Phenomena Issue 026 2011 06 June

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Hello to all, Its been a busy month of radio and TV work. I
Page 2: Ghosts Ahoy!
have just finished filming for a new UFO documentary
entitled: ‘The Truth May Be Out There - UFO’s Over Often when discussing the haunting phenomenon, we usually think of
Manchester’ which should be screening on Channel M stately homes, castles, inn’s and other old buildings. However, there
sometime this month. I will be providing updates on are a number of well known documented cases of such phenomena
Facebook, so keep in touch. Also, I am proud to announce
taking place on ships, especially the Queen Mary. Danise Villani
that Phenomena Magazine is now being distributed in the
United States by our good friends at UFOTV.COM. Current explains some of the strange reports and incidents to take place on the
and back issues are available to download for free from darkened creepy decks of this once famous ship.
their website. Another interesting issue I hope you’ll
enjoy. Many Thanks. Page 3: The Haunted Painting.

Sean Robinson writes... ‘I have recently been in contact with Steve
SUB-EDITORIAL
Mera of MAPIT in regards some unusual incidents that have been

taking place. I also contacted him in an effort to find out more about
Well i've been sifting through data and statistics,
monitoring trends and generally passing my eye over the the artist of a particular painting that unusual disturbances seem to
world of the paranormal, cryptozoological and surround, and hopefully find out why these things are happening’. I’d
UFOlogical. My findings.... It seems there is a lull in the love to hear from anyone who recognises this painting...
world. Less credible reports, a downturn in paranormal
barmpots peddling their claptrap, less pies in the skies,
Page 5: The Sale Moor Distubance.
hoax pussy cat cases where entire county police are
mustered. During March of 2002 I was contacted by Joe Morgan and his partner
Jackie. Both claimed to have witnessed paranormal phenomena taking
The world didn’t end, the paranormal genre isn't being thrust in our place in their small home in Sale Moor, Manchester, UK. On most
faces by the media, all in all, its all gone quiet. Too quiet. The only
occasions I tend to find numerous rational explanations, however, on
constant is the money making scam merchants, yes the truthers, end
of world mob and the pariahs that are the paranormal tourist this occasion I found myself working with Trafford Housing in hope
companies. Pay £50 to scare the crap out of yourself, all in the aid of of having the family relocated. Steve Mera explains...
lining our own pockets.
Page 11: A Visit to Luds Chruch.
Time these halfwits were regulated. Do they pay VAT, Tax, Insurance
Luds Church is a deep chasm penetrating the Millstone Grit bedrock
etc? and are they being honest to their clients? Here’s where I ask
one to prove the facts to me? Any takers? created by a massive landslip on the hillside above Gradbach,
Staffordshire, England, in a wood known as Back Forest, towards the
So myself and UPIA's Kirst D'Raven are diversifying, looking at southwest fringe of the Peak District National Park. Over 100m long
something away from the norm of the subject. Initial data is growing
and 18m deep, it is mossy and overgrown. A very historical & creepy
rapidly and hopefully some preliminary results will be released in the
next few months. place well worth visiting... Dave Sadler checks it out!

Keep it real... Page 13: Ghostly Phenomena in the Scottish Mountains.
Of 532 haunt and poltergeist cases that he regarded as sufficiently
well documented, Ernesto Bozzano (1929) classed 374 as proper
haunting’s. In the majority, there was known to have been a tragic
death in the location. But whether or not haunt phenomena tend to
occur in places where there’ve been tragic deaths, it’s clear that some
don’t invariably follow such fatalities... Peter McCue investigates...

Page 19: Crop Circles, Not a Modern Phenomena?
Apart from ‘The Mowing Devil’ information from the 1600’s, most
people think of the crop circles as a modern phenomenon (and
wonder if modern technology may be responsible). However, there
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does seem to be some evidence that would suggest crop circles have

been appearing off-and-on for hundreds of years. Nancy Talbot
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Page 23: The Drummer of Tedworth - Part 2.
The case of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’ is one of the most famous
THIS MONTHS CONTRIBUTORS
episodes in the history of witchcraft. It involved a poltergeist which,
Olivier Morel, Steve Alexander, Lucy Pringle, Jeffrey Wilson, Danise Villani,
Sean Robinson, Steve Mera, Dave Sadler, Kirst D’Raven, Peter McCue, in the early sixteen-sixties, haunted the house of John Mompesson, a
Nancy Talbot, Robert Young, Roland Tremblay, Hector Mackenzie, landowner, excise officer and commission officer in the militia, who
Mauro Galluzzo & Orlando Parfitt,
lived at North Tedworth on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border. Kirst

D’Raven recounts more of this unusual and historic case...
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[email protected] Poltergeist phenomena is indelibly linked with Haunting’s but is
usually classed as a separate phenomenon nowerdays.
DISCLAIMER Parapsychologist’s now seem to think that poltergeist activity is a

