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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 6 min
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, 2023
- 8 min
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, 2023
- 9 min
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, 2023
- 12 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 10 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 9 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 14 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 9 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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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