Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.7 "Margam Castle" Review

This sprawling castle located in Port Talbot, Wales, boasts a history of over 4,000 years occupation, was the brainchild of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbott in 1840.  Though it is named a castle it is more a Tudor style Gothic mansion, which borrowed from the lead and stone of the nearby Abbey roof, founded in 1147 becoming occupied by Cistercian monks.  Associated with a curse surrounding the land as the supplies were used from here.  Ancient tribes buried their dead here.  The curse was said to be a result of the abbey's parts being used and befell the family with the son, Theodore falling from his horse and dying.  daughter, Emily owned the house until her death and made it into the glamorous place that it was.  Upon her death it passed to her nephew and was sold in 1941.

Known hauntings include dark shadow figures on the grounds and inside the castle, shadow figures on the stairs and the upper bedrooms.  As well as a negative presence throughout.  This was documented by a Scottish soldier in World War II as allied troops were sequestered there and they all reported seeing a glowing orange light on two consecutive nights.  What was exciting was that after their stint of investigation at the abbey, ruins, Nick, Rob and Katrina all saw an orange glow in one of the windows upon their return, which was captured by Rob's camera.

Katrina said she could feel the dark energy within the castle but that the abbey had a different feeling to it.  It was spiritual, there was a presence but it wasn't dark as it was inside the castle.  When they were exploring the grounds outside, Nick joked how if he lived here he would run around naked.  The deer were naked and he didn't understand why humans have to wear clothes!  Yeah okay Nick we get the picture!! Ha.  Animals have their own skin but they have their fur too as part of their 'clothing'.

At the staircase they heard loud banging coming from upstairs and also footsteps in the upstairs bedroom, but nothing was captured on camera.  A face has also been reported by people overlooking the balcony by the stairs.  Nick felt uneasy going up the stairs as he felt he would fall.  In the master bedroom where Christopher used to sleep and was later used by Emily, Katrina swore she saw an old woman getting out of a chair by the window where Emily used to sit, but again nothing was caught on film.

In the side bedroom where the soldiers were billeted, Nick used the Geoport and "help us" came through on it.  Not sure what that was an allusion to, but over the past eps this season, it's a phrase that has occurred frequently during their investigations.  Footsteps were heard on the stairs and after asking questions, Katrina asked for a number and "811" came through.  Referring to the year most likely to be around 1200 and the monastic era.  There wasn't any indication of who they were communicating with.  Nick spent night one sleeping on the stairs, a little dangerous so if he rolled over a bit too much from the camera angle at least, it seemed as if he could've fallen down, or could have been pushed off the cot bed.  He heard some banging sounds like a door closing and that was all.  Katrina slept in the bedroom.

Nick woke again to the sound of banging and heck he even forget to fix his hair like he usually does!  Then again he hasn't done much of that this series!!  Makes a change or maybe it's a Brit thing!  Ha.  When outside, they had a voice coming through saying "monks here."  The activity was more prevalent inside the house than the grounds.  They set up an experiment where the light was seen using a black box, allowing them to see through spectrums of light not visible to the naked eye.  The stick camera and Katrina also used a thermal camera.  Nothing visibly was captured but Emily and Theodore came through on the Geoport.

On night three, they used a still camera set to take photos at five second intervals, facing the stairs, as well as lasers.  A 3D mapping camera was used so that any images would be projected on the wall if anything appeared, but noting did.  Seems the ghosts were scared to show themselves.  Nick asked if they could see him and a voice replied, "yes."  On the Geoport they heard "it's Emily."  Thus confirmation they were communicating with her, even if no one else.  Katrina said she heard something outside and left the room for the balcony, but nothing was captured.  Wonder if anything did come through on the 3D mapping or not.  Guess they would've showed it if it did, but leaving the equipment and going off wasn't that good an idea, especially as they all went, since the noise could have been a distraction. Also there was an orb that flies through the left side of the light on Rob's camera and comes out the other end.

Oh and the bat, mustn't forget the bat that flew into them and Nick said the place was full of giant bats!

With a few hours remaining they checked their audio and the stills from the camera to show James the historian.  Katrina was intrigued by the voices saying "not enough" and "can't get enough" and asked him about it.  He replied that during Emily's lifetime the estate was worth £16 million and that was in 1918, however it was sold for a meagre amount.  Nick found a shadow figure was captured on one of the still images as in the next shot it disappears and it clearly looked like a head and shoulders.  They thought this could've been an elemental as they shift into other shapes and creatures.

Actually when you look at it close up it does look creepy!

With so much history surrounding the castle, it was difficult to distinguish who or what they were dealing with and Katrina explained how history seems to be converging in the castle, as the land dates back 4,000 years, so there are so many spirits surrounding it.

Doctor Who 11.1 "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"

                                         
I was going to give this a go and I did (typing this in a Sheffield accent - or should that read Hoodezfield).  However feelings of deja vu overtook me in how we met Doctor Eleven (Matt Smith) and even if he was my fave Doctor - all bias aside, this just didn't do anything for me.  Don't get me wrong, it's not that the Doctor's a woman but couldn't help thinking it's been done before.  He (et al) did plenty of running around in his intro ep, as did Doctor Ten (David Tennant) just to me they both brought something different to the character.  This just seemed a rehash, even down to getting a new Sonic, in this ep made by the Doctor herself and from Sheffield stainless steel cutlery!  It just had something missing.  (Won't be using that 13 number as it just haunts me anyway for reasons of bereavement).
Also there was Amy Pond dressed as a policewoman, a kissogram in her encounter with the Doctor and sorry the title wasn't very original either!

However her companions were different in some respects, although it was apparent Grace (Sharon D Clarke) wouldn't be around for long thus giving Graham (Bradley Walsh) a reason to become part of the "team."  He reminded me a little of Wilf (Bernard Cribbens) not believing in aliens and then coming across them for real and having to believe.  Perhaps even more so after losing his beloved Grace, married three years and it ends with the appearance of the Doctor!  Doesn't it always, always casualties of collateral damage who get in the way; but in all fairness do have the time of their (short-ish) lives.  The title also being an allusion to Grace in an homage, in my opinion at least.

