Hauntingly Beautiful Hardwick Hall
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Explore with me, the home of Bess of Hardwick, a fiercely independent and intelligent lady whose ambitions knew no bounds!
I hope you enjoy the video, please do get in touch if you're able to interpret the singing in the chapel :)
Best wishes, Rachel
Chapters
00:00 History of Bess
04:25 Arrival at the Hall
04:33 Great Hall
05:56 Ascending
06:19 The Ceremonial Staircase
06:37 The Great Half-Space
07:22 Upper Landing
07:39 High Great Chamber
08:53 Long Gallery
10:00 Withdrawing Chamber
11:04 Best Bed Chamber
12:40 Little Chamber (Mary Queen of Scots Chamber)
13:17 Pearl Bed Chamber
13:47 Closet
14:05 Staircase
14:37 The Chapel
16:14 Downwards
16:50 Kitchen Store
17:18 Pantry
17:50 Kitchen
18:46 Larder
19:09 Pastry Kitchen
19:55 Office ?
20:45 Muniment Room
21:30 Hardwick at War
23:48 Farewell to Bess
MY EQUIPMENT
* Olympus VN2100 recorders x2 (location recording)
* Toshiba Satellite laptop running Audacity (for transferring audio to wav files)
* 3.5mm gold audio cable (to transfer audio realtime from VN2100 to laptop)
* Photographs taken on iPhone 12 pro max
* Rode NT-USB microphone
* Audition CC / Premiere Pro CC / Photoshop CC (Beta) on iMac / Macbook Pro
Please note my website site is not commercial and is privately funded, I do not profit from research, visits, or demonstrations in any way. Our investigations take place at locations that are open to the public and privately owned. Our studies, EVP recordings and videos are not endorsed by the owner(s) of the recording location unless specifically stated.
Wow. What a fortunate suggestion to watch this by RUclips. History along with EVP's. I absolutely LOVE the way you do this. Subscribed and thrilled that I can catch up on all of your other videos. Thank you so much xx Teresa 🇦🇺♥
Good morning Teresa, what a lovely message to wake up to, thank you! Wishing you a warm welcome to my channel. Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! 😊
Holy cow!!!! So talkative. It's amazing they know both your 1st and last name. Thanks for this I've been looking out for it.
Hellooo! Holy cow indeed! (I used a ruder word when I heard some of the clips). Utterly bonkers, but a wonderful experience all the same. So glad you enjoyed it :)
I love your reverence for those who have gone before us 🙏.
I’m delighted that you’ve noticed my approach. To me it’s very important to be respectful to everyone I meet, whatever side of life they’re on. Being appreciative of their effort to communicate has always helped results. Thanks for watching 😊
Ooh those is cool. Thank you. Happy holidays to you❤❤❤
Hello lovely! Happy holidays to you too, so glad you found the video :) x
Excellent upload Rachel 😊 wonderful history and captures, thank you 👏🙏
Thank you Shaun, so glad you enjoyed listening to the voices I captured. Thanks for watching! :)
I believe the locals used to say "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall"
They still do! Thanks for watching 😊
13:22;Love THIS bedroom,the blue bed curtains!As long as it would be dust free and long enough for me to lay in comfortably 🙂👍🏻
I think you may be out of luck, keeping this level of furnishing dust free might be impossible!
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heartbreaker!
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Thank you Rachel. Live these EVPs.
Thank you Margaret! I'm delighted you enjoy listening, thanks for watching :)
Absolutely love hearing the spirits voices! It brings them to life. Thank you for these videos x
You are most welcome Olivia, thanks for watching 😊
Hey Rachel, I hope you’re keeping well. A great visit to a beautiful house, great EVP’s they don’t let you slip by unnoticed, it’s pretty cool that they are having chats about you, a real privilege. My love left me 3 Monarch butterfly wings on my deck this morning, every time I stepped outside from the kitchen to take my breakfast to my living room it’s in another building, there was another wing when I had only walked back into the kitchen to place the wing with the feather’s she leaves me, and each time where I had just walked there was another one about 1 minute apart, it left me feeling kind of giddy with happiness. I didn’t get butterflies on my property until after she died, the first spring I was surrounded by about 20 of them, and they have been coming ever since. Thanks for the great historical information too, and I do love the use of the map, I also love the shoes soundscape as I imagine that’s how shoes with leather souls sound on those staircases. Great upload. Happy Crimbo and new year if we don’t see another video before then. Cheers Jacques
Hello! Glad to hear you're keeping well and being visited by beautiful creatures. The butterflies sound gorgeous! Hoping to get another video out before Santa arrives... Thanks for watching :)
I was so looking forward to this video! I love how you combine the historical background and photos. It really brings whoever is speaking to ‘life’. The EVP of ‘We mean it. We drugged you.’ is crazy!
