Well, the folks came last night and informed me (after re-investigations) that, though the energy of the room had greatly improved, the 'presence' still remained. Prior to this I had cleansed and purified the room in the usual witchy way.  Now, me not being one who has ever delved into the practice of  directly 'talking to the dead' (and, in all honesty, ever likely to), I allowed others to set up the conversations. But to cut what could be a long story short, I was told that there were three spirits in all - a man named William who had worked here as a servant 100-150 years ago and treated like s**t, a young girl and another who fed off them. Before aiding William and the girl 'into the Light' we threw them a bit of a 'farewell party'. They both went easily after that (maybe they weren't too impressed by the music). I was told the third one hadn't been generated by a dead person, but was rather a nature spirit and that it would fade quickly due to the others departing, it not being able to turn its vampiric tendencies to the living. I re-smudged the room with white sage before bed and slept well. Now my own acceptence of all this is a little in doubt for I can only fully concur so far. That a place (or indeed object) stores the energy of all that has happened in it or to it, I am in no doubt,  for this is my direct experience. That places, things, can be cleansed of, or charged with energy, I know - but after that point .... Perhaps, indeed, energy residues of a man called William and a young girl were recorded and remained in the fabric of this place and my friends were able to pick up on these, but the question remains as to whether it is really possible to communicate with the generators of these energies after their death or whether the generation of such communications are merely in the imaginative mind of those attempting to do so. And do the dead really need the help of the living, on occasion, to aid them on a journey? Hmmm, perhaps I will hold on to a question mark as a preference and choose not slip into the paradigm of spiritualism. What is of more importance is the energy of the bedroom now feels in keeping with the rest of the flat - serene! And just what brought about that change is open to interpretation, if one chooses to interpret at all!