Despite the huge reputation and media coverage that this
property has garnered over the years, before entering the
property last August, my feelings about the property were
clear. I was thoroughly unimpressed.
This was not based merely on the sparse furniture,
cramped kitchen or dated interior, I was unimpressed
based on at least 15 prior visits to the property both as
part of Paranormal Truth, but also as a guest and former
team leader with a ghost event company.
Although I had witnessed certain unusual incidents, such
as countless tapping noises, a door opening on its own
and a plastic ball seemingly appearing from nowhere in
the living room, as a grounded sceptic, I was confident in
my opinion that although interesting, there was nothing
that I had witnessed that couldn’t be put down to perfectly
natural explanations. Those taps? The expansion and
contraction of floorboards and wooden furniture as the
outside temperature cooled. The opening door? It had
merely not closed properly and had opened due to gravity
and the movement of air within the house. The tales of
black monks linked to the property? A fiction. If there was
any truth to the events of 1966, then that poltergeist, like
all poltergeist cases, would have been short-lived and the
phenomena would have ceased over 50 years ago.
In short, 30 East Drive was not haunted.
BANG.... BANG.... BANG... BANG!
Downstairs, I was elated. It dawned on me that this was
what myself and Dale had been searching for since we
started Paranormal Truth. Something tangible. Dare I say
it, something real. Something that wasn’t due to dodgy
gadgets so favoured by other paranormal groups and
nothing that could be easily dismissed. Dale Makin started
Paranormal Truth because he wanted to capture the para-
normal, purely and simply on camera or through the use of
audio equipment. He was sick of all the gadgets, flashing
lights and reliance on equipment such as spirit boxes and
SLS cameras to provide ‘evidence’ of the paranormal
that could be described as unproven at best. He want-
ed paranormal investigations to go back to basics.
To capture the paranormal as simply and straight-
forwardly as possible. I shared exactly the same
views as Dale. We got talking. Then we teamed
up. It was as simple as that.
The knocking sounds seemed to stop
from above us.I quickly went back upstairs, retrieved the
voice recorder and listened back to the
recording on headphones. There they were.
As clear as crystal. We had recorded at least 9
knocking noises from within the empty room.
On headphones I could even make out that the
noises were coming from the wooden furniture in
the room. My guess was the large wooden cupboard,
which was against the far wall, a 1980s era television
set sitting firmly on top. These were no light taps either.
The volume, timing and intensity of the knocking sounds
were constant, loud and seemingly becoming louder and
incessant with each knock. I replayed the audio again and
again, a wide grin on my face. I felt like a kid in a sweet
shop. We’d finally got evidence which was hard to dispute.