The Burton-on-Trent Ghost Walk Investigation 7 Feb – 13 Feb 2004
Day 1

Team

Chris Thompson
Eleanor Thompson
Mark Hibbert

Chris & Tracey Cambell-Brown
Richard Bridge
(Burton-on-Trent Ghost Walk)

The DPI team arrived in Burton-on-Trent town centre at approximately 16:00 hours and took the opportunity to continue the exploration of the photograph taken of the monk, during the previous weeks investigation. To aid us in our investigation we had printed a copy of the photograph on a transparency and were able to line up the exact position from where the photograph had been taken from. Close examination of the area and further photographs showed no further signs of the monk or any possible explanation for the apparition previously recorded.

Following our exploration of the Memorial Gardens we decided to make a daylight trip over to Andressy Island and on our journey over, met the family from a local public house who told us of a couple of strange occurrences that had happened to them in their pub during the last week. We hope to evaluate this information shortly and will report on it during a later investigation. After our look both at and from the island back towards the Memorial Gardens and where the abbey would once have stood, we made our way back across the river to meet up with the rest of the team.

At 18:15 we once again set off through the memorial gardens and made our way back onto Andressy Island to where we had found what we suspected may have been a potential “hot spot” during our earlier visit. As you may already be aware it is not the policy of either PICOUK or Derwent Paranormal Investigators to report on what we may individually sense, but since the members from the Burton Ghost Walk are not members of our team we are quite happy to report on their experiences. Both Chris and Tracey noted a tingling in their feet and Tracey also felt that all the hairs on her body were standing on end. Richard started swaying as though about to pass out and was advised to leave the area.


Unfortunately as we were leaving the Island the weather took a turn for the worst and after a short stay in a bus shelter where Chris told us of some of the local haunted locations we were forced to take refuge in a local hostelry. It was during this time that an extraordinary coincidence came to light. Chris and Tracey told us of their experiences at home during the past week, which proved to be almost identical to those related to us by the publican earlier in the day. As we have earlier stated, we will not at this time report on the nature of these incidents as they could possibly be related to other external forces or conditions and would hate to influence a small minority of people coming forward and saying “Yes that happened to me too”, therefore making our validation more difficult.

This orb was captured on camera whilst  stood in the bus shelter waiting for the rain to abate. Strangely enough the wind was carrying the rain from the right, whilst the orb seems to be traveling in the opposite direction. 


Although we made another attempt to carry out further investigation we were once again beaten back by the weather and at 21:00 decided to call it a day. Analysis of the photographs has once again produced another interesting result but until we have carried out further investigation and research we are unwilling to publish it.

Day 2

Team

Chris Thompson
Eleanor Thompson
As there were only two of the members of Derwent Paranormal Investigators available for tonight’s investigation we decided that safety in numbers was the order of the day and accompanied the Burton Ghost Walk on it’s Sunday tour. We used our time to take a full audio recording of the whole event, which requires to be downloaded and analysed. As this recording is in excess of an hour and a quarter in length and the ghost walk takes place on the busy streets of Burton-on-Trent there may be a considerable delay in bringing you our findings.
Analysis
We have started to analise the audio recording taken during the ghost walk and have so far uncovered this rather disturbing clip which has been extracted from a full 15 seconds of similar audio. We were unaware of it's existence until we attempted to clean up the whole clip. An extended version of this EVP is available to members of the PICOUK Forum in the Audio section.

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