Veritas Paranormal UK at Leeds Industrial Museum

How haunted is the Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills? Rob Pyke from Veritas Paranormal UK dares to find out.

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00:00 My name is Rob Pike. I head up a Leeds-based paranormal investigation group called Veritas

00:06 Paranormal and today we're in the cinema in Leeds' Armley Mills, the industrial museum

00:13 in Leeds. I've been interested in the paranormal since I was pretty much knee-high to a grasshopper

00:17 about seven years old or so. The first experience at home where I was and then there's been

00:24 an interest in, I'd say from my late 20s when I was working for Durham Police. A colleague

00:30 went along on an event there. They picked up on all sorts. I was interested at the time

00:34 so I went along as well and nothing happened. The fact that nothing happened has made me

00:40 more interested in the paranormal and what I can see, what I can find. I'm not a medium.

00:47 I need to see with my own eyes and ears with what's going on in the night, hence more the

00:51 tech side of the equipment that we use which helps us capture those audio and visual moments.

00:57 Locations like the Leeds Industrial Museum, they've been around for, well, since the early

01:02 1700s. But it's not only that. You've got to look at what was on the land before the

01:07 Leeds Industrial Museum as well. These locations with the history, with the age, give us that

01:12 opportunity to peel back and look at the layers and look at the history that's happened. At

01:17 the end of the day, energy can't be destroyed and that's scientific fact. Does the energy

01:21 go into the walls of the building or does it go somewhere else? That's what we're looking

01:24 to pick up with our tech equipment and also with the older style equipment that we use

01:28 as well. Here in the cinema alone where we are, I believe it's one of the most active

01:33 areas in the Industrial Museum. There's a certain seat just about four rows back which

01:39 the seats are dropped down when you sit down, they go down and so on and so on. We've seen

01:44 a couple of times this one particular seat just fold itself down. You need a good weight

01:48 on there to do that. We've seen it move on its own, I'd say a couple of times at least.

01:55 Another area, there's a large loom room above where we are at the moment. We have guests

02:00 here on one of our vigils where relatives have come through. Paranormal spirits, whatever

02:05 you like to call them, ghosts, they're not circus performing people, okay? And we respect

02:09 that. What we do, we do it respectfully. We always have done, we always will do. I'd say

02:13 a good 99%, if not 100% of our investigations are nights at our events. Nothing happens,

02:20 but you'll get that one or two percent where we can't explain something. We'll always look

02:25 at a logical reason to explain away with what we've heard, seen, felt or whatever. But there's

02:31 times we just can't. We donate to charity in every single event that we do and that's

02:36 what we take pride in. We give back to the communities. Ghost hunting shouldn't be about

02:41 profiteering in any way, which is why we give as much as what we possibly can to local and

02:46 national charities. If we were to spend two nights here back to back, the two nights would

02:50 be poles apart. One night you might get a lot of activity, the next night you might

02:55 get nothing. That's the appeal, or that's the appeal that I find with what we do, my

02:59 hobby. Nothing's ever guaranteed.