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Welcome to Luton Paranormal Society
LPS is offering a yearly membership of just £20 donation to those of you in interested the paranormal and want to investigate all aspects of the paranormal not just ghosts.
Here at LPS We investigate the whole paranormal spectrum from UFO’S and crop circles to Big Foot and Aliens, Timeslips, re-incarnation and out of the body experiences, Telekinesis and lastly spirits. This includes serious historical research of locations to back up paranormal activity we find.
LPS does not provide you with paranormal equipment as we all have different abilities and skills, and we encourage you to bring equipment or just yourself and a note pad or sound recorder to take notes as we do written reports.
Membership runs for one year from the point of joining and you are not obliged to attend all events. We do several indoor investigations, which include a small fee to help us hire the locations and other events such as social and outdoor events are free or members.
We are a small friendly group and are not interested in competing in the paranormal field with other groups or filming ourselves at haunted locations and putting it online we are more interested in helping the owners of the venue and researching historical resources.
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Investigation Site Pavenham, Church Lane
Background
Church Lane is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a Cavalier. The man had been stopped whilst leaving the village by a group of Roundheads and he had tried to escape by jumping his horse over a gate at the top of the lane. Unfortunately, his horse clipped the gate and threw him. He was captured, executed and his body thrown into a nearby well. It is said that no gate, built in the aforementioned gateway, can remain intact for long.
General
For this investigation we were initially going to park near St Mary’s church and walk the length of Church Lane to the vigil site (650 metres) but this proved impractical. Instead, we parked just south of the site and walked just 250 metres.
The investigation site lies close to a road but there was very little traffic on that road. The sky was overcast, and it had been raining shortly before the investigation. The site was a very dark one as the nearest streetlights are quite a long way off causing a distant glow.
Pre-Vigil
As the team was walking up the road to the investigation site Elaine heard footsteps behind her when she looked around no one was there. While Bill was showing us the well Elaine had a feeling of being watched. Sarah had a feeling of slight apprehension when she arrived at the well area; she also felt anger and sadness.
21:05 When walking towards the barn, Steph’s eyes suddenly feel sore and prickly like she’s got grit or dust in them. After everyone had left the site of the well in the trees and gathered near the small open barn, Dee felt very strongly the presence of a horse somewhere nearby, possibly out near the road beyond the entrance gate. She felt very drawn towards the road, but she didn’t speak out about it due to the fact that she had sensed horses on a couple of previous investigations and felt a bit self-conscious in case people began to think she has some kind of horse fixation!!
Vigil 1: 21:25 to 21:47
For this vigil Andy, Elaine and Sam positioned themselves around the well whilst Richard and Steph were by the barn. Bill, Sarah and Dee sat near the gate to the field (see the accompanying plan on the next page). Bill sat under a tree in the woods whilst Sarah sat one side of the gate and Dee the other side (the roadside).
21:28 Dee sets her voice recorder on the top of the gate before sitting down at the roadside. She is aware of Bill coughing and the beeping of Sarah’s camera. Bill measures the temperature at +8.5ºC.
21:29 Elaine has heavy breathing in her left ear. Andy was sorting his camcorder
and Sam was to her right.
21:30 Something dropped by Sarah, possibly a leaf.
Steph senses a man whose fingers are broken on his right hand.
21:32 Starts to rain, light.
21:33 Steph and Richard relocate their position under the tree behind the barn to the
north as it starts to rain this can be heard on the Richard’s sound recording.
Dee checks the voice recorder as light rain begins to fall. She decides to leave it in situ.
21:34 Steph notes it feels much colder under the tree and mentions this to Richard.
Richard felt noticeably colder under the tree than when the team were sitting way
out in front of it. Rain has stopped.
Sam has the feeling of a young woman mid 20’s early 30’s in a white gown, blindfolded and
being dragged from the village to the well where she was thrown down and covered up.
Sarah realised leaves were dropping on the ground and her head.
21:37 Elaine gets the impression of a little boy being blindfolded with a red scarf.
Dee is still strongly sensing a horse nearby (as in being ridden rather than pulling a cart) but
cannot ascertain a specific direction or location, perhaps too distracted by the rainfall.
