A 'sick' ghost-hunting team have defended their 'depraved' haunted doll investigation into the disappearance of Nicola Bulley - blaming 'a spirit' for sending 'visions' to them. Ghosthunting trio The Real 4S Paranormal posted videos of a live séance across their social media channels on Monday, which showed a picture of the missing mum-of-two alongside dozens of creepy dolls.
In the 'horrifying' clip, a member of the team asks the so-called haunted toys 'who took this lady, spirit?', while asking them to show if she is 'still alive' by lighting up a spirit box. Tracey-Ann Clifford, who is founder of The Real 4S Paranormal group, claimed it was a spirit's fault for 'sending their medium visions'.
She even shrugged off outrage from the public by saying others 'in the field' are simply demanding answers. The group's inconsiderate post shows a birds-eye view of an abandoned house near the scene - before asking if the police 'need to go back' there.
Later in the video, one of the women declares she 'thinks it was arranged' and asks 'is she in woods?'. Other questions included 'Was there more than one person that took her?' and 'Can you tell us if she's passed away, spirits?'.
The 'insensitive' footage has now been slammed by married ghosthunters Lee Steer, 36, and his wife Linzi Steer, 53 - who claim they were 'disgusted' when they saw the other team's actions. Group founder Tracey-Ann Clifford defended the seance by claiming a 'spirit' sent them signs.
Tracey-Ann said: "We didn’t expect these to get shared out like it has. We [didn't] do this sort of investigation, until now. We didn’t [hashtag] her name or missing person and you can tell Ghost of Britain we are not interested in likes and views.
"[The] spirit is attached to a doll. One of my spirits at my house had sent visions to our medium (which you can see all our chat about it on our clips as we don’t hide anything). We thought it was strange that a spirit had done this so we decided to do a live to find out information and people were telling us their thoughts on this.
"We were unsure who the man was as the spirit only showed the back view to her. Ghost of Britain had put a post up [about] us and their little minions came over and helped share us out.
"But please feel free to look through the posts we made as we have nothing to hide. And all this is because a spirit showed visions but it seems funny how another medium was shown the same man.
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"We weren’t trying to be disrespectful as one of my posts does state, as I said, we have never done anything like this before. I don’t know what else to tell you but I think a lot of people in this field are trying to get answers."
Linzi and Lee from Ghosts of Britain were ouraged by what they saw from a fellow paranormal team and condemned the behaviour on their own page. Linzi, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said: "This poor lady hasn't even been missing a fortnight yet.
"We don't know if she's dead or alive. It's absolutely terrible. I'm sick to my stomach that they would do that. I saw it and said to [my husband] Lee 'what the hell?' This woman who says she's a medium is sitting in a room full of doll and basically saying the dolls have information of where Nicola is.
"I was disgusted. If she's a medium, why the hell has she posted it all over Facebook and TikTok? This poor lady's family - her children - could grow up on social media.
"I thought this is so wrong. It's disgusting. There's no way we would ever do anything like that.
"No doubt mediums have gone down to the place but to post this on Facebook for views - do it in private. It's obvious what they're doing it for, just to get views. They're not helping with the enquiry at all - they're not helping anyone."
Across social media, shocked views also branded the clips 'horrific' and accusing them of treating Nicola's disappearance 'like some Netflix series'. One follower said: "Some will do horrific things to get viewers."
