2011

Venue: Haunted
Where: 35 Stonegate, York
When: October 31
Why: Part of Haunted's Hallowe'en Seance night, and York Ghost Festival
Report: Coming soon!
Photos:

Venue: The Old Lodge
Where: Malton
When: March 18
Why: Public investigation by Spiritual Events
Report: Already renowned to be haunted, an investigation through three rooms gave us a story of murder and mayhem...!
Photos: No

2010

Venue: Belle Vue Pub
Where: Filey
When: September
Why: Disturbance assistance
Report: Four taps, all recently serviced and fully functional: until GFG got her hands on them. Result? One not turning at all, for anybody; one turning but no water coming out; one working normally and one... well... just being plain weird! You just can't take some people anywhere. See video below.
Video: Currently off-line, but will be back shortly

Venue: Ace Hotel
Where: York
When: June 25
Why: Trial for public investigations
Report: An unearthly feeling in one room in the basement, and the first place we've seen and heard a trigger object moving across the paper whilst we were there looking at it! Funnily enough, in the same room as the bad feeling.
Photos: No

Venue: Historical building 3
Where: York
When: June 17
Why: Disturbance assistance
Report: Can't say exactly where this is, but I can at least share some photos. It was in broad daylight, looking towards a part of a building which nobody present was comfortable about. Just beyond the doors to the right of the photo is a main electric box, the proximity of that was setting everybody's hairs on end - we could actually hear it buzzing! I was prepared to put the feelings down to the electric in the air, but took a couple of photos anyway. One empty one, then one looking at the same spot seconds later... take a look at the photo gallery and see if you can see what sent a chill through us when we spotted it!
Photos: Yes

Venue: Los Locos
Where: York
When: June 2
Why: Trial for public investigations
Report: Following up on some reports, with a view to possibly holding public events here, we started picking things up on our initial look round the building in broad daylight! Nothing was said of this, but in the room where one staff member felt their throat close up and frantic coughing start, a medium experienced exactly the same. We'd have put it down to damp or dust but the other people present on both occasions didn't experience any problems.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Business
Where: York
When: May 28
Why: Trial for public investigations
Report: A return for us to an old 'haunt' (groan!), and the return of some old... acquaintances. New psychics and mediums years down the line, yet the same old nasties were lurking in the dark, playing the same old games. Exciting enough in itself, the EVPs of this night sent chills down people's spines!
Photos: No

Venue: Black Swan
Where: Peasholme Green, York
When: May 21
Why: ITCG public investigation
Report: For possibly the first time ever, all of the public on this investigation were male. Maybe this explains why the spirits of the evening were predominantly female, and some quite naughty ones at that!
Photos: Yes

Venue: Historical building 2
Where: York
When: May 19
Why: Disturbance assistance
Report: We finished the night with a private visit to a well known haunted building, by request we're keeping quiet where exactly we were. It was quieter than expected, but there was a lot of territory to cover so we may have to go back to cover some of the areas we missed.
Photos: No

Venue: Royal Oak
Where: York
When: May 19
Why: Trial for public investigations
Report: A short return to the venue of the previous week with a different psychic, to gain further opinion. Going in without any knowledge of what had been picked up the week before, she soon came up with the same spirits in the same rooms...
Photos: Yes

Venue: Royal Oak
Where: York
When: May 11
Why: Trial for public investigations
Report: Strange men in the seances, accompanied by orbs on the camera (really not a fan of the orb thing myself but must admit it was a strange coincidence), and quite possibly the most orb-filled photo we've ever taken... dust, anybody?
Photos: Yes

Venue: Black Swan
Where: Peasholme Green, York
When: March 12
Why: Assisting on a public investigation
Report: First public investigation with this group, although the medium was picking things up there wasn't anything more tangible, right up until the journalist with us went to bed! At that point, we were transfixed by the figures wandering around on the CCTV in the corridor, which we could also see with the naked eye and there was nobody there.
When the last of our guests retired, then the noises started... sometimes, it feels like things are laughing at us.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Black Swan
Where: Peasholme Green, York
When: February 19
Why: Trial for public investigations
Report: Two of us spent the night alone in the pub (other than staff) as part of a reccy prior to running public investigations there.
There wasn't a huge amount to report prior to 3am, other than a blackness creeping down the stairs at one point! After 3am, we decided to sit by the log fire and just observe. That's when it 'kicked off'! We soon could filter out noises we could explain, such as fridge thermostats, but the random footsteps in emtpy rooms and knocking sounds were of more interest. What made our hair stand on end though was the piercing, animalistic scream from the kitchen at about 3.30am...
Photos: Yes

