The birth of...
Issue #0 £4
Packed full of scary goodness... "if it wasn't for those meddling kids....."
SCOOBY-DOO VILLAINS UNMASKED
DEREK ACORAH A tribute to the scouse
legend who insists that he was not ‘Joey’ in Bread’.
DERREN BROWN
He’s survived Russian Roulette, he’s predicted the lottery and had us glued to our seats. What next?
GIRLS ALOUD Something kinda
ooooh as the girls go Ghost Hunting.
FRIDAY 13th
The brutal body count of Jason Vorhees - Who was killed - How, when & where?
THE THEME PARK AT HALLOWEEN scares, spills & thrills from all over the UK
CHILLING HORROR STORY -- SO YOU WANT TO BE A....? -- Z-A OF THE PARANORMAL -- WHERE ARE THEY BURIED? PARANORMAL NEWS -- HAUNTED NOTTINGHAMSHIRE -- JOKES, NEWS, VIEWS & MUSE - 13 COMPETITIONS - 666 AMAZING PRIZES and so much more, well maybe a bit more!
Get your teeth into two new books
this November
...that will leave you
thirsting for more! Robert Pattinson - The unauthorized Biography by Virginia Blackburn (£14.99) and New Moan The Twishite Saga A Parody by Stephfordy Mayo (£10) are published by Michael O’Mara Books on 31st October 2009.
WELCOME TO HAUNTED,
a new and vibrant paranormal magazine,
packed full of what we like to call "scary goodness". We have a fun packed first issue for you, Haunted is not like the other wonderful paranormal magazines that are out there on the supermarket shelves, what we have purposely tried to do, is to look at all the sides and faces that the paranormal industry throws up, and shake it up in a big bag, mix it with potion de la celebrity, add a few pinches of spirituality, chop up a few cloves of the dark and demonic side of the paranormal, mix and blend that all together, top up with Holy Water (just to be on the safe side) et voila - Issue #0. We purposely decided to start at Issue#0 as we see HAUNTED as a creation, much like Frankenstein’s Monster or Rosemary’s Baby (but much nicer to talk to and far better looking), and we know that we are not going to get everything right, everything spot on and accurate straight away. So, this is our launch issue, where we will respond to advice and criticism with a smile on our faces (but with voodoo dolls on standby) and make issue#1 even better.
This magazine has actually been about five years in the making if truth be told. The idea came about when I was working as a Freelance Writer and Most Haunted had started to get more and more popular, and other paranormal programmes were popping up on both satellite and mainstream channels. I have always had an healthy interest in the paranormal, I am in the open minded sceptic clan. I was brought up on the classic Hammer Dracula films with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. In fact one of my earliest memories was watching Christopher Lee falling off a mountain onto a cross on a black and white tele in a caravan at Skegness. I was in the caravan at Skegness, not Christopher Lee. Then I progressed onto Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhes, as I am sure most of us did BUT I was also interested in people like Harry Price and Harry Houdini and read excellent ghost stories by Peter Haining and M.R. James.
Remember, don't be normal, be
In my opinion, there are three sides to the paranormal, all
which, if one was to draw a flow chart, they would all somehow interlink with each other. The "razzmatazz, the bums on seats" side is the films, the books, the TV shows, the Theme Park rides (which are getting scarier and scarier every year). Then there is the "spiritual connection", the mediums, the psychics, the healers, the crystals, the spiritual religion, the love and light. I actually once worked with a lovely medium, she used to say to me as I was leaving, take care, have a safe journey home. I would sit in my car thinking "what has she seen, what is going to happen" but she was just being polite. The last, but not least side is the "dark and demonic" side which can feature in the other sides as well, but you've got vampires, sacrifices, excorcisms, black magic, the undead and much much more. Haunted will try and scare you, make you laugh, make you cry, scare you some more, make you think, make you question, use mind control to make you subscribe for at least a year, and scare you again. We have some fantastic writers and contributors, and even greater features in future issues. I hope you enjoy and want to come back and read some more.
Albert Nonn
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FEATURES 21 THE THEME PARK @ HALLOWEEN UK Theme Parks are planning on scaring the life out of you this Halloween, here is a handy guide to let you know what some of them are upto. 29 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE The place that brought you Torvill & Dean, Pretty Polly tights & Brian Clough, now HAUNTED brings you some of the most haunted locations in the county, you’ll be surprised. 46 WICKEDPEDIA: DERREN BROWN – Stay glued to your seats as we take you on a magical mystery tour of the man, the myth, the legend that be Derren Brown. 59 IF IT WASN’T FOR THOSE PESKY KIDS We unmask every Scooby Doo villain from the original series 67 DEATH AND AXES The rather gruesome body count of Jason Voorhees, who he killed, why he killed and how he killed… NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED 71 NO, I WAS NOT JOEY IN BREAD!! A living tribute to the man who, in our eyes, had made the paranormal industry what it is today - Fun, exciting and watchable
10 – READ ALL ABARRRT IT! Catch up with the latest UK Paranormal news 12 – WHERE ARE THEY BURIED? The lives of our much loved, dearly departed celebrities are never forgotten, but where is their final resting place? Haunted investigates. 15 – DANS LE PERUSE A LA EEET Catch up with the latest paranormal news from around the globe 18 – SOMETHING KINDA OOOH!! Paranormal TV Gold as we flashback to a classic spooky programme 39 – SO YOU WANT TO BE A… Careers advice not for the faint hearted!! 54 – Z-A OF THE PARANORMAL A backwards look at the strange and wonderful world of the Paranormal 80 LIBBY’S LAST RITES Our resident Medium, Libby Clark muses about love, life and the universe
REGULARS
COMPETITIONS
07 PLEASE STOP!! YOU’RE KILLING ME Haunted dedicates a page to the lighter side of the paranormal
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DEAD FUNNY
Here at HAUNTED we like a laugh, we’re not just into the macabre and mysterious world of the paranormal.
What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman? FrosTbiTE...
What did one ghost say to the other ghost? "Do YoU bEliEvE iN pEoplE?"
Why do witches use brooms to fly on? bEcAUsE vAcUUm clEANErs ArE Too HEAvY...
What do you call someone who puts poison in a person's corn flakes? A cErEAl killEr...
What happens when a ghost gets lost in the fog? HE is misT.
Anyone out there believe in telekinesis? iF so, plEAsE rAisE mY HAND.
Why do vampires need mouthwash? THEY HAvE bAT brEATH...
Why do demons and ghouls hang out together?
Why did the vampire subscribe to the Wall street Journal?
bEcAUsE DEmoNs ArE A gHoUls bEsT FriEND!
HE HEArD iT HAD grEAT circUlATioN...
What kind of streets do zombies like the best? DEAD END sTrEETs ...
Did you hear about the guy who played poker with a set of Tarot cards? HE goT A FUll HoUsE AND FoUr pEoplE DiED!!
What do you get when you cross a werewolf and a vampire? A FUr coAT THAT FANgs AroUND YoUr NEck
Why do mummies have trouble keeping friends? THEY'rE Too WrAppED Up iN THEmsElvEs...
i was walk in through th g e cemetery the other day and i sa man hidin w this g behind a graveston e. "mornin g" i said, "N o, just tak ing a sh*t", he re (ooh contr plied.. oversial).. .
What is a mummie's favorite type of music? WrAp!!!!!
Why don't mummies take vacations? THEY'rE AFrAiD THEY'll rElAx AND UNWiND.
What do they teach at Witches school?
What do you call two witches living together?
spElliNg.
broommATEs.
got any good paranormal related jokes? send them to us, if we like them, we will print them, after we have finished rolling on the floor with laughter. You will be rewarded with £6.66 for your efforts. go on, what have you got to lose? send your puns to info@hauntedmagazine.co.uk 006 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
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The Paranorm
Objective show puts the “norm” into ‘paranormal’
Objective Productions has enlisted Derren Brown and scientist Kat Akingbade to front a C4 web series debunking psychic phenomena. Each episode of Science of Scams will feature a hoax film that appears to show unexplained activity such as ghosts, chi energy or telekinesis.Brown will introduce each spoof video in the manner of Rod Serling’s introductions for The Twilight Zone, while Akingbade will demonstrate the science behind the phenomena. The series was commissioned by Channel 4 education commissioner Alice Taylor, who said that she wanted to overhaul teens’ perception of science, particularly among girls.The seven films will appear on a dedicated site run by Illumina Digital, as well as C4’s YouTube channel and its on-demand service. The series was devised by Objective’s head of magic Anthony Owen, who will executive produce, with Anthony Waldron as producer. Vanessa Ardenwood is overseeing Illumina’s involvement.
What’s in a name? Evil and mistrust, apparently
A recent poll shows that we are likely to mistrust people called Damien and Myra, and also shows we are also likely to avoid folk called Judas and Adolf. Damien is the name that spooks people the most - with 90 per cent of Brits saying they mistrust men called it. Three quarters of women would avoid dating a Damien – the name of the Anti- Christ in 1970s horror movie The Omen. Myra is the next most superstitious name, after notorious Moors murderer Myra Hindley. A fifth of men would refuse to go out with a girl called Myra. Brits also shun women called Carrie - after the 1976 horror film of the same name - and Rosemary - who gives birth to the devil’s child in the movie Rosemary’s Baby. Other names we consider cursed because of horror movies are Regan - who is from The Exorcist - and Samara, who stars in The Ring. The survey of 2,000 people shows we still distrust people called Judas, because of Biblical traitor Judas Iscariot, and Adolf, after Hitler. Pandora is considered dodgy, after the figure in Greek mythology who let evil into the world. Men called Boris find it hard to make friends because of actor Boris Karloff who played Frankenstein’s monster. The prejudices can have far-reaching consequences, says the survey to mark a DVD of TV show Supernatural. More than a third of parents said they would worry if their kids had sleep-overs with friends called Myra or Adolf, and a third say teachers give higher marks to children with nice names.
Cannock, Cannock, Who’s there? U,F.. U,F Who? Cannock has been designated a UFO sightings hotspot, after witnesses logged on in droves to a paranormal website to report their strange experiences. Cannock folk have submitted lengthy reports to UK-UFO, a website dedicated to the sighting strange lights and other phenomena. The area has seen a raft of sighting of strange lights in the skies over the last few months. Witness ‘Gavin’ told the site he spied the lights in Hednesford earlier this month. Another witness said he saw strange lights while driving along Pye Green Road.
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Would you take her out to Harry Ramsdens for a pie and mix special?
The Terror Ten
would you trust this little boy?
