Show Notes and Photographs: My Paranormal Sleepover

Posted on by Natalie Doig

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The outside of the Golden Pheasant it's pale cream in colour with wonky windows and slope to the right. The doors are white and pale green. The sign is gold and writing is gold saying The Golden Pheasant.
The Golden Pheasant outside

The Layout of the pub

Olie a tall man with dark hair and moustache playing acoustic guitar sitting at a wooden bar in a dark pub the only light is on him.
The bar

Here’s an photo of the bar with Olie Campbell playing guitar and singing at 2am in an attempt to coax some ghostly singing from the spirits.

A window onto the high street with a round table and larger table in front of it inside the pub.
The front of the main bar area.
A settee with rectangular table in front and chairs. Above the settee is a dart board and shelf. (There is a gnome in a rocking chair on the shelf.)
The back of the bar area where Tom slept and had the nightmare

Below is the view over to the bar from the area where Tom has his nightmare (and me with some ghosts.) Carl the barman is standing where Tom’s nightmare figure was standing. Tom’s nightmare happened before this picture was taken.

Nat sitting on a bar stool at the bar smiling she is surrounded by semi translucent mainly older men.
Ghosts photo by Joby Sessions of One Twenty Pictures
A narrow passage with stone flags as the floor and the sign to the gents toilet.
The passageway
The back of the pub looking towards the cellar doors which are in the ground at a slope. There are empty barrels around and a window into the pub.
The cellar entrance
The whole of the back yard of the pyb with a canopy above some of it and rows of picnic style tables and a subuteo machine.
The back yard
Two men Mikey and Olie standing either side of an old black door in a brick shed.
Mikey and Olie outside the Shed which was once used as a mortuary

Equipment we used

Here’s an image of some of the equipment we used on the night.

There’s dowsing rods, herbs, a pendulum, a thermal imaging camera, kitten balls and UV torches.

A thermal image showing a man at the bar with his phone. He has his back to us and his head is white showing he is warm. The bottom of the image is blue showing the bar is cold.

Thermal imaging picture

The Scooby Gang

Clockwise from the top Mikey, Olie, Nat, Bryan, Paul and Steph
From left to right, Andy, Steph, Tom hiding, Paul, and Nat
Most of the Scooby gang plus Peter Laws at Clophill from left to right, Rhiannon, Peter, Andy, Steph, Nat, Olie, Mikey, and Bryan

Tom’s Nightmare firgure

Tom has sketched the figure he saw.

A black and white sketch of a man polishing a class in front of beer pumps. He has a thin face and where his eyes and mouth are there are gaping black holes.

Dan Albone

Find out more about Dan Albone here: https://www.biggleswadehistory.org.uk/research-2/research/people/dan-albone/

Dowsing

Find out more about Dowsing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing

The Pheasant at night with lights glowing from inside and a stormy sky above,
Photo of the Pheasant by Katharine Hill photography

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Published by Natalie Doig

"Science and sorcery." It's a quote from a beekeeper I saw on the TV, about how he sees the work he does keeping bees, a balance between science and sorcery. For me it also sums up my experience of life, my interests and my outlook. I love photography which is a perfect blend of science and sorcery, using light and technology to create magical images. But when I'm not taking photos you'll find me making the podcast Weird in the Wade. I'm also often to be found writing, reading, knitting, riding my mountain bike or drinking coffee watching the world go by. By day I fight for disability rights, equality and inclusion for all.

7 thoughts on “Show Notes and Photographs: My Paranormal Sleepover”

  1. It’s always great to see photographs so thanks for sharing those.

    I had a pair of metal dowsing rods, in the early 2000s as a recent graduate, and successfully used them to find keys in my flat 😀

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  2. My dad, who designed houses for a living back in the 70’s and 80’s had me using divining rods from the age of 8/9 to find hidden water sources on surveys. My findings were extremely accurate and useful. However I had no idea what divining was or why I was doing it. I say this because of the suggestion that we might influence the outcome of the rods in some way. If you don’t know what they are or what they do, I’d assume this is less likely. Great episode this week and thank you.

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  3. Congratulations on three years and 50 episodes Nat & Tess 🙂 I found Weird in the wade, when you were 6 or 7 episodes in, which I found just after Uncanny so well done, but when are we going to finally hear about the great Swan mystery LOL. All the best and keep up the good work.

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  4. A teenager who’s parent run the pub in the 1960’s stables her pony in the shed at the bottom of the yard. The pony was called Gypsy and her name was Lyndsey Lipp ( not sure if this is spelt correctly). I was much younger at the time and used to ride out with her sometimes on my pony. You mentioned you felt the presence of an animal which triggered my memory.

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