2009

Venue: Haunted
Where: 35 Stonegate, York
When: October 31
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: Back again for Hallowe'en, again accompanied by Hull Paranormal Ghost Society, who had also joined us in helping out at Haunted's attempt to hold the World's Biggest Ghost Vigil. No doors heard moving on their own this time, but after the event the EVPs revealed that somebody in the Seance Room hadn't been happy at our questioning! As a charity event, we also set out to raise funds for the SOS (Shoeboxes for Soldiers) appeal.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Haunted
Where: 35 Stonegate, York
When: October 24
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: We started the investigation as one person: one room, a first for us (also live streamed thanks to Haunted's Webcams), followed by joining back together in differing size groups. PSI were joined by Hull Paranormal Ghost Society, a very nice group to work with who, like us, had a mix of mediums and science bods. Scariest part of the night was the creaking door, first heard whilst everybody was in the room we were using as our base. It was identified as being on the first floor and either a Mask Room or Mirror Room door - a team was despatched to investigation as Rachel Lacy was concerned that somebody had somehow broken in to the building. They came back and reported that there was nobody else in the building.
By the fourth time it happened, we stopped sending search parties out, and just accepted that something, somewhere, was playing with the doors...
Photos: Yes

2008

Venue: Ebor Inn
Where: Bishopthorpe, York
When: November 1
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: A return to the place where we caught the image of a ghost in a mirror, and Rachel Lacy's first ever investigation. Not as exciting as previous investigations, probably thanks to loud behaviour of some visitors to the pub who tried to crash the investigation.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Haunted
Where: 35 Stonegate, York
When: October 31
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: Our first investigation here revealed a wealth of ghosts, some nicer than others. Our first meeting with the angry man, but not our last...
Photos: Yes

Venue: St Nicholas' Fields, Walmgate Stray and Siward's Howe
Where: York
When: June 21
Why: York Ghost Festival: Midsummer Madness
Report: The joys of outdoor investigations... the weather held (for once), but between hiding from chavs and avoiding drunkards, there wasn't much investigating going on!
Photos: No

Venue: Historical building 1
Where: York
When: February 16
Why: PSI disturbance assistance as part of York Ghost Festival: WinterFest
Report: No much we can say about this one as we've been asked to keep it private, although there was a very strange moment for GFG when she had the urge to write a note at 7.30pm and put it somewhere for everybody to read later. When a medium started talking about the little girl, especially when she changed her mind and said the little girl was just a front for something more sinister, it was the right time to look at the note. On it was written "Don't trust the little girl. She is not all that she seems."
Photos: Yes

2007

Venue: Castle Bolton
Where: Bolton Castle (Yorkshire Dales)
When: November 25
Why: GFG was a guest of Diabetes UK at a charity fundraiser
Report: Is that a face at the window? Its not very clear in the original but blown up, there appears to be a woman's ghostly face in the window, which is gone in the next photo. I took this because there was a very uncomfortable feeling about the window, something experienced by myself and members of North East Ghost In-spectres, who were also there. In the next photo, its gone. I'm certain its not a plant or an owl, nor could it be somebody in the window: its the third floor, and there's no floors or stairs in that part of the ruined castle!
Photos: Yes

Venue: York Tyburn
Where: Tadcaster Road, York
When: November 17
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: Part 2: we return, with mediums, to find our readings are pretty much the same - far less activity than you might expect from somewhere with such a gruesome history. Does this mean that the presence of clergy at executions makes a difference?
Photos: Yes

Venue: York Tyburn & Hob Moor
Where: Tadcaster Road, York
When: June 23
Why: York Ghost Festival: Midsummer Madness
Report: Part 1: an investigation with only science, no mediums. We decided that it was time we ran an investigation based on purely scientific readings, with a later visit with mediums to see if there was any correlation.
Photos: Yes

