Buchan Arms Broxburn 

We arrived at the location at around 8pm. Once we had been introduced to the owner and got our equipment set up and started the investigation at about 9.pm.

First Vigil bedroom one.

Once we were settled, Alex asks any spirit present to make themselves known in any way they wish. The cam-corder battery goes from155 minutes down to 88 minutes. Alex also feels somethng is shaking the camera. Alex feels a gentle breeze going round the room at about hip height. He picks up the name Thomas Gillespie. Shirley, who is standing by the window feels as if she wants to fall forward. Paul, who is sitting at the foot of the bed with his back to the wall on the window side of the room feels the area he is in, is associated with a mother and a two year old boy. Paul says the room was a lot bigger then than it is now.
Paul feels there was a lot of love between the lady and the boy. The lady is wearing a white blouse with a frilly centre piece and a long black dress. Paul says she reminds him of an old fashioned school teacher but without the stern-ness. Jim is picking up the smell of Gin in the room. There is no alcohol in the room. Alex is hearing a noise and asks Paul if the radiator is on. Paul says there was two bangs from the area when they first entered the room. He had already checked the radiator and it was off.
Someone is now touching the back of Seans head. He is standing by the window near Shirley.

At the same time, Shirley feels something brush her left thigh. Alex is filming Shirley at this time and no team member touched Sean or Shirley. Paul is now seeing the boy. The boy is wearing a cute blue sailors outfit. Paul says it is like an old style sailors outfit. Jim asks Paul if the lady has her hair parted in the middle and shaped down the side of her face in a sort of arc which is tied at the back. This is the way Jim is seeing the lady.
Paul is picking up that the boy is a very happy wee boy. Paul feels the lady and boy are part of the household. Shirley asks Paul if he is sure the lady is the boys mother. Paul says he actually questioned that as the bond between them is so strong it is too strong for a mother and son relationship. Shirley feels at this time the boy could be adopted or the lady is a nanny. Shirley feels a very strong bond between the boy and the lady but does not think the lady gave birth to him.

Jim is getting a tingling feeling down the back of his neck. Shirley gets a pain in her left hip. Sean is picking up the name Anna and Paul is pickng up the name Rupert.

Paul says we are in what he feels is a nursery room. He is seeing toys in the room. Shirley is seeing lots of toys and a rocking horse in the room. Paul and Shirley are both seeing the room as much bigger than it is now and very tidy, not cluttered. Alex asks the spirits to speak into the camera or make some sort of noise or to speak into the voice recorder which Jim has set up.
The word Nana is being felt quite strongly. The lady is established as being the boys grandmother. Alex gets a picture of Denmark in his head for some reason and asks the team if they can pick up on the nationality of the family. Jim says Danish.
Paul is picking up English. Shirley is picking up the name Pickering.
Sean is getting stomach cramps and he feels a pregnancy. Paul feels the childs mother died in childbirth. Paul is getting Victorian era. Jim is getting late eighteen hundreds. Jim points out he is getting that date only on the fact he is seeing the clothes the spirit is wearing as late eighteen hundreds.

Sean says he is now getting shown a toy bear. The bear is wearing something like a tartan scarf. Shirley also saw a bear earlier when she was seeing the toys in the room. Alex sees a flash of light going from Pauls left to his right. Paul says he feels the corner he is in is the original corner of the room. Shirley says the lady is too old to be Ruperts mother.
Alex asks spirit if there is anything they would like to tell us. Sean hears a whisper but can't make out what was said. Jim suggests Alex and Sean change places so that if someone is whispering to Sean, Jims recorder may pick it up. Alex asks again if spirit would like to tell us anything.

 Alex asks Rupert if he can tell us how old he was when he moved from here and where did he go to. Sean is picking up shipbuilders in Glasgow. Alex is picking up a Cyprus connection. Sean is also picking up Rupert was a man when he left here. Alex is getting the age 27 and Paul says mid twenties. Paul sees two flashes of light by a mirror on the door wall of the room.
Alex asks Rupert if he can tell us when his nana passed. Something is touching the left hand side of Seans head. There is a large black shadow at Seans shoulder. Shirley and Sean are now feeling a lot of pain in the lower back. They are both in severe pain. Alex asks Rupert if this is him showing us how his nana died. Jim feels a tingle down his left side. There appears to be a wall of ice between Alex and the rest of the group. Shirley and Sean are feeling severe pain in the kidney area. Sean is now feeling very dizzy and very hot.

