On June 9, GMPS traveled from Moncton to St Andrews to investigate the Charlotte County Gaol. Our team of 7 spent the night in the jail area.. This is what showed up during our stay.
READ THE FULL STORY OF OUR NIGHT HERE: GMPS Website
" The Charlotte County Gaol was built in 1832 of massive granite blocks consisting of 10 cells on the ground floor with the upstairs designed to house women, children, and debtors. The Old Gaol as it is referred to is situated next door to The Charlotte County Courthouse at 123 Frederick Street, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. St. Andrews was established by Loyalists from Maine in 1783. Now it is one of New Brunswick's most popular tourist destinations.
The Gaol is known for being the location for the imprisonment/hangings of Thomas Dowd (1879) and Tom Ronald Hutchings (1942). It was a working jail until 1979. The Gaol was named a Provincial Heritage Site in 2004. It is now home to the Charlotte County Archives. The cell area has remained untouched and is open to the public." (Taken from GMPS' Final Report)
During set up, one of our investigators had a ring fall off her hand and fall across the floor. Now normally this would not seem fairly odd, but we had been warned beforehand to watch our jewelry, as people who have been on the tours in the jail, have reported losing things like earrings or bracelets. Our investigator reported this has never happened before as the ring fits snug on her finger. In this audio clip, near the end, you can hear us casually talking, and then the ring hit the floor.
During an EVP session inside the jail, the question is asked “can you move an object?” , right after you can hear what sounds like a “grunt” or someone clearing their throat. This has been reported as not heard by investigators at the time. Another investigator described it as “Like someone trying to push something that is either heavier or harder for them to do so.Almost like they were over exerting themselves”
This is a clip from when the team left the building to take a break, in which we left our equipment running. This is a condensed version, but the audio had quite a few loud, repetitive, and inconsistent knocking sounds. This particular recorder was left on the wooden table that has a display on it in the main jail area. There are no electrical heaters in this area of the building, or heat at all.
Also from the break, you hear what sounds like a metal hinge sound, from a distance. We cannot explain this as these are very heavy solid steel doors (2 inches or more thick) that do not just move on their own. Even if they could, we had also hung wind chimes in the same area and did not hear them on audio, telling us there’s no breeze.
One part of the team decided to do an EVP session out where the gallows used to hang those sentenced to death. They caught this "gasp". Possible residual sounds from the events that once happened there.
This is a clip from an experiment we tried using a flashlight, in which we unscrew the bulb area just enough so the connection is faint. We then ask spirits to manipulate their energy to either turn the flashlight on or off. In this case, one flashlight started flickering for a few minutes. One of our investigators had expressed that they felt maybe the flickering was a fluke in the flashlight. Shortly after, while the team was in casual conversation, the second flashlight comes completely on. We are not 100% stating this is paranormal, but it is noteworthy, and we cannot explain this.
This was a great experience for GMPS. We were able to take two new members with us, and this was our first "away from home" investigation. Our team had a very creepy night in this place!
Do you think its haunted?
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