2006

Venue: Thomas's Hotel (now Mojitos)
Where: Museum Street, York
When: October 28
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: When we heard the story about the chairs, we just had to investigate. Sadly, it wasn't as exciting as that the night we were there. Supposedly somebody had gone up to the function room at the top as they heard noises up there when it should have been empty. They were greeted by the sight of the chairs dancing round the room on their own... at which point the shocked witness fled.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Lendal Tower
Where: York
When: October 27
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: What a huge honour being allowed in here for the night! The first, and to our knowledge only, group to have full access to this historic building. Very active night, both inside and out of the building, not just for paranormal reasons. This was the first time we've had the police out to an event... not for us thankfully! Our unique position meant we could observe things others couldn't, including seeing a woman threatening to commit suicide in the cold, flooded River Ouse: we had the police on scene ASAP, and they soon brought her back to safety.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Castle Keep
Where: Newcastle
When: April 1
Why: GFG was a guest of North East Ghost In-spectres
Report: A great night with some great people! It was nice to have a 'night off' from organising so Diana and GFG could actually enjoy investigating without the responsibility. Diana transfigured in front of a group of people, much to their shock! During a break a loud bang was heard from the next room, so GFG and several other people went to investigate it, GFG taking a photo as she entered the room. The resulting photo is in the gallery: it has a white light in the top right corner, which is the camera strap (normally round her wrist but as this was unscheduled snapping so hadn't had chance to put it on), and there's a bright white orb caught in motion over a modern cabinet. Dust? Insect? Or something attracted to the cabinet... which, it turns out, holds the main electricity box for the building.
Photos: Yes

Venue: The Grotto
Where: Marsden, South Shields
When: April 1
Why: It was a day off, so GFG and Diana Jarvis thought they'd just pop along for a visit!
Report: Funny thing Fate... leads you a merry dance sometimes, but at others it just likes having a laugh. This was one of those times.
Wanting to get some fresh air between investigations, see some daylight, the paranormal world's answer to Thelma and Louise set off with the intention of having a break. After lunch, GFG announced that there was, somewhere on the coast, a pub built in to a cliff, and it was haunted, but she couldn't remember where. Diana saw a brown tourist sign for Marsden, and announced that she'd heard of a haunting there but couldn't remember the details. They duly headed coastward, it sounded like a good idea for a road trip anyway. It wasn't until they were almost there that a sign for Marsden Grotto was spotted, and both occupants of the car shrieked "THAT'S IT!" Evidently, mediums and researchers, when their respective superpowers are turned off, can come across as being quite... clueless.
It didn't end there. They stood in a car park (which they'd just paid to park in), wondering what the big chimney thing was next to the cliff, and where on earth the Grotto was. A short investigation proved that it was the lift shaft to the pub, and that next to it was the pub car park. Which was free.
And finally... they arrived back at the friend's house where they were based later in the day, and told them where they had been. The friend, Mike Hallowell, turned out to be the world's leading authority on, amongst other things, Marsden Grotto and its hauntings!
Photos: Yes

Venue: Theatre Royal
Where: Newcastle
When: March 31
Why: GFG was a guest with Vision magazine's Visionaries team
Report: A dusty theatre may not be the best place for photography given the amount of orbs we captured! A good learning curve for coloured orbs, something for years that have fascinated me: why are a very few coloured, and the rest white? One of the brighter orbs was definitely green... the same shade of green as the velvet chairs. New category of orb added: the fabric particle orb.
Photos: Yes

Venue: York Brewery
Where: Toft Green, York
When: January 28
Why: PSI filming for Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns
Report: Our second visit to the brewery, this time armed with film crew on top of our usual gadgetry. Weird moment of the night was when one of the ceiling-mounted speakers tried talking to us, despite being turned off, and the EMFs picking up no electrical supply to them.
Photos: Yes

