Here, Julie Warrington-Jones from The Orb Whisperers writes a report of their vigil at Arnolds Bar, Wrexham, overnight on December 7 2008. Back in 2006, a priest was called to the pub when it was known as the Thirsty Scholar due to spirits causing problems for staff and customers. This is Julie's report:-
Main bar area: Good (and intriguing!) results were obtained in the main dining area with the use of the automatic writing planchette. We were able to film the planchette moving firmly in response to questions asked. The energy which enabled the planchette to move answered in the affirmative / negative to a series of questions relating to its relationship with Arnold's Bar.
From the responses obtained we were able to ascertain that the energy source identified with a male person who had passed over in his twenties whilst en route to London during the English Civil War. The male person in question was, we were led to believe, an armourer in Oliver Cromwell's army which ransacked Royalist Wrexham in 1645, melting down lead from the church to make bullets. We were told that this man, formerly a blacksmith before the war, was a maker of swords and pikestaffs and that he had been very good at his job.
He did not live or die on the site, nor was he a native of Wrexham. Our soldier did not have children and did not appear to have been married and was a little too fond of his drink. The energy source confirmed that it meant no ill intent and that it had occasionally manifested in shadow form close to rear windows of the building.
Cellar: We were unable to detect any quantifiable paranormal activity in the main cellar area, although the temperature did drop by some 3 degrees during the course of our investigation. One group member did feel uneasy in the area of the aperture leading through to the blocked off section of the cellar opposite the air conditioning unit and another member reported catching sight of movement within the section behind the wall through the aperture. The area was subsequently filmed, but no anomalies were captured.
Entrance to the tunnel leading to the former Wrexham War Memorial Hospital, now Yale College: Although nothing could be discerned with the naked eye, we were able to capture on film a 'busy' light anomaly (possibly an orb) in the area to the extreme right of the entrance area.
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Acknowledgements
The Orb Whisperers would like to thank landlords, Keith and Sian, for allowing them to visit the premises and also Lisa for waiting up for them!
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