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THE UKBPA OPEN MEMBERSHIP The UKBPA Announce The First Paranormal License.

BECOME A UKBPA REP! The UKBPA Announce Positions available within the UKBPA

THE UKBPA ANNOUNCE INSURANCE DEAL WITH BLACKFIRARS GROUP Find out more about The Blackfriars Group Inside

FEATURES : RIPS. Roche Abbey, The Gauss Meter, PBB At St Mary’s Abbey, The Stocksbridge Bypass Mystery and Keeping The Paranormal Friendly All rights Team reserved to UKBPA Paranormal Watch PLUS…. Projects News, Become a UKBPA Rep,Magazine Location2009 and©Tech News

Roche Abbey Ruins, Maltby, South Yorkshire

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The Editors’ Say... What A Month! Inside This Months Issue Of The Paranormal Watch:

The Editors Say...

The UKBPA Open Membership

Become a UKBPA Rep!

one or more reps for that area able to deal with enquiries on a personal level.

Tam Kinnear-Swift, Editor of the Paranormal Watch 2

The Blackfriars Group Insurance

projects team News

Featured Investigation — PBB At St. Mary’s Abbey

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Ghost Voices Magazine

Location and Tech News

Featured Tech Kit — The Gauss Meter

Featured Group — RIPS

The Stocksbridge Bypass Mystery

Featured Venue— RAF Coleby Grange

Keeping The Paranormal Friendly

The UKBPA Committee

Roche abbey—Alive With spirits

UKBPA Affiliated Venues

Welcome to the First Ever edition of the PARANORMAL WATCH! This month has been a busy month for all involved with the UKBPA, whilst the big boss, Brian has been hard at work negotiating a deal for the Paranormal License ID cards made by TandIM VestiGO, Clint has been rushing about, contacting venues and webstores, obtaining discounts for our members. With more and more people coming on board and joining the UKBPA, as well as the introduction of the Paranormal License, we have literally been rushed off our feet! Elsewhere within the organization, we have been busy re-organizing ourselves with a bit more structure, we now have a committee, and are now operating an area rep policy. This enables us to break the UK down into manageable areas and have

much work was involved “The very idea, I could in even a small publi- fill a magaThis frees up the committee zine with cation such members to do the other just updates as this. essential jobs that are from the UKneeded to keep the UKBPA My idea was BPA and acrunning to our maximum just to find a tually keep level, so we can provide our template and people interservices to you, our memcopy and ested, now bers. paste all the seems like a information I have been hard at work bit of a joke” from our compiling a grant funding website, application, something however, it quickly bewhich took the best part of came clear that it would 45 hours to do properly and take a great deal more something I must admit I work than just this to put underestimated how much together a magazine worwork was involved with thy of bearing the title the doing. PARANORMAL But the grant application WATCH. had been submitted to The very idea, I could fill a HBOS now, and all being magazine with just upwell, we should hear within dates from the UKBPA a few weeks if we have been and actually keep people successful or not in our apinterested, now seems like plication for a donation of a bit of a joke, so after up to £500,000 to keep us scouring the internet for running, and set us up with items, writing ghost stoan office. ries, haunted locations In truth I don't think that I was aware of, intershould we be accepted for a viewing groups and feadonation that we will get turing investigations, here anywhere near that it is! I hope you enjoy amount, but at this stage, reading it as much as I anything would help out have putting it together with running costs, and (even though it was hard would be equally as gratework!) fully received as it would Slainté! helpful. Tam Kinnear-Swift On top of that, came compiling and editing the very To contact us, or send in first edition of the PARA- any stories or articles, you NORMAL WATCH, can email us at Paranorwhich again, was somemalwatch@ukbpa.org thing I underestimated how

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The UKBPA Open Membership Over the last few years, we have managed to keep the BPA up and running from my own funds, but now as we are growing and moving onwards we are desperately seeking funds therefore it was decided by the committee that we should introduce a small registrations fees, we have looked very hard at the pricing so you as members are getting the best value.

