- 24/06/2025
The Most Haunted crew investigate Fitz Manor in Shropshire. The pungent aroma of tobacco is often detected in the Orange room. Many witnesses claim to have seen a ghostly woman in the Red room and a priest was murdered in the dining room.
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00:00This is where the boy lost his life.
00:04I want to go.
00:05Ghostly apparitions, poltergeists and secret tunnels
00:08await the most haunted team in Shropshire.
00:10Oh, Jesus!
00:30Hello, and welcome to Most Haunted.
00:41This week, we've brought you to rural Shropshire,
00:44to a place that has so many regular hauntings,
00:46we just had to come.
00:48This manor has experienced ghostly shapes,
00:51unexplained noises,
00:52and allegedly, it has two hidden tunnels.
01:00Can we unravel the secrets of Fitzmanor?
01:02We have 24 hours to find out.
01:10The original structure of Fitzmanor
01:13was believed to have been a Saxon hall house,
01:15which was first recorded in the 12th century.
01:18The manor is mentioned in the Doomsday Book
01:20and also in the Charter of Henry I.
01:23The house has its own church
01:24and was once owned by the Bishop of Shrewsbury.
01:27The church has been connected with the manor
01:29for many years,
01:30and in one such case,
01:32a priest was supposed to have been crucified
01:34inside the house for being homosexual.
01:37The manor is now owned by the Bailey family
01:39and has been since the late 18th century.
01:42Many members of the family and their guests
01:44have experienced paranormal activity
01:46and seen ghostly apparitions.
01:53Fitzmanor is an extremely old property.
01:57It probably goes back to the time of the Saxons.
02:00So we're talking of how many generations of people
02:03have lived and died in this house.
02:06The first recorded family, about 1,200.
02:10That's 800 years of people that we definitely know lived here.
02:15A dramatic event occurred here many years ago.
02:21Allegedly, a priest was crucified against one of these walls.
02:26Since then, sobs, groans and moans are heard on a regular basis.
02:32And the family dogs, normally placid creatures,
02:34have turned against their owners in this room.
02:37It's fascinating, they have two dogs here
02:40and on frequent occasions,
02:43the family are there, either watching television or working,
02:46and all of a sudden, one of the dogs sort of stands up,
02:51stares into the corner of the room
02:52and starts barking.
02:54Completely extraordinary.
02:57They, on occasion, have just gone totally mad.
03:01It's as if they're looking at something that we can't see.
03:05Their hair will stand on end, they'll bark, they'll growl,
03:08and nothing can induce them to go towards
03:10where we think they're seeing something.
03:13Then, after a couple of minutes, they are quiet
03:16and it's as if nothing's happened at all.
03:17There is a story, an ecclesiastical story,
03:20of a priest that was reputedly crucified
03:23on the wall of, I believe, the drawing room
03:26for being a homosexual.
03:29Now, how true that is,
03:31I don't know whether people were actually crucified
03:33inside houses, I don't know.
03:35But the fact that there is the ghost of a priest here,
03:38of course, leads me to believe that is true
03:40because a large manor house would probably have
03:44either its resident priest
03:46or certainly visiting priests
03:48at the time of Queen Elizabeth.
03:50There's probably priest holes in this building as well.
03:53Who knows what might be bricked up in that priest hole?
04:00The figure of a Victorian lady has been seen in this room.
04:04She's been seen 14 times in the last few years.
04:08Many people have likened the apparition to this picture
04:10which was found in the attic.
04:13She doesn't just confine herself to the house,
04:15she's also been seen in the local graveyard.
04:18Was she buried there?
04:20I was chatting to my teddy bears,
04:22as you do when you're six years old.
04:24Turned to look at the doorway.
04:25Whether I felt a presence, I have no idea.
04:27And there was a lady in the doorway in Victorian clothing.
04:31Very, very, very kind-faced, hair swept backwards.
04:34I was completely terrified.
04:36I had no idea who she was.
04:37And then she just disappeared down into the floor
04:39and that was the last I saw of her.
04:41She just evaporated into the floor,
04:43is all I can describe.
04:45Guests come down and say,
04:48who was that old lady on the stairs?
04:50And of course, there was no old lady there.
04:52She has been seen quite a few times,
04:54so I know I can have gone completely mad.
04:56No-one in the house smokes,
05:17and yet a very strong, pungent smell of tobacco
05:20fills this room and totally disappears.
05:23A past resident used to stay here,
05:26and he was known to smoke a pipe.
05:29Could his spirit still be here?
05:32He had a particular brand of tobacco
05:34that, of course, was well-known to the family.
05:37He's been dead ten years.
05:39He's only buried across in the graveyard,
05:42and they often smell his tobacco in the room at night,
05:47in the room that he used to sit on many occasions.
05:53Phil Wyman, our paranormal investigator,
05:56had arrived earlier at the location
05:58in order to conduct a baseline test.
06:01This is in the event that if any paranormal activity does occur,
06:04Phil can quickly evaluate the readings scientifically.
06:08OK, Phil, this is a beautiful, beautiful house.
06:10Lovely gardens.
06:11There's an awful lot of history here.
06:13What particular place are you looking forward
06:14to investigating tonight?
06:16I'm actually looking forward to investigating
06:17in the sitting room or dining room.
06:19Legend has it there was a priest crucified for his sexuality
06:23and walled up behind the panels there.
