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GWENNIE - Co-Founder

I am a 37 year old Project Manager, living in South Yorkshire. I am married to Steven, with our blessed little boy, Danny, born Oct 06. I am the youngest of 8 siblings.

I have always been interested in the paranormal, with my mum and various members of her family having experiences. My most vivid memory is one night with my mother, I suddenly had a really strong scent of roses…..I asked my mum if there was an air freshener in the room, without even stopping to think that we had been sitting there for hours, so she hadn’t even had a chance to bring in one, to account for the suddenness of the experience.
She calmly told me it was her sister visiting – ‘her’ scent was roses and it was a way of comforting my mother, as this elder sister had been a second mother to my mother, they were extremely close and she had died young.

I didn’t know it then, but a few short years later, my own parents were to die within 6 months of each other. After they died, I basically wandered the ‘wilderness’, finding my way in the world, as I was quite young when they passed. I had some personal experiences along the way, but I realise now that I was not ready to pursue these further.

Then a few years ago, I settled down in an area of the country I could call home and decided to do something about my passion; I found a paranormal group on the web and went along to one of their investigations. There I was amazed to meet like-minded people, who were taking it seriously…..I hadn’t known what to expect. My lasting memory of that first meeting, is saying to one of the members that I felt really comfortable there and happy to be there. She said it was probably because it was the first time I was among like-minded people. I had a very scientific approach then, as I had studied the sciences, but even at that early stage, I experienced things I could not explain in any way other than paranormal.

Since then, I have attended many investigations, with existing groups, being a core team member. I had a reading from our very own site medium, Maureen, not long after; I should point out that I didn’t know her then! That reading quite literally changed my life. I was left with no doubt whatsoever that we do go on in the spirit world, after we leave the physical body. I have been pursuing my own spiritual path of mediumistic development, aided by attending Maureen’s workshops. My goal would be to further the ability to a point where I could reliably provide readings for people, to give them the comfort and or knowledge that will bring them peace and possibly open up a whole new spiritual realm to them. I personally have found such inner calm and tranquility on my journey along this path.

Hope you enjoy the site and the group – we will continue to strive to further the research.
 

PSYCHICDAVE - Group Medium

I suppose you dont need to be psychic to know what my name is lol. I'm 35 and live in Scunny, married to Kay with 2 daughters called Caitlin and Niamh. I went to Foxhills Comprehensive School where I became good mates with Gwennie's husband Steve ( if you want me to dish any dirt we'll start the bidding at a bottle of Jack Daniels ha ha ).

I can't honestly remember a time when I haven't been interested in the paranormal, although a few years ago I took a break from it to run my own UFO research group called Hangar 18 which was also based in Scunny. During this time I came into contact with a medium called Ian Lawman. At the time I was a total non-believer of mediumship but he told me stuff that had only happened half an hour before I went to see him so I had to change my mind. I started attending the spiritualist church in Scunny and am now attending my fourth development group. Hope that gives you a good background . If anyone wants to know more then don't hesitate to ask.
 

VIPERISM - Staff Member

I was born in Bristol and have lived here all of my life. Growing up I was very sport orientated, football in particular. I played for Bristol Rovers, Everton and England at schoolboy level.
I have always been interested in Paranormal activity, including UFO's. My UFO interest has significantly decreased over the last 10 years though.
My first ghostly paranormal experience was with a group of roman soldiers in a village/town on the outskirts of Bristol in a field, whilst doing a bit of illegal night fishing.

Being the normal football playing lager drinking guy I didn't really pay a lot of interest to the paranormal for my late teens going into my mid 20's. I always thought that there was something in the area of the paranormal to investigate further, but at that time it was not a priority to look into it.

Then around early 2003 I found Most Haunted on TV and it fascinated me, many many nights I spent watching and rewatching the programs. At the time I never even thought that there would be groups of people who would do investigations of this nature as a private venture.

I then met my partner Julie who initially I had no idea had an interest in the paranormal, but I then told her I wanted to watch Most Haunted and it went from there really.

The main turning point came when I managed to book tickets for the Most Haunted Live show at Maes Artro on the Sunday night. However for one reason or another we didn't attend the event. But I decided to continue to look into the location as it really interested me. So I googled Maes Artro.

The results brought me to a site of a paranormal group who actually investigated locations themselves. I joined immediately. Before you know it I had booked myself and Julie onto our first investigation ever.

That first investigation I met a number of people who I still have a lot of respect for as they gave me my footing in the paranormal. Gwen was also attending her first investigation with Steven.  Steven slept the whole of the night as I think it wasn't his cup of tea

During these investigations I found out a lot about myself as a person, but also that I had an ability, one which most people have. Nothing particularly powerful, but enough to get me by on investigations.
During my absence of investigating, I was still very interested in the area and still kept in touch infrequently with some of the people I used to investigate with. I foun dout Maes Arto had been demolished which saddened me lots.

Then the urge returned, I wanted to investigate again and so did Julie this was back around the second half of 2006. So we contacted RIPP through these forums and we booked onto an investigation. And we were back into the saddle. I think myself and Julie both realised we should have carried on previously, and I hope we don't have to stop for a prolonged period like that again. Although as we have just done we may have to take a small break for 3-4 months from time to time to sort out some things.

Other things about me.

- Attention to detail
- If something can be said in 3 words I will say it in 100.
- I can stick my nose in sometimes where its nto wanted and try to do things to help out. Many people call me a leader type.
- Busy I am always doign things, I always have ideas etc etc.

On investigations
- I rarely get tired, which I am sure infuriates some
- Hardly ever get frightened. In fact I normally ask to do stuff on my own, even though I know its not allowed
- Never want breaks, and always want to continue vigils

MANDIFESTATION - Group Manager & Investigation Co-ordinator

- Profile to follow...but basically Mandy is the 'glue' that holds the group together; she arranges meetings and books all of our investigations.