Crown Hotel Featured Medium
Adrian Simmons
Just to introduce myself, my name is Adrian Simmons. I have been a practising medium for the past 10 years and have had a keen interest in the Paranormal for as long as I can remember to extent of going back to my childhood when I first became aware of spirit and thought everyone could communicate with spirit.
To be invited by Ray and Tim to take part in the event at The Crown Inn was such an honour and a privilege that words can’t describe my gratitude. I would also like to thank all the lovely people that make up the PIGS team for the opportunity to work with them.
Prior to the investigation:
My clairvoyance started about a week before I arrived at The Crown Inn, on Saturday 3rd April 2011. It all started on the previous Saturday, when my son and I were discussing the forthcoming event. I had been explaining to him that a young girl of 8 kept appearing to me, not only in the physical but also in my mind’s eye constantly impressing upon me how she looked; with long blonde hair and the clothes that she was wearing.
I later discovered that these were Victorian clothes. She wore a velvet dress, the colour of which I can only describe as red/brown (auburn). The dress was worn over a long sleeved blouse with frills around the sleeves and neck. Her arms were out stretched showing me how lost she was and needed help! She kept telling me about the colour yellow, loads of yellow and about the yellow stairway leading to her room.
My son asked me what else I could see.
I could see myself looking out from the front door of the building. I could see a large lawn and on my left going along the length of the lawn were stables with a smaller out building at the end. In the middle I could see a tree with a branch that looked like an arm coming from it. There was a rope tied around the tree, a hangman’s noose! The words that I passed on repeatedly were “many hangings, many hangings”.
I then saw down some stairs into what I can only describe as a cellar; I could feel despair, starvation and hopelessness.
The names Charles and Joseph came to me and someone having their throat cut! If this was what I was getting now, how little did I know, the night was going to be even better?
The day of the investigation:
My son and I arrived early on the Saturday of the event and as soon as we stepped on the outside steps of the Inn I could feel the presence of spiritual energy.
I also had the feeling of being watched from the two front windows above the main door. The place sent a shiver down my spine! The buildings had changed from what they had originally been but where I expected to see the tree out on the main lawn there was a hangman’s gallows!
We decided to go and get some food before the event started. As we passed the gates to the garden I heard two dogs barking and the sounds of children playing. We looked over the gates but we saw no children playing and no dogs!
Pre-investigation:
As soon as I walked into the main building I could feel and hear the buzz of spiritual activity. The first thing that I did was to go into the bar area, only to feel very uneasy as I was aware of a dark entity lurking over near the pool table. Walking back into the reception area I then made my way downstairs to meet the team leader of the PIGS, Tim.
Tim went through the plans for the evening and then gave me a tour of the hotel to get me orientated.
The walk around:
This is when I started to feel the atmosphere and what was to come. As I went passed bedroom 1 I became quite uneasy, possibly confused and felt I didn’t want to go in. Then when we turned to go passed bedroom 2, I was shocked to see something which was to repeat itself several times over the evening, a large man pushing a lady in a night gown over the banisters!
The lady had long black hair, was very slim and wore a long night gowned.
I was later made aware that the names George and Liz or Elizabeth were prominent with both of these. Although it seemed to be two names for the lady it was in fact two ladies with the same name as I was later to discover along with why I didn’t want to go into bedroom 1.
We walked to the front of the hotel into a hallway, and in the hallway stood a wardrobe. I was then aware of an old woman, in spirit, who waits for her partner to return by looking out of the windows. I was later made aware that she had a problem with her throat, possibly cancer?
Moving onto bedrooms 3, 4 and 5 I found quite flat. The only exceptions to this were several cold spots, I was given the name of Mary plus an 18 year old house maid and the bed in bedroom 5 was vibrating.
Tim then took me up the windy yellow staircase that led us to the yellow attic room! As soon as I walked through the door I felt a spirit walk straight through me but I was not aware who it was. I scanned around the attic room to see if I could pick up on the 8 year old Victorian girl that I had come into contact with many times over the prior week but to no avail!
The Vigils:
- Bedrooms 4 and 5:
Rooms 4 and 5 from a psychic perspective were not charged up enough with energy. Despite this I did see the man Alex, who the team caught on the Ghost box. If I was good at drawing I would sketch a picture of the man dragging his legs due to problems with his knee.
There was also an old lady that was very prominent walking passed the windows and looking out. I was made aware of a throat problem and was seeing a picture of a hole in the front of her neck. She kept looking out of the window as if she was waiting for someone to return, her partner who left soon after her death.
- The Holding Cell:
I found out that the room that I had seen as a cellar before our visit was in fact the holding cell. As we went down the stairs I felt very excited as I thought that this would be an ideal opportunity to perform some trance work. Once we were down there I got the names Joseph and Charles.
