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Strange
things DO happen at the White Lion Inn, Wilton - there is
no doubt about that! Tina works there and has told me things
she has experienced. I have experienced strange happenings
myself - when Tina and I have been looking after the pub
during the owners' holidays and have been the only two people
in the building. Previous owners of the building, from as
far back as I have known it have also experienced strange
happenings. Particularly in the Old Gaol restaurant, which
is where my own experience of the unexplained occurred,
whilst I was up there alone last year.
As
to whether 'ghosts' are the souls of dead people though
- I seriously doubt it. I am a 'ghost agnostic' and my personal
theory is perhaps a little more eccentric/scientific - perhaps
not. I believe that we live in the 'multiverse'. In other
words, there is not just one universe but an infinite number
of them. Time is a man made measurement and definitely not
a constant. General relativity proves this. Time is relative
to how fast two objects are travelling relative to each
other and at the speed of light, time stands still. Before
the 'Big Bang', time did not exist. Sometimes, and in certain
places, possibly the different dimensions of the 'multiverse'
meet. This is how I explain the 'ghostly' unexplained to
myself but, having just made myself sound like a complete
and utter head-case, I should not go into this further here.
Friday
night and into the early hours of Saturday morning found
me filming an overnight vigil at the White Lion. I was not
involved - just filming what happened. Hereford Paranormal
Investigation Group spent the night there with Landlady,
Jacqui, her daughter, Rhianne, Tina and I. During the investigation,
three major things happened. A knife appeared on a table
in the Old Gaol restaurant - very similar to my own experience
of cutlery being moved up there, which I had already explained
to the team. A red ribbon which had been put away in a shed
outside the building soon after Christmas mysteriously appeared
on the stairs leading to the old gaol and a group in the
cellar were frightened by loud bangs. Unfortunately, none
of these things happened whilst I was actually filming.
They all happened whilst I was outside, taking a break,
so although I believe that they did happen, I cannot personally
absolutely rule out more scientific than ghostly explanations.
Below,
I have included some photos of the night's events. I will
leave the reader to make up his / her own mind as to whether
any of what happened on the night is 'paranormal'. I would
be interested to hear opinions. Strange things do happen
at the White Lion. However. Other than one happening - that
of something touching Jacqui's arm - an event I do have
on film but have not shown due to lack of time as my network
broke down the day after, whether or not anything else did
occur during the investigation, I am not entirely convinced
either way.
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