REVIEW: Ghost Hunt, Prospect House, Mexborough
PROSPECT House was situated on Doncaster Road. Its appearance was very grand and very eerie with lots of guests arriving as I pulled into the small car park.
During the day, the venue doubles up as an educational centre.
Although modernised in area, it had a very grand 1900s feel.
Starting prompting at 9pm, the group and I began with a debriefing in the main room.
Guests travelled locally to as far as Manchester for the evening's activities.
Group leader Jez and team introduced us to an array of ghost-busting equipment – K2 meters, Rem pods, white noise boxes, a Mel meter and a whole host of new equipment.
The building was steeped in character, with different areas to explore over four hours with a modest break.
The four designated areas of the old doctors surgery were going to be fun to explore with an array of paranormal detecting equipment.
We were spilt into four groups of six guests with two staff.
Each vigil was approximately 45 minutes in length.
At first I felt somewhat reticent – we congregated around a table in absolute darkness and we began calling out to spirits using an array of ghost busting equipment.
Very clear taps were heard, icy blasts were reported and the spirit box – which uses AM/FM frequencies – indicated names and phrases as to who else accompanied us on our first vigil.
We detected three spirits with us in the room – one of them a beagle dog, a playful child and we believe the main resident Arthur (who had died in the house in suspicious circumstances).
At one point during the vigil, temperature and electromagnetic field equipment started going off lighting up a darkened room as if it were a disco.
The equipment varied in reactions from room to room.
During my vigil my K2 meter did not detect any indication.
This, however, massively varied once I took to the cellar.
By the third vigil in the cellar the paranormal activity massively escalated once we hit midnight – the witching hour!
Sat in a pitch black cellar, multiple K2 meters went off and, during a table tipping activity, the table was definitely moving independently with only a few finger tips pressed on it.
At one point in the darkened cellar, one guest in my team reported an invisible presence was touching her back.
Rosey Dawson – the hostess of Simply Ghost Nights – and I both felt our hair pulled by an invisible force and cool icy blasts across face and legs.
Simply Ghost Hunts business owners Rosey and Stuart Dawson have reported multiple sightings and poltergeist activity – moving visitors clothing, prods and pokes, hair pulls as well as unexplainable noises.
A kettle even boiled itself whilst they were setting up for the evening's event!
Rosey told me: “I have really enjoyed tonight’s ghost-hunt.
“The guests have all brought their energy and that’s what its all about and once again the cellar was the area of the night.
“My team and I definitely experienced taps, disembodied voices, and equipment going off at an alarming rate all evening into the early hours of the morning.”
Refreshments before midnight were very welcome to keep us fully energised.
The ghost-hunt concluded at 1.45am – it was an enjoyable and very exciting evening.
The next venue to be investigated is Staveley on Saturday, June 20 in Chesterfield – should you dare to attend!?
I highly recommend this unique and sobering evening out.
A great introduction to the world of the strange and paranormal.
For more information on future events: www.simplyghostnights.co.uk.