Sheringham
Paranormal Investigation
Date of Investigation – 31st October 2008
Investigators - Dug, Tracey, Jason, Benny and Jayne
Weather -
Fine, cool quite varied at times
Investigation began at:
9.15pm
We started the investigation
at the Cliff road car park. We made our
way down the steps at the rear of the car park and turned right along the sea
front walkway.
As we walked along just past
the last of the huts, Jayne felt like she was walking through treacle. We continued along until we got to the end of
the walkway. Tracey kept looking to the right and felt that there was someone
there, standing watching us, not in a threatening way but it had more surprised
her. He was wearing an army green
coloured outfit, not a long jacket, more hip length and it was suggested that
this could be world war two style clothing.
At this point a person was seen walking up behind Tracey by Duggie and
Jayne. No sooner had they appeared than
they went. Duggie saw an orb behind me
when this was all taking place and this was caught on the video camera. The name
Jackson was being given to Tracey.
Jayne felt drawn to look out
to sea like she was looking for something and felt that both Tracey and herself
had been at this spot before in the past.
She could not explain why this was, although this was not the case.
We turned around as we could
go no further, and started to walk back again, Tracey kept looking up at the
embankment on our right as she kept seeing glimpses of men laying there on
lookout. They were all looking out to
sea, like they were on look out duty.
Benny started having
problems with his still camera batteries even though these had been checked
before the investigation started and were fully charged.
As we walked on, Tracey
picked up on soldiers walking towards her on the same path as us. They were in rows of 3 across and were
marching up and down. It was felt some
of the soldiers that were picked up on, were being drawn to us due to us being
there.
Duggie picked up on shouting
(we could not confirm if this was physical or not).
We did walk to the other end
of the sea walk, to the lifeboat station but nothing was felt along any of this
area.
We walked back to the car
park had a quick break and then headed on foot to Priory Hill.
We made our way to the gate
style entrance which led to a path which would lead to the hill. As we walked up the path from the entrance,
Duggie and Jayne had an uneasy feeling; they described it as the feeling of
something coming all around us. It felt very cold and Jayne was feeling very
uneasy.
Tracey was getting a
stabbing feeling of pain in her heart area.
Jason was picking up on the word witchcraft and it was felt that this
had taken place in this area. Jayne was
also now getting a stabbing pain in her heart area too but could not be
connected to anything.
Jayne also saw an orb around
Duggie; she described the colour as blue/green.
As Jayne and Tracey stood in
an area at the top of the priory hill Tracey was being given the words secret
unravelled and that some people working here had made some mistakes on trying
to unravel some secret code, which had caused a problem ( attacks to the
country had been made due to this). Tracey
felt someone had been sent abroad as a spy from this team of de-coders in order
to understand more.
Jayne picked up on a monk. Chanting was heard by both Duggie and Jayne. They felt that someone was chanting to the
sea and asking it to do something to someone or people (Druids).
It was felt that someone was
looking over Duggies shoulder as he was sorting out a battery problem. A shadow could be seen by Duggie and Tracey
moving around Duggie a lot, changing where he was standing. This felt more inquisitive rather than
threatening.
A bell was heard, not of
this time an old bell in the distance.
The name Stanley Foster was
given to Tracey and a connection to the railway.
Dug started to call out to
the spirits, on doing this he heard the words “Keep your voice down or them at
the bottom will hear you”.
Benny felt a very cold chill
at the back of his neck and other than this he was warm, his neck was well
covered and no wind could make him feel cold.
The date 1530 was given to
Tracey
Drums could be heard by Duggie,
they were getting louder. The words “You
can hear them, the lights in the sky and no where to run” were given to
him.
The silhouette was again
seen behind Duggie. The words “careful
of the gate when you walk through it” were given to Duggie. When he questioned this he was given the
words “she does”. On asking who she was,
we felt he was not speaking of the female investigators present, but of someone
who has been to the priory and creating witch craft spells.
The words “She has been here
before” were also given to Duggie. This
was felt as an insult to this person. Tracey
was shown a lady standing with her back to the team, she was facing the sea and
was wearing a white long dress with long arms, she had her arms outstretched
wide and Tracey was given the words High Priestess. Tracey felt that she should not look at this
lady face on, so did not. The name Beth
Elena or Beth Zelda was given to Jayne and Duggie at this point but they found
it hard hearing the exact name being said.
The feel of the area at the
top of the priory hill was feeling very different now, the wind had suddenly
changed to blowing quite fiercely and the temperature had suddenly
dropped.
We decided to end the
investigation at this point.
Nothing was felt on the
return journey back down the hill.
Investigation ended at
12.50am.
History
Sheringham and Beeston Regis
Evidence of Roman habitation was found on Beeston Regis Heath in 1859 when
a complete set of quern-stones for grinding grain were found dating from Roman
times.
On Beeston Regis Heath there are some circular pits that are thought
to date from prehistoric times. During the Saxon-Norman to Medieval periods
these pits were dug to obtain iron ore, which was then smelted in a furnace to
produce iron.
Beeston Regis has the remains of an Augustinian priory known as Beeston
Regis Priory (St. Mary's). Founded in 1216 and disolved in1538 by Henry VIII.
Beeston Bump
Beeston Bump is a 63m high cliff-top hill. Local folklore tells of the
southern slopes of the ’Bump’ being festooned with grapevines tended to by the
monks of the priory.
Each Easter the combined churches in the area make a pilgrimage carrying a
cross to the top of Beeston Bump, and an open air service is performed.
Beeston Bump Y Station During the Second World War Beeston Bump was the
location for a top secret listening station. These stations were called Y
stations and were the ears of the War Office’s
Bletchley
Park, code name station X. Bletchley
Park was the location of the
United
Kingdom's main code breaking establishment.
Codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were deciphered there, most
famously the German Enigma. The high-level intelligence produced by
Bletchley
Park, codenamed Ultra, is frequently
credited with aiding the Allied war effort and shortening the war. The “Y”
station on Beeston Bump was part of a chain of such stations around the country
that gathered raw signals (usually in Morse code) for processing at the
X-station at
Bletchley
Park. Coded messages were
taken down by hand and sent to Bletchley on paper by motorcycle couriers or,
later, by teleprinter.
The Legend of Black Shuck There is a legend told in
East Anglia about a ghostly black hound from
hell that is said to roam the coast and lonely lanes of
Norfolk. The hound is said to be the size of
a small Horse and appear from the depths of Beeston Bump with malevolent
flaming red eyes. Anyone who is confronted with the Doom Dog it is said will be
dead with-in one year of there encounter. Sometimes Black Shuck has appeared
headless, and at other times he appears to float on a carpet of mist rather than
running. More often than not, the Black Shuck terrifies his victims out of
their wits, although the apparition is said not to harm his victims. The legend
was the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote the book The Hound of
the Baskervilles. Conan Doyal had been on a Golfing Holiday at the near-by
Links Hotel in
West Runton, and it was in the
sitting room of the Hotel that his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson recounted
the legend of the Black Hound from the Bump.
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