Thank you so much Mrs G! It is bonkers isn't it, wasn't until after I'd written the narration that I learned about Bess being poisoned. Never know what to expect on my visits now! :)
I really enjoy what your doing. Nearly all my ancestors are English people who came to Virginia and the Carolinas 16 and 1700s. But I often think of all there hundreds of ancestors walking around in England thru the centuries. Perhaps some of them lived or worked or visited the very places you are visiting. I had a sort of vision dream one night. In this dream I was flying like an eagle over what I felt to be northern English countryside. I could see a town in the distance, church steaples , many trees. I landed on a muddy road in the woods walking up to a plain. Not terribly large manor house abandoned, shabby, and boarded up. It was very important that I enter, but could not undo the lock and chain on the front door. Never have been to such a place. Why would I dream that I wonder? Perhaps it is a genetic or blood memory of some sort or some past life thing or something or other. Who knows? I really enjoy what your doing. I'll keep watching. God bless.
That sounds to my untrained ear rather like a lucid dream. That it was a flying dream makes it even more fascinating.
I have lineage/genealogy that goes through Virginia in the 1600 and 1700s, then back to England as well. Rachel did a video about one of the places where some of my ancestors passed away, according to the records I was able to find.
I think I'm especially drawn to her videos because of those ancestral links, and I wonder if that might be the case for you as well?
Your dream is certainly interesting and I'm glad you shared it with us and spurred my mind to think about these things.
Greetings from Colorado! I love your videos. I am so unbelievably jealous!! If you’re ever on my side of the pond, we’ll show you some Wild West ghosties!!😊
Oh now it's me who's deep green with envy, Colorado is on my bucket list in a big way. All those gorgeous trails and ghost towns! Do keep in touch, I'd be honoured to accompany you for a recording on your turf! :)
Beautifully done Rache!🥰👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 REALLY enjoyed that.
Next,Leeds Castle!😊👍🏻
I’m glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching. Rachel.
I was very excited to hear this; I am sure the fog helped strengthen the forces. The voices you captured were very clear and there were so many of them! Remarkable.
I'm certain that our friends will greatly appreciate knowing that you were able to hear them clearly! Thanks for watching :)
Hardwick Hall...more glass than wall! 🪟 what a stunning building and Bess has such a fascinating story. Wonderful work 👏
That 5.49 group discussion! And referencing HCourt! I've heard it theorised that some spirits are multi location travelling at will retaining sentience but it seemed so fantastical! What extraordinary evidence!
Especially that Rachel was so clear
Thank you very much! Distance is only a problem this side of life, whatever dimension our friends are in, they can zip wherever they please! Thanks for watching :)
Love your videos! I can’t get enough of them. 👍😊
Thank you Grace! Merry Christmas :)
This was a juicy one! A great house to explore and BoH was a woman ahead of her time.
Thank you Paula! Bess was certainly a formidable force! :)
Excellent production and delivery. Sumptuous and elegant beyond words.
Your voice is perfect. My favourite episode. I hope theres more on Hardwick and Bess to come . Ta!
Oh Rosemary, I am beyond flattered, thank you! Still working hard on my narration, it doesn't come naturally, so I'm delighted that you're pleased with it. I'm afraid there isn't a dedicated episode in planning that features Bess, but she is mentioned in the most recent episode at Bolsover. Always open to suggestions for new locations though. Thanks for watching :)
Hey Rachel, do you think theres a possibility Bess could be the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII?
It would explain her exceptional life perfectly.
