Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.9 "Kenton Theatre" Review

One of England's most haunted theatres, the Kenton Theatre at Henley-on-Thames which has been around for a long time which boasts the ghost of  Mary Blandy who poisoned her father with arsenic in 1751. However she maintained the mixture was a love potion sent to her by her married lover, Captain William Henry Cranstoun.  The play The Hanging Tree based one her life was performed here and after this, the cast have seen the ghost of Mary, described as a woman in grey.  There are also other paranormal hauntings associated with the theatre and just not limited exclusively to Mary.  Katrina was enthusiastic about investigating here as she was a Theatre Major in college and has investigated other theatres too.  Agree in that theatres do have a history of hauntings and especially by many of the actors who used to work at the theatre.  (Mary's ghost is also said to haunt Oxford Castle.)

Voices coming through of crying, "William" - could that have been Mary's lover William? And Nick also caught "Murderer".  They caught the voices saying "they did" when they ask if that was Mary they heard.  Nick saw a shadow figure but they couldn't capture anything on camera which was nothing new and a shame.  As well as Rob seeing something too near the balcony area but again it wasn't caught on camera.  Don't think Katrina got anything on the digital camera since she didn't just point and shoot when the shadow figure was spotted and I don't know if she actually took any stills when she wasn't being filmed on camera as they didn't mention this again.

There's an orb that flies into Nick from the right of the screen into his left side, could it have been Mary?  (See below.)

Nick slept on the stage as he was drawn to the energy there and got a cool EVP on the digital recorder he left on all night with "get up Nick." I thought it sounded a little more "get out" as in: the stage and theatre doesn't belong to him.  Will re-watch this again anyway as always.  Katrina slept on the balcony but didn't have anything happen except getting a cosy night's sleep (as always ha!)
Next night she slept in the orchestra pit where one of the theatre workers caught a ghostly face on his mobile which they said could have been Mary.  Didn't look very female to me.  Nick slept on the catwalk where he didn't get anything either but he did manage to fix his hair for a first this series, more so since he was rather tired.

Other voices that came through on the Geoport included: "she did" in response to whether they heard something or not.  As Nick climbed to the catwalk he heard the trap door closing behind him and a voice saying"close it."  As well as asking "who's she?" when he climbed up, probably in reference to Katrina.  Katrina commenting Nick couldn't do the 'mirror exercise' when she was getting him to try some acting techniques on the stage!  Well he's no actor, otherwise can you imagine all the more flak he'd get for what he does, like he needs anymore!

Using an alarm on the curtain they actually caught it moving and as I tweeted that it looked like something was walking past there which was what Elizabeth, the historian, also told them at the end when they showed her the evidence.  She also informed them of how people have said Mary shows herself by taking on the form of an orb and then manifests into a kind of blob (to use Katrina's word) but doesn't get to form a full figure.  This was endorsed by the 'blob' they caught on the camera as a black mass trying to manifest which I said looks like a woman's figure attempting to take shape and form.  My reference to see below from above pic, as the orb caught by Nick on stage.

As soon as it tries to manifest, it vanishes!  Cool watching it unfold on screen.
As well as "sick", "disease", need money" all coming through as well on the Geoport.  Mary came through a few times and the name "Sarah;" showing this wasn't always a place associated with Mary.  Elizabeth later telling them the place was also used to hand out social benefits to people including money.  Sure I heard other voices such as "upstairs" when asked who they were talking too and if it was Mary.

This ep reminded me a lot of the season 2 Ghosts of Shepherdstown season 2.4 episode I'm Your Greatest Fan where they managed to catch some great evidence there too.  See my review here.
https://mila255.blogspot.com/2017/08/ghosts-of-shepherdstown-24-im-youre.html

Since theatres also have a fascinating history of performances in general and also of hauntings associated with them.  Elizabeth spoke of how Mary was probably trying to tell her story but the people who saw her were too afraid to hear it.  Her cropping up at the theatre especially after the performance of the play about her, was perhaps a chance for her to be heard.  Interesting to hear of what other results Elizabeth comes up with in her research in the future.  The story of Mary is interesting and a must read for anyone interested in such history.  Especially as the men seem to get away with quite a lot and Mary being hanged for patricide.  Would she really have killed her father intentionally particularly since she didn't have that sort of a character from all accounts and was considered very intelligent and articulate.