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Beaumaris - The Elusive Vampire
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 (CDT) by Thoth
 In this exclusive article, paranormal researcher David Farrant recounts his investigation into the haunting of a derelict Welsh Manor house.
I don't think anything came close to being similar to the actual Highgate Vampire case, as you've probably realised. There were a couple of other cases that I investigated that were supposed to be connected with “vampires”.
The first one was in Wales and that goes back to 1982. It concerns an old derelict Manor House which is about six miles from Beaumaris, Anglesea in Wales. It was very isolated and the whole area was practically deserted.
Rumour had it that the mansion was haunted by a “female spectre” and locally she'd become associated with stories of “vampires”. We never found out why, right at the beginning, but this was the general story going around.
We spoke to
the locals - and I should add here that the Welsh are not exactly the
easiest people in the world to get information out of … especially if
you're English - they seemed very guarded as if to protect their own
life styles and little communities, and most people all told the same
story; that there was a terrible spectre that haunted the Manor House
that was supposed to be the apparition of a vampire and nobody went
near the place at night. We also checked with the police at Beaumaris
before we started the investigation but they were unhelpful except that
they confirmed that Baron Hall hadn't been lived in for many years and
it was the ancestral home of the Bulkeley family who were very high up
in the community.
The first thing we did, was
to visit the Manor House by day - this would have been in the late
summer or early autumn of 1982. It was very difficult to find. We had
to go up long winding lanes, and there was not even anyone around to
ask, but we eventually located it, hidden, right in the middle of
nowhere. As it loomed up in the distance, in the grounds, we discovered
a short flight of steps, very overgrown but not vandalised, and at the
bottom of these were two securely locked iron doors with bars in them
at the top, so of course, we had to look through these to see what was
inside! When we shone the torch through them - and there is a
comparison to Highgate Cemetery here - there were concrete shelves on
either side of a small room and at least six coffins were clearly
visible. We automatically assumed that these contained the remains of
people who had lived in the house and who had been interred in the
family vault. At the time, I remember thinking that this seemed unusual
because there were no churches in the vicinity and it was almost as if
the vault lay on unconsecrated ground. It was a bit of a mystery … the
point being of course, that if this was the case, it could probably
have given rise, or served as a reason, for the vampire stories.
We went into the house
itself and discovered that half the roof was missing at one end of the
building. It was a huge building and must have been about fifty or
sixty feet high, and originally it probably contained four or five
floors. None of these floors were intact, but the whole of the
downstairs area was. We found one other short flight of step's on the
left of the building with two massive great oak doors at the bottom,
and the temptation was to go and have a look, because obviously, there
would have been a dungeon or crypt, or something, underneath. But there
was literally no access because lying in front of these doors were
great big chunks of masonry and it would have been impossible to move
it, and even if we could have done, I doubt if we’d have got the doors
open. I did the usual checks … I should mention here that the
temperature inside the building was decidedly cold. Now you could put
this down to the building being built of stone and that sometimes when
you go into a stone building it can harbour cold, rather like a
refrigerator, I don't know - but it was markedly colder than the
temperature outside. We also measured the pressure, and the pressure
inside the building was a lot lower than it was outside, although it
was a very warm late summer's day; which again in itself is interesting
because you don’t usually get drops in pressure to that extent in such
a short distance of a few feet. I say it's interesting because you
often find that cases of unexplained phenomena often occur in area's of
low pressure.
We explored the building
and we explored the grounds. In fact the grounds were massive. There
was a huge overgrown orchard and this must have taken up two or three
acres. There were outhouses that were derelict and had long since been
deserted; there was a huge ornamental fish pond which had long dried up
- the bottom was all cracked. I say “huge”, it was probably bigger then
this room.
The other strange thing we
found were huge plants which I'd never seen before. It was almost as if
they were tropical. I actually got a leaf and the leaf itself was about
six feet across. And I have a picture of myself holding it (so you can
compare it to my height which is about six foot), and the stem would
have been about the size of a small sapling tree. It was covered in
spikes. I don't know what they were, it's as if at some time people had
been experimenting with various forms of vegetation in the grounds.
