Altona Homestead Investigation Friday 12th August

We ran two investigations on the evening. One at 7pm with 3 guest investigators and one at 9.30pm with ten investigators. We recorded the entire evening and after reviewing all the data, have summarised it below. The evening was run by Jacqui from Lantern Ghost Tours and Andrew and Troy from Ghost Tech who joined both groups.

Overall we had a lot of activity. The intruder alarm armed itself three times and went off once with no explanation. Three EVP recorder batteries drained entirely then were full again after 2 hours without us charging them. The group sensed children all night. We saw a child in loungeroom, many of us felt a cold touch against our hands, fingers and legs. Sarah Langhorne came through the Ouija board, saying she is scared of her grandson starting with “T”. William Henry Croker kept telling the group to leave- and as he did so the intruder alarm went off. We heard noises from the cupboard in the bedroom and sent the little boy hiding inside it to the light. The dowsing rods were very active. An unidentified spirit was communicating through glasswork. Several people felt what they describe as a horse kick to their hips in the kitchen. Shereen and Nathan had personal messages from people they know come through.

We also caught some fantastic EVPs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MJhtRAtHNM

Thanks everyone for a fantastic and active evening, a full report of the evening is below.

Happy Haunting

Jacqui

7pm Investigation

3 Investigators + Andrew and Troy from Ghost Tech and Jacqui from Lantern Ghost Tours

Equipment

-Andrew’s camera battery drained (fully charged at start)

-Three EVP recorders drained (they then showed fully charged after 2 hours without us charging them)

-EMFs and K2 Meters unresponsive

-Dowsing rods active

-Ouija board active

-Black mirror unresponsive

-Mixed luck with pendulum

-Mixed luck with automatic writing

Dining Room
-EVP battery drained (back to full battery after 2 hours)
-Ouija Board had a personal message for Shereen. A relative with initials HM from a town with initials AM in Ireland. Female from Shereen’s mother’s side
-Spirit trying to stop the Ouija board, initials HC and WC kept cropping up. Believe it is William Henry Croker- owner of the Homestead in1900s. He kept telling us to go away.
-Felt movement in the room like children running past and playing hide and seek
-Felt cold, numb arm and hand like someone touching our hands

Kids Room
-All felt heaviness in legs
-Feeling of being pushed to the floor in a squatting position
-Felt the children spirits were trying to make us look under bed

Kitchen
-Tapping sounds from the fireplace
-A guest felt a kick to her hip like a horse kick
-Communicated via dowsing rods. This person was a maid who didn't die from the horse kick but from secondary infection
-She was a maid attached to the house
-Only small fluctuations in the EMFs

-Felt cold air moving past

9.30pm Investigation

10 investigators + Andrew and Troy- Ghost Tech, Jacqui- Lantern Ghost Tours

Dining Room

-Ouija board very active.

-Personal messages for Nathan came through. It was a young girl who seemed to just want to talk. She spelt ambulance several times.
-Sarah Langhorne came through. She was scared of her grandson whose name starts with "T'.
-The candle flickered when asked several times
-William Henry Croker took over the board several times and violently moved the planchette to GOODBYE over and over
-As the planchette was moving to GOODBYE, the intruder alarm armed itself three times and went off once though it was not active- this has never happened before
-Saw glimpses of a child moving around the Room
-Coldness in legs- little boy running around us

Kids Room
-Feeling of heaviness in legs

-Feeling of a child holding our hands

Kitchen
-Felt a strong kick to the left hip
-2 people felt cold going through them between the kitchen and loungeroom
-One person drew a sheep during the automatic writing
-The letter “S” appeared over and over in the automatic writing- we think its Sarah Langhorne

-Personal message for Nathan came through the rods

Bedroom
-Candles flickered when asked
-Dowsing rods very active- the boy said he misses his mum and that the furniture is not original to the building
-Little boy in the cupboard came through

-Sounds coming from the cupboard
-The little boy held several investigators’ hands and fingers
-Jacqui sent the boy to the light so he shouldn’t be there anymore
-Felt a lot of cold air and temperature fluctuations of 6c
-Felt cold going through our bodies

Loungeroom
-Glass went crazy

-The spirit was lying about its identity and was playing tricks on us.
-The glass moved very heavily and frantically side to side and tried to lift of the table.
-Felt this was not a good entity

Altona Homestead Investigation Friday 10th June 2011

**Photo Copyright of Sean I.F.T.T

Thank you all for joining us on the Altona Homstead Investigation on Friday 10th June and thank you to those of you who have posted and emailed photos and findings through.

I am very excited to announce that based on our collective findings we have been able to make some positive identfications.

Team

A big thanks to our team:

Dean VPI
Sean and Peter I.F.T.T
Jason Independent
Alex Lantern Ghost Tours
Jacqui Lantern Ghost Tours
Andrew Lantern Ghost Tours
Kim Fawkes Medium

Findings

Kitchen

• I had a look at the automatic writing- at first they looked like scrawl but I noticed two pieces of paper both with the letter "V" on the page
  
• The butter churner sounded like someone was tapping it
• We heard footsteps on both the left hand side and right hand side of the fireplace
• Chair at the table moved on its own

FOLLOW UP:

• We picked up that the "V" is linked to a male. Believe it could be Lloyd Vaughan (see "Bathroom findings")
  

Dining Room

Felt the presence of a domineering man walking around the room. Felt cold spots moving around.
Ouija board moved to "goodbye"- we sensed there was a very domineering man present. His wife was trying to communicate with us but he stopped her.