Damien 90% Myra 83% Carrie 76% Rosemary 73% Judas 69% Adolf 65% Pandora 63% Regan 60% Samara 50% Boris 41%
mal Observer A Degree of Activity As University students are making their way back to the classroom, one of the courses being offered this year is a new one: Anomalistic Psychology. It’s the study of the paranormal: telepathy, psychic healing, near-death experiences, and alien abduction claims. Some academics are decrying the field, saying the stuff of tabloid newspapers and daytime TV has no place in the halls of learning. Rubbish, says Professor Christopher French. He’s been teaching anomalistic psychology for fifteen years, and says there’s a lot we can learn about ourselves from studying such phenomena. He’s professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and edits the The Skeptic magazine.
Is new phone game scary? App’en it is – App’en it aint Like them or hate them, there's one unique feature about horror films that give them an edge over most other forms of entertainment: the cheap scares and gore get your adrenalin pumping, involving you in the experience in a very personal way. Mobile developer Babaroga has branched out into the dark and ominous corners of the old, abandoned App Store mansion, and now the team is being picked off one by one by a mute psychopath as it attempts to find the answers to its new quiz game, Horror Master Trivia. The game explores the colourful world of horror culture,
with over 1300 questions to test your bloodsoaked knowledge from categories such as 1980s, 1990s and cult favourites, with ten levels of increasing difficulty. Sounds like the perfect game to accompany your Halloween festivities or weekend Satanic ritual outings, so hit the 'Buy It!' on your phone to raise Horror Master Trivia from its unconsecrated App Store grave.
The Search is on for “Nessie’s” distant relative A search is underway in the Lake District, after two people claimed they saw something in the water, and strange ripples were caught on camera. The sightings have prompted paranormal experts to say the evidence is overwhelming that Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster has a relative in England. The man who caught the occurrence on film didn't initially realise what he was looking at. 'When I saw this large patch of white water, I naturally zoomed-in on it...but shortly afterwards I just thought 'it's nothing really, it must be the local Windermere ferry' which operates on cables, and that would create such a horizontal effect...not realising that the ferry is a mile and a half north of that area,' John McKeown, a local film producer, said. The first photograph of 'Nessie' in Scotland was taken in 1934, and there have been dozens of sightings ever since - some found
to be hoaxes. Some believe the Loch Ness Monster is actually a giant eel, or a giant sturgeon. Paranormal investigators are planning future searches on Windermere with sonar equipment.
AND FINAlly...
Robbie William’s Royally Close Encounter Recently he spoke openly about his close encounters with UFOs while living in LA. So his feathers are not in the least bit ruffled by the discovery that he's sharing his £7million Wiltshire pile with a ghost. And not just any old ghost. The country mansion Rob and his missus Ayda Field now call home was once inhabited by HENRY VIII's sixth and last wife Catherine Parr. Robbie said: "I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something but it's not scary. I'm very, very pleased to say. It's Catherine's Parr's old house. In fact, we're actually not in the old house, we're in her barn." Robbie moved back to the UK earlier this year in preparation for his musical comeback, and it sounds like he's enjoying the country life. Robbie said "I've been in the countryside and I've been in Swindon. It's lovely down there and the people have been great with us." I wonder what Catherine makes of a comeback pop star inhabiting her old haunt? Par for the course, I think!!
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Where Are they buried If you have had your head buried in the sand for the last month or two, you’d be a) dead and b) unaware of the return on BEATLEMANIA; the Beatles are at last bigger than Jesus, well with their shoes on anyway. There’s a full back catalogue remastered (again) and now for the yoof of today, you can pretend to be the Beatles and play and sing their music. I had a go recently on the X-BOX version and it blew me away although I can’t sing and / or play a guitar, it was like a Bay City Rollers / Milli Vanilli bad tribute band. Anyway as the world has gone Beatle Mad, we thought we’d bring you a different kind of Beatles tribute; THE BEATLES - WHERE ARE THEY BURIED? JOHN LENNON, Rock Musician Born: October 9th 1940 Died: December 8th 1980
Me Do,” reached the top twenty in late 1962 on the British charts; “Please Please Me” in 1963 hit #1. The Beatles would have 11 consecutive number ones on the British charts from 1963 to 1966. American
Born John Winston Lennon in Liverpool, UK to
TV host Ed Sullivan witnessed “Beatlemania” in
merchant seaman Alfred and Julia Stanley Lennon.
London’s Heathrow Airport and he booked The
His parents separated when he was four, and Julia
Beatles to be on his show, “The Ed Sullivan Show”
put John in the care of her sister, Mary Smith whom
in February 1964. Their performance on the
he called Mimi. Although Julia never lived more
Sullivan show two days later remains one of the
than 10 miles from him, he would only see her
most watched shows in television history, with a
occasionally. As a teenager, he became caught up
viewing audience of 73 million people. The Beatles
in the skiffle craze that was sweeping England at
had the Top 5 positions on Billboard magazine’s
that time, and formed a skiffle band he called The
Hot 100 Singles chart for the week of April 4, 1964,
Blackjacks, who later became The Quarry Men. It
in addition to seven other singles, for a total of
was at a Quarry Men gig in July in 1957 that he
12. The Beatles broke new musical ground with
was introduced to Paul McCartney. Neither one
such albums as 1965’s “Rubber Soul”, and two
was initially impressed with the other; until John
years later with “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
learned that Paul could actually tune a guitar. A few
Band,” which hit number one. John’s single, “All You
weeks later, Paul joined The Quarry Men. That same
Need Is Love,” debuted on the first global satellite
year, John attended the Liverpool College of Art,
TV program, “Our World,” in 1967, where The
where he would meet future wife Cynthia Powell
Beatles were chosen to represent England. Their
along with future band mate Stuart Sutcliffe. Soon
last concert was held on August 29, 1966 in San
after Paul joined the band, he introduced John
Francisco’s Candlestick Park. The Beatles started to
to a younger schoolmate, George Harrison. John
disintegrate during the sessions for the so-called
accepted George into the band in 1958. The Quarry
“White Album” in 1968. At various points, John,
Men went through numerous line-up changes as
George, and Ringo quit the band. At one point,
well as name changes in 1959 and 1960. Among
John became so disgusted, he stated he “wanted
those were Johnny and The Moondogs, The Silver
a divorce” from The Beatles. John’s met Japanese-
Beetles, until finally settling on The Beatles about
born Yoko Ono in 1966 at the Indica Gallery in
1960. They travelled to Hamburg, Germany’s seedy
London, while each was married to other people.
Reperbaun district as a house band at the Indra
John and Yoko made their relationship public in
and Kaiserkeller clubs in gruelling 7 to 8 hour sets.
1968. Yoko became John’s focal point, going so
The band was eventually forced to leave Hamburg
far as to include her in Beatles studio recordings.
when it was discovered George was underage.
They also embarked on various recording and
Back in Liverpool by early 1961, The Beatles were
media stunts that included appearing in white
Viet Nam War, and the poor chart performance
playing lunch-time sessions at The Cavern Club
bags in public. John and Yoko married on March
of his latest single. After settling in Hew York, he
in Liverpool. It was at the Cavern in November
20, 1969 at the British Consulate in Gibraltar
released successful solo albums such as “Imagine”
1961 that Brian Epstein saw the group perform.
and spent their honeymoon in bed for the now
in 1971 and “Mind Games” in 1973. John faced
Epstein took the mantle of manager and set about
legendary “bed-in for peace” at the Amsterdam
deportation proceedings in March 1972, when his
sharpening their image He secured an audition
Hilton in The Netherlands. In April of 1969, John
visa expired and he was told to leave the country
with Decca Records in London in 1962. They were
changed his middle name to Ono. In November of
due to his 1968 British drug conviction. During his
finally picked up at Parlophone Records. Drummer
that year, John returned his MBE (Member of the
fight, many people lined up in support of John,
Pete Best was replaced with Ringo Starr before
British Empire) medal, awarded in 1966, to protest
including New York mayor John Lindsay. From
their first recording sessions. Their first single, “Love
British government policy against Nigeria, the
1972 until two days before his second son’s birth
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in 1975, John faced a few deportation threats, but on October 7, 1975 the New York State Senate reversed the deportation order and John received
GEORGE HARRISON. Rock Musician Born: Feb 25th 1943 Died: Nov 29th 2001
victim of an accidental overdose of sedatives at the age of 32. Cause of death: Accidental Overdose
his Green Card in July of 1976. John returned to
Burial: Kirkdale Jewish Cemetery, Merseyside
recording in 1980 with his first solo album in over
Achieved legendary status as the lead guitarist for
half a decade, “Double Fantasy.” On the night of
the groundbreaking and immensely popular group
December 8, 1980, John was in the walkway of The
“The Beatles,” which he formed together with Paul
STUART SUTCLIFFE. The Beatles’ original bassist.
Dakota apartment building in New York City when
McCartney, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon. He was
someone said, “Mr. Lennon.” John turned around
dubbed ‘the quiet Beatle’, which usually belied
Born: Jun 23rd 1940 Died: Apr 10th 1962
and was shot at close range by a stalker. Rushed to
his integral contributions to the groups’ music.
the Emergency Room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital
He wrote classics such as “Here Comes the Sun”
A brilliant young painter who was cut down before
he was declared dead on arrival. Posthumously,
and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” After his life
his career had begun to blossom, Stuart will always
“Double Fantasy” won the Grammy for Album of
with the Beatles, he organized the Concert for
be better known as the first bass player with the
the Year in 1982. In 1988, he received a star on
Bangladesh, a concert that inspired several benefit
Beatles. Recognised for his artistic ability even as
the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in addition to being
concerts in later years, including Live Aid. He also
a child, Sutcliffe was probably the most gifted and
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a
became a film producer, starting his own film
revolutionary of all the other Beatles. As an avid
member of The Beatles, and was inducted into the
company Handmade Films, which produced some
follower of the Beat Movement, and well-versed
Hall of Fame in 1994 as a solo artist. He received a
masterpieces like “Monty Python’s Life of Brian.”
in the Impressionists, he left a strong and lasting
He also produced some musical masterpieces,
imprint on the young John Lennon, who became
of which “All Things Must Pass” and “Cloud Nine”
his closest friend. In 1959 a painting by Stuart
are most well known. In later years, he was less
was selected for the John Moores Exhibition,
involved in the music industry, preferring to spend
one of the biggest art shows in Liverpool at the
time in private life. In late 1999 Harrison survived
time. Eventually his painting was bought by
a knife attack by an intruder in his home. At 3:30
Moores himself, allowing Stuart to use part of
AM on 30 December 1999 Michael Abram broke
the £65 payment to make a down payment on a
into the Harrisons’ Friar Park home in Henley-on-
Hofner 333 bass. But Stuart’s talent for music was
Thames and began loudly calling to Harrison.
decidedly lacking compared to his talent with the
Harrison left the bedroom to investigate while his
canvas. By 1960 the Beatles had made their way
wife, Olivia, phoned the police. Abram attacked
to a residency in Hamburg, Germany. There Stuart
Harrison with a seven-inch kitchen knife, inflicting
met his idol, artist Edouardo Paolozzi, who was
seven stab wounds, puncturing a lung and causing
impressed enough with Stuartís work to get him
head injuries before Olivia Harrison incapacitated
into the State Art College, with a grant from the
the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a
Hamburg City Council. Stu would then paint during
fireplace poker.
the day, and play bass at night with the Beatles. Eventually the pace became too much for him, and
Cause of death: Throat Cancer
he left the band to stay in Hamburg and paint, with
Burial: Cremated, Ashes scattered.
