Summary of an Investigation
at Camelot Castle -
Friday 13th October 2006
With its towering cliffs and wild seas
and infamous legends of King Arthur; Tintagel has always been
a dramatic place, enjoyed by many. Camelot Castle Hotel set
almost right on the edge of the cliffs of Tintagel has had
many visitors; ranging from the famous to tourists and most
will tell you that they believe that the energy at the hotel
is unique.
Over the years staff and visitors have witnessed many strange
occurrences that they just could not explain rationally. The
most well attested sighting is that of a ghostly male figure
being spotted on numerous occasions. This is believed to be
that of the former electrician of Castle Camelot and people
have witnessed this figure making his way down from the hotel
to his home below, now Kate Winslet's house, and many say
that the figure simply disappears!
We all had been waiting with great anticipation ever since
we last visited this interesting location in the hope that
the night ahead would reveal as much activity as was the case
during the Paranormal Research Organisations visit.
As it happened… following on from the Paranormal Research
Organisation investigation in January this year, we encountered
quite a lot of similar phenomenon with an almost entirely
new team comprised of guests from Haunting Experiences - they
did not have any details of what had been previously reported.
This makes the findings even more interesting.
We arrived at the hotel ready for the investigation at approx
8pm where we all enjoyed a wonderful three-course meal to
set us up for the night ahead. After the introductions everyone
was split up into groups so that we all investigated each
area on a rotating basis with different team leaders comprised
from Ian, Stuart, Will and Kevin. This helped to keep our
findings to our separate teams so that cross contamination
of evidence gathered was kept low. This in turn kept auto-suggestiveness
to a minimum.
What follows is a summary of the main findings in each area.
Ground Floor (Bar areas and Reception Hall)
One team found this area to be relatively quiet, though plenty
of light anomalies were caught on camcorder appearing in co-ordination
with dowsing results. These were particularly noticeable around
one of the columns. They also witnessed the Negative Ion Detector
being set off for no apparent reason. This is worth noting,
as it is extremely rare to get any readings during investigations
from this particular piece of equipment.
One of the ladies from the group picked up on a small brown
dog who had been stood by Ian during the introduction talks
and very soon afterwards another female commented on smelling
wet dog. Both comments were made independently and both ladies
had been unaware of the other's comments.
A male member also dowsed and picked up on a presence by the
fireplace the rods answered to animal, once again this indicated
to a dog. So in all 3 separate people all picked up on this
small dog - very interesting.
The presence of a male was picked up by another female group
member through dowsing, and she discovered that he had passed
aged 53 in the18th century. The initial of his name given
was G and he had apparently worked on the land and died from
an accident whilst he was carrying out his work.
A couple of light anomalies were also picked up through filming
in night vision in the top left hand corner of the ballroom.
Through dowsing it was confirmed that the top left hand corner
of this room was the most active in this area.
During a vigil in the ballroom a lot of unexplained phenomenon
was reported by a lot of our guests, cold spots and draughts
were felt where no natural cause was seemingly responsible.
This was backed up by digital thermometer readings. Strange
anomalies were caught on both night vision and digital cameras,
and also in one particular area, where one lady had been dowsing,
she reported the feeling as if something was behind her and
felt as if unseen hands had touched her. When asked about
the information she had gathered using dowsing rods we were
amazed that what she had picked up had been picked up previously
during a P.R.O investigation, the similarity in detail was
almost shocking. Further to this other groups coming here
later all seemed drawn to this area without any prior knowledge
of it, very interesting indeed.
Another person from the group picked up on a female presence
(Catherine) sat at the piano, wearing a brown dress lacy ribbon,
and playing the piano. At the same time a cold icy spot was
felt in what was otherwise a naturally warm room.
Glass divining and a séance were also conducted here with
some very interesting results, which included sounds of something
tapping, photo and video anomalies and again a very distinctive
icy cold draught. 
3 other different presences were identified here during the
glass divination:
Mother- Emma Pike
Son- Crispen Pike
Former owner, strong results.
