Sponsored by
Julia's experience: Goosebumps in the stalls...
"IT'S behind you!" I can assure you our paranormal experience at The Grand was no pantomime.
This ghostbusting is serious business, especially when "sensitive" Steven Hall and Blackpool's ghost tour guide Stephen Mercer are around.
Armed with top ghost hunting equipment – thermometers, dowsing rods, pendulums and of course our well tuned intuition - we stepped intrepidly onto the pitch black stage.
Cue squeals from The Gazette Ghostbusters when we came face to face with... the supernatural safety curtain.
Unlike other curtains, the safety curtain is made out of metal so it shouldn't move on its own accord. Or so you would think.
Resting our hands on the curtain, it appeared to breathe and pulse. I then felt pins and needles in my hands, a common sensation I'm told.
More questions came to mind when we put the ghosts to the ultimate test and left a trigger object on the stage.
The trigger – in our case a bottle of water and pencil on a tray – is one of the simplest and easiest ways for investigators to see if ghosts are responsible for strange goings on.
Spirits
Steve added: "We'll just leave it here for half an hour and see if the spirits move it. I've asked them to move it to show us they're here."
On our return the pencil had moved one inch to the right.
If that wasn't enough , a dramatic drop in temperature at the back of the stalls really gave us the goosebumps.
Steve ventured a theory. He said: "There is a portal here which the spirits use to move into this world. One has just come through now."
If I had seen a lady dressed in a Victorian dress and bonnet appear out of the "portal", I'd now be a complete convert.
Maybe on the next tour.
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Blackpool
Monday 13 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 3 C to 7 C
Wind Speed: 32 mph
Wind direction: West
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 6 C to 8 C
Wind Speed: 28 mph
Wind direction: North west
