We had been on one previous occasion
and decided that it was too much to
film, the audio would have been poor
and so we rescheduled. Guess what?
When we went back, despite the reports
claiming only an 8-mph wind, it was
yet again really strong! Throughout
the investigation we found ourselves
avoiding and sheltering from the
blustery conditions, luckily due to the
layout the location, it allows you to do
so, but it’s something to bear in mind.
On starting the investigation, we
decided to concentrate our efforts
on the steps that lead up to the top of
the Mine. Luckily for us they were very
enclosed, providing cover from the
harsh conditions but at the same time
giving us a sense of being boxed in.
With the Alice Box running and two EMF
detectors poised, we started calling out
to the spirits that may be present. We
didn’t really know what to expect, I’m
sure from the history that Vicky has
presented regarding the murders and
curse, it really could have produced
anything from sadness to pure anger.
The activity seemed slow at first, but I
began to hear footsteps at the bottom
of the steps. They were loud, they had
to be for me to hear them over the
whistling of the wind. As I turned to
look back at Vicky, she appeared to look
uncomfortable, and shortly after began
to feel a shortness of breath. She felt a
pressure bearing down on her, almost as
though she was feeling what one of the
miners would have felt at the time they
were murdered. I found this interesting,
the more we investigate the more I see
Vicky feel and experience more, but to
back this up, Alice produced a sequence
that completely blew us away! Firstly,
the words ‘Lost in well’ appeared. Now,
be it a mine or a well, it seems damn
close to what the miners experienced.
A feeling of being lost certainly hit
home, but this was then followed by the
word ‘Dust’. Three miners were sadly
murdered by a technique used to smoke
them out, it went horribly wrong, but was
this one of the miners telling us of his
feeling of being lost whilst suffocating?
Combine that with what Vicky personally
experienced, I can only feel that we
were in contact with one of the men
that tragically lost their lives on that
haunting day.Magpie Mine is full of ruinous buildings
and abandoned equipment. It only felt
right to investigate one of those empty
shells that had been frozen in time. We
made our way to the top of the steps and
headed north to a stone structure that
may well have been used for storage
at some point in it’s past. Although
the roof was missing, there were three
solid walls and a grate covering another
possible entrance to the mine itself. Aswe stood and began to call out, I had an
overwhelming feeling of eeriness. I don’t
think that it was in a negative way, but
I had a strong vision of the mine when
it was fully operational, the sounds, the
hustle and bustle, the characters that
inhabited it, yet now as we stood in this
building, there was nothing but silence.
It was a surreal feeling, and one that
we both pick up on repeatedly at the
locations we visit.Out of the three areas that we
investigated, this was certainly the
quietest, but even so, we still had two
intelligent responses from the EMF
meter that Vicky had. Previously on the
steps, a name came through on Alice,
not once but twice. The name ‘Terry’
was what we were focusing on. From the
research that Vicky had compiled, the
name didn’t seem to fit in, especially
when it came to the murders. Yet this
spirit was constantly trying to gab our
attention, and that he did! On asking
if we were speaking to Terry, we had a
small spike in EMF. Directly after, Vicky
asked if Terry was a miner at the site to
which there was an identical spike in
answering that question. Two spikes in
EMF to questions asked, also backing up
a name that had appeared twice on Alice,
seemed convincing enough to me that
we’d made contact with a man that used
to work onsite. Did he know something
about the murders?