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Whether you believe in ghosts or not, a ghost hunt is an interesting way to spend an evening. I’ve done two ghost hunts with Eerie Evenings, and for this one at the Four Crosses in Cannock I took along the camera to get some photos. I find the Eerie Evening team good – there’s no faking and they don’t try to convince you that any experiences are paranormal, that’s for you to decide. For the record, I’m firmly on the fence… I’ve like to believe that there’s something, but my scientific mind means I’d need to experience something really convincing to believe.

The Four Crosses is an old coaching inn originally built in 1636, with some of the timbers thought to be a thousand years old. Today it’s seeking a new owner with newspapers claiming the hauntings are putting buyers off. The reported spooky goings on include the ghost of a baby that fell off the bar and died, a child who ran outside an was immediately killed on the busy road outside, ‘Knocker’ an old regular at the pub, marching soldiers, a man who committed suicide in the garage, and many more.

The evening started with a medium doing some readings amongst the group, and then the group was split into three teams who spent the evening doing vigils in the main hall room, the upstairs bedrooms, and the cellars.

I didn’t feel scared at any point in the evening, and the only thing I experienced was during a session with a planchette where the group were ‘contacted’ by a man called Normal Mole, an old bar worker from the pub, who died at the age of 78. He lost money playing snooker, and in the room he contacted us was accompanied by five other ghosts. I’ve not looked into whether any of that information is accurate or could be backed up with real evidence.

From a photography point of view a lot of the evening was spent in the dark which made photography a challenge. But I’m always amazed just how much detail can be brought out of the dark with a bit of simple editing in Lightroom.

Whilst editing I spotted just one oddity, which you can take a look at in the photo looking out of the window below…

Last night (or should that be this morning?) I, along with some friends, did a ghost hunt. When it comes to ghosts I’m quite open minded but firmly sat on the fence – I’d like to believe there is something after life, but my scientific mind won’t let me believe anything without proof. And I think the only proof that would mean anything would be for something to happen to me.

The ghost hunt was run by Eerie Evenings at The Manor House in West Bromwich, from 9pm through to 2am the next morning. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, so rather than risk taking my ‘proper’ camera I took my small Samsung Galaxy Camera (and a big jumper, two torches, and some gloves – it was a chilly night). It’s not the best in dark conditions, but a lot cheaper to fix if I dropped it in the dark!

The evening started with an introduction from the Eerie Evenings team to the twenty seven people there – and they explained they were all open minded, there’d be no tricks, and everyone should take away from the evening whatever they wanted to believe. We then had a tour of the house, had a session with a medium, and then split up into small groups to start the vigils. On the vigils we tried Ouija boards and table tipping, used EMF monitors and laser thermometers, and talked in order to make ‘contact’.

The Ouija boards and table tipping had limited success for us, but in all three areas we went we had EMF readings and even banging in response to questions we asked. There were areas of the building where I felt very apprehensive and uneasy, but for the most part felt very at ease.

The only point where I had any kind of personal experience was after the group was asking a young girl ghost called Lucy to touch me. They’d given up and gone for a tea break, and as I was making my way out of the room I felt something touch my on my arm. I’d say it was about the same force as when a fly or wasp flues into you. Not quite conclusive proof, but unexplained all the same.

Other people claimed to have seen a ghost – a bearded man staring out of a window – but there were no photos.

At the end of the evening we did a ‘human pendulum’. Something I’ll leave you to experience for yourself if you ever do a ghost hunt. I’m just surprised I didn’t dream about Shaun of the Dead afterwards!

I’ll definitely do another ghost hunt some time, and will take the proper camera to get some better images of the event and maybe some video too.