After our day tour of the Haunted Museum in Nottingham a few months ago it was time to step it up a little.
We decided to book ourselves onto a ghost hunt. A night-time event where the shutters are rolled down at the museum, the lights turned off and the fun begins.
Priced at £35 per person the paranormal nights at the Haunted Museum in Nottingham are run by the UK Ghost Hunts team.
The night comes complete with refreshments, regular breaks and full access to all rooms within the museum to conduct investigations.
Having never been on a ghost hunt before I was down to try absolutely anything. I’m a very skeptical person and the more evidence I can get to support paranormal activity the less skeptical I’d naturally become.
This night was about pushing boundaries whilst keeping an open (but skeptical) mind.
Haunted Museum in Nottingham
As you know from our initial review, The Haunted Museum was once an old picture house.
Upon entry into the museum, there were tea and coffee facilities and a buffet table of snacks. The cafe’ area is very small so it was nice to get quickly aquatinted with everyone.
The cinema has been kitted out with very comfy couches to sit on as we were introduced to the team and split into groups.
Our group was a small and cozy group of 6, led by UK Ghost Hunt team leaders John and Belinda. The lights were turned off in the cinema and the fun began.
Below is my account of each activity we performed and the effects/results of each investigation.
Everyone in the group experienced different things and some other groups experienced nothing at all.
This can vary between groups and paranormal activity is NOT guaranteed at these events.
Ghosts aren’t running an afterlife circus here, they come and go as they please.
If they even exist in the first place!
The Haunted Museum Auditorium
Our group held hands in the darkness. Introduced ourselves and started calling spirits to come forward.
At this moment eerily my right hand felt a cold breeze.
I passed this off as nothing and then it happened again.
It was extremely hot throughout the night after a lovely summer day but this cold breeze was as refreshing as it was peculiar.
Nothing else happened thereafter so a motion sensor robot was placed down on the auditorium floor.
The second the motion sensor robot was placed down. We stepped away and the robot turned, instantly sensing something that wasn’t seen with the naked eye. The next minute the robot raced forward for a good 4-5 metres before stopping at one of the couches.
This was weird indeed.
We pulled up a device that used sensors to detect figures depicting them as skeletons or similar.
The couch where the robot was situated was lit up like a Christmas tree whilst every other couch remained blank on the screen.
We walked up towards the display cabinets in the museum containing dolls and suddenly the device picked up a stick figure actually residing inside the doll cabinet, perfectly tracing the outline of the doll.
I thought this device picked up shapes and tried to debunk it by putting it over another doll in the cabinet, nothing.
This one particular doll named Winston had a full skeletal shape and the skeletal shape was moving, almost dancing.
Within seconds the doll next to it in the cabinet (which had no skeletal structure outlined originally) suddenly burst into life. It looked as thou these shapes were dancing in the cabinet.
Very weird indeed.
This was just one of a handful of events from the evening that I just can’t explain.
We went onto try a ouija board but being the skeptic that I am I know they’re just toys, nothing happened as expected and we moved on.
The Morgue at The Haunted Museum
We headed down to the morgue. Instantly I volunteered to lie on one of the morgue tables and my friend Jim lay on the autopsy table.
We turned on a spirit box that scans through channels and voices are manipulated through it.
Every spirit box I’ve ever heard you hear frequencies flicking through channels, this one was having multiple voices talking in what sounded like german. This was constant.
Either we had a dodgy radio or very talkative spirits.
I’ll go with my original assessment.
Next, we wheeled Jim on the autopsy table and asked the spirits to move it. Nothing happened.
The table was rocking ever so slightly but that could have been from peoples shaky hands.
The wheels were horizontal so there was no way the table was moving forward without someone spotting it.
Suddenly my hood on my jumper flicked up when there was no one around me. This was a little weird.
Next minute the only source of light at the top of the stairs went black, pitch black. An almost black mist rolled down the stairs.
I could see the lady next to me throughout the session but when this black mist came down we couldn’t see anything.
Once again another event I can’t quite explain.
But the table didn’t move forward which was a shame.
The Attic at The Haunted Museum
We performed a human pendulum in the attic where someone stands in the middle of the circle, questions are asked and the person moves backward and forwards to project spiritual answers/confirmations.
Considering I have migraines I’d have been rocking all over the place in the middle of that thing without spiritual intervention so someone else volunteered.
He rocked back and forwards through various questions and one lady in our group got emotional as she was asking questions about a loved one close to her which was being channeled through this young man in the circle centre.
The Dybbuk Box at The Haunted Museum
When we were at the Haunted Museum in Nottingham for the first time we were told to never touch the Dybbuk box.
This time around we were able to touch it, knock on it and more. It kind of ruined the initial illusion of its demonic presence. I volunteered to have my hand on it for a good 10-15 minutes.
Nothing happened. I felt absolutely nothing until we started reciting the lord’s prayer.
The second the lords prayer was being recited I had rather intense chest pains.
I kept my hand on the box passing it off as indigestion from my lovely brisket chili sandwich from an American bar earlier that day.
Yet the second I took my hand off the box to leave, goodbye chest pains. Interesting.
Torture Room at The Haunted Museum
The torture room was a dull affair this time around.
We stood by a world war 2 stretcher and used an Ovulus. A device that channels spirits through a word bank and displays words on a screen.
The only cool thing to happen here was when the Ovulus was placed on the stretcher the words ‘Stab’ and ‘Twenty’ came up on the screen.
Stab wounds from a soldier? A spirit wanting to stab us?
Who knows. That was cool thou.
But once again the only activity we are really seeing are through electronic devices which I’ll never trust or believe as far as I can throw them.
Martha’s Room at The Haunted Museum
Easily the most active room of the night. Martha the doll was the highlight of the night. One member of our group sat down on a stool and stared at the doll.
We all stood behind this gentleman and kept staring. Martha looked rather happy and almost like she was smirking upon entry into the room.
Five minutes of staring at the doll and she suddenly started looking more sinister to me. I could even see what looked like blonde hair forming over her currently bald head and we saw her right hand moving numerous times.
I was looking and looking trying to debunk the hand moving. There were no windows, she was locked in a glass cabinet, no fans or any such effects in the cabinet. Very cool.
We continued staring and her head almost seemed to move slightly. Ever so slight movements and this facial change was spotted by everyone in the room.
Someone then asked if we could take her picture and that’s when it happened. The glass and Martha’s face suddenly started to go black, like the black mist we saw in the morgue.
Her face suddenly became almost blur and clouded to the point where she couldn’t be seen.
I just can’t explain this whatsoever.
It was the timing, the black mist, the unexplainable facial changes.
It certainly didn’t creep me out, I love this stuff but my skeptical mind couldn’t logically explain it at the time.
Parlour tricks or genuine activity? I’m still unsure with this place.
The Mirror Room at The Haunted Museum
A room is full of standard mirrors donated to the museum. We set up a wooden picnic table and performed some table tipping.
I kept my hands hovering over the table and the table did actually move and tip throughout.
Suspicious of the person next to me I got on my knees to check peoples fingers and his were hovering over the table with zero contact.
I can’t explain this one either but the table was uneasy so even the slightest subconscious movement could have tipped the table. One tip however was insane, the table nearly toppled over completely!
Overall
As a whole, the night at the Haunted Museum in Nottingham was a lot of fun.
Something different for sure and whilst activity this evening was somewhat limited some of the events were still so unusual to me.
I went home and didn’t have any bad dreams or anything like that although in the car park on the way out I had intense kidney pain.
Funnily enough, the same kidney pain had the last time I visited the museum. Strange, very strange.
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