The energy was very strong down there and all the feelings that I had before came back to me. I could see a man lying down on the floor with an old blanket over him. He gave me all of the feelings of starvation which I believe we all experience with our stomachs twisting into knots. I also felt the pain of shackles being clamped to my legs and I got a stabbing pain on the left side of my chest which stayed with me for the night.
There were also three other men fighting for their lives in the holding cell. My guides would not allow me to go into trance whilst I was down there for fear it might physically drain me. That night I discovered a bruise that went around one of my ankles, possible caused by the energy of the shackles! This physical phenomenon I carried with me throughout the night’s events and on for a few days after...
- The Dining Room:
When we first entered the Dining room it seemed quite calm and surreal, a pleasant area to set up the next vigil. All be it a strong smell of fish! It was not until the lights went off that I was aware of spirit pressing on my face (small hands), then the rush and activity of children running about.
We were then asked to perform an experiment using the spiritual writing board using a planchette. Please refer to the film footage as this was a very emotional experience. I was not expecting to be shadowed by my own daughter who died 13 years ago! I have been desperately, wanting contact with her but for some reason she has never come through.
For many years I have been dealing with other peoples family members that have passed to the world of spirit but frustratingly not been able to contact my own daughter. It just goes to show that we cannot choose who comes through to us or when. It is spirit that decides.
- The Loft or Attic Rooms:
Again, heading up the windy yellow stairs, was simply a realisation of my previous clairvoyant information. We made our way to an attic bedroom on the left down a short corridor. As we entered the room the group commented that they found this room to be a bit flat and decided that we should split up. Little did we know that the whole group had left the room with only Sharona, Adam, one of the PIGS’s investigators with a camcorder and myself left in the open spaced room.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly changed and there seemed to be a rush of spiritual children playing. Sharona and I started to interact with one of the spirit children. This was a young spirit girl of about 4-5 years old and not the 8 year old that I had been expecting to communicate with. She was very happy for us to sit on the floor and sing her name sake song; Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do . . . I believe that Daisy was the name she was called by but necessarily her proper name.
Daisy showed me her woven tatty teddy bear that she either called Tim or she was looking after for Tim, something we didn’t follow through on. During this time Adam was taking temperature readings around us which showed a drop in temperature and we were told by both Adam and the other person filming that they were picking up a lot of orbs around us and even one on my forehead. We then went into the other attic room where I picked up a strange anomaly that I can only describe as a different form of energy, not a spiritual energy that I was familiar with.
The energy was in front of a TV as I walked in on the left. This energy rose up from the floor to the ceiling and seemed to indicate there was something solid there at one time. This could possibly have been a wall that has been removed? This energy was not detected on any EMF meters but was definitely there, and as solid as the other walls that surrounded us.
Again, the children energy filled this room too, but with a nervous apprehension as if something or someone was going to burst through the doors!
- Bedrooms 1, 2 and 3
I came to realise why I hadn’t wanted to go into bedroom 1. It was filled with heavy mixed emotions; this somewhat confused me as it was a mixture of hatred and anger which changed to Love? This gave very much mix energies between George and Liz as she preferred to be called. It was as if a story was being unfolded and played out for me.
I was showed the way that they had lived, the décor and furnishing were so different to the furnishings there now, they were very regal and ornate, a gilded gold leaf dressing table where she would comb her long black hair for hours. Even though she had the children she felt very alone with her abusing husband who finally pushed her over the banister which broke her neck instantly on landing! I was told soon after that there was another woman that came to the house whose name was Elizabeth too. This Elizabeth had long mousey hair which I saw as she was falling back onto the bed in slow motion she wasn’t the same woman that went over the banister.
In bedroom 3, I experienced a lot of cold spots and helped one member of the team with his dowsing as I notice some cold spots in the room but I was not made aware of whom it was as I believe this was something for the team member to experience for himself.
In bedroom 2, I was aware of an old woman in spirit. She was in the bathroom area. I was able to point her out for the others to communicate with her.
Conclusion:
It was a fantastic event. The Crown Inn definitely has its resident ghosts who make themselves known to people. However, there are other spirits and other energies that visit as well!
The Crown Inn has seen many tragic events through time which made it a very interesting venue. The whole experience was very rewarding and I certainly can’t wait until the next one.
A passing note; I think that I will always regret not having taken up Ray’s offer for them to make up the bed in the attic room for me, as it may have revealed a lot more? I think that I would have found a few more answers to the Victorian 8 year old girl that appeared to me before the investigation.
Foot Note
We would like to thank Adrian, Adam & Sharona for their professionalism and enthusiasm on the investigation, Also for this very detailed report giving names, times and places, which gives us the P.I.G.S team the ability to research these names to try and find the people of the crown in history.