One group comprising of PRO investigators, the majority local
to Tintagel, tried a table tipping experiment. It is difficult
to comment to the authenticity of this as we were not involved
in the experiment, although we naturally have no reason to
doubt those participating as they are all personally known
to us. What we did see was the table move a foot or so apparently
under its own steam, or from an unseen power. We also understand
that other groups had similar results in here. We must say
that table tipping and similar experiments such as glass divination
and the Ouija Board, can certainly to a degree be explained
by involuntary muscle movements enhanced by the fear, tension
and apprehension felt by participants. We would also like
to add that Ouija Board experiments are not conducted by Haunting
Experiences.
Room 201
There were some very interesting orbs appearing to emanate
from the back of one female guest whilst dowsing in here.
This was also apparent when she was dowsing in another bedroom.
Another female member of the team carried out dowsing, the
rods gave a lot of positive movement around the fireplace
and a female presence was picked up next to fireplace, the
presence did not die here but is apparently aware she has
passed over. She had been a servant and was connected to the
land,not the present building, she had lived locally. The
female presence had apparently been murdered, she knew her
killer. Her name was Georgina and she had been younger than
20 when she had been killed by her father, he had killed her
because she had a child out of wedlock. The female presence
was looking for her child that was the reason why she comes
in visitation.
Also a few light anomalies had been captured on night vision
during this time.
The female member of the group who carried out dowsing also
felt very emotional whilst communicating with the female presence.
2 male presences were also picked up through dowsing in this
room.
Male 1:
Passed in 1874 aged 30 years old.
Connected to land and was grounded.
Cause of death Cholera.
He is also aware of the female presence Georgina.
Male 2:
Passed in 1765 aged 43 years old.
Cause of death was an accident, he drowned and was a fisherman.
He had lived locally; he sold his fish etc to the village
when he was alive.
He comes in visitation and moves throughout the whole building.
Room 212.
Other areas where also investigated namely bedrooms, while
most felt very quiet one room was a location for some astonishing
anomalies on night vision camera as this coincided with questions
asked to a female presence when one young lady was dowsing
and this happened throughout the vigil.
The female presence was Bea, a foreign lady who was married
with 5 children. She didn't work here, but had a heart attack
and died in this room in 1911.
However, the most interesting things occurred in here with
the first group, under Ian's supervision.
According to more than one laser thermometer the temperature
steadily dropped by 6-7 degrees over a very short space of
time. Also we kept hearing noises in here like something banging
on the window. Admittedly it was a windy night but it seemed
to be different to normal wind patterns.
A lady did some dowsing in here and identified a married couple.
The information she had discovered was very close to information
picked up about a couple on PRO's visit.
Room 220 
This has Camelot's four poster bed and for some proved to
be the most active area of the hotel, both during initial
sessions and for investigators who later returned during the
period of free time in the early hours. Interestingly this
room's neighbour, Room 221 (which we did not have access to
this time) was found to be the most active during the P.R.O.
investigation.
There were several light anomalies caught in here, both on
camera and camcorder, however it was the audio and visual
encounters which were of most interest. A little while into
one session, one guest (stood in front of the side aspect
window) reported hearing a double tap on the glass, strange,
as we were way off the ground level. We did try to recreate
this by rattling the window frame, however he was adamant
that this was not what he had heard. Interestingly this window
was, more or less, in line with the "metal on metal" banging
sound heard outside by Kevin Hynes and Stuart on P.R.O's visit.
At one point nearly the whole group heard a bang accompanied
by a 'Ting' sound as if someone had knocked into something
and hit one of the two light shades fitted into the headboard
of the bed. This was clearly not the case as Stuart had been
videoing this area using night shot; no one had been anywhere
near the area where the sound was heard. So what had been
dismissed at first as being a guest stumbling in the dark,
was clearly something else!
