East Ardsley Conservative club investigation - pub, bar

EAST ARDSLEY CONSERVATIVE CLUB



Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Built: Unknown

History: Unknown

Ghostly manifestations: Apparition caught on CCTV

Ghostly anomalies Dark shadows


CCTV Figure

Back in 1993 in the doorway of the East Ardsley conservative club, West Yorkshire, a supposed full apparition was filmed for a few minutes on the security cameras outside. Apparently it could be seen quite clearly on the CCTV network, but not directly by human eyes. The entity vanished after several minutes, though made a very brief reappearance a month later. Strange shadows wander the building, drinkers report seeing dark shapes walking through walls, an odd uneasiness hangs over our team in the blue room. And weird entities writhe about the floor in the snooker room. This sparked previous media interest into the weird goings on at East Ardsley conservative club.

EAST ARDSLEY CONSERVATIVE CLUB REPORT

I arrived at the club around 10:30pm. I was shown the original CCTV footage that captured the so called apparition back in 1993. The tape was very worn from years of rewinding and fast forwarding the alleged spirit to a wide captive audience including the punters, and the media. Another paranormal group had already done an investigation there previously, but nothing was ever witnessed.
I watched the clubs original CCTV footage , but the tape was so worn it was hard to make out what we was supposed to be looking at. I did get a brief glimpse of something stood at the door then it vanished, but I'm not sure if that was what we was meant to see, then the tape got re-wound a bit more and that was the last we saw of it; what I did see however was very interesting. The story goes : Staff that was operating the camera that day noticed on the monitor that there was a person stood at the main entrance, he then left the office (which is only a few paces from the main entrance) and proceeded to let them in, but when he got to the door no one was there. On returning back to his office, the person outside was still stood there ! The apparition stood for quite a while, but it was not to be seen by naked eye. I tried to fathom if there was some logical reason behind it, maybe a reflection from the houses opposite maybe. It was then explained to me by one of the regulars who stayed with us that evening that the inside porch area that I was stood in was in-fact the outside area where this figure was seen and it has recently had an extension built on it, which it had. So Ste proceeded to set up his night vision camera and motion sensors in that area.

I was getting loads of orbs on camera, but as usual we put it down to dust and smoke particles.
The blue room was particularly active, I felt like many eyes were watching me and they were getting nearer and nearer, I didnt like the feeling. Later I still had this overwhelming feeling that I had a crowd of people around me, later I was told by one of the regulars that that room used to be for the men, they used to crowd around a table in that area and chat, loads of them, she said that most were dead now.

In the early hours, whilst settled in the blue room again, one of the regulars noticed a dark shadow moving though the wall at the opposite end of the room which was very weird indeed.

Earlier in the evening I set up some trigger objects in the blue room, 4 coins, but nothing moved.
I did pick up a negative ion charge in the ladies toilet and in the door way, but as always on inside investigations didnt get anything conclusive with the gauss meter.
Nothing was caught on the evp recordings as yet nor the digital camera stills. The motion detectors went off in the main entrance about 5 times, but they were triggered by the numerous punters leaving the building much to my annoyance...

Conclusion: I didn't witness any paranormal activity in this incidence. I am still unsure as to what was seen on CCTV. I am not convinced the club is haunted.