.
In the Summer of 2014 we re-branded into Myths Investigations with a whole new professional ethics and website to go with it, we invested around £1000 in state-of-the-art equipment that should I hope, make investigating even more challenging and rewarding in 2015.
We became the Isle of Wight’s Steam Railway Official Investigation Team.. researching and investigating into the spooky tales and ghostly goings-on that have plagued the railway over the last 80 years. Summer saw the team at the Hellfire Caves, among other locations.. a really busy time for us – infact we took part in over 20 investigations both private and publically.
Halloween saw us involved with the railway again, running Paranormal Tours, Demonstrations and Presentations – we had a great time meeting you all! But it didn’t finish there.. December we came to an agreement with Great British Ghosts that saw us becoming officially sponsored and a monthly column of my own to write – which I’m very proud of!
Steve: For me its about the feedback from each other during the invo, the knowing that we are getting the same response on what we find, making it a very positive and worthwhile result.
Janis: Dimbola seeing the little girl playing in the door way, and running over to see Karin. Also nice and not so pleasant passing her over to her mother which we did at the end of the night, it really took it out of me!
John: Havenstreet Steam Railway, the night I saw the little girl down the end of the platform, later in the evening both Jan and I were left gifts of a feather each in a carriage.
Karin: Jumping aboard the train at Havenstreet in which Queen Victoria was said to have travelled with her Albert. On stepping through the door, I immediately felt uncomfortable and had to vacate that area. It was confirmed that there was angry spirit gentleman inside that disliked the fact that I, a woman, had entered his first class cabin. It was only when the Railway personnel accompanying us stated that he had upgraded our tickets that he calmed down.
Paul: Hmm.. hard choice – For me it was watching my wife channelling the energy of a rather angry train driver at Havenstreet, at one stage very nearly being ‘launched’ from an engine cab. However a close second has to be the passing of the little girl at Dimbola, first time the team collectively have had to do it, not nice watching my wife shaking uncontrollably as she’s trying to hold a bad energy back from the girl, but the team did it – they passed her over – a true professional team working together – I even had a few tears at one stage.
Thankyou for supporting us over the last year, we wish you all Health, Luck and Happiness in 2015 – see you next year!
Havenstreet Halloween Event 2014
Right back at the beginning of the year, I knew Havenstreet would be a fantastic location for us to investigate. With a history spanning back many years, it’s certain to have a tale or two to tell. Although this is our first meeting with the board of Directors, I have a feeling it won’t be our last.
2 Months on now, and we’ve completed 3 investigations – with a whole plethora of stories and spooky evidence to show for it. Halloween is only a month or two away, and here we are sat at another meeting – with the prospect of working with the Railway on a spooky event.
It was decided that we would put on a mini presentation, highlighting some of the key evidence from our investigations with a short video introduction. But what else could we do? It’s not as though we could ‘act’ or be comfortable with portraying something that we would struggle with..
It was then that an idea started to form in my head, a ‘Paranormal Tour’ – mixing in the local history with our findings, and a few demonstrations of ‘Ghost Hunting’ thrown in for good measure. This was going to take some planning!
Soo.. we bring people through to the museum, but what to do with them afterwards? We have a whole section of the museum that doesn’t seem to hold any paranormal activity – how about we turn this into a light and sound walkthrough letting the power of the mind take over!? Thankfully the sound track came together quite nicely – I managed to combine the usual Halloween effects with train effects to create a good spooky atmosphere.
I planned for Janis and John from the team, to be running demonstrations of various ghost hunting equipment while relaying their encounters with the spirits. Meanwhile our spooky Station Master actor would be inviting people onto the ‘Royal Carriage’ for a rundown of ‘Royal’ history.
A quick rehearsal at the railway a week before the event resulted in an interesting finding, our resident ghosties (who we’ve come to know well over our time at the railway) – wanting to be involved. This could turn out quite interesting on the night! With my son coming onboard for the night, wiring up the museum with speakers and lighting, we knew we could create the perfect Halloween ambiance!
The night of the event.. the whole team a bag of nerves – scripts memorized as best as we could, jackets cleaned and everybody chomping at the bit! The first train pulls up.. its packed! With over 200+ onboard and another 200 queued up and ready to take the next trip – it was quite a daunting sight to behold!
The presentation began in front of around 30 people, thankfully scripts flowed – and we pulled off the first show of the night, time for the tour! With the Station-Master leading – stopping at various places to interject with snippets of history from the surrounding railways buildings, what started out as 30 guests quickly became 60. By the time we had reached the museum we were up to 80! – the team worked hard to give a good performance and show our professionalism with the subject. Two spooky demonstrations later, our guests made their way through the second part of the museum, full of spooky sound and lights.
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Many thanks to everyone that supported us during the night – including our friends and family members who had given up their time to help marshal our guests for the evening, keeping everyone safe – making this event such a happy success.
Sidenote: It was great to see my Dad able to come and offer up his ‘marshalling’ services, a week after finishing chemotherapy, we all love you Dad!