Ryan (Tosin Cole) talks of his grandmother being a wonderful women on YouTube as we're taken back to how it all began with him trying to keep his bike straight and ride it as he has no sense of coordination.  Throwing it over the cliff in desperation, with Graham telling him he'll have to find it himself as they're late for their train.  As he finds it, he comes across what I referred to as a blue turnip!  Well it wasn't an onion.  Ryan calls for help, Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) (Yaz to her friends) a policewoman, cue Amy Pond as a kissogram, but Yaz is the real deal, wanting something more to do in her work than just sorting out two women arguing and vandalizing cars over parking.  My gripe: why is it always the name Yasmin and Khan, like there's a shortage of both Asian forenames and surnames!  Ryan tells her to touch it cos he didn't leave it there, being cold to the touch.  So later when 'Tim Shaw' says they're cold as ice why didn't her fingers get stuck to the turnip!

As Graham and Grace get cuddly on the train with Karl (Johnny Dixon) watching them, there's an intruder, a probe, with lightning streaks emanating from it.  Grace calls Ryan telling them where they're stuck and the phone cuts out, luckily he has a policeman in tow.  There's a thump and a woman falls into the train, the Doctor (Jody Whittaker).  All frazzled and hyped up, not quite rebooted yet and having a barely vague recollection of who she is.  Though the probe leaves, there's dialogue over what it was and how it's an alien.  She wonders if there have been any strange occurrences around and Graham being a bus driver, former, goes to ask his friends.  As the Doctor passes out and is left on the couch.  Grace examines her saying she's got two pulses, as energy leaves her body in
the form of her breath.

A man has stolen the turnip and taken it back to the garage as he claims it took his sister.  As the alien breaks out of the shell, he tells the man he won't see his sister again and takes care of him.  As well as another man on the street who throws his salad at him.  Inside the the garage, they find the man dead  and one of his teeth removed.  The Doctor manages to build a sonic out of Sheffield stainless steel as she doesn't have one, as fans went crazy over a woman being able to build things from scratch. This Sonic equipped with a tracking device able to find the location of the alien, as she thinks there are two making Earth their battleground, so what's new.  Graham's friend follows through on the quest of questions of unusual activity and they head to the building where she finds the rounded tentacle probe and knocks it out.  As Tim Shaw arrives, well it's a joke at her pronunciation of who it really is and he shows her his real face with teeth stuck to it.  Trophies he collects of his Vics.  She realizes he's on a hunt for humans and their targets have already been tracked and marked.  Which doesn't explain why they have DNA ticking bombs inside them.

She finds Karl is the next target who's been singled out from the train and head to his workplace.  A building site where he's inside a crane.  The Doctor decides to climb onto the other crane and then Karl can move over onto that one.  As  Tim Shaw climbs the ladder to the crane, she tells Yaz and Ryan to start the other crane.  Grace and Graham get electricity as she uses it.  Funnily enough Ryan managed to climb the ladder but couldn't ride a bike.  As the Doctor manages to trick Tim into returning home as she took his return device from his ship, Karl kicks him over the top.  The doctor telling him he didn't have any right to do that.  She also managed to neutralize the DNA bombs.  However Grace falls from the ladder and dies.

Leaving the Doctor without any proper clothes and a missing TARDIS to find.  She picks a suspenders outfit for herself, a little Mork I thought and they end up into space.  Obviously the title referring to Who but also the number of times she mentioned 'Who' and not knowing Who she is.  Not taking anything away from the character or the actress stepping into these shoes, not an easy thing to do, there were to many similarities to other Doctors as I've already said.  Even though she did try to maintain Doctor Twelve's (Peter Capaldi) persona and character for a bit, she was out of place in that and his clothes obviously.  And for the theme tune it sounded like metal rubbish bins being banged and clanged together, even if they weren't really!

As if that wasn't enough the BBC then teased the guest stars at the end, as if perhaps that may be an attempt to tempt people into watching the next ep and indeed the remainder of the series! Such as Phyllis Logan (Mrs Hughes from Downton Abbey) Chris Noth, suit 'n' all: either a Mr Big character or from Law and Order! - he was trending on Twitter! Also Mark Addy, Shane Zaza, Alan Cumming, Shobna Gulati, Siobhan Finneran, Josh Bowman (Revenge) to name a few.

I have to add that the Doctor being woman isn't a'new' concept since Joanna Lumley was also put forward for the role all the way back in 1986 by TV producer Sydney Newman but this was rejected.  Joanna played the Thirteenth Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death (1999).  Though other women were touted over the years for the ole, it didn't actually transpire until now. Other actresses at the time in 1986 included Frances de la Tour and Victoria Wood.

Vanity Fair Chapter 7 "Endings and Beginnings" Review

Back where we started.

As Becky (Olivia Cooke) prepares to leave the house, the servants and the Raggles gather in the drawing room, with Mrs Raggles (Maggie Daniels) ruing their bankruptcy and how Mr Raggles (Peter Wight) didn't get any money from her and now they're losing the property.  However this doesn't even affect Becky as she doesn't even bat an eye; instead she tells them to leave her house.  However they refuse to go until they're paid.  With Becky trying to win over Raggles again by saying they can't speak to a defenceless woman like that.  Scoffing at her calling herself defenceless! 

Poor Rawdon (Tom Bateman) is beside himself and he appeals to Bute (Mathew Baynton) to take in Rawdy since he doesn't really have a mother, mothers who are meant to be gods to their children.  He gives Bute money which is owed to Arabella Briggs (Felicity Montagu) perhaps deep down even welcoming a resolution with her, a reconciliation.  Alas he is so overwrought that he wants to challenge Steyne (Anthony Head) to a duel as he looks down upon Rawdon from his window.  Saying that he will not be able to fire a shot from so far away.  His servant tells Rawdon that he will be receiving a communique from Steyne and he refuses a challenge.  Of course he would the coward.  Even his wife, Lady Steyne (Sally Phillips) looked down on him, knowing that even if he had his way with Becky she would always keep her husband, thus allowing him his dalliances!  The communique sends Rawdon to a position as Governor General of Coventry Island, a place he hasn't heard of let alone its location.  Bute tells him it's in Africa and begs him not to accept.  Where the last Governor died a despairing death whilst he was there for only a few weeks.  Becky waits outside Bute's house and implores him for help, but Martha (Sian Clifford) doesn't let her in and Becky says she will remember her anyway even if Martha comments on her vanity, as she looks at the camera with a smirk on her face. 