@@RosemaryWallace-wt5xj that took me by surprise! A gut reaction would say no, but in all honesty, I haven't got enough knowledge of Bess's family to even guess. You could always try looking at the court diary and letters to see if Henry went a calling... ;)
❤I enjoy these so much! Thank you for sharing with us these facinating experiences you have! 😊
You are most welcome, I'm delighted that you're enjoying them! :)
I do love those tiny foot steps! Goes fantastic with the floor plan, very helpful. Enjoyed this video very much! Your knowledge from research of the places you visit stand out massively in your videos, very educational and entertaining 😊. Keep up the good work, and looking forward to your next video! Take care until then ❤
Hi Clare! So glad you enjoyed the video and found it entertaining. Finding old floorplans can be something of a challenge for the places I visit, thankfully Hardwick Hall was available but others can take days of drawing and cleaning. Leeds Castle up next, working on it right now. Thanks for watching :)
P.S. Thank you for "the small shoes"... They help a Dane to better understand where we are in the various places you visit... More so if it were to slip with the understanding of the English language😆❤.
You're welcome! :)
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What an interesting point. I thought they were a cute visual extra but how they help viewers without English as their first language never occurred to me.
Thank you for a very informative as well as entertaining video 📷. I love the Tudor period so I enjoyed the history lesson as well .
You are most welcome Diane, delighted that you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 😊
I love Hardwick Hall, very interesting and beautiful
It is beautiful isn’t it! Thanks for watching :)
Love hearing your voices. Gives a wonderful insight to the past. Well done. Xx
Thank you Sarah, I'm delighted that you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching :)
Awesome! Especially when they acknowledge who you are
Thank you! Have to say I'm very happy with this video and our friends, they outdid themselves! :)
It never ceases to amaze me how some of the voices sound like a living person is standing next to you talking!
Hello :) Even now 18 years after I began capturing the voices, I'm still astonished at how clear they can be. When I review a new recording, the excitement is still there! Thanks for watching :)
Wonderful, as always.
So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! :)
Excellent videography, extremely well edited and presented, you can tell the amount of work you put into these. Do you ever record EVP at home? I get the impression that some of these voices are with you, where ever you go.
Thank you so much David, I'm honestly delighted that you recognise all the work I put into the videos. This was fun to make, however many hours it took. And yes, you're perfectly correct, I'm sure that those I record on my visits are never far away. Thanks for watching :)
Thank you❤😊
You're very welcome Sheila :)
Brilliant film again dear Rachel! Glad you are here again. Such a lot of work you have done it’s so appreciated. Wow! The singing was just magnificent so clear how lovely was he!! Sending love, have a good Christmas, Lady Rachel! 😘💐
Hello again, lovely to hear from you! You are most welcome, I'm very glad you enjoyed the video. The singing was wonderful wasn't it, I really do love what I do, and am so thankful to be able to capture our friends. Love and best wishes for a happy Christmas :)
p.s. hopefully another Tudor video out before we light the pudding!
22:00;Flying!Another interest of mine,AND a funky lesser known piece of music written by all 4 Beatles😉👍🏻🎶
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Thank you for sharing Rachel ! Very interesting as always.
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)
My goodness Racheal, you have outdone yourself at Hardwick Hall. Fabulous voices captured, even old friends mention you.
Thank you for the information at the start, it sets the scene beautifully. Looking forward to the next one, when youre ready.
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I can only take the credit for the video, our friends deserve all the praise for coming through so clearly. Without them, I'd not be here! :)
@@EVP-Voices but you are there, and for that we are all grateful. Otherwise we'd be none the wiser. And we get to see these places some of us will never get to see. 👍👻🇦🇺🦘
@@annettetonks7055 then I'm glad, thanks Annette :)
Rachel, this was exceptional!
I love the way you've posted the clips with the raw recording, then cleaned up, and then with subtitles. That deepens the context and makes me appreciate them even more.
The one with the singing really blew me away. I can't wait to read through the comments and see what other folks think of it and what it might be from.
And lastly, I went to check in on the Discord group and can't seem to find it now via my bookmarks. Am I just missing it and need to explore around a bit more, I wonder?
Anyway, thank you so much for another outstanding video and for all your hard work! How lucky we are that you do what you do so we can learn about these places, people, and their lives.
Hi Camile :) Thank you so much for your kind words, I sincerely appreciate your feedback on the video.
I never take what I do for granted, or forget how lucky I am to stay at the locations and to be able to share the voices I capture. There is a lot of work involved but it's worth every minute if you enjoy it.
