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Ann
Jan 123 min read
Sentience, Slug-trails, & Divots of the Conscious Self?
A belated happy new year to anyone who might find themselves reading this! I have been working hard on my upcoming talk at the prison in...
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Ann
Aug 7, 20244 min read
You Say Goodbye (workshop), and I say Hello (prison)...
I received a text last week from my ex-boss and good friend from the prison, asking if I could lend a hand to help clear out the junk...
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Ann
May 23, 20243 min read
Vestigial Sensory Perception?
It's been quite a while since my last blog, but that's okay because nobody reads them anyway. It's May the 23rd and our new resuce cat...
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Ann
Mar 23, 20244 min read
A Smoking Joint (Session)
Normally I don't record with anyone, which if you've trawled through these blogs and this website, you poor unwitting things, you'll...
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Ann
Feb 10, 20246 min read
I Just Called to Say, "I'm Sorry"?
Well, I don't mind admitting that the last 3 weeks I've been in something of a stonker of a mood! Since Emma's death on Christmas day...
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Ann
Oct 11, 20238 min read
A Whirlwind Summer
Not that anyone reads my blogs, but I must apologise at least to myself, for not having written anything here since June! I must admit,...
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Ann
Jun 18, 20239 min read
NORMANDY 2023
Wix website editor's bot just prompted me to write a 'catchy' title for this blog. But I haven't. This is purely because I think that the...
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Ann
May 27, 202312 min read
21hrs in the Far East (Drive, No.30)
The address of 30 East Drive, Chequerfield, Pontefract, Yorkshire, will be very familiar if you are a seasoned dabbler into 'the...
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Ann
Apr 6, 20233 min read
Surprise, Surprise...?
Now, some of this may have been covered in the Stunning Stats? blog, but I've had a little bit of a second wind this afternoon (no, not...
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Ann
Nov 17, 20228 min read
Wotton Afternoon!
I am not all that struck on my latest satnav woman. She says things either way too early so late that you’ve forgotten where you're...
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Ann
Oct 18, 20227 min read
Hello, Is It Me You're Looking For?
Okay, another Weird Stuff At Home blog, and for that I apologise. But, if this is indeed the resurgence of something, I want it...
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Ann
Oct 13, 20223 min read
Visits.... Anything BUT Closed!
Out the back of modern 'Visits' at Shepton Mallet Prison, is a dead end corridor known as Closed Visits. It's simply the other side of...
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Ann
Oct 5, 20227 min read
I Did It My Way...
My time as night supervisor at HMP Shepton Mallet has regrettably come to an end. This was my choice, by the way. I shall not go into...
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Ann
Sep 11, 20229 min read
Oh What a Night...
After the devastating death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the 8th September 2022, the nation is now in official mourning. Not just...
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Ann
Aug 27, 20224 min read
A Question of Perspective?
Okay, so I don't want to keep going on about the same old things, but the EVP capture I recorded at Frankata in Kefalonia in August 2022...
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Ann
Aug 12, 20225 min read
What the... or rather, Who....?
I've just returned from a whole month on the Greek island of Kefalonia - it's been in the works since pre-Covid, and has FINALLY happened...
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Ann
Aug 10, 20228 min read
Death in Paradise
Photo credit: Renzo Appollonio Institute (Italian skeletons, Dilinata) There are many reasons that I return to the Greek island of...
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Ann
Jun 24, 20223 min read
BLOCK UNIVERSE THEORY
THE OPENING SEQUENCE of Nick Groff's series on Discovery Plus DEATH WALKER, frankly blew me away. What he was talking about, the way it...
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Ann
Jun 24, 20223 min read
My 'Little Bang' Theory
QUESTION: What ARE the rythmic bangs that often accompany EVP captures? Anyone who's recorded or studied EVP knows that it's not just...
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Ann
Jun 12, 20225 min read
Only the Lonely...
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss my poltergeist. The fear, the not understanding, the admiration, amazement, and just the...
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Ann
May 10, 20226 min read
A Place To Lay Your Head?
Spring at HMP Shepton Mallet brings the epic overnight event known now as Night Behind Bars, it used to be Porridge, now it's NBB. I did...
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Ann
May 9, 20227 min read
Don't be Morbid: Touching (& listening to!) The Void
Part of why I set up my Lost Voices website is to jabber on about topics that get little or no air-time in the somewhat muddy, rocky, and...
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Ann
Apr 19, 20224 min read
Child's Play?