06:26It's also the place where I've set up the trigger object,
06:28so hopefully we can get some kind of movement
06:29with it being a cross and the religious connection.
06:32What other things are you going to be doing tonight?
06:34Well, we've set up the motion detectors
06:36on the upstairs corridor.
06:37This is where footsteps have been heard,
06:39so if anything breaks the beam,
06:41it will sound an alarm,
06:42and we'll be able to get up there
06:42and check what's causing the problem.
06:44And also there's been sort of noises heard as well, I guess.
06:47Lots of noises.
06:48That's quite spooky.
06:49Yep, loads, like I say, loads of footsteps.
06:52Sighs and groans.
06:53Now, that's an interesting one.
06:55It'd be good if we could get some of that on camera
06:57or on the dictaphone, for instance.
06:59And also the smell of tobacco.
07:01That's right, it's the orange room.
07:02Apparently there's a tobacco smoke smell associated with it.
07:05Now, we've had this in all sorts of locations.
07:07We've had babysit smells, rose smells, smoke smells,
07:11that kind of thing.
07:11What a lot of people probably don't realise
07:13is that most paranormal activity or occurrences
07:16are actually smells or movement of objects or noises.
07:19Less than 10%, I believe,
07:21of people who actually experience paranormal activity see ghosts.
07:28It's quite an interesting place.
07:31Lots of stories, active stories.
07:33We have a family here
07:34who actually are experiencing things now.
07:39So, who knows what tonight's going to bring us.
07:44I definitely believe in ghosts.
07:46I've grown up with them.
07:47It doesn't bother me,
07:48but I find it actually strangely comforting
07:50that there's something else in the house.
07:52But I'm fascinated to see whether Derek can find something
07:55or whether any of you can see something here on film.
07:58It would really amaze me.
07:59We were eager to begin the investigation.
08:04All day, we had heard different accounts
08:06of the strange things that had been happening in this home.
08:09We wanted to find out who these spirits were,
08:11and to do that,
08:12we invited spiritualist medium Derek Okora to help us.
08:16We started upstairs in the orange room,
08:18where many people had smelt the strong fragrance of tobacco.
08:22Helen Bailey's grandfather had slept in this room
08:25and had been a heavy smoker,
08:26but would Derek be able to give us more information
08:28and tell us his name?
08:30This should be like a smoke-free zone,
08:33but not to the spirit person, this man.
08:36He doesn't care less whether it's a smoke-free zone house,
08:41because he's going to smoke and no-one's going to stop him.
08:46So it's like saying he's the only one here that smokes,
08:49and he doesn't care less.
08:53So that was his enjoyment.
08:55He smoked, and can you not...
08:58Because I'm getting this with the residual energy,
09:02not so much in physically, you know, spiritually doing it.
09:05Is it really strong to you?
09:05Yes, yeah, absolutely.
09:07And, well, I would go as far to say this.
09:11If a person was sleeping in here,
09:13whether people do sleep in here, I don't know.
09:15I know there's a bed here.
09:16But if a person slept here,
09:18and it was a person that smoked,
09:20this tobacco is so strong,
09:24that even the smoker in this bed would sit up and go,
09:27whoa.
09:29Now, if it was a non-smoker,
09:31they'd jump out of that bed,
09:33because it's so strong.
09:34It'd be so noticeable,
09:35even if the windows were open.
09:37I know his essence comes here,
09:41and he does this.
09:43Now, maybe it can be checked.
09:45Right.
09:45And, um...
09:47Yes.
09:49And, again, I'm talking about this,
09:51but I want to go also into this passageway.
09:54Come on.
09:54Can we do that?
09:55Mm-hmm.
09:56So, as we come out into this passageway,
09:59just prior to going into the bedroom,
10:01I was almost stopped,
10:03and it was like a psychic shield going,
10:05woof.
10:06And just for a couple of seconds,
10:09my mind was trained,
10:11and I was made to be trained,
10:12on this movement in this passageway.
10:15Up and down.
10:16Up and down.
10:17And purposely,
10:18purposely,
10:19the individual spirit person,
10:21separate to the man with the tobacco,
10:23because I'm getting now,
10:26and I'm very hopeful tonight,
10:28we've got what we call a child movement up here.
10:31A youngster.
10:32But also,
10:33not just the youngster,
10:34we've got a...
10:36Sam wants me to use this word.
10:39The spirit person is a heavy foot.
10:41So I said to Sam,
10:43what do you mean a heavy foot?
10:45He said,
10:45is so heavy-footed,
10:48that they,
10:49this individual spirit,
10:51pronounces his walk,
10:53at sometimes at speed,
10:55like a small trot,
10:57all along this passageway.
11:00And, you know,
11:01it must be so noticeable,
11:02because the person is purposely,
11:04the spirit person is purposely,
11:06it's like doing this.
11:07He does that.
11:10Why?
11:11Why is he doing that?
11:12To draw attention,
11:13that he's around.
11:14Derek,
11:14the child.
11:15Yes.
11:16Is that male or female?
11:17And the adult,
11:18are they male or female?
11:18Yeah,
11:19I feel that the child is a boy child.
11:21OK.
11:22And,
11:23well,
11:23I've got to say,
11:24the heavy foot is another male.
11:25Right.
11:26Definitely,
11:27another male.
11:28He's totally not connected to the child.