Jos (David Fynn) tells Dobbin (Johnny Flynn) he's heard from his mother saying Amelia (Claudia Jessie) is to be married to the vicar and he storms out.  Mrs Peggy O'Dowd (Monica Dolan) telling him he should pursue his heart and stop the wedding.  As he thanks her for his blessing.  Amelia and Sedley (Simon Russell Beale) pay their respects at her mother's graveside and she comments on the trials she endured. However Sedley replies she wasn't very loving towards the end.  The Reverend Binny (Oliver Lansley) arrives and he and Amelia take a walk.  Dobbin arrives at the house with Jos and sees them together.  Dobbin fears it may be too late after five months of travel in taking this long to get here, but he finds Amelia is not married as the lovely new teacher arrived and saved her from that fate.

It rains and they go inside where he admits his love for her.  As she storms out, she declares it is too late since she had to endure so much and even had her son taken away.  Dobbin taking his coat off only to get wet in his shirt!  He visits with Osborne (Robert Pugh) and remarks on George and how Amelia took his son from him, but then he took her son from her.  Osborne claiming he gave the boy a good home.  Also telling him that there are many other women out there.  But none such as who have captured Dobbin's heart for an eternity.  Osborne looks at the names in the family bible he crossed off and has a heart attack.  Thus leaving everything to Georgie and to Jane (Ellie Kendrick).  She leaves to live in Bath having gotten half the state from her father and Georgie getting the other half.  Amelia can now stay with him.  She suggests they go on a holiday together and Georgie wants uncle Dobbin to come too.

As they talk of sights to visit in Pumpernickel, a caped woman walks past, whom we know is Becky (out of the Scottish Widows ad - not really) and she catches Georgie's eye.  He follows her and she looks at him in such a way as she didn't her own son!  Oh cruel woman!  She gambles and he places a bet for her making her win.  Dobbin finds him and asks if he bet and makes him promise upon his honour that he never will. (Just as his father gambled!)  Of course he doesn't recognize Becky as she's wearing a mask, but darned anyone could recognize that hussy.  Jos later comes in and she reveals her face to him.  As they walk together she recalls Vauxhall and how they had a good time there.  However he doesn't want to remember.  Dobbin also remarked about Vauxhall 13 years ago too.  Jos sees where she's living and the next morning he rushes out to see her again.

Finally telling Amelia about Becky and how she is desperate and alone.  She feigns having Rawdy taken way from her and their friendship is renewed, much to Dobbin's chagrin.  He wishes to speak with Amelia alone and she asks under whose authority.  With Becky being saved by him as she had no lock of Rawdy's hair to show Amelia.  He tells Amelia about Becky and George and that she should chose between her or him.  "You never were worthy of the lifetime of foolish love I have devoted to you."  So they part ways. Naturally she chooses Becky.  Dobbin leaves and Georgie begs him to return.

Rawdon lies on his deathbed on Coventry Island, West Africa in a raging fever and he sees Becky, calling out her name.  Alas she's far away in market looking at lace with Amelia.  But Amelia doesn't want any lace.  Sedley reads of Rawdon's death in the paper, succumbing to yellow fever.  In England, Rawdy looks at his family's graves, that of his father and uncle and as there are no other male heirs, he inherits Queens Crawley.  He gives Becky an allowance but never wants to see her again ever.  Becky comments on her son being a baronet and has all the wealth, calling herself Lady Crawley.  He was rather generous.

Amelia hears Dobbin is leaving for Calcutta with the regiment and refuses to do anything about it.  Becky says this will be her one good deed and she will do everything to ensure that she marries Dobbin who loves her.  Telling her about George and how he didn't love Amelia and would let her go, even going after Becky and she kept his note from the dance which she shows to her.  However, Amelia admits she knew what he was really like and didn't want to believe it being too proud.  She also confesses she also wrote to Dobbin earlier in the day.  As she and Georgie wait for him to return.  They marry and have a daughter back home in England and Georgie and Rawdy play together.  Arabella saying this is where she wanted to be.  Amelia saying how Dobbin only has love for their daughter now.

Becky and Jos walk to the carousel and ride it with Thackery narrating again and Becky laughing.  Thackery remarking there weren't to be any happy endings and no one was meant to be enjoying themselves.  With Becky giving another curious stare towards the camera.  Jos hating being on the carousel as he may fall off and Becky having nine lives and there's also life insurance.  As in the book he ate a lot as it is and he died a few months after they were married.  Thus she did well for herself, even as an anti-heroine.  Even if she returned to England in shame and more hated than when she left, with rumours she was the cause of his early demise.

So everyone got their happy ending and Becky saying she wasn't meant to be with anyone and how she's a survivor and grew up when she was 8.  Whereas Amelia at 30 is only now becoming a woman.  Though obviously Dobbin did still love Amelia even if he doted on their daughter.  What any father would do.  With Steyen getting his revenge on poor, dear Rawdon by giving him that post which he was fool enough to take on!  Having survived Waterloo, he was defeated at this place and suffered alone!  Yes I know it's only a book, but Rawdon should have had his happy ending too!  Seeing he was the only character who changed for the better, loved Becky unconditionally and truly and got nothing but rejection from him and was vile towards their son! Therein lies the ending of Vanity Fair.  As even Thackery tips his hat off to Becky!
Thackery: "none of us get what we want and when we do, it's never enough."

An exceptional adaptation which should have had more ratings than it did no thanks to The Bodyguard on the other side, which really didn't compare at all for me to this classic adaptation with a modern twist!  And a great cast too!  Kudos ITV on another drama well executed! 

Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.5 "Skegness Hell House" Review

As soon as they entered this house I had shades of deja vu in the sense that this location seemed familiar.  Not in likeness but in the haunting and the negative entities.  It screamed out Hinsdale and the Blackmonk House aka 30 East Drive, Pontefract and the dark forebodings and demon entities associated with those places.  Even before Nick and Katrina mentioned it and Katrina saying they've encountered this energy before.  It seems they are always called upon such locations to investigate, whether that be coincidental or intentional, or manipulation by such entities.  Even Nick and the reaction and emotions he had in the house were eerily familiar, including the dizziness and feeling of anger the entity was stirring up in him, especially in the attic.  The semi-detached house was also similar to the layout of the Pontefract house too, particularly from the outside and didn't appear particularly prepossessing.

The Antor family, Sylvia and her daughter, Jale had called upon the duo for help with a haunting in their home going back 25 years.  With them all experiencing hauntings throughout their time here.  It was as though the house, well they were attached to the house somehow and it wouldn't leave them alone.  Jale seeing a little girl and thinking she was a fellow girl she could play with, then seeing her disappear.  Sylvia had appearances in her room of a dark figure and through the mirror, which they said could be a portal.  Nick explaining the significance of mirrors which I have written about numerous times over so won't go into again.  (Sufficed to say look here for the explanations.  If you want to.)  Mirrors in short, being portals to other worlds or dimensions.  Jale also having seen a negative dark figure too.