Club or Group Paranormal Li- Individual paranormal licence £30 cence £ 20 If you are a team or group that are looking to register to obtain the discounts and offers within the BPA then this is the best suited package

If you are a individual that are looking to registrar to obtain the discounts and offers with in the BPA they this is the best suited package for you and your teams the Paranormal Licence for your team or club. Break down of Cost

By us introducing a one off fee then a yearly membership fee at a lower price, we can then look at ways to help improve and offer more to you. Last year it cost around £1000 to keep the BPA up and running this cover meeting, visits, phone calls and stationary along with the websites we host. The Committee has looked into the benefits by introducing the BPA paranormal licence/membership ID card, not only will this show that we are here to make a stand by us all working together, The licence also show that you are credited professional.

£10 per driving licence size plastic ID card Admission cost £5 Membership fee for the year £7 Additional Yearly Renewal The Paranormal License ID fee of £3 Card Lost , stolen or damaged cards will be charged £10 +P&P for your team. The ID Licence will show that your team or group are credited and certified By the British Paranormal Association, therefore by holding this you are making a change in how we are all seen and regarded, the benefit of this speaks for itself.

There are many groups and venues Who can apply for this? out there who act and have a reputaAll we ask that only the Founder of tion of being unprofessional. you team or Group applies for the Joining the BPA allows you not only licence whereby this will then cover be a part of an association which will their team. support you, but will also work with you or on your behalf to obtain discounts, member's nights out as well Break down of Cost as information services. £10 per driving licence size plastic The main thing is it shows that you, ID card “photo required” (one off your group and venues are dedicated fee) to bringing honesty and professionAdmission cost £5 alism back to the paranormal. Membership fee for the year £15 Additional Yearly Renewal fee of £10

The plastic card, which incorporates the association’s distinctive ‘haunted house’ logo, carries three pieces of information plus the member’s picture: the member’s name; the club to which he or she belongs; and the member’s unique paranormal licence number. The cards, are produced by Leedsbased TandIM VestiGO, ‘the Photo ID Card People’, TandIM VestiGO have agreed to significantly lower the cost of producing these cards for the UKBPA and its members so we can keep costs to a minimum in order to make our members lives easier and cheaper to go about your business. The License/card is another step towards achieving greater recognition and professionalism for the UKBPA and its members. Brian Lambert—BPA Foun-

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Be A UKBPA Area Rep! We are pleased to announce that we are now taking on board Area Representatives for the British Paranormal Association, with your help and others we can work on building and altering the standards with in the paranormal world and also with in the British Paranormal Association.

venue rep, and being first point of contact for all member groups within that area.

doing and also advising us of processes that you feel we need to offer or to work on.

CAN ANYONE APPLY?:

With in your roles you can offer and appoint other members to come and work with you whereby building your very own team to help spread the work around, but they will full under your control and you are responsibility for them and their actions.

Yes as long as they or them are website members that have been

WHAT ARE REPRESENTATIVE AND DO WE NEED THEM: Representatives are people that are from other paranormal teams or clubs or even individuals that have offered to come aboard in helping build on the “Within your performance not only for role, you can the British offer and Paranormal appoint other Association members to but also to come and work highlight and with you pushing the whereby awareness of building your the paranorvery own mal realms, they are volunteam” teers that offer their free time to help with working on things such as projects , standards, support, Representing our key elements to help keep the British Paranormal Association moving forward. Area Reps will be required also to actively promote the UKBPA within their area, as well as get involved with community, by running collective workshops with other area reps so the community can get involved and awareness of the paranormal community can be promoted. Area reps are also responsible for liaising with member clubs in their area, pointing potential members and groups to the UKBPA for registration, liaising with venues under the

You will also be provided your very own British Paranormal Association email account to use with in your role and also be provided with a BPA website account whereby under your personal account you will be required to display this:

Broken Down Map Of The UK With Target Areas Marked

“All views given by me are my own, and may not reflect views of the UKBPA” When login in under your BPA account you are acting on behalf of the BPA and your role. AREAS COVERED:

credited as certified members of the British Paranormal Association, there if a trial period of 2 months for all new Representative, this is so we get to know you and you get to know us. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A REPRESENTATIVE?: There are many benefits with in the British Paranormal Association, you are at the main front line of helping us and others move forward you will get to see more of the daily workings that go on behind the scenes, with email from other admin or pointed representative and from the Founder of the British Paranormal Association, as representative you have a big say in the what we are

London

The South East

The South West

Wales

East Anglia

The Midlands

Yorkshire And The Humber

The North West

Scotland and the Isles

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Northern Ireland

If you are interested in becoming a UKBPA Area Rep, or a member of the UKBPA Team, Email founder@ukbpa.org

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Blackfriars Group Paranormal Insurance members to renew with Blackfriars “The saving of Group as is it both beneficial to your- this insurance selves the groups, policy alone will the BPA and the paranormal comThe BPA is pleased to announce an new paranormal insurance deal with Blackfriars Group.