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Page 31: Breakthrough in Faster-Than-Light Travel.
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Ghosts Ahoy!
By Danise Villani
Ghostly sightings on board the Queen Mary and other Ships...
The Queen Mary has been a permanent her. Reported hauntings include a In the second class pool area the spirit The USS Lexington...
feature in Long Beach, California for a young crewman in the engine room, of another little girl named Jackie is
couple fo decades and is one of the swimmers in the first-class pool, a man often been seen and heard. The girl She stands tall and proud on
the shoreline of Corpus
most famous cruise ships of all time. in black, and a woman in blue. Some of drowned in the pool during the ship's
Christi's North Beach, now a
The ship has become a hotel, museum the Queen Mary's most haunted places sailing days and doesn't seem to want to floating museum, but once a
and popular tourist attraction, and the include the propeller box, engine room, move on. Her voice and the sound of battle-seasoned war machine,
historic ship is internationally boiler room, cargo hold and first class laughter has been captured in this area. proud of her memorable
service to the United States
recognized and attracts thousands of swimming pool. In the room that was used as the third Naval Fleet. And like most
visitors every year. Besides the living battle-hardened ships, she
guests, the ship is said to play host to has many stories to tell. But
this World War II relic comes
several ghosts. It has been speculated
with a twist - a white-
that the Queen Mary might be one of uniformed, blue-eyed young
the most haunted places in the world. seaman who has been known
Reports say that as many as 150 known to tell the tales of the ship to
museum visitors who have
spirits have taken up residence and lurk come to tour her. Only this
in various locations all around the ship. tour guide is a ghost. Staff of
the floating museum call him
"Charly".
The Queen Mary sailed her maiden
voyage on May 27, 1936. Built in
Visitors have often called him
Scotland to be used as part of a two- helpful. But whatever you call
ship express service from Southampton him, the neatly-dressed sailor
in white is not part of the
to Cherbourg to New York, the Queen
museum staff, but reportedly
Mary is 1,000 feet long, and in her day a former crew member that
was said to be bigger, faster and more simply failed to depart the
powerful than the Titanic. She also held ship after giving up his life
after a Japanese Kamakazi
the record for the fastest-ever North
attack on Halloween (Oct.
Atlantic crossing. The historic ocean 31) 1944 off the coast of the
liner's passengers included the most Philippines.
celebrated people of the time, including
On a Corpus Christi Caller-
royalty, top entertainment figures and
Times web site, as many as
important world leaders. At the start of One of these hauntings is thought to be class playroom, there have been reports 200 visitors to the museum
World War II in 1939, luxury travel the spirit of John Pedder, a fireman in of the sound of children crying in the have reported encounters
stopped and the ship was turned into a his late teens who was crushed to death nursery room. There is also a report that with Charly. Without
exception, the reports
carrier ship that was used by allied by a watertight door in 1966 during a a single baby's cry has been heard. This
indicate the ghostly seaman is
forces to carry troops from March of routine drill. Unexplained knocking has crying is thought to be that of an infant a "polite young man" that
1940 to September of 1946. It was been heard around the door, and a tour boy who died there shortly after he was seems to share a great deal of
information about the
during this time that she would become guide reported she saw a figure dressed born. In some of the first-class
Lexington's engine room far
known as "The Grey Ghost". By the in dark clothing as she was leaving the staterooms there have been reports of a below deck. Lexington tour
end of World War II, the ship had area where the young man had been tall, dark haired man wearing a 1930's guide David Deal, who
carried more than 700,000 troops, killed. She saw his face and recognized style suit showing up in various places. served on the Lex in 1959-
1960, says Charly seems to
traveled over 500,000 miles and played him from his photographs. He was In addition to sightings of the man, the
know a lot about the ship.
a significant role in almost every major dressed in blue coveralls and sporting a faucets and lights get turned on in the
Allied campaign. She also survived a beard. The young man has often been middle of the night, and phones ring in "This apparition told things
collision at sea, set the record for seen walking along Shaft Alley before the early morning hours but no one is about the engine that I don't
even know," said Deal, who
carrying the most people ever on a disappearing by door number 13. This ever on the other end of the line. There
made the rank of airman on
floating vessel (16,683), and famous door was used in the filming of are several other reports of sightings the Lexington and retired in
participated in the D-Day invasion. the Posiedon Adventure and has about the ship including a beautiful 1976 as a catapult chief.
reportedly crushed at least two men young woman in an elegant white
When the war ended, the Queen Mary during the ship's history. evening gown who dances alone in a "It's fascinating because I'm
one of these hard nuts to
was refurbished and started up her shadowy corner of the salon, which was crack on something like this,"
elegant cruises again in July, 1947, with The first-class swimming pool seems to once used as the ship's first-class said Deal, who added there
weekly service between Southampton, be a hot spot for ghostly encounters. lounge. has been more than just a few
accounts of Charly's presence
Cherbourg, and New York. By the early Wet footprints mysteriously appear
in the engine rooms. So
1960's, the popularity of transatlantic even though there's not a drop of water Another mysterious woman in white common, in fact, have been
cruises greatly decreased due to the in the pool. These footsteps lead from has been seen close to the front desk. the appearances of the eerie
increasing affordability of air travel. the deck of the pool to the changing She will usually disappear behind a spectral tour guide that a
"ghost cam" has been
The ship attempted to revive its rooms. Women in vintage bathing suits pillar. Other phenomena that has been installed in the engine room
popularity, but without central air are occasionally seen stopping by for a reported throughout the ship include the where you can watch for the
condtioning, outdoor pools, or other swim, even though the pool has been sounds of knocking, doors slamming ghostly guide 24 hours a day.
amenities offered on most other cruise closed for more than 30 years. There and high pitched squeals, drastic
ships, the attempt was unsuccessful. In have also been reports of seeing t e mperature changes, and the
1967, the Queen Mary was pulled from the spirit of a young girl carrying r e curring smells of
service and was sold to the city of Long her teddy bear along with disembodied another time.
Beach, California, to be used as a voices, laughter and splashing sounds.
maritime museum and hotel. On In the second class pool area the spirit
December 9, 1967, she made her final of another little girl named Jackie
voyage to Long Beach. During her 60- is often been seen and heard. The
year history, the Queen Mary was the girl drowned in the pool during
site of 49 reported deaths, opening the the ship's sailing days and
doorway for potential spirits to haunt splashing sounds.

