
THIS IS ONLY AND EVENING INVESTIGATION AND NOT A FULL OVERNIGHT
Location | Date | Start Time | Finish Time |
The Sandhill Newcastle Quayside | Sun 26th Sept 2010 | 8pm | 1am |
In the North of England we very rarely hear stories of slavery or pirates although we all know they were here. We have searched high and low in history to find a name related to piracy, but now we may have one. As we go on the search for Edward Robinson, a man born and raised in Newcastle in
around 1690s, he became part of a Stede Bonnet’s "The Gentleman’s Pirate" crew and eventually ended up hung in Carolina USA for his crimes in 1718, but within his life he sailed with Blackbeard and wrecked many ships and killed many men.
Now we are in search of Edward Robinson the Newcastle pirate and supposed ship wrecker, so we have arranged 2 paranormal investigations to search for this man, the first to be held in Red House, Offshore 44 and Bob Trollops where we believe he could of spent time on the site as a young man in what we believe to have been a house for abandoned children, then here at Marsden Grotto the well know location for smuggling and wrecking, pirates and murder!
So join us as we search for the real pirates of Newcastle and the North East England and we use Psychic art, medium ship as you hunt out a very dark past!
Origin of the haunting: Murder's, life, tragedy, execution
The Buildings Built in the 16th Century and used as a sea merchant’s house, it’s also thought to have been used as a home for abandoned children in the early 18th Century; the place just opposite the location is a site of many hangings The building is a fine and rare example of Jacobean architecture still standing today. Next door to the building is the famous Bessie Surtees house with its romancing tail of Bessie’s elopement with John Scott to Scotland.
Bessie Surtees House Next door to the locations
you will be investigating: Offshore 44
Bessie Surtees House is two merchants' houses on Newcastle's Quayside that were built in the 16th and 17th centuries. This house is famous for a romance. 18 yr old Bessie Surtees had fell deep in love with a no body named John Scott, her parents were unhappy about this as they had someone older and richer for her to wed, she wanted none of this as she was deep in love with John Scott and been of a young age she had no choice but to run away and leave all she knew and loved. She made a plan that she and John (Picture bellow) would leave together for Scotland to be married so her family could not stop them, plan was that John
would steel a horse and caught and head down to her home on the water front with a horse drawn caught left close to the town moor. John waited in the darkness of night just watching his loves window., he seen her farther coming back from the Inn when john heard shouting and smashing, he tried to get through the door of the house but I was locked and her farther would kill him. The window flung open and out cam a sheet full of clothing and food, she climbed on to the window ledge and jumped into Johns arms they fled along the quayside to the Dogleap steps, to where they made their escape to Scotland where they would marry.
The window where she jumped or used a ladder to get down and fled by horse with John Scott and galloped away into the sunset to be married in Scotland. After the Surtees family fell on hard times they begged their daughter back and excepted her husband as had became very successful eventually becoming Lord Eldon, the same one the Square is named after. The ghost of Bessie Surtees is still said to haunt the building and she is witnessed at the window she escaped from. Staring into the empty street
"The site which houses Offshore 44 and Bob Trollops has its place in a very dark history of Newcastle, it is site of Roman occupation and many executions" About the haunted buildings: Offshore 44: The Staff have witnessed footsteps Haunting Type: Apparition’s, Ghostly voices, unseen but heard footsteps, smashing glasses, violent attacks, ectomist, orbs and funnel vortex. This location is amazing for the Ouija board and for forms of divination as we had spirits coming from a time when the land was just land and there were no housing. Stone Tape theory Energy: cold spots, Hot spots moving around locations
behind them in the bar and smashing glass to find there is no one around or any broken glass. Strange smells can follow you around the location and a babies cries have been heard in the upper levels, the back wall is one of the original castle outer walls and has been used to display rotting corpses on and hanging body's. There is said to be a dead body under the floor of the pub. On a event held in the location in 2007 by Alone In The Dark Entertainment and G.H.T.UK they had a wooden box thrown a
t them, and one member witnessed the light bulb swing left to right with force then stop dead and stop working. Down in the brig room a woman has been witnessed in a mirror and the smell of candles been extinguished has filled the empty room. A man in an old seaman’s outfit has been witnessed at the back of the bar. 
Full Investigation undertaken and rated: EXTREME 




Foot Note: Amazing food, good ales and wines, every Thursday there is an alternative night in Offshore 44, Bob Trollops is a vegetarian restaurant with best food in town. These pubs are all featured on the haunted pub tour of Newcastle. This is a very busy Newcastle bar and night club. It's well worth checking out the Newcastle Quayside Ghost walk if you’re in this location as they have some tails and reports from this location plus there is a small investigation involved in the ghost walk. The Bessie Surtees exhibition illustrating the history of the houses is on the first floor. This site is maintained by English Heritage Open Monday-Friday 10am-4pm.
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Duration of the event
from 8pm to 1 am-ish
Key information
The minimum age is 18 years. No drugs are allowed, including any medication that may cause drowsiness. You must be fit enough to climb stairs. No qualifications or experience are necessary.
How many in a group
There will be a maximum of 25 people at this event, PLUS TEAM.
Spectators
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Date: Sun 26th Sept 2010 on £25 per person
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