The policy is fully inclusive, and costs from £105 pounds a year for accredited BPA members, for 1 million to 10 million

pound claims.

munity.

The saving of this insurance policy alone will be double your membership fees for the BPA, and vastly cheaper than your current policy, so there really is no reason not to sign up

Note : this deal is not open to non members of the UKBPA and the Blackfriars Group will contact us regarding EVERY claim that is made to make sure the groups applying are Accredited BPA members.

be double your

membership fees for the BPA, and vastly cheaper than your current policy”

The BPA are encouraging all

News From the Projects Team Grant funding is an important and crucial way of supporting an organisation like the UKBPA. We have applied to HBOS for a donation of up to 500k as well as contacted Business South East and LEGI with regards to other grants. Why do we need this you ask? well, in the grand scheme of things, the BPA is moving forward, and we need to be seen as a properly structured organisation as opposed to existing only in cyberspace. To this end, we need an office, permanent address where we can base the UKBPA and run it from. Hopefully a grant will provide the necessary funds to do this, so we can structure ourselves properly.

On top of all of this, we need to achieve registered charity status, for which we need an income of above 5k per year, something we currently aren't achieving. Of course with all this comes the ability to be able to achieve more of our aims as well, because it will give us greater capability and also expenses with which to run. Also further to this the projects team are continuing with the MySpace and facebook campaigns, as this at the moment is where most of our members are coming from. Social networking sites are the ideal medium to get news about the UKBPA across to a wide audience, due to their nature. So it was decided that this

would be the way forward with regards to spreading our message. so fingers crossed then, lets hope we can manage to secure some funding so we can move forward and take another positive step to getting things in order!

“A grant will provide the necessary funds, so we can structure ourselves

Any enquiries, email me directly at Projectdeveoper@ukbpa.org

properly”

Tam Kinnear-Swift

Tam and Bex, The UKBPA’s Projects Team

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Featured Investigation — Phenomena Beyond Belief At St. Mary’s Abbey, Suffolk

St Mary’s Abbey Ruins, Bungay, Suffolk

“There was a huge EMF surge centering around Bex, this then curiously stopped dead and all of a sudden centered around Tam”

Sue, Wendy, Bex, Steve and the Editor at St. Mary’s abbey, Bungay.

Infamous for stories of black shuck, monks and other sightings St. Mary’s Abbey in Bungay, has to be one of the most unusual places I have ever investigated. We started as usual, by tuning in to the environment, and doing a EMF baseline check, as churches are notorious for giving off strange EMF reading, only to find out that it’s the electrics to the church causing them! We started filming and calling out in the far end of the old abbey ruins, which butts up to the wall of the present day church,. The first thing we noticed, was that running all the way around the old abbey ruins, about 6 to 7 feet above the ground was a high EMF reading. This continued even through the spaces where the windows were. With this in mind we started calling out and recorded the session, both with a NV camera and a sound re-

corder. At the same point, I noticed whenever a picture was taken, the flash was reflecting off the dampness in the air, which served to be a problem, as it instantly discounts any pictures we may capture with what appears to be orbs in them. Bex, the resident sensitive, was feeling uneasy and noted there was a mans presence nearby, noting that he also didn't like the fact there were women in the abbey ruins. We moved round to the far side, where the new church looks onto the abbey ruins form the side, where there was a huge EMF surge centering around Bex, this then curiously stopped dead and all of a sudden centered around Tam, our guest for the night from RIPS. At this point, Bex felt really uneasy and said that she had just been sworn at by the man who was around her earlier… he was becoming increasingly abusive towards the ladies it appeared and was calling them unrepeatable things. At this point, Steve and Tam then both picked up the curios EMF reading that was again 6 to 7 foot from the floor, the strange thing this time was that we were not within 10 feet of any sort