Paul McCartney inheriting the job of bass player.
Specifically: Ashes Scattered in the Ganges River
Stuart also met the love of his life, Astrid Kirchherr,
in India
later to gain fame with her early photographs of the band. In November 1960 Stu and Astrid were
BRIAN EPSTEIN. Music Businessman Born: Sep 19th 1934 Died: Aug 27th 1967
engaged. All throughout 1961 Stuart suffered severe headaches, even fainting in Paolozzi’s master class. By February 1962 he was no longer able to attend Art College. The following month
He gained fame and notoriety as the manager
he suffered spells of blindness, but specialists were
of the seminal and popular rock music band
unable to determine the cause. A brain tumour was
“The Beatles”. Born in Liverpool, England, he was
suspected, but X-rays revealed nothing. On April
managing the record department in his father’s
10th he passed away in Astrid’s arms, while being
furniture store when he discovered the Beatles
transported to hospital in an ambulance. Eighteen
playing only a few streets away in the Cavern
months later, a small tumour, overlooked before,
Club. A failed Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
was noted in Stu’s X-rays. Legend attributes this
actor, he used his natural flair to smarten up the
to a kick in the head Stuart received during a fight
Beatles’ image to make them more accessible
while with the Beatles, when they were attacked
to a larger audience. While criticized now for his
after a performance at Litherland Town Hall by
posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy
lack of business acumen, his marketing skills
the jealous boyfriends of girls at the show. Had
in 1991. Two of his demo tapes, “Free as a Bird” and
were extremely successful, and he played a still
Stuart lived, his fame with the brush would almost
“Real Love” were released to the three surviving
under-rated part in developing the Beatles for
certainly have eclipsed his posthumous fame with
Beatles to finish in the early 1990s. Other works
their eventual world-wide audience. The stress
the bass. As a tribute by the surviving Beatles, Stu’s
include the poetry collections, “In His Own Write”
of managing the world’s first supergroup took its
face appears on the cover of their masterpiece, ‘Sgt.
(1964) and “A Spaniard in the Works” (1965).
toll, and he withdrew into drink, pills, and violent
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
gay relationships (homosexual behaviour was Cause of death: Murdered
illegal in Britain in the mid-1960s). After several
Cause of death: Cerebral paralysis due to bleeding
Burial: Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend.
failed suicide attempts, his body was discovered in
in the right ventricle of the brain
the bedroom of his Chapel Street apartment, the
Burial: Parish Church Cemetery, Huyton, Merseyside
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Les Paraneurm Spielberg scared of 'Paranormal Activity'? Steven Spielberg reportedly believed that his copy of horror film Paranormal Activity was haunted. The low-budget movie about demonic possession in a suburban home made for less than £10,000 and filmed in just over a week in 2006 - was presented to the Academy Award-winning director in 2008 as a potential deal for DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, the Los Angeles Times reports. It is understood that Spielberg took a DVD copy of the film to his Pacific Palisades home to view, while not long after he watched it the door to his bedroom locked from the inside and a locksmith had to be summoned. He then supposedly returned the disc back to the studio in a garbage bag. However, the studio decided against remaking the original after audiences walked out of a test screening and claimed that it was too scary. Paramount plans to release the film sometime in October.
Who ya Gonna Call? Nobody knows yet!! Ghostbusters 3 is edging closer to becoming a reality as a new script draft is in! The moment of truth is nearly upon us. Will there be a Ghostbusters 3? As of now nothing is official, as Dan Aykroyd and director Ivan Reitman are sure to remind anxious Ghostbusters fans. For months now writers from NBC's "The Office" have been hard at work developing a script worthy enough to be the third movie, and have just recently handed the draft to Dan Aykroyd, who said, "I’m going to see the script in the next few hours, I’m about to read the third script, I’ve been submitted it and we’ll see what happens.” The script is being analysed, the cast (including Bill Murray) have all said they'd be interested in doing a third movie...now we wait for the judgement. These are indeed tense times for ghostheads. No word from
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Aykroyd and company yet, but you can bet if it gets the greenlight, the news will be bigger than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and that’s big.
The Celebrity & The Ghost – it’s going to be ‘dead’ good Biography Channel will explore the paranormal stories of well-known celebrities as part of its new series Celebrity Ghost Stories in October. The nine-hour episode series produced by Jarrett Creative will feature the stories of real life encounters with the paranormal from such celebrities as Joan Rivers, Scott Baio, Carrie Fisher, Tom Arnold, Nia Long, Dee Snider, Gina Gershon, Justine Bateman, Jay Thomas, Traci Lords and Ernie Hudson. In the series' opening episode, late actor David Carradine -- in one of his last interviews prior to his death, gives his views of life after death and talks about being visited by the jealous spirit of his wife's ex-husband, according to the channel.
Health and Safety is Paramount in the Paranormal Industry Paranormal societies across Canada emphasised the importance of safety for would-be phantom chasers yesterday after news that a 29-year-old woman fell to her death in September while reportedly “ghost hunting.” “The topic of ghosts has its Hollywood aspect, but it also has a very human component to it as well, so we want to be very respectful with people and naturally of course not put anyone in harm's way,” says Sue Darroch, co-founder of the Toronto and Ontario Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society. “You don't have to be going out in the middle of the night into buildings you don't have permission to be in, because there could be safety hazards.” An unidentified man and woman were trespassing on the grounds of a University of Toronto building around 2 a.m. and reportedly tried to jump from one level of the building to another. While the man was able to
mal D’Observee make the leap, a wire fence the woman was leaning on gave way. She plunged three stories to a courtyard in the centre of the building and was later pronounced dead. Initial reports, since disputed, suggested the two were looking for ghosts in the 134-year-old building. Those who conduct paranormal investigations frown heavily upon trespassing, says Ehren Ackerman, co-founder of the Edmonton Paranormal Society. “No trespassing is the No. 1 rule,” he says. When the group conducts an investigation, members will do a preliminary visit during the daytime to determine the safety of a site, looking for things such as rotten floorboards or the number of ways to enter or exit a building. While ghost-hunting is becoming increasingly common thanks to shows on satellite and mainstream TV, adventurers who want to creep around haunted houses or other sites without concern for safety are much more prevalent this time of year, when Halloween approaches, according to paranormal researchers. “When something like this happens, it reflects badly on everybody that's kind of interested in these topics,” she says. “What we do is actually far more mundane and boring.”
Give us today our daily bread, on a pizza base with cheese & tomato Armies march on their bellies so there's no reason that an army of our fellow citizens if zombified - wouldn't continue to require round bread and tomato-based dishes, even if their choice of toppings would be somewhat different to mushrooms, ham and pineapple. Bringing the concept to the App Store are the chaps from Appy Entertainment. Zombie Pizza is a fast food time management game that has you dragging and flicking to fulfill the orders of the undead and stay alive. You have to race against the clock to combine ingredients
such as eyeballs, hearts, bones, guts, and brains into tasty zombie pizzas with names like The Roadkill, The Split Dog, The Gut Buster, and the Stink Eye. Fall behind on your orders and you'll be on the menu as the zombie will break through the door and munch on you instead. As ever, the balancing act you need to maintain is between just trying to survive your night shift, or whipping up high-value recipes to rack up dollars, earn gold medals, and advance through the zombie pizza-making ranks. Zombie Pizza is out now, priced 99c, €0.79, or 59p in proper money.
Gizzer Job!! Or I won’t spook to you. “Ahhhhhhhhhhh,”' was the sound of the hair-raising scream made by one of about 400 job applicants who have been interviewed for just 24 jobs as monsters at two haunted houses. This was not your routine answer at a job interview. Krystian Wolansky, 18, of Akron, had just been asked by interviewer Ryan Haidet, who works as a reporter for Rubber City Radio group, to give him his best monster
scream, and he blared out a yell. The two Halloween attractions are running until November 2nd. About 100 actors are coming back from previous years to play various roles, but two dozen more actors are needed. The haunted house business is a $1 billion enterprise in America. AND FINAlly………..
We’re All Dooooomed!! If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university researchers in Ottawa, Ontario, who set up mathematical models hypothesizing zombie attacks as infectious diseases with the wellknown characteristics of zombie biology from popular fiction. In fact, according to a recent news report, zombies are more threatening than virulent diseases because they can regenerate (unless decapitated or incinerated, of course). More troubling was the researchers' presumption that zombies move slowly, as in older movies, but in recent fiction, they're super-quick, making them nearly invincible.
