East Ardsley Conservative Club Investigation

EAST ARDSLEY CONSERVATIVE CLUB



Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Built: Unknown

History: Unknown

Ghostly manifestations: Apparition caught on CCTV

Ghostly anomalies Dark shadows


CCTV Figure

Back in 1993 in the doorway of the East Ardsley conservative club, West Yorkshire, a supposed full apparition was filmed for a few minutes on the security cameras outside.  Apparently it could be seen quite clearly on the CCTV network, but not directly by human eyes. The entity vanished after several minutes, though made a very brief reappearance a month later. Strange shadows wander the building, drinkers report seeing dark shapes walking through walls, an odd uneasiness hangs over our team in the blue room.  And weird entities writhe about the floor in the snooker room. This sparked previous media interest into the weird goings on at East Ardsley conservative club.  
EAST ARDSLEY CONSERVATIVE CLUB REPORT

I arrived at the club around 10:30pm.  I was shown the original CCTV footage that captured the apparition back in 1993. The VHS tape was very worn, it was the original copy, the grainy footage had been shown to many, an alleged spirit to a wide captive audience including the punters, and the media believed it.  Another paranormal group had already done an investigation there previously, but nothing was ever witnessed.

I watched the clubs original CCTV footage, I did get a very brief glimpse of something 'a shadow at the door?' the tape was re-wound a little more and that was the last I saw of the ghostly footage; what I did see however was unremarkable. The story goes; the staff member that was operating the camera that day noticed on the monitor that there was a person stood at the main entrance, he then left the office (which is only a few paces from the main entrance) and proceeded to let them in, but when he got to the door no one was there. On returning back to his office, the person outside was still stood there. The apparition was apparently stood in one place for quite a while, but it was not to be seen by naked eye. I tried to fathom if there was some logical reason behind what was going on. It was then explained to me by one of the regulars who stayed with us that evening that the inside porch area that I was stood in was in-fact the outside area where this figure was seen and it has recently had an extension built on it, which it had.  So Ste proceeded to set up his night vision camera and motion sensors in that area.

My sony handycam was on the nightshot setting and it was reflecting back a lot of floaty lights, they weren't very bright, I decided it was dust and smoke particles, these were very prevalent as some annoying patrons who we had allowed in to watch the investigation failed to distiguish their cigarettes!

The blue room was felt particularly active according the the psychic, I too felt this but I was getting rather a lot of suggestion from her. It felt like many eyes were watching me and they were getting nearer and nearer, I didnt like the feeling, I think it was psychological and nothing to do with spirits. 

In the early hours, whilst settled in the blue room again, one of the regulars explained that they had seen a dark shadow moving though the wall at the opposite end of the room, under the very low light conditions I find this hard to justify.

Earlier in the evening  I set up some trigger objects in the blue room, 4 coins, but nothing moved.

I was getting an unmeasureable reading on my negative ion detector in the ladies toilet and in the door way.  

Nothing was caught on the EVP recorder and nothing on the digital camera stills.  The motion detectors went off in the main entrance about 5 times, but this was triggered by the numerous punters coming in and out of the building much to my annoyance... Note: Never let anyone in to audience your investigations EVER!


I didn't witness any paranormal activity in this incidence.
I am not convinced the club is haunted.

My conclusion

It was probably a fly on the external CCTV camera lens, because staff only saw it on the monitor screen.