Perhaps most intriguing of all, was when a dark figure was
witnessed out of the window moving across the stone circle
at the rear of the hotel. Without prior knowledge it seems
as if someone else had seen the figure witnessed by so many,
presumed to be the former electrician of the hotel making
his way down towards his house at the bottom of the hill.
Definitely not a path to be walking alone in the middle of
the night due to its rough condition and the severity of gradient,
and we are pretty confident this was not just somebody taking
a walk. What was described was exactly as Will Brunning reported
from last time, a dark figure moving across the stone circle
from right to left (facing the sea), which then disappeared
in clear view!
In a later group 4 presences were picked up through dowsing:
2 males and 2 females presences.
Male 1:
Very active presence who is aware that he has passed and is
grounded.
Cause of death; he had hung himself in this room in 1945.
His name was Louis.
Female 1:
Grounded and not aware she had passed so we left her alone.
Female 2:
Aware she has passed, died from natural causes.
Happy with us being there and she is not aware of any other
presences.
She is also grounded.
During time spent in this room by the later group, tapping
was also heard from the corner left of the fireplace, we ruled
out this being a draught as this only occurred on certain
occasions, mainly whilst the group called out for a sign.
Photography:
Two photos were taken on still camera one directly after the
other.
The first photo appeared to show a light anomaly, whereas
the second showed nothing.
Also possible orbs had been captured on night vision camera.
In the final free time session, after ensuring that the various
groups of guests were suitably positioned in their chosen
areas and had tapes and batteries etc. Stuart and Kevin made
their way back up to Room 220 to join other colleagues who
had already begun a darkness vigil. The group used various
pieces of equipment to try and record any paranormal activity
during time spent in this room. At this point they began openly
discussing findings and feelings, it was soon clear that we
had experienced a number of similarities. Giddy and dizzy
feelings in front of the window were picked up by three of
us, as was a choking sensation reported from two separate
groups. The dowsing information we picked up shed some light
on this and suggests a possible explanation. A male presence
was identified as 'Louis' who on returning form action in
World War II hung himself in this room, as he was unable to
deal with the sights he had witnessed and the loss of his
friends. Although posttraumatic stress disorder is a common
enough tragedy following times of war, we have as yet, been
unable to verify this information to be historically accurate.
Further dowsing produced erratic results with the rods swinging
back and forth very strongly, both whilst searching and resting,
with the rods dropped. Once again all 4 presences were picked
up through dowsing. Another also joined us: a negative presence,
which tried to latch on to Stuart. However, The male presence
Louis seemed to be the most active, so the group concentrated
mainly on him. We asked him to give us signs, anything he
could do to provide real evidence that we were not alone in
room 220. Throughout our session we all experienced sensations
of tingling from head to toe, also Stuart and Dave both felt
completely drained at one point.
A vortex was also picked up in this room through dowsing;
once again this was situated to the left hand side of the
fireplace.
We all experienced some fascinating results whilst dowsing,
the rods seemed to be tracking the presence of Louis as he
circled around the room at some pace, then the rods would
just stop and point in the direction of the door. We took
this as a sign that Louis did not want us here and was showing
us the door.
Through dowsing more information on Louis was gathered, we
found that he had fought in the 2nd world war and lost many
friends and colleges during this time. He came to this place
to end his life as he felt he could not go on. Various light
The only definite result we were able to get was a continual
pointing towards the door, as if being asked to leave…
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Room 220, an orb caught in front
of the door (also enlarged). The bed where the 'Ching' sound
believed to be the light shade being flicked and the window
tapping was heard on, are both to the right. This picture
kindly provided by two of our guests, Michelle and Ben Harwood
was the most compelling of anomalies caught in this room and
has been analysed by the PRO Photographic Analyst, Graham
Billing, who comments below: "I've had a good look at the
pictures you forwarded to me and to be perfectly honest, most
of the anomalies present are simply down to dust. However
on this image, the blue orb-like anomaly is interesting. There
is no doubt that it is on the image base. As for what it is,
I have no idea."