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16th Century Jacobean mansion Plas Teg is popular with paranormal groups and overnight vigils. How would, all conquering, record-breaking pop band Girls Aloud feel when they were taken on a haunted vigil by the queen of the paranormal, Yvette Fielding. Of course, with the 'Ghost Hunting' brand as a whole, some will like to dissect whether what's happening on screen is actually genuine or not but personally I prefer to just sit back and enjoy it for what it is, as good simple fun. And this is something that the Girls deliver in bucket loads. Well, Scooby-Doo would have had a field day with this one. The idea was pure TV gold: Girls Aloud (or, rather, three fifths of Girls Aloud: Nadine had a "prior engagement aka she was scared stiff" and Nicola almost wet herself after the first ten minutes and retired to the waiting taxi) and Yvette Fielding in a special edition of Most Haunted, in which the band set out to discover whether there really was "something kinda oooh" (sorry, sorry) in a spooky Welsh mansion and a disused hospital morgue. Even without Nadine we get to see in the relationship between Cheryl, Nicola,
Kimberley and Sarah is fascinating as they begin to succumb to the fear of the apparently haunted locations. Each of the Girls has their own outlook on the situation, Cheryl and Sarah seeming the most up for it, laughing it up and calling out to the spirits to start out with before quickly descending into fear as they start to hear noises and are 'touched'. As mentioned Nicola is so scared she quickly heads of to wait in the taxi outside, where we occasionally cut back to for psychological analysis. As elementary as some of the body language might seem, it's interesting to see the various responses of the Girls, both voluntary and involuntary as the night goes on. Kimberley remains relatively unphased throughout the hour and a half duration of the programme, only cracking towards the end when even she is sent running. Without a doubt though, the main appeal to this programme is the comedy value. The Girls swear loads and the show is full of classic quotes such as Sarah's 'I'm not ready for them to start touching us. Please, please be gentle with us'. And speaking of Sarah, she is without a doubt the true star of the show. Going into the whole thing,
initially the most confident, as Yvette herself testifies at the end, she really goes for it, pushing herself onwards despite the fear. Of all the Girls, it is her reactions that are the most dramatic and as with Cheryl, is reduced to tears on numerous occasions. So, were there dark forces at work? Well, who knows: but after Cheryl found herself being "stroked" by an unseen hand in a darkened bedroom and a series of loud bangs interrupted a "sĂŠance", the girls were pretty much convinced that yes, ghosts do indeed exist: and they were after them. As for the TV audience, well, we were left slightly less convinced that there was something supernatural going on here. Many of the noises heard by the girls were inaudible to the camera, leaving us wondering whether they were actually hearing something, or whether Yvette was just using the power of suggestion to scare the crap out of them all. "I think I hear a faint tapping!" she'd say, and lo! The girls would hear the tapping, too! And so it went on, with Fielding first of all setting the scene ("Now this room just doesn't feel good, does it?") and then letting the girls pick up their cue and collapse in terror.
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DATE: OCTOBER 2009 LOCATION: VARIOUS THEME PARKS ACROSS THE UK MISSION: TO SCARE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
Here at Haunted, we like a good scream and although our wonderful theme parks, farms and gardens here in the UK provide all year round spills & thrills at Halloween they go that one step further. Here is a guide to what some of them are up to!!
HALLOWEEN AT THURLEIGH FARM CENTRE
of the Fright Nights will have a short Firework Finale. See the scary world from the tractor and trailer rides. VISIT THEM IF YOU DARE! www.thurleighfarmcentre.co.uk
Saturday October 24th Sunday 1st November There are many fun and spooky activities during half term and on Halloween, including the scary tractor ride will go through the Wicked Woods. There will also be a Field of Screams and the Ghost Train ride will also be back. They also host Fright Nights on selected dates. On these nights the park opens until late for the scary tractor ride, ghost train or field of screams in the DARK! Each
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR AT MEAD OPEN FARM Saturday October 17th – Saturday 31st October Now in its fifth year, Halloween is bigger and better at Mead Open Farm. Visit the Haunted
Castle if you dare! With thrilling stage sets and additional areas for the little ones Board the Phantom Trailer Ride. Carve your own Spooky Pumpkin. Follow the Witches Trail. Meet snakes and Lizards on selected days. Enter our Fancy Dress Competition daily at Half Term at 5pm. Enter the Field of Terror. www.meadopenfarm.co.uk
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR AT REDHOUSE FARM Saturday October 24th – Saturday 31st October This October, the Halloween Spooktacular returns to Red House Farm for more spooky mayhem. For those of you who have attended in previous years, the main Halloween festival is being considerably scaled down this year. Their focus is on offering a light-hearted, fun, friendly and safe event for families, particularly geared at younger aged children. Alongside their popular attractions such as the bouncy castle, balloon typhoon and barrel train rides; there is also the fun spooky hunt and regular fancy dress parades. The festival is running every day throughout the half term holiday. For adults, or those of you with older kids, they are running two special Maize Maze Fright Nights on the 30th and 31st October. Dare you enter the field of maze in the dark of night and face the spooky surprises awaiting therein? If you do manage to get out alive, the courtyard will be serving up a feast of activities including pumpkin chuckers and corn cannons.
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Although the fright nights are not recommended for younger children, we will be running the Half Term Horrors alongside, so there is something for everyone. www.redhousefarm.co.uk
HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL AT THE BIG SHEEP Thursday October 29th – Saturday 31st October Pumpkin Carving Petunia Pumpkin, their expert carver will be on hand helping children to carve their own pumpkin or to offer tips to adults on how to carve a pumpkin which will frighten off any unwanted guests.
Fancy Dress with Pumpkin Princess Pumpkin Princess is the prettiest pumpkin in town and will be ready to have her photo taken with all their guests throughout the festival. Do dress to impress her as she will be giving spot prizes for who she thinks is best dressed. Pumpkinville Tractor Ride A tractor ride to Pumpkinville to see the thousands of pumpkins growing on site will mean travelling through the Forbidden Forest where the monstrous and macabre chilling ghosts catch up on their sleep during the day before waking up for their deathly evening parties. Haunted House & Lakeside Train Ride Older visitors not suffering from
to life. Something moving in the darkness? At least you’re sat in the safety of the train… The Lost World The end of the world is nigh…dinosaurs still walk the earth hunting for prey…hide inside the pitchblack labyrinth. But, are you sure you’re alone? Has someone got there first? With the roars and the thunder, no one will even hear you scream.
a nervous disposition will be able to venture into the most haunted house in Devon or take their lakeside ghost train ride which will have visitors shrieking as all sorts of ghastly ghosts appear from under the murky waters! Ewetopia Indoor Playground
spine-chilling paranoia of the dark, where whisperings follow your every step, and a glimpse of a shadow flickers past. Creatures arise from the depths of your imagination. There is no escaping the spirits bearing the scars of past horrors. You have
carefully though, can you hear the tinkering tunes of happier times, from within its heavy drape? Peep inside if you dare… will the murderous horrors of the past fifty years awaken for HallowScream? Clowns are just for kids, right?
entered the terrifying reality of Halloween.
The Haunting All aboard! Train to hell departing at Platform 1! Climb aboard the train for the trip of a lifetime. It could be your last. There are ghost trains and then there’s The Haunting…a trip into the darkest depths of HallowScream as cinema’s most terrifying legends are brought
The Twilight Zone Enter the eerie abyss of The Twilight Zone. Surrounded by darkness your heart will start pounding when you look back to realise there is no escape. Paranoia setting in? Perhaps it’s something to do with the strange whisperings in amongst the trees. Werewolf Alley A stroll down memory lane? Relive your worst nightmares when you walk (or run) down Werewolf Alley. Once you’re in, there’s only one way out. But who will you
Their massive indoor play area, Ewetopia, will be decked out with all things scary and children and adults will be invited to take part in the “Horrendously Horrid Spook Hunt.” Don't worry if the ghosts keep moving the quiz clues because the BIG Sheep's Pumpkin Princess will be around to give you advice on how to out-ghoul the ghosts! www.thebigsheep.co.uk
HALLOWSCREAM AT CREALY ADVENTURE PARK Thursday October 29th – Saturday 31st October
They’re waiting for you…. Lying dormant for fifty years, the fairground of restless spirits is stirring, ready for an awakening that will haunt you for life. Immerse yourself in fear: the
Carousel of Terror Shrouded in darkness, the carousel has been closed since its terrible past was discovered. Listen
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asylum demands the privacy of their cell…will they allow you to enter into their personal hell? Ghost Coaster Ever woken up with the heart-stopping panic that you’re free-falling through the darkness…going faster and faster? The Ghost Coaster awaits you amongst the fog of a wintery night…but is it fog or is it smoke from the rickety engine? Phantom Ship Some suspected Blackbeard (real name Edward Teach) to be the Devil incarnate. His evil tyranny of the seas terrorised sailors and pirates alike. His blood-thirsty torture of enemies knew no boundary. When finally killed, Blackbeard’s head was hung from the bowsprit and his body thrown overboard. As the body hit the water, the head hanging from the bowsprit shouted: "Come on Edward" and the headless body swam three times around the ship before sinking to the bottom. Legend has it the headless ghost of Blackbeard will never rest, forever searching for its missing head… Terror There is nothing like the
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darkness you make you face your fears…especially when you are 40 ft high in the sheer black sky. A sudden plunge through the hideous haze of death above Grave Island and you splash down to the blood red waters of hell.
As a way of showing gratitude for an abundant crop and their laborious hard work, the Haverstock family booked an annual celebration and invited Cirque Du Park to the village, there was an air of fun, life was good.
As well as the attractions there will be Bands, DJs and dancing through the night at The Twilight Café Bar, with Monkey Bar Cocktails, plus great food and drink.
Until the year of 1909, heavy rain ruined the harvest and the villagers were destitute. The family went hungry, the town was encased in a deep cloud of starvation and shame, Cirque Du Park was cancelled, but they still came… without an invite.
www.hallowscream.co.uk
CURSED AT GREAT NOTLEY PARK Friday October 30th – Saturday 31st October Over a hundred years ago, the Haverstock family lived in a big house in a sleepy village where they employed the town folk to work their land. The loyal workers were not only rich in food but in happiness.
They came, they went, what they left behind were the…. Cursed!
FRIGHTMARE AT OVER FARM MARKET Saturday October 24th – Saturday 31st October Featuring two unique scary attractions in one low ticket price – Frightmare is the only
event for you! Whether you are looking for spooky family fun and things to entertain the children or want to scream along in our two world class scare attractions, then Frightmare is for you. Listening to visitor feed back they have now added a brand new full scale attraction - The Mausoleum. Who knows what lies buried beneath this innocent looking façade? Will you be brave enough to take it on? Also featured is their famous Haunted Hayride with a brand new story and a whole load of new frights designed especially for you! For those of a more sensitive disposition they have a whole field full of daytime entertainment including trips to the pumpkin patch and rides for the children while little adventurers may take on a treasure hunt with a difference as they explore Spooky the Ghost’s house for hidden secrets.
heading forward and maybe, just maybe you will make your way through the labyrinth and live to tell the tale. INSANITY is a different experience altogether, preying on all 6 of your senses, many of your phobias and leaving you a shadow of your former self. www.farmageddon.co.uk
SCARE KINGDOM, SCREAM PARK @ HAWKSHAW FARM PARK
So why not come down to the farm and see what fun they have lined up. Whether you come for their frightfully funny day time activities or stay for their frightfully scary night time event, they guarantee that you and your family will have a scream!!
success of the Festival that London Paranormal are proud to announce that the 2nd Original London Ghost Festival will take place during Hallowe'en Week 2009. The Festival will offer 100% ghostly events - no magic, no magicians, just plain old ghosts, ghosts and more ghosts.
