Matt Watkins - Lead Investigator & Technical Manager

Age: 22
Star Sign: Gemini
Favourite Haunted Location: Menzies Castle in Scotland
Interesting Facts: I am a Jack Sparrow Lookalike / National Gymnast.
Scariest Experience: Left alone in Hell-Fire Caves waiting for the lights to go on.
Favourite Quote: "..Live every day like its your last, and one day it will be.."
Favourite Kit: Video camera & Gauss Master 
Psychic Ability:   7/10
Bad Habits: Apparently I chant spells and call out to spirits in my sleep.

Best Qualities: I cant stand being late for anything.

Q1. What is your fascination with the paranormal?

Ever since I was little I loved listening to ghost stories. As I got older I was thinking not everything can be explained by maths and science. I suppose its unknown I want to know about trying to discover it for myself.

Q2. How did you become involved with G.P.S?

One Christmas a gentleman crashed his car into the pub near my home after suffering a minor heart attack. The damage and renovations to the pub apparently sparked paranormal activity in this pub, so I joined the GPS forum, and as I knew some of the history I helped the team out with research, and they subsequently asked me to come along and join them on their next investigation.

Q3. Have you ever been really scared by a spirit?

I was most scared by a spirit in oxford castle where it felt like someone was going to get you by the throat and beat you up, and it felt like some was breathing down your neck. As this place used to be a jail as well the officers would have been following you everywhere. Every emotion ran through my head. It was terrifying how a spirit can affect your emotions so easily.

Q4. Do you have any psychic abilities? If so what are they?

Yes I believe I do possess some psychic ability. I am still discovering my abilities, and I do sense spirits, but can't hear or see them. It is like a gut feeling or an influence. I have recently learnt to communicate audibly with my spirit guide. I also have a uncanny ability for predicting things, but most the time I do not say anything and after wish I had only after the event.

Q4. Why did you take on the role of Technical Manager for the team?

Because Barri asked me to lol!
I love all things technical and really like to solve technical issues. Setting up the DVR system during an investigation is useful and learning how it all works and its applications excite me.

Q5. What are your thoughts on E.V.P.'S?

Sometimes when listening to evp’s I can’t hear a thing apart from white noise where others will definitely hear something and on occasion voices or noises. Sometimes however, the recording is so clear it’s hard not to say that this is proof that spirits can communicate through this technique. I do believe that evp’s are very important for ghosthunting and plan to work with the team to develop this technique further.

Q6. Where is the scariest place you have been to and why? 

Coalhouse fort would have to be the scariest place I have been to. The whole place had a feeling like it didn’t want you there, and there was a feeling of someone in your face the whole time as if they wanted to start a fight. The people I was with all had something happen to them that night. Clothes pulled and the worst was thing was when we turned all the lights out and this man walked the other side of the room and u couldn’t see him even though he was two feet in front of you.

Q7. What is it like working with your older sister Sheena? 

It is good because we don't often see to much of each other anymore. It is nice to have something we can both do together and have a common interest in. And yes Sheena you are like mum haha.

Q8. Tell us a secret that nobody knows?

Ooo good one! I still like to play with my toys from when I was little. K-Nex is the best and I really want a model railway set but a really big one.

Q9. If you could meet anybody, living or dead who would it be and what would you say?

That would have to be my gramp. I never knew him as he passed when I was just 18 months old. I would end up talking to him for ages so I really don’t know what I would say. Maybe I would ask him what the truth is about the other side. Is there god or not?

Q10. What’s your favourite piece of ghost hunting equipment and why?

It would have to be the Ovilus and Franks Box because it is like giving the spirit a voice box and I would like to work more with the Franks Box to maybe try and get a conversation going through this device.