Ouija board spelt out 2,3,4- spirit did not confirm if this was an age, number of spirits or code. The group had a sense that it could be a confused 2 year old toddler.
Ouija board- a male's name starts with "H"
• EMF's only responded once throughout the evening- at the end of the last ouija board session. The two EMFs were placed next to each other and both sets of lights lit up full several times then stopped.
Heard footsteps in corner- closest the bedroom

Saw a silhoutte in the corner- closest the bedroom
Sensed children

FOLLOW UP:

• We reviewed the historical files and Sarah and Alfred Langhorne had a son- Henry August born here in 1842.**THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK WHICH LEAD TO THIS ID**
  
• We made contact with Henry earlier this week and he confirmed he came through on the 10th June.
• We don't know who the 2 year old was- could not make contact

Bedroom

Felt cold spots
Smelt a strong, floral perfume wafting in and out
Bed shook on its own when there was no movement in the room
Sensed children under the bed
The cupboard on the left hand side of the room creaked and we sensed someone was next to it
Saw the silhoutte of a person infront of the cupboard on the right hand side of the room
Footsteps heard around the mirror next to the bed
• Uneasy feeling

FOLLOWUP:

• We already know that a woman died in childbirth on the bed
• We also know that a young boy haunts the cupboard on the far wall
• Still trying to determine who the other children are
  

Loungeroom

• Pendulum and dowsing rods were very active
• High EMFs near the fireplace
  
• There is a lady attached to the dresser- she says the dresser is from a house in Melbourne and she thinks she is still in Melbourne
• Group picked up on the name "Katherine"
• Heard footsteps in the loungeroom

FOLLOWUP:

• Successfully made contact again with Katherine- believe the dresser is from a Victorian home in Carlton
  

Bathroom

• Sensed that a man in his 50s died in the bathtub here of respiratory problems and jad a bath not long before he passed
  
• One person felt breathing in their ear
• Sense he is linked to the kitchen
  

FOLLOWUP:

• Based on the "V" intial from the kichen and the description of a man in his 50s in the bathroom we trawled through death notices and a Lloyd Vaughan died here in 1928 aged 58. He is buried at Williamstown Cemetery **THANK YOU FOR EMAILING YOUR FINDINGS- THIS ONE IS A PERFECT MATCH**

Children's Bedroom

• Group picked up that a 13 year old girl died here

FOLLUP:

• We researched 13 year old girls who passed here- The Langhorne's had a daughter who died 13 years of age- born here 1848 **AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS THAT HELPED IDENTIFY HER**
  

Other

• Fully charged batteries on three cameras drained at the beginning of the night
  

Copyright Lantern Ghost Tours

Scaring up a good time in old haunts

The Age
Sandy Guy
April 30, 2011

NELSON Place, the old centre of Williamstown, is home to stylish eateries that are a popular haunt of alfresco diners on balmy evenings. On a recent Saturday night I found myself in the dead centre of town — literally — in Williamstown's old morgue. It's anything but balmy inside the bluestone building, which dates from 1860, tucked away in a deserted street off Nelson Place.

"Before the morgue was built, corpses were wrapped in hessian sacks and hung in the cellars of Williamstown's many hotels," says Jacqui Travaglia from Lantern Ghost Tours.

Travaglia, a local, leads our group of 15 to Gem Pier, where the lights of the CBD make a dazzling backdrop as she relates tales of Williamstown's European history: how Melbourne's founder John Batman dropped anchor here in 1835 and called the site Port Harwood; how settlers waded ashore carrying sheep on their shoulders and how penal hulks bobbed in the waters offshore.

We walk to Point Gellibrand, where Victoria's first cemetery was established. Hundreds of seafarers, convicts and pioneers were buried in a patch of scrub near the bluestone Timeball Tower, built by convicts in 1849 as a lighthouse. Although later reburied at Williamstown's new cemetery, the site swirls with spectres, according to Travaglia (right).

A few weeks later I rejoin Lantern Ghost Tours, up a creaky flight of stairs to the second storey of Williamstown's Bayview Hotel for a haunted dinner. Once a bordello, today it's a sedate dining room that's part of Al Porto Vecchio Restaurant. The dining room is busy with more than 20 people, including Troy Williams from Victorian Phantom Hunters, Jan Evans from Australian Paranormal Investigations, medium Ama Nazra, and curious people like me.

"Hanna's here," says Nazra as we finish dinner.

Travaglia's research has revealed that Hanna ran the house of ill repute here in the 1900s.

Nazra points to a corner of a room where people head with electromagnetic frequency detectors. Red lights flash on the detectors as they near the corner of the room. Then stop when they retreat. Travaglia grabs some divining rods and asks "Hanna" questions. The rods move around in her hands — yet she doesn't move a muscle.

Two-hour Lantern Ghost Tours of Williamstown are $25 adults, $15 children, $60 family of four, phone 8340 0428, see lanternghosttours.com.

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