The 'Scream' is available on You Tube to hear. Please clink on the link...................
MAPIT investigations of Chingle Hall - Documented & TV Productions.
December 1998 / May 1999 / May 1999 / June 1999 / August 1999 / November 1999 / February 2000 /
■ For future on site investigations acquisition of better recording equipment is necessary.
■ Powered condenser microphones of the boundary or plate type to be acquired.
■ The possibility that future analysis is carried out on the original tape.
■ Said equipment must use standard format tapes to aid in analysis.
The target voice appears to be that of a little girl saying the word's 'I'M FRIGHTENED'. After cutting the section, and running it through a noise gate to clear it of ambient noise, a parametric equilizer was used to boost the frequencies around 1Khz, and cut the unwanted signal either side. This was then filtered again with both low and high band stop filters to take out any noise made by the parametric. The voice was then duplicated three times, the first part with just filtering, the second part uses anti alias to stretch the high points, and the third part cut by 6db. The first run through (wave 445) is as explained, the second run through (wave 446) is above but with the pitch dropped by 3 semitones, the tempo is unaltered. The third run through (wave 447) is as the first but with the speed slowed down by 23% and the pitch is unaltered.
The voice appears to consist of a single almost pure sinewave with no modulation and no harmonics save for a very small signal level of third harmonics appearing as a parasitic on the negative excursion of the sine wave, this would not be consistent with a wave form of the human voice, which has a great many harmonics and makes a voice as distinctive as a fingerprint, however if the wave form is looked at on an oscilloscope it does indeed trace the pattern that a human voice would make.
I would like to have worked with the original tape, this would yield better results simply because of the noise factor involved, however put simply, I do not believe the sound was made by a human voice. It could have been made by something trying to approximate a human voice. An analogy would be electronic. An electronic voice has something missing, the timbre is wrong, its the same with this voice. It sounds like a real voice to the human ear but electronically its incorrect. EVP recordings may be the product of an approximation of a human voice.
Many Thanks.
Dave Dimelow R.A.E.
Assisted by Steve Yarwood.
Reported Anomalies during MAPIT Investigations:
■ Objects found to have been moved or small items thrown.
■ Objects found to be swinging.
■ Audible disturbances such as bangs, scratching sounds, knocking sounds, the sound of the
drawbridge being closed, voices and humming.
■ Odours such as Lavender and Insence.
■ Temperature fluctuations & Stray Electromagnetic Energy.
■ Disorientation & Unusual Emotions.
■ Claims of being touched or clothing tugged.
■ Sudden drainage of battery power & other faulting equipment.
Their are a couple of occasions that are rather profound that MAPIT investigators cannot rationalise.
1. On particular investigator was suddenly jolted back as if he had been hit in the face. On lifting his head
his nose was bleeding heavily.
2. On another occasion an investigator was placing new batteries into his camera whe they seemed to
expload in his hands. The investigator required treament for severe burns.
A much more vigorous analysis of events should take place, however Chingle Hall is no closed to the public thus ending our opportunity to recreate the scene...
Some details can be seen in a number of TV productions or read...
Strangle But True - Chingle Hall.
Ghosthunters (UK Version) - Chingle Hall.
Sally Wallbank's Book - Chingle Hall.
Many organisation, scientists, radio and tv production crews have visited Chingle Hall over the years and all together recieved far more media coverage than Borley Rectory in its time. People have claimed bizarre experiences from seeing the devil to their hair turning grey overnight. The sightings of monks, balls of light, strange creatures, experiencing time slips etc etc... the list goes on.
MAPIT can comfortablly say they have not witnessed any of these bizarre incidents...But there are a number of reported incidents that constitute a raised eye-brow or two.
Many years ago a couple visiting Mr. Howarth spent the afternoon have tea in the grounds at the front of Chingle Hall which at that time was just grassed and not a car park as it is today. Mrs. Howarth was having a local dog show. They sat and chatted and took in the afternoon sun watching the compertition, but when the couple came to leave and thank Mrs. Howarth for her hospitality they asked her where was the monastery was, because they would like to visit it. Mrs. Howarth said, 'there is no monastery around here'. The couple were confuseed and said 'Well, where are the monks from then?' 'What monks?' replied Mr. Howarth. 'The ones we saw in the garden'... Apparently the couple had spent sometime watching hooded monks walking backwards and forwards during the afternoon, yet no monastery had been around for hundereds of years and no one else had seen the monks...