There is now a black circle of light going from Jims right hand side right across the room past Shirley and Sean. Jim asks Rupert to take the pain off of Shirley and Sean and thanks him for showing us how his nana passed. Rupert tells Sean only the nana called him Rupert and we should call him Ru.

Alex now asks if there are any more spirits in here who would like to talk to the team. There is a creak like someone walking in front of Alex. Alex moves his feet quite vigorously to check it was not him making the floor creak. The floor does not creak.
Once again the floor creaks. Heard by other team members. Alex asks spirit to identify itself. No response.
Sean is now seeing a letterbox. Shirley asks if it is the type as on a door or a mailbox. Sean says a letterbox on a door. Jim is seeing a brass letterbox which is on a painted door with a round brass doorhandle. Jim sees the letterbox as having a curly design round the edge. Nobody can see a number on the door. Jim is seeing it as an internal door. Sean suddenly gets pushed back. Jim is tingling all over. As Sean and Shirley are feeling quite a bit of discomfort it is decided to end the vigil.

 

Second vgil room two.

The team go into room two. Right away Paul and Shirley pick up the fact this room was at one time part of room one.
Once the team have settled, Alex asks if there are any spirits present in the room. Shirley and Sean get a pain in the kidney region . Alex is seeing a presence just beside Pauls right hand side. The video-cam will not go in focus when pointed at Paul.
Eventaully the camera goes into focus. Paul gets the name Donald. Paul says the name was thrown at him with aggression. Alex is picking up the age 43/44. Paul says the man was middle age when he passed. Donald is giving Paul very negative feelings.
Shirley now appears to have fairish/blond hair. Shirley cannot feel any presence near her. Alex asks Donald to bang on the wall. No response. Alex asks if all he can do is shout his name at Paul and nothing else. Jim is seeing Donald almost superimposed on Paul. Jim describes Donald as having a full well set black beard, dark hair and is slightly taller than Paul. Jim also sees Pauls aura as being huge at this moment.

Paul says there are very very negative vibes coming from Donald. Sean asks if anyone heard the words "come on" whispered just before Paul started to speak. Nobody heard but, on video playback with earphones in and volume turned full up, something like a whisper is heard just before Paul starts to speak. We cannot make out what the sound is.
Alex asks Paul if this is the Inn keeper he is talking to and gets the year 1436. Paul says Donald has a stick and is getting shooting pains from his left wrist up to his shoulder. Paul feels Donald uses a stick because he had a stroke. Paul tells Donald to step back which he does. Paul feels as if we are in a different era as we were when we were in the first room. Alex asks Donald if he was the nutter who was the keeper of the coach-house. Paul is seeing Donald dressed in a sack cloth waistcoat with some sort of baggy sleeved shirt. Paul says this guy was a nasty bit of work who has a real chip on his shoulder about something and lets people know it. Paul then says he is the type of person who if you saw him coming you would cross the street to avoid him.

The spirit of a David Galbraith pops in to say hello then leaves. Alex then for some reason picks up an association with Mr. Burke. He feels Donald had something to do with a Mr. Burke. As there is nothing much happening, Alex tells Donald that the team have to assume that Donald is scared of us. There is a breeze felt going round the room. Paul says he feels Donald coming closer again. Alex asks Donald if that is all he can do. Just come close to people and make them feel a little bit uncomfortable. Alex also says to Donald that he can't even knock on walls or move anything in the room. No response. Alex says "you can't even make a noise." No response.

Paul asks Donald what his purpose is. No response. Sean gets the feeling Donald poisoned people. Paul says Donald reminds him of Fagin from the Oliver Twist films although he looks nothing like him. Alex says to Donald, so thats it, you like scaring kids and making them do things for you. Paul says Donald loved the fact people were scared of him. Something touches Seans right elbow. There is no team member near enough to Sean to touch him. Paul asks Donald to touch him. No response. Paul tells Donald that he does not scare us. Paul asks Donald to knock on the wall. No response. Paul says come on then. On video playback and with earphones in and volume turned up there is one clear knock heard. Paul asks Donald to copy Pauls knock. Paul tells Donald we are looking for a clear knock in this room. Sean gets his hair tugged.

Paul asks again for a clear knock. Paul is getting a high pitched tone in his right ear. Sean says when he was through in the other room he sensed a gentleman. He asked spirit about him but was told not to bother about him. Paul says Donald liked the drink. Shirley concurs with this. Sean asks if any team members are burning up. No response.
Sean is getting pains in the lower back again. He is picking up being poisoned. Alex asks Donald if that was the sort of person he is. A person who poisons people, not man enough to use a mans method. Sean says Donald hid under beds and watched the feet go passed.