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The Haunted Painting
By Sean Robinson
I have recently been in contact with bedroom so it can't be light from I have no idea what my Grandmother's
Steve Mera of MAPIT in regards some outside. There was one small lamp on friends name is or where she was from
unusual incidents that have been taking in the bedroom at all times. I also and my Grandmother died over ten
place. I also contacted him in an effort recorded many noises, such as bangs years ago aged 96 so I have no way of
to find out more about the artist of a and scraping sounds. I have uploaded finding out any more information, my
particular painting the disturbances the video to YouTube for people to only hope is that someone might
seem to surround, and hopefully find view which can be found at... recognise the artist. The videos I have
out why these things are happening. I'll placed on YouTube were taken on a
give you the background on the http://www.youtube.com/watch? Panasonic SDR - H81 60 GB sd/hdd
painting. v=2vqIyJR9ckc video camera, and to be honest, I was
shocked at the results...
My Grandmother had the painting in http://www.youtube.com/watch? The Curse of the Crying
Boy Paintings.
her attic for twenty five years. She said v=CRQSWgYNqvI From what my Grandmother had said
it was evil. She told me she used to see about the painting, I have been unable The legend around these
http://www.youtube.com/watch? paintings are as grim as it gets.
the dark figure of a man around the to verify or establish the identity of the
The stories began around 1985,
v=rizaeBZ88JQ
house and at night and that she heard artist. when several mysterious fires
occurred all around England.
strange noises and crying. She told me
When the debris was sifted
the artist had committed suicide shortly through the only item that
remained un-charred was a
after finishing the painting and that he
painting of a little boy with a
had used his own blood mixed in with tear rolling down his cheek.
the oils. After she died I got the Could this all be coincidence?
painting, it is currently in our basement. Whether real or not a Yorkshire
Shortly after I got it, various members fireman was so upset that he
talked with the “Sun” newspaper
of my family started seeing a dark
in England. They ran his story
figure of a man. At night we began about how everything in the
home was consumed by fire
hearing noises and just recently we
except for a painting of a crying
have heard crying and moaning. The boy. There were at that time
more than one of these paintings
painting is still in our house and
around and each seemed to have
although I never believed in the the same effect. The home and
all contents would be totally
supernatural I am now convinced there
destroyed but the painting of the
is something evil about this painting. little crying boy would not show
any sign at all of damage. The
newspaper began receiving
Many people have contacted me about telephone calls from people all
the painting and I have had lots of over the area that had similar
stories to tell about the crying
offers from them, wishing to buy it but
boy paintings. One person that
I don't want to sell it, I just want to find called the “Sun” was Dora
Mann of Mitcham, UK, and she
out what is happening. I don't know if
has been quoted as saying "Only
the background story is true but I do six months after I had bought the
picture, my house was
know there is something very unsettling
completely gutted by fire. All my
about the it. paintings were destroyed, except
the one of the crying boy." After
one month of hearing all the
I have recorded some video footage tales, the “Sun” gave their
regarding the painting, which I have readers the chance to bring their
crying boy paintings and agreed
named... ‘The Anguished Man’. The The painting is approx 3 feet by 3 feet. My Grandmother told me she felt there to have a very large bon fire to
video camera recorded some strange It is an oil painting on canvas still was something very unsettling about rid everyone of this cursed or
jinxed paintings. All paintings
light anomalies. I set up the video mounted on its original wooden frame. the painting and that since acquiring it that were brought to the
camera again in the spare bedroom to There are no visible markings or she often saw the shadowy figure of a newspaper were in fact burned
and everyone rejoiced. However,
try and catch some more of the activity signatures. My Grandmother told me it man in the house and heard strange
the story goes on. There have
on tape. I recorded over four was a gift from a family friend, my noises. I really liked the painting been reports of the crying boy
paintings being found in charred
consecutive nights for seven hours each Grandmother didn't know the artist but despite it being a little disturbing but
homes untouched since 1985 and
night. After looking through the footage I'm assuming her friend might have because my wife didn’t really like it I 1988. No one knows for sure
who the artists might be and
I found several strange light anomalies. known them. It is at least twenty five stored it away in the cellar. A few years
where he got the idea to paint a
years old but that is all I know about it. later our cellar was flooded and we portrait of a crying boy, the
At the time these were recorded My Grandmother told me the moved the painting to my parent’s rumours are many and the tale is
still around. The fact is... beware
everyone in the house was sleeping, background story which had been garage for storage until the cellar dried if you find a beautiful painting of
there are thick curtains up in the passed on to her by her friend. out. When I got the painting back I a sad, little crying boy.
You might just tempt fate...

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The Haunted Painting
By Sean Robinson
decided to put it upstairs in the spare the morning so I changed the camera After looking through the footage I
bedroom and that is when the activity angle in order to record more of the found several strange light anomalies.
started. I began to see the dark figure of bedroom because at first it had been At the time these were recorded
a man, it was always just out of the focused solely on the painting. everyone in the house was sleeping,
corner of the eye at first or quick there are thick curtains up in the
fleeting glimpses of a shadowy figure Sure enough I recorded the bedroom bedroom so it can't be light from
but we all experienced it at various door suddenly swinging shut despite outside. There was one small lamp on
times. At night we began hearing there being no drafts in the room. I in the bedroom at all times. I also
strange noises, just bangs and scraping decided to leave the painting in the top recorded many noises, such as bangs
noises at first but then we started to bedroom and over the next few weeks and scraping sounds. A few days after
hear crying and moaning. I suppose my wife felt someone stroke her hair in this was recorded my son fell down the
these noises could have been coming the bathroom and I saw a strange fog stairs and was convinced something
from somewhere outside but they felt like mist at the top of the stairs that pushed him, luckily he was unhurt but
like they were inside the house. Over vanished as quickly as it came. The after this I decided to put the painting
the next few months the noises began whole family experienced feelings of back in the cellar.
getting gradually worse... being watched. I also began to
experience intense feelings of anxiety We are still hearing noises and sensing
Cursed Painting or just We even heard crying coming from the and dread and suffered from terrible a strange presence around the house. I
Coincidence...? corner of our bedroom. I started seeing nightmares, at one point it felt like I am currently awaiting a full paranormal
the dark figure standing at the bottom was being repeatedly and violently investigation but until then I will be
of the bed, just apparently staring at us. lifted up out of bed. keeping the painting in the cellar.
It had the appearance of a tall middle
aged man but his features were not very
clear. I suppose I could have been
dreaming or it could have just been my
imagination but at the time it felt very
The photograph above shows
Paul Kimball sat next to the real. We noticed numerous cold spots
alleged cursed painting of the around the house and our dog began
Spanish Lady.
behaving very strangely, sometimes
During 2009 UPIA were refusing to go upstairs (when the
involved in a 13 part TV series painting was in the cellar the dog
called Ghost Cases with Paul
Kimball and Holly Stevens. One would never go in there).
of the investigations was carried
out at the Lion and Swan Hotel
One evening my wife thought I was
in Congleton which is said to be
haunted and own a cursed getting into bed beside her but when
painting of a Spanish Lady. It is
she turned around there was a strange
rumoured that if you touch or
move the painting, something man staring at her, she screamed out
bad will happen. Of course...
loud and he just vanished. She has told
We Moved It! me it might have been a lucid dream

