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What Happens When You Connect with Spirits on a Ghost Hunt?
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Welcome to The Bell Witch Podcast - Witching in the 21st Century
In this special bonus podcast episode, where the host Swailes recounts their exhilarating ghost hunt experience in Bramhall, near Otley in Leeds, on January 5, 2024. They describe the historic setting of Bramhall Village Hall and the activities they engaged in, such as table tipping and using ghost-detecting gadgets. The host shares personal reflections, noting the joy and excitement of connecting with spirits, including children and possibly Robert Craven. The episode concludes with the announcement of a new venture, "Grave Encounters," aimed at further exploring the supernatural. The host invites listeners to share their own ghost hunting stories.
Hear more spooky stuff from Swailes -
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0tcTAnXv1jFSx9ipIxFJmp?si=0fcad7e435024bac
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Pt20TZI0bjI3XP9K8mAKB?si=025e757279424640
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3W0g8FaNlZqNR6PxwTCXbg?si=c3b334ea4d93479a
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Transcript
Bonus Episode Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello hello ah lovely lovely listeners. I am going to upload this episode as a little bonus before I get back in to making podcasts again for September. I've had a month off. I feel really fully recharged. The kids go back to school tomorrow therefore I need to create content.
00:00:24
Speaker
to give you now but i'm just so aware it's been a long time and so i thought i'd upload this patreon episode that i did ooh back in january actually quite a long time ago this is a ghost hunt i took part in in the new year It was fantastic. It was really really massive for me. and Such a good Patreon episode. I uploaded it onto Patreon straight away in January and so those guys have listened to this quite a long time ago and so I thought I would slap it on here. I hope you enjoy this offering. Normal service will resume in about a week or so. So enjoy witches and I will speak to you very soon.
Ghost Hunt Overview at Bramhope Village Hall
00:01:40
Speaker
Hello lovely magical souls and witches welcome to this very special super duper amazing episode I'm putting together for you right now it's an exclusive for subscribers of my very first patreon so it's a big deal so this isn't gonna go on Spotify this is just for you cool kids here right now who is supporting swales of friendly green witch in making a bit of moolah for herself on this crazy podcasting journey, so thank you. So for this episode, I wanted to give you something extra special and it just so happens. Last night, which is the 5th of January, 2024, I partook in an amazing ghost hunt in a place called Bramho.
Setting the Scene and Initial Preps
00:02:32
Speaker
which is not very far from Otley in Leeds and it's a really historic tiny little village of only I think there's just over 3,000 people that live there and it's got loads of grade two class old school buildings and we ended up booked on this ghost hunt in the Bramhope village hall which is also known as memorial hall for Robert Craven originally the Craven Institute in 1896 and this has got loads of history I think it was built from a charity fund from Sir Robert Craven who was a farmer who came into money I think and he decided to make some stuff for the historic village including a school for children which I think this building became Bramhope is really old it was around in Saxon times so it's got mountains of history
00:03:24
Speaker
but I ain't a historian and I probably won't do a very good job looking into it and then telling you all if I'm honest I can't really be bothered with that I'm more interested in telling you about this amazing ghost experience I had last night table tipping this hall I know really well because I used to take my eldest there for baby sensory and photography studios and stuff and so the building itself feels really friendly to me because I go there with my babies a few year back. He used to sit and drink tea all day. It's kind of like a big hall of a little stage. You could play bag of minting in there and there's a few rooms and a kitchen and it's all very
00:04:09
Speaker
Very villagey and very lovely to be in. Anyway, so we booked this ghost hunting night with Mother Serpentine Tarot of Jodie. It was sort of like a year in business slash happy Christmas slash happy new year party.
00:04:24
Speaker
thing. Instead of having a party where the ghost knight, how amazing is that? Just a load of witches coming in, I think there was 11 of us. The kickoff time was 8 o'clock so we all managed to get there in time and have a brew and have a chill and say, oh yeah how you doing, have a nice Christmas, happy new year. We had a few rules to listen to and a bit of housekeeping, take lights off and off we went.
