Royal Hotel Second Visit
Royal Hotel Coupar Angus
Team Present:-
Bill:- Clairaudient/Clairvoyant Medium
Tracey:-Paranormal Investigator
Stevie:-Paranormal Investigator
Errol:-Developing Medium
Billy:-Paranormal Investigator
Charles:-Paranormal Investigator
James:-Paranormal Investigator
Alex:-Team Co-ordinator
BASE ROOM 8.20PM
Bill feels a presence in a corner of the room in front of a wardrobe. He picks up the name Charles. Alex puts his hand to where Bill is pointing and some unseen presence gently pulls his fingers. EMF meter registers a seven. ELF meter records no electrical circuits or surges present.
The team head for room 23.
EMF meter records 5 elf METER 0.
In the bathroom, the EMF meter reads 6, ELF meter reads 0. Bill picks up a Lady Spirit by the name of Francis. She tells Bill she is looking for her husband Arthur, who fell off of the roof here while repairing slates. Francis tells Bill this was in 1974. She also tells Bill she lived in a mining village not far from here and she herself died in 1982. She also had a child who died at the age of three and a half. The surnames of Francis and Arthur were revealed but cannot be revealed in this report, due to the UK time lapse laws.
EMF meter is recording readings of 6 and 7 during this period. ELF meter reads 0. Francis is quite small and is wearing her hair in a ponytail. She says she is happy we are here and will accompany us around the Hotel if we don't mind. Alex reports his back is ice cold. Bill is not surprised by this, as the husband of Francis, Arthur has decided to make an appearance. Arthur doesn't have time to say anything as Francis now wants us to move on.
The landing beside room 26 and the EMF meter is reading 7, whilst the ELF meter is reading 0.
In room 26, the EMF meter reads 8, no change in ELF readings. Billy sees a porter, who says his name is Ally and he liked "the drink".
Ally is wearing a blue suit jacket and brown trousers. He says he has been seen in the past by a former staff member by the name of Christine. Ally says he is quite happy walking up and down the corridor here. He also tells Bill that due to "the drink", he had a habit of "peeing" himself. Ally was 61 when he died. The EMF meter is reading a 6 all around Stevie. A surname was given, but again due to UK law, cannot be revealed in this report. Errol, feels someone tug his sleeve. Bill, gets the name Florence, EMF reads 8 ELF reads 0. We will point out at this time, although the ELF meter readings are being reported as 0, they were of course registering readings when detecting electricity cables in the rooms and corridors. We are only giving readings for when the EMF meters recorded abnormal fluctuations and the ELF read 0.
The team enter room 29.
There is a presence in the bathroom here. A Spirit man by the name of Albert the chip man. Albert says " lesbian".
Bill asks Albert if he had anything to do with Florence. Florence butts in and says "no", Francis, intercedes and tells Bill "yes".
Florence had two dogs.Her and Alberts sister had an affair with each other. Francis shouts "yes". She is happy the truth has now been told. Still in the bathroom, Bill feels there is a cellar directly beneath him where bareknuckle fighting took place. This is in the years of World War One. An Irishman called Padraig, won all the fights.He accidentally killed an opponent, but it did not bother him too much as he saw it as part and parcel of the fight game. Padraigs sidekick, is going around taking bets on the fights. Everyone knows the fights are fixed, but if they don't part with their money in the way of betting, then Padraigs sidekicks will relieve them of it by other means. A Spirit gentleman by the name of Jonathan comes in to let us know he was "fleeced" by Padraigs sidekicks, for a lot of money. Padraig married and settled here. Still in the bathroom, Bill sees a street market from what he describes as "medievil" times. There is a lot of people, men, women and children enjoying themselves at the market. A shadow appears, then vanishes by the bathroom window.
We are now back in the lounge bar.
A young female Spirit child, is telling Bill she is responsible for the poltergeist activity in the upstairs lounge bar. She tells Bill a member of staff by the name of Angela has come into the bar to find towels lying on the floor. Bar towels " just sliding to the floor." Errol gets the name Julia. Curly hair. Someone is standing on the stairs beside Billy.EMF meter reading 4, ELF reads 0.
