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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