Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.10 "Hinchingbrooke House" Review

Hinchingbrooke House has an interesting history, which once again spans over a number of centuries from being a nunnery, priory and before that, it was home to the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, yes that Earl who invented the sandwich.  He had a mistress, Martha, who lived in the house with him and he was devastated when she was murdered outside the steps of Covant Garden Opera house, after she was shot in her head by a jealous suitor.  She is rumoured to haunt the reception room where she stayed.  Mark the historian, told of how a worker stayed the night and woke to find a monk leaning by his bedside and he ran away.  As well as workers reporting of tools being moved from the Reception room when working on the house.

Mark also recounted his own story of how he was a pupil here when the building was a school and at 17 he heard footsteps upstairs as he was going up to retrieve his books, that made him run.  As well as a man from the RAF who saw a beautiful woman in white haunting the grounds back in 1959.  But the sightings have predominately been of monks and of nuns as well.  There was a story of how one of the nuns was pregnant by a man and the prioress had them both murdered.  As Mark showed them skeletons that were found and placed in glass by the library.  But they don't know who they belong to.

The investigation began when Nick and Katrina heard footsteps on the stairs or coming from upstairs and they were very loud indeed, the loudest they have gotten in an investigation.   Same footsteps as Mark heard giving validation to what happened to him forty years ago and is still happening now.  With Katrina feeling a pain at the side of her head, which my sis said was cos of Martha and how she was shot through the head.  Nick slept on the stairs the first night as Katrina slept in the library, but they didn't get any activity through the night.

Next day they investigated and Katrina found some stairs leading to the basement.  Here they found a stream running under the house and thus could have had an effect on the energy at the house with the presence of water and especially moving water.  They set up lasers and also used the Poltercom - sorry I didn't like this device at all, it wasn't as good or as clear as the Geoport and I wonder why that wasn't used as Nick did place it by the bed during the night.  I think it would've given far better responses than the Poltercom, which unfortunately was used throughout this investigation.  Heck even the Echovox was better than this!   It seems crazy none of the old equipment was used, such as the SLS or thermal camera or the 3D mapping cam. They also used the Rem antenna sensor, which was just giving off noise when questions were asked.  Even a digital recorder would 've been handy for an EVP session.  I didn't like the use of equipment, all the type of equipment used during most of these UK investigations as it seemed 'primitive' in a way.  Yeah that's my opinion!

In the library, Katrina asked if "something violent happened to you?" as she still suffered from  the pain at the side of her head and a voice came though I heard saying" you're here to actually help me?"  As well as hearing more footsteps or something similar.
The library was the original priory and here through the Poltercom they got voices coming through of "dark man", "Black Monk;" which at one point they thought was alluding to the Black Monk House at 30 East Drive, their Hallowe'en Special investigation a few years back, but concluded it had nothing to do with it.  Katrina asked if the "Back Monk is here?" and the voice replied, "yes."  Also Nick walked around the library and he asked to be stopped.  With a voice coming through saying "stop now."  Which I don't think they heard as they made no reference to it.  "Monk and monks" came through quite a lot; as did "I'm here" on two occasions, especially in the Reception room but also whenever they used the Poltercom.   Later in the library, Katrina noticed The Woman in White, the book by Wilkie Collins on the bookshelf which she was amazed by.  Me I was surprised they hadn't heard of this book before as it's quite a famous novel and has been adapted a number of times as a film or for TV.

When Nick slept in the basement he was woken by a sound of footsteps as though someone was walking around and he followed it but he wasn't able to catch anything on camera.  As they heard "bad man" in the basement during the day and Nick getting goosebumps.  But no idea what all this was in reference to, like who was the "bad man, the dark man."  Nick set up two lasers in the basement and a voice came though saying "right behind you."  As I heard it when he was asking questions  in the basement.  Also Nick apparently gets a lot of activity in basements!

They set up a final big experiment using the light panels on the stairs, the Poltercom, the Rem antenna sensor and the plasma light panel, which would light up if there was any activity, it was kinda like a lightning bolt when Nick showed it using his hand in front of it.   The digital camera was also set to take photos at two second intervals.  Nick asks if it's on the stairs and a reply comes saying "I am."  As well as "who are you, get out."  I heard "help" coming through twice.   Nick sees a shadow on the light panel and "monks" is heard twice more.  He then asks what time period they're in and "11" can be heard.  Referring to the eleventh century.

They come down the stairs and then footsteps are heard upstairs with "monk" being said again and "come up here" again is what I heard.  Nick asks if he's the body under the stairs and gets the response" yes."  As well as "me." I.e that it's his body.  He asks if he's mad someone disrupted their grave?" and the reply is "yes."  Also asking if a man is buried here, he gets the response "monk."
The experiment on the stairs did show something walked there as the plasma panel lit the stairway and the lasers were broken.  That was the extent of the activity that was received.

Many liked this ep I just thought a lot of the eps throughout the series weren't as good or interesting as the US Paranormal Lockdown eps have been and just seemed to be routine investigations, just confirming what was already known about the locations they investigated.  There are plenty more interesting places and where more activity is reported than these ones and also their choice of equipment felt a lot was left to be desired.  I know people have their own viewpoints and opinions and I'm not taking anything away from the investigations they carried out here, but it doesn't mean that every single one brought out something different.

Note: knew I'd seen the house before as numerous productions have filmed here including the following:
For the BBC Marrying Mum and Dad
Extreme Make Overs
BBC Paranormal
BBC 2 Imagine Series with Alan Yentob
Bryan’s Upstairs Downstairs
ITV Anglia Imago Productions
A Portrait of Omai
Cromwell – Warts and All

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