Bill is then told by Spirit to go and look at the painting in the corridor and he will see a young Spirit lady standing beside it. The lady has long red hair. EMF 7 ELF . The temperature is normal, but the team are feeling really cold. Bill feels a female Spirit and gets the date 1887. EMF meter suddenly jumps to 7 when near Charles. Charles is the team sceptic on this investigation.
Someone touches Bills head. No team member is near Bill and there are no cobwebs. Bill now sees a young girl. She appears to be walking up and down a staircase, which we can't see. The girl says she is looking for her mother. Bill, sees a staircase in an entirely different part of the building as to where the staircase now is. The young girl says her mother just up and left her. She is looking here for her as this is the last place she remembers seeing her. She also says she is not grounded and can go where she wants when she wants.
Some unseen presence is holding Errols hand. No further information on this. Bill, feels a surge of energy in the area. Another Spirit makes an appearance. Charlie ( full name given). Charlie was a customer here. Bill, feels as if he is getting dragged across the street by Charlie, to where there is now a chemist shop. "This was where I lived" said Charlie. Stevie is taking EMF meter readings around the room again. The EMF meter registers 10. Stevie quickly says to disregard the reading as the ELF meter is omitting a constant pitch, which means there are electricity cables at this point. Charlie had Parkinsons disease. Errol senses someone behind the bar. No further information on who it might be. Charlie is showing Billy another street market. Billy gets the name Crombie, a Mayor? a man of office. A Baillie. Andrew Crombie. Andrew says he was tricked out of office. Andrew is walking towards the town from the direction of the old courthouse. Bill sees people coming up to Andrew and being very nice and pleasant to him.
Andrew says again he was tricked out of office. He has never forgiven the people who tricked him, as he had done nothing wrong. Four men had badmouthed him and people who once liked and supported him, then turned against him. The leader of the four was Peter Thompson. He said Andrew was having an affair with the ministers wife. The minister, the ministers wife, were not in anyway apart of this rumour spreading and infact no affair took place. Peter was a Notary. As we are going out of the door to head to our baseroom for a break, Errol feels himself get pulled back. No further information on who or what pulled him back. In the Hallway outside the baseroom after the break, Alex sees the Spirits Emily and Edward. Bill, sees someone standing beside Alex. EMF meter reading is 7 ELF 0.
Alex asks Spirit to put the EMF meter up to eight. It just about makes it but not quite. Bill, Alex and Errol are all sensing someone standing beside them. Bill says it is a man with a ruddy complexion and a pointed nose. Alex sees the young boy again, Bill senses illness up here. He feels this section was cordoned off at one point due to illness. Errol feels a burning sensation in his right wrist and feels dizzy. His eyes are also burning. The team enter bedroom 29. The name Crippen comes into Bills head. No further information on who Crippen is or was. In room 29, Bill says a young woman threw herself out of the window. He then corrects himself and says she fell out of the window. Age 19. The temperature in the room is now noticably dropping. A woman called constance is standing beside Alex. Constance is the lady who fell out of the window.
EMF meter is "pulsing"
She says her knee just gave way and she fell out of the window and landed near the butchers shop.She is very angry with herself. A feeling of despair. "Why did it happen" she asks. Frances is now back with us. Billy and Tracey, hear a noise beside room 27.
In room 27, Bill picks up the sound of an old fashioned music hall. Bill sees an elderly lady lying in the centre of the bed. The lady says she had something to do with the music halls. She tells Bill he is seeing her as the public would not see her. "You are seeing me without the glamour make-up without the costumes." The womans name is Gertrude.
Bill now sees a young boy in the shower. He is five or six years of age. The boy is opening and closing the sliding shower doors and saying "now you see me now you don't." He says he is a little bit upset by us being here as we are spoiling his fun.
Alex says we would be delighted to witness some of the fun he has. Alex, who is standing next to the television unit says his right foot is very hot.
Bill says the young boy is now under the tv unit.