00:04:47
Speaker
I don't really know why you need to turn the lights off as a witch interested in psychic and spirits and ghosties. I don't think the ghosts really give a damn if the lights are on or off but I guess it adds to the ambience of the event.
00:05:05
Speaker
I'm a bit like that with graveyards as well I think when ghost hunters go around graveyards looking for ghosts it's like why I don't believe ghosts would be in graveyards like how depressing is that if I were a ghost would ill I yell hang around in graveyard I'd be in people's houses like going through the drawers and checking out the clothes and like what they got in fridge and all kind of a bit of cup of tea and yeah that kind of thing I ain't hanging around like a dirty cemetery with mud and worms and shit no no no So we didn't have much gizmos and gadgets. I think we had but had a panchlette with a pencil in it on a big piece of paper. We added bear that would light up if it were moved and the old cat balls and pendulums and I was seriously regretting not bringing my Ouija board but you can't get everything. We did a circle of protection and then we split half and half and I went off.
00:05:59
Speaker
with a few others into the main hall. For a good hour, China raised the energy trying to receive information messages.
Slow Start in Communication
00:06:09
Speaker
It was slow, nothing much went on at first. I wasn't getting frustrated, I was just being pleasant and just enjoying there. I mean, I was really unspooked and the rest of the group weren't really spooked. We were all very level-headed, very serious about ghost hunting and getting messages. Nothing much happened. We got the odd push on the planchette. We got, you know, they've got the mobile phone devices that give you random words from the
00:06:36
Speaker
radio stations that was working and it was just giving us loads of names you know like loads of names of i think children that used to be taught in the hall and every so often it kept saying pierce you know like ear piercings i was a bit like oh is that for me but i didn't say anything and then a few words later there was ear so i was a bit like oh god but yeah these things you don't want to just be like oh it's all about me I feel like I should point out at at this point as well if you haven't seen me I've got quite a lot of ear jewellery and piercings in my nose and in my ears so it's pretty hard to miss and if I were ah a Victorian ghost I mean you'd think what the heck is that wouldn't you and point it out so it ain't just me being like with a pair of sleepers that had a fyi there.
Intense Table Tipping Experience
00:07:28
Speaker
The fun started to happen when
00:07:31
Speaker
We went upstairs into the attic room. I know this room very well. I've been up there doing kids associated stuff. It's a basic room with a table in the middle. A pretty non-descript room, if I'm honest. But prior to this, we tried pendulum a little bit. I mean, everybody knows I can't do pendulum. I order pendulum and it doesn't move ever. It just...
00:07:55
Speaker
goes really still and I don't know what that's about I just accept that pendulum dividing isn't for me ah but yes back to the room but we went up into the attic with a table in the middle and we had to go at table tipping now this makes me so excited because I have never done table tipping ever and it has been on my bucket list for so long and when we were stood around it we were asking for the energies to be used to be moved and there was a lot of us and he had a little bit of a, could feel there were a bit of vibes going on but nothing much else and I just, I knew if we give it time then someone would happen so half the group left.
00:08:42
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and me and these other two lasses who I know from Jodie's tarot reading course decided to stay back and it it was a mother and daughter duo which I think adds to the energy so I was quite eager to keep them in the room with me because I could just sense something were going to happen and we stood there with his fingertips on table and I could feel tingling in my fingertips And you also get a bit of dead arm as well, you know, because you stood there with your fingertips on the table, not pushing hard. It was a square table, there were only three of us, so there was an empty space on one side. So we were inviting Spirit, you know, to stand there and help us. And you could sense the energy rising and falling, almost like like an energy pulsing, you know, like ebb and flowing. I suppose kind of like waves, it was coming in waves, it was intensifying, and then drifting off to hardly anything.
00:09:38
Speaker
And then you're about to go, oh no, I think we've finished, I think we've lost it. And then it'd come back really intense again and it'd go like this, to and fro, to and fro. And we had the the mobile phone on the table doing the words and then this name came.