www.frightmare.co.uk
THE ORIGINAL LONDON GHOST FESTIVAL 2009 Friday October 23rd – Saturday 31st October In October 2008, London Paranormal proudly presented the inaugural London Ghost Festival, 8 days and nights of spooky investigations, talks and walks around the Capital of the United Kingdom - one of the World's most historic and haunted cities. The festival united some of London's most famous and infamous ghostly locations, each one, presenting its own Halloween festivities, keeping it local. A local event run by London based companies. Such was the phenomenal
www.londonghostfest.co.uk
FARMAGGEDON, FARMER TED'S FARM Wednesday October 21st – Sunday 1st November The Northwest's premier haunted attraction returns and this time is bigger and better than ever! Be prepared for an evening of terror and insanity during the year’s most haunting month. Farmaggedon is two huge walk through houses of horror called TERROR ON THE FARM and INSANITY. Enter TERROR ON THE FARM and you will be confronted with dark passageways, long corridors of fear, and the physical embodiment of all your worst nightmares. Stick together, keep
A FRIGHTENING feast of family fun awaits thrill-seekers to ‘Scare Kingdom Scream Park’, the UK’s newest Halloween entertainment venue, opening in October at Hawkshaw Farm Park, Longsight Road, on the A59, Lancashire, between Preston and Blackburn, minutes off the M6, junction 31. It is based on the mythical tale of Morbius Blackscar, the tyrannical self proclaimed King of the undead realm, who has returned to his throne eight centuries after his kingdom was destroyed; now named Scare Kingdom - The Land Where Nightmares Never End! Running throughout halfterm and until November 5 the large-scale Halloween attraction, created and produced by AtmosFEAR! Scare Attractions, UK leaders in independent location-based scare entertainment, features three live scare attractions and additional spooky entertainments. Headline attractions include ‘Dead Alive’, a 40-minute outdoor evening fright fest where amid the 8 acres of rotting mist covered cornfields lay the ruins of Strangleweed Hollow, home to Mother Strange awaiting the return of her long-lost son, The Pumpkin Man! Then ‘Blood Bath’, a
terrifying undercover evening horror haunt set inside a derelict war bunker where diabolical doctor, Cornelius Van Der Blood, hides a secret bloodsoaked chamber following eviction from an asylum amid rumours of unspeakable deeds. ‘Hubble Bubble’ is a 45-minute interactive daytime theatrical experience for small children and FREE for one accompanying adult, where friendly witch sisters, Toil and Trouble, cook up spells, play games and sing songs. Then enjoy the Wicked Witches Corn Maze. Other themed entertainments include ‘Sir Scare-a-Lot’ – an impressive projection special effect imported from the USA especially for Scare Kingdom, delivering grave advice with a sinister sneer. ‘Moaning Mordred’ - entombed inside his ivy clad tomb whispering twisted tales and ghoulish gags while guests eat. ‘Street Theatre’ - come face-to-face with the frightening Undead Court of King Morbius who roam the dark pathways of Scare Kingdom each night. ‘Frightful Photography’ – a picture souvenir with a creepy character. Extra £1 per person. ‘The Greedy Gargoyle Café’ enjoy a Halloween food and drink treat. Extra charges apply. Scares with a bigger bang are planned on Bonfire Night, November 5, at a Fireworks Phantasmagoria featuring a professional fireworks display, bonfire and Guido Fawkes! For more information, exact opening times and bookings visit www.scarekingdom.com or call Ticketweb on 08444 771000, quoting BLACKSCAR for £2-off evening admission. Haunted Magazine has two pairs of tickets to VIP night on Thursday, October 15. For a chance to win go to Legends on the website www. scarekingdom.com to answer this question. What is sealed inside Asmodeus’ enchanted mirror?
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ExPLORING NOTTINGHAM’S SCARIEST LOCATIONS
Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman road, Fosse Way, and there are examples of Roman settlements in Mansfield. The county formed around the 5th century and become part of the Kingdom of Mercia. The name first occurs in 1016, but until 1568 the county was administratively united with Derbyshire under a single sheriff. At first the county was heavily involved in the malting and woollen industries but became renowned for lace and cotton development during the 029 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
industrial revolution. In the 19th century colleries opened and mining became an important sector, sadly declining in the mid 1980s. Nottinghamshire is famous for its involvement with the legend of Robin Hood and tourists from all over the world visit places like Sherwood Forest, Major Oak and the City of Nottingham city to learn all about him. Some famous Nottinghamshire born people,
who may (or may not) haunt the county: Harold Larwood, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury), Erasmus Darwin (Charles’s Daddy), Donald Pleasance and Dr. Harold Shipman. The HAUNTED guide to HAUNTED Nottinghamshire gives you five detailed locations of supposedly paranormal activity. It is not intended to be THE top five Haunted Locations of
Nottinghamshire, more of a handy guide, should you ever want to visit the county and do more than learn about Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
YE OLDE TRIP TO JERUSALEM Travellers to the city of Nottingham invariably find their way to this quaint old Inn which is carved into the rock and connected with the labyrinth of sandstone caves at
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the foot of Nottingham Castle. As its sign says, it truly is “Well known throughout the World”, but the very first question every visitor asks inevitably relates to how it came to have such an unusual name. The answer to this lies in the date painted on the exterior walls of the Inn, that of 1189AD. This was the year of ascension to the throne of King Richard the First, known as Richard the Lionheart, and one of his first acts as King was to crusade against the Saracens who at that time occupied the
Holy Land of Christian Religion. Nottingham Castle was a stronghold favoured by the King and legend has it that the brave Knights and men at arms who rallied to his call to fight in this Third Crusade, gathered at the Castle to rest before journeying to Jerusalem. Legend also has it that these Crusaders stopped off at the Inn at the foot of the Castle for welcome refreshments - or perhaps more accurately, for ‘one for the road’. Given that in the Middle Ages, a ‘Trip’ was not a journey as such
but rather a resting place where such a journey could be broken, it is understandable how the Inn came to be called ‘Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem’. George Henry Ward acquired the pub in 1894, a colourful character known to everyone as “Yorkey”; he had his nickname painted on the outside of the Inn where today the inscription “Well known throughout the World” is to be seen. The ghost of “Yorkey” is said to frequent the in and has been seen on
many occasions. The Haunted Snug is the ideal place to send a shiver through your spine as you sit above an unused basement area known as the “secret cellar”. Apparently people have experienced taps on the shoulder in this area. The Rock lounge is host to the infamous Cursed Galleon, which holds a hideous and terrible curse, as at least three people, who have cleaned the Galleon died in very mysterious and unexpected circumstances. The Rock Lounge in particular 030 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
seems to be a focal point for odd happenings. Things such as keys disappear only to turn up later in odd places. Glasses and bottles have been known to fly off the shelves and smash, when no one is near by and staff have heard the sound of breaking glass coming from the bar, but when they’ve gone with a dust pan and brush to clear it up, they simply can’t find any. On a lighter note the Rock Lounge also houses the “pregnancy chair”, a decorative ancient wooden chair whose legend has it that any female that sits upon it will become pregnant (cheaper than IVF!!) Carved out from the soft rock, the cellars of the Trip to Jerusalem are like interconnecting caves. They have been in use at least since the Norman Conquest and probably longer. On the far side of the cellars a rusting iron gate hangs limply from its hinges before a doorway cut into the rock wall. This is said to be the condemned cell of the castle prison. The condemned cell isn’t
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used to store beer as the ceiling is too low; for the most part it is kept empty. Men condemned to death were shackled to the walls in there. Some left to die of starvation or dehydration. Two of the pubs regulars, full of Dutch courage, once decided they would spend the night in the condemned cell. They lasted 20 minutes, and were violently sick afterwards.
THE GALLERIES OF JUSTICE The Galleries of Justice are based at the Lace Market in the centre of Nottingham city. Today it features a number of interactive exhibitions and tours that reflect its historical past and links with the legal system. However some parts of the building still remain closed to the public. The Pits are the earliest surviving part of the jail. It was the area where prisoners, who were literally shacked in chains, were thrown into and kept while awaiting their fate or deportation. The Sheriff’s
Dungeon is regarded by many, to be the THE most haunted place in Britain. The Dungeon is in a deep cave system under the Galleries. It was used both chapel and dungeon during the Middle Ages. Paranormal investigators have reported grunts, screams and stones being thrown. Monks have been heard chanting and recanting prayers and mediums have picked up on child sacrifices, purely in the name of religion of course (well, that’s alright then). Visitors from as far as Japan have come to see the Galleries, in particular to see Robin Hood’s cell. Viewers of the now sadly cancelled Robin Hood series on BBC would have noticed that hardly a week or two went by without Robin being banged up in a cell. The medieval caves underneath the Galleries are believed to have been used by the Sheriff as dungeons and discarnate voices, moans, breathing sounds and lights are often seen and heard. Dark shadows and Poltergeist activity happens here often with small stones thrown and people have
been known to be touched by a presence in the darkness. There is a vast amount of Ghostly phenomena at the Galleries, even the cleaning staff will only work in pairs, especially in the reception area as an old soldier, a Victorian gent and an old lady have been witnessed. The Criminal Court Room here has a plethora of activity such as spirit lights and shadows which have been seen regularly, knockings and raps are often heard in response to questions asked.
NEWSTEAD ABBEY Despite being built as the Priory of St. Mary for a community who led a monastic life, devoting themselves to worship, study and meditation, this 12th century Grade I listed building enjoyed a colourful history. In the 1500s The Priory, a victim of the Dissolution of the Monasteries was handed over to Sir John Byron of Colwick by Henry VIII. The priory was converted into a house but retained much of the original structure and internal layout.
of staff dressing up to re-enact some of the ghostly goings on at the Abbey. The Rose Lady was not on the schedule, but during the tours they became aware of a very strong scent of roses and lavender.