Her brother Abrahim who slept in the front room downstairs was also affected, as was her father, Ottoman.  He was particularly affected especially when he went into the attic as if that place was calling out to him.  The family left the house three years ago and didn't sell it though and Nick and Katrina investigated what was behind the hauntings, the house or the family themselves.  Sylvia also having an aversion to the attic and not wanting to venture up there.  Obviously knew Nick would spend a night there, but those spiders dude!  What was strange and different in this ep is how they didn't have anything happen whilst asleep, aside from Nick hearing noises he said when he was in the attic.

Katrina immediately noticed the foul stench in the kitchen early on, most commonly associated with demonic hauntings.  Nick heard steps upstairs and he and Katrina felt dizzy at the same time.  As well as using the Geoport they got the word "run", which was heard twice by me.  As well as the name "Lucien."  Again this was a name associated with the devil, Lucifer, and dominated the Geoport sessions.  Investigating the attic where Ottoman would pass out, Nick asked if Lucien was here and he got the reply, "he lay down."  Nick slept in Sylvia's room on the first night wearing an EGG to monitor his brain pattern.  He said he dreamed about a dark man.  When examined there was some unusual peaks on his brainwave activity and this was when he wasn't moving whilst asleep.  Katrina saying he was interpreting that activity when he was asleep thus the spikes.  Used in 1.2 Anderson Hotel ep of Paranormal Lockdown.  In this, it was explained that if there are spikes in brainwave activity then there was something around that attacks them when they're vulnerable and in that dream stage, especially.

They got "Lucien" again on the Geoport and also I heard a voice say "Sylvia said this..."  A clue to the hauntings but they didn't seem to have heard this come through.  Not until later do they find that Sylvia directly contributed to the haunting and the activity the family experienced.  They decided to conduct an experiment in Sylvia's room using mirrors, lasers and the LED light panel.  And a trifield meter.  Nothing was caught aside from the trifield meter going off and a stick figure suddenly appeared next to Katrina when she was standing next to the mirror on the wardrobe.  Which Nick said could explain a portal or a doorway for an entity to come through.  The Geoport had voices coming through with words "Sylvia", "Antor" and "Lucien" again.

Whilst they were conducting the mirror experiment, Katrina taunted by saying the entity should do something more and they felt the house rumble and shake.  Asking about who sent the entity here, they got the response, "Beelzebub": a higher demon or the word for devil.  Very prominent in Shakespeare's time, for anyone not familiar with it.  (I've heard that come through in EVPs in other shows too such as Ghost Adventures.)  But I also heard "hell" intertwined.

Jale returned next day and the Geoport voice said "Jale" and then "Lucien" again, which she said she had heard before in her dreams but wasn't aware of its meaning.  Clearly her presence there sparked more activity later on.  More equipment was set up including shadow trackers and also a motion detector.  Nick felt something touch him and again voices on the Geoport referred to "Lucien" and "he did it."  As well as "mama" and "mother opened it."  An obvious allusion to Sylvia.  When the pair returned, Sylvia said when she was 12 she had taken part in a Ouija board session where a glass was placed on the board and it lit up.  She saw a dark figure but not wearing a priest's collar and it said it wanted "you."

Ottoman's father used to 'help' people in his village by conjuring up spirits for them and Jale mentioned the broad beans and spilling then when she was little.  Then she ran to her room and hid under the bed which was her first time experiencing activity when she visited by the girl.  An obvious sign of demonic activity.  Thus the family and its "lineage" as Nick and Katrina said, had caused the haunting.  They should move on from this and think positively and put it behind them.  Now they know what is behind it.  Also looking to sell the house and leave this chapter behind.

This episode was a little less daunting and harowing than the other places mentioned, although not for the family, but in terms of the investigation; as at least they can begin to get closure now.  With Nick and Katrina being able to help them.  Also highlighting again the dangers associated with using a Ouija board and especially as a child, not knowing how to conduct a proper session and then closing it afterwards.  But again why dabble in that to begin with, know children aren't aware of the threats and menace associated with it but such things are better left alone.

Okay so those who know me Know that I'm a dab hand at deciphering EVPs but also that I usually see lots of faces and stuff like that in pictures, videos etc.  So it's no shock that I see a face in the photo of the house, as shown here.
Sorry the pic quality's not so good been having probs with screenshots lately!  More gremlins in the works!!

Vanity Fair Chapter 6 "In Which A Painter's Daughter Meets A King" Review

Becky (Olivia Cooke) meets with Lord Steyne (Anthony Head) [or Stain is more apt] and he gives her a diamond necklace to wear for her audience before the king.  Of course there's a price to be paid for this and she also gets money to pay for the rent and servants out of the bargain, which she hoards away into her box and doesn't pay them.  Along with all the shawls she has and even gets a new dress made for the occasion, as well as feathers as the king loves those.  But Arabella (Felicity Montagu) does not leave her side even when Becky hints at making dresses out of curtains.  (Many will see this as a reference to Gone With The Wind and how Margaret Mitchell was said to have based that on Vanity Fair.  Of course there were similarities between characters, I tend not to agree and she also denied that too.)
Obviously Rawdon (Tom Bateman) is too trusting of her and can't see that she has all this money and is a devoted father to Rawdy (Rafferty Railton) whom Becky can't stand.  In stark contrast to Amelia (Claudie Jessie) who dotes on Little Georgie (Arthur Bateman) no matter what she must do for him in terms of making ends meet and selling her shawl to buy him things.

Amelia's mother (Claire Skinner) is upset at how Amelia accuses her of being a murderer when she gives Georgie awful medicine for his upset stomach.  Her father (Simon Russell Beale) has gone from selling coal to selling cheap plonk and they are paid a visit by the Reverend Binny (Oliver Lansley) in order for Amelia to send Georgie to school.  Naturally she refuses and says she will home school him, as well as having bought books for him already.  Meanwhile in India, Dobbin (Johnny Flynn) bought the cheap stuff by the crateful and Jos (David Fynn) is very vocal about this.  Mrs O'Dowd (Monica Dolan) wanting Dobbin to meet her sister-in-law, Glorvina (Alison Pargeter) a plump woman whom Jos appears to take a liking to, or not and refuses to take her off Dobbin's hands and dance with her.