21:38 Steph gets the impression of two long rows of lights like a runway, but narrower, and all the lights are white and closer together. Start raining again, initially quite light but later becoming heavier.
21:39 The rain begins to get heavier, so Dee removes the voice recorder from the gate and ceases recording.
21:42 Sam does not like it by the well she has a sense of sadness and misery, also seeing a woman about 50ish sitting on the floor wearing a white shawl rocking backwards and forwards crying.
An orange blob was seen by Richard to the left of the large hedgerow towards the road,
although as this was nearer to where the road was, may have been a passing car.
21:43 Sarah hears rustling in hedgerow opposite, she shines torch, and it stops.
21:44 Steph looks to her left and sees torch light coming from behind the barn. Team 1 are in that area.
21:45 Elaine’s back goes cold as if someone is standing behind her.
Sarah hears more rustling; shines torch and a mouse runs out from the hedgerow towards the
gate.
21:46 Sam has the feeling of someone walking from Elaine’s left to my right and back again and being watched. Can also hear horses’ hooves trotting and a strange smell of something rotting.
21:47 Vigil has to be called off due to increasing rain.
Post-Vigil
When the team was packing up, Elaine saw a white figure run through the trees to her left.
Unfortunately, Sarah did not pick up on anything else whilst on the vigil. Sarah’s camera did pick up a small light which was not in the direction of anyone’s torch (the light was near the ground facing down into the field) but it was at a time torches were being used.
Everyone convened behind the small barn for the customary group photograph. Bill mentioned that there were no moisture orbs in the photos that were taken, to which Dee remarked that it was strange
not to have orbs in such weather. The final photo showed one orb anomaly above Dee, which
resembled a face in that it showed two darker patches that resembled eye sockets.
Andy’s video camera was placed directly in front of the well away from the team. At approximately six minutes into the footage there is a sound that is unexplainable and hard to describe except that it appears to be coming from a source directly in front of the camera which would be the well itself.
Dee’s short digital voice recording revealed no unusual anomalies
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Wardown Museum haunting 1955
Eye witness Account by LPS member Anthony R Roberts
I left school at the age of fifteen and joined a heating and plumbing company called EG.Baker in Park Street Luton. I was put to work with a man called Hugh Upton… now he had been through the first world war and fought on the Somme battlefield. It is important to know this because that generation was different to mine. He would never be bested and he had a singular attitude to life. He was a proud and a brave man.
But I saw that man rooted to the spot with fear that day in Wardown Museum cellar. To get to the point we were changing a section in the boiler which had cracked. I was in the boiler and Hugh was standing outside by the boiler door. The only other person in the museum at that time was the curator who was upstairs in his office. The museum was closed to the public.
We knew that we three were alone, When we heard footsteps coming towards us we knew something was wrong as there was the sound of a light tap tap and then we heard the sound of a dress swishing as the person walked nearer. There were no lights in the cellar in 1955 at all. The only lighting came from a 100 watt head lamp on a long lead which was plugged in upstairs which threw out a limited light around the boiler.
As we waited a woman appeared out of the gloom about ten feet from where Hugh was standing. She continued to walk towards us then turned the corner and was gone from my sight as I was in the boiler. But Hugh saw her for longer as I could see his head turn as he watched her until she was no longer to be seen.
Now that would have been something to talk about between us, but no old Hugh was old Hugh and he was saying nothing. I could not believe it, and after I got over the shock of what I had seen I begged him to talk about it. But he would not. But he stood there in front of the boiler frozen. It took a while for him to move and when he did he turned to me and said something like “load of rubbish” or words to that effect and that was the last word he ever spoke of the subject.
Now let me try to describe what she looked like. She was tall and wearing a dark possibly blue surge dress. White ruffs at her wrists and a white front or vee down to her waist. I don’t know if she was wearing a bonnet of not and her face has faded from my memory as indeed old Hugh’s has….. When you get to my age you will know what mean anyway that’s about that.
But as a footnote I though she was a nurse, could be wrong and one more thing. She was not holding a lamp of any sort. That means there was light in the cellar at that time possibly gas. I have just found LPS online and read about the other heating engineers in 1971. This caused me to put pen to paper and get this on record. I have now joined LPS
Best regards Anthony R Roberts (sadly now deceased)
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