Interview
Sarah Sprules
- Ghost Hunter -
Hi Sarah,
I’m doing a project at uni about the
Llandoger Trow
and have found some information on the
internet
about the
Ghost Hunting you do there. I would love to know more about it if you have the
time?
Hi Siena, I’d definately be able to help!
What are your questions?
Fire away..
Thanks Sarah.
What equipment do you use when hunting?
etc?
- Temperature guages
I take along
tape recorders,
trigger objects
(small items that can be drawn around or covered in flour to see if they have moved),
temperature readers
and motion detectors.
Generally people will
also
bring along their own equipment as well -
video like
cameras
etc.
I do draw the line at Ouija boards though.
Is there any sort of
formula to how you go about it
?
a building
A place within
that you always start,
like
in the front doorway?
There is
no
formula,
as each location is
totally different.
For instance in the
Llandoger,
because it’s still a working pub,
I tend to
start
in the cellar
easiest place to access as that’s the
when the pub is
full.
I also like to try and
split groups
up and
leave them in
for an hour or so
different areas
an d
th en s
wa
p
th em
ar ou nd
.
Sometimes, you get groups who know
exactly where they want to start,
or
they might wait for me to tell them where is most active.
How many people were you with
at the
Llandoger Trow?
There’s always a
LOT of interest
and so you try to accommodate as many people as possible,
you also want to keep the numbers but
small enough
that it will be taken seriously by people
and
not d en sc de to in drunken drunken stupidity stupidity
and
also if you have
too many people it can be hard to keep track of where everyone is and whether you’ve heard or seen a genuine noise.
15-20
I generally have groups of
people at a time.
At the Llandoger I think the most I had was 22 and we did 7 nights to squeeze everyone in.
What
exactly
did you find
at the
LT ? (if anything)
We had nights when we get
didn’t
anything
and then we had nights where we
did.
One of the things that we
couldn’t explain, was when the whole group was in the cellar
and from the dark corner
(where there was no entrance/exit and you could see there was no one there)
we started getting
pelted with stones.
Another time
and we had tables moving
glasses
shooting across the table.
We were all
sat together in the bar
at about
2am
one night
noise
and there was a
running
through the bar
that sounded like a train
and it sounded like
all the
glasses were shaking, but none were.
That was quite scary.
One night,
(
)
I was pregnant with my daughter at the time
and I was upstairs talking to a group when I got
violently shoved in the side
and there was no one on that side of me.
I got quite upset
shaken and
and
couldn’t explain it,
it really hurt
shouting and I found myself
at thin air and telling the ghost off.
Some of those incidents sound really
eery
and
scary.
Do you ever feel
like
you need
any
sort of
‘ backup’ in case it turns sour?
I never used to give any thought to the type of backup etc.
When I first I just really
started
doing the hunts,
enjoyed them and it never occured to me.
However,
my own phychic started developing without me trying.
side
over the years
seeing I kept
and
sensing things without wanting to
and
when I started work in a
local hotel, I managed to pick out the 5 rooms
where people had died,
out of the 220+ rooms.
This freaked
me
out,
freaked
my colleagues
out,
especially as
I was coming up with the details I couldn’t have known.
And I couldn’t
understand
how
I was doing it.
I eventually went to a
spiritualist church
and they helped me
learn to control it and close myself off
(
I know this all sounds a bit
out there,
but when you’ve got unexplained things happening in the
middle of the night
and you literally do see dead people
it helps
).
I haven’t done a hunt
since...
... since having my daughter
(she’s 4 this month),
keep
I getting asked about doing them
and to be honest after answering your questions I realised how much I missed it.
manor house I went to an intriguing
the other day
on the
outskirts
of Bristol
and am
in the
middle
of negotiating the possibility of
doing
a hunt
there soon.
I could literally
HOURS spend
telling you about
all :)
Sarah.
the various ghost hunts and happenings over the years
Thank you
so
much
Sarah,
this has been really interesting and helpful.
Speak again soon.. Siena.