Otherworld North East Research Society Journal 01 | Page 44

Otherworld North East

Hut 22 got a number of reported odd phenomena occurring during the night - at 11.05pm
The North East Ghost In-Spectres’ Darren Ritson reported that the ambient temperature of
the area rose dramatically and suddenly from 3°C to 12°C, at the same time as a scraping
noise was heard from somewhere within the hut, though no source for the sound could
be heard, and five minutes later the group heard footsteps while at the same time a
strange light was spotted. The four team members in Hut 22 at the time also reported the
feeling of being watched, and two members reported feelings of pain in their chests and
throat at 11.45pm. Two minutes later Darren heard the sound of a man moaning, at the
same time as an EMF meter picked up sudden and abrupt readings, small in scale but there
nonetheless. At 2.50am, the team present at the time asked for any spirit present to make
itself known, and one of the camcorders was reportedly physically switched off.
In Hut 22, I was doing my usual wander around with temperature recording equipment
when my ears picked up on an odd sound: the sound of 1940’s music playing faintly and
in the distance. At the time, I asked Colin of API whether or not the staff and owners of
the camp played music as ambience for the place, to which he replied that he didn’t know.
The ‘phenomena’ was recorded and promptly forgotten about by myself, and the memory
was only triggered months later when I visited the POW Camp to take more photographs
during the day, and sure enough the sound of old gramaphone records was being played
to welcome visitors...
In Hut 13, murmuring voices were heard within the confines of the walls at 1am (though as
words and language weren’t audible, I suppose this could be put down to the voices of
the teams in surrounding buildings floating through to Hut 13), and one of API’s core
team, Jo, allegedly had her dowsing rods pulled from her hands when she tried to
communicate with anything present.
The Theatre block proved to be quite quiet during the night’s vigils, with a couple of light
anomalies being seen by the stage on video (though likely to be dust disturbed by the
investigators) and an odd sickly sweet smell being noticed on a number of occasions,
which Sarah of the Otherworld investigation team put down to being “simply damp and
mouldy” - a likely explanation for a derelict building within a rain storm! Cindy of API also
reported the sensation of something pushing against her shoulder and when the team
tried dowsing they appear to have communicated with a German spirit that didn’t like
women, and the ‘smell’ was reportedly following her around - though how this was
distinguished from the natural musty smell of the building is uncertain (or maybe she was
just nervous!).
Hut 10 perhaps demonstrated to myself the biggest potential for anomalous activity when
at 1.04am Colin of API mentioned that he had an intense pain in his side, and seconds later
one of the the motion sensors set in the main corridor began to go off, a sequence of off
and on that lasted well over half an hour, as if the sensor was measuring a steady flow of
movement in the empty corridor. Being naturally cynical, I then swapped the sensor for

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