Myths Investigations Website
Quick shout-out for our official website: www.mythsinvestigations.co.uk
Featuring not only our investigations from the past 11 years, but articles and information on a range of subjects.. From Reiki Healing to Past-Life Regression we have it covered.
Plenty of Ghost Encounters to keep you busy till NEXT Halloween! 😉
Haunted Havenstreet – Investigation Night 2
Time for us to strap on the proton-packs once more, as we head back to the very spooky Isle of Wight Steam Railway, for part 2 of our ongoing investigations..
The Surrounding Grounds
The evening began with an investigation of the field and grounds at Havenstreet Steam Railway, With the usual Myths Team onhand – and Derek Bishop from the Management Team accompanying us – we expected the railway to deliver an interesting, and hopefully active evening.
With Janis and John trying to trace out any water flows & pockets under the field with a dowsing pendant – Myself (Paul) and Steve headed for the wooded area. Almost immediately, Steve stopped me.. “Can you feel that?” – nope sorry Steve, that’s why I’m known as the psychic brick!
Steve could feel a flow of energy running along the ground, using his pendant he was able to trace out a section of ground that seemed to be pulsing with energy. Interestingly it was heading off in the direction towards the Train Story museum. Could it be that he has stumbled upon a ley-line!? (faultlines within the earth of natural energy)
Train Story Museum
Time to move on.. Train Story Museum.. although a new building, the artifacts it contained could well be a trigger for some of the more unusual activity that has been reported. Upon entering the main doors into the mockup station, we all remarked on the odd feeling that was now running through us. (even me!) – All the hairs on my arms and legs were standing to attention, it was a though I had just been statically charged!
All the Team included Derek, remarked that we felt quite ‘unwelcome’ – was something trying to force us out from uncovering the truth? As we later learned John, our Reiki Master – was focused on something else, further down the platform he could see what looked like a young girl in spirit form running between the railings! Although the image only lasted a few seconds, it was quite a surprise. Could it have been the young girl Janis had picked up on the last time we investigated the main office areas?
Janis felt drawn to a nearby carriage, with John, Steve and Marie in tow – they made themselves comfortable. Time to try the ‘Ovilus’ – a ghost investigating device that can react to the energy levels around it – and form words. It has to be said that for most of the time it can spit out totally random words.. however if you look deeper into it.. there must be ‘something’ around it to trigger the words in the first place!
(Dimbola Lodge was the exception to the rule.. with a whole batch of connecting words – but then thats a story for another day!)
What slowly formed over the next few minutes with the Ovilus and Jan’s medium skills was a tragic story involving a young woman. (who has been heard and seen on occasion walking the main Havenstreet platform) – It seemed she was ‘attached’ to the carriage – a reply in time. With the energy of the woman starting to fade, we headed out to the platform and further down the line of carriages and rolling stock.
Something had caught Steve’s eye, what looked like a bright white light could be seen at shoulder height, moving rapidly around the same position that John had reported the little girl.
Off he shot to investigate… however not getting as far as he wanted! Looking down to the sharp pain he now sensed, he had a cut forming on the top of his hand – so much so, that blood was starting to seep through it. Whatever it was, I’m told it was quite painful, and felt as though it was more of a burn than a cut. But how did it happen? I had filmed the last 10 minutes of our investigation, at no point had Steve injured himself.
John our Reiki Master administered some ‘Healing’ energy to the area. He felt he could sense that ‘someone’ had hit his hand with a large long stick! It was then that we noticed the heavy goods- wagon next door to us, we entered – feeling drawn to it.
Almost immediately the sensitive members of the Team, felt sick and dizzy. Try as we might we just couldn’t come up with any answers for it. It must be noted that the museum contains a lot of secondhand cases, donated from various sources to give the museum the ambience of a busy station. Could it be these that are creating the odd swirling energy? Perhaps even a spooky visitor or two, checking up on their personal property.
Try as we might we just couldn’t come up with any answers, although the team were picking up on bits here and there of the tangled stories they held – our equipment remained pretty quiet throughout the whole time we used it in the museum. Our next port of call was the shop, however unfortunately no activity was reported. A fleeting visit to the staff house above – resulted in the feeling that ‘something’ liked to walk from the frontdoor, up the stairs – to the window in the staff room. Perhaps this had something to do with the spooky shadow that has been seen peering down at the staff and visitors below.
There’s no doubt about it, Havenstreet is certainly alive with energy – even the engines have a life of their own, these old hissing iron-giants have run through the station for many years, and will undoubtedly do so for years to come. However – keep your wits about you.. for I’m sure not everything is as it first may seem!
Epilogue:
But the Myths Team isn’t finished with the Railway just yet, we feel there are plenty more spooky locations left for us to investigate. For the first time ever this Halloween, the Railway will be opening its doors at night! – Our team will be onhand giving guided tours and sharing spooky information on all our findings. (Hopefully we will see you there)
Many thanks to the Steam Railway Staff and Management for their kind cooperation with our investigation.
The Spectral Times