Another interesting incident that is said to have taken place is when curious visitors had knocked at Chingle Hall asking if they could arrange a visit took look around. The frail woman introduced herself as Mrs. Howarth and said that she would gladly show them around now. The couple agreed and Mrs. Howarth gave them a brief showing around. Sometime later the couple returned to the all with friends for a second visit. This time a young woman aswered the door. The couple explained that they had a look around last month and hoped their friends could do the same. The young woman looked puzzled. 'Who shown you around'? she replied. 'Mrs. Howarth did' came the response.... The young woman told the couple that this was impossible as Mrs. Howarth died years ago....
One visitor to Chingle Hall had left late one night and was driving down the private lane that led to the main road when suddenly a large brown dog ran out in front of him. He slammed on his brakes as he heard a thud. He jumped out of his car expecting to find a wounded animal at the front of his vehicle but when he got there, nothing could be seen. There was no dog to be found and no damage to his vehicle. Just as he was inspecting the front of his car a large speeding truck shot past on the main road. He quickly realised that if he had not have stopped he would have certainly been involved in an accidnt. The dog was never seen again...
Whilst Chingle Hall was going under modifications with its windows and heating system in the Great Hall, a rather unusual incident took place. The plumber they had was fitting a large metal tube up the chimney so to vent the new open heater they were having installed. Numerous pieces or pipe work was clearly visible. The plumber had gone off to his car to get something. He had only been a couple of minutes but when he returned he could not believe his eyes. Every piece of pipework was missing and was knowhere to be seen. He stood there confused and thought, someone must be having a joke with him. He decided to go into the lounge and get the owner so to show them what had happened, but on returning with the owner a couple of minutes later, everything was back as it was. The plumber has never been able to explain what happened and was seen being interviews on the Ghosthunters (UK Version) TV Show. There is even talk of a radio show being presented live from Chingle Halls kitchen that ended abruptly. The presenters suddenly heard loud bells being rung in the kitchen. When they realised there were no bells in Chingle Hall, they fled the seen rather quickly...
Time Slips are occasionally reported at Chingle Hall, but the most documented involved a couple that had visited the Hall to drop in a deposit. They knocked and got no reply so they had decided to push the letter through the gaps in the front door as they could clearly see the stone floor in the hallway. When the owners arrived back they found the letter a good ten foot into the hall and wondered how it had got there. They decided to contact the couple that had dropped of the letter and asked how they managed to get the letter so far into the hallway. When they replied that they pushed it through one of the gaps in the wooden front door, they were puzzled. There were no gaps in the front door, nor was there a stone floor. At the time the hallway floor was Tudor tiled. A number of months later the owners were having some work done in the hallway and a small part of the floor was taken up, only to reveal a much older stone floor underneath. Many years ago the stone floor would have been the one used and there may have been at that time gaps in the wooden front door as most doors had at that time, only to be sealed up in years to come with tar...
My final account is one I had somehow been privy to at the time. A group of people decided to have a seance at Chingle Hall. One of them was ranada Reports presenter Paul Crone. They sat round the table in the Great Hall and joined hands. They enquired as to whether there was anyone on the other side who wanted to contact them... (Funny, sounds like something straight out of a spooky 60s movie)... Anyhow... Some of the group felt a sudden pressure on their backs as if pushed down onto the table. For some reason, all those that felt the pressure were left in tears. No one knew why they were crying but could not stop. One of the group decided to take a photograph and as the flash suddenly filled the room they saw a young standing in the corner of the room. Then suddenly another member of the group shouted out, 'Oh God... I can feel them'. A couple of the group members then said that they could see a monk stood behind Paul Crone... (Well.. as you can imagine, Paul jumped up and ran for the door). He refused to set foot back inside Chingle Hall and the consequence of his actions led him to leaving numerous pieces of equipment at the Hall for months which were later utilised by an organisation... Say No More! To this day, Paul refuses to go into Chingle Hall, he will only go as far as the Front Door...
There are many many incidents that have been reported to have taken place at Chingle Hall. If any of them are true, then maybe Chingle Hall is living up to its claim of being England's Most Haunted House...
Chingle Hall Scream Analysis carried out by NARO at Manchester University.
Compiled by Steve Mera.
Investigation carried out privately
on behalf of the clients.