At dinner, Sedley can take the quarrelling no more and confesses he does get money from Jos for the coal and wine but he lost it to investors.  prompting Amelia to give up Georgie in order to support her family in light of her mother's outburst of how Georgie could have had a gold pocket watch.  Jane  Osborne (Ellie Kendrick) takes him away and he tells her he may see her for a visit soon.  In contrast Becky can't stand the sight of Rawdy and she listens to Steyne when he says he should go away to school and be well looked after.  She tells Rawdon he can come and visit on Sunday.  She also sends Arabella away to some respectful family.  All after Pitt (Martin Clunes) dies whilst chasing after a servant in the snow and as if to add insult to injury, Rawdon is once again left with £100 from him.  Bute (Mathew Baynton) getting everything.  With them both having to go the house and all Becky manages to salvage is an old dress along with a few other things in her chest.
Martha (Sian Clifford) dismisses the servants and comments how it is awful being rich.

Becky meets Lady Steyne (Sally Phillips) and once again Becky spoke of being a painter and opera singer's daughter and is going places. She mentions how Steyne should be entertained politically and finally gets her audience with the king.  That she now thinks will open doors for her in society and becoming a social climber.  Later she meets Steyne for their rendezvous and he can't wait to get his claws into her.  Rawdon plays the piano when she gets home and he tells her next time she will go to parties and accept invitations only with him and he will escort her  Becky feigning the party being dull.  She gets another invitation and can't find anything to wear slapping Rawdy as he's playing with her feathers. When next they dine with Steyne, Becky is shunned by the snooty wealthy women and that includes Lady Bareacres (Elizabeth Berrington) who turns her nose up at her and walks away.  Lady Steyne asks Becky to play for her and remarks on how they envy Becky's youth and pity her.  Becky commenting how she also has brains.  As the men hear the piano play Steyne enters the room remarking on how he thought his guests would applaud the fine piano playing.  Which they are forced to do.
When they leave, Rawdon walks back home and is 'arrested' by his creditors having to spend the night there.

Meanwhile Becky entertains Steyne and ignores Rawdon's letter of bringing him the £70 for the dressmaker's debt and asking her to give them time to pay.  However she doesn't come and he is forced to write to Bute for money.  He pays his debt and asks if Rawdon contacted Becky first, but she didn't come.  When Rawdon gets home he hears the two in the parlour and he loses his temper.  Becky arguing she's innocent and Steyne throwing back in Rawdon's face how he gave her money and jewels and how Rawdon pimped her out.  Rawdon strikes him and throws the necklace at him as Steyne calls her a whore.  He searches the room and finds her box with her hoarded wealth.  He shared everything with her and she had more than enough to get him out of debt.  He will send some money to Arabella and send the rest back from whence it came.  Becky saying she believed she did love him once.

As we know it was nothing but lies from her even when Rawdon said she'd have been better off  marrying his father who died without even seeing his grandson.  Rawdon now being indebted to Bute but also finally realizing how wrong he was about her, when she couldn't even love her son.  In sharp contrast to Amelia and how she lost everything but retained her dignity and self respect.  But then it's what they say, or I did, if you have no respect to begin with...

How Becky kept mentioning Steyne being in charge of the powder closet!!  Which Rawdon confessed he didn't even know what that was.  Becky still did not heed Lady Steyne's advice when she told her how "children grow old, friends grow cold and husbands endure."  They stick by; which is all that Rawdon's ever done for Becky and at the cost of alienation from his family and the life of comfort he was used to.  Thus becoming a true friend, man and husband under the circumstances, as he could have remained the womanizer he was reported to be and kept his allowance and would've also received an inheritance twice over!

Great episode out of all of them and how secrets were out for Sedly, for Becky too as Amelia and Rawdon were left heartbroken for their respective losses!  A bit of a Jekyll and Hyde moment for Rawdon and I thought that when he was standing on the steps as they left Steyne's place how he reminded me of the characters (when Tom starred in the ITV drama) and sure enough he changed as soon as he arrived home and found them together! 
Final ep next week when things will finally fair (no pun) in one direction or another.

Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.6 "Newsham Park Hospital" Review

This ep was shown as there were technical issues with 1.5 thus out of order, but will be aired next week.

Newsham Park located in Liverpool, was originally built in 1874 and was specifically for the purposes of housing orphans of seamen lost at sea.  Leading to all manner of cruel punishment and a tough, harsh life for these orphans even having to endure separation and being sent to the punishment floor if they spoke out.  Queen Victoria visited the orphanage twice and a Royal seal was awarded after a visit there.  The hospital was also opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's son who was also a sailor.  It then became a  hospital in 1954 and housed some of the more criminally insane including allegedly Ian Brady, one half of the Moors Murder duo.  It then became a psychiatric hospital in 1992 until finally being closed down.

Reportedly one of the most sinister locations in England.  A place Nick and Katrina had been researching for a while and wanting to get in there to investigate.  With so much going on behind closed doors there was bound to be plenty of activity, including demonic rituals carried out here in the chapel and other areas.  The original owner commenting on finding bones and teeth.  Katrina also found a makeshift Ouija board on one of the original tables.  Thus giving it all sorts of energy and allowing anything evil to come through.


They were led on a quick tour by historian Paul who showed them where the orphans would eat their meagre meal and where there have been reports of footsteps, running and shadow figures.  There where also shown a slab where DBs would be laid and some investigators even used a Ouija board on it.  Was that really necessary especially since it's widely accepted you can never tell what will come through and also if the session isn't properly closed.  One reason for the so-called evil activity of the place.  The basement boasts of light anomalies and also a headless man in white.  Perhaps this was the man they got coming through on the Geoport whilst they conducted an experiment using the Hazer, which omitted smoke and the LED light panel, when a voice came through saying, "I lost my head...saw."  Nick thinking it could have been accidentally sawn off like during an autopsy or an accident.  They also got the name "Sid" coming through twice.

Nick used the EchoVox to scan through voices phonetically, as well as using a thermal camera.  With hardly anything coming through they went to the third floor and Nick saw a shadow figure here and heard footsteps as well as a banging door.  Putting it more down to children rather than anything darker.  A lot of running around was heard but again nothing was caught on camera, which is getting to be commonplace now.  You'd think with so much technical equipment they would catch something on camera.  Sadly not even Rob caught anything this time!  The only word Nick heard was "abuse."

Nick chose to spend the first night in the morgue (again) and didn't get anything except for a banging sound which he thought was a chair.  Swearing he doesn't want to spend another night in a morgue until he dies!  They investigated the tower which had a lot of bird droppings which made Katrina swear and it was painful to climb the stairs.  Either it was dangerous or she said it might be environmental factors which made her feel uneasy.

