Friday, 28 November, 2003 15:25
Mike Powell's haunted hotel webcam |
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Powell gets a fright |
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BBC South's Mike Powell took his sanity in his hands and spent
a night in Southampton's most haunted hotel - The Dolphin.
Our webcam was there to catch the ghostly action.
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Most
of us would be pretty nervous if we had to stay in a haunted hotel.
Not BBC South's Mike Powell... he agreed to sleep in a haunted bedroom
at the Dolphin Hotel on Southampton's High Street.
Parts of the hotel are medieval and, with its vaulted cellars and
creaky passageways - a perfect location for ghosthunting.
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eerie lights picked up by our night vision camera in the cellar
of the Dolphin Hotel |
Our
'night vision' webcam was able to see exactly what was going on in
some of the darkest and dingiest parts of the building.
The hotel is reputedly haunted by Molly, who walks the corridors with
her legs below floor level, though she didn't show up on the night.
Mike and his team of psychic ghost hunters, Kelvin Woodage and Mark
Woolmer, stayed in room six - where, long ago, a person died and is
said now to visit as a ghost.
They broadcast live into Paul Miller's Late Show on BBC Local Radio.
A specially designed 'psychic trumpet' was used by Kelvin, who was
convinced the spirit of a cat was in the room.
Viewers of the webcam were startled to see the image of an old lady
sitting in a chair in the room.
In the cellars, the night vision camera picked up 'orbs' - said to
be balls of ghostly activity.
Mike said: "I was with Kelvin, the psychic in the cellar, and
I saw a white apparition. All of a sudden the temperature dipped dramatically...
I was spooked!"
In fact the old lady in the chair was a real person, but there were
genuine scary moments. Even sceptics in the team admitted feeling
very uneasy and nobody got more than two hours sleep! |
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