This was CPEAR's 2nd time investigating
at Old Newgate Prison in East Granby. The majority of the team came along for this visit. We are also joined by Nicole Hall
and Angel Ortiz from the CT Soul Seekers. Since nobody is allowed to investigate after hours, day time hours is our only opportunity.
Unfortunately this day was a difficult day for investigating due to the Prison having an open house day and free admission,
but we made the best out of it anyway.
History
& Activity:
Before the place
was used as a prison, it use to be a mining facility. A few years later it was turned into a prison, both above ground and
underground in the mines. From what we hear, the conditions weren't as bad as one would expect.
There are at least a dozen reported deaths within the prison walls. One of the
most famous deaths was by a prisoner that was held down in the mines by the name of Abel Starkey. It was a few days before
the prison official closed down when Abel Starkey decided to try and escape though the water well. He got about three quarters
of the way up when he slipped and fell to his death. Another prisoner died when he was struck by a bayonet by one of the guards.
One other died in one of mine and was left for dead down there.
Some of the activity that is reported is seeing faces in the rocks, shadow figures in the mines, and
voices caught on recorders.
Our investigation:
We tried relying on our digital cameras, EMF, and KII meters to try and
pick up any evidence during this investigation. With so many people there the day we went, it was nearly impossible to try
and get any EVPs. We did a very big EMF sweep of the mines and didn't get any readings. We found that your own breath shows
up very well on digital photos due to the temperature. in the mines creating a false mist formation. Also condensation shows
up on photos as orbs as well. So watch out when your taking pictures down there.We
tried getting KII spikes in the well where Abel Starkey died, but were not successful.
We took our investigation to the jug cells under the guard house where it was
a little quieter. We decided to try the KII meter in there. We set the KII meter on one of the wooden beds in the back and
asked if there was someone there to please lay down on the bed and make the lights go off on the meter. Sure enough, all the
lights lit up a few times. Dan Folcick was taking pictures near the entrance of the Jug Cells and caught a green haze formation
with his digital camera.
It was
a nice trip out to the prision, even though it was so crowded we still managed to pick up a coupke of possible pieces of evidence
from the prison.
Please check out
the documentary below for a full report and evidence collected from our first visit.