The house was subsequently passed on to three more Lord Byrons. The second of these,” Wicked Lord Byron” led a debauched lifestyle, which left Newstead little more than a ruin. The property was inherited by his great nephew the poet Lord Byron. Lacking funds for a major refurbishment, Byron instead concentrated on his bedroom and dressing room. Byron is alleged to have used the Great Hall for pistol practice while his eccentric collection of pets enjoyed free rein around the chapel and other rooms. In 1817 Newstead was sold to Thomas Wildman who spent his fortune restoring the house. There is a regular menagerie of suspected paranormal activity at Newstead, in particular several stories are told of five infamous apparitions. There are many stories about appearances of the Black Friar or Monk. In the 1930s a woman in the village was due to give birth. It was some time before the medic finally appeared as he stopped in the grounds of the Abbey and asked a monk
After Byron left Newstead Abbey, a devoted fan of the poet and his work, Sophie Hyatt came to live at a nearby farm. The new owners allowed her to wander around the grounds
She can now be seen wandering through her beloved gardens, especially along one path now known as White Lady’s Walk Washington Irving, the author of the famous American ghost story ‘Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ stayed at Newstead in the 1800s. He noted with interest that each morning the rooks would fly away, en mass, to sweep the countryside for food. They would return in a similar manner in the evening. Irving was told
whenever she wanted. Sophie lived on an income provided by a relative and when that relative died, she decided that she must try to make contact with another relative to ask for financial help. The new owners dispatched a rider to catch Sophie and offer her accommodation in the grounds of Newstead for the rest of her life. The horse and rider set off in hot pursuit and reaching the Market Square found a great crowd gathered around a horse and cart outside a pub called the Black Boy where Sophie was lying on the ground – dead, as she had been run over by a cart.
that the rooks observed the Sabbath; they set out every day except Sunday, when they stayed in the abbey grounds. Indeed it appeared that the rooks visited their neighbours and friends, devoting Sunday to their nearest and dearest, but didn’t leave the estate. Local tradition has it that the rooks at Newstead were the souls of the ‘Black Monks’ reborn as birds, still occupying their old abbey. Indeed so strongly was this belief held that, contrary to common country practice, the Newstead rooks were not shot, and were generally left unhindered.
for directions. The black robed figure said nothing but pointed in the right direction. There had been no monks at the Abbey for hundreds of years. Shortly before his disastrous marriage to Anne Milbanke, Byron encountered the Goblin Friar. The Goblin Friar was said to appear to the head of the Byron family before any unhappy event. When sleeping in his bedchamber, the Rook Cell, the poet was woken by the sensation of something mounting the bed. On sitting up he was confronted by a shapeless black mass, featureless apart from two red glowing eyes. The apparition rolled from the bed onto the floor and disappeared. At one certain place in the Abbey, where a passageway crosses the bottom of a staircase there is often a strong, heavy, Victorian scent of roses and lavender. No-one has actually been seen but there are numerous stories of people smelling the perfume. There are regular ghost tours at the Abbey, with various members
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NOTTINGHAM CASTLE Nottingham Castle stands on top of a 130 foot high sandstone outcrop above the River Trent, near to the city centre and was one of the foremost castles in Norman England. Originally built as a wooden structure after the Battle of Hastings (1066) the typical Norman style and bailey design was added to in the 12th century when it is thought the stone walls were added. The gatehouse, although extensively restored in Victorian times, dates mostly from the 14th century and is now home to the castle shop. The history of the castle reveals that it was in a state of “dekay and ruyne” during the 16th century and that it was demolished to be replaced by a mansion built for the Duke of Newcastle towards the end of the 17th century. Under the castle, carved into 033 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
the sandstone outcrop on which the castle stands, is the famous tunnel known as Mortimer’s Hole. The passage way is eerie enough but is made all the more so by the reputed presence of the ghost of Sir Roger Mortimer, the Earl of March and lover of Queen Isobel. It is alleged that Mortimer was probably an accomplice in the murder of Queen Isobel’s husband, King Edward II. On the night of October 19th 1330 the Queen and her lover Mortimer were staying at Nottingham Castle. Seeking to bring his father’s killer to justice and expose his feckless mother, the young King Edward III entered a network of secret tunnels that led ultimately into the castle itself. Sir Roger was imprisoned in the castle, taken to London and executed as a traitor. He was hanged, drawn and quartered on the 29th of November 1330 and his wretched remains skewered
on spikes and left to rot on traitors gate ‘Tyburn’. There are other cases of paranormal activity connected within the castle. In 1212 King John held some 28 sons of Welsh noble family’s hostage in the castle. The boys, some as young as 12, lived at the castle for some time, and were allowed free rein within the walls. Then one day, the precise date is unknown, King John ordered all the hostages executed. A chronicler states that the boy’s pitiful cries rang around the castle as one after the other they were taken up on the ramparts and hanged in a row. Their ghostly pleas for mercy are still said to be heard within the castle precincts.
CLIFTON HALL Today Clifton Hall sits empty – or does it? – waiting for the next stage in its long and varied history. Its most recent occupants, Anwar
Rashid and his family, moved out citing spectres, screams, mysterious blood splattering and a general feeling that something otherworldly was afoot. In the end, Mr. Rashid stopped paying the mortgage so that the bank was forced to repossess the mansion. Businessman Anwar Rashid says that they fled Clifton Hall after hearing screams in passageways late at night and they saw mysterious figures in bedrooms and
blood spots appeared on his baby’s clothes. When he tried and failed to sell the 17-bedroom home in Clifton Village, he stopped paying the mortgage so the Yorkshire Bank were forced to repossess. It is thought to be the most expensive home in Notts to be repossessed (and the most expensive possessed house to be repossessed). Mr Rashid says the home, which he
shared with his wife and four young children, his brother and his parents, was plagued by evil spirits. A paranormal investigation team said the hall was the “most active” place they had ever seen. The Cliftons, of Clifton Hall developed a tradition of free thinkers who often didn’t conform to the conventions of the day. Sir Gervase was
married seven times and made sure his eldest son, also Sir Gervase, didn’t get the hall. Instead the estate went to one of the elder Sir Gervase’s sons from his second marriage, Sir Clifford Clifton. Generations of Cliftons made the place their home, eventually making the village a “closed” one that no outsider could relocate to – a decision that meant it remained a tiny place until well into the 20th century. One notable 19th century resident was Sir Robert Clifton, whose early years as a sport-loving gambler didn’t offer much clue as to his later life as a popular Nottingham MP. After returning from a debt-enforced exile in Paris, he followed in the footsteps of his ancestors. But according to historical accounts he was friendlier with the working men, talking frankly and without reserve to them. He was elected to Parliament three times, although one was declared invalid after accusations of bribery. He died, unmarried, of typhoid fever in 1868. He was 43. Since he had no children the house passed to cousins, though
it remained in the family. Centuries of wars couldn’t dislodge the Cliftons from Clifton Hall, but post-war rebuilding could. Just after the Second World War the Nottingham City Corporation bought up land for new housing – modern Clifton was taking shape. The city came calling with a compulsory purchase order. By the end of 1947, 950 acres of farmland had been bought. All of Clifton had been sold in 1950 and by 1958, there were no Cliftons left there. According to a 1999 report, most Cliftons decamped to Hampshire, although a few went as far as Australia. The house’s next incarnation would be as a girls’ school, which opened for the 1958-59 school year. It remained for almost two decades, closing in 1976 after a sale to what was then Trent Polytechnic School of Education. That stage would last another two decades until the building, now part of Nottingham Trent University, sat next to the sprawling, modern Clifton campus.
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THE VAULT BY EVE MERRICK - WILLIAMS
The interview with my father was as short as it was uncomfortable. He stood behind his desk in his book lined study. I had no very happy memories of this room, as I never entered it unless I had incurred my father’s displeasure. Something, despite my best efforts, that occurred far too often. My brothers, strong hearty lads, were very much his favourites. Unlike my brothers, I was a sickly, bookish, drea my child, and soon learned that I was a disappointment. He looked at me coldly as I entered. ‘Y ou are of an age when you should consider what you are intending to do with your life. Have
you in any way considered what you are going to do for a career?’ I confessed that I had not considered this at all. He brought his hand down violently onto the desk making the pens and ink bottles ju mp. ‘‘I thought as much! Y ou, sir, are a lazy, drea my, ne’re-dowell, wasting time with Gothic novels even your own sisters have too much sense to read. I won’t have it, sir.’ He sat down and steepled his fingers. ‘It is fortunate for you I have considered. Y our tutors say that you are not stupid, despite appearances to the contrary, and with a little application on your part you might make
a tolerable scholar, your Latin and Greek are good, though you are little deficient in Hebrew. Y our weak constitution makes you unfit for the army or navy; therefore, that leaves only the church, and I have decided that you will study for holy orders.’ This was better than I had hoped, a few years at Oxford or Ca mbridge would be quite jolly, but his next words dashed my hopes. ‘I have decided to send you to St. David’s College La mpeter. I have spoken with the Principal, and you will begin to study for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Y ou will leave in a week’s time. I have made all the
arrangements.’ He stood and shook hands with me. ‘Do not disgrace me. Y ou may go.’ This was a disaster. La mpeter had nothing for a gentleman; it was a town of low pot houses full of cattle drovers and farm labourers, in a remote part of Wales. But, I knew father would not be swayed. So it was with a heavy heart that I stepped off the Aberystwyth coach outside the Black Lion as they changed horses. While my servant picked up my bags. I wondered what I would do to a muse myself for the next four years in this backwater.