Paul asks if Donald wants a drink. He tells Donald to make a noise and he will get him a drink. Paul knocks on the wall to demonstrate what he wants Donald to do. Jim says there was a knock heard just after Pauls second knock. On video playback no knock is heard after Pauls second knock but one knock is heard just before Paul knocks twice on the wall.
Paul feels Donald spent more time outside the building than he did in it. Paul said he stayed onsite but was not in the same building. Alex is smelling horses and axle grease. Paul says this guy slept in a hay loft type place. Shirley is feeling quite a lot of pain again. Alex tells Donald to back off with the pain.

Paul asks if Sean thinks Donald hides under beds now or did this back when he was alive. Jim says he pulls covers off of beds now. Alex tells Donald to knock five times on the wall. Alex also says if there are no knocks on the wall, then he does not exist. After a few seconds, there is a series of knocks heard on video playback. They are very faint. The team decide to call a halt to the vigil and give Shirley and Sean a break due to the discomfort they are feeling. There is a band of coldness in the room. It is about chest height and about 6 inches broad.

Just before the vigil ends, Shirley is picking up that Donald was only strong enough to take on women and children. Jim is seeing Seans aura getting pulled all over the place.

Third vigil Room 5

Alex asks any spirits present to step forward and make themselves known in anyway the want. Alex senses there is a presence standing just outside the door. Alex asks them to enter the room and tell us who they are. No response. Alex asks spirit to speak into Jims voice recorder. Alex asks if another member of the group would like to ask spirit to come forward. Jim asks spirit to come forward and show us they are here in anyway they can.
Jim tells spirit all our senses are open and spirit can communicate in anyway it wants. There is an indentation on the bed Shirley is sitting on. The indentation is like someone sitting on the bed and leaning back with their elbows also resting on the bed.
Jim is seeing this room as a room which is only used on special occasions. Alex sees a flash of light at Pauls right shoulder. Paul says the atmosphere in this room is very "light." Jim refers back to the letterbox earlier. He says he is now seeing a knocker on the door and senses someone knocking on the door. There is a noise heard in the corridor. This is someone from the hotel going into the restrooms.

Once again, Alex feels a presence standing outside the door, He opens the room door and asks spirit to come in. Jim is seeing a spirit at the door whom he describes as bewildered. Jim sees the spirit is wearing a long coat which stops just below the knees and has bellowed cuffs. Alex and Jim agree this is the 14th/15th century.
Jim is picking up the word "courtroom." Alex asks if the coach-house was used to hold court. No response. Sean is getting the sensation his head is getting pulled back through the wall. Pauls back is freezing. Jim confirms Seans head is not touching the wall. Sean is feeling a gentle tug of his hair. Jim sees Seans aura is getting pulled back through the wall. Jim says it is like a hand coming through the wall rather than Seans head being pulled through the wall.
The team decide to move out to the hallway. Shirley sees the room door as being a different door from what it is now. Nothing is picked up here so we go to another room. There are panels on the wall in this room. Paul feels they should be glass panels and not wooden.

Jim feels this room should be much bigger than it is. Paul is picking up a "scullery" type room. The room next to this is the function suite which we are using as our base room. Jim is seeing the room from the other side of the wall and is seeing a serving hatch type opening. He is also seeing a roller shutter type thing between the function suit and the room we are now in. Jim says he sees people like schooldinner ladies. Early nineteen hundreds. Jim is also seeing big trays of things like stew.
Alex sees the spirit of a guy standing beside Jim. Alex says the only way he can describe this guy is he is like the sargeant type guy from a Norman Wisdom film. Sean lets out a shout and says someone has just touched his backside. He says they have just done it again. Jim says he is seeing two ladies behind Sean one of whom is standing with her mouth covered by her hand. She is laughing at Sean.

Paul feels this room was used for something else during a war period. Jim says the ladies serving the food are sort of rough and ready type women who can more than handle the bad language that was dished out here. Jim is picking up the turn of the century.
Sean is now feeling something "between his legs." Sean says he can feel something like a hand on his leg by his right hand pocket. Paul hears two knocks coming from his right hand side. He asks spirit to do it again if it was infact spirit knocking. Sean now feels as if someone has his hands in his pockets. Paul asks spirit to knock twice on the wall. No reponse. Jim is seeing two women, one on Seans left and one on his right. There appears to be five indentations on Seans righthand trouser pocket as if someone is pressing on Seans pocket. Jim tries to talk to the ladies. Shirley says the ladies are standing behind Sean. Sean lets out a laugh and says the ladies have just tickled him. Jim asks the ladies to tell Sean their names. Shirley can now see only one lady behind Sean. Jim asks the lady to touch the back of Seans head. No response. Sean can feel body heat right down his back and in his pockets. He says it is like someone is cuddling into him from the back.