11:32Oh,
11:33oh,
11:33right,
11:34OK,
11:34that's good,
11:35thank you.
11:36For some reason,
11:37there's a connection,
11:38there is a connection,
11:40forgive me,
11:41and we can make sense of this,
11:43of four generations.
11:45Right.
11:46Oh.
11:46Four generations.
11:48Right.
11:49So now we're talking now about,
11:51although we've got activity from these people,
11:54we're also linking in with the residual energy
11:57associated with their experiences here.
12:00And there's a big gap between both of them.
12:01Yes.
12:02But they are related,
12:03but down the line.
12:04Yes,
12:04down the line.
12:05Right.
12:06Do you want to take a walk down?
12:07Yes,
12:07yes,
12:08OK.
12:10Now we've got a separate,
12:12separate condition altogether.
12:16In here.
12:20There's a lady who comes in here,
12:23quite often.
12:25So often,
12:26even to this present day.
12:28Well,
12:29I feel she's learned the art,
12:31so to speak,
12:32if that's the right word,
12:33how to develop into this atmosphere,
12:40manifest.
12:42And I feel that she's well pleased with herself.
12:46And I know she's listening.
12:48Well pleased with herself,
12:49because she realises the body language
12:51of different people
12:52who have actually seen her.
12:54She comes in here,
12:56she walks up and down this passageway.
13:00Who is she?
13:02She's a lady,
13:04at this moment in time,
13:05a lady who's got very,
13:07very strong links
13:07with the history of this home.
13:09You know when we talk about
13:12where certain family members
13:14down a family tree,
13:15we come across periodically
13:18a person that really stands out
13:20in the family tree,
13:22you know,
13:23about the personality,
13:24character and what have you.
13:25And I feel that this lady
13:26was a very assured lady
13:29in her personality traits
13:32in some manner.
13:34What era would you say she was from?
13:37Oh my gosh.
13:41It's got to be,
13:42I may be totally out here,
13:49but I would go to maybe
13:511600 and something.
13:55Not to 1700,
13:571600 and something.
13:59I get the name Margaret.
14:02Margaret.
14:03I feel that name
14:04must be linked in some manner.
14:06And I don't feel she got a,
14:08what we call,
14:08great age, okay?
14:10Before she left.
14:11But I feel that she is resident here
14:13as a spirit.
14:15As we've got a family
14:15who live here physically,
14:17she is here also.
14:18All the time?
14:19Yeah.
14:20The drawing room is a place
14:21that intrigued us all.
14:23A priest was supposedly crucified
14:24on one of the walls
14:25and the family have often felt
14:27uncomfortable in this room.
14:29We needed the priest's name.
14:31Would Derek be able to help us?
14:33Here.
14:34In this area here,
14:36someone was terribly,
14:38terribly hurt.
14:42I'll describe it in plain,
14:44simple terms.
14:45This person had his life,
14:48it was a man,
14:49taken from him
14:50by two judgmental people
14:52and there was two involved.
14:54but there was more than two
14:57that knew about it
14:58but two were heavily involved.
15:01And it's like,
15:03well,
15:06there was a man called Jesus
15:07that was crucified
15:08and there was a man here
15:11that was against this area
15:13by this wall here
15:14and literally crucified.
15:17And,
15:19thank you, Sam,
15:22they couldn't plead his innocence
15:23because they wouldn't listen
15:26to him anyway,
15:27whether he was innocent
15:28or whether he wasn't
15:30and this is what
15:32has been given to me
15:33very strongly
15:33is that
15:35the accusations,
15:37according to Sam,
15:38were correct
15:39of what they accused him of.
15:40and I know,
15:43when I say I know,
15:44I say the homily,
15:45I do feel it was
15:46sexual orientation.
15:50Now,
15:51because he has moved
15:53to a plane of life
15:54in the world of spirit
15:55but the residual energy,
15:57I'm not saying
15:57at this moment in time
15:58he doesn't visit,
16:00but with the residual energy
16:02being still very grounded
16:04and strong here,
16:06I just get this psychic inclination
16:10that he does visit.
16:12It might not be often,
16:13but he does.
16:14Is this an active room?
16:16I don't feel
16:17that this has got activity
16:19in it
16:19as such as where
16:21we have one spirit person.
16:22The ones I've mentioned
16:24upstairs,
16:25if activity is taking place
16:27in here,
16:28it's only through
16:29the movement
16:29of the others,
16:31especially the lady.
16:33Margaret.
16:34Yes.
16:34And she would come down.
16:35I'm also getting Anne as well.
16:37Why, I don't know.
16:38Right.
16:39I've got the name
16:40Margaret Elliot
16:40and I'm getting Anne.
16:42So whether they're connected
16:44or of the same person,
16:46I don't know.
16:47Right, okay.
16:48At this moment anyway.
16:50Now that Derek
16:51had given us
16:51the name of Margaret
16:52and Anne,
16:53we thought it would be
16:54a good idea
16:55to go to the graveyard.
16:56By using our night vision cameras,
16:58we were able to film
16:59in total darkness.
17:01The ghost of a woman
17:02dressed in Victorian clothing
17:03had been seen wandering
17:05past the headstones
17:06on frequent occasions.
17:07Could it be
17:08the same ghost?
