Tin Mine report 

On Tuesday the 22nd of August Vee and myself, decided to try and find the tin mine at Burrator.  We eventually found it, though Byrons drawn directions took some working out!  We arrived some time just before 3p.m. and had taken some equipment with us i.e. cameras and video camera, dowsing rods, and emf meter.  Weather was overcast, slightly misty, with intermittent rain and drizzle.  Temperature mild, quite warm. 

On entering the mine ruins we set up stools and chairs and just sat for a while to get the feel of the place. I felt it was very oppressive there and Vee felt the same and that the place didn’t have a very nice ‘feel’ to it.  Even after sitting for some time, both of us had feelings of tightness on our chests. We both felt quite out of breath.  I decided to go for a quick walk around and on returning to Vee I got the dowsing rods out.

Asking various questions we got this information but to be truthful I’m still not 1000% sure of dowsing rods being reliable.  Information got was as follows – 6 spirits there present, 2 grounded and the others in visitation. 5 male spirits 1 female.  The female was the one supposedly murdered, she was called Annie (Vee was the one who came up with the names and dowsing rods confirmed) and was aged 15 when she died.  She was the girlfriend of 1 of the tinners there, a man called Thomas aged 21 who was not well thought of by Annie’s parents.  Annie used to visit the mine frequently and in a freak accident she slipped and fell down a mine shaft. (Vee thinks she hit her head and was killed that way)

Thomas knew this had happened but couldn’t save her and panicked not telling anyone what had happened.  Therefore he was accused of her murder by the girl’s parents. 

We then had a bit of a walk around and took loads of photos, and tried to find where the cave was that we had seen Lucy and Stainey photographed in.  We walked up through the grassy bit to where the air vent railinged off was and as we stood there I looked up and to my left, to see if there were anything else around. Through the trees and undergrowth I could clearly see a stone building in amongst the trees that looked a little like a small shack, but made of the same stone as the ruins.  I turned to Vee and said “shall we go and see what that is?” she looked in the same direction and agreed she could see the same building. We decided to make our way up to the building after we had retrieved our things from back in the ruins.  So we went back down, packed up the stuff and headed back up to the air vent.  This time on reaching the air vent and walking along a little up the grass, both Vee and I stopped in our tracks as we could no longer see the building, it had completely vanished.  We both looked at each other and walked up a little further, but nothing was there except trees and undergrowth.  To say we were a little bit freaked is an understatement and we both confirmed with each other that we had originally seen a definite building!  On walking back down towards the ruins and trees covering them, we heard the sound of heavy rain falling through the trees.  We were stood in the open at this point and we were completely dry as NO rain was falling.  Vee said, to her it sounded like crackling fire!

We then decided to get back on to the track to try and find the cave in another direction. Walking down the track we came upon it and as we looked Vee said she could see a mist around the front of the cave and inside it.  As it was a moist rainy day I suggested that maybe it could be some kind of dust coming off the rock itself. We do not know what this was.  We took several photos but it felt uncomfortable there and I certainly did not want to go inside, neither did Vee.  I didn’t like it at all!!  We realised that time was getting on and decided to make our way back to the car ending the mini investigation. 

So there you have an account of what happened to us!! 

Snaggers