Bolsover

Derbyshire

England

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Having visited many historic locations, I try to keep an open mind on anecdotal stories, balancing them with my own impressions, and any recordings I capture. Bolsover though, was a first for me. From setting my foot inside the door, the atmosphere in the little castle put me on edge. It wasn’t only that I felt under surveillance, it was more that I wasn’t welcome.

The unusual first EVP featured here was to lead me down a rather curious rabbit hole. William Cavendish-Bentinck, the 6th Duke of Portland was a courtier, Tory MP and landowner at Bolsover. The Bolsover Collier Company, was founded in 1889 by Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge, to extract coal on Portland’s estate. Cavendish also owned valuable lead mines, and this was the clue I needed. At the end of the 17th century, miners from Saxony, Germany, were invited to Bolsover to share their expertise on the use of explosives. Whilst this knowledge of the local industry might be known to historians, I most definitely didn’t learn of it during my visit and it took some digging to find it.

EVP Transcriptions

EVP 1: Sir Henry Won't hurt you. Do you need Wolsey?

EVP 2: Ler her really look. A Nosebag. We'll let her look.

EVP 3: Jonno, is that Rachel?

EVP 4: Rachel where are you?

EVP 5: You are surrounded.

EVP 6: You all will kill her.

EVP 7: Did a bike kill you? I'll bore you tonight. Then I'll block you.

EVP 8: They don't play with you, see you.

EVP 9: I want to see her at Princeton.

EVP 10: I'll have to do her, Saxony.

EVP 11: We have to call her.

EVP 12: He can't hear you. They're going to really hurt you.

EVP 13: You are there.

EVP 14: 69, that's right.