Steve picks up a reading of 7 on the EMF meter. He takes readings everywhere Bill sees the boy move to. The readings are always between 6 and 7. The boy goes out of the room and the team follow. He goes along the corridor towards the stairs. On the stairs, both Bill and Alex, get the smell of fresh paint. This is witnessed by all team members. Down the stairs and through the first door we come to. The boy goes along the corridor and vanishes. Bill opens a door where he thinks the boy is, but it is a cupboard.
We open another door and find it is the back stairs leading up to the landing we had just come from. The boy leads us up the stairs and back into room 27. The boy is now singing the American National Anthem, then Lord of the Dance. Alex asks Bill to ask the boy if he knows Mikey. He says he doesn't know him, but there are four children here. Him and three others.
He tells Bill they play in a ruined castle near here. It is a ruin but there are still rooms in it. He gives Bill two dates. 1284 and 1824. He does not tell Bill what the dates mean, but it is strange the numbers in both dates are the same. The boy tells Bill that Alex and his wife have "seen" the castle. He then says Bill has "seen" the castle.
A glow is seen beside a picture, above the bed. The elderly woman is singing Burlington Bertie. She tells Bill this was her death bed. She fell and hit her head on a fendor. A fendor is part of the surround of a fireplace. This did not kill her, but she said it didn't help. She went back to her childhood towards the end of her life. She tells Bill about a lady in a long red dress, who wanders around the hotel. Her name is Veronica. She says Veronica has spooked a few people but doesn't mean any harm. Bill "sees" Veronica walking a corridor on the second floor of the hotel. The corridor is now blocked off. There is man with Veronica who says he could do harm if he wanted to, but doesn't want to yet. His name is Coulter. Veronica is seen every 16th of September.
The team make their way to the sitting room on the same landing.
Bill sees someone sitting in a chair. No further information on who this is. EMF readings at this chair are 8 ELM reads 0.
Bill gets very negative feelings in this room, but no communication.
The team then go to the dining room.
Bill feels strong religious connections in this room. He hears someone singing Ave Maria and Via Con Dios.
Bill also feels very very strong spanish connections here. Spaniards were working here. He feels two Spanish monks were responsible for the success of the village. They started it on the road to success. Someone gently slaps Billy across the neck as Bill is speaking about the Spanish monks. Bill says there was a religious landmark here before the Abbey was built. He then says the Abbey was not built when the Spanish monks were here. Bill gets the name Castle and Joseph. The year 1670 ? seems important.
He feels the Abbey was to be used as a stop over for travelling royalty and a home for James. Tracey picks up the name Queen Mary and Bill picks up the name Lord Montrose. Bill also picks up on the title Earl and the name Simpson. Back on the landing Bill picks up on Charlie again.
We go to room 21.
Bill "sees" the launching of a ship.This is in the not too distant past.
It is a merchant ship which doubled as a warship. Bill says there was fire here. He has pain in his chest and a choking feeling.
Bill says the ship caught fire in the harbour not far from here and sank.
Many people died as a result of the fire. The ships captain used to stay here. The ships name was The Consuella. Team members notice part of Bills hair is now standing up. Back out in the hallway, Errol feels very emotional and Bill feels as if he is getting hung by the neck. Stevie reports a pain in his stomach. Bill is still feeling as if he is getting hung by the neck. His head is to one side and his tongue is starting to stick out. He comes "back" and reports Emily wants to talk through him. Bill is now almost doubled up with pain. This is Emily again, trying to speak through Bill. The pain in the stomach, is due to Emily being pregnant.
Alex feels Bill is in too much distress and advises Bill to "come back" which he does. We take a short break.
We go to room 16
On entering the room, Bill hears singing again. Emily has followed us here. Once again, Emily tries to make contact through Bill.