In the basement they set up the hazer and lasers and a still camera taking stills every five seconds.  Nick had some responses here, re the losing head comment and the light panels were going on and off quite frantically, more so than they've done before.  Both thought they saw something trying to manifest in the smoke and a white outline was seen in a photo taken by the stills camera.  I kept looking at the left side of the door and was sure there appeared to be something there, but perhaps it was just the smoke.  See pictures below where they saw a white figure. Personally it wasn't really that apparent anything was actually there.
In the first pic below I can see two faces one on the left corner behind the door and one in the right corner behind the right door, looks almost bearded the one on the right, a kinda laughing Nick to me!!  Ha. The arrow was where I kept looking.

Though I do have to ask why when they were reviewing the evidence the next day, they sat with the windows behind them cos there was quite a bit of light and reflection from the windows reflecting off the computer screen.  So it was hard to see if there was anything actually there.  Nick said the experiment was being carried out for the first time using the hazing machine.  It was a first for the UK but the haze generator has been used before in Paranormal Lockdown episode 3.8 Beattie Mansion when Elizabeth Saint came in to help them with it and she saw a dark figure break the laser beam.

Nick slept on the floor above and Katrina in the main hall but nothing happened during the night.  However before Nick went to sleep and after he set up his cot, an orb could be seen appearing from the left side of the door.  Also there were orbs in the main hall where Katrina was sleeping, just before she speaks to the camera.

On the final night they investigated the punishment hall where footsteps where heard and a child's voice came through saying, "I want my daddy."  Sadly many of the children were never to leave here or see their parents again which broke Nick's heart in particular.  Another voice said "let me out".  They seem to capture this phrase quite a lot and have done so in 4 out of 5 of their investigations at least.  "He's coming back" was also heard on the Geoport and it could be a child waiting for someone to return for them.

They decided that the activity isn't dark or as evil as people have said and mostly children, aside from the basement where they do believe something dark lurks there.  Ah well if nothing else be amused at Nick's pronunciation of NewSham as "Newshim."  And Rob got beeped before the first ad break, so much for letting the expletives remain!  HA.
Next ep is the one originally scheduled for this week  Skegness Hell House.

Vanity Fair Chapter 5 "In Which Battles Are Won and Lost" Review

                                                 
As the war rages on, Becky (Olivia Cooke) is out to make money however she can and in this instance it's by selling Rawdon's (Tom Bateman) prized horses, as they haven't been requisitioned since she's hiding them away in a stable.  Watching Lady Bareacres (Elizabeth Berrington) sitting in a carriage without any horses tethered to it.  Jos (David Fyn) is also in search of horses as they fear the French invasion.  However Amelia (Claudia Jessie) is overcome with George's (Charlie Rowe) departure with worry for him.  Obviously Becky doesn't feel that way as Rawdon is a Captain he would be at the General's side whilst the other man go into battle.  Becky reminds Jos of his sister and taking her with him.

Lady Bareacres sends her maid to enquire about selling the horses but as Becky sips tea, she is surprised she would send a servant to do her bidding.  However her two rubies she wore to the ball aren't enough to entice her to sell; as Lady Bareacres concedes she would invite Becky and her betters to the hall back home.  Becky refuses since what she is offering is not enough for even her betters had she any.  As Becky watches from the balcony Lady Bareacres stumbles and falls in the wet ground, only to sit in the empty carriage in the rain.  Becky sells the horses to Jos as she also tells him he looks like a military man in his attire and the French will see this when they invade.  She takes everything that Jos has and he rides away leaving Amelia behind as she refuses to leave.  Becky throwing the money into the air and rolling in it, well more lying than rolling but you get the picture.

As George and Dobbin (Johnny Flynn) ride into the woods, they are soon attacked by the French troops and must stand their ground.  Finally making camp in the rain as General Tufto (Richard Dixon) demands Rawdon find him Waterloo on the map.  Dobbin telling George he would kill everyone of those men on the hill if he had the chance, with George mimicking gunfire.  Amelia hears the cannon fire has stopped and the guns are silent for now.  The wounded men are brought back and Ensign Stubble (Jack Loxton) tells Amelia that George is fine.  As the troops further prepare for the Battle of Waterloo.  The General saying the men will be attacked by the cavalry and will be cut down.  They fight and Dobbin tries to rescue a wounded soldier on the field as the order to fire is given, George countermanding it until Dobbin returns.  Later as they began another march into battle, George cries "the time is now..." and is shot down.

As the news reaches Amelia, she cuts her hair and is driven away in the carriage as they cross paths with Sedley (Robert Pugh.  Dobbin speaks with him but he refuses to budge on the issue of accepting Amelia and even his own grandson.  As Sedley remarks on how "better men have died" and Dobbin repeats this in reference to George.  As they return home, Becky too has a son, Rawdy, whom Rawdon adores but she doesn't tend to him.  She sent French souvenirs and a letter to Aunt Matilda (Frances de la Tour) in the hopes she may forgive him and offer them money.  However when they arrive back, she dies not even hearing Becky whens he tells her in desperation how she loves Rawdon and to forgive them for their past actions.  Becky takes it upon herself to find them a place by throwing herself in tears at the mercy of Mr Raggles (Peter Wight) who offers them his property in Mayfair to rent.

Rawdon can't afford this place and at the reading of the will, he is only left those very same souvenirs and a meagre £100 with everything going to his brother, Bute (Mathew Baynton).  As Martha (Sian Clifford) and Pitt (Martin Clunes) smirk at Becky's prospects and what could have been for her if she married him.  Becky suggests Rawdon should get on the good side of Bute now.  As well as proposing they should use their rooms to play cards in a well-respected home to earn money.  Even Arabella (Felicity Montagu) got £600.

Dobbin looks after Amelia and Little Georgie with toys and tells her he's leaving for India but doesn't know how long he'll be gone.  She writes to him and he writes to Jane (Ellie Kendrick) imploring her to get Sedley to help her for the sake of his grandson.  Jane spies upon Georgie in the park and tells Sedley he should visit him since he resembles George.  Which he does and Amelia reluctantly lets him visit with him.  Later Sedley writes he will return the money to her that rightfully belonged to George if she gives up his grandson and she refuses.  Even though her parents think she should do this.  Then they too can live off the wealth.

