Woodlands Castle

Wood Woodlands Disappoint.

Woodlands castle is not so aptly named!  You would be fooled into thinking it is a ruined old castle with legends and tales associated to it, well not quite.

Woodlands castle sits just outside Taunton, England and is used as a conference/wedding venue. The building was built in 1810 1810, and was remodelled and enlarged by Richard Carver.
The house originally a farm house is far more elaborate than you would expect from a late 18th century early 19th century building.

Notable residents of the house include Major-General Henry Brasnell Tuson, aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, Commandant-General of the Royal Marines, and in more recent years Dr Fleming.

The investigation began at 8pm with a new company for us 'Beyond the Grave'... We were eager to see how they handled the large crowd. After a short introduction we were off to investigate the house... No history tour no medium tour no info really! (good and bad to this approach).

The house was full of 'HUNT' paintings and pictures and absolutely resembled a typical English Country manor house of it's time..

Office/Study
A small room and easily shut off from the group, we began a vigil, EVP's taken and digital still photos, apart from the sound of the goldfish absolutely no evidence found. 


Cellar
It was when we regrouped and made our way to the cellar that the place became rather more interesting - the current manager decided to join us along with 2 members of his waitressing staff. After about 20mins of silent vigils we had both EMF detectors reading red at the same time on response to questions regarding a groundsman that has passed only 2 weeks ago. One guest of the group picked up his name/dogs name and his reason for passing.. - The one lady member of staff knew him well and quantified these details... The area became very heavy and dark and there were a number of shuffling noises recorded..




Upstairs bedroom 1

A small group of 5 of us gathered and began with the planchette, we got movement after about 10 minutes and got a number of names coming through Richard, who was married to Heather. He had caused her death by his abusive behaviour towards her.

Downstairs back room
Whilst holding a larger vigil in this room a huge lump of previously held plasterboard fell from the ceiling onto the floor and shattered, to say that the group dispersed is an understatement, we shot to the other corner of the room... Very strange but can't be ruled out with shoddy handy work!

A small, odd kind of venue but with an interesting history tied into Alexander Flemming. 

Main evidence, EMF spikes and unexplained noises.
Best Room for evidence - Cellar.

Update on Hellfire caves

Having gone back and reviewed the photos we took at Hell Fire Caves - I have just spotted something that at the time went unnoticed. I am not saying that this is paranormal or that we have captured a face but it is unusual in the fact that the rest of the stone surface captured doesn't display these shapes...

If you look carefully above the orb in the foreground and slightly to the right there seems to be an image of a face.... you can make out the nose, 2 eyes and a smiling mouth.... I'm not sure what this is and it may well be just matrixing from the camera, but it's a strange one

Cefn Cribwr SIgnal Box

CEFN CRIBWR SIGNAL BOX

The History & stories
This was an investigation that we had on the cards for a long while... The signal box is a place we had been quite a few times before and the history and stories associated with it are well known in the area... The activity is said to be centred around the death of a railway worker by the name of WALTER CURL it is said that he fell from a maintenance ladder and broke his neck and died whilst on duty there.


The signal box became an active signal control room in 1898 at the junction between the newly opened Port Talbot line (PTR) and the older Porthcawl Branch. By about 1910, the industrial area immediately to the north of the signal box had passed it's heyday. The Cefn Ironworks closed in 1901, Cefn Slip Colliery which opened c. 1860 would close in 1912.
The Porthcawl Branch had disappeared by 1974 but the PTR and Box still remains.  It has more recently been restored to it's former working glory by a local group who are eager to keep the original items associated with the signal box and the working railway line as intact as possible.

The investigation

The signal box is a two storey building and quite a small space so we began our investigation downstairs where the pullies and controls for changing the railway signals would have been. We set up our 'X' camera at the back of the room and placed two motion detectors across the entrance and then went upstairs....

The feeling in the upstairs room was definitely calmer than that downstairs, where I felt a sense of urgency and bustle. We began taking EMF recordings and instantly started getting some strange readings at the back of the room, some on response to the questions we were asking.... We tried communicating with Walter Curl and asked various questions about his work and how he died.   The readings had continued and we began a EVP session. On reviewing the digital recordings no audible voices were captured, although we did both hear a very strange gasping sound coming from just at the door upstairs but was not captured on our digital recorder.

The night was relatively quiet overall, I would say that if Walter Curl's spirit lives on in Cefn signal box and if he continues to work the signals and lines, that maybe we just visited on his day off! Although like I always say 

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence"

Pay the Station box a visit - you may just get to speak to Walter himself - Happy investigating

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