The Ram Inn

Report from The Ram Inn visited Saturday 12th March 2011 in Gloucester UK 8.30pm -3.30am with Indigo EVP Paranormal Events by Mandy Welton-Carr..

This report has been trimmed down so not to bore you all....

Upon arriving at the Ram Inn as we pulled into the car park at the rear of the building, it instantly gives off the feeling of an eerie nature. You sense that they are waiting for you...which to some is a good thing but for others it is not as the ones awaiting are not of a nice nature...those who are "sensitive" to spirit will automatically know that it isn't all goodness and light in there and the current owner John will happily tell you all the tales. I personally chose not to listen to his stories at the beginning nor did i read up on the history of the building as i didn't want anything to influence what i felt, saw or heard as a medium. Upon entry of the building via the back door we turned right into what was being used as Johns living room, we then went through some curtains into another living room area. Both these rooms were littered with newspaper articles involving The Ram Inn and its haunting... i chose not to look or read them. I decided this would be best left until after the evenings events. Through these 2 rooms we walked into a bar area which was quite a large room but littered with furniture piled up and chairs everywhere. To the left of the doorway was a "grave" area.. in front was a semi circular seating area. I immediately sensed a presence right at the side of me. A male spirit, much larger than myself. As menacing as he was trying to be, i ignored him... i was too busy wanting to look around the venue first before all that...needless to say..he wasn't impressed!..tough! I then proceeded through the bar area into an open space and went into what was a barn. Again, furniture was littered and piled high all down the left side of the barn and the floor was laid with doors to make it safe for people to walk on. Not ideal but still walkable, and cold?? oh my! it was perishing in there.But the big gaping holes above the side doors leading outside didn't help. This will account for any breezes i thought to myself but i knew this was going to be an eventful area...then i went upstairs where only one person was allowed on the stairs at any one time due to the age of the building. I could sense presences on here too but again, i ignored. They would have to wait. I checked the room on the right of the stairs which consisted of 2 beds and a dining table, to the left of the stairs with newspaper articles again adjourning the walls which i ignored...for now, was a hallway leading to what is known as the Bishops room. I walked into there and just knew that room was the room we were going to have trouble with. It consisted of 2 singe beds, a double bed, 2 chairs and a menacing looking fireplace. Exiting this room was the toilet and heading back towards the stairs there was another door leading to the attic. Again only one person at a time was allowed up the stairs due to the age of the building. There was a single bed up here, a wooden trunk and a plain dressing table with a mirror attached. I went back downstairs to get ready for the guests arriving. All the while the tall male spirit was right behind me every step of the way, trying to scare me... he was not going to win! But he certainly didn't want us there, he made that very clear. Once the guests arrived i gave them the option of doing a protection ritual. This is down to the individual as to whether they want to do this or not and every ones views are different, We all then went into the building into Johns living room and they all sat down and listened to John telling his tales. This was such a fantastic group of guests. I couldn't have wished for a better group. They were brilliant at interacting, funny, witty and weren't afraid to see something...although if they had i couldn't guarantee they weren't going to run :o) 

We started with a vigil in the bar area. The tall male spirit who i was given the name of Edward has resided at the far right of the room in front of the window where 2 gents were stood...and these gents were open minded but sceptics... even better :o) He was standing right behind them. I never said a word but Edward knew i knew he was there. I sent the 2 gents into Edwards energy... he didn't like this, his menacing wasn't working. I was playing him at his own game. Straight away the gents said they could feel someone at the side of them and one even said it felt like it was trying to move into him.. which he was but i wouldn't allow it. And they both felt as though they were being glared at...if only they could see what i could see. 

We all then went to the barn and held vigil in there too. Straight away Edward was behind me again and trying to menace. I warned him in my mind that he wasn't going to win.and at this point the guests started announcing that they could feel something going right up to their faces and it didn't feel nice at all and one by one different guests reporting feeling this. Photos were taken and several orbs were captured and one in particular stood out amongst the rest....

This was captured under the main beam and other unexplained orb like pictures started being captured on various cameras from the guests. We then proceeded upstairs and held vigil in the 2 rooms being the bishops room and the attic. They were split into 2 groups with myself leading one and Ellie leading the other. We were up in the attic first. I didn't feel there was much activity up in this room but on entering there was a cross on the dressing table and i moved it in alignment with the pen mark around it and a picture was taken and the guests saw me do it. I invited spirit to show us they were there and if they could blow the candle out or make the flame move. The flame did get higher but that was it. After a while we switched the light back on the cross on the dressing table had moved and no one was standing near it. Another photo was taken to show this. We then swapped with the other group and went into the Bishops room. My favourite room :o) We all stood in vigil and inviting spirit in. I could feel Edward again right up behind me but this time i spoke out, telling people there was someone behind me... only i had my back to a brick wall and the fireplace. He energy was rising and getting stronger, so i raised me levels in defence but showed no fear, he was not going to win this. All of a sudden i could feel a hand come around my throat from behind and the grip tightened so much i was struggling to breathe, it tightened again...and again. I was gagging due to not be able to breathe but i was not going to surrender so i raised my energy levels to match his and told him to back off in my mind because obviously i couldn't talk and i was persistent. I was not giving in. No way! The grip eventually eased and went and Edward backed off. I asked for the light to be turned on because my neck was on fire. I had red finger marks which were starting to raise up into welts. The guests started to take pictures...only not one single camera would work. They would turn and test the camera away from my neck and it would work, but turn it back to my neck it wouldn't take a picture again. I even tried when i got home in the early hours with my phone camera...my phone seized and would not work. So i only have the guests verdicts as proof which is such a shame but spirit work in mysterious ways.  We did glass work in the bar area, and also the barn and we had a couple of spirits through from the building stating the words "Bitch", "Witch" and "die" and apparently it was the same gent who had strangled me according to questions asked by one of our lovely guests...Liz. If you ever want anyone good to interact and get the spirits involved then she is your lady! :o) Shes got the voice, shes got the lungs and the wit to go with it and she was taking no prisoners! But unfortunately it started to go quiet after the strangling and after another tour of the house... it was time to pack up and go home.
But we are back there on Sat 19th March....for a re match and we will be ready.
Photos below of he Bishops room.

   The fireplace. As it turns out once i had read the history afterwards, this was the area that a gentleman named Edward did all the strangling and killing and the acts of brutality of women.