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We meet the Cambridge Ghost Hunters at Museum of Technology - pictures Read more: www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Meet-Cambridge-Ghost-Hunters/story-26022879-detail/story.html#ixzz3RxgDpqM0 Follow us: @cambridgenewsuk on Twitter | cambridgenews on Facebook
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The Cambridge Museum of Technology is a spooky place. Thick cobwebs line the high windows, and old machinery throws strange shadows on the walls.
I visit the museum to meet two members of Cambridge Ghost Hunters, Craig Jones and Mike Parker, before a paranormal investigation they are holding there on February 21.
Craig, 24, a teaching assistant and support worker at Gretton School, tells me other ghosthunters they know have “picked up some really good evidence” of spirits in the museum, so they are hopeful their investigation will have results.
Craig, who lives in Woulburn Close, Cambridge, set up the new Cambridge Ghost Hunters, a revival of a previous group which shut down in 2013.
The investigation at the museum will be the reformed group’s first ghosthunt in the city.
Craig has brought along a box of equipment they use to hunt ghosts. There are the K2 meters, which monitor electric fields, and barrier beams, which are lazers which set off an alarm if something crosses them.
But there are also less high-tech gadgets: a glass, which they will use with a Ouija board.
Craig reminds me that Ouija boards in particular aren’t popular with everyone in the group.
“Some people don’t like to do them,” he said. “They can be dangerous.”
Both Craig and Mike, a chef and nail technician who lives in Ely, have been interested in the paranormal for most of their lives.
Mike, 35, said: “From childhood I have always had a morbid fascination with the dark side.”
He had his first experience with ghosts aged around 13, three days after his grandfather died, when a presence appeared in his bedroom.
“I woke up and I was absolutely terrified,” he said. “I couldn’t turn my head to see what was in the room.”
Read more: www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Meet-Cambridge-Ghost-Hunters/story-26022879-detail/story.html#ixzz3RxgUKXHD
I visit the museum to meet two members of Cambridge Ghost Hunters, Craig Jones and Mike Parker, before a paranormal investigation they are holding there on February 21.
Craig, 24, a teaching assistant and support worker at Gretton School, tells me other ghosthunters they know have “picked up some really good evidence” of spirits in the museum, so they are hopeful their investigation will have results.
Craig, who lives in Woulburn Close, Cambridge, set up the new Cambridge Ghost Hunters, a revival of a previous group which shut down in 2013.
The investigation at the museum will be the reformed group’s first ghosthunt in the city.
Craig has brought along a box of equipment they use to hunt ghosts. There are the K2 meters, which monitor electric fields, and barrier beams, which are lazers which set off an alarm if something crosses them.
But there are also less high-tech gadgets: a glass, which they will use with a Ouija board.
Craig reminds me that Ouija boards in particular aren’t popular with everyone in the group.
“Some people don’t like to do them,” he said. “They can be dangerous.”
Both Craig and Mike, a chef and nail technician who lives in Ely, have been interested in the paranormal for most of their lives.
Mike, 35, said: “From childhood I have always had a morbid fascination with the dark side.”
He had his first experience with ghosts aged around 13, three days after his grandfather died, when a presence appeared in his bedroom.
“I woke up and I was absolutely terrified,” he said. “I couldn’t turn my head to see what was in the room.”
Read more: www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Meet-Cambridge-Ghost-Hunters/story-26022879-detail/story.html#ixzz3RxgUKXHD
