Our investigation at the 'Mitch' took place on Valentines night. The Mitch was built in 1957 on the foundations of the Whitehouse (seen here), a house built by John Baddeley, a pottery manufacturer in the mid 17c and many of its staff and players have experienced a wide variety of strange phenomena over the years, and we were all very looking forward to the nights investigation. Our chaperone's for the evening were Andy and Karen (representatives).We were unfortunately hindered at the beginning of vigil by a helicopter flying over head and external noise from the clubs and pubs close by. But this all had settled down by 11pm. We focused our attentions predominately on the auditorium as this had had the most reports and Dressing Rooms 1, 4 and the workshop. Steve, Jacquie and Sarah went to DR4 to check for any high EMF readings and to clarify any areas with electric cables with the stud meter as this was one area reported as having 'sinister' feeling.
We started with a grounding session to relax everyone and spiritual protection for those who requested it. As I said in our introduction above, we generally do not use mediums. What we like to do is try and develop our own 'psyche' as much as possible on a location and analyse our experiences. It was suggested that we checked that all the seats in the auditorium
were 'up', these were checked by 4 of our team members. We set up our equipment and centred ourselves on the main stage. Shula sensed a little girl close by, the name given was Clara, although she felt that this may be a residual energy. Jacquie asked her to pull down one of the seats! All present could hear faint 'whistling' or 'squeaking' but we could not pin point its source. At one point Steve thought he saw something in the theatre auditorium and Jacquie thought she heard something. Whilst we were having a short break, Sarah pointed out that one of the seats had come down (a photo was taken which you can see here on the right) at the rear of the auditorium. Andy commented that this was the seat that had been given to Mary Blakeman, a patron of the theater, a plaque had also been placed above the seat. Was this Mary showing her presence? Could it have fallen down naturally? Was this a set up? or was it the little girl playing games? We then gently moved one of the seats downwards to see if it was easy for the seat to fall down..... strangely the seat made the sound we had heard earlier!!!We had placed trigger objects in both dressing rooms, but we had no activity around these. We also used a pendulum experiment (a pendulum was suspended in a closed perspex box), this was to see if any spirits could use their energy to swing the pendulum . . . we had no activity here.
We also experienced a weird 'pipe' knocking in the workshop? But the pipe did not actually lead to anywhere or was connected to any electrical or water supply?
All in all a quiet nights investigation. Unfortunately the information that came through Jack and Shula cannot be corrolated. The theatre is about to undergo extensive renovations, so it will be interesting to see if this makes any of the 'resident spirits' restless?
Once we have analysed all our digital/video footage a full report will be uploaded shortly.
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