GROUNDS
To finish the night off Stuart took a small group around the
grounds of the hotel, pointing out the areas where sounds
and sightings have been previously reported. It is interesting
to note (although auto suggestion could not be ruled out at
this stage) that another guest reported a dark figure making
it's way across the stone circle. Two of the group also refused
to make their way along the small tunnel leading to the basement
level, in keeping with what has been previously reported by
staff from the hotel. Sadly Stuart did not witness the figure
himself, nor did he hear the metal on metal sound experienced
during the initial P.R.O. investigation. This however only
strengthens this previous experience as he did his best to
spend a large amount of time in this area, listening carefully
and trying to rationally explain what they had both heard.
For many when it was time to call it a night they wanted to
carry on and didn't feel like going home which seemed to show
that everyone enjoyed the night in question and would say
that almost everyone had a strange experience that they could
not explain. Many photos were taken on the night with some
very interesting images and also video footage, these are
in the process of being analysed so hopefully just maybe we
may have caught something from beyond the grave!?
Our thanks go out to all at Castle Camelot Hotel, Mr & Mrs
Mappin, Mr Ted Stourton and Marek for allowing us to investigate
this wonderful place and of course our guests!
REPORTS FROM PARTICIPANTS
ONE:
Room 201
4 spirits picked up on by most of team through dowsing and
pendulums.
· Elizabeth, died 1855, aged 78, aware of other spirits, over
by the bedroom window and the wardrobe. The temperature was
an even 22°C in the room, yet the temperature changed by the
toilets by 5 degrees.
· 1 female spirit called Marjory, 32 years old, died or came
to the castle in 1911.
· 1 spirit 18 years old, died natural causes, could only get
the letter G. Erica was touched on the head and the temperature
around Erica was different as the room was very warm. We got
pictures of orbs or something and there was a very loud clank,
which every one heard on the radiator.
· Maggie picked up on another spirit, this spirit wasn't born
in Cornwall and was elderly. She kept saying she'd worked
in the hotel and lived in a "barrot" house. She knows of a
tunnel that goes from the hotel to "barrot".
· We then picked up on a male, 41 years old, died in 1744
of natural causes and slept at "barrot" house on ground floor
on the left (overlooks castle) Karen kept feeling dizzy and
sick time. Erica kept being touched on her arm and chest and
the temperature around her was cooler.
Room 212
Karen picked up on 6 spirits (4 females 2 males) in the room,
the room feels busy. Carl picked up on 5 spirits
· Female by wardrobe, used to work here and died aged 27 of
natural causes - a heart attack. The first letter of her name
was E and we then picked up on Elizabeth but she was known
as Liz. She had been a chambermaid and she had another job
as a waitress. She died in 1710 was working when she had a
heart attack and died on the spot. She had lived in the area.
· We then discovered there were 2 Elizabeths in the room.
The second Elizabeth was 24 and had died in 1946. She had
caught her foot on a rusty spike and died of lock jaw (tetanus).
She died an agonising death she was visiting someone aged
24 with the surname of Rowe.
· Carl picked up on a female aged 67. Who died of natural
causes in 1852 He got the name Jennifer Fekker. Carl felt
as if he had been touched on the face.
· Carl's throat was then affected by a male presence aged
46 years old. The first letter of his name was G.
· Jackie got 2 girls who died young (24 years' old) both worked
in the kitchen.
· She also picked up on George who had a problem with his
throat (could be what Carl picked up on earlier?).
Dance room (bar lounge)
The temperature kept fluctuating and we picked up the spirit
of Lillian (we met her last time with P.R.O.). There were
4 spirits, including Lillian.
· Lillian apparently remembered us from last time.
· Laura and Carl picked up on male spirit called Ivan Jefferys
who was married to Lillian in 1765 aged 55. He worked here
(they both did).
· We then did some table tipping in this room and got some
very good results. We started asking for Lillian or Ivan to
come forward to the table and see if they could move the table.