00:09:56
Speaker
And it was Jason. Jason, I think there was Jack as well. So we were like, okay, we're going to play the... Oh, it's too hard to move. I mean, you know, we're just young, sweet women and we don't have the energy. Use the energy to move the table. And you could hear it creaking. It was creaking so bad. It was like really creaking.
00:10:17
Speaker
And at times I would go, oh my gosh, is it moving? But it wasn't, it would just, it felt like it was. But it wasn't, I don't think it was. Because we're still in the dark as well, which is never helpful. in And then every, every softer we get a little shun, you know, like a tiny little, oh, oh, it moved. Oh my God, it gets better though. And bigger. And the energy was massive at that point. And I were tingling and pins and needles and the two other lasses as well were like, oh, I can't believe it.
00:10:45
Speaker
And then the organizers came in and they said, oh, it's time to go now because it's nearly 12. But we were reluctant to leave because I just knew, I just knew something was going to happen.
Profound Moments and Reflections
00:10:54
Speaker
Oh my God, the table moved. I have never experienced anything like it. It moved ever so slightly. And then the organizer left and we were still working on it. And then at five past 12, the organizer came back and said, okay, we really need to wrap it up and I can't tell you how amazing it was but the table glided across the floor about three foot and we walked with it
00:11:22
Speaker
And as we walked with it, the organizer was watching us walk with it. So the light was coming through the door and she could see everybody. And it was just, it was absolutely incredible. I just couldn't believe I'd experienced this first hand at table tipping. It was phenomenal. And my heart was going so fast and I was sweating with joy and I could have cried. I didn't want to take my fingers off the table because it was just so incredible.
00:11:52
Speaker
Like it felt just so profound and it felt huge to me and to other lasses. It was like I felt like I'd won the lottery and I felt like we'd experienced something just so huge in life and death.
00:12:08
Speaker
And like we're bonded through it now. We've created some kind of weird bond. At the at the moment afterwards, it was emotions were just huge. They were so huge. you know That's an amazing way to finish. But I think there was something about it being 12 as well. It felt like I knew as soon as it got to midnight, something would happen. But i'd never i'm just I could never imagine that is what happened. that The table moved with us and we walked it almost to the wall from the center of the room.
00:12:36
Speaker
in a kind of twisted shape. It was just absolutely phenomenal. I mean all night I'd been getting little bits of information you know like I do from spirit when things enter my mind. So we know it was a school and there were a lot of children roaming around. I didn't feel that anybody touch me but I kept being shown a pipe like a beautiful carved mahogany deep wood pipe so shiny and so beautiful and I think it belonged to Robert Craven who is like famous in this hall I mean there's pictures of him all around and it's like I felt the children it was like I was a child and I were being dead to steal this pipe
00:13:22
Speaker
Not to do art with it, just to get his hands on it and touch it. And it was almost like we were daring each other to get this pipe. But we'd be in such trouble, but it were worth it because it was just such a beautiful pipe and it became almost the game itself to steal this pipe and see how long we could keep it for.
00:13:41
Speaker
It was worth it just to touch it and and stroke it because it was just so smooth and shiny and absolutely a piece of art. It's a bit weird because when you get stuff like this it's like a storybook being told to you but it's really detailed you don't know where it's coming from and I could feel the emotion of getting found out and being like oh oh my god we're in for it now oh my god and i was just so nervous this was before the table tipping this was maybe halfway into the night we went to a different room there was some bunting on the windows so we were suggesting the little kids moved the bunting in the windows
00:14:15
Speaker
by blowing it or something and I had that ghost tube app on my phone you know that does dick figures if you see if it feels an energy or it picks something up like a body that's not there so there were little bodies in the windows near the flags little stick people as I put the camera and I was a bit like oh that's interesting you know maybe they're almost there trying to move these flags And then later on when we were doing the pendulums, you know, the organizer who was with us said, did you get any more information about the pipe? And because it's not my memory, I was a bit like pipe. I was thinking like water pipes.