Both our own and Ghost cases but to her, it seemed very real. I put the
on site investigations offered, as painting away in the cellar again and
is the norm, little or no actual
evidence of paranormal activity things settled down, we still heard
taking place. This aside, Paul occasional noises but nothing too bad.
Kimball from Ghost Cases and
Dave Sadler of the UPIA did
move the painting of the Spanish After posting videos on YouTube and
lady.
attracting a lot of interest a few people

It is with regret that a family asked me to try and get some actual
member of one of the persons on
evidence so I moved the painting back
site, involved in the production,
did pass away the very next day. into the top bedroom and set my video
camera up and recorded for approx.
Coincidence is the most likely
explanation, but some folk may eight hours over three consecutive
argue otherwise. nights. I spent several hours looking
through footage and found I had
recorded quite a lot of noises, most

sounded like they came from outside
the house but a few were different..
They sounded like they came from

inside the bedroom...

There was a strange scraping sound and

the sound of a loud bang, like I decided to set up the video camera If you recognise the painting or know
Check out Ghost Cases on something falling but in the morning again in the spare bedroom to try and anything what so ever, please contact
YouTube or visit n o t h ing was disturbed. After the first catch some more of the activity on tape. Phenomena Magazine as soon as
‘The Other Side of Truth’
website - Link can be night I was convinced I had left the I recorded over four consecutive nights possible. I would love to know more
found on our adverts page. bedroom door open but it was closed in for seven hours each night. about it and the artist who painted it...

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The Sale Moor Disturbance
By Steve Mera
On most occasions, when people contact me in regards to them living in a haunted house, I
find rational explanations. However, on this occasion I found myself working with Trafford
Housing and having a family relocated to a new home...
During March of 2002 I was contacted answers and possibly relieving some of
by Joe Morgan and his partner Jackie their difficulties.
Hulse. Both claimed to have witnessed
paranormal phenomena taking place in A couple of days later I visit Joe and
their small two bedroom house in Sale Jackie. Their home was an average two
Moor, Manchester. Joe told me that bedroom house and their two son's
they had attempted to obtain assistance (David aged 7 and Bradley aged 2) had
from a psychic who visited their home their own bedroom at the upstairs front
in hope of finding out why the of the house. As I sat sipping at a mug
disturbances were taking place. They of hot coffee I could clearly see that
had also had a visit from a local vicar both Joe and Jackie seemed anxious. I
who conducted a blessing of the conducted an interview trying to get all
property. But unfortunately, neither the the details down on paper. There was a
psychic or vicar were successful in lot of incidents being reported...
culling the activity.
The property was owned by Trafford
They then contacted a good friend of Borough Council so I realised is was him say 'No, that's naughty', 'Come A common theory to the
mine... Peter Hough, who had many going to be reasonably easy to check from front door' and You upstairs'. question: Why do
years investigating such disturbances through records for previous incidents Bradley would not answer questions children see ghosts?
and was a well known author. Peter had at the location. Jackie explained that from Joe or Jackie. He just said 'Don't
The theory put forward is that
advised Joe and Jackie to swap their most of the disturbances were taking Know'. Bradley had also said that there children (and younger children
bedroom around in hope of finding place in their Son's bedroom. She went was a dog in his bedroom. Neither Joe in particular) are naturally
closer to the spirit world,
answers to why most of the on to say that she and Joe have seen a nor Jackie had ever had a pet dog. A having just come from there
disturbances took place in their little strange figure of a man that they did not few days later Bradley talked with his where they waited their turn to
be born into our world, and as
boys bedroom. (This was a good piece recognise and that they had heard Nanna on the telephone and said 'Man such they have not yet forgotten
of advice and one I would have unusual sounds. On occasion they even in my room'. those who dwelt those planes
with them.
suggested myself). claimed to have noticed that things had
been moved around. Jackie had growing concerns for Relatives of past and future,
family deceased who have
I had worked with Peter for a number Bradley. As she was cleaning the returned to the spirit realms
of years and I learnt many techniques Jackie jumped up and went over to a lounge and she looked over at Bradley. and future kin who remain
awaiting their turn were
from him, one of which is swapping cupboard and pulled out a pad. She had He just stared at her and wet himself. together there, tied by a blood-
bedrooms around. This undertaking had kept a diary of events. I was pleased... This was not something Bradley had line that crosses all boundaries.
So that when our children are
been found to be helpful in past rarely do people keep a written account ever done. When Jackie asked him born unto us this connection
investigations. A similar reported of a log of events and it is often what was wrong Bradley said that he holds strong, and can remain
intact for many years, and for
incident had also taken place on Norris difficult for them to remember all the was sacred upstairs. Strange banging some even into adulthood.
Road, in Sale, only a mile or so away, details and when certain incidents took sounds continued to be heard from the
The unfortunate thing about
and after convincing the family to swap place. So... this would make my job a upstairs back bedroom, yet on such theories, is that there is
their bedroom with their daughters, the little easier. Joe and Jackie were at the investigation, nothing was ever found little evidence to suggest that
they are fact. At the end of the
incidents subsided and for whatever time unemployed and had an interest in out of place. Walking was again heard day... They are only theories...
reason, the disturbances did not return. paranormal orientated TV shows which coming from upstairs when no one was
they had watched avidly since
up there and bangs and thuds were
Joe also told me that his and Jackie's experiencing paranormal phenomena
heard coming from the back bedroom
family were aware of their difficulties for themselves. Jackie flicked through
again. Jackie had come to leaving
dealing with the disturbances. Joe said the pages of her pad and looked up
bedside lamps on throughout the night,
that he had also talked with the local towards me before taking a deep
but on occasion she would discover that
residents who could neither confirm nor breathe and started to read out some of
they had been turned off.
deny knowledge of previous incidents the many things she had wrote down.
reported at their home prior to them Jackie Had heard her son Bradley Joe and Jackie would often have
moving in. I agreed to take on the having a conversation on his own at the sleepless nights due to their youngest
investigation in hope of finding some top of the stairs. She could clearly hear son waking up screaming and the coat

