Private Location Scotland.
16th/23rd October 2009.
Personal feedback by.
Mary Cunningham SP Co-owner / Investigator.

Scottish Paranormal team in attendance:

• Mary Cunningham
• Jim Cunningham
• Mark Smallman

Equipment used:

• DVR System
• 7 IR Cameras
• 1 Digital Temp Gauge
• Target experiments: wind-chimes, doll, pram, toy truck, pencils, soft toys, cutlery.
• 2 Digital Cameras
• 2 Sony Night Vision Camcorders (tape/disc)
• 2 Olympus digital Voice recorders
• Note-pads/pens
• 2 Desktop Computers
• 3 Laptops (Windows/Mac)
• 1 EMF meter.
• 1 Data Logger.
• 1 Sound mixer
• 2 External microphones.
• 1 iPod (used to store a back-up of all audio recorded)

Weather conditions:

• Damp & Cold
• 16.00 Degrees F
• Constant throughout.

Duration of investigation:

7 days/nights.During which the entire family was on holiday.

Reported activity:

• Apparition of little girl seen on upstairs landing.(Witness, adult female family relation)
• Apparition of a man seen in hallway at front door and in kitchen.(Witnesses, all 3 children of the house on different days-ages- boy 3yrs,girl 6yrs,boy 9yrs)
• Apparition of a lady seen on bottom stairs landing.(Witness, female child 6yrs)
• Apparition of a lady seen in pink bedroom. (female child (6yrs) also, oldest boy child now 9yrs)
• Apparition of a little girl seen in blue bedroom and also shadows.(witness, oldest boy child 9yrs)
• Apparition of a man seen in plum bedroom,(witness, relation to family-cousin- boy child 5yrs)
• Poltergeist activity in plum bedroom (suitcase came off top of wardrobe and landed on floor at door 9 feet away) (witnesses,2 adult females of the family)
• Poltergeist activity in kitchen (witness, lady of the household)
• Figure of a man that allegedly walked through the kitchen table (Witness- female child 5yrs old

The house:

A full pre-investigation in depth interview with the client was conducted by Mary and Jim. The house itself was found to be over 100yrs old and previously owned by a family within the mining community which for this area of Scotland was very typical of that time, a very strong stone building with bay windows to the front. The house originally consisted of 3 bedrooms but was later re-furbished in 2004 when the clients purchased the flat downstairs and decided to join the 2 houses together making 1 big single family home. Extensive modernisation work had been in progress over a long period of time to make this possible.

First reports of alleged activity was reported to me regarding this property was late 2004 when the first born male child was 2yrs old.I have been in constant touch with the family in question over the years and have performed at least 3 previous investigations in this home. With continuing reports of activity we decided that 3 hour investigations were not long enough to research this case. We arranged with the client to come back into their home and continue our research more deeply over a 7 day/night period of time. This way we could spend more time focusing our attention on certain other areas of reported sightings and alleged poltergeist activity. Due to the sensitive nature of this case we will only allow a chosen amount information to become public ”with the kind permission of our client”.

Friday 16th October Scottish Paranormal arrived on location at 2pm to start setting up our equipment. The IR cameras were set up in the appropriate positions according to our reports and target experiments consisting of a child`s toy pushchair with a doll was put in place along with a toy truck and we also set up wind chimes inside a glass dome. Once everything was in place we attempted to go online but there was a slight hitch as we had internet problems to deal with, this was only a slight hiccup at the start of the investigation and we overcame the problem early next day.

Saturday 17th Oct at 2pm we arrived to proceed with the live streaming of the investigation.

Although Scottish Paranormal performed this investigation over 7 days/nights using up to date equipment I personally have not witnessed anything strange or untoward going on in the home and, I personally feel that the family are in no physical danger. Nothing of any significance was captured on our equipment as yet but in saying that, we are still reviewing the very last of our footage. I feel confident that this family will go on to live a normal life without the fears and worries they had before Scottish Paranormal was called in to help them out. We try to reassure the clients and also try to give them a logical explanation of what may be occurring in their home to the best of our knowledge and experience and, we also have no pre-judgement of any individuals in this case or any other case we take on.

Using our DVR cameras we were able to put this investigation online -with the kind permission from our clients- and recruit paranormal investigators from all over the world to help Scottish Paranormal with this online live investigation. During one of our investigation in particular we were lucky enough to have a Canadian team founder of PEIGHS paranormal group join us live via skype where we had audio and visual contact with her throughout.This meant that she could relay to us live what she was seeing on our live cams as we investigated the location in real time. On one occasion Rushell from PEIGHS and another team member from SP – Mark, did actually witness at the same time what they both thought was a figure of a little girl aged about 8 or 9 years old dressed in Victorian clothing and described as having ringlets in her blondish coloured hair, this apparently took place on the upper floor landing just outside the blue room and also the plum room. On reviewing the cam footage of this episode it was decided that this sighting was merely due to heavy pixilation of the images coming through the cams which made it very difficult to see anything else that may have been there. I myself have reviewed this footage and I will agree that it`s inconclusive due to pixilation. Never the less it was an exciting time for us as we went over the footage together as a team and put our opinions forward with a lot of logical thinking behind it.

EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Review:

So far Scottish Paranormal team member and Co-founder Jim Cunningham has spent a long time reviewing audio from our digital recorders that were used in this case for the duration of the investigation for any EVP`s that may have been captured. His findings were that of strange unfamiliar whispers that were picked up in the blue room and also on the upper floor landing.These will be put together and presented to our client along with a DVD of the investigation at no charge to the client.

My personal notes and opinions:

The 6yr old girl child of the family in question will not go upstairs on her own because she is too scared. I feel that if she is seeing things in the house it will undoubtedly make her feel this way, it`s understandable.
The oldest boy child feels scared in his room at night sometimes. I personally think that at some point all children feel this way which I consider to be normal.
The youngest boy child (3yrs old) doesn’t seem too scared by anything he sees and, he does tell his Mum about it at the time then runs and plays quite happily.
I realise that kids can be cruel to each other sometimes by telling ghostly stories and the like but, I do not think this is the case here. For a start, the children who are telling the stories are genuinely afraid at the time and not pretending in any way as far as I can see, plus!…. the male parent has witnessed the distress of the girl child first hand and he was concerned, for normal he dosen`t believe in ghosts or anything such thing like that really, a pretty level headed man in my opinion. The mother has also witnessed her daughter in a very distressed state when the child ran to her telling her that there was a man in the kitchen and he walked through the kitchen table as the girl was sitting drawing with her crayons, the Mother was upstairs at the time. I`m not surprised this child is the most distressed one of all the children as she is the one who also claims to have seen an apparition of a lady on the first stair landing too.

I intend to continue giving this family our full support and help in the future.