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Dubbo Gaol Ghost Hunt

 Today is Monday 28th March 2022.

This means that next week at this time I will be on a plane,with Anne, heading out of the country, finally, after two years and heading to England for the first leg of our Nice and Haunted UK Road Trip.

I am so very excited.

Fifteen hour days have been exhausting, but, I am one lucky old duck being able to live my best life right now. I am trying to take every opportunity that comes my way.

Last night we finished our final live SPOOKY SUNDAYS radio show on Newcastle Live Radio before departure. We have been crazily pre recording shows to cover the four weeks that we are away and now all of our 32 episodes thus far are on SPOTIFY AND ITUNES as podcasts. WOW.

Just so thrilled with our efforts in showing up for that every single week.


Tonight we are recording our next TRUE HAUNTINGS PODCAST episode and it will be about MARY KINGS CLOSE in EDINBURGH, which we intend to visit while we are there. I have been before but Anne has not gone underground to visit this place - the stories about life underground in this plague infested area are horrific.


So work goes on, I am in the shop today, WITCH AND WILLOW AT WARNERS BAY, so by the time I finish tonight it will be another 12 to 15 hour day.

NO REST FOR THE WICKED - so they say.

On the weekend we travelled to Dubbo for 3 hour ghost hunt at OLD DUBBO GAOL.

We love this place as it has a certain energy about it and slowly it is opening up to us. With each visit more happens and we get to know the spirits of the site.

We set up equipment for the evening and broke the big group up into smaller groups to rotate between experiences. 

I was in the male wing (with the scary mannequins) and I was doing immersive exercises with silent vigils, K2 meters, cat balls and REM pods.

My job was to teach people to be patient, to listen and to experience the subtle changes in emotion and environment. During my sessions one woman experienced being hit across the top of the head, one man had his hand held, people felt that they were being observed and we also entered the dark cell which was a cell for the psychological torture of inmates where they were kept in isolation and complete darkness at the whin of the governor to break their will.


Anne was in the hospital and working the Portal App and everyone was listening to what messages were coming from it. She had really interesting conversations with one or two really specially talented people really almost channeling messages. Everyone got a buzz from that session.

Our other session was in the women's cells and visit centre surrounded by photos of inmates where they were using trigger objects and the bionic ear.

We also had a big group session around the gallows as we called in those who had been hanged on the spot.

With laser grids lighting up the gallows and all of our participants circling the site they used their K2 meters and checked for EMF, recorded the session and watched for spikes from the REM PODS.

We had participants being touched, people hearing voices, emotions going through the roof and everyone really got something out of that session.

Then we gave people free times to wander and experience the site, hold further vigils or just sit and listen to the Portal Plus which was put on loud speaker next to the gallows.



We fell into bed and seems to be awoken within minutes to find that it was morning and time to leave.

We had a great breakfast at the VILLAGE BAKERY at DUBBO although they staff lost our order and we waited 45 minutes before we were given our food. Not a good thing that have happen when Renata is yearning for the wake up coffee and she has not it - I turn rather impatient.

Then it was a four and a half hour drive home and I landed to try and do some clean up work at home. Hubby was not in a happy place, he had been experiencing a lot of pain and all I  was seeing was the mess in the kitchen so we did not see eye to eye. I should have been more empathetic to him but I was so tired and all I saw was more work. I washed both dogs and started the immense clean up which I tend to do before every trip I take (it's a guilt thing).

I wish I could give him so much more so that he could just concentrate on himself and not see just how much the house is being neglected because he cannot do anything and I am constantly busy.

This is the reality behind the scenes.

But, today I start the exciting and scary count down - PLEASE WORLD JUST KEEP YOUR SHIT TOGETHER.






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