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I soon found my fellow students to be a dull lot, some little better than ploughboys, and the town held few a musements for an educated person. So I took to wandering the countryside, and cultivated an interest in local antiquities. I beca me interested in some picturesque ruins near the College. They had once been a substantial mansion a hundred or so years ago, and a nu mber of local stories clustered around it, there was even some talk of an ancient curse. Most of the stories centred on the person of Sir Herbert Lloyd who had been lord of the manor of La mpeter, the man had been a tyrant and bully who committed many outrages on his neighbours. I found a portrait of the gentleman dressed in the fashion of the last century, in an old book in the college library; his face was cruel with a sneering look and cruel eyes. I had no trouble in believing the tales of his wickedness and debauchery. There is no doubt he was an unrelieved villain, careless of the laws of God and man, who might have stepped straight out of the pages of a gothic novel. In the sa me book I read the record of his life, a sorry tale of evil. But, in the end his sins caught up with him, ruined by ga mbling he committed self murder. The body was carried secretly back to his estate in La mpeter in a furniture box, but lay unburied for a fortnight as the bailiffs had forbidden burial until his debts were paid. At last the parish vicar was forced to ply them with strong drink until they were incapable. The coffin was then removed at midnight, under a black velvet pall. He was carried with all the trappings of a grand funeral, accompanied by fla ming torches, and interred clandestinely in the fa mily vault. I must confess the story appealed to my love of the gothic and macabre. I beca me obsessed with the story. It was an antidote to the tediu m of my studies and the dull company of my fellow scholars. On my free days I would go and sketch the ruins, and imagine them in the time of the wicked squire. I determined to locate the fa mily vault which had been lost over the years, and possibly write a monograph on thesubject for an antiquarian journal. One warm day in early su mmer I sat
sketching the ruins, and I must have fallen asleep. Possibly a result of the warm day combined with the two bottles of light ale I had consu med with my lunch. I awoke in the dark, cold and stiff. Although I was perfectly fa miliar with the ruins and ground by day, at night I was totally disorientated, and the mood of pleasant melancholy that spot had induced earlier in the day at night beca me something closer to fear. I started at every rustle a mong the leaves as I stu mbled over concealed stones and tangling briars in my vain search for the gate, and the safety of the road. In truth I had no idea in which direction to proceed. At length I heard the friendly jingle of harness and the grate of iron tires on stones. I looked in the direction of the sounds and saw the red lights of what I took to be lanterns twinkling a mong the trees. My courage restored I walked, almost ran towards the lights. An overgrown hedge stood between me and them, so I searched for a break or a thin place I could force my way through. I peered through a gap and quickly drew back. The sunken lane before me was lined with dark figures holding burning torches and a black four horse carriage stopped between them. The men, for such they appeared, lifted a black draped coffin from its interior, and carried it towards a cru mbling stone structure. I turned and fled precipitately. I must have stu mbled and fell hitting my head for I awoke the next morning cold and stiff, with a large bruise on my forehead. On my return to college the Principal reprimanded me and fined me a shilling, he assu med that I had been drinking in the town, and I did not deny it, fearing he would think me deranged if I told him the truth. One would have thought that my strange adventure, imaginary or real, would have been enough to cure me of my obsession, but perversely it had quite the opposite effect. Now that I had a clue to the whereabouts of the vault nothing would do but to search it out. However, my plans were delayed as I succu mbed to a slight brain fever; I was always prone to such maladies. But, as soon as I felt able, and my studies allowed, I returned to the ruins of Peterwell. It took most of the morning to locate what I fancied to be the sight of my nocturnal vision. I struggled through a gap in the hedge to
find myself in a sunken lane that led to a small rough meadow. I looked around, disappointed, seeing nothing that might reveal the vault’s location, but I began a careful search, and I was rewarded, finally, by finding a small dilapidated stone structure with a low stone arch fra ming an iron bound door. I was sure I had at last found the lost vault of the Lloyds. I determined I would come back the next day to take measurements and make sketches for my planned article. I returned to my room in collegesure that I was now over my obsession. But, I began to be tortured with the thought I might be mistaken. I had no actual proof, just my strange vision. In reality my identification of the vault was mere conjecture without further proof. I decided that the only way to prove my theory was to gain entry to the vault, and take a rubbing of the coffin plate. The next day I purchased a crowbar, pickaxe and a candle lantern. I returned to the vault early the next day. The door, though ancient, was still stout and resisted my efforts to force it open, so I resolved to try and remove some of the stone blocks in the wall. This proved no easy task, even though the mortar was rotten with age. But, by the time sun had begun to set, I had excavated an opening largeenough to allow me ingress to what lay beyond. I lit one of the candles I had brought in readiness, and held it in the hole that I had made. Even through the air was foul with the odours of decay, the candle burned with a clear light. It illu minated a flight of shallow steps that led into a small vaulted cha mber. It was obviously a charnel vault, and if I had left my explorations there all would have been well. But I squeezed through the hole and entered the cha mber. Around the walls in niches lay mouldering coffins, and in the centre of the cha mber on a stone bench lay the object of my search, covered with the remains of a black pall. It cru mbled to dust at my touch. I held my candle close to the coffin plate and read. Hic sepultus Sir Herbert Lloyd, Baronet. What prompted me to such an action I know not. But, noticing that the plate was loose I used my crow bar to remove it, and placed it in my pocket. I returned to my rooms in the college well pleased with my endeavours, and planning
to begin my monograph the next day. I woke the next morning with an oppressive sense of dread, and the feeling of an unseen malevolent presence dogging my footsteps. I put these sensations down to a combination of my exertions of the previous day, my excitement at my discovery, and the lingering effects of my recent brain fever. Far from fading as the days passed the feelings grew stronger, and my nights were haunted by evil drea ms in which the shroud dressed corpse of Herbert Lloyd chased me through endless stone tunnels. Soon my health began to suffer, and I once again fell into a brain fever more serious than the last. The fever brought me to the brink of death before it broke, and though I recovered, I was so weak as to be scarcely able to dress myself. Worse still, I could still sense the malefic presence that seemed to have become my inseparable companion. Waking or sleeping I knew it was there, waiting, and getting stronger. One night, as I was readying myself for bed, I heard a slight scratching as of a branch against glass. I turned to see the rage contorted features of Herbert Lloyd staring through my window. I confess with sha me that I screa med and dropped my candle. I relit it with a trembling hand and saw only my own face reflected. I told myself that it was only my overwrought nerves playing tricks on me. The following night as I was shaving, I watched my own features contort and change to those of my ghostly persecutor, his face a Gorgon mask of rage and hate. The livid lips moved slightly but I understood his words as if he had shouted them. ‘Return that which you have stolen, thief!’ I spent the night in fervent prayer with many candles burning in my room. The next morning I took the filthy thing and returned to the vault. I flung it as far as I was able thought the hole I had made, for nothing could induce me to step inside again. I pushed the stones back and covered them with earth. I thank God that from that day forth I have never been troubled by his unclean spirit again. But even now, so many years later, I still must have light in my bedroom, and I cannot abide the presence of a mirror there.
Eve is a slightly dotty lady of a certain age or more accurately a mad old hippy. She has been in her time a science technician, riding teacher, Gardner, Jewellery maker, story teller and performance poet, and a load of things she forgets now. She has been a practicing witch and Pagan but now she is a devout Buddhist. She has a degree in ancient history and an MA in ancient philosophy and myth. Eve has had a few things published in the past and plans to really concentrate on writing now. Do you fancy telling Haunted and its readers a ghost story, if so email paul@hauntedmagazine.co.uk and you could be featured in future issues of Haunted
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SO YOU WANT TO BE A...
GRAVEDIGGER
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INTRODUCTION
It would also be helpful to have a sense of humour to
Mr. Davey, who is married to Leila, 22, fell into the
The funeral business need not be dark and sinister.
keep the business of death in perspective.
grave digging trade after helping out his father-in-
Many people today opt for ceremonies that celebrate
law Paul Dervish of Blunts Hall Road, Witham. He took
a life rather than mark a death. It is not unknown for
ENTRY REqUIREMENTS
the farewell to a Harley Davidson fan to feature a
There are no formal academic requirements for
by Braintree Council, just under three years ago.
procession of bikers headed by the funeral director
entry, although some reading and writing skills are
It sees him digging graves at the cemeteries in
in tails and crash helmet. However there are unique
necessary. Sometimes, entrants must be prepared to
Braintree, Bocking, Halstead and Witham, though
sensitivities about death and bereavement, which
undergo professional training.
he favours Bocking and Halstead. “They are each
those in the business would never ignore. The
The Federation of British Cremation Authorities
peaceful cemeteries to work in and Halstead I like
gravedigger, or cemetery worker, is no exception
and the Institute of Burial and Cremation (IBCA)
because often the ground is quite nice to dig. It’s just
even though he/she may have less personal contact
runs the Cemetery Operatives Training Scheme
a different soil consistency.”
with clients than his/her colleagues. The job can
at the Berkshire Agriculture College. A City in
be found in all types of authority except for county
Guilds qualification in Cemetery and Graveyard
In his line of work soil is something Mr. Davey, a keen
councils.
Maintenance is also available. There are also
gardener, has intimate knowledge of. He described
correspondence courses available for those already
Halstead’s as “dark and peaty,” Bocking’s as “flinty and
working in the profession.
sandy” and Braintree and Witham’s as having the
WORK ENVIRONMENT Hours are usually 9-5, Monday to Friday, but some
over the reigns of the business, which is contracted
most clay. “It’s the difference between a grave taking three or four hours or two days to dig,” he said. The
duties are necessary at weekends. Their work is
ESTIMATED SALARY RANGE
mainly outdoors, often in all kinds of weather. It is
£10,278 – £12,000
a digger. Mr. Davey prefers the “dignity” of digging by
physically demanding, sometimes dirty and involves
Please note that salary information is a guide only
hand. “It’s a lot nicer if someone is quietly digging a
lots of climbing and bending. Some aspects of the
and there may be local agreements in place. For
grave away by hand, than if a giant digger is tearing
job may involve the use of heavy machinery and
further information about salaries for particular
the place up.” When it comes to skills he said it was
chemicals. Suitable protective clothing is provided
positions, please contact your local council directly.
about “just getting a technique digging.”
tools of the trade are his shovel and fork rather than
when appropriate.
DAILY ACTIVITIES
FUTURE PROSPECTS
& OPPORTUNITIES
He receives information on funerals and coffin sizes by email and, depending on his work load and the
Cemetery workers/gravediggers who get the chance
type of soil, digs the day before the funeral or earlier.
These are undertaken at crematoria and cemeteries.
to do some clerical work as well, after undertaking
A double grave is dug 6ft deep and a single 4½ to 5ft.
As well as general ground maintenance – tending
training, can progress into cemetery administration
His duties also involve raking the soil over the coffin
graves and memorial sites – cemetery workers
positions. But there is little scope for promotion
and planting the flowers. Mr. Davey has at times had
measure and mark out grave spaces before using a
within practical cemetery work itself.
to dig graves for those he has known or babies, but
mechanical excavator and hand held shovels to dig
despite this his emotions never get in the way of his
the grave. They then use timber and special hydraulic
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A... GRAVEDIGGER
professionalism. “It’s [babies] often more upsetting
equipment to shore up the sides. In the course of
Every day is the graveyard shift for one 22-year-old
than an older person that’s died but I view it as it
their daily work, gravediggers will have working
man but despite being surrounded by death grave
needs to be done, the job, so I just get on and do it.”
contact with a number of funeral and cemetery
digger Ashley Davey of Bocking Church Street enjoys
staff including crematorium technicians, cemetery
the job. He said: “A lot of people say you have to be
His friends find his job “unique,” but Mr. Davey is
inspectors and superintendents, council officials and
a particular type of person to do the job, but I enjoy
just a normal young man whose interests include
general gardening staff.
it. I get on well with it. I like the peacefulness of the
socialising. His job can sometimes see him digging
cemeteries, working in the cemeteries and I do enjoy
graves late into the night, but he does not get
digging. It’s nice when you have dug a grave and
spooked.
SKILLS & INTERESTS
you are down there 6ft and you have achieved that
You would need to be:
and it’s done”. “And I enjoy just helping some of the
“A lot of people ask if I’m worried to dig in cemeteries
•
discreet, respectful and polite when dealing
elderly people in the cemetery as well. Helping them
at night which I often do if it’s a hot summer’s day or
with grieving people
with their watering cans or just having a chat with
if I have got a lot to do. I may stay late at night and
them.”
start really early, like 4am, in the summer.”
• physically fit • knowledgeable about gardening.
