Derby Gaol 08-10-2005

This was the smallest group we have worked with consisting of just five people. Three young ladies from Liverpool and a young couple from Stoke. As on the previous night, Derby Gaol’s resident Spiritualist Medium Pat, was once again on hand to provide the second part of the evenings entertainment (The first of course being the mini ghost walk around the local area).

After Pat had concluded her session the (K)nights of Fear began to guide the group through the remainder of the night. As there was only a small party present we decided to start the evening with an attempt at table tipping in what would have once been a third cell but is now classed as part of the day room, but sadly we were unable to obtain any results. Next we used a series of pre-prepared questions with dowsing pendulums to allow the guests to dowse in five separate areas of the prison. As we are intending to use the same questions with future groups to compare results we are unwilling to publish them on this website. However, if you have attended one of our nights of fear we will only be too pleased to keep you up to date with future results should you email us and requst us to do so.

A glass divination session was then conducted in the Condemned Cell. At first things were a little slow to start but then the father of one of the guests started to communicate with the group via the glass. The guest in question found it difficult to believe that their father had come through as they had been trying for many years through Mediums without any success. We do have our own thoughts on why the father took this opportunity to communicate and should the person involved like to contact us we will be only too happy to discuss it further as we do not believe in leaving any loose ends. Another of the guests started feeling a little sick and the session was closed. As she exited the cell she collapsed and had to be helped to a chair. On numerous occasions during séance conditions visitors report feeling sick bringing the session to an early closure. On this occasion however, on coming round this visitor was physically sick and was taken outside for some fresh air. We shoud point out that after a few minutes break the guest was perfectly fine and able to continue the rest of the night without any ill effect. Also, during the session she appeared perfectly clam and had show no signs of stress.

As there was a possibility that some of our guests may have been a little stressed by the events so far we settled them down fo a while before carrying out a séance in the Debtors Cell. Even before the session started another of the guests complained of feeling very cold and was shaking uncontrolably. The séance started and the guest slowly regained their composure. For the guests things were relativly quiet and remained so for about thirty minutes. Yet another guest then felt a face directly in front of them and absolutly terrified requested the séance to be closed. Although the séance was closed within seconds the guest was extreamly distressed and in an attempt to eliviate their fears they were taken back into the cell to carry out a short vigil with two of the (K)nights of Fear in an attempt to make peace. During this session everything felt calm within the cell. As we had only a small group with us however, we had taken the opportunity to place CCTV in the cell which showed an amazing amount of activity. Sadly we are unable to use video clips on this site but once we have some clips available will advise you of where they are available on the web.

We then moved into the Museum where a spirit board session was conducted. This time the forth member of the group had their own personnal experience as their grandfather started to communicate via the board. What was even more interesting though was that during the glass divination session (K)nights of Fear member Paul was inspired to try some automatic drawing which after the closure of the sessions in the Museum was shown to the group. Paul was told that what he had drawn earlier had a strong resemblance to the guest’s grandfather.

After a break where a couple of minor ESP experiments were tried, a final séance was conducted in the Condemned Cell. Every attempt was made to protect the guests from any psychic attacks but at one point were were forced to move the circle around the cell slightly. Sadly this left the guest who had experienced the face in front of them directly by one of the cell doors and they almost immedietly experienced exactly the same thing again, once again forcing the closure of the séance.

We all returned to the dayroom for a short debrief before heading for home. We should of course point out that no guests were physically harmed during the night, but we will be only to happy to talk to any of them in private should they wish to do so.