My photo and it's history a weird happening in an invo
You asked for it Raymond. I had to start a new thread tho !
It was during an investigation at Newcastle Keep. I felt "something" behind me so I asked one of my team to take a photo. She took that photo and her camera froze on the pic for ten minutes. It wouldn't do anything else but show this picture, even after we took the batteries out of the camera (which should be impossible).
In the end she had to reboot the camera to get it to work. Luckily without removing pics from her memory card.
Anyone else got any strange stories about photos taken in investigations ?
Raymond
Very interesting, cheers Hunter.
Over the years I've been on invos and seemingly 'impossible' things happen - especially to electrical gadgets.
Do these things happen all the time? Are we more aware of them on invos than in our everyday life.
Sometimes I sit quietly in my living room and the taps and knocks I hear all around me are incredible, and I think - if only I got these taps and knocks on an investigation.
david hobbs
I lost count of the number of times that the video batteries died after about three minutes on an invo having been fully charged the night before.
Electrics and spooks are a bad mix.
I find the idea of a camera still working with no power source intriguing.
Did you test the camera again to see if it would do the same thing.
Hunter
My friend carried on using the camera throughout the invo.
We did try it again, but I reckon it was the entity in that area of the Keep that was messing around as it never happened again !
david hobbs
Is this entity known to be there Hunter?
I mean by the regular people who work at the castle.
david hobbs
Hunter
We do have a section for personal experiences called my story.
I think your story and any other story you have to tell might be worth putting there in full so that it can be found in the future and also so that nosey beggers like me can read the whole thing
Hunter
Move it then lol !
The entity is known there, it's an evil thing that wanders around the galleries of the Keep.
My group managed to stay in the galleries for an hour, and the other groups, despite the fact they'd all done invos before could not stay up there more than 10 minutes without being scared away !
david hobbs
Sadly I am a computer dummy and I don't have a clue how to move it.
What happened to your friends that frightened them so much?
Kas
Re: My photo and it's history a weird happening in an invo
Hunter wrote:
You asked for it Raymond. I had to start a new thread tho !
It was during an investigation at Newcastle Keep. I felt "something" behind me so I asked one of my team to take a photo. She took that photo and her camera froze on the pic for ten minutes. It wouldn't do anything else but show this picture, even after we took the batteries out of the camera (which should be impossible).
In the end she had to reboot the camera to get it to work. Luckily without removing pics from her memory card.
Anyone else got any strange stories about photos taken in investigations ?
Moved the thread.
Hunter what was the temperature at the time?
We have sudden battery drainage occur in the fort tunnels all the time.
Cold does effect batteries. Especially if the batteries are the recharge type. They only have to be slightly off full charge and the cold will effect them. Hence once warmed up they appear to then work fine again. It also happens with standard batteries that are getting low.
Fiddling about with the camera trying to get it working sometimes generates enough heat to warm them up a suddenly the camera works fine.
Just a possibility worth considering.
Hunter
One chap felt he was being choked and the team medium in another group just felt they were unwelcome there.
I must add that while we were sitting on the stairs there trying to communicate with the entity, I felt (I tend to be a sentient medium) the presence of a blonde woman called Elizabeth, in victorian clothes, coming up the stairs.
Talking later on in the evening with the present curator he told me there was a story that Elizabeth Draper the widow of one of the previous custodians took over from him at his death and still liked to come and see the Keep (I was not the first to sense her !)
Hunter
Re: My photo and it's history a weird happening in an invo
Kas wrote:
Hunter what was the temperature at the time?
We have sudden battery drainage occur in the fort tunnels all the time.
Cold does effect batteries. Especially if the batteries are the recharge type. They only have to be slightly off full charge and the cold will effect them. Hence once warmed up they appear to then work fine again. It also happens with standard batteries that are getting low.
Fiddling about with the camera trying to get it working sometimes generates enough heat to warm them up a suddenly the camera works fine.
Just a possibility worth considering.
The temperature was 15°C, which shouldn't have affected the batteries.
The invo was in August two years ago, so it wasn't at all cold, given that there are openings in the galleries to outside, and it was just turning dark (9.49 pm when this happened !)
Kas
Re: My photo and it's history a weird happening in an invo
Hunter wrote:
Kas wrote:
Hunter what was the temperature at the time?