Rawdon wins at cards and Becky won't stop her singing to look after their son.  As he does so Lord Steyne (Anthony Head) enters and Becky is enamoured to meet with him.  Still searching for a way to make more money.  Their fortunes are not so rife as both have had babies and need to make their way in the world.  The difference being Amelia actually wanted Georgie but Becky does not want Rawdy.  Well woman didn't you know you would get with child!  The depiction of the battle showing how pointless and futile war really is, even if a necessity at times.  Steyne#s entrance was typical in moustache twirling fashion and draped in his cloak, entering with menacing intentions!

Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.4 "Abandoned Park Hotel" Review

Another haunted location being a hotel, think these are top of the list as far as investigations are concerned, where Nick and Katrina try to help out a new owner, Martin.  Hey this hotel can't be classed as abandoned if it's been bought and other paranormal groups investigate here.  Shadow figures, disembodied voices such as screams have been heard by people.  Martin's property manager even caught a face on CCTV which resembled a devil face.  So ominous even before the investigation began.  With a man murdering his wife, Emma and then hanging himself in the tower, as well as other suicides.  A lot of the activity at the hotel was residual balanced against intelligent responses; with the spirits just going about their daily activities.  Even capturing a conversation where the man and woman appeared to be oblivious to their presence.  That breakfast reminiscent of the one from Paranormal Lockdown 1.6 Kreischer Mansion where at least Edward tried to communicate with them and the Geoport was turned off on him!

This hotel was the brainchild of Edmund Park who carried out seances here and ended up disappearing.  Some believed he was murdered and he cursed the hotel as are the rumours throughout the town.  His spirit is said to haunt the hotel, well if he practised in the dark occult then perhaps he was a victim of his own dark doings.  Other legends include the drowned body of a soldier being brought to the hotel and how his spirit haunted here too.  Many of the rooms have oppressive feelings.

As for that scream they heard to me it sounded like a cry for "help!"  Rather than just a scream.  Have listened to it many times now and it does sound like rounded letters, a word than just a scream.  Also it sounds more like a child, doesn't sound like an older woman. At first I thought it could have been Emma, but again the voice is too child-like than an adult.  Not any activity in figures at all this time round, except for something trying to manifest itself on the final night with the 3D imaging camera, but the stick figure never fully materialized.  Perhaps it didn't have enough energy or just didn't want to show itself.

Voices on the audio phonetics included "up here" and "come down" leading them a merry dance it seemed.  On day 2 they conducted an experiment where Katrina would wear headphones and listen to any voices coming through.  With Nick going to a different part and asking questions.  An experiment Nick carried out with Elizabeth Saint in Ghosts of Shepherdstown episode 2.4 I'm You're Biggest Fan at the Old Opera House and the results were surprising and completely corresponded with the Q&A session! Similar happened here too.  Nick asked the spirit to go to the tower and tell Katrina.  She heard "I'm Here" and "it's bright."  That could mean the bright light coming into the tower as it was day, or it could mean she's somewhere with bright lights around her. 

On the second day when Nick came to wake up Katrina, a door shut on him and still Katrina couldn't be moved from getting up from her sleeping bag, she said she was too tired!  Right Nick you know who you can rely on for help!  Ha.  Then the ballroom door also shut on them later, so it was apparent something or someone didn't want them there, coupled with the voices that told them to "get out" etc.  That voice that said "shut up bitch" on the audio when Nick was in that room downstairs.  Also asking her "if she wanted to find out" in a threatening manner!  Rude much!

They set up more audio and a female voice came through saying "I'll get you."  Katrina saying it resembled that of a witch.  A male voice was heard to say "that's the witches" and "the witch of..." That was remarkable as the Pendle witches were hanged not far from here and Martin's friend said how some witches were her ancestors.  Thus were probably trying to communicate with her in Katrina's view.

I like investigations with more activity, I know and where can actually see things manifest and captured and I know that's not possible all the time in every investigation, but some of these eps just end up giving validation to what is already known and nothing new appears so that the level of investigations and new findings can be researched and taken further.  Everything just stems around what is known.  I'm not blaming anyone for that, it's just the nature of the investigation and you have to make do with what you find.  Spirits are unpredictable.

Vanity Fair Chapter 4 "In Which Becky Joins Her Regiment" Review

                                               
This ep sees Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) putting her feminine wiles to full use as she attempts to gather money for herself (more for herself than Rawdon) and in the process Amelia (Claudia Jessie) realizes her true colours.  Well, finally as George (Charlie Rowe) makes a move on Becky!  Of course she wouldn't go after a mere pauper since his father now disowns him and only provides him with £2,000 severance pay.  Severance as he disowns him as his son and heir and removes his name from the family bible!  As he tells the servants to set a plate for George everyday in the hopes of seeing him return and begging for more money and erm his forgiveness.  Which I doubt Osborne Senior (Robert Pugh) would even give.  As George's sister, Jane (Ellie Kendrick) tells their father he should forgive George but he doesn't see himself as being in the wrong.  He even says this to Dobbin (Johnny Flynn) as he too believes that since they are on the eve of leaving for Belgium and war, that he should at least consider communicating with his son.  However Osborne makes a remark about pistols at dawn prompting Dobbin to leave.  Well he did his best and it was more so for Amelia than George since she will have scarce now't to live on. 

Poor Amelia (literally and metaphorically) can't see anything wrong with George and how he consummately despises her.  Of course he does, she cost him his fortune and holds Dobbin to blame for this too.  Dobbin brings the letter to George whilst they are at port and he holds noting but contempt for Dobbin for allowing him this fool's folly.  However, Dobbin would have Amelia in a heartbeat!

Now to Miss Sharp and how she and Rawdon (Tom Bateman) sneak off in the morning without paying their rent or any of their bills.  Rawdon complaining of needing a valet to dress him.  But fear not as Becky has a plan.  Not only did Rawdon manage to get George into further debt after gambling but she is determined that he should pay that £2,000 towards his debt.  Amelia not being able to understand why George frets so over the money as she thinks it's adequate.  But this isn't the life of luxury that George is used to.  Becky adding that it is a mere foot soldier's salary.  George further vexed when Dobbin tells him that he will have to live on his soldier's pay!  Perish the thought!

