Most Haunted

History
This farm was built in the Pendle Hill area, site of a spectacular Most Haunted Live. It is thought that Lower Well Head Farm was built in the 1500's, although there was a house on the site dating far earlier. The building was allegedly used as meeting places for the notorious Pendle Witches and their coven during the early 17th Century. The Pendle Coven was believed to have been responsible for the murder by witchcraft of seventeen people. The Device family who were at the centre of the witchcraft charges, lived at a place called Malkin Tower, thought to have been somewhere in the fields surrounding the farm.

On Good Friday 1612 an important meeting of the witches, thought to be a 'Sabbat', a major Wiccan festival, took place at Malkin and many of those who attended were later tried and hanged. It is widely considered that the coven collapsed because various witches incriminated each other and their families to the local magistrates. There was a particular feud between members of the Device family and their rivals, the Chattox's. Elizabeth Sothernes, otherwise known as Old Demdike, confessed that the usual method of murder was to make an effigy of the intended victim, known as a 'picture of clay'. It was then crumbled or burned over a period of time causing the victim to fall ill and die. Little is known about the history of Lower Well head Farm, but it is believed to have previously been used as a morgue and the pathway adjacent to the farm is referred to as Corpse Way.

Phenomena
Footsteps are heard regularly upstairs at Lower Well Head Farm; in particular they are said to echo through the building at 6pm on Saturdays. Witches and those connected with black magic are purported to haunt the building, with many reports of ghostly figures, feelings of unease, strange sounds and movements.

Investigation
Unnervingly David Wells connects with the spirit of Elizabeth Southernes alias Demdike, who remembers Yvette from the previous investigation. As the vigils begin, several orbs are picked up on camera and knocks are detected in response to questions from the team. In the upper room, a strange dragging or scraping sound is picked up. Team members claim to have been touched by unseen hands. Yvette takes part in an automatic writing experiment, during which she is overcome, falling into a trance and moaning. As the team attempt the revive her, the investigation is abandoned.