Chillingham Week went with a bang this week, by culminating in Chillingham Night.

The press-ganged Wayne T. and Michelle the Telephonist went with presenter Alan Robson to investigate the ghosts of Chillingham Castle. After a few technical hitches and a wait of 75 minutes we were treated to the creepiest show on radio. Michelle and Wayne were about to face their first challenge.

The two victims were asked to walk over the grounds in which abbots were killed after their priory was raided. Both of them, separately and on their own in the darkness, experienced a strange feeling over one certain area. But even more amazing was the artefacts that the microphone picked up when it was the turn of Michelle. As she was walking a strange deep growling could be heard, though she did not.

Later, Wayne was asked to enter four rooms: the Great Hall, Chapel, Edward I Room and the Torture Chamber. In all of these rooms he was alone and in the dark. Noises were heard, including chains rattling, banging and tapping. A strange ghostly whining was picked up on mic in the Great Hall, though Wayne did not hear it. In the museum, both Michelle and Wayne became abnormally emotional feeling happy and suddenly crying.

The Oubliette was the biggest challenge though. The Oubliette (French for Oblivion) is a room with a barred trap door in the floor, in which people were thrown 20ft into the pit below with their arms and legs broken. There was no escape, and some of the desperate prisoners fed of the living and dead who were piled up with them, but eventually the rats and mice consumed all of those who were left to rot. The bones of the last person to die in the Oubliette still remain; those of a young girl.

After paying respect to the spirits in the Oubliette, Wayne heard banging, creaking and he felt and heard a dragging noise from underneath him in the pit. Many more noises were heard, but eventually it was time to leave.

 After a night of pure entertainment, we were left with the comforting thoughts of Wayne T never come to Chillingham at night. But hopefully, Nightowl News will be going sometime soon!