2005

Venue: York Dungeon
Where: Clifford Street, York
When: November 5
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: A night of mannequins and malevolence! The first, and so far only, place where we have conducated two seances in different areas simultaneously and had almost identical results in both of them. The differences between the two were that one medium was seeing an act being committed, the other medium was experiencing it! Also the first time we've seen physical manifestations of injuries on a medium as part of what they were experiencing. For more on this, see Diana Jarvis's book Shadows in the Night: Memoirs of a Ghost Hunter. This was our first charity fund-raising night, raising £100 for the apprentices divison of the Sealed Knot.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Ye Olde Starre Inn
Where: Stonegate, York
When: October 29
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: The return of the Potato-geiest jokes, and an interesting photograph of something smokey in the yard... yes, it is most likely cigarette smoke, which gives us a comparison photo for other images of alleged ectoplasm.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Ebor Inn
Where: Bishopthorpe
When: October 28
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original
Report: See the photo gallery for the original mirror photo: taken as soon as GFG walked in to the room, the only person already in there was medium Diana Jarvis. She is the dark, side-on reflection in the mirror, visible from the neck upwards. The person stood behind the bar is somewhat of a mystery: they weren't on the team, they weren't a staff member from the pub, nobody saw them all night except this once reflected in the glass... This photo has been voted in to the top ten best ghost photo of 2011 in Ghost Voices magazine. And to think, we thought originally it was a good photo as we were amused by the orb under the sign which reads "double up on spirits for £1"!
We've never found out who the person was in the first photograph, however we have, since it was taken, uncovered more stories about ghostly happenings in the pub prior to Gordon taking over involving moving furniture, doors being wedged shut and other poltergeist-type activity. Whatever is in there though seems to like Gordon, with orbs on video cameras appearing to following him around the room - this is also the only place I have seen coloured orbs on a video camera, these particular ones being golden.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Private house
Where: Catforth
When: August 5
Why: Disturbance assistance as part of Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: Spooky reflections in windows, eerie happenings in the bedroom and the dancing shadows from some decidely dodgy practices... a scary night indeed!
Photos: No

Venue: Gubberford Bridge
Where: Greenhalgh
When: August 5
Why: Part of a road trip - GFG and Diana Jarvis took a small diversion
Report: As we were in the area, GFG had been researching hauntings and decided spending half an hour out of the trip visiting the bridge. Diana went in completely 'blind' and had an amazing result!
Photos: No

Venue: Mother Shipton's Cave & Petrifying Well
Where: Knaresborough
When: May 20
Why: Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: A return trip to this marvellous place, an active night (plenty of bats again!) including smugglers, murders and a shattered crystal.
Photos: No

Venue: Lead Church & the site of the Battle of Towton
Where: Lead and Towton, Tadcaster
When: March 19
Why: Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: A night of contrasts: Lead church had some activity, including a monk screaming "FORNICATORS" (!), and the battlefield - or alleged battlefield - was amazingly peaceful and quiet.
Photos: No

Venue: The Falstaff Experience
Where: Stratford-upon-Avon
When: February 19
Why: Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: Quite possibly the coldest night we've ever done, but it was worth it for the results. The mediums were excellent, and the moving crockery in the empty staff room enlivened the evening! GFG surprised even herself with her annoucement in a seance that a man had "been hanged... no, wait, he'd hanged himself" from a neighbouring beam.
The staff member present later confirmed that a Royalist spy, captured by Parliamentarian soldiers, had been tortured in the building. He had managed to keep his secrets whilst they pulled his fingernails out, but
Photos: No

Venue: Private house
Where: Sherburn-in-Elmet
When: February 6
Why: Disturbance assistance, as part of Vision magazine's Visionaires team
Report: We can't report much about this investigation as it was a disturbance assistance. However, two things of note from this evening: one was that two mediums, going in to the house with no knowledge of where they were going or the history, both independtly picked up on 'bad water' being an issue, and that there appeared to be a constant stream of spirits through the living room.
The extension to the house had been built on an old well, and one of the reasons we were called in was because water was flooding the downstairs on hall and toilet on occasions. A plumber was puzzled by this, as there were no leaking appliances or pipes.
This was also the first time GFG looked at lay times with an unjaundiced eye, and on a map could draw two lines between three churches and an abbey and have them cross under the living room.
Photos: No

2004

Venue: Business
Where: York
When: November 19
Why: PSI disturbance assistance
Report: We were called in after a member of staff, who didn't believe any of the ghost stories, had a very scary experience in the cellar. Within days, a delivery driver had reported seeing a figure in one of the ground floor rooms, long before they were open, the figure turning to mist and vanishing before his eyes. Most Haunted had expressed an interest in investigating but we got in there first (to our knowledge, we're the only group to have gone in there) - its the only place we've investigated that had lifts moving up and down on their own!
Photos: No

Venue: Golden Fleece
Where: Pavement, York
When: October 27
Why: York Ghost Festival: 'Orribly Original and Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: With a number of mediums in the group and attending as paying public, there barely seemed to be ten minutes without anything happening - we do warn people that sometimes investigations are mostly about waiting for something to happen (or not), not so tonight! Some old acquaintances, and some new, darker things were introduced on this night.
Photos: No

