Boom time for Dorset ghostbusters (From Dorset Echo)
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Boom time for Dorset ghostbusters
12:00pm Monday 21st September 2009 in
GHOSTBUSTERS are staging a Hallowe’en extravaganza with a series of spooky events over five days.
The Weymouth-based Paranormal Investigation Team (PIT) has picked the locations to form the shape of a pentagram – a five pointed star with supernatural connotations – to boost any paranormal activity.
They will be taking equipment with them into the sites overnight in Weymouth, Abbotsbury, Lulworth and Dorchester – to track any spectral signs.
Assistant case manager Trudy Jordan said: “We will be holding the Hallowe’en extravaganza over six days.
“We will start at the Ilchester Arms at Abbotsbury, and will also be at the Old Tea House in Dorchester, the Kingswood in Weymouth and the Lulworth Inn at Lulworth Cove. We still have a couple of locations to verify but will be back at the Ilchester Arms for October 31.”
The PIT team were officially founded in 2008 but had been running unofficially for several years beforehand.
They will be taking equipment to the locations, including digital voice recorders.
They investigate supernatural phenomena at public and private premises but stress that they do seek to get to bottom of a mystery and look for rational explanations rather than jumping to supernatural conclusions.
Lisa Cleal, one of the PIT founders, said: “A few team members are believers but we have sceptics on board as well. We look at natural causes and if we think something is due to natural causes we will say so.”
The PIT team held a paranormal investigation earlier this year when one of its findings was a voice saying ‘Charlie’ and doors opening on their own.
They go into public and private locations – and can be called in to help people with hauntings and ghostly behaviour.
Lisa said that the group carried out ‘clearings’ when there is unwanted supernatural activity.
The team’s kit includes a night vision camera and a KII meter, which detects changes in energy and electromagnetic fields.
The EVP – electronic voice phenomenon – picks up otherwise inaudible background noise.
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Duckorange
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4:37pm Mon 21 Sep 09
Polemicist
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4:53pm Mon 21 Sep 09
Duckorange wrote:I got the same experience in The Steering Wheel Club, Harbour Club, Workings Men Club and even The Wyke Social Club after a good session of ectoplasm ( Taunton Scrumpy or Devenish & Groves Wessex Ale) in The Albert, Masons Arms and The Swan ( not to mention The Lunatic Arms)...
The team might like to hear about my supernatural encounter in the Ilchester Arms. After an enjoyable evening at an excellent public house, in which I might have consumed a few pints, a poltergeist hurled me bodily to the ground in the street outside, leaving me bloodied and bruised. When I came to, I was covered head-to-toe with ecto-plasm, which, as we all know, looks surprisingly like six pints of heavy and four packets of dry roast peanuts. Then, a voice told me to "walk toward the light". So I did, and got run over by a passing moped. Then I was sick in a hedge.
That usually all ended in a good ducking/christening in the Wyke Square water trough !
Those were the days when the "boys in blue" let you get on with it, without having 6 hours of paperwork after a pointless arrest !
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Still alive to tell the story 50+ years later ! ! !
acop40
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1:57pm Tue 22 Sep 09
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Trudy Jordan, left, with members of the Paranormal Investigation Team
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Duckorange says...
1:09pm Mon 21 Sep 09
After an enjoyable evening at an excellent public house, in which I might have consumed a few pints, a poltergeist hurled me bodily to the ground in the street outside, leaving me bloodied and bruised.
When I came to, I was covered head-to-toe with ecto-plasm, which, as we all know, looks surprisingly like six pints of heavy and four packets of dry roast peanuts.
Then, a voice told me to "walk toward the light". So I did, and got run over by a passing moped.
Then I was sick in a hedge.