UK: Ghost-hunters search for after-life at the Brickworks

From the Western Works Gazette: Ghost-hunters search for after-life at the Brickworks
Paranormal activity could be accompanying visitors to the Bursledon Brickworks on Saturday night (August 27).

Several orbs were captured at Bursledon Brickworks main building last year - reported as a hot-spot for paranormal activity

The Southern Ghost Society is leading a ghost hunt at the brickworks in Swanwick Lane to find out if there really is supernatural life in the Victorian centre.

Daniel Marchant, one of the group’s leaders, is taking a team of 25 paranormal enthusiast’s who believe it will be great for visitors to find out about spirits living in their heritage centre and why they are still there.

Hampshire’s leading ghost-hunters kick-started their quest for ghostly life as a group last year at the brickworks and hope the second trip will prove as spooky as before.

“We got some interesting photos from last year’s investigation,” said Daniel.

“We’re returning to the first place we began as a group. We chose Bursledon Brickworks from the very beginning because we wanted a local event.

“Everyone here knows it. I’ve taken my four-year-old daughter there before. People have a relationship with it and it was something that we wanted to support.

“I was totally inspired by the people who work there. They made it possible for us to do the event and stood there to help us. They gave Southern Ghost Society its start and enabled us to go on to book other events.”

Daniel, his brother Lee and his dad Gary, all from Netley, decided to create the not-for-profit group to share their hobby with like-minded individuals and to give back to historical centres across Hampshire they visited with their families and friends – such as the Brickworks.

A the event the group will search rooms in the centre using cameras, infrared heat sourcing equipment and a number of other methods to contact the after-life, including séances.

A band of light with no obvious start or finish point was taken in the conference room where there was no windows

“Last year the place was amazing and was perfect in terms of what we do in ghost hunting,” Daniel added. “I’d go back every week if I could!

“We can never say that we’re going to be able to contact. But what we’re hoping from this event is to make contact with the people who used to live there and find out why they’re still there.”

The ghost hunt is from 8pm to 2am. Tickets are currently sold out for this event, but to find out if there is last minute spaces available contact the group via their website.

They also hope to be the first team to perform a ghost hunt at Bursledon Windmill.

Visitors need to be over 16 years of age, unless accompanied by an adult. For more details visit www.southernghostsociety.co.uk