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IDLE ROAD BRADFORD.

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We arrived at midnight to start our investigation. Present from AGH where Mark, Angie, Jazz and Steph. Again we where joined by landlords Claire and Chris Bell along with Ian.

We spent the first two hours discussing the latest goings on in the pub, as much had been happening since our last visit. These needed addressing before we could start any investigation. Luckily we were able to find rational explanations for a lot of things.

02.00hrs. The investigation started. During our discussions with the owners. One of the things that needed addressing, was that staff and customers had been experiencing a very strange happening. Whilst we all took up different positions. Jazz stood in the area to see if he could pick anything up. Whilst he did Angie senses a man present, surname of Walker. She describes the man, and much to Chris’s surprise she describes perfectly a man he had seen only a few days earlier in the cellar. Ian also says he has seen the man.
We where then drawn to where Jazz was stood as he says he is feeling strange pains all over his body. He had to move away from the area as he felt weird and a little fatigued. As he says that Angie catches a glimpse of a small boy, stood in between Chris and Claire. She says the little boy has just told her, he has placed a ball in the corner near to where the music system is set up. No one had been near that area. So we knew she couldn’t have known that, if there really was a ball there. This was one of the things we had been discussing at the beginning of the night. That Chris and Claire had been discovering small bouncy balls all over the place. Mark and Claire went together to check, and sure enough placed on the shelf directly in the corner, a small bouncy ball was sat there.

02.46hrs. Although we had moved from the area Jazz had been stood in earlier. Jazz complained he still felt a little strange. He says he also started to feel angry and still does. As he explains to us how he is feeling. He starts to feel even angrier, and explains, it is as if he wants to punch someone or in his words, he wants to beat the living daylights out of someone. Strangely as he tells us this, a few of the people present all start to get the same impression of a man, who is best described as looking like an undertaker. Chris felt it was a good idea to question the man, asking who he was and why he was there. Angie looks at Chris and says, be careful you are vexing him. Chris continues when Jazz hears “I’ll tell thee nowt”. Angie then tells us, the man is hiding something from us, something illegal. After a short while she says it is drink. She says it is in demijohns, (a demijohn is another name for a carboy. A glass or plastic vessel used in fermenting beverages such as wine, mead, and beer), she says it also smells weird. He has been trying to hide illegal brew.

03.00hrs. We moved to the pool table area. As several people had heard what appeared to be someone walking around. Angie is drawn to one particular seat as she feels a man is present, whi is accompanied by his two greyhounds. She says he is called Stewie and is very small in height. Just then both Angie and Ian say they can smell something burning, smells like clothes, they both say. Mark looks at Ian and asks him who is stood beside him, as he catches a glimpse of someone, but Ian is stood alone. Not sure who it was as it was only a quick glimpse.
Things suddenly go quiet, until Angie sees a man she says is wearing what she thought was a rugby top. Long sleeved with a collar, she says he is saying his nickname is Roy of the Rovers. She then asks us who Roy of the Rovers is, so we explained to her it was a cartoon character in a magazine. But it may have been a football top, not a Rugby top, as they too once had collars on their shirts. Mark turns quickly as he felt someone tap him on his head, as he did both Angie and Claire say Roy has just passed Mark, Angie says he was placing his metal tankard on the shelf, directly behind Mark’s head, and that is why he felt someone tap his head, she then says he is walking towards Chris and sits next to him. Funnily as we watch the seat depresses as if someone has just sat down. Nothing more could be gained from this as Roy faded away.

04.00hrs. We where asked by Chris and Clair could they try table tipping to see if they could bring Roy back through. So we set up in the area he had been, using the table and seats where he had sat next to Chris. At the table was, Chris, Claire, Ian, Jazz and Steph. The team tried several times to call out to Roy and then Stewie. Although nothing seemed to be happening, Ian had several times felt as though someone poking him in his arm, and on observing him it appeared as though, his clothing was moving as if being prodded. They tried some glass divination and again nothing happened. After a good half hour had passed. Our attention was drawn to the other end of the bar, when we heard a voice muttering and a clinking sound. We went to check it out but could find nothing.

04.30hrs. Jazz and Chris spent some time standing in the spot we thought the voice had come from, all they could feel was some anger but nothing else, so Ian tried standing in the same spot but felt nothing, then Mark had a go, he got an image of a German soldier, he says his helmet resembles that of a first world war uniform, he says the man has a wounded face. Not sure why this image came, but as he did Jazz comments Mark looks shell shocked! (Shell Shock was a term used during the First World War to describe the psychological trauma suffered by men serving on the war's key battlefronts). Angie goes a little closer to Mark as he moves slightly to his left and starts to feel angry, as Jazz and Chris had earlier, the team start to feel this is the man who we described earlier as undertaker like, in his resemblance. After a few seconds Mark turns to Angie and says I’d move if I was you. Later he said he wanted to go face to face and call her a bloody mystic. After that nothing else happened.

05.00hrs. The night came to an end.

FINAL THOUGHT: The night seemed somewhat strange, especially for Mark who experienced a bit more than usual. The nights here have proved very interesting. And the pub still does not want to give up its secrets.