Monks Walk 19 July 2008

Saturday night I has the opportunity to investigate Monks Walk again. I visited the location a couple of weeks ago but that was just for the evening. This time, this was an overnighter and I was really looking forward to it. The buildings are very small of which one area dates back to the Crimean War and another back to the end of WWI (1918).

The investigation began at 10pm where we had a talk from the current owner. After the talk, we were given a tour around the woods outside the grounds! Despite the darkness, the woods had a generally nice feel about them although I did get the feeling we were being watched (not in any horrible way). One sensitive sensed a man by a particular bush. Apparently we were later told this man had tried to slit himself and when he realised what he had done, he tried to make his way back to the base but he died in a field.

When we got back to the location and after a break, we split into groups and completed vigils.
A group of us went down to the gym; I walked into the gents gym because I remembered from last time I saw a shadow moving down there. We were sat there in silence when one of my team members thought they saw someone at the doorway near the toilet. Whatever presence was in the room with us, they kept moving around. There were several temperature fluctuations. At one point, it was icy cold behind me yet no window was open to have been able to have caused this. During the vigil, various noises and clicks were heard which we could not find where they were coming from. A couple of footsteps were also heard; we thought it may have been someone from the other gym moving about but nobody were there; all the investigators on that vigil had gone for a break!

After the break, we all gathered in the main hall and took part in a seance. Quite an interesting seance as some people thought they had been touched, and one lady felt very emotional and broke down into tears. We completed several seances, one with just women and another with just the men.
After the seances were completed, we able to return back to vigils. I went into the small room near the ladies gym with a couple of investigators and used the angel board. We didn't achieve any results from the board but we left the piece on the board at a certain point in the hope that it would have moved. Unfortunately it didn't. We also tried the angel board in the purple room but again, no result was achieved.

As always, it was great to have had the opportunity to investigate Monks Walk and I hope one day to be able to return there as I do believe the location is fairly active. I didn't get any interesting photos from the investigation however I still have evps and camcorder to check in due course. Fingers crossed, activity has been caught!