of building, Tam followed the EMF reading, walking along the length of the reading until it stopped on the other side of the graveyard. It was running at 90 degrees now to the one that was picked up running along the walls of the old abbey… with this in mind, Steve then followed exactly the same course, confirming it was not Tam’s Gauss meter doing odd things. At this point Bex had started questioning the man that was becoming increasingly abusive and had come up with the name “Jediah “ or “Jebediah Wallace” she had the feeling he had murdered someone (possibly a woman) in the graveyard and gotten away with it, as she said he was extremely abusive, cocky and didn't much like women. A quick search of the gravestones revealed no grave with that name on, and it was at this point Bex came up with the year 1753. The exact relevance to this name and date we couldn't ascertain, all we found out on a later search of the archives was that a Jediah Wallace was a shipbuilder and started his apprenticeship in 1735 and had been a ship builder.. Continued Overleaf

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PBB At St. Mary’s Abbey — Continued Continued from overleaf 20 years at the time of the survey we were reading. However, further to this there was no link to tie him to Bungay, and as far as i am aware, Bungay is not best known for its shipbuilding. We then split up into teams, consisting of Bex and Tam, Steve and Wendy, Ali and sue, who all went off and photographed various different things, recorded and called out , Bex and Tam, walked over to the other side of the graveyard, whilst following the very strange EMF reading. It was here that they were confronted by Jediah Wallace, who was stood about 4 feet to the left of Tam threatening to “stab” him

and “tear his guts out if he gets closer” Tam being Tam, took 2 paces forward towards the direction of where Bex said Jediah was standing, but nothing physical happened. Conclusion—With regards to the photo’s its hard to conclude anything because it was obviously damp and misty, which Tam noticed the flash was reflecting off, because of this, sadly, we have to discount anything we see on the photo’s. The EMF reading, 6 to 7 feet from the ground were very strange indeed, no reading was measured on ground level at the exact same point, just 6 to 7 feet off the ground. The pattern of the readings, followed perpendicular lines, intersecting

Looking through St Mary’s Abbey ruins to the modern day church. Note the light anomalies, orbs or the flash reflecting of the damp air? What do YOU think? where the abbey walls lined up with the old door. I have to say, i, nor anyone else has ever seen anything like this before or since. To have your investigations featured here, email paranormalwatch@ukbpa.org

Ghost Voices Magazine Ghost Voices Magazine aims to be the country’s leading historical hauntings magazine. Brought to you by the creators of the world leading Skirmish Magazine, a team of dedicated history enthusiasts. Launching in January 2009, with a view to being a no-nonsense publication, investigating the history behind ghostly phenomena. With regular features planned, such as ‘Drinking

With Spirits’, ‘Haunted Workplaces’ and a guide to ‘Haunted Places to Stay’ as well as other fascinating articles written by leading figures from the paranormal world.

encouraging people to join the UKBPA. The issue should be out sometime in late March.

Soulseekers, the group of one of our UKBPA reps Dave Eaves, will be featured in the next issue of the new Ghost Voices Magazine. The article will feature in-depth questions and answers of our team, concerns currently facing paranormal groups and

Ghost Voices Magazine will be on sale bi-monthly in WH Smith and other good newsagents across the country from Thursday 29th of January 2009.

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Locations And Tech News At the moment I am working on getting all accredited UKBPA members, a discount off certain sites that sell investigation tools etc, also other sites that sell items for our mediums such as tarot, pendulums and crystals etc.

Clint Symonds, the UKBPA’s Location and Technical Rep and Vice Chairman

“We know that some

I have already obtained a 10% discount from one site but once membership is up and running properly I shall release more info on this. I have also been contacting venues, to see if they would give accredited members discounts on

entry to their venues, as we know that some places can be quite pricey, and discounts would give more groups better access to venues. We have had a few venues come in offering discounts, but I am still waiting to hear form most of them and will keep you updated as I do via the forum. More details about the sites which are available at discount prices for our members can be obtained on the UKBPA website.

ple are still joining up with group initials but are not adding their website address to their profile, also some groups are adding to their own websites that they are members of the UKBPA when they are still only website members, these need to be changed. Clint Symonds Any queries, please feel free to contact me on clint@ukbpa.org

Can I also add that peo-

places can be quite pricey, and discounts would give more groups better access to venues”

The Gauss Meter. Lightweight, easy to use and good value for money.