17:10By spending
17:10a little time there,
17:12maybe Derek
17:12would pick up
17:13a surname for Margaret
17:14and her ghost
17:15could make an appearance.
17:17Yeah, it's in this area.
17:18What's that?
17:19It's on this line.
17:20That is a gravestone, isn't it?
17:21Yes.
17:21Oh my God, what is it?
17:23It's a stumpy tree.
17:25Okay.
17:25It's a tree, yes.
17:27You okay?
17:28All right.
17:29It did look human-shaped,
17:31didn't it?
17:32Yeah.
17:33Yeah, it startled me as well.
17:36Okay.
17:38This line here,
17:40for some reason,
17:41in this section here,
17:43is if I'm drawn
17:44through that lady's energies,
17:47I take it to be Margaret,
17:49in this area here,
17:51I'm also picking up as well,
17:54is if,
17:54with her energies,
17:56when she comes
17:57from the main building,
17:58the house,
17:59Yeah.
17:59and if I'm retracing
18:01her energies,
18:03it seems to be
18:05this area
18:06that she seems
18:06to be concerned in.
18:08It seems
18:09she's got a connection,
18:11you know,
18:11to the child as well.
18:12His links are here as well.
18:15Any first name
18:15with the boy child?
18:17Oh, yes.
18:19See, it comes,
18:20see, I can't,
18:21erm,
18:22the boy child,
18:23now they give me
18:24a little bit more,
18:25the boy child,
18:26in the house itself,
18:28down,
18:29we've got the ground floor,
18:31down below
18:32the ground floor,
18:34Yes.
18:35Erm,
18:36they want us to go there,
18:38to a, erm,
18:40it's like an arch,
18:41it's like brickwork,
18:44an arch,
18:45and I go down
18:46and I look.
18:48What's,
18:49what's so significant
18:50about the arch,
18:50do you?
18:51Well,
18:51it's a passageway,
18:52it's a tunnel.
18:53Right.
18:53To where?
18:56It's got something
18:56to do with here.
19:00With here.
19:02It's strange,
19:03even to me,
19:03because
19:04as I get this arch,
19:06this arch is not up here
19:08for me to walk,
19:09or any three of us
19:10to walk through
19:11like that,
19:12it's like as if
19:14it's only
19:15seemingly high enough.
19:17The boy could walk through
19:19and it's down there
19:21that the boy
19:22relates to.
19:23I feel would have
19:24lost his life
19:25down there.
19:26Down in the tunnel?
19:27Yeah.
19:28Or down in that area.
19:30How,
19:30how would he have
19:31lost his life
19:32down there?
19:33I know,
19:34well,
19:34when I say I know,
19:35I feel I know,
19:37erm,
19:37that he was not
19:38murdered,
19:39taking his life
19:40from him,
19:40I feel it either
19:42an accident
19:43or something that,
19:44it wasn't a natural
19:45passing.
19:46I feel either
19:48he was trapped,
19:49he was jammed,
19:50he was,
19:51he was,
19:52something fell on him
19:53or,
19:54it's like that
19:55and it's in that area
19:56because his energies
19:57come to my mind
19:58and draw me down.
20:01Erm,
20:02and it's like
20:03there's an urgency
20:04from the spirit folk
20:05and we can go down
20:07to those conditions
20:07but,
20:08go on,
20:08I was just to say
20:09before we do that,
20:11shall we see
20:11if there's a,
20:12see I,
20:13I,
20:13I'm really,
20:15what,
20:15what?
20:17Okay,
20:17it's just been given
20:18to me now,
20:19the little boy,
20:19okay,
20:20is little Thomas.
20:21Thomas?
20:22Thomas.
20:22Right.
20:23Can you give me
20:23a surname?
20:24Oh,
20:25I just so want
20:26a surname.
20:27He's,
20:27he had the,
20:28the name
20:29or what have you?
20:32We decided to stay
20:33in the graveyard
20:34and look at the headstones
20:35to see if we could find
20:36the names of Thomas,
20:38Margaret or Anne.
20:39Surprisingly,
20:40these relatively common names
20:41were not written
20:42on any headstones.
20:43According to Derek,
20:45the little boy Thomas
20:45had been crushed
20:46in a tunnel.
20:47There were no records
20:48of a fatal accident
20:49but there has always been
20:51talk of two secret tunnels,
20:53one leading to the church
20:54and the other
20:55leading towards
20:55another manor house
20:56on the opposite side
20:57of the River Severn.
20:59Maybe Derek could tell us
21:00more in the cellar.
21:02And as far as cellars go,
21:06this is like
21:07a massive one,
21:08isn't it?
21:09Yes.
21:09This is where the boy
21:10lost his life.
21:12Little Thomas,
21:13young Thomas,
21:14here.
21:15This is the,
21:16the impressions
21:17I was getting earlier
21:18of this like archway
21:20and also
21:22the spirit people
21:23would love
21:25right now,
21:26maybe at this moment
21:26if we had a sledgehammer
21:27to knock this through now
21:29because in doing so,
21:32what it's going to expose,
21:34it's going to expose
21:35what is actually there
21:36is a tunnel
21:36and that tunnel
21:37is where
21:38the young Thomas
21:39and his energies
21:41wanting to draw me
21:42down here
21:43to expose this
21:44and some kind of evidence,
21:47something linked
21:48with Thomas
21:48can be found.
21:50So you think
21:52that we should
21:52knock this wall down?
