Description of Area
On entry there are two large areas of seating with a bar to the left corner. Through to the right of the seating areas there is a restaurant area. In line with the front door, there is a step-up into a room with just a pool table. Exiting through the left doorway in the pool room there is a corridor that leads to the toilets and down into the restaurant area. Through the doorway on the right of the pool room is the outside garden, another seating room and the door to the cellar. The cellar is two separate rooms.
Reported Possible Activity
Reported activity includes music and voices when pub is closed. Tampering of electrics and lights within the building. Full body apparitions in the courtyard and the back seating area. Whistling heard when entering the cellar and the feeling of someone standing right up behind you. Doors opening on their own. Glasses moving on their own. Name spelt out in steam on mirror, 'Roy'.
Brief Summary of History or Legend
16th century public house. Formerly adjoining cottages. Not much is known of the original history of the building unfortunately but lay out and age of pub would suggest an old coaching inn with rooms for hire, yard and stables for horses and cottages attached.
In terms of legend, the most commonly reported ghost is of a man named Roy, believed to have been a local to the pub and blamed for most of the mischief that happens on the premises.
The Sandygate Inn - Private Investigation
Investigation Report
Main Bar Area
- Calling out - come responses on cat balls to questions
- Psychic writing - seemed to be answering questions writing no and then following orders to draw different shapes. Also wrote letter M.
- Glasswork - no definitive movement - cat ball went off inside the glass occasionally.
Restaurant Area
- Glasswork - got minimal results, some movement but very weak energy.
- Calling out - table moved whilst calling out, attempts to get this to happen again were unsuccessful. People did report feelings of the table vibrating.
- EVP - some results on EVP below.
Back Seating Area
- K2 and Cat balls - One investigator was getting intelligent responses using the K2 and the cat balls flashing in response to questions.
Cellar
- Cat balls - Lots of activity on the cat balls, intelligently responding to questions, especially those related to the landlady and staff that work within the building.
- REM car went off a few times by the entrance to the cellar.
This area is too noisy to use EVP recordings
Pool Room
- Lots of staff individually reported feeling nauseous, foggy headed and unbalanced in this room prior to starting the investigation and throughout.
- Trigger objects did not appear to move
Corridor and Toilets
- REM doll placed in the corridor did not go off, unfortunately.
- EVP in the toilets were active
- Lights also went out and were flickering in the toilet area.
EVP and Spirit Box Evidence
Below are the anomalies we found on our EVP and Spirit Box. These are open to interpretation and your views are more than welcome! Head over to the forum to share your opinions and suggestions.