As they arrive in Belgium, it's not long before Rawdon and Becky entice George into another card game and Amelia knows that Rawdon is a very good player.  As Becky further flirts with George by lighting his cigar for him and telling him how she loves the smell of it. That was a line she also used to ensnare Rawdon too in episode 2!  General Tufto (Richard Dixton) also is beguiled by Becky and her charms, or rather her developed bust, as they attend the opera.  George not having any money to buy Amelia a bouquet and then has the nerve to ask why everyone has one except for her.  Amelia having befriended the wife of Major O'Dowd (Patrick Fitzsymons) Peggy O'Dowd (Monica Dolan).  However, all eyes are upon Becky in her new red dress as she and Rawdon sit in the General's box.  George waves to her and she waves back which doesn't go unnoticed by Amelia.  During the interval it's all George can do to stumble over to the box, just as the General is getting overtly friendly with her.  She thanks George for rescuing her and Rawdon invites him to another card game.

George also trying to impress people he believes are worthy of his company, i.e the wealthy parents of Lady Bareacres (Elizabeth Berrington) who snobs as as they are turn their noses up at Amelia and George too.  Yet he doesn't see that they don't want anything to do with him.  George telling Amelia they are wealthy and their daughter will marry a Duke by blood.  However George is a tiresome cad as he refuses to defend his wife for every insult they throw at her.  Even asking Lady Bareacres to save dances for him on her dance card and ignoring Amelia when she asks him to save one for her.

George even buys a bouquet for Becky and smuggles a note in there.  As Jos Sedley (David Fyn) arrives having a fearful journey on the boat and isn't invited to the dance.  Becky introduces Rawdon as her husband.  As the General gives her an even bigger bouquet.  Rawdon tells Sedly to remove the moustache as it's only reserved for soldiers.  Amelia is out of place at the dance and George deserts her as usual, as he asks Becky to dance.  Becky having told Amelia she should put her foot down and tell George to stop gambling if that's the case.  As gone are the times where women had to be girls all the time.  Even telling Amelia to dance with George.  Becky dances with George and Dobbin turns up to 'comfort' Amelia. 

Napoleon is at the outskttrs of Brussels and the men must leave the next day as they get their marching orders.  Becky tells Rawdon to come home with medals so they can flaunt them in his aunt's face.  That's the only few words she has for him.  Before he leaves for the night, he tells her that marrying her was the one thing that ever made him happy and still does.  But she hasn't got any such words for him.  In fact she reads the note from George confessing his love for her and stores it in the letter box Amelia gave her like a fanciful trinket!  The nerve!  Amelia cries alone as George isn't there and Dobbin urges him to go and see her when he's sitting outside Becky's window getting drunk.  Becky doesn't even notice him!

Next day they leave and Becky's fast asleep when Amelia can barely stand.  Dobbin tasks Jos with looking after Amelia and Becky bursts in to see Jos and asks if he's going into battle too with his military coat.  She wants him to look after her too, with a nod towards the camera again.  As Amelia tells her to leave.  She was poor and she befriended Becky but she treats her with betrayal and flirting with George, regardless of whether anything happened or not, it was the intentions behind the flirting and forgetting Amelia that was the point.  As Becky ventures out, cannon fire is heard and she doesn't know what that is as the battle commences next episode.  With Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill playing at the end of this week's episode as the soldiers march into war...(Not sung by Kate though!)

Becky finds herself alone but that shouldn't last long.  But strange turn of events as George now covets Becky, more lust methinks, whereas he couldn't stand her before and how Amelia realizes what she is really like and sees her in her true light.  When Amelia also questions her over whether she really does love Rawdon and she can't answer that, not in the same way Amelia loves George, albeit foolishly, she is still devoted to him and her marriage.  Whereas we know, Becky is looking out for her next meal ticket and ways of getting money coming in, such as presents from the General and of course shamelessly accepting them.  Funny moment when Jane thinks Dobbin has come to propose to her and he realizes he's used the wrong choice of words.  I say everyone was after Dobbin in some way or another!  Ha. 

Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.3 "Royal Oak Pub, Swanage" Review

Royal Oak Pub was a series of cottages which were built in the seventeenth century and became a pub later on.  From the outset there was something a little off about this episode I have to say.  The fact that the current owner Rachel used to work here when little and before she became the 13th owner.  Her friend and psychic medium Terri, knew that Rachel would buy the pub one day and they hold paranormal investigations there.  However they also said that before Rachel became owner there was no reported activity there.  So they had circles and seances and bought in the entities and spirits, including something ark and negative.  However other reports indicate that there was a history of hauntings there.

One of the residents of the pub was the Stevens family and Jack Stevens bought in his sister-in-law Mary when his wife died.  Though it wasn't stated how she died here.  Lots of voices coming through on the Geoport mentioning "the baby" and "what happened to the baby..."  As well as some French too which Katrina believed could be the presence of a soldier.  She translated the words on an app which were said via Geoport to "roche" meaning rock.  I heard "ici" too meaning "here."  As well as other voices saying "he killed her."  Aggressive male voice almost tyring to prevent the timid female from coming through and speaking!
Other voices said: "let me out," I will never forget.."  Perhaps in reference to what happened to the baby.  The impression that she was forced to have a baby and then have it taken away from her, whoever she was.  Since "you lost your baby" came through.

Nick saw a dark mass earlier on and this wasn't captured on camera.  Now is the time to wear some GoPros or other portable cameras since we would like to see what's happening before the handheld is able to catch anything or is aimed in the general direction, cos come on guys, it is all about investigating!  Nick's name "Nick's here" also came through later on when they were in the upstairs bedroom known as the Vortex Room, as there appeared to be some sort of portal or gateway there.  Katrina saw a flickering light reflecting off the candle holder in the Vortex Room where she slept the first night and that's what I saw too when she said she was woken during the night, before she said it.  Nick slept in the second floor hallway and nothing was caught there.  Katrina slept there too the second night and still they got nothing!

Nick used the Paranormalagies box for the voices and the Pint sensor in the bar, a last minute light gadget made by Elizabeth Saint to light up when the pint glass was touched.  Which it was and the various bumps and noises were heard.  Knew that one was Elizabeth's - can tell these things!  Aside from the voices they caught, nothing else was actually captured on camera.  To me this one seemed like a bit of a waste of time, so much for the owner wanting to confirm what they were seeing.  But it didn't seem that interesting an investigation to me.  Perhaps one that could have been foregone in favour of somewhere else, or one where the owner genuinely needed help.

It appears the spirits were agitated and wanted to be left alone, especially when a female voice came through saying "let me rest."  It does appear that Rachel and Terri have stirred up activity there whereas the spirits just want to be left in peace and Nick saying they should let them decide what they want to do.  It appears they are happy for the activity to continue, no comment on that from me.  As for being labelled one of the most haunted pubs: I wouldn't quite agree!