Mystical Shires
Montacute House,
Somerset
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We had a team day out to Montacute House in Somerset, with our families. This was NOT an investigation, but we did take a couple of "Full Spectrum" cameras an EVP recorder (although this failed to work) and a K2.
The results that we got were surprising.
Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion with garden in Montacute, South Somerset.
All parts are maintained by the National Trust (NT) which subsidise entry fees. Its Long Gallery, the longest in England serves as a South-West outpost of the National Portrait Gallery displaying a skilful and well-studied range of old oils and watercolours.
An example of English architecture during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical, and one of few prodigy houses to survive almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era, the house has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, and Scheduled Ancient Monument. It was visited by 125,442 people in 2013. Designed by an unknown architect, possibly the mason William Arnold, the three-storey mansion, constructed of the local Ham Hill stone, was built in about 1598 by Sir Edward Phelips, Master of the Rolls and the prosecutor during the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters.
The house and its gardens have been a filming location for several films and a setting for television costume dramas and literary adaptations.
Both the house and village have often featured as locations for films. Several scenes of the 1995 film version of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility were filmed at Montacute, as were scenes from the 2004 film The Libertine. The house was used as Baskerville Hall for a version of The Hound of the Baskervilles filmed in 2000 for Canadian television. In May–June 2014 the house was used as one of the locations for the BBC's adaption of Hilary Mantel novel Wolf Hall.
Sir Edward Phelips' descendants occupied the house until the early 20th century. Following a brief period, when the house was let to tenants, one of whom was Lord Curzon who lived at the house with his mistress, the novelist Elinor Glyn, it was acquired by the NT in 1927.
In the stables/coach house, we had massive K2 hits. We checked the power cables coming down the wall and it was vertualy zero. But moved to the table and it spiked.
We are mystified about this white image that was taken across the gardens. It appears in all three images that were taken.
The top three "full spectrum" images were taken within eight seconds of each other and the other three were taken within ten seconds of each other. Upon reviewing these photo's we zoomed into the top right hand window (there is no public access to this area) and there appears to be a torso in a yellow coloured jacket with a white shirt and red tie looking out. , in the middle panel.
As the EVP recorder that we took with us was not working, we used a "full spectrum" video camera. As we said this was NOT an investigation and no questions were asked out. However, what we caught, entering this bedchamber has stunned us all.
One member of the team and his wife had entered through another door, and were leaving out of the other door, and were told that they 'have been caught on camera'.
When you watch this video please use headphones. Listen very carefully as the camera swings around to the window, discount all the background noise and you will hear a female voice in an extremely quiet whisper say 'Oh my God'. this sounds like a response to being 'caught on camera'.
In the clip below we have reduced the background noise and increased the EVP sound level
For more information on Montacute House, then please click on the links below