That truly is the graveyard shift.
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which incorporated new footage with the best of the hour long shows. Selected highlights from the first series are available on DVD and video entitled Derren Brown Inside Your Mind. Trick of the Mind Trick of the Mind was the title for Brown's next series, which ran for three consecutive series. Unlike Mind Control it is all completely new material. The second series started on E4 on 11 April 2005 and was repeated on Channel 4. The third series started on 26 March 2006. Trick of the Mind series 1 and 2 are also available to buy on DVD. Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English magician, illusionist, mentalist, painter and sceptic. He was born in Croydon, South London, educated at Whitgift School, where his father coached swimming and studied Law and German at the University of Bristol.While there, he attended a show by the hypnotist Martin Taylor, which inspired him to turn to illusion and hypnosis as a career. Whilst an undergraduate, he started working as a conjuror, practising the traditional skills of close-up magic. In 1992, he started performing stage hypnosis shows at the University of Bristol under the stage name Darren V. Brown.
Waking Dead
Brown has also given performances relating to mind-reading. Shortly after, he was commissioned to do a pilot for his Channel 4 television series, Mind Control. Much of his work is written in collaboration with Andy Nyman.
The episode raised considerable controversy. Mick Grierson, credited in the episode as "Zombie Game Designer", put up a website linking to various articles about the episode.
In June 2005, a clip from the second series was widely circulated on the internet. In this clip, Brown claims to have created a video game he calls "Waking Dead" which "is able to put roughly 1/3 of the people who play it into a catatonic trance". In this episode, he places the video game in a pub to lure a supposedly unsuspecting patron into playing the game. He then "kidnaps" the catatonic "victim" and places him in a reallife recreation of the video game, having him fire an air gun at actors, pretending to be zombies and outfitted with explosive squibs.
Trick or Treat Television shows Mind Control Since the first broadcast of his Channel 4 television show Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, he has become increasingly well known for his "mind-reading" act. Brown states at the beginning of his Trick of the Mind programmes that he achieves his results using a combination of "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship". Using his knowledge and skill he appears to be able to predict and influence people's thoughts with subtle suggestion, manipulate the decision making process and read the subtle physical signs or body language that indicate what a person is thinking. He began his television work with three sixty-minute specials over two years which led up to the six part series Mind Control, 047 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
Trick or Treat started on Channel 4 in 2007. The focus of the show is on one volunteer that either receives a good experience or a bad experience. The experience the volunteer receives is decided by which card they choose. If they choose the card that says 'Trick' they receive a bad experience and if they choose the card that says 'Treat' they receive a good experience. In the first series of 'Trick or Treat', the volunteer had no choice over the matter as the cards were ambigrams; however, in the second series, they were replaced by two more clearly defined cards which were no longer ambigrams. Episodes of Trick or Treat are not preceded by Brown's usual claim that no actors or stooges were used in the filming of the shows. Indeed, some participants (such as the ambulance crew in the last episode) are
declared to be actors. The second series of "Trick or Treat" began on 2 May 2008 at 22.00 on Channel 4. The third episode showed a slight change from the previous format, as actor David Tennant became the first celebrity to be used for the show. The two had met at a party where Tennant expressed interest in Brown's work. While writing the second season Brown "thought it would be fun if one of the participants was well-known". The last episode of the second series featured all volunteers of the series who had previously received a trick or treat. This episode highlighted the belief of superstition, and the degree to which it will be applied. Mind Control with Derren Brown On 26 July 2007, the US based SCI FI Channel began showing six one-hour episodes of a series titled Mind Control with Derren Brown. Andrew O'Connor was executive producer, and the show was produced by Simon Mills who had produced the two previous series of Trick Or Treat as well as The Heist and The System for Objective Productions. Journalists in New York at the press announcement were shown preview clips of Brown "manipulating human behaviour" and given the promise of more surprises to come. Sci Fi's press release described the show as an "original US produced version". The show was a mix of new segments filmed in the US and older clips shown in earlier UK TV shows. The first showing release schedule was: Episode 1 "Shopping Mall Carpark" 26 July Episode 2 "Lying Car Salesman" 2 August Episode 3 "Exotic Dancers" 8 August Episode 4 "Receptive Children" 15 August with a guest star Simon Pegg Episode 5 "Assault Course" 22 August Episode 6 "Disappearing Sun" 29 August Derren Brown: The Events Event 1: How to Win the Lottery The first show, a live event broadcast on Wednesday 9 September 2009, appeared to show Derren Brown predicting that night's lottery draw. This was conducted by a set of white balls lined up, facing a wall, next to a television displaying a live feed from BBC One as they aired the live draw. After the draw, Brown wrote the results on a piece of card prior to turning the white balls around, facing the camera, to reveal that both the numbers on the balls and the numbers on the card were the same. The
winning numbers were: 2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39. The bonus was number 15, however, his predictions did not include the bonus ball. If the numbers were chosen at random, there would be a 1 in 13,983,816 chance of predicting all 6 numbers correctly. On Friday 11 September at 21:00, a show aired, which stated three possibilities for winning the lottery. The first, faking a winning ticket, was quickly dismissed, and the majority of the programme described Brown's use of automatic writing and crowd psychology to appear to predict the numbers ahead of time. Through a series of experiments and attempts at explaining complex psychology, while avoiding the underlying maths, Brown suggested that he may have predicted numbers using a phenomenon known as the "Wisdom of Crowds". He revealed 24 volunteers who, after a number of previous sessions, were shown to apparently predict the correct numbers by perusing a board filled with previous lottery numbers and guessing that week's through automatic writing. The show concluded with a brief description of how the lottery results could have been rigged, with Brown firmly stating that this would have been illegal and that he would always claim the the stunt was simply a trick. The "Wisdom of Crowds" explanation received considerable negative criticism from the press and leading academics with one journalist writing in The Times "Derren Brown turns from most intriguing man on television to the most irritating". Publicist Max Clifford remarked that the stunt would have "put millions on [Brown's] value in the years to come". Journalist A C Grayling wrote that "the hour-long 'explanation' was itself a trick, and not as good as the lottery trick itself." Camelot, the company who run the National Lottery, congratulated Brown on
his "illusion", and reminded the public that it was "impossible to affect the outcome of the draw". This trick attracted widespread attention, and a number of alternative explanations were proposed, including the use of a split screen camera trick, or a false wall. The Daily Mail concluded that using a false wall seemed the most likely method, while a poll for the Guardian concluded that a split screen was most likely. Event 2: How to Control the Nation On Friday 18 September, the second event was broadcast where Brown attempted to control the nation by forcing an inability to get up and walk away from the show. Brown showed a short film, consisting of rotating lines, that was meant to produce a sense of physical inability to rise from one's chair. Approximately half of the live studio audience appeared to experience this effect, though Brown claimed that the percentage of viewers experiencing the sensation would be lower in the less optimal conditions of their homes. Event 3: How to Be a Psychic Spy Inspired by the CIA's top secret Stargate Project, Brown conducts a nationwide experiment in remote viewing.In the 1960s, in response to a leaked KGB video, the CIA spent millions of dollars (the equiv of $75m in modern money) on research into psychic abilities and in particular the principle of remote viewing - the ability to see and describe an object that is hidden from view. For the show's main Event, Derren will perform a unique, national psychic experiment with viewers able to take part via the phone or on channel4.com. In it, he'll get them to attempt match a covered drawing hung in the Science Museum. At the end of The Event, it will be revealed if
the drawing matches the images the nation have drawn, Friday 25 September at 9pm. (*too late to be included in Haunted) Event 4: How to Take Down a Casino Brown attempts to beat the odds at roulette, but there is a twist. Someone in the UK is about to get a big surprise as, live on television, they become the unwitting accomplice in Brown's mission to take down a casino. Television specials Russian Roulette On 5 October 2003, Brown performed Russian roulette, live on Channel 4. The stunt was ostensibly performed at an undisclosed location outside mainland Britain, in Jersey, because of British laws banning the possession of handguns. A volunteer, James, chosen from 12,000 who applied for the task, and whittled down to five by the day of the stunt, loaded a single shot into a revolver with six numbered chambers, after Brown had said "choose one of those numbers, keep them to yourself, choose one, it doesn't matter which one it is, settle on a number, are you thinking of one now", James then counted from one to six. Attempting to predict the location of the bullet, Brown pulled the trigger on chambers 3 and 4 with the gun aimed at his head, before appearing to decide on chamber 5 and firing the gun away from himself. When that chamber proved to be empty, he paused for over one minute before aiming at his head again for chamber 6, then immediately extending his arm and firing the round in chamber 1 away from him (with the gun out of camera view). The programme was initially condemned by senior British police officers, apparently fearful of copycat acts. Brown himself defended the programme, saying, "It probably sounds odd. But as a magic-related performer, to have that even being asked: Was it real? Was it not real? That lifts it to a level that I'm very comfortable with. What's left is the fact that it was a terrific piece of television." Séance Brown's next project, Derren Brown: Séance, aired on Channel 4 on 31 May 2004. In Séance, he brought students from Roehampton University together for a live séance. He held the event at Elton Hall in East London, claiming the location had a history of paranormal activity after 048 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
12 people killed themselves in a suicide pact in 1974. Brown then proceeded to demonstrate the methods used by spiritualists. The show attempted to involve the television audience with interactive activities, the first being to identify one of the members of the suicide pact by looking at photographs. The 12 pictures were shown on screen in a set pattern, with half of them in colour and half black and white. The viewer was instructed to choose one of the colour images that they "feel a connection with". Brown then directed the viewers in a movement pattern between the photographs (for example, move left or right to one of the adjacent black and white photographs). The positioning and movement instructions were carefully planned to ensure that no matter which photograph was initially chosen the viewer would finish on the picture of "Jane". Ten of the students also chose Jane. During the following Ouija board scene, the "spirit" guided the students to spell the name Jane. Two of the students, along with the television viewers, were asked to write the name of a city. Both students chose London. The final scene, the sĂŠance itself, saw the group "contact" Jane. One of the students spoke as if she were Jane, giving details of her life. A letter and short film confirmed the accuracy of the details. Brown went on to explain some of the manipulations he had used, including the photograph positioning/instructions and the use of the ideomotor effect during the Ouija board scene. The suicide pact had not taken place and "Jane" was introduced to the students at the end of the show. In his book, Tricks of the Mind, Brown reveals that, contrary to claims when the show was aired, SĂŠance did not go out live. He said it was necessary to make people believe that it did at the time. Channel 4 received 700 complaints, most before the episode was aired. Viewers who felt "something unusual" were invited to call a phone number, and callers were told that the show