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The Sale Moor Disturbance
By Steve Mera
hangers in the built in wardrobe would seen shadows moving across his her due to her previous mental illness. I
make a noise as if being moved about. bedroom wall. Clearly the couple were believe Joe had tried to pursue this
There was also the sound of a ball, in distress and were sleeping very little. himself with very little success.
bouncing off their bedroom wall. The Doors had also been seen to open and Historical research was carried out,
sound would often be loud enough to close and the couple were often teased looking for any unusual or strange
wake David up who had now been by knocking sounds on the back door as reported incidents in the local area.
relocated to their bedroom in fear of if someone wanted to come in. It was Since construction of the building in the
something tormenting him. now time for Bradley's toys to turn early 1960's no unusual reports were
themselves on. They would hear the documented. A psychological profile of
Joe had also seen a dark figure in the musical toys from downstairs, yet on the current tenants was also conducted.
lounge as he was heading upstairs. This investigation they would suddenly stop Even though they were both reasonably
was the first time he had seen the figure or turn off. The bedroom cupboard young and possibly still impressionable
downstairs and was rather concerned. doors had now started to open they both seemed to be sound of mind.
He described the figure as just a solid themselves during the night. Things Neither were drug users and they rarely
black mass which was the shape of a were clearly getting worse. ever drank alcohol.
person. Joe was so sacred he contacted
me on our 24 hour report line. As time On one particular night Joe and Jackie There interest in the subject of the
went on other strange occurrences took were downstairs watch TV when an paranormal may simple be due to them
place. The kitchen bin lid was regularly almighty crash came from upstairs. In experiencing such disturbances. As for
lifted off and dropped to the floor. sheer panic the two rushed up the stairs Bradley, he was a very alert child and
Strange creaking sounds would be as fast as they could and burst into seemed to be of average intelligence for
heard in the lounge just before their Bradley's room. Bradley was stood his age. He did not seemed to be
Sky TV system would mysteriously crying and his bookshelf had been influenced by his parents regarding
turn itself off. ripped from the wall, Books were their interest in the subject of the
scattered around the floor. The paranormal. Bradley would always
One of David's toys in his cot would bookshelf was too high for Bradley to have been in bed at the time Joe and
turn itself on and could often be heard reach and Joe and Jackie had Bradley Jackie were watching TV shows on the
from downstairs. Bradley had come to sleep with them that night. There was subject. David, who was only 7 months
suddenly screaming out 'Man in my now a growing concern for the safety of old at the time of the investigation was
bedroom'. The sound of footsteps their children. Joe did not want to far too young for any for of
upstairs continued on a regular basis. worry Jackie but eventually told her psychoanalysis.
Teaspoons would also be heard moving that he had found sharp knives on top
about in the kitchen draw along with of the laundry basket which was in It had come to my attention that the
shuffling sounds near the kitchen reach of Bradley. This was the last notes and diary events constructed by
doorway. Joe's mother and father had straw. I was determined to help this the witnesses, that there were a number
visited a number of occasions and had family, or have them relocated... of people who knew of the unusual
also heard the strange sounds actions Bradley and the disturbances
throughout the house. I carried out some research and found that were taking place, such as Fiona,
that there had not been as many tenants who was Jackie's younger sister and
Bradley once again screamed out 'Man at the property as I thought. Mr. who had been staying over at their
in my bedroom'. Joe and his mother Maureen Daniels had been the previous home, possibly because of a family
were beginning to become angry. They tenant, and before her it was Mr. and dispute at her own home. Sandra which
A mother writes in...
stood in Bradley's room and asked him Mrs. Wadden. Mr. Wadden died in is Jackie's mother and Jackie's Nanna.
My toddler on several occasions if he could see the man. Bradley looked 1967 followed by his wife in 1971. There was also mention to Joe's mother
now has told me it has seen up and pointed towards the corner of Both had died whilst in hospital. As for and father and Tracy, Joe's sister. One
ghosts, and in two different
languages. One is a language the room. Joe demanded the 'man' to Maureen Daniels, she was reputed to be of our investigators Elizabeth Roxburgh
that belongs to the father, its the make a noise so to prove he was there. a little eccentric or possibly having attempted to contact Tom Barlow, the
Cree word for ghost and the
other in English. However my Silence befell the room. Then suddenly some mental problems brought on by priest who had allegedly visited the
child doesn't know Cree. The both Joe and his mother heard whistling illness. A number of the local residents property and carried out a blessing.
first time my child ever made
mention she had seen a ghost coming from the corner of the room. had mentioned to Joe and Jackie that Tom did confirm that he did in fact visit
was right after there was a The exact place Bradley had pointed to. she was apparently a rather shy person and carry out a blessing in each and
summoning for a spirit. (Not by
me...but by someone I know) Jackie had reported hearing sounds who did not venture out of her home every room of the house. He also told
Anyways its not the first time whilst she was watching TV in the very often. us that the family seemed generally
ghosts will have been seen in my
house and family members talk lounge. The sound of someone walking upset and he was concerned for them.
about the shadows seen in my in front of her. She also recalled the When Jackie and Joe moved into their
house walking in the dark that
went away long before my child bathroom door opening whilst she was house, they discovered a letter that was He would not go into any further details
was born. I saw them but after on the toilet. She initially thought it possibly written my Maureen. It gave regarding his conversations with Joe
awhile you convince yourself it
was Joe, but on investigation, he was mention to her locking herself in her and Jackie due to confidentiality but
was nothing more then shadows
and tricks of the light. However downstairs with the children. The sound bedroom due to her crazed boyfriend or seemed pleased that we were trying to
recently my child began to react
of footsteps had become more regular partner. assist them.
hysterically to absolutely
nothing so I asked my child what and would often be heard to start in the
happened and in a frightened bedroom and end at the doorway. I do not know how accurate this A number of photographs had been
and crying voice my child said
ghost. It took 2 hours before my information is, however, even though I submitted to us for analysis. They had
child would calm down... do you Once again, I had received another call knew that Maureen did reside in been taken by Joe. However we find
think its possible that’s really
what my child is seeing? on our 24 report line from Joe who had another house locally, I did not pursue rational explanations for all.