Featured Technical Kit — The Gauss Meter The Gauss meter is a bit of kit no paranormal investigator should be without. Simple, easy to use, and cheap, it is an essential piece of hard wear for any team. The model featured, is powered by one 9V battery, which should have a lifetime of up to 100 hours use, depending on the type

of battery used to power it. Looking at it from the front, you immediately notice the meter dial. This measures from 1 to 10 mG or if you press the button in at the side, will measure a smaller quantity from 0.1 mG to 1 mG by utilizing a meter with a moving pointer to indicate the EMF reading. Ideal for investigation and detecting Electro Magnetic Flux’s, which can be the indicator of paranormal presences or occurrences, it is priced between £25 and £35

and is available in two models, a plain model, and one with a backlit display dial. Lightweight and small its easily packed away, and can be stored in a pocket, or housed in a hard case without taking up much space or causing any storage problems. Although experienced investigators will probably opt for a Tri-field meter, it is ideal for beginners. Rating : 7/10 Tam Kinnear-Swift

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other digi cams too, a sound recorder for EVP’s, the worlds supply of batteries and peripherals, trigger objects, which usually depend on the environment and Can you tell us about location as to what they are, your selves? for example, if we were in somewhere like a monastery We were formed in late 2008, it started off we were or abbey, we would take a just going out an investigat- cross, if we were somewhere ing just for fun, then I got a where children had been few bits of kit, and someone seen, we would take marbles or a Childs toy. said, ‘why not do it properly?’ and I was like, ‘why So are you open minded not?!’ and that was how or believers RIPS came about. Personally, I’m about a psySo are you new to the chic as a cheese sandwich. I paranormal reams? tend not to experience or notice those kind of things, Well apart form the investias I’m usually too focused gations we have done, we on being scientific. I’m a are all fairly new to the skeptic, my mission is that paranormal realms. That I’m trying to prove that being said, we have a couple ghosts, spirits etc DON’T of very experienced sensiexist, but I always tend to tive's and I’m fairly experierr on the scientific side of enced and knowledgeable things, always looking for a about most things to do with rational explanation etc, but kit and investigations our two sensitive’s are bethrough my work with the lievers, and the rest of the UKBPA. In an environment team are open minded skeplike that, where your contics, so there is a good balstantly surrounded by other ance there. individuals and groups, and people who have tremenSo what Sort of things dous experience of that have you been up to? thing, its very hard not to In January, we investigated soak up the information like a couple of locations with a a sponge, so at any given group called Paranormal moment on an investigation, Beyond Belief, from Great if someone gets a wee bit Yarmouth, in Norfolk, which stuck, there’s usually somewas a good experience. I thing someone has said or find its always a good thing done pops into my head to to work with other groups, help with that. as they may use methods Can you tell us about that perhaps you don't, and the tools you use when vice-a-versa, its always a out? good learning experience, as well as forging a good relaOur kit is fairly standardized tionship with another group, throughout the industry because lets face it, were all really, I don't think we use here to do the same job and anything specifically that learn from each other. anyone else doesn't…. We generally take out a Gauss Have you have any exmeter, a digital and laser periences? thermometer, a Kodak Well, I can honestly say I z7590 camera and a few have never seen or experiThis month we are covering a paranormal team known as Rotherham Investigative Paranormal society.

enced anything on an investigation that scared me or I could positively identify as being paranormal, however, my skepticism has been tested on more than one occasion when reviewing the evidence… a good indicator for me is when the hairs on my arm stand up and my eyes start watering, which has happened to me on more than one occasion when reviewing EVP’s I can tell you! Others in the group have had some funny old experiences though, at one investigation, we were doing some calling out, and one of the sensitive’s asked me to come stand with her and take some pictures as she felt slightly uneasy, when the very first picture was reviewed, there was a hoofing great orb right by her, and on the EVP that was being recorded at the time was a voice saying ‘Help me, help me, HELP… HELP ME PLEASE’ which I have to say, still makes my eyes water now listening to it!

