BODILLY MANOR

NR REDRUTH, CORNWALL

09/02/2010

HISTORY

This 16th century manor house which is situated in a derelict mining village has had reports of paranormal activity going back decades.

Famous investigations have been carried out by The British Ghost Society.

The owner Jonathan believes there are up to 13-14 diffrent entities at the manor. It was an investigation I could'nt miss.

EQUIPMENT

Head camera

2x Hard drive camcorders

Evp recording device

K-2 meter

Digital camera

INVESTIGATION

Jonathan gave me a guided tour of the manor and was very good at not letting me know about previous activity at the house.

I set up a static hard drive camcorder in the corridor upstairs facing towards 2 areas which I felt activity may occur. This camera was left running throughout the investigation.

I started with a lone vigil in the Dining room. Static camcorder was running throughout and Head camera. On this hour vigil no activity occured.

I then was joined by Jonathan for another hour vigil in the dining room. I started a EVP session using the Audacity program through my laptop. We both noticed spikes on the recording charts at regular intervals. On review at the time most of the spikes were interference. On one occassion on reviewing the EVP segment a voice was picked up which we both believe to be a mans voice saying"Julie". This was followed by 2 taps which we did not hear at the time.

Fourty minutes into the vigil we both heared movement in the Kitchen next door. At first I believed it to be the cats or Jonathan's dog. Jonathan went out to check to find all his pets were asleep. What was also strange was the security light outside had gone on a few seconds earlier.

We then had a break and then went to the sitting room.As I entered the room I smelt what i believe to be a fire. The fire was not on in the room. Jonathan relayed to me that this was a common occurence and that the fire had not been put on for some time. Once again both static camera and head camera was being used. We carried out an EVP session again. There was no activity that I could note.

We then once again had a break and then returned to the dining room. Once again we had a EVP session with the ususal cameras running. No EVP's were noted. At one point I noticed a cupboard door slightly open. Jonathan also witnessed this occuring. I checked for draughts which there was none apparent. I positioned the cameras on the door. We watched the door for another 25 mins for further movement with no results.

We then had a further break. I decided to take some random photographs in the garden.

We then resumed in the sitting room. Once again no activity was recorded. For the last vigil we returned to the Dining room again there was no further activity apart from both cameras and my laptop malfunctioned.

CONCLUSION

This was a great investigation for many reasons. First I had no real idea of what activity to expect. Secondily the building was built in many stages over the years. It was very good to try and investigate diffrent ages of change within the building. Although a further visit is needed as I could not cover all the areas in this investigation.

EVIDENCE

A definate response at a EVP session with a name followed by 2 knocks.

No activity was evident on the static and head cameras although I did note an awful lot of dust in the air in the dining room which from an untrained eye would look like orbs.

The personal experiences from myself and Jonathan with the movement in the kitchen and the cupboard door opening of its own accord.

I do feel this manor is haunted and I will be teaming up again with Jonathan for a second investigation shortly.

BODILLY MANOR

31/03/2010

INVESTIGATION 2

After the previous investigation results and also not covering all of the manor last time I decided to have another crack at this manor.

EQUIPMENT

CCTV System

2 static camcorders

Voice recorder

Night vision minoculars

Digital Barometer

Digital camera

Head camera

INVESTIGATION

I set up the CCTV system to find that it would not work.(on return to my house I retested the system to find it worked fine).

I set up the night vision minoculars recording in the garden.Here is a break down of activity from each room.

THE YELLOW BEDROOM

I investigated this bedroom twice at this visit. On one occassion I had a strange experience. I was filming using the view finder to see. On one corner of the room I thought I saw what appeared to be a distortion or a small mist. On reviewing the footage there was nothing on the camera. I was sure and now sure I had seen something. I can only put it down to tired eyes?

The camcorder did capture a noteable orbs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrGsEn3Xkk

The EVP test captured nothing.

FOUR POSTER BEDROOM

I also visited this bedroom twice. This room did have a strange feel to it but no evidence was captured on Camcorder or EVP test apart from an orb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRH-LFK9nJA

SITTING ROOM

I visited this once on this investigation. I was accompanied by Jonathan. An EVP session and camcorder review came up with no evidence. We did not have any experiences.

DINNING ROOM

This has to be the best room in the house for activity. The atmosphere is electric. We carried out 3 separate vigils in this room. On one vigil the camcorder picked up a noteable orb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vj9YPx7JdE&feature=channel

The best piece of evidence came on our second sitting. We had both been sat at the dinning table when I felt like a huge weight had filled the room. The room felt pressurised. My digital Barometer had read Hygro reading 70%. This reading you would find in a storm etc.

I asked out to see if I could get a reaction. Sure enough the digital barometer started to show the humidity dropping. I asked who ever was doing this to drop the humidity level to 45%. This happened very slowly but did occur. Once at 45% it stopped dropping and stayed at that level. This event was captured on camera.

THE GARDEN

On reviewing the footage from the night vision minocular which was left recording for 5 hours there was no activity.

CONCLUSION

Once again Bodilly manor came up trumps. Some really good evidence. Some great personal experiences. This place is a Ghost hunters dream(almost addictive). Jonathan the owner is one of the nicest guys you could meet and very level headed.

So do I think this place is haunted? a big YES