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~ Fright Night
Special ~
January
12th 2006
By Rachel Barrows of the Wrexham Mail
WREXHAM probation service colleagues braved one of Britain's most haunted
houses for charity.
The fearless quartet were sponsored to spend the night in Plas Teg, near Mold, which is said to be occupied by a number of ghoulish spirits.
But the ghost-busting team of Gemma Parry, Viv Towers, Derek Seaward and Alison Lee felt their hair-raising experience was well worth it after collecting more than £620 for cystic fibrosis research.
It's said that some mediums have fled the Jacobean building because they were so unnerved by the experience.
Luckily, clerical assistant Gemma Parry is made of sterner stuff and ignored a warning from one of Plas Teg's ghostly inhabitants to go away.
She said: 'We took part in a seance
and a ghost apparently said my name and a few minutes later I got all
light-headed and dizzy.
'I was feeling sick and as if I was going to faint and I was asked to
leave the circle because I was told the ghost didn't want me there.
'It is a bit weird but it wasn't really scary. There was only one room,
the Cradle Room, where it felt really eerie.'
The event at the Jacobean hall was hosted by the
Cheshire Paranormal Society which holds regular vigils there and has claimed
several sightings.
Administrative assistant Viv Towers said: 'We were locked up in the house
from 8pm to 3.30am. I wasn't looking forward to it at all, I was frightened
stiff of what was going to happen.
'I won't even go on the ghost train in the funfair because I just don't
like scary things at all.
'I have really earned all the sponsorship money. Beforehand, we heard
some quite horrifying tales about the house.'
Probation officer Derek Seaward was completely unconvinced by the experience.
He said: 'I did go with an open mind but I didn't see anything or feel
anything. I didn't have any concerns even when we were in a seance.
'Maybe I wasn't tuned in but I'm glad I did it and the thing that kept
me going was the fact that while we were there we were raising money for
charity.'
Courtesy of the Wrexham Mail