“I find its always a good thing to work with other groups, as they may use methods that perhaps you don't, and vice-a-versa, its always a good learning experience, as well as forging a good relationship with another group, because lets face it, were all here to do the same job and learn from each other”

What’s next for the team? Well, at the moment, we don't have any investigations planned, as a few of our members are quite ill and as I don't drive, we have transport issues! RIPS, Investigating Were looking at takHoober Stand, on a cold ing on other members from the South December night Yorkshire area as we are looking to expand our team, anyone with an interest in the paranormal is welcome to contact us if they want to be a part of RIPS. Any last words? Yes, never clean your windows with soft boiled eggs…! to contact RIPS, visit www.ripsonline.com or email enquiries@ripsonline.com

Interview By Brian Lambert

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The Stockbridge Bypass Mystery and noticed when the figure disappeared, he appeared suddenly at the passenger side, before disappearing again. Then, banging started on the back of the car, but by The Pearoyd Pylon on now, both officers the left with the Pearoyd were reluctant to get out to Bridge in the backinvestigate. ground where the monk The sightings have comhas often been spotted menced to this day, with the spirit being blamed for many accidents along the bypass The Stocksbridge bypass ,

to his appearances cannot be determined. The pylon is said so be haunted by children singing "ring a ring a roses" around it. it has often been reported, and upon investigation, the children vanish and no evidence of footprints etc been found. they have also been heard without being seen, and seen without being heard.

“Within minutes of climbing back into the car, the driver was startled to see someone appear ‘as if out of thin air’ by the drivers side of the car”

The history of this sighting appears to date back to the time when children, and indeed entire families were just outside of Sheffield, was A ghost of a monk is said to used in the mines, and this built in the early 80's . walk along the bridge, as well specific occurrence relating as actually sit IN cars driving Since building commenced, to an incident of a mine, not along the bypass. a musty various reports were made to far from the Pearoyd pysmell has often been associthat a spirit had been dislon collapsated with this monk, more so turbed and was frequently ing and seen in the evenings by secu- in the cases of the monk acsadly killing rity guards and even 2 police- companying passengers in all who were their cars. men who investigated it. below at the it is THIS which has been In the early 80’s, when the time. The blamed for the many accibypass was being built and children are dents which have frequently after several reports by secusaid to be rity guards to the local police occurred on the bypass. the spirits of of disturbances at night, two A recent video on youthe pit chilofficers went to investigate dren who tube.com has an image of a early one morning. died in the brown cloaked figure standThe Pearoyd Bridge with mine accident so ing on the Pearoyd bridge At first nothing happened, the haunted pylon in the many years ago. whilst the car from which it then a figured appeared on foreground on the right the bridge, which at this time was shot passes by, much to Various local Parathe onlookers shock. was still under construction normal groups have and closed to the public, get- A boy is said also to walk investigated it to this day, ting out to check, one of the but results remain inconclualong the bridge, although his officers noticed it vanish into sighting are less frequent, as sive due to the place being thin air. his appearances are said to be notoriously windy, and inability to use many of the a premonition/forewarning Within minutes of climbing gadgets that investigators of an accident on the road. back into the car, the driver use as standard because of was startled to see someone A man in Victorian clothes the EMF emitted by the pyappear “as if out of thin air” has also been reported lons nearby. by the drivers side of the car, around the bridge area, alTam Kinnear-Swift the passenger also saw this though the specific location

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Featured Venue — RAF Coleby Grange doned airfield, that is now mostly being used for the Boothby heath Farm, just outside Metherington, Lincolnshire. It first opened in 1939 and closed for the final time in 1963.

The control Tower is all that remains of the former RAF station Coleby Grange, is an aban-

The ghost of an airmen in WW2 flying kit has been seen in and around the control tower, stones have been thrown, a feeling of presence and not being alone has also been noted and a shadowy figure moves on both levels of the control

Keeping the paranormal friendly is a community based website that supports the UKBPA.

ders of Shadow Seekers UK, a group currently based in Tameside, Greater Manchester.

Its members can discuss topics in its forums, advertise their group and forge good relations with other members of the site by utilizing its content and pages.