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Many contained illuminated dust period of time generate small electrical location, however within minutes the Council Officials pay to
particles and one of the photographs discharges. It is theorised that such coldness dissipated never to return. I help family rid paranormal
disturbances in a council
depicted an acute lens flare. None of charges can build up a dissipate causing have on occasion felt such cold spots
house.
which had any paranormal electrical anomalies and adverse before in alleged haunted locations.
explanations. psychological conditions. Even water A few years ago council officials
paid a psychic to exorcise a
running through rock can cause a small Hollywood films would have use supposed poltergeist from a
It was interesting that investigator Lynn electrical discharge. However, after believe that you can see your breathe in council house after the
distressed occupants said
Offord thought she had seen a dog at completing all out environmental tests, such cold areas, but I don't think this is otherwise they would leave and
the property. She recalled seeing a dog nothing out of the ordinary was found. a true representation. I have been in a become homeless.
pass down the hallway and thought it number of cold spots and never have I Easington Council in County
had gone upstairs. This had taken place The second stage of active investigation seen physical evidence of it, such as my Durham said the family could
not be persuaded to stay in the
just before I conducted the preliminary was to take place onsite. I attended Joe breathe. I believe it was simply a house, and that through paying
interview and before we had any and Jackie's home with a few other Hollywood spin on the phenomena so half the psychic ghosthunter's
120 pound fee they were saving
knowledge that Bradley also claimed to investigators armed with numerous to visually represent a cold spot on money as otherwise they would
have seen a dog from time to time. meters and detection devices. During screen. In some cases when temperature have had to pay for emergency
housing.
Once again, I must state, Joe or Jackie our stay at the location our infra-red units and devices record sudden drops
did not have a pet dog as Bradley heat and motion detector was triggered in temperature, you have to take into The Fallon family told reporters
they heard banging from the loft,
suffered from Asthma and had an around 11.30pm. consideration the possibility of the
saw items fly across rooms and
allergic reaction to pet hair. When had doors slammed in their
asked if anyone else had a dog that faces. They called police, who
found nothing. Then they called
visited, the answer was 'No'. in psychic Suzanne Hadwin and
asked the council to help pay.
Environmental checks were carried out.
"This is the first time we have
We had managed to obtain assistance had to take such a measure," a
from Pears Geological Unit who visit council spokeswoman said.
"However, the tenants were
the location and carried out ground extremely distressed at the time
penetrating radar tests just to see if their and we therefore believed it was
the most appropriate course of
may have been anything unusual in action."
regards their readings. Electromagnetic
Hadwin told the Sunderland
and geomagnetic fields were measured
Echo she used her Russian spirit
and monitored for a duration of 50 guide and some angels to help
minutes in certain specified locations. rid the property of evil, which
she said was linked to the
murder of a woman in the house
The ground penetrating radar provides We had set it up in Joe and Jackie's equipment faulting or being adversely years earlier.
us a graphic image of the sub-surfaces, bedroom. No explanation was could be affected by means we do not The council said the family were
now happy to stay in the house
concrete slabs and floors which has a found apart from the suggestion that an understand. In a few cases, temperature and therefore they believed their
variety of applications. GPR is insect may have triggered the device, devices also record spikes of increased money was well spent --
although they had never taking
commonly used as part of a Phase II however, to do so, the insect would heat and on investigation we find no
similar action before.
environmental site assessment and have had to be literally on the device explanation to why or how the incident
other environmental studies to locate itself. Around 12.10am the sound of a took place. Equipment does require Note: MAPIT & UPIA do not
charge for any of their services
underground features. During such tests ball bouncing in the kitchen was clearly calibrating and examination to make and do not believe such
we occasionally discover concentrated heard by 6 individuals. This happened sure they are working correctly before assistance should be paid for...
forms of artificial electromagnetic twice but on investigation, nothing was use on an active investigation... As to
fields and natural geomagnetic hotspots found to have moved, but the audible what was responsible for the cold spot
which can contaminate a location recording device set up on the kitchen in Joe and Jackie's lounge remains a
causing psychological conditions such worktop did pick up the sound. mystery.
as hallucinatory events and lucid type
experiences. At around 12.30pm whilst doing a The next incident to be logged was the
magnetic sweep in the lounge one of sound of footsteps heard coming from
However, no unusual readings were our investigators suddenly felt cold. the front upstairs bedroom. I crept up
found throughout several local areas. She was stood in the corner of the the stairs as possible in hope of
Resistivity profiling is used to map lounge and when others approached the catching sight of this mysterious
changes within sub-surface electrical area, they to reported a strange cold intruder. I reached the closed door to
properties. Applications of a restivity feeling. I decided to check this out Bradley's bedroom and paused in hope
survey are similar to those of myself armed with a temperature gun. of hearing something, but all was quiet.
electromagnetic (terrain conductivity) When I walked over to the corner of the I opened the door and looked in.
surveys. This form of profiling is most lounge I was surprised... I could in fact Bradley was sound asleep and nothing
commonly used for locating feel a coldness, yet my temperature in the room looked out of place.
contaminated groundwater plumes, but device did not record anything different Puzzled as to what exactly we had
in our case we use it to locate water than the normal temperature of the heard I went back downstairs and
content underground. Seismic house. Again I came out and walked decided to set up a video camera at the
reflections and refractions are also into the location again. Time and time bottom of the staircase looking up the
monitored for sub-surface stratgraphy. again I felt the same thing. I thought it stairs. It was now almost 1.00am and
This methodology can reveal forms of would be a good idea to fetch the even though we told Joe and Jackie
bedrock and granite which can over a cameras and film and photograph the they could go to bed if they wanted,