Venue: Dalton Grange Club
Where: Huddersfield
When: October 25
Why: Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: Our first investigation together, at a former Victorian gentleman's club. A great start to our working relationship, our mediums did marvellously well, especially the one who picked up on pigs in the cellar - in quite some detail! A pamphlet detailing the history of the building was produced, and there we found the answer: during the war, pigs had indeed been kept in one of the kitchen rooms in the cellar.
Photos: No

Venue: Private house and wood
Where: Market Rasen
When: October 8
Why: Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: A dual investigation, starting at a former coach house and then going to the nearby wood - Blair Witch eat your heart out!
Photos: No

Venue: Site of the Battle of Fulford
Where: Fulford, York
When: September 18
Why: PSI investigation
Report: This should probably be "the alleged site of the Battle of Fulford." We didn't access the field which is thought by some to be the battle as it isn't public land, instead skirting round the outside on public rights of way. Other than several figures in Viking clothing watching us, the mediums picked up nothing, which would fit in with the counter-theories that this is the wrong site.
Photos: No

Venue: Dean Court Hotel
Where: Duncombe Place, York
When: September 7
Why: Vision magazine's Visionaires investigation
Report: The hotel has several ghost stories, which have now been added to. One of the best part of this investigaiton was Nance Turner-Collings long chats with "Annie." After the investigation, we discovered that part of the building was formerly Volans Borading Housel, owned by one Annie Volans. A member of the Volans family, who still have an annual dinner there (its a very unusual surname), contacted us to tell us that as a child, he once sat on a staircase and saw a figure walk past him, going straight behind him and out through a wall! And yes, there is a 'strange coincidence' to finish with: it was the same staircase where Nance picked up Annie's spirit.
Photos: No

Venue: Greyfriars' Kirkyard
Where: Edinburgh
When: August 2
Why: Ghostfinder General on a working holiday!
Report: GFG went up to the pre-Fringe shows, and whilst drinking with a friend on The Royal Mile got in to a conversation with a male nurse called Duncan. As a result, we ended up doing 'Duncan's Personal Ghost Tour of Edinburgh' - an interesting and enlightening experience!
Photos: Yes

Venue: Site of the Battle of Marston Moor
Where: Marston Moor, between Tockwith and Long Marston
When: June
Why: PSI investigation
Report: One of those surprising evenings for GFG (historian, researcher, note-taker and gadget operator). At one point turned to Diana Jarvis and pointed to a tree, telling her to take photos of it. The results can be seen in the photo gallery. Test photos were taken over the ditches (a low mist clung to them), and of breath, and neither of them produced a result like the image overlaying the tree.
Photos: Yes

Venue: Eboracum Legion Bathhouse
Where: The Roman Bath, St Sampson's Square, York
When: February
Why: PSI filming for BBC1's Inside Out, with Johnny Nelson
Report: Lovely bloke to film with, thoroughly enjoyable evening. Would film again with the BBC anytime - they even bought us all breakfast in the morning! Easily swayed... :)
Photos: No

2003

Venue: Eboracum Legion Bathhouse
Where: The Roman Bath, St Sampson's Square, York
When: October 31
Why: Ghostfinder General's Hallowe'en Lone Vigil
Report: A lone vigil on Hallowe'en hadn't been our plan: a journalist was spending the night alone in there to write a feature, but due to his car breaking down he was a no-show. Rachel stepped in to the breach as she was there, but of course this meant she had no equipment with her, not even a notebook! A mostly quiet night except for two incidents: firstly she was flicked round the ear, presumably by somebody creeping down and playing a trick on her - when she turned round with the expectation of giving them what for, there was nobody there... Secondly, around daybreak footsteps could be heard pacing up and down the modern metal gantry. This has happened at every investigation she has done in there, not always at the same time, but always in the same place.
Photos: No

Venue: York Castle Museum
Where: Eye of York
When: October 4
Why: PSI investigation
Report: We were privileged to be the first group to investigate the museum, spending the night between Kirkgate and the Chapel. There were a lot of things going bump in the night, and also coughing, plus the footsteps in the gallery were heard (unfortunately we couldn't get in to that area to investigate further). The coughing we assumed was the security staff who spent the night there, as it was coming from the direction of their staff room. They, however, assumed it was us as it was coming from our direction...!
Photos: No

