Hi spooky friends! I just got back from an awesome paranormal investigation at Newsham Park Hospital in Liverpool and I am buzzing!
This was a venue I have wanted to visit for a long time so when I got the invite, I snapped it up. It was an over 18s investigation, so my children had to stay at home, much to their dismay. But I’ve promised them some ghost hunting next weekend and we have events planned soon to keep them happy.
Read part 1 of my ghost hunter diaries from Newsham Park Hospital. I have so much to tell that I had to split up the blog post to make it easier to read!
Ghost Hunt at Newsham Park Hospital
Our journey to Liverpool was straightforward as we are literally just down the motorway less than an hour’s drive away. It felt like a nice, local event for us compared to some of our more epic journeys in search of ghosts. As we approached the road where the hospital is located, we all began to feel jittery and excited, picking up energy from the location. It is in the city but not “within” the city if that makes sense, so the hospital feels isolated and quiet. It’s almost as though the human world has given it space to sit in quiet contemplation about everything that has happened there over the years. There is a lake in the grounds and lots of trees, so we didn’t hear much of the outside world during our investigation, apart from geese honking and flying about late at night.
The building looks beautiful from the outside, in dark stone and brick with large windows, ornate arches and decorative finials. The Victorians did have a flair for beautiful architecture, and I’m always drawn to Gothic buildings. Our base room was located on the first floor, so we had to climb a set of stone steps to reach the entrance to the building. There is no working lift that I’m aware of, just enough electricity to provide safety lights inside and security lights outside. Our event organisers closed and locked two sets of large, iron gates once we were safely within the grounds, so once we were in, we were not getting out until three o’clock in the morning when the event ended! Not that I wanted to leave. I felt strangely comfortable in that location.
A Presence in the Laundry Room
Our first vigil took place in the ground floor rooms of the hospital, what was once the laundry room and staff rooms. There are lots of empty spaces which I imagine would have been a hive of activity back in their day. Now there are a few pieces of old equipment left abandoned, and the remnants of props from a Scarefest event company that previously ran events at the location. They seemed at odds with the building, and I wasn’t too keen on how it had been defaced for entertainment purposes.
We spent some time in a locker room standing in the dark and asking for Spirit to make themselves seen or heard. I felt a presence around us, as though there were people observing from a safe distance. I think they wanted to see if they could trust us, or maybe if they even wanted to speak to us. Other members of our group felt the same presence, but no one saw anything obvious. I did see random flashes of light high up on the walls in three locations. At first, I thought they were reflections from something, but nobody had a torch or device lit up at the time, there was no residual light from outside as the window was covered with a black sheet, and the safety light was located in the hallway behind me. The lights were tiny flashes of yellow, like a reflection from headlights or a lamp, but we couldn’t debunk them. Later that night one of my friends saw something similar when we returned to the room, but we could not make sense of it.
Human Pendulum in the Cinema Room
The Cinema Room was a lovely place to visit. It’s a large room with spaces where the projectors would have been, a couple of store rooms, one that was packed to the brim with stacked chairs, old filing cabinets and bits of office furniture, and a few other, larger rooms. In the entrance corridor there was a large teddy bear sitting on the floor and a shelving unit with teddy bears and dolls sitting on it. I wonder if they were brought in for the child ghosts to play with. We also spotted a beautiful old Singer sewing machine sitting in a corridor, gathering dust.
As we stood in the Cinema Room, I felt myself beginning to sway, and I knew that someone wanted to communicate. Oddly enough, at around the same time, our lead investigator asked if anyone wanted to try the human pendulum experiment. It seemed I had already been chosen by Spirit! We then communicated with a female energy who confused us a little at first, but I think we got her story in the end. It can be difficult to decipher if we are speaking to one or more ghosts, and she told us there were at least twelve spirits in the room with us at that time.
The ghost told us that she had been committed to the asylum after she killed her younger brother. I think he was a baby from what I picked up psychically. When we asked if she felt sad about what she did, I felt a rush of emotion flood through me and my eyes welled up with tears. She was obviously remorseful for her actions. She was reluctant to tell us who committed her to the asylum, and she communicated that she was not allowed to talk about it. We think it was probably her parents.
Moving Objects at Newsham Park Hospital
There was a large hospital gurney in the Cinema Room, and our lead investigator asked if anyone wanted to try and make it move using energy. This is an experiment I have used for table tipping many times, and I find it fascinating, so I jumped right in there, along with my three friends. Nobody else wanted to do it, but they stood back and watched our attempt. The gurney was cable tied to a metal shelving unit near one wheel, and it was a heavy object to move, being an old, metal trolly with stiff wheels. I struggled to move it even a millimetre by myself, as did my friends. So we gave our energy to the room and asked Spirit to help us move it.
Almost immediately we felt the gurney vibrate as though there was something trying to move it. All of our phones were in flight mode so there was no electrical interference, and we had no cameras pointing at us. Suddenly, the gurney began to move. It was slowly pushed away from me, making my friend Christine step backwards to accommodate its movement. We all took turns to lift our hands up as the gurney moved so we knew we were not pushing it, and we only placed our fingertips lightly on the edge of the trolley to make the energetic connection. We were the conductors for the Spirit energy.
The trolly began to pick up speed and it was pushed completely to one side. I think if it wasn’t attached to the shelving unit it would have moved around the room! My friend Christine almost got squashed against some lockers, so we asked Spirit to move the gurney back into its original position. Spirit happily obliged, seeming to enjoy our interaction, and finally the gurney was back where it started and we stepped away feeling satisfied with our fun experiment.
A Busy Night of Ghost Hunting
Phew, that was just the first two vigils of the night! As you can see, we had a lot of activity and plenty of stories to tell. We didn’t even see most of the building because we simply didn’t have time to explore it all. Some parts of it are derelict and unsafe so we couldn’t visit those for obvious reasons. And other parts are closed off to the public although I don’t know why. Maybe there are some more sinister stories lurking behind these cheerful rooms?
Check back on Wednesday for part 2 of my Ghost Hunter Diaries at Nesham Park Hospital in Liverpool.
Have you visited Newsham Park Hospital? Tell me about your stories in the comments.
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