Meet the Team
We now have a new team for 2011
Meet the new team
Our Team
From left to right
Back Row: Jamie Smart, Gareth Mates, Richard Davies and Roger Dixon
Front Row: Grace Dixon, Hannah Smith and Alison Hughes
Not Pictured Maryse Mates & Danielle Dixon
Gareth Mates
Role - founder & lead investigator
Gareth has been interested in the paranormal since the age of seven, Gareth has been researching about the paranormal since then. He wanted to start this group because there is this other side that we don't understand and he would like to learn more. His first run in with the paranormal was when he saw a spectral dog at his parents house.
Gareth founded the group in 2003 with some help from his friends, the group split in early 2004 but Gareth remained the group finally became complete in 2005 with the arrival of Maryse & Dave.
Maryse Dixon
Role - Hub Technician
Maryse got intrested into the paranormal because as a scientist she wanted to understand and learn from a scientific standpoint.
Her first encounter with the paranormal was poltergeist activity in her parents house.
Maryse brings her knowledge from her degree into the team, she has been very usefull in providing insight into natural occurences that could explain some paranormal acctivity.
Roger Dixon
Role - Hub Head Technician
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Grace Dixon
Role - Hub Technician
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Allison Hughes
Role - Field Investigator
Hello my name is Allison Hughes. I'm married with 4 children, 1 boy & 3 girls.
I have always been fascinated by Ghosts and Spirits for as long as I can remember
as young as a child.
I have had strange encounters with people who will tell me many things about myself and also I have angels and guardians all around me. My first experience which I will remember always in detail when I was 12 years old & my Grandfather who I loved deeply passed away he
visited me twice. I felt & saw his presence, It was beautiful.
From then on I knew that there was something else after death. I always wanted to know more
& to experience that feeling again.
So when I met Gareth & his team I was fascinated & I plagued him to let me attend an investigation. The whole experience was excillerating.
Now I am a member of the team & I cant wait until the next investigation.
Richard Davies
Role - Field Investigator
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Jamie Smart
Role - Field Investigator
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Hannah Smith
Role - Field Investigator
I'm Hannah, I'm 20 and I'm a Media Student. I've always been curious about 'the other side' and the paranormal since i can remember. "Is there life after death?" is a question that, for me, will always need answering. My curiosity for this brought me to create a documentary on the subject as part of my coursework. Gareth and the team invited me on an investigation at Shire Hall to study their investigation and I really enjoyed it, they therefore offered me a place as an investigator, naturally I accepted and have been going on investigations ever since.
I really love doing it, the investigations and our finding's are fascinating and there's always something new to learn in the field and the feeling you get in the investigation is like no other.
Always looking forward to the next investigation!
Danielle Dixon
Role - Field Investigator
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All of the team members are 100% commited to R.I.P. South Wales and are doing this to understand and learn more about the paranormal.
The members are not in the team for publicity or profit.