We subsequently visited the
building on other occasions, we got photographs of it, took other
readings, including using a compass. Now, a compass is very important
because it can actually react in the presence of psychic energy. It can
throw the compass out of alignment so instead of pointing North, it'll
go mad and start spinning around. There was a varied reading on the
compass. We got a true North reading at one end of the building, then
we walked to the other end and the reading was ten degrees different.
This happened two or three times around the course of the building, so
there was definitely some sort of strange energy in it.
We visited the Mansion on
other occasions, as I said. It was by car, in daylight; but we became
absolutely fascinated, so we decided to hold a vigil there at night.
Colette Sully was there on that occasion; there was … well, I don't see
why I shouldn't name him, he wouldn't mind - a person that I know who
was a geologist who was living in the area called Geoff Jennings; there
were two other people whom I won't name but - they also lived back
across the mainland and were interested in psychic phenomena.
Now, we went there one
evening. We must have arrived about 10 0’clock and it was very, very
cold inside the mansion, for we’d decided to hold the vigil inside it.
I mean, I know there'd been a marked difference in temperature during
the daytime but at night it was absolutely icy-cold. I do remember one
thing: we kept fairly quiet, but after about an hour, there was a
tremendous “slamming noise” and one of the windows at the top of the
building flew open and slammed shut with tremendous force: which was
unusual because there was no wind at all and it was a peaceful, passive
night. But we sensed something there. It’s very difficult to put into
words, because what with the temperature and the atmosphere which was
overwhelmingly claustrophobic it was as if … if I hesitate, it's
because they aren't really any words to describe it. Then after
midnight when we were facing the right end of the building inside the
great front door (the left end of the building was where the stairs had
collapsed which led to the entrance of the cellars or the crypt, or
whatever it was), one of the girls there suddenly screamed and said
she’d “seen a figure” that had come “out of the wall” and which had
disappeared through a wall in the vicinity of the staircase.
We all spun around - by the
way, I should add it was quite light in there, I do remember there was
a bright half-moon and because there was no roof it was quite possible
to see without torch-light - and somebody else, Geoff Jennings I think
it was, said he had just glimpsed something; but this girl swore to
seeing a figure that had just gone across the Hall and disappeared
through a wall. She described it as a “greyish” figure and that of a
lady. Again, if it was possible the place had turned even colder.
Well, we took photographs
but that was really an afterthought because the figure had already
disappeared. It did seem … There was a terrible atmosphere. I wouldn't
call it “evil”, I don't really like that word, but an intense sort of …
well, there was almost a living ominous force in there that was
“watching you”. And once you got outside the building, it was almost as
if a great weight had been lifted from your shoulders. You could hear
the odd owl again, or animals in the undergrowth. It was as if you were
walking back into a different world.
So - and although I didn't
actually witness it myself I certainly experienced the atmosphere -
that was another case of locals deciding that a resident apparition,
was a “vampire” …..
“Beaumaris - The Elusive
Vampire” is transcribed from an interview by paranormal researches, Kev
and Chrissie Demant, with David Farrant at his B.P.O.S. power base on
12 April 1997.
Photograph - Copyright: BPOS
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Re: Beaumaris - The Elusive Vampire
by tirnaill on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 (CDT)
(User Info | Send a Message) | I beleive the plant you described is a Narajilla it's from the Andes in South America.
..."The other strange thing we found were huge plants which I'd never seen before. It was almost as if they were tropical. I actually got a leaf and the leaf itself was about six feet across. And I have a picture of myself holding it (so you can compare it to my height which is about six foot), and the stem would have been about the size of a small sapling tree. It was covered in spikes. I don't know what they were, it's as if at some time people had been experimenting with various forms of vegetation in the grounds." |
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Re: Beaumaris - The Elusive Vampire
by terry on Saturday, January 28, 2006 (CST)
(User Info | Send a Message) http://na | excellant article well presented and informative
thankyou
terry |
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