When people think 'old prison' in the ghosting sense, they'll usually plump for rough, tough and evil inmates (usually male) with regard...
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Ann
Apr 10, 20228 min read
EVPs, Daisy & "Tomato!"
In soggy old England, the sort of televisual comedies that get the most praise, slapstick ones aside (and often those with quite a niche...
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Ann
Feb 28, 20225 min read
Kray-Fishing!
Part of the massive draw for many visitors to HMP Shepton Mallet is that the infamous and rather vile Kray twins once resided within its...
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Ann
Feb 6, 20226 min read
Stunning Stats?
I have often mused upon the mysteries of how some days recording will yield far more than others. Generally I keep to the same amount of...
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Ann
Jan 23, 20223 min read
A Rabbit-Warren of Treasures
The workshops building of HMP Shepton Mallet was built in the 1970s, and was used to teach practical skills to the inmates who would be...
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Ann
Jan 10, 202210 min read
Brown-Trouser Moments of Yesteryear (Well, a 'Porridge' Event 2017)
In the autumn of that year I signed up for a sleepover event at Shepton Mallet Prison, and to the horror of friends and family I was...
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Ann
Dec 14, 20215 min read
Ghost in the Machine?
A while back I wrote a post called Dongle Disaster! about my friend Merrick's unfortunate experiences with technology whilst attempting...
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Ann
Nov 29, 20217 min read
Amusing Musings - how EVP captures lead to BIG questions
So, after gathering thousands upon thousands of EVP captures, listening to them all and analysing them, enhancing a few, deleting others...
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Ann
Nov 28, 20218 min read
What's New, Sugarpuff?
How might you ask, is it possible for a body to dash hither and thither out and about on location with their recorder clasped in their...
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Ann
Nov 12, 20216 min read
Weirdness On The Wing!
It was Armistice day 2021, and I had been feeling rather down in the dumps. My husband Jack who works abroad, had left for a 21 day spell...
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Ann
Nov 3, 20216 min read
Ann of Athelhampton (Or I Would Be If I was Allowed Access)
Just before Halloween (that now seems to start sometime in July and lurch ever onward until October 31st blessedly vanishes) a friend of...
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Ann
Oct 24, 20219 min read
POLTERGEISTY PONDERINGS
I have been absorbing as many publications on the icky topic of poltergeists for some time now, for having now experienced mild to...
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Ann
Sep 29, 20215 min read
Blood & Sound!
If you've read my previous blog posts you'll be aware that since moving into our house, myself and husband Jack experienced varied forms...
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Ann
Sep 23, 20214 min read
Just a Scratch...?
Getting scratched by unseen entities may seem all the rage, I mean you only have to turn on the TV and on some ghost show or other,...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20215 min read
The Weirdest End to a Honeymoon
Jack and I tied the knot on the 7th September 2019. Given all that's going on currently, that day seems like a very very long time ago! ...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20213 min read
Repeat Offenders
To someone new to 'All Of This', you'd be forgiven for thinking me bonkers when I tell you that I feel as if I have actual friends on the...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20213 min read
House Party Anyone?
Last month I was mulling over several part time job opportunities, for, as marvellous as having time to myself has been (thanks to my...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Coining It
It was summer. It was one of those summer days actually felt like a proper summer's day, if that makes sense. That rare sort in England...
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Ann
Sep 21, 202114 min read
Home, But Definitely Not Alone
My accounts of the incidents related here come after several years of activity at home that began small and then escalated. Don’t get me...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Dongle Disaster!
Back in Kent where I used to live before I moved to Somerset l, I'd fairly regularly attend group ghost hunts with a reputable lot called...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20214 min read
Don't Play it Again, Ann
On Monday March 28th 2021 I was solo on site at HMP Shepton Mallet, and unwittingly recorded a child humming and singing gently, several...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20211 min read
Dancing Ghost!
In 2018 Jack and I began to take Greek dance classes in preparation for our Greek-themed wedding. I actually started them before in 2018...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20219 min read
Not So Cool When It's Happening to You...
“Oh wow, that’s so cool!” This was the reaction of several friends on hearing that I was experiencing prolonged spells of poltergeist...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20212 min read
The Scream
Ghost tours at the prison are hugely popular - often sold out weeks in advance, and that's with Jailhouse Tours runnning several a night...
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Ann
Sep 21, 20213 min read
One Small Room, One Massive Melting-pot for Phenomena
As I planted myself upon the dusty window ledge of the upper room in the old gate lodge at the prison this morning, it occurred to me...
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