21:54Absolutely.
21:55If the family
21:56would allow it?
21:56If the family
21:57would allow it,
21:57this would give it proof.
21:59Okay.
21:59Absolutely.
22:00Is this tunnel
22:01connected to the graveyard?
22:03I feel there is
22:04some form of connection,
22:06yes.
22:06I feel,
22:07and even Sam's
22:08giving me the impressions
22:09here as well,
22:10is that it's going to
22:10surprise,
22:11if not shock,
22:13once it is exposed,
22:15what can be found
22:16in there.
22:17Great.
22:18It's not just
22:19an empty tunnel.
22:20So you really
22:21are that sure
22:22that if we knocked
22:23through,
22:23we would find something?
22:24Yes.
22:25I would like to come out
22:26because I'm feeling
22:26quite queasy
22:27still in here.
22:28Are you?
22:28Why would he be feeling
22:29that?
22:29So come on out there.
22:30Well, I mean,
22:30right away,
22:31the residual energies
22:32of anything,
22:33I mean,
22:33a young boy,
22:34okay, Rick,
22:35a young boy
22:36lost his life there
22:37and it wasn't
22:38in a natural form.
22:39He certainly wasn't,
22:40he wasn't murdered,
22:41he didn't have
22:42his life taken,
22:43but I feel
22:43some kind of
22:44tragic accident,
22:46what was going on
22:47with other people
22:48through the tunnel
22:49at that time.
22:49There he was,
22:50a youngster,
22:51got in the way
22:52or wasn't expected
22:53to be there
22:53and the next day,
22:55I just feel like
22:55a crushing now
22:56and that's what
22:57Rick is picking up
22:58is a feeling
22:59the last moments,
23:00the last seconds
23:01and what have you
23:02of what the physical body
23:03has gone through.
23:05Do you actually think
23:07that this area
23:07is active?
23:09I do, yes,
23:10but not active,
23:12constant.
23:13It's like a periodical
23:15sort of thing
23:16and if it's going to be
23:17because it's not
23:18because someone
23:19is permanently here
23:20but in visitation
23:21and at those times
23:23of visitation
23:24there is activity.
23:26How much we're going
23:26for the wars?
23:27I feel like my chest
23:28is being restricted.
23:29I'm just feeling
23:29claustrophobic down here.
23:31I do the basements
23:32and I just get claustrophobic.
23:35Like my chest
23:35is tightening
23:36and my throat is going down.
23:37Why would that be?
23:38Well, you see,
23:39what's actually
23:40happened here today
23:41without Rick really
23:42being aware of it,
23:45for some reason
23:47on this location here
23:49he seems to be
23:50that much extra open,
23:52the sensitivity,
23:54and he's picking up
23:54this stuff
23:55from the residual energy.
23:57Come on,
23:57shall we make our way out?
24:00Now that the crew
24:01had gained a little more
24:02information from Derek,
24:03it was time for us
24:04to split into small groups.
24:05Each group would investigate
24:07areas in the house
24:08where paranormal phenomena
24:09has been reported.
24:11Two of our cameramen,
24:12John and Craig,
24:13had teamed up
24:14with the owner
24:15of the property,
24:15Helen Bailey,
24:16to investigate the sitting room
24:17where the priest
24:18had supposedly been crucified.
24:20OK, well,
24:22we're focusing on
24:22the part of the room
24:24that Derek mentioned
24:26where apparently
24:27somebody was crucified.
24:29He could sense the agony
24:31that the person
24:32who'd been crucified
24:33had gone through.
24:34How are you feeling?
24:35in here, Helen?
24:37I don't think
24:39there's anything in here
24:39at the moment at all.
24:41Maybe it's because
24:42you're both here
24:43that there's company,
24:45but it doesn't feel
24:46to me.
24:47How would you feel
24:48if now?
24:50I wouldn't particularly
24:51like on my own,
24:51I don't think.
24:52You wouldn't?
24:53No.
24:54Sometimes I come back
24:54to this room
24:55and I do feel
24:55like someone's watching me,
24:57but...
24:57But you haven't...
24:58Yeah.
24:59No.
25:00I've not actually seen
25:01anything in this room
25:01apart from dogs
25:02behaving weirdly.
25:05Did you have that
25:07on the corner
25:08just then?
25:10Have you got
25:11the piece of light
25:11going across the ceiling
25:12in view?
25:13No.
25:15Why?
25:16I don't know,
25:16I thought I saw
25:17a little spot of light
25:18that moved,
25:19but it might have
25:19just been my eyes.
25:20Really quick,
25:21just a kind of a zip.
25:23if the ghost
25:26that supposedly
25:27comes back here
25:29and if he wants
25:30to make himself known
25:31and...
25:33There's a sign
25:34that you're there
25:35if you can hear us.
25:38If you can do anything,
25:40if you can scare the dogs.
25:43Well, I don't think
25:44I'll run.
25:45No.
25:45No.
25:46I don't think you're still
25:47here at all.
25:48I've got to agree.
25:49On the whole,
25:50the room feels great.
25:51It's got a pleasant feeling.
25:52The dogs are
25:53perfectly relaxed
25:54and I can't say
25:57that it feels like
25:58it's active.
26:00I did see something there.
26:02But your machine
26:04didn't flash, did it?
26:05Is it that?
26:06No, it wasn't that.