Once again, Bill is in some distress, but as it is not as much as the last time, Alex allows the trance to continue. Bills face is contorted and his head is leaning to one side. He is holding his stomach and appears to be in pain. Alex asks "Emily" to sit down on the chair which has been placed behind her. Reluctantly " Emily" sits down. Emily says " I hate them" Alex asks "Emily" who she hates and why. "Emily" says "They took my baby" "I hate them" "They killed me" "Two lifes, two lifes" Alex asks who killed her and took her baby "Emily" replies "Henry." As Emily had appeared to Alex before and had requested to speak to Errol, Alex asked Errol to speak to Emily. When Errol came forward, "Emily" took his hand. As Errol was talking to "Emily", she suddenly "left" Bill. There was no explanation for this. We all returned to the baseroom for a well earned break.
Lounge Bar Table Tipping
After the break, we decided to got back to the Lounge Bar and try "table tipping."We split into two teams of four. At the table led by Alex, there was no movement of the table, but there was some unseen presence running over the leather lounge seats throughout the experiment. About ten minutes into the experiment, Alex looked to the table led by Bill, on the other side of the room and noticed something was wrong. Alex broke off the experiment at his table and crossed the room to Bills table. Bill was trying to bring Tracey out of trance. She had slipped into trance accidentally, and "Emily" was trying to communicate through her. Tracey eventually "returned" to us. As this was the first time she had ever gone into trance, Tracey as you can imagine was quite shaken by the experience. After a few sips of water, Tracey quickly regained her composure.
The table tipping experiment was then abandoned and we went back to the baseroom for a quick break.
After the break, we decided to hold a vigil in the Function Suite.
Function Suite
About five minutes into the vigil, Alex gets drawn to the stairs beside the function suite. He heads up the stairs, followed by the team. Alex gets drawn to the ladies toilets and senses there was a tragedy there, but something was not quite right. Bill gets drawn to the gents toilet, and senses someone being stabbed in the head and neck. On his way into the gents, Bill felt someone trying to trip him up. Stevie felt the same thing on the way out of the gents. In the area outside the toilets, Bill senses a man dressed in black. He is wearing a "Guy Fox" type hat. Bill sees him as a high ranking French officer. The officer gives his name.Cassells. We go back bown to the function suite. Bill is now picking up a great battle here. He hears marching. The marching goes on and on. "They just keep coming and coming" says Bill, masses of them. Everything is being burned and destroyed. Something pushes Bill. The EMF meter is right off the scale in the centre of the room. Something passes between Bill and Alex. We hear what sounds like a dog barking once, coming from upstairs.
Bill then says "Did you hear that?" Nobody heard the noise Bill did, but on the audio recordings, footsteps are clearly heard. All of the team are wearing soft soled shoes except Billy, who is sitting down at this point. The footsteps were "crisp and clear" on the wooden floor of the Function Suite. We head back upstairs to the area beside the toilets. Bill again sees the French officer. This time there are two soldiers with him. The EMF meter readings are normal. Bill says the officer is quite "smug" proud of what his army has done. Bill says the officer is at the small table in the corner of the room. EMF readings normal. The officer is trying to hide. Bill says he is now sitting on the end of the table. EMF meter readings suddenly go up 5, then 6, then 7 then finally 8. Bill says the officer is moving around the room. Stevie follows him with the EMF meter, which reads between 7 and 8 each time. The EMF suddenly stops reading anything. Bill says Cassells is lying flat on the floor, trying to hide.
Bill asks Cassells why he is hiding. Cassells says it is because he was a cheat, a murderer, a thief and a rapist when he was alive.
The year 1716, is important to Cassells for some reason. Back into the function suite, the team finally settle down.
Stevie is wearing his "voice" device again. Stevie seems very relaxed. Not in a trance, just very relaxed. A clear orb is seen on video camera, pass Stevies left shoulder and vanish. Stevie, smells flowers and sees a uniform. As he describes it, Errol draws it.
Earlier in the evening, just after Francis made an appearance Stevie, who has a broken collar bone, felt his shoulder being gently massaged and had no pain in his shoulder for much of the investigation. Nothing else of note happened on the vigil and we ended the investigation at 5.30am.
(Hotel has closed and is now Private Flats)
Report by Steve and Alex
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