LUPTON HOUSE  (not Lupton Hall as labeled by Most Haunted)

The three-night investigation began in an empty Georgian mansion, without electricity - the archetypal haunted house scenario.

The first spirit man picked up by Acorah was described as

cunning, sharp-minded, authoritative, deceitful, with a vile temper, and in a powerful position.

Then Acorah described a female spirit as:

youthful, young, long flowing dark hair, a full gown in green and grey with a white collar.

So were these two connected?  No, says Acorah, but he 'felt they must have been linked in family', despite the 90 to 100 year gap between them.

The date he came up with for the lady was 1870, and she was murdered.

Richard Jones mentioned that there was a great tragedy in the house in the nineteenth century.  Could this be it?

We discover the young lady's name was Margaret, and she wasn't just 'murdered', but was incarcerated in the cellars of the house and starved to death.  Why?  'Through a great deal of jealousy with two women', we're told by Acorah.

At this point there was great mirth and celebrating in the Bad Psychics' chat room.

Whilst in the cellars Acorah gets an impression of a group of children being taught in the building in the early 1900's, but he wasn't sure of the date.  The fact that the lights had illuminated school desks as they entered that part of the cellar might just have provided a clue, of course.

We got further information from him about the children; they were emotionally-disturbed, but all were listening to what the teacher told them, and concentrating on learning.

It was a mixed group of boys and girls, although there were more girls, and the female teacher wasn't nice; she was harsh.

THE STRONG ROOM

The viewers voted for the team to move to the strong room, which turned out to be an unfortunate choice as two people could barely fit into it at the same time.  All it contained was several rows of trophies on the shelving, although why the trophies should have been abandoned no-one thought to question.

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Acorah then picks up on another spirit, named William Connor/Connors.  He was there in the early 1700's

portly, not tall, and makes entries in ledgers.

he moves in and out of the room, making the door squeak

he's a very busy man, keeping figures and is in charge of 'taking in materials from a boat'. 

he pays for the bales. 

possibly a smuggler.:

THE VICTORIAN FOLLY

Once the team had managed to squeeze themselves into the folly, Acorah picks up on his final spirit of the night.

a military person

to do with ships

at the time of the American Independence

1600's into 1700's

naval officer, connected with the folly

fought when all the ships were here in the harbour

naval officer who instructed against the French

something like Admiral of the Fleet

oversaw a fleet

was 55 when he lost his life

Unfortunately we weren't given a name, but we had plenty of clues that were obviously intended to indicate Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson.

So what else happened?  There was tapping and knocking a'plenty, but most of the time the sound wasn't picked up on camera. 

There was 'glass-pushing' where even the most dedicated fan noticed Yvette's gloved finger slip on the glass as she appeared to push.  We were spared 'table-rocking', though.  We must be grateful for small mercies.

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And then there was the trigger object - or rather trigger objects.  Five old pennies in a circle on a piece of paper.  Quite mysteriously Karl and Richard Felix discovered they had all moved inwards, and been covered by 'some sticky substance'. 

The pennies were carefully replaced by Ciaran O'Keefe (who has now been awarded his doctorate, by the way, so congratulations to him) and left.  Guess what?  One of the pennies vanished into thin air as mysteriously as they had moved initially.

And that was the end of the broadcast for the first night; but it wasn't the end of the night for everyone. Despite the protestations, you're virtually guaranteed to see it, but in the meantime, and for more details click here

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