26:07Something just kind of...
26:09Right a little, yeah.
26:10It was a very pale light
26:12and I looked directly at it
26:14and it was like a pale light.
26:18And that and the width
26:20and height of a person
26:21and I can't tell you
26:21whether it was a person
26:22and it just was like a...
26:24Just an area of light.
26:27Maybe it's perfectly aware
26:28that the camera's not turned around.
26:30It's playing tricks.
26:33Helen was sure
26:34that she'd seen lights
26:35coming from the corner
26:36of the room.
26:37When looking back at the film,
26:38all we could detect
26:39was this strange light anomaly
26:41by the fireplace.
26:42As far as Helen,
26:43John and Craig were concerned,
26:45they felt fine
26:45in the sitting room,
26:46as did the dogs.
26:48Rick and I had decided
26:49to go back down
26:50to the cellar
26:51as family members
26:52and their pets
26:53had shown a dislike
26:54for this dark,
26:55damp place.
26:57It does smell here.
26:58Oh, that smell.
27:00It hums.
27:01See, there's just
27:03nothing in here.
27:05Shall we go sit
27:06over there, Omba?
27:07Fucking hell.
27:12I just felt,
27:13not felt,
27:13but like heard like this.
27:15Probably the wall
27:15was just vibrating
27:16or something,
27:16but like, you know,
27:17creaking behind me?
27:18Yeah.
27:18Oh, that smell
27:19is just absolutely gross.
27:21It smells like
27:22Billingsgate Fish Market.
27:24Just absolutely hums.
27:26Why would it smell like that?
27:27Oh, my God.
27:33Yeah.
27:34It's a bit...
27:35What was that?
27:36Did you feel that
27:37on your feet
27:37with your foot then?
27:39No, I thought
27:39you just moved
27:40this thing, yeah.
27:41No, no.
27:42It's like a...
27:43Yeah, it's like a...
27:48What did Derek say
27:49he picked up down here?
27:51A little boy
27:51called Thomas.
27:52Thomas.
27:53Are you in here, Thomas?
27:55Are you in here with us?
27:57That was like vibrating.
28:05Shall I keep talking?
28:06Mm-hmm.
28:09If that was you, Thomas,
28:10responding to me before,
28:13or if that's you
28:14that's shaking the...
28:16the bench that we're sat on,
28:19please do it again.
28:22God, the smell is getting worse.
28:23Stronger and stronger.
28:24It smells...
28:25I'm going to...
28:26It's making me feel sick.
28:30It smells like
28:31rotting...
28:32thick...
28:33Oh!
28:36As you can see,
28:38it's just...
28:38it's just...
28:39debris everywhere.
28:43It's not the safest
28:44to play, so...
28:46Let's let it go.
28:47Let's go for a wander
28:48down this way.
28:55I've got his horn.
28:56I just heard, like,
28:57a shuffling of feet
28:57just behind us there.
29:00Is there anybody here
29:01in the room with us?
29:04Thomas?
29:05Thomas, if you can hear me,
29:10can you make a noise?
29:13That smell's gone.
29:14That smell's gone.
29:17It has, actually.
29:20Very good.
29:21Did you just hear that?
29:23That was like a little whisper.
29:25What did you hear?
29:27Do you know what?
29:27I've got pins and needles
29:28all up my legs
29:30and all up my back.
29:31I'm very cold now.
29:33I've gone very cold.
29:34Are you cold as well?
29:35Yes, I am.
29:35Right, shall we...
29:37I'm cold.
29:38That's me again
29:42on that thing.
29:49There's a bit more
29:50with that torch, haven't we?
29:54Calm, calm, calm, calm.
29:56This is a tiny, tiny little room.
30:08I wonder what this was for, though.
30:10The storage, I should imagine.
30:14What was that?
30:15What?
30:16What?
30:16What?
30:16What?
30:16What?
30:16What?
30:16What?
30:16What?
30:16Did you not hear that creepy?
30:18No, no, no, no.
30:19Yeah.
30:19It was like a...
30:20I didn't hear it.
30:24What?
30:25From where?
30:25Over there?
30:25Over there?
30:26And he went, why?
30:27No, don't say it.
30:28See, that's giving me shivers, you say.
30:30Whoa!
30:30I just...
30:31Chill out!
30:33Chill out!
30:33Chill out!
30:34Chill out!
30:34Chill out!
30:35What did you see?
30:36Something just shot up past there.
30:40I've got a heart attack.
30:41Can we go now?
30:42I've got a heart attack.
30:43It was as if something just shot past there.
30:45Let's go.
30:46Please, let's go.
30:46No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
30:48Rick, I want to go.
30:50No.
30:50Rick, I want to go.
30:51Okay, okay.
30:52If you want to go, I'm going to go.
30:53I'm not joking about it.
30:54I just saw something just come.
30:58Look, nothing's going to happen.
31:01Oh.
31:02Rick was convinced that he had seen a dark shadow pass in front of the doorway.
31:06This was enough for me, and I wanted to leave the cellar.
31:10Maybe another group would be braver than Rick and myself.
31:12Many people, including Helen Bailey, had seen the ghost of a Victorian lady in the red bedroom.
31:18I thought a séance might help to trigger some kind of activity.
31:23Draw on the energy that is coming from the circle.
31:27Please make your presence known to us.