Sean picks up the name Isabella. Paul picks up she is Scottish and Jim gets the surname Reid. Alex asks spirit how old she was when she passed. No response. Shirley says Isabella is touching Seans leg with her leg. Alex opens the room door as he is hearing footsteps in the hall. Nobody is there. He films the hallway for a few seconds. There is definate footsteps in the hallway but nobody is seen. The footsteps are quite clear on video playback. The hallway is carpeted but the footsteps sound as if they are walking on a wooden floor. Sean and Alex go down the hallway to investigate further but nothing is found.
Back in the room, Jim sees the lady Shirley saw as a much younger lady of about 37 years of age. Sean is getting pins and needles right down his legs. The team call a halt to the vigil and go for a break.

4rth vigil room 6

Once the team had settled down, Alex asks spirit for information going back to when this was a coach-house. No response. Jim asks spirit to move anything in the room or make a noise which we can hear. No apparent response at this time. Alex can sense movement but is not getting any clear indication of who or what is causing the movement. Alex senses a name but it not sure what it is. McConiville or McConnery or McConvery. Sean says it is Connachie.
Jim is seeing the room as a sort of study. Jim says he is picking up solicitors offices in this room and the room next door. Jim is seeing an inkwell on a desk and steel nibbed pens rather than anything modern.

Paul is picking up the names Angus and Hardie/Hardy. Alex sees the spirit of a man who has a full ginger beard and bushy gingery curly hair. His beard is well trimmed. He is standing just in front of Jim. Jim reports a coldness at the bottom of his left leg. Jim is seeing a desk at the window and says the man sat with his back to the window.
Paul is geting a vision of looking out of the window and seeing nothing but fields. Jim also had this feeling earlier. Jim describes the desk as a big desk made with a very dark wood, brown or dark red. It has a very dark leather top. Alex asks if there are any wax seals on the desk. Paul is seeing letters on the desk and Jim is picking up candlelight.

Paul is sensing the room is really dark. Jim is sensing wood panels but really dark wood. Paul also sees a painting of a stag hangimg on a wall. Alex asks if anyone can smell ether. Nobody can.
As there is nothing being sensed in this room other than a man hanging in the bar, we decide to end the vigil. Alex had asked spirit for information on who the man is but nothing is forthcoming. Alex asks if anyone is picking up on a cleaner who passed within the last six years. Nobody else in the team is sensing her.

5th vigil back to room 1

Jim starts the vigil by asking spirit to give us just one more thing to prove spirit is actually there. There is a noise heard by Jim and Alex. Jim remarks it was a childs voice type noise. Confirmed by Alex. Jim asks spirit to copy the knocks he is going to make. Jim bangs three times on the wall. There are echo type knocks heard by Alex. Nobody else hears the knocks. Jim tries again. No response is heard by anyone this time. Jim asks spirit to show one of the team what it looks like. No response. Jim asks Rupert to talk to Shirley. No response. Alex is picking up a grass snake crawling on the floor. Jim asks Rupert if that is the joke he likes to play, Scaring people with a toy snake. Alex is picking up a light by Shirleys hand. Jim asks Rupert to touch Sean or take something out of Seans pocket. Shirley is feeling pain again.

Jim is now seeing the light in front of Shirley. At first, Jim thought this was light coming from the camera but is now sure it is not. The camera lights are covered and the lights are still there. Jim describes them as sparkly lights. Jim asks Shirley to move her hand up and down. Shirleys hand movements block the light. Jim then asks Shirley to move back and forward. As Shirley moves back, she is blocking the light. We have no explanation for this light.
Alex sees the shadow of a hand at the back of Seans head. No indication as to who or what this was. Jim asks spirit for one final noise or sound or visual contact. There is no response. Nothing else seems to be happening so we end the investigstion.

Investigation ended at around 1am.

Conclusion:-
The Buchan Arms has undoubted spiritual activity taking place there. Three spirits in particular. One who shows itself as a child named Rupert. Rupert likes playing tricks on people. Ruperts grandmother whose name we did not get and a spirit which shows itself as a man who likes to hide under beds and move bedclothes. There are also the two ladies who like pinching peoples backside. There are no evil entities at this location. We would really need to spend more time there to do a full detailed investigation.

We would like to thank Willie Henderson for giving us permission to conduct an investigation at The Buchan Arms. A big thank you also to Tom Rannachan for arranging this project for us.

 

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