We have sudden battery drainage occur in the fort tunnels all the time.
Cold does effect batteries. Especially if the batteries are the recharge type. They only have to be slightly off full charge and the cold will effect them. Hence once warmed up they appear to then work fine again. It also happens with standard batteries that are getting low.
Fiddling about with the camera trying to get it working sometimes generates enough heat to warm them up a suddenly the camera works fine.
Just a possibility worth considering.
The temperature was 15°C, which shouldn't have affected the batteries.
The invo was in August two years ago, so it wasn't at all cold, given that there are openings in the galleries to outside, and it was just turning dark (9.49 pm when this happened !)
No I wouldn't consider that cold enough then.
Lilly
Re: My photo and it's history a weird happening in an invo
Kas wrote:
Hunter wrote:
Kas wrote:
Hunter what was the temperature at the time?
We have sudden battery drainage occur in the fort tunnels all the time.
Cold does effect batteries. Especially if the batteries are the recharge type. They only have to be slightly off full charge and the cold will effect them. Hence once warmed up they appear to then work fine again. It also happens with standard batteries that are getting low.
Fiddling about with the camera trying to get it working sometimes generates enough heat to warm them up a suddenly the camera works fine.
Just a possibility worth considering.
The temperature was 15°C, which shouldn't have affected the batteries.
The invo was in August two years ago, so it wasn't at all cold, given that there are openings in the galleries to outside, and it was just turning dark (9.49 pm when this happened !)
No I wouldn't consider that cold enough then.
Maybe this is the wrong thread,but it seems to fit in here,lol
I used to have a pendulum clock on my wall,powered by 'made in China' works and run by the battery device you get in birthday and xmas cards.
It would chime on the hour,and play 'Westminster' chimes.
Shortly before my daughter died,she phoned me every night,and the clock could be heard ,sometimes chiming more than it should.We laughed about this,and said it had a mind of its own. My daughter knew she was dying and said she would come back to visit me after she had gone.
She did love to joke around too!
When she died,the clock still kept on chiming when it felt like doing so,sometimes 15 strokes at 10 o'clock,or three at 12 o'clock.
The skeptics would say the clock has passed its sell by date,and was worn out. So,eventually ,after being woken in the night,by it,although it had a shut off point at night,I took the [heavy] clock off the wall,and dismantled the battery works. I actually took it out and threw it in the dustbin. 'that'll fix you' I said to myself.
The next day,I was having coffee and bikkies with a friend,and at 11am,the clock chimed. My friend commented that the clock had chimed 12 ,and as I was too busy spluttering over my coffee,it was a while before I told her the situation. Btw,the clock kept perfect time! I took the clock off the wall,and opened up the back to show her that it couldn't possibly chime. So,she thought it was our ears 'hearing 'the clock by habit,and decided to stay till the next hour. We didn't have to wait that long,the clock chimed within 10 minutes .stopped,had a break,then chimed again! This went on for a few weeks,and was a talking point,as a few of my friends and family witnessed it.
Eventually,I bought a new clock,and took the old one to a charity shop.
At about the same time I had a plug-in to the light fitting smoke alarm,which works by the mains,and has no battery. This too was 'playing silly b*****s so I took it back to the shop,bleeping all the way,the alarm,not me. The shop assistant said she'd take the battery out,and I said, you're welcome to,if you can find it! As I left the shop,it was still merrily 'bleeping' away.
I had a silent word with my daughter,and said,'Right, you've had your joke'. This was 15 years ago,and anything strange that happens,I always 'blame' her. Her favourite saying was; 'You've gotta be 'aving a laugh'
swanlady
As i was reading your post then Lily, I kept hearing the words.......
"I,m not giving up on you mum"!
Don,t know if you can take that?
Lilly
swanlady wrote:
As i was reading your post then Lily, I kept hearing the words.......
"I,m not giving up on you mum"!
Don,t know if you can take that?
ooooh! thanks Swanny,you've made my day! of course I can take that.I have the feeling she's seething about whats happened to her 'bruv'.
Kas
Re: My photo and it's history a weird happening in an invo
Lilly wrote:
Kas wrote:
Hunter wrote:
Kas wrote:
Hunter what was the temperature at the time?