I'm not sure who came through first but I'm also sure it wasn't
them, as the atmosphere didn't feel right (felt heavy). I've
had feelings where I've felt unwell but not like this I'm
not prone to fainting at all but I came very close to it.
I felt very light headed; dizzy to the point that Carl had
to put a chair behind me. I felt very sick and started swaying
and my hands which where on the table looked swollen and purple
as if the circulation wasn't getting through. At this point
the table moved towards me and then the atmosphere changed
again and the room felt lighter. A lady spirit started to
come through her name was Letite, she's related to one member
of the group and she used to own the hotel She was 85 years
old. Every time the person in question asked a question the
table moved, sometimes just a bit and sometimes quite a distance.
We started down the very bottom end of the room and ended
up ¾ of the way up the room (we were all standing hands lightly
touching the table and feet not touching the table at all).
Carl was filming it all the time and keeping an eye on our
feet and hands. Also we took it in turns to take hands off
the table (sometimes 2 at a time) that was magical and very
emotional for one team member
Main dinning room
3 spirits:
· Lillian again being one of them. she was over by the fire
place.
· 1 male spirit he told us he was the man who built the hotel
and he killed himself because he thought hotel was not built
soundly enough and he thought it would fall down, he also
built another hotel.
What a fantastic evening, a lovely meal (I will be going for
a meal there again) lovely friendly people thanks to Ian,
Will, Stu and Kevin. See you soon!
TWO:
ROOM 212:
1 - The temperature went from around the 19 degree mark and
steadily kept falling until it reached about 13 degrees which
we all thought was a bit strange
2 - Something kept banging on the window, now we thought at
first it could have been the wind but the wind was constant
and therefore the window would have kept banging on a regular
basis but the bangs were totally random.
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3 - Pesquali who likes the dowsing
and in my opinion is quite good at it, had a go in this room
and found out that there was a couple in the room who were
married & that the man didn't know he was dead. Obviously
as usual we didn't know anything prior to entering the room
but later found out that what she found out was exactly the
same as what other people had found.
4 - When we finished in this room we left one of our night
vision cameras in there on record and went for our break,
on the way back from the break me and Pesquali walked up to
the second floor and went round turning off all the lights,
Pesquali then needed the toilet and made me wait outside as
she was a bit scared. When she exited the toilet we did a
lap around the floor in the dark and when we got back to the
toilets we heard a bang in one of the toilets and what sounded
like conversation, we couldn't make out what was being said
but we definitely heard voices
5 - The following day we watched back the videos we had made
and this is the crazy part. We walked out of the room leaving
the camera rolling (on our break as stated above) and about
5 seconds after we left orbs were flashing all over the place.
These are 100% not dust as the way they move is totally strange,
they are zooming up & down & back up again and from side to
side its crazy. Also……and here is the biggie…….the camera
jolts to the left, not a major turn of the camera but when
you watch closely it does jerk to the left…….we couldn't believe
our eyes.
Downstairs Bar/Piano Room:
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1 - Not much really happened in this
area other than me picking up that there were 4 spirits in
the piano room area via the dowsing rods. Dave from the PRO,
also picked up 5 spirits in this area which was most strange.
2 - Me & Stuart were picking up some strange spirits in the
darkened side of the bar area, I was picking up a male & a
female and they seemed to be moving around quite a bit.
Room 220
1 - Cooky picked up a fantastic orb on camera in this room,
one second one picture was blank and the next picture, probably
about 2-3 seconds later, had a massive orb above the bed.
2 - Staying in the bed area, whilst I was filming with the
night vision camera whenever I pointed it towards the bed
orbs kept flying past & disappearing, as usual everyone was
still and they were moving in a manner that to me dust wouldn't
move.
3 - Another amazing event came next; we started calling out
to the see if any spirits were around and as soon as we did
a fairly audible banging happened on one of the walls. The
weird thing is that we kept calling out asking it to make
the sound again and it did. In the end we asked if he/she
wanted us to get out and if so to bang once, with that came
one bang, we checked 2 more times by asking the same question
and sure enough each time we asked in return we got a bang
and that's when we left………quickly hee hee.