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Are you experiencing they decided to stay up with us. Both The audio on the camera picked no gratefully request an electrical survey
strange goings on in your
seemed rather excited that we had heard unusual sounds up, only our distant to be carried out at the property and to
home?
things we couldn't explain. Joe went of conversations in the lounge. All our be informed of any abnormalities. I
Our homes are our hearts. They to the kitchen to make more coffee, a equipment was checked again to make look forward to hearing from you'.
are the safe retreat of the living
necessity for most investigators. sure they were all working as they Yours Sincerely,
as their own personal refuge,
meaning that having ghostly should do. We found no problems. Steve Mera.
happenings invading your As I was sat in the lounge with the EMF, Ion Air Counts, GMF, Magnetic
private and fortified spaces
obviously makes people very other investigators we heard a knocking and Microwave meters shown no I was surprised how helpful Trafford
scared and intimidated. sound coming from upstairs. This time, unusual readings. There were also no Borough Council were being. A few
Many will call a local vicar in Lynn went up and could find nothing compass deflections or photographs of days later I received a telephone call
hope of them attending their unusual. She came down shaking her anything unusual. Just the odd sounds from Joe to inform us that two
home and carrying out a
blessing. Recent surveys suggest head as if to indicate nothing was there. and that strange dark mass that seemed electrical surveyors had visited their
only around 12% of said Around 2.00am the sound of a ball top pass in front of our video camera. home and carried out a number of tests
blessings actually are beneficial.
bouncing in the kitchen was heard on their electrical system. I asked Joe if
Some people contact the first
organisation they stumble across again, identical to the previous time and The property did not have central the surveyors said anything to him
and unfortunately create more again, nothing was found and the heating thus pipe expansion sounds about their findings. Joe replied 'No,
problems for themselves.
audible recorder had recorded it. The were not an explanation for any of the they just wrote down stuff and then left'.
If you have some odd goings on strange noises continued through the odd noises we heard. The gas fire was
in your home, its best not to rush early hours and by 7.00am we had checked for Carbon Monoxide leaks Surely enough a couple of days later I
into anything. Make sure to
check out an organisation first. decided to pack up. We were to go and nothing out of the normal was received a letter from Trafford Borough
Obtain the services of a away and look through all our video found. Inhalation of Carbon Monoxide Council explaining that they had sent
reputable establishment, the
longer they have been going, the footage as well as check the audible can cause hallucinations, but this was electrical surveyors to their home to
better. Check out their recorders. not the case. Apart from the unusual carry out tests and that nothing unusual
credentials and information
about their previous cold feeling that lasted a few minutes in was found.
investigations. Some The following day we reviewed all the the corner of the lounge, nothing else of
establishments may even offer a
portfolio. recordings we had made at the location. similarity happened. Temperature
We could not work out why the motion readings were as normal throughout the
Finally, make sure that the
detector had triggered and when night.
establishment will offer you
confidentiality and conduct their reviewing the audible recorders we
services for free... could clearly hear the unusual sounds I visited Joe and Jackie the following
of a bouncing ball at the times we day to discuss our findings and our next
noted. The most interesting find was step in assisting them. I had decided to
something caught on the video camera telephone Trafford Borough Council to
which had been left running for a few see what they had to say about the In fact, the surveyors had stated that
hours at the bottom of their staircase. matter. After a lengthy conversation I their electrical wiring was better than
To the right of the camera was the was instructed to write to the head of average and met all current regulation
hallway and entrance to the living housing about Joe and Jackie's and specification.
room, and to the left (about a foot problem. The following day I
Well. it would seem Joe and Jackie’s
away) was the adjoining wall to next constructed a letter and mailed it to
electrical wiring was fine, just as we
door. them. The letter read:
had suspected. I wrote to the housing
'In regards to a recent conversation manager once again just to ask if he had
with a member of your staff, I am any details on file regarding similar
writing this letter of confirmation that paranormal reports at the property and/
paranormal disturbances have been or suicides. Again I received a letter
reported and logged with our back within days saying they had no
organisation. The property has been such information on file and that he had
under investigation by our organisation not heard of any unusual things goings
for several weeks. In that time we have on at the property before Joe and Jackie
got to know the tenants rather well. moved in.
When we first initiated our
I would at this stage like to thank
investigation neither tenant expressed
Trafford Borough Council in their
an interest in moving from their home,
assistance, they were very helpful. On
however, as time went on, reported
occasion I have had to deal with a
disturbances increased thus causing the
number of councils and found most of
tenant's stress and concerns for the
them such as Stockport, Rochdale,
At precisely 3.48am a dark mass passed welfare of their two young children.
Manchester etc very helpful. So... I had
in front of the camera. Passing from Investigators attended the property
decided to re-interview Joe and Jackie
right to left. This happened rather several times in hope of recording such
and to compile my findings and
quickly and when frame stepped you anomalies. After a number of onsite
feelings as to what was going on.
could clearly see a dark mass move investigations we concluded a number
across the screen, but whatever it was, of unusual occurrences. In conclusion I I arrived at their home and immediately
it seemed as if it had passed through the believe that the tenants are witnessing noticed how tired both looked, they had
wall to the left of the camera and what can only be described as been kept up again by unusual sounds
moved to the right (into the hallway). paranormal disturbances. I would and Bradley had woke up a couple