00:14:55
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And she said, no, the pipe you were on about earlier on, I was like, ah, yeah. You see, that's another funny thing. You can't really remember it because it's not your memory to remember. So as soon as it comes in your head, you got to write it down because it'll be gone forever because it's not your memory. But no, I didn't get anything else about the pipe. Overall, it was just magnificent. I can't express how big a deal it was that this table moved with us and walked to the wall. It were just...
00:15:19
Speaker
They were phenomenal. I was very aware of my recent research on the Philip experiment, you know, where a group of non-believers came together and made this table tip and they're convinced it's not a ghost but because they were a collective and they were desperate for this table to tip, you know, the science suggested that they did that telepathically. So even if it weren't a ghost and the three of us telepathically moved the table, I am still amazed. To me that is still magic, it is still something
00:15:55
Speaker
to celebrate, it's just I moved a table with my fingertips by my mind suggesting and egging it on. I mean, that in itself is also amazing. Side by, if you want to listen to that episode, it's on whenever you get your podcast from and it's called The Skeptic Witch and the Ouija Board and it's a look at all sort of scepticism around mediumship.
00:16:19
Speaker
a ghost hunting and stuff and it is a really good episode. It is probably one of my favourite episodes which is bizarre for me considering I'm such hungry for a ghost, not hungry ghosts, hungry to meet ghosts but the stuff I research was just fabulous. So I do recommend going over and listening to it after you've heard this if you are dead interested in all that philip experiment research and all that jazz ah ouija and the skeptic which is the title get it right swales get it right but yes back to the ghost hunt brahm hope
00:16:57
Speaker
It is known to be haunted and it does have a lot of history. And it wasn't scary, you know, people get scared and I just, none of us were very scared. Well, I don't think any of us were very scared afterwards. I just came home and I would desperate to hate my husband up and tell him all about it. But of course, he wouldn't have been interested.
00:17:15
Speaker
Have you been on a ghost hunt? Can you tell us about it? What amazing things happened to you? What experiences do you have? Please share down below in the comments on this Patreon. and Let's have a conversation about bumps in the night and ghosts, things that you've seen and manicustations in front of you and I'm all ears for it. Oh it was so fantastic and I'm still dreaming of it. Dreaming of running the ghost nights and I think last night has worked on the Home Group a bit more, so Jodie and a group of others from the Tarot Card classes are gonna set up together as a group under the Grave Encounters title, which we did a little bit last April. Just us three. That was myself, Jodie, and Jodie's uncle Steve who has all the kit. And we did that up in the local pub in Hawke Park in April. God, I can't believe how the year just flies.
00:18:09
Speaker
It was a bit of a flash in the pan and then life got busy and it sort of fell to the wayside but last night I think has made it.
Future Plans for Ghost Hunting Business
00:18:17
Speaker
Wake up again and we are seriously going to look into setting up another little business adventure where we go out and we try and make contact. I mean, it's not, we're not professionals, you know, we're just all witches and we've got respect for the earth and for spirit automatically deep inside us. We're not going to be faking anything. We're not going to be acting. We're not going to be wanting to prove stuff.
00:18:39
Speaker
We're going to be level-headed and honest, decent witches. So if you're interested in coming aboard with that, you know, booking an event with us, we're going to slowly get the kit together. that It's going to be fabulous. It's going to be a ghost a year. ha ha Amazing. Thank you so much for listening to me.
00:19:01
Speaker
Babylon about my ghostly experiences last night with the table tipping I hope you've enjoyed this little bonus episode I've created for you patreon members Thank you so much for having faith and belief in me and supporting me with a little bit of funding to get better at podcasting and I hope you enjoy and the meditation that I did for Christmas hope that went down well and I do plan some more meditations which are going to be
00:19:32
Speaker
for everybody, available for everybody but then I'm also going to do an exclusive long meditation about healing the witch wound and that'll be a patient only meditation and I would like it to be about half an hour but we'll see. Anyway that's all from me. Stay magical witches.