We have sudden battery drainage occur in the fort tunnels all the time.
Cold does effect batteries. Especially if the batteries are the recharge type. They only have to be slightly off full charge and the cold will effect them. Hence once warmed up they appear to then work fine again. It also happens with standard batteries that are getting low.
Fiddling about with the camera trying to get it working sometimes generates enough heat to warm them up a suddenly the camera works fine.
Just a possibility worth considering.
The temperature was 15°C, which shouldn't have affected the batteries.
The invo was in August two years ago, so it wasn't at all cold, given that there are openings in the galleries to outside, and it was just turning dark (9.49 pm when this happened !)
No I wouldn't consider that cold enough then.
Maybe this is the wrong thread,but it seems to fit in here,lol
I used to have a pendulum clock on my wall,powered by 'made in China' works and run by the battery device you get in birthday and xmas cards.
It would chime on the hour,and play 'Westminster' chimes.
Shortly before my daughter died,she phoned me every night,and the clock could be heard ,sometimes chiming more than it should.We laughed about this,and said it had a mind of its own. My daughter knew she was dying and said she would come back to visit me after she had gone.
She did love to joke around too!
When she died,the clock still kept on chiming when it felt like doing so,sometimes 15 strokes at 10 o'clock,or three at 12 o'clock.
The skeptics would say the clock has passed its sell by date,and was worn out. So,eventually ,after being woken in the night,by it,although it had a shut off point at night,I took the [heavy] clock off the wall,and dismantled the battery works. I actually took it out and threw it in the dustbin. 'that'll fix you' I said to myself.
The next day,I was having coffee and bikkies with a friend,and at 11am,the clock chimed. My friend commented that the clock had chimed 12 ,and as I was too busy spluttering over my coffee,it was a while before I told her the situation. Btw,the clock kept perfect time! I took the clock off the wall,and opened up the back to show her that it couldn't possibly chime. So,she thought it was our ears 'hearing 'the clock by habit,and decided to stay till the next hour. We didn't have to wait that long,the clock chimed within 10 minutes .stopped,had a break,then chimed again! This went on for a few weeks,and was a talking point,as a few of my friends and family witnessed it.
Eventually,I bought a new clock,and took the old one to a charity shop.
At about the same time I had a plug-in to the light fitting smoke alarm,which works by the mains,and has no battery. This too was 'playing silly b*****s so I took it back to the shop,bleeping all the way,the alarm,not me. The shop assistant said she'd take the battery out,and I said, you're welcome to,if you can find it! As I left the shop,it was still merrily 'bleeping' away.
I had a silent word with my daughter,and said,'Right, you've had your joke'. This was 15 years ago,and anything strange that happens,I always 'blame' her. Her favourite saying was; 'You've gotta be 'aving a laugh'
Thanks for sharing the story Lilly. It certainly is an interesting one!
david hobbs
Yes Lilly I have had quite a few experiences like that involving recently passed people.
At first I doubted my sanity.
Now I just accept it and get on with things.
It's life.
Lilly
david hobbs wrote:
Yes Lilly I have had quite a few experiences like that involving recently passed people.
At first I doubted my sanity.
Now I just accept it and get on with things.
It's life.
I have never doubted my sanity,I know I'm mad, Mum said it ran in the family,like wooden legs.
Tommy
I am a clock collector, and often have a variety of clocks all striking and chiming. I've bought ones and sold ones over the years. I can hear the clocks striking overnight while I'm in bed, and I know all the clocks by their sound. Once, in the middle of the night, I clearly heard a clock I no longer owned, striking... Of course, the next day when I came through to the living room I saw (or heard) no trace of it.
I know how many key turns it takes to wind them all up too. One clock always took twelve key turns to wind up, every Saturday. One Saturday it only took eight. That, according to the laws of physics, is impossible. The clock had been going all week.
After my girlfriend left me in 2002, I decided to talk to her late father in spirit from my kitchen. The next morning, a mains electric clock in my kitchen was forty minutes slow. That is also impossible. Mains synchronous motors are always in step with the mains frequency. Another mains clock in the same room was still at the right time, and there had not been a powercut. I knew from what my girlfriend had told me that her father used to come into the atmosphere and tamper with clocks. Strange.
