The Fortune Theatre - Paranormal Investigation

Ghost Hunt October 31st 2008
Fortune Theatre, London

The night began at 7.30pm where Simon Deacon and his colleague Chris took me along with them to the Fortune Theatre in London for an all night ghost hunt. Arriving in London at around 10.00pm we headed inside to meet the group that were accomping us on our hunt. There were around 11 people all from around the local area that either worked in the fortune theatre or in the surrounding theatres in London.

After the meet and greet where Simon introduced me to everyone as a medium and I was asked several questions. We headed around as a group to have a little history tour and get a feel of the place with the lights on.

After a short while we were sent off, myself and a lady called Ruth who is also sensitive headed around by ourselves and picked up on a strange feeling on the stairway almost like you feel rooted to the spot and your whole body becomes heavy, a man's presence was felt here.

Since I had arrived at the theatre I kept getting the name Maurice in my head, I kept that in mind and it came in handy a little later on.

Stephen Griffiths, Richard O'Connor and his sister Helen arrived shortly afterwards and now the night could begin.

Again going off into small groups with some paranormal devices my group that consisted of Ruth again, Collin and Geri who worked for this particular theatre all headed to the stairwell and got settled. I kept getting the name Maurice again and felt that he was on the stairs watching us but our conversation was not to his liking so he wouldn't come forward. I then heard what sounded like a rifle clicking twice almost like someone was reloading, after telling the others Geri informed me that during the war they used to use the theatre as a lock out point and that could explain the sound I heard.

Talking about the war I felt Maurice come closer almost so he was right behind me, he was obviously interested in this topic and particularly took a liking to Geri who in his own words I heard him say "I like her she is very well educated and knows what she is talking about".

In my minds eye I could almost see a very well dressed, well spoken man I tried to sure for the word and in my head I heard him saying "I think you mean daper young lady" in reference to how he looked. This made everyone laugh.

After sometime talking with Maurice I was also getting the name George Brown, Geri said that Maurice could be a stage name and George his real name, I tried to pick up on a surname but nothing came to mind.

Going up to the top floor and the small bar area we took a seat and Ruth felt she was being hugged. I could sense a lady in a dress kind of like Jack the Ripper era but she was moving about busy and it was like she was lower than the floor which makes sense as when she was around the building would have been something else and designed differently. I felt she was a prostitue or a madam and myself, Ruth and Geri felt protected in this room like we were 'her girls' whereas Collin felt uncomfortable. The name Amanda came to mind.

Everyone else joined us and we did some glass divination in the bar room. We picked up on someone for Ruth who claimed to be a relative with a message but after sometime we all began to feel on edge, this was not a relative so we all stopped. Ruth was a little frightened by this.

Break time came and went and we were all taken around and dropped off one by one to do a quick 10 minute vigil alone. I opted for the stairway again as I wanted to contact Maurice somemore, almost as soon as I sat down I had the surname Bovell or Brovell in my head so my man was Mr Maurice Bovell.

The lone vigils ended and we all joined downstairs to do some more glass divanation, everything had gone silent it was like the ghosts and spirits were on a break now.

Simon decided that now would be a good time to use the rods to see if we could pick up on any hot spots, so in turn people walked around the theatre to see what they could find. Myself and several others found a potential hotspot, also there was a chain with a hook on that holds the doors back that was moving for about 5-10 minutes almost like it was being pulled then held before letting go.

It was now around 530 in the morning so we decided to go back to the bar upstairs and proceed to do the glass divination again. The boys went first but were getting nothing so the girls tried and although Ruth was nervous she joined in. We found out that it was a child that Ruth had spoken to before who was playing around with us, I asked if his name was Nathaniel and it was, I asked was his mother Amanda the lady I had picked up on before and there was a loud bang across the room and a very strong yes on the glass.

Back downstairs we talked about our night, Geri had found a book she had on some of the history of the place and there was a little boy called Nathaniel who had died here along with his mother. Unfortunately she wasn't called Amanda and as yet we have no information on Mr Bovell but I feel for my first investigation I came up with some good facts and that this is the start of a very interesting jouney.