They started this site initially because they were tired of the “Paranormal Politics” that exists between some groups, so decided to set up the website to keep the paranormal a friendly, amiable place, where groups

The founders, Steve and Sue Taggart are also the foun-

tower. The staircase is also reportedly haunted, a young airman fell down them and died of a fractured skull, and since, many people have reported painful headaches whist on it. At other times, the drone of long gone bombers can be heard, and footsteps heard on the top corridor. RAF Coleby Grange is just outside of Metherington, Lincolnshire and can be found just off the B1202.

could get to know each other and work towards a common aim. The UKBPA fully supports the Keeping The Paranormal Friendly network and encourages all of our member to do so by joining.

“The staircase is also reportedly haunted, a young airman fell down them and died of a fractured skull”

“Keeping the paranormal friendly is a community based website that supports the UKBPA”

Join the community on www.keepingtheparano rmalfriendly.com

UKBPA Committee members and Reps The UKBPA have restrucManager tured in order to be as effecTam Kinnear-Swift— tive as possible in serving Secretary/Project Developthe paranormal community. ment Manager/Yorkshire The structure is as follows: and Humber Area Rep Brian Lambert—Chairman/ Cara Coles—Treasurer South East Area Rep Lisa Lincoln—Treasurer/ Clint Symonds—Vice chair- Best Practice Manager man/Technical /Location

Other Reps: Dave Eaves— Website Admin/ Midlands Area Rep Becci Smith— Projects Team/East Anglia Area Rep Nick Thurston— Media Rep

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Roche abbey — Alive With Spirits the ruins are dominated by the church which dates from around 1180, the other buildings are visible only by their foundation walls. Maltby Beck runs through the abbey grounds and is crossed in several places by the buildings of the cloister. sightings mostly pertain to monks moving throughout the grounds, and in 2008, when local group Project reRoche Abbey is a now-ruined veal looked about the place abbey located just outside prior to an investigation, the Rotherham, near Maltby, photo’s they took turned up South Yorkshire. more than they bargained It is situated in a valley for. alongside Maltby Beck and In one of the photos, taken King's Wood. up by the gate house, a figure There is a small parking area of a monk appeared. just off the main road and “this wasn’t an investigation” from here it is a short trek said Project Reveal “we had down a roughly cobbled, just gone down to look at the winding lane that eventually place PRIOR to investigating leads to the valley floor. it later that week” The abbey was founded in Other local teams have also 1147 when the stone buildhad photographs of monks, ings were raised on the north as recently as December side of the beck. From the 2008, when Rotherham Instart, the Abbey of Roche, vestigative Paranormal socibuilt for the so-called White ety captured what appears to Monks, as the Cistercians be a half formed apparition of were known, had an almost a praying monk. otherworldly air. “It was captured in front of It was, after all, built at the the ruined church, where northern end of an area once there appears to be a hooded covered by Sherwood Forest, figure crouching as if in and it was said that Robin prayer.” Hood went to Mass here, and however there have also been a medievally clothed figure has been spotted in the trees many sightings of other ghost, including the spectre kneeling as if in prayer on of a grey lady standing at one many an occasions, could of the windows, staring out this be the spirit of one of onto the grounds. England’s greatest heroes? Roche Abbey, seen from the air.

Although not much remains,

Nobody is sure who the mys-

terious grey lady is, or why she haunts what is now the National Trust building at the abbey, but it is thought that she was at one time the governess for the Wickersley family, who had taken possession of the land after the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry IIIV.

“The sound of a wailing child is said to be heard coming from one of the upper rooms, although on investigation the crying stops and the room is empty”

The sound of a wailing child is said to be heard coming from one of the upper rooms, although on investigation the crying stops and the room is empty. Certain guests are also said to have seen the ghost of a maid disappearing up a flight of stairs. Legend has it that in the 18th century, a maidservant to the Wickersley family, had found herself pregnant to a local soldier who was then killed in battle, and shortly after her child was born, she killed the baby before hanging herself in the attic. There are no records as to who, if this story is true she was, or why she decided to hang herself and murder her child. The feel of Roche abbey often changes, and sometimes changes quite rapidly, going from calm and pleasant to overbearing and oppressive in a matter of second, and usually, without explanation.

The remains of the Church, at Roche abbey, South Yorkshire

Tam Kinnear-Swift

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