Sadly I knocked the discord on the head, only a few turned up and no matter how many times I reset the permissions, people couldn't join. You're always welcome to get in touch via Skype if you'd like a chat.
Thanks again for your support, it means the world. Rachel :)
Very nice Rachel.
Thank you, glad you approve!
Fascinating! I always wonder to myself if they are still living their lives, or are aware of the centuries that have passed... If the first then are you a ghost to them? Such a conundrum!
Hi Jude. Absolutely, who is the ghost? I've so many recordings that evidence those I record ARE living in a parallel dimension. What frequency it is, and how we overlap though is a mystery! Thanks for watching :)
@@EVP-Voices It's something I wonder about constantly since ITC and the whole puzzle is one of my favourite mysteries to ponder upon. It's especially fascinating that you are recognised from place to place as someone who is interested in their lives wherever/however they are living them...... Best wishes
Sweet Rachel... Thank you for another terrific and enlightening history lesson with the best of all..your helpers from the other side... I wish I could clean my evps I got when I was in Roskilde Cathedral.. The first time I went on a "historical hunt". I can hear a lot being said, but can only understand a fraction . Thanks again for your great work.. Love from Denmark
Hi Lykke! So glad you enjoyed the video. Have a look at the notes we made, they should help you. If not let me know and I will write a crib sheet for you, delighted to hear you recorded! Thanks for watching :)
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I went here today, I found the building full of atmosphere don't get me wrong. However I have never walked into a room and felt shudders as I did in the "apartment" on the middle floor. Started by the chapel and become much worse around the dinning room. Does anyone know if anything happened here?
Hi Karen,wishing you a warm welcome to my channel. So many tales of intrigue and gossip exist; Bess enjoyed keeping up with the affairs of society and it wouldn’t surprise me if some heated events took place in the area you felt uncomfortable. Sadly these things aren’t recorded, but I’d say trust your gut. In my experience we have the ability to pick up on these things. Thanks for watching 😊
21:54;there IS an attractive quality to a woman who uses the word topography!🤓👍🏻
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I've always wanted to see the inside of that estate house. I didn't know the military used that location during the war.
Well I'm very glad that you got to take a peek inside then! Thanks for watching :)
23:43;AMEN!
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i am so eager to listen to Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth the second one day! i never imagined i would hear instruments and singing voices. i went over it many many times. What did they kitchen staff meant by Rachel 's boy though?
Hello again!
I would love to capture Diana's voice, however, I think it's very unlikely. Unless either of them regularly frequented a place where I was recording, they would have no reason to get in touch. My experience would suggest that those who come forward, do so with a reason.
Rachel's boy I would guess, is either in reference to the child I lost, or someone who accompanies me on their side.
Thank you for watching :)
Did you not getting any EVPs on the second floor? As you have miss out a lot of rooms on that floor. I find Bess chamber to be most active when I visit.
Hi Jenny. Recordings from the second floor begin on the Upper Landing and end when I descend the stairs at the end of bedrooms (timings are under the video description and the floor plan shows you where I was). I'd love to hear the evidence you've captured, are you able to share? Thanks for watching
@@EVP-Voicessorry meant first floor, I hear and feel things but haven’t seen anything at Hardwick.
@@jennydobson9719 unfortunately the only place I could access on the first floor was the Chapel, all other rooms were closed.
13:15;'Mary Talbot'
I heard this also through the computer speakers, but with headphones not so much.
@@EVP-Voices How are you Rache?
I do hope you are well and having a nice Sunday🙂
Best wishes to you Rachel.
So happy to see your new video !💙💦💙💦💙
Helloo! I hope you enjoyed it, another on the way! :)
I wish there was a way to tell queen Catherine A that people still love her. But there hasn't been sightings of her ghost wise for a while
You may not share my understanding, however, from the recordings I have learnt that sending intentions and thoughts to the deceased, are received. If nobody has seen her, I would guess that she doesn't wish to be seen. Thanks for watching!
@@EVP-Voices yeah and she could be in the place were she was most happy
22:27;What about the cause precursor; WW1 aka The Great War Rache?🤓
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23:04;ww2 Russian helmets depicted here I reckon🤓
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21:26;nothing like a bit of drawer delving!🫡
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23:23;HALLELUJAH to that!🫂
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