It was a time I had boasted about Nottingham to a invited friend from london. It was early evening in November, light was dim and had slight drizzle in the air. I took Jithil my friend from London and Rahul my housemate to Wallaton hall and deer park. I was receiving rebuke in pseudo london accent from Jithil who adopted this style by working in coffe shop for being late . I took them in a bus and we reached Wallaton hall and deer park. Park was a huge area covering 500 acres of land with Wallaton hall and huge deer population. Park was confined with huge compound wall around, We opened the gate and went inside. It was a perfect location for shooting hound of Baskervilles, The Park which span 500 acres with trees in fall looked absolutely stunning. Any click from any camera by the worst photographer will make a good scenery over here. We started to walk towards hall through the big lawn. Jithil started to sing old malyalam songs as he realized that his voice has gone better with a throat infection. We all had popped up with creativity seeing this panoramic view of Wallaton park. By walking a mile we reached Wallaton hall, which was dark and haunted, suddenly lights were on and this 15 th century structure with central hall and four towers around was magnificent. This hall have the history of many ghost activities and people come here for ghost hunt , some activities include door slamming at people face with no draft to account for it, groans had been heard and people also have experienced pushing and touching. We had lot of wit and tried our best to have ghost hunt experience. Jithil a self acclaimed professional photographer who was very proud of his photographic abilities was capturing the night beauty of the Elizabethan architectecture. Now it was very dark and we felt bit wired staying alone in deserted place. We were concerned about the huge population of deers in the park which can become bit violent at mating seasons, So we decided to walk back. We had lots of laugh and wit and my friends who rebuke me had a great experience and thanked me for coming late as we enjoyed beauty of solitude in this 500 acres of land. In a group it is a fun to be here but now in dark this palace is very deserted. We came back and reached the entrance and found that gates has been locked from outside. It was pitch dark and we really dont know what to do. We decided to call police then we read the timing of entrance and exit , the last exit was 5 pm and it was already 7 pm ,So we may end up in real trouble for breaking the law. There was no other option other than staying in this park whole night. Then we decided to jump the wall and we climbed wall , but we were reluctant to jump it was too high and we sat on the wall. The other side of the wall was a road and people going in bus was staring at three of us sitting on huge wall at night looking totally confused. There were very few by walkers on road and after some time a British guy was walking and we just called him for help and told our situation. He was just laughing at us and even he didn’t know a way out. The only way out is to jump down and that will end up in a bone fracture. There was electric post near by so the brtish guy told us to do a monkey jump from the wall to the post and slide down through the post. So Jithil was first to do the monkey jump was able to able to succeed because of his genetics. Now I was wearing a long coat with a scarf , I removed it and gave to jithil with all my kalari skills I jumped. Its now Rahul’s turn he got a very tight pant so was not able to stretch his legs for the jump had to loosen his pants and jumped. So great evening ended with our pants dirty and we headed to Desi express.