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of night ago screaming out again about Joe and Jackie's home in Sale Moor, approached me to (what I presumed) Relocation due to
a man in his bedroom. Clearly Manchester was a small two bedroom shake my hand. I was wrong. Joe paranormal
swapping the bedrooms around hadn't house that had panelled studded walls embraced me and gave me a hug. At disturbances.
helped. Joe said that they were at the and was built around 1963. I found no that point I realised why I do this.
Over the years MAPIT have on
end of their tether and even though they evidence of suicides at the location, all Helping a family overcome such
occasion found it necessary to
didn't want to move them may be environmental checks came up normal, disturbances is very rewarding... I was work with numerous council
officials from different locations
forced to simply because they couldn't their electrical wiring was fine. There touched. Clearly Joe was emotional. All
around the UK, so to assist a
seem to get any sleep and Bradley was seemed to be no evidence of previous this time and I had never seen him this family in relocating to another
home. MAPIT have carried out
getting more and upset. I understood paranormal incidents at the location. I way. He was usually the strong
this service five times and on all
their concerns and agreed to help them. cannot help think that Jackie's younger character looking after his regularly occasions, council officials have
I told them that I would write one last sister who had been staying over at upset partner. Whatever was rehoused the families.

letter to the council in hope of their home and was experiencing responsible for driving the family away It has however, come to our
relocating them. At this point Jackie problems in her own home was from their once comfortable home, attention during certain
investigations that some tenants
bust out crying, she really was stressed somehow attributing to the would have to remain there. As for Joe manufacture stories such as,
and I suggested that they try and get disturbances, very much like poltergeist and Jackie, they were off and I wouldn't living in a haunted house, in
hope of be rehoused somewhere
away from the house a while, maybe infestations can seem to manifest blame them if they never looked back. else. Therefore in 1997 MAPIT
have a holiday or stay at their parents around adolescent individuals that are Joe and Jackie moved house on the offered a free service to City
Councils. This service involved
house. Jackie nodded as Joe held tight experiencing stress or upset. sunny morning of July 9th 2002. I was investigation and research of
onto her hand. I felt so sorry for them. I there that day to help out and give certain properties to see if we
could find evidence of the said
can understand that how such After completing my report I sat back moral support. They moved into their paranormal disturbances. A
paranormal disturbances can scare and awaited one of two things. Either a slightly larger three bedroom home less report is then forwarded to the
council offices for review. We
people and that living with it on a daily phone call from a very desperate Joe or than a mile away. Jackie was also
have carried out three such
basis can be difficult and stressful. Jackie, or a letter from Trafford happy that it was nearer to her mothers investigations on behalf of City
Borough Council hopefully informing house and Bradley's school. As the Councils and one of the three
cases provided evidence to
Joe held tight onto her hand. I felt so me that they will relocate the family. It years passed I regularly received suggest the family were faking
sorry for them. I can understand that was now June 16th 2002. I had received Christmas cards from them. Bradley incidents and manufacturing
stories in hope of moving to a
how such paranormal disturbances can a letter in the morning from Trafford was doing well atschool and young larger home...
scare people and that living with it on a Borough Council. I hastily opened it David was now toddling around the
To obtain one of MAPIT’s
daily basis can be difficult and and began to read... I couldn't believe it. house. None of them ever experienced services, simply contact us on
stressful. They had taken my letter seriously and strange things again and slept soundly. our website at:
http://www.mapit.kk5.org
had arranged to help the family. There As I suspected, Joe and Jackie's interest
were to be relocated to one of three in the subject subsided and gave way to
local properties. Fantastic! I couldn't Joe's new job as a sales consultant.
wait to tell them. I decided not to
telephone them. This deserved a visit so As for their previous home. Trafford
I could tell them face to face. I arrived Borough Council let the property stand
at the house. Probably the first time I empty for several months before an
had visited without any equipment. I older gentleman moved in. In August of
knocked on the door and as normal 2003 I called to introduce myself
Jackie and Joe were pleased to see me. simply as a market researcher. I asked
I sat in their lounge and told them of him one two questions. Did he believe
what I had learnt. They were in the paranormal and had he ever
I wrote a lengthy letter to Trafford gobsmacked, they didn't think that the experienced something strange. Both
Borough Council the following day council would help them. I told them his answers were.... 'NO'!
explained my concerns for the family. I that I was sent a letter from the council
even gave them the vicars telephone explaining that they were going to be Special Thanks to Lynn Offord, Mike
number just in case they wanted to talk offered one of three different properties Offord and Elizabeth Roxburgh. Also,
with him in regards his involvement at locally, so they didn't have to worry I'd like to thank Trafford Borough
the property. Whilst waiting a reply I about changing Bradley's school. Jackie Council for their assistance and of
decided to write up a final report. once again burst out crying and Joe course the local vicar.
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