Venue: Eboracum Legion Bathhouse
Where: The Roman Bath, St Sampson's Square, York
When: July 18
Why: The first official PSI investigation
Report: Masters and slaves, matrons and whores, seances and telemetry, and the footsteps in the dark... a good start to the new group with a very active night!
Photos: No

Venue: York Brewery
Where: Toft Green, York
When: June 21
Why: PSI helping out at York Tourism Bureau's Annual Ghost Hunting Day
Report: Our first meeting with the tall dark man, and GFG's second sighting of a ghostly figure. And no, we hadn't been sampling the wares before hand.
Photos: No

2002

Venue: Golden Fleece
Where: York
When: September 7
Why: GRFI's Wyrd Weekend
Report: After so many investigations in one weekend, it wasn't surprising that the sighting at 3.30am of a man walking through a wall was almost dismissed as a sleep deprivation hallucination. Why think it was anything other than that? Four people saw it, and wrote almost identical descriptions...
Photos: No

Venue: Micklegate Bar
Where: York
When: September 7
Why: GRFI's Wyrd Weekend
Report: A short daytime investigation for a Spanish TV crew, very active under the circumstances! The best moment sadly wasn't recorded: after the filming had finished BBC Radio York did a live radio interview. Within seconds of stopping recording, a set of heavy footsteps were heard crossing the top floor. The then curator, Dave Mason, the interviewer and Rachel Lacy all heard them clearly, and all thought that floor was empty. Dave shot straight off and up the stairs to check, finding that it was indeed an empty space.
Photos: No

Venue: Golden Fleece
Where: York
When: September 6
Why: GRFI's Wyrd Weekend
Report: The start of a special weekend in York, the first of its kind. Special guest for the night was Dennis Bardens, who stayed up for part of the investigation - despite being 92 years old and having travelled up from London that day!
Photos: No

Venue: Historic building
Where: York
When: August 13
Why: Disturbance assistance
Report: After a number of reported hauntings at this site, two weeks before the anniversary of a drowning at the site we happened to find the details of the death in an old newspaper - and we weren't even looking for them! Details have been kept quiet because on the anniversary, a rescue was performed and flowers laid at the site. No hauntings have been reported since, and so we have left the place in peace.
Photos: No

Venue: Derby Gaol
Where: Derby
When: July 27
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: Possibly one of the scariest nights of GFG's life: pacing footsteps, jangling keys, faces at the windows and a continuous feeling of low level terror!
Photos: No

Venue: Marley's Wine Bar
Where: Darwen
When: July
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: GFG's last investigation with the group, it went to show that despite being a brightly light modern interior, it was still worth an investigation!
Photos: No

Venue: Mother Shipton's Cave & Petrifying Well
Where: Knaresborough
When: July 6
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: We were so lucky to be allowed here: beautiful and peaceful, it is an incredibly spiritual place. As the light faded, the bats came out, as did several varieties of owls, and a feeling of peaceful energy radiated through the area.
Photos: No

Venue: Site of the Battle of Marston Moor
Where: Marston Moor, between Tockwith and Long Marston
When: July 2
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: A short investigation outdoors, we walked uphill (using the proper track) and as two of us drew ahead of the rest of the group, we were both stopped by the feeling that something was about to happen. As we both turned to speak, we both heard the sound of shots (which could of course be somebody shooting rabbits or similar - nothing supernatural), and saw a small smoke cloud drift across the crops in front of us. It appeared from nowhere, and took about ten seconds to dissipate. It was accompanied, oddly, by the smell of smoky bacon crisps!
Photos: No

Venue: Private house
Where: Preston
When: June 15
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: Part of an on-going investigation of the property, it provided a scary night for those of us that were new to the venue.
Photos: No

2001

Venue: The Old Silent Inn
Where: Stanbury
When: December 14
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: A relatively quiet night given the level of activity previously reported in this pub., but these things happen! Despite the impression TV gives, a lot of time on investigations is spent measuring baselines, and waiting for something to happen.
Photos: No

Venue: Ebor Inn
Where: Bishopthorpe
When: November 13
Why: GRFI investigation
Report: GFG's very first proper investigation. Most noteable event of the night was Jason Karl, the founder of GRFI, capturing moving orbs on a video camera at the same time as capturing them in the same place on a stills camera: the first time this had happened, not just for the group but worldwide.
Photos: No.

Venue: York Dungeon
Where: York
When: Throughout the summer
Why: GRFI/York Dungeon regular seances
Report: And this is where it started!
Photos: No