Cemeteries aren’t normally the sort of place I would let the team visit.  A lot of people expect them to be the most haunted places on earth when in reality very little happens there.  Why would spirits be active in a place of rest?  The reason I wanted to go to the White Hart cemetery however was because of something I believe I saw when I was very young. 

The White Hart Cemetery was located very near where I used to live and on my way to and from school I used to take a short cut through the cemetery to get home.  One day on my way there I saw what looked like the figure of a woman standing by a gravestone.  She turned, looked at me, raised her hand and, this is something I swear to this day, she disappeared in front of me.  Obviously this scared me witless and I ran home. 

So it was because of me remembering this tale that I took a few of the ghost team with me and headed down to the cemetery.  With me was Ann, Katie and Russell and with us we took little more than a torch, camera’s, both video and digital, and our bravery. 

We went in the middle of the night, without the need of and specialist equipment it felt like a very free investigation.  We were able to move about easily (obviously without stepping on the gravestones) and not worry about setting off any alarms and such. 

Upon getting there I asked Annabel to reach out and see if she could connect to any spirits and in particular a female spirit that may just still be haunting this place.  It took Annabel a while to remove all external thoughts from her mind in a place like this.  She told us that residual energy is rife in cemeteries as they are a very spiritual place. 

As she was trying to clear her mind Russell told us that he heard a small faint whisper in his ear.  It was then that Annabel told us that we were not alone.  Katie took a picture of Russell and in the photo we saw afterwards there is a small orb right next to his ear. 

Annabel told us that there was one spirit that still remained.  A lady that had been there for a long time.  She was interested in what we were doing there and she was especially interested in the man with the long hair. 

I was a bit taken aback by this; I had never had a spirit take a personal interest in me before.  I asked out for this spirit to make her presence known to us.  Katie called out that it felt as if she had been lightly touched on her forehead.  I thanked the spirit and asked her to tray again.  Once again Katie claimed to have been touched lightly on the forehead. 

Annabel claimed that this spirit remembered me from a time previous to this and asked me if I had been to this cemetery before.  I hadn’t told Annabel the story of my encounter with this spirit before so I proceeded to tell her there and then. Once she had finished hearing it Annabel smiled at me and told me that this female spirit remembered me from a young boy and was happy to see me again.

Excitedly I asked for the spirit to make herself known to me and to talk to me, to whisper in my ear like she had Russell’s or to touch me on the forehead.  Annabel told us that the name of this spirit was Emma.  She was a lady in her thirties who had passed away with pneumonia during the early 20^th century, around 1910. 

I asked the spirit if she was at rest why did she continue to haunt this area.  Annabel claimed it was because the spirit lived and worked in this area and although she was at this moment in time in the cemetery with us she liked to go around the local area and remember her time there. 

I decided that I would stand alone for a short while whilst the others went off to visit further parts of the cemetery.  I asked for Russell not to go too far and to every so often look back and take some photo’s of me on my own hoping that the spirit would stay with me. 

Whilst the others went off on their way I stood alone and started to speak out to Emma.  I asked her to let me know that she was with me.  The response I received was a small prod in my back.  I thanked her and asked her to continue to try to make contact with me once again feeling light prodding in my back.  I began to slowly walk away from where I was standing and had the feeling that this spirit was following me all the time. 

I cam across Russell who had been taking pictures from afar and he showed me one that he had taken of me.  Studying it I saw what looked like a strange line of light that behind me.  It was quite small but exactly in the position where I felt the prodding in my back. 

Annabel and Katie both returned with no more activity to report on although Annabel had been telling us that she had remained in contact with the spirit of Emma all the time.  Emma had told her that she had been trying to get my attention my prodding me in the back!   

We decided that as Emma didn’t need our assistance to move on we could pack up and leave safe in the knowledge that she was happy as she was.   As we began to leave the cemetery I asked the others to go ahead as I wanted to go back one final time.  Alone I thanked Emma not only for the nights activities but also for that time when I was a boy when she waved at me.  I apologised for running in fear from her but that as I was young it was fear that made me flee.  I told her that if I had some time in the future I may just come back and visit her again.

 I intend to keep my word.

 

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