31:30If there's anybody at all in the room with us who would like to communicate, then please feel free to do so.
31:38Is there anybody there?
31:41We mean you no harm.
31:43We just want to make contact with you to help.
31:47Use our energy.
31:48Please try.
31:50Please try and give us a sign.
31:54What's that noise?
31:56It was a little constant on the table.
31:58It was a tapping on the table?
31:59Yeah.
32:00Did you feel that?
32:01I thought I had it.
32:02Again.
32:02Come on, keep trying, please.
32:06You're making headway.
32:08It's not easy when you have no energy there.
32:12But we have the energy for you tonight, and we want to help you.
32:17I'd like to know if there's a male presence anywhere in this end of the house that wants to contact us.
32:26Yeah, the man that stomps up and down the corridor.
32:29Yeah.
32:29Who is he?
32:30Why does he stomp up and down the corridor?
32:35Who did that on the table?
32:37It was tapped up on the table twice.
32:40No?
32:41No, no, you didn't.
32:42I thought somebody had moved their finger or something.
32:43No, never.
32:45It's like something's breathing on my right hand.
32:47Mm-hmm.
32:48Can you feel that?
32:49I feel very cold on the tips of my fingers, and it's like a cold breeze is blowing on, but I don't know if it's everyone's breath.
32:56I was just thinking that, but we're too far away.
32:58Mm-hmm, just up to the first knuckle.
33:00Are you?
33:01My left hand.
33:02I'm getting it on both hands.
33:03Mm-hmm.
33:04I think it's coming round.
33:04I've had it right since the beginning, but I thought it was my imagination.
33:07No, it's good luck to me.
33:08No, it's so strong on my index ring finger.
33:14Yeah.
33:15Yes, it's gone on my right hand.
33:17Honestly, it's as if something's passing round our fingers.
33:22That's right, yeah.
33:23I feel a breeze.
33:23Can you feel a breeze?
33:24I feel a breeze, yeah.
33:25Did someone move the table?
33:27What?
33:27No.
33:29I've opened my eyes quite a few times and just looked around to see if anyone else has made an eye go,
33:33because I've thought four or five times that the table has moved slightly.
33:35I thought someone had just gone and done that with the table like that.
33:42Mm, I felt like so.
33:43Now, it does move, obviously, but I mean, did no one physically leant on the table?
33:50Come on, let's just try again.
33:52There's anyone there that wants our help for whatever reason.
33:57If you're stamping up and down the corridor, there's a reason for you doing that.
34:01You must again be wanting to attract attention.
34:05Why?
34:07Make the most of it and try.
34:10Did you feel that again?
34:11No.
34:12I felt attacked.
34:13I just didn't tap there.
34:14It was twice?
34:15No.
34:15Was that the table?
34:17Yeah.
34:17Did you move that table?
34:18No, I didn't touch it.
34:19It shook.
34:20Very strange.
34:21You are starting to do something.
34:25Perhaps this is the first time you've ever had to do it.
34:29We had all felt the table tilt, but presumed it was someone else moving it by accident.
34:34A tapping noise on the table was also heard and caught on our microphones.
34:40I wasn't brave enough to go back down to the cellar,
34:42so I asked Carl, the director, and Stuart to spend some time down there.
34:47A longer period of time was needed to investigate the cellar properly.
34:51I've got to admit, this is a very, very scary place indeed, to be on your own.
34:56It's not nice of you.
34:57Especially at night time anyway.
35:01It's almost like you're not supposed to be here.
35:03So how long are we going to spend down here then?
35:09An hour?
35:09Yeah.
35:11If we make it to an hour.
35:12Do you know when you know you're not on your own?
35:20Yeah.
35:21I actually feel a presence.
35:23I actually feel as though there's someone here in this basement with us.
35:27What it is or where it is, I don't know.
35:30There might not be nothing here, I'm not just saying that.
35:33But I actually feel as though there's something nearby.
35:38Is there anybody there?
35:42Is there anybody here in this room with us?
35:44Is there anybody who would like to make contact with us in this room?
35:56What's that?
35:58Shh.
36:03If there's any spiritual entity here, please try to show yourself to us.
36:10What was that?
36:12You haven't moved, have you?
36:14No, I've not moved.
36:18Let's go and stand in this room.
36:20Okay.
36:21So if we get it, let's see what we can get.
36:28I can't see a thing.
36:30You're right.
36:37Do you fancy staying in that room on your own for a bit?
36:39I'll do five minutes.
36:42Five minutes on the run each.
36:43Five minutes on the run.
36:44Yeah.
36:45Yeah?
36:45Okay.
36:47See how we're going.
36:48Yeah.
36:50If I'm not too happy, I'll give you a shout.
36:52Yeah, it's all right.
36:52I'll, yeah.
36:53Because this, oh, it's okay.
36:55Right, let me go.
36:57Let's see what goes on.
36:58When I look back at when we first started to do this series, you would never have caught
37:15any of us, I mean any of us, you know, you know, I wanted part of a castle or a manor
37:25house on our own.
37:27And here we are.
37:28I wouldn't say quite happily doing it, but what is that?
37:34What's that?
37:35I've stayed in a lot of different places, some probably far scarier than what I'm in
37:52now, but this, I don't know, there's got something about it, this place, like, you're
38:00not welcomed.
38:02Something just shot past the screen, then.
38:05I wonder what that was.
