Explosion Museum Ghost Hunt – Gosport, Hampshire – 2024
2nd November 2024 - 7:30pm until 1:30am - Tickets £60 per person
Experience a night of ghost hunting at Explosion Museum in Gosport, Hampshire with Ghost Hunt Events on 2nd November 2024, 7:30pm until 1:30am. Tickets £60 per person
History of the Explosion Museum
The Explosion Museum (Priddy's Hard)in Gosport, Hampshire was originally bought in 1750 by the Board of Ordnance from Jane Priddy (hence Priddy's Hard) and others to construct the defences of Portsmouth Harbour and the Dockyard. The defences were completed in 1756. Soon afterwards the gunpowder stores were relocated from Portsmouth to Priddy's Hard for safety reasons and in 1771 a magazine, office and cooperage were constructed. Officer's houses and large gardens were added in 1777.
In 1805 the Grand Magazine on the site was used to store Gunpowder that was delivered to Priddy's Hard from Waltham Abbey. Gunpowder was transported from this Magazine to the Trafalgar Fleet via a Camber Dock, the Fleet included Nelson's Flagship HMS Victory.
In 1861 C Magazine was built and in 1879 the largest magazine, E Magazine was built. During the 1860s the fortifications were strengthened incorporating brick gateways, carponniers and or covered firing positions to cover the moats, Armstrong guns were fitted to the two demi-bastions.
The site was fully utilised during the Second World War and was last used for significant naval activity during the Falklands Conflict in 1982, the site remained active until 1988.
Twelve untimely deaths have happened at Priddy's Hard as a result of accidental explosions and in one case an "unnatural" gust of wind, rumoured to be the evil spirit of a convict labourer who died in the same spot.
Sightings of the unfortunate souls have been rumoured by former workers of the Royal Navy Armaments Depot over the years including security guards that have looked after the listed buildings.
Explosion Museum, Gosport, Hampshire Ghost Hunt
Date: 2nd November 2024
Time: 7:30pm until 1:30am
Tickets: £60 per person - Deposit (£20) bookings available
Book Explosion Museum on Saturday 2nd November 2024 - £60 per person - 30 tickets available
What to Expect
Our team of experienced investigators will be on hand throughout the night so that you can participate in:-
- Vigils (in the dark)
- EVP (Ghost Voice) Experiments
- Ouija boards / Glass Divination
- Automatic writing, Dowsing and Pendulums
- Table tilting & rapping
- Use of our ghost hunting equipment
and much more with our experienced Mediums & Paranormal Investigators.
Event will include:-
- Regular breaks
- No lengthy briefings or workshops
- Controlled sessions & 45mins - 1 hour with our Mediums
- Use of our ghost hunting equipment
- The number of groups depends on venue size.
- Free time for you to investigate / explore on your own
- Opportunity for lone vigils throughout the evening
- Complimentary Tea, Coffee and Biscuits are provided for free in the breaks.
We can't guarantee spiritual or ghostly activity but we can guarantee that everything you experience will be 100% real.
Please note
Over 18s only - No accommodation provided - Unsuitable for guests with limited mobility
Location of Explosion Museum
What Happens at the Event
Indoor Events
Our events are always 100% investigation and vigil events, we won't waste time by taking you on a history tour of the venue.
We will not usually talk about the history of the building unless people ask us to do so.
We don't hold workshops or briefing on equipment usage. Any equipment that you will be using throughout the event will be explained at the start of each session by our team leaders.
For the first few hours (usually 1 hour per session) you will be in a group and you will spend time with our Mediums doing séances, where they will try to get the active spirit to move you in some way (this is not designed to scare you) and with our paranormal investigators doing experiments, table tilting, glass divination, Ouija boards, EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena a.k.a. ghost voice) experiments and other equipment experiments using the latest ghost hunting equipment.
After these controlled sessions you will have the opportunity to venture off on your own or in small groups to explore the venue or to hold lone vigils or re-visiting an activity that you enjoyed in our controlled sessions. In this part of the night you can use our ghost hunting equipment to do your own ghost hunt. You may take photos/videos with your own cameras throughout our ghost hunts. You may also use any of your own ghost hunting equipment during our controlled sessions.
What our customers say about previous Explosion Museum ghost hunts (previous 8 comments)
05 November, 2016
WOW.....What a night, in this area we had a séance and the spirits interacted with us in a playful manner, moving our arms and pushing us backwards. There was more to come, a wonderful site to visit.
M.L.
14 May, 2016
First time with you guys. Great Team. I will be with you again and I will recommend you to my friends
J.K.
14 November, 2015
I really enjoyed myself, was a really good experience
M.R.
14 November, 2015
Excellent hunt at The Explosion Museum on 14th November
M.S.
24 July, 2015
It was a fantastic evening and would definitely like to do more investigations with you guys
B.C.
07 February, 2015
Thanks for another fab night, whilst slow to start in each location really got something from each place...All very interesting and we look forward to the next one!
M.I.
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