Chingle Hall When I heard of Chingle Hall, I was very eager to get there. When I did, I wasn't ready for what I would find. I was expecting for nothing to happen, and if it did, it would only happen once and it would be a very small thing. I was taken aback by the level of activity and the frequency of activity at the house. I was so unprepared for what would happen that I made only brief note's with no time reference's on the first two visit's, but on the third visit I tried to make better, more detailed note's with time reference's. For a few hours in the ------ room, I took temperature reading's every 5 minute's and plotted a graph. I intend to write many more book's in the future and I'm going to visit Chingle hall again so I will write more about those visit's after they happen, but for now here is a brief description of my past three encounter's with Chingle Hall. Visit No.1 We arrived at about 7:30 - 8:00 and after the guided tour was over we dumped our stuff in one of the upstairs room's and went downstairs to the great hall. There were four of us visiting, John, George, Joe and myself. The first thing to happen was when we all felt a cold spot by the wall in the great hall. There were many other cold spot's around the building and we began to smell incense from time to time in the chapel and on the stairs. After several hours of cold spot's, sound's and 7 gallon's of coffee I saw my first ever ghost. In the priest room were one of the biggest monk-hole's can be found, my friend's and I were in this room, they were looking at the monk- hole and I was looking at the door-way when like a bolt of lightening a white and gray cat ran into the room and disappeared before my eye's. The cat didn't have very clear feature's and I could only make out part of the body and it's two front leg's. Joe claim's to have seen a ghost but I suspect he is not telling the truth. Visit No.2 We arrived later than last time, the same people except for Joe. Darren came instead and proved to be more interested and took it all very seriously. We went upstairs and dumped our stuff. Something was different, there were more people staying in the hall, they didn't seem to know much about the paranormal as we did. There was a new monk-hole in the priest room, about a foot high and half a foot across. It was covered with cling-film to stop dust from falling out. Slowly it began to move back and forth. We called Darren to get the camera to film the movement, then suddenly without warning the cling-film moved violently as if being hit from the inside of the monk-hole. On close inspection after, we noticed bumps as if it had been poked from the inside by two finger's. There were also tiny slits running vertically through the bump's. About five minutes later we were standing outside the priest room talking when all of a sudden, the light's turned themselves off. It wasn't a power cut as the light-switch had been physically move into the "off" position by some undetermined poltergeist activity. We then proceeded to investigate the other room (John Wall's room) before going down to the great hall again. After refreshments, we went on to the chapel were we then took several photograph's, these later revealed the figure of a monk praying to the wall under the monk-hide in the chimney. A few hour's later we were all back in the priest room, except for George who was in the John Wall's room on his own sitting on the bed. He sat there for about 15-20 min's when he noticed a black oblong shape appeared on the wall. He saw it disappeared so he left in a hurry. George was still not scared by this, so he took himself downstairs by himself to the great hall were he sat for about quarter of an hour or so when he heard something outside, "I heard footstep's outside, then the door knocker began to rattle then it stopped. I waited for a minute or so before going upstairs to join the other's." Say's George Meanwhile in the priest room, John had been touched on the shoulder by cold icy finger's. They tapped him on the shoulder three time's quite softly but hard enough to feel. Several hour's later in the John Wall's room I was sitting on the floor with Darren, John and two of the other people who we didn't know. My hand's were on the floor, my right hand went very cold and I felt pin's & needle's in my hand like electricity. My hand was forced into the air about 5-6" off the floor. Eventually we began to ask question's to the ghost and it responded by moving my hand in various directions to answer the question's that we asked it. This went on for the rest of the night. It wasn't only me that it happened to, Darren felt it too in the same place of the same room. We asked it such questions as :- Q, Do you know your dead ? - A, yes Q, Are you John Wall ? - A, no Q, Are you a monk ? - A, yes Q, Can you show yourself ? - A, no Q, Can you give us any other sign that you're there. - A, yes Q, Can you make a noise ? - A, no Q, Can you make the light's flicker ?- A, no Q, Can you talk to us ? - A, no f After the question "Can you give us any other sign that you are there?" and it answered "Yes." We were unable to ascertain how it could actually give us this sign, or what it would be. Just after this experience, we were still in the John Wall's room taking picture's etc. We tried sliding George's compass across the floor when to our surprise the needle began to move. It turned about 350 degrees then back again. I entered the room unaware of what was going on. When I saw, I rushed to get Darren's filming-camera and I managed to capture several minute's of this phenomenon on film before it eventually stopped. Visit No.3 TEMPERATURE TABLE ================== | Mins |Temp | | 5 | C | | 10 | C | | 15 | C | | 20 | C | | 25 | C | | 30 | C | | 35 | C | | 40 | C | | 45 | C | | 50 | C | | 55 | C | | 60 | C | Conclusion. Chingle Hall is haunted by at least 16 ghost's according to the resident's of Chingle. We didn't witness all 16, but we did witness at least 8-9 ghost's in different parts of the house. All of the house's I've read about only have 2-3 definite ghost's. Chingle Hall is quite small so the paranormal activity is very concentrated on the house. I would say that Chingle Hall only rivaled by Borley Rectory, which was more haunted and had more than one poltergeist. But Borley burned down in 1939 and was further damaged by gale's in 1943. It was razed in 1944 and new house's were built on the site, so Chingle Hall is the most haunted standing house in the entire of Britain. Even though Chingle is the most haunted house in Britain, there is no violent activity unlike 50 Berkley Square were the ghost of a woman who hurled herself out of one of the upstairs window's to her death. Something so evil occupies one of the room's, that people have been driven insane and even died of feared. Captain Kenfield in 1880 stayed in on of the room's against the advice of the owner's who knew of the unearthly terror's that were in that room. Just after midnight everyone heard a scream of terror from Kenfiled who they later found convulsing with fear on the floor. Even though he recovered, he was never the same man, and he never told anyone what he saw. 328 Chase Street in America also was home to several evil entities. The smurl's first noticed that the house was haunted in 1973 when stain's kept appearing on the carpet. The activity became worse until the ghost's became very violent. Even Borley Rectory had it's share of violence. One of the female resident's was repeatedly throne out of bed, and people had stone's throne at them. The photo's we took revealed the following :- Visit No.1 A bright white figure standing close to George outside at the back of the house. A strange clouded like ghost in front of Joe in the great hall. A white line floating over the end of the bed in the John wall's room, about 1.5 meter's long. Visit No.2 Monk praying in the chapel to the wall. Black figure by the new monk-hole in the priest room. Skeletal monk in the corridor outside the John Wall's room. (?) Captured compass movement on film with Darren's cam-corder in the John Wall's room. The same place that we made contact.