MUSEUM IS OFFICIALLY HAUNTED!
Feb 23 2006
Kay Harrison
THE ghosts have been counted and the results are in.
An official report into a paranormal investigation at the Museum in Docklands has just been released - and it may make visitors think twice about staying there after dark.
The Wharf joined the Paranormal Search and Investigation team (PSI) in December for the ghost hunt at the West India Quay museum.
The group spent the night in the 200-year-old former warehouse carrying out seances and taking electronic and temperature readings, after reports of spooky goings-on from staff.
The report says high levels of activity were found throughout the night on the third floor of the museum. The mediums present claim they picked up the presence of a pregnant woman called Sarah Wilson and an evil spirit called Harold, who trance medium Karen Fowler was able to channel and who screamed “murder me”.
Tom Wareham, the museum’s curator, said: “They had quite a chilling experience with a hostile spirit on the third floor. It was quite close to a gibbet cage and if any object in the museum is going to have some unpleasant force associated with it, it would be that.
“They were used to exhibit the bodies of executed pirates in the 1700s. Pirates would be hung at Execution Dock in Wapping and their corpses displayed along the river, including at Millwall and Blackwall Point, as a warning to others.
“I wouldn’t be a curator if I didn’t believe some objects have the power to bring us closer to the past. So perhaps these objects can speak to people in different ways.”
The report concludes: “Light anomalies were caught on video camera. The two orbs of interest were filmed on the third floor and there was a third orb filmed during the group seance in the same area. Both mediums Raymond and Karen picked up on some men standing near the green boat on the second floor.
“Raymond had seen them as shouting and Karen had seen them as laughing. Is it a coincidence that both group members picked up on these men or were these men really present?”
