Creepy Goings On

Would you like to spend the night in a haunted castle…

…well go on then! Was our response when we ventured into the out back and beyond before arriving at the breathtaking Bolton Castle in the vast Yorkshire Dales.

We weren’t scared of the dark as we spent a night in the Scrope family’s historic castle in Wensleydale piloting a new series about the paranormal. The castle dates back to the late 1300’s when it was originally commissioned by Sir Richard Le Scrope, Lord Chancellor to Richard 2^nd. Bolton castle has played host to many of Britain’s legendary Royals such as Mary Queen of Scots, imprisoned here for treason by Queen Elizabeth in 1569. It has been said that her spirit has been sighted here on many occasions and we went to find her. Servants, children and phantom drums are amongst the recorded happenings and we went in search of these after dark.

We scoured the exterior grounds and got some stunning time-lapse footage with our EX3 camera at sunset. The 30ft Jimmy Jib pictured below captured magnificent shots of the castle and pieces to camera, we even dismantled it and brought it into one of the western towers over the drawbridge. Our other crews were carefully positioned to capture anything ‘unusual’. As the night went on and the night vision cameras came out, strange things started to happen and we separated the team and ventured deeper into the castle’s heart, the psychic felt the need to leave at midnight but we proceeded on. Some of our crew even spent the night in the dank dungeons, and then suddenly…