We had yet another great weekend in Talbot with a group of lovely people from all over. A big thank you to everyone who joined us: Mario and Shona, Jenelle and Herb, Michelle and Bec, Victoria and Adele, Judy and Shane, Betty, Ama, Sylvia, Andrew and Kathy.
Friday Night
Was spent eating and touring the house. We were very lucky to have Ama Nazra http://ghosttouring.blogspot.com/ who was able to tune in immediately to some of the spirits of the house and Kathleen Higgins from BHPP Australia who joined us with her paranormal investigation equipment.
Ama and some of the members of group were able to pick up on quite a few spirits including a welcoming gentleman in the dining room from 1836 with the name of Talbot who wanted a glass of port, a young woman called Margaret who was still sitting in her fruit orchid (where the current loungeroom extension is), a dark male spirit who was harrassing Bec, a toddler and Mrs Chesterfield.
We were also able to pick up on a lot of orbs, changes in light and a large, black orb that hurled towards Kathy and me. Kathy also had some interesting EVP recordings of unexplained bangs and whispers.
A few of us could smell strong tobacco smoke wafting around us as if a person was walking around the room smoking an old pipe.
Some of the group also felt cold spots in the rooms and occassionally the cold spots went through us. The digital thermometer wasn't picking up any significant temperature drops.
Kathy and Betty witnessed a dark shadow move across Mrs Chesterfield's old downstairs bedroom three times.
I personally had a terrible night's sleep, I could hear quiet whispering all around me in the new loungeroom extension...was it the ghost of Margaret chatting to her friends?
Saturday Day
Maree, our local tour guide, showed us around Talbot with the usual highlight being the old lockup. Liz kindly gave us a wine tasting from her Amherst Vineyard at the end of the tour. After a short break at London House Cafe and browsing of the local shops, including Slightly Bent Books, we moved on to Ararat.
Marge from J Ward cooked us a delicious meal and we ate amongst the old cells, it was very eerie indeed. We were joined by Helga, Wanda, Julie and Daniel so had a pretty sizeable group. Doug was our guide for the night and showed us around the old cells, the old kitchen, J Ward, the West Wing and the Exercise Yards. We picked up a lot of activity in the old kitchen including some strange EVP recordings, a lot of orbs and a general sensation of being watched.
The main cells were no different, we felt that past prisoners were watching and mocking us. One of them, we think perhaps Vincent, was trying to pull Bec away from the rest of the group. Ama did a great job protecting us and Doug did a great job entertaining us, telling us about all the past inmates and their different personalities.
The West Wing was added later on and also had a lot of activity. A few members of the groups could sense prisoners mingling with us and described their thoughts towards us as being 'like a circus'.
We ended the tour at the old watch tower, well after midnight. Poor Doug was stuck with us for over 3 hours!
Sunday
Betty showed us around Amherst Cemetery where we visited Mrs Chesterfield's grave again. We still can't explain why Mr Chesterfield's inscription has eroded when both Mrs Chesterfield and her first husband's graves are perfectly legible. During the course of the weekend we discovered a few more things about Mrs Chesterfield thanks to the psychics in our group and insights from Betty and also Lee from the Visitor Centre.
*Mrs Chesterfield gave Ama a message to tell 'Chelsea' to put the gladiolus in the front room. Not sure who Chelsea is but we think she thought I was Chelsea. Perhaps she was a past helper?
*William was one of 12 children
*Mrs Chesterfield had 2 girls and a boy
*We think Mrs Chesterfield may also have had a daughter that was actually her daughter's child born out of wedlock.
*During the visit and on previous visits we have sensed the presence of a toddler in the upstairs kids room. We have had confirmation that a toddler died in the room but haven't confirmed the identity.
Please add your comments to the blog to complete the summary of the weekend
Thanks again everyone
Jacqui
www.lanternghosttours.com
Copyright Lantern Ghost Tours 2010
Hi Jacqui,
ReplyDeleteThe toddler was three, a little girl with long blond hair, and she was looking for her grandmother .. who was not Mrs Chesterfield. I believe her name was Annabelle Casey. She found her grandmother.
The message from Mrs C for Chelsea was "please tell Chelsea to take care of the gladiolis". She then presented me with a large bunch, which felt wet .. an odd feeling given they were ghostly. :-) She definitely thinks you are Chelsea and she wanted them in the front room, as you said. She was lovely. :-) Very elegant. We also contacted George Spencer, Donald Spence (or Spencer) who made two of us feel quite sick before I sent him into healing. And the gentleman in the dining room was Malcolm Talbot.
Doug definitely did a great job of informing, and entertaining, everyone who listened. Vincent was the name of the ghost in the 'governor's bathroom'. He's not there anymore. He chased the young lady up the stairs, giving her quite a fright, and I sent him into healing. He won't be bothering anyone else.
The rest of the games with the spooks will be on my webpages shortly, a link will be on the page you listed above.
Thanks everyone, we had a really good time. :-)
Love & Light
Ama
Ama I can't thank you enough again for joining us and for all your comments. Looking forward to your webpage blog. Jacqui :)
ReplyDeleteHi guys I had a wonderful weekend, I am still amazed at the evps I got in the hallway in the cellar near the kitchen, one of the best evps I have ever got, some say you sure it wasnt a person and we all know no male was out there, the spirit said 2 lots of words first being MUM after someone in the kitchen called to their mother, that is called mimicing, and you could tell this spirit also sounds mentaly challenged, the second group of words sounds like the same spirit, and he says OPEN THE DOOR this nearly blew me off my chair as I was hearing this, it was so loud, now if I remember Ama put a block so no spirit could enter the kitchen as she senced a bad spirit out there, heance why the spirit was calling out OPEN THE Door as he couldnt enter. Silly me I had the voice recorder going in my room or mrs chesterfields room and I plugged in the mic but I forgot to set it on the mic on it, so everything was silence to the point of not hearing it, I did amplify it but it didnt help I can hear things going on, but cant make out what, so I had to throw 5 hours of recording away, but hoping to go next month, and also back to Aarat assylum too, so if you would like to know the tech side please come along and Jackie thankyou again for a great weekend :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathleen for the update, you caught some great things on camera and EVP. Michelle just emailed me to say she felt her hairclip being pulled at J Ward too.
ReplyDeleteHere's the link to my webpages
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sacred-gates.com/Chesterfield.html
Correct my muddles please. LOL
Love & Light
Ama
Hi Jacqui,
ReplyDeleteMario and I have not had such a good time in ages. Lovely weather, a location filled with history (and ghosts), good food, a comfy bed and a great bunch of people (some of whom I'm still in contact with). Good value and highly recommended. Will see you all again.
Regards Shona & Mario Mizzi.
Well this isn't what I thought that link would take me to. I was looking for hydraulic hose fittings
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