That is pretty much it from our group, hopefully we will get
to go there again sometime as it really was a great night.
Again cheers for a wicked night oh and everyone wanted me
to say thanks for letting us have near enough our own little
group, it was much appreciated and hopefully we will be able
to carry that on.
Take it easy and see you soon.
THREE:
Room 201
Dowsing revealed one female name of Marjory aged 32 died of
natural causes in 1911, no further information.
11 20 Cold breaths on my neck, fluctuating temperatures, Maggie
picked up on a lady who used to use the tunnels and had been
to Barras house.
Erica used her pendulum and picked up on a young female who
died aged 18 of natural causes her name began Gar… but could
get no more.
We had lots of orbs on request in this room and they were
especially large ones. I asked for them to show around Maggie
and that's what they did.
Room 212
Dowsing revealed by myself, name of female Elizabeth Roe she
died aged 24 in 1946. She had an accident and fell onto some
rusty spikes she died as a result of the lockjaw that followed
now better known as tetanus, she told me her death was agonising,
and that she was a visitor to the castle in life.
12 25
Something started to affect Carl's throat, he dowsed a male
spirit who wanted to communicate through Carl his name began
with a G and Carl thought it was George and that George had
a serious throat problem.
12 45
Quick séance, orbs on request from the centre of the group.
Karen had her trousers tugged.
12 50
Glass divination, the glass moved around freely, everyone
removed fingers at different times and the glass still moved,
no information was given though.
The Dance room
We had a lot of temperature changes in this room, in a widespread
area but it was a very large open space, having said that
some people reported cold draughts or breaths on request and
Stuart reported a cold breeze in the exact same spot that
I had asked for one to be felt.
Five spirit presences were found upon dowsing by Karen and
Carl and one by myself who's name was Edna, the names Ivan
and Lillian were given , no other specific detail was gathered
as far as I was aware.
We decided to try table tipping, and got some dramatic results,
we had a fair amount of movement
With the table rocking and then slight movements, we asked
for no direction.
Then Jackie joined us and the table rocked like mad, we started
to ask it to move in certain ways and it did, we all periodically
removed our hands, and the table still swung about, Jackie
asked if it was her Nan to move it to the left, it did so
very quickly, at this point Stuart had popped down for something,
he stayed to watch the table moving and checked that no one
was using their feet or legs to push the table. Jackie's Nan
was called Lettie and she had died 17 years ago, Jackie asked
her Nan various questions and the table seemed to respond,
Karen had a severe dizzy spell and almost passed out. The
other group were waiting to come downstairs so sadly we had
to stop, we felt we could have got a lot more from this and
hopefully we can try it again at some point.
I made a point of trying to push the table alone and could
not move it and the more I tried the more my fingers slithered
over the top, it was a shinny slippery surface to the table
and I felt no one single person could be pushing the table,
if two or three people were in collusion it could probably
be done, I truly believe that no one in our group would do
that.
3 30 The dining room
Glass divination was done in this room, Karen Barbara and
Maggie were getting results, while I was taking pictures and
videoing, as on the previous visit I gained nothing from this
room. Though I have to say they have done a spectacular job
on the refurbishment it looks great.
I did a lone vigil in the ladies toilets, only one orb was
caught, the outer door was wide open, I went to the loo, no
one had come in as I would have heard them and all the lights
were out, when I came out the outer door was pushed to, it
was a stiff door to close and I thought it was very odd, upon
talking to small group about what had happened another lady
said the exact same thing had happened to her.
Over all it was another great night at Camelot, the most unusual
thing I thought was the size of the orbs I have never seen
them so big, I compared them with previous film footage of
nights at the castle and they were definitely huge this time.
Many thanks to everyone who so patiently put up with us, and
also thanks for a great meal.
