The Grapes

Newtown

Powys

After speaking to Helen, who own the Grapes, she invited Unexplained Wales to do a tour around the pub and let us carry out an investigation. After giving Helen a paranormal report to fill in and on returing it to us, Unexplained Wales arranged a date to go in and investigate any paranormal activity that may have been occuring there.

In this Investigation report, you will be able to:

1, Read the report that Helen gave us

2, Find out what used to be the Grapes pub

3, Read our full investigation

4, Look at pictures from the investigation and video footage

Eye Witness Accounts

Jordan Weaver- My Experience When Living at the Grapes

The living room for the residents used to be our playroom when I was about 8-9, We used to have toy cars on the mantelpiece which one day moved on their own.

Elora Maughan- My Experience

While living at the Grapes in Room 7, I regularly saw white flash in my window most nights, within the last few months I lived there.

Aled Lewis- My Experience

One evening I was in the bar with Helen waiting to lock up the pub. There was no one else around, Helen walked into the kitchen and it looked like she walked through somebody, We checked and there was no one else in the pub.

Ffion Pugh- My Experience

On Several occasions when working behind the bar at the Grapes, glasses have just smashed on the shelves for no reason also just dropped on the floor behind the bar when they where safe on the shelves.

Kim Gannon- My Experience

When I stayed in the top flat I had various experiences of things dropping off my chest of drawers and glasses being thrown at the wall when there was no one else around.

Helen Lewis (Manager)- My Experience

I lived at the Grapes for over 6 years and have worked there for over 8 years. While living in the top flat various things would go missing and turn up in the strangest of places.

In one of the far rooms things would drop of the floor for no apparent reason. In the middle floor things got moved around in, what is now the living room, Room 5 has always felt cold and damp even with the heating on.

In the bar on several occasions glasses have just smashed on the shelves and dropped off the shelves, The television in the pool room has changed channels on its own in the past and turned off.

Often when I have worked I have felt that there is someone there and as silly as it may sound we nick named him "George".

A couple of times I have thought I have seen shadows walking down the corridor by the toilets but when I went to look there was no one there.

In 2008  a few people who helped co found Unexplained Wales went to Bodelwyddan Castle, Now we didnt take much notes or find out any histroy about the place.

Here is a quick brief of Bodelwyddan Castle from there web site.

The history of the house and estate extends to before 1460 though the association with the Williams family dates from around 1690. The Castle as seen today is a creation of Sir John Hay Williams dating from between 1830 and 1852. Architects Hansom and Welch were employed by Sir John to refurbish and extend the house while further works at this time also resulted in a magnificent estate wall and formal garden.

The loss of the main income source for the estate - lead mining - in the 1850s resulted in the decline of the Williams family fortunes, though further building refurbishment took place in the 1880s. By the First World War, the estate had been reduced in size and the house used as a recuperation hospital.

The grounds to the east of the main house were also used by nearby Kinmel Camp as an area for trench warfare training. In 1920 the house and estate were finally sold by the Williams family to Lowther College, a girls private school. The College was based at the Castle until 1982 when it finally closed due to financial problems.

You can read more by visiting there site!

Bodelwyddan Castle

To see our pictures from the investigation please see the Gallery or Click Me

To read more please Visit there website.