38:08Could have been dust, it could have been a knob, I don't know, but I saw it.
38:15It must be a rat or something, it's got to be.
38:18What's that?
38:22Are you moving, Stu?
38:23Yeah, that's me.
38:26You all right?
38:27Yeah, I'm fine.
38:29There were some bangs and stuff, but I don't think it was paranormal, I'm not quite sure.
38:37Do you think you've had any success in it?
38:39Well, I've asked if there's anyone there, but nothing's happened at all whatsoever.
38:45A bit disappointed, really.
38:47Yeah, I'd like something to have happened.
38:50So how did the other members of the crew get on?
38:53Richard Felix and his group went into the grounds where nothing out of the ordinary occurred.
38:58Victoria and Kath sat in the orange bedroom, where they kept getting the feeling that they
39:02were being watched.
39:03I just get feelings that something's over my shoulder, and I don't know if it's the, you
39:08know, the corner of the eye syndrome, something similar to that, where you just think that
39:13something's always over your shoulder.
39:15And Phil and John spent some time in a room where the door had a mind of its own.
39:19If there's anybody in the room with us now, we'll...
39:23What?
39:24That door just miffed.
39:25What?
39:26I've gone all funny now.
39:27Carry on.
39:28Let me get my conversion back a second.
39:30I...
39:31What?
39:32What?
39:33I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
39:34The door just pulled out of my hand.
39:35Pulled the opposite way.
39:36You sure?
39:37Oh, Scott.
39:38I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
39:39I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
39:40The door just pulled out of my hand.
39:41Pulled the opposite way.
39:42You sure?
39:43I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
39:44I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
39:45The door just pulled out of my hand.
39:46Pulled the opposite way.
39:47You sure?
39:48I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
39:52I saw something just pulled out of my hand.
40:07On the whole, an extremely interesting investigation.
40:12In my opinion, virgin territory.
40:15could not I tried to look up this place on the internet and you can find nothing
40:22we are talking of first-hand accounts from the people that live here that have
40:28experienced it when I first come into the room with a poor priest and appeared
40:33to have been terribly terribly hurt and eventually his life taken from him is
40:42such a cruel cruel way and it shocked me because earlier during the course in
40:48the investigation in this lovely home nothing seemed to be of that level so it
40:55did shape me to think the idea that something like that had actually happened
41:00the seance when we got around to doing the seance later on in the evening that
41:05went quite well I thought there were some strange noises that we kept picking up it
41:11sounded like something was tapping the table somebody was tapping the table
41:15none of the crew were actually doing this and this happened on more than one
41:19occasion so that was quite impressive and I thought that went quite well fit man it
41:24is actively haunted however I don't believe that this activity is on what we
41:31call a strict regular day-by-day occurrence I don't feel that is happening but what I
41:40do feel is happening is that when the activity is here these spirit people
41:46really go over the top to make their mark and to be heard and seen
41:52our night at Fitz Manor had certainly been interesting one thing that intrigued us
42:01all was the tunnel Derek had told us that the archway in the cellar was the
42:05beginnings of a tunnel where a little boy called Thomas had been crushed to death
42:08the Bailey family had kindly agreed to try to break through the wall after an
42:13afternoon of digging there didn't seem to be a breakthrough and since filming no
42:18tunnel has been found
42:22what's quite interesting about Fitz Manor is that most people's experiences seem to
42:28be in various parts of the house when in fact on this investigation no real
42:33unusual experiences were experienced apart from in the cellar it's only in the
42:36cellar where people were reporting something unusual happening and perhaps
42:40that's not too surprising from a non paranormal perspective because first of
42:45all Yvette reports there being a very unusual and very horrible smell down there
42:49well again with a dark cold and damp cellar perhaps you will get from some
42:54unusual and rotting type smells also Carl and Stuart when they spent time down
42:59there they were reporting hearing some unusual sounds but again with the being an old
43:03cellar you might find that bits of stone will drop from the ceiling hitting some
43:07of the rubbish on the floor and perhaps creating these sounds and when you're
43:11sat there in the middle of the night or even four o'clock in the morning you
43:14might interpret those sounds as being something a bit more paranormal did
43:18someone move the table no I've opened my eyes quite a few times and just looked
43:23around to see if anyone has to make an icon so I thought four or five times at the
43:26table has moved slightly no thought just one of the unusual things that
43:29happened during the seance is that people reported the table apparently moving now
43:34I don't find that too surprising because everybody was touching the table and it
43:37wouldn't take too much effort on any one person's behalf to actually make the
43:41table move that's not to say I think somebody was deliberately cheating or
43:44deliberately trying to cause the table to move but it doesn't take much
43:47movement from that person to actually for it to happen what I would like to
43:51perhaps see the group do more often is to actually try to make the table tilt
43:55some groups have reportedly been able to do this when they meet regularly and
43:59conduct these kinds of seances and attempt to make the table tilt and
44:02sometimes even levitate under their hands some of the footage of this is
44:06usually not that striking so I think here the group has a really good chance to
44:10perhaps pick up some of this unusual phenomenon on tape so I would look
44:13forward to seeing more of those kinds of experiments in the future there are
44:18certain places in Fitzmanor that every member of the crew felt uncomfortable in we
44:23all felt that there was definitely something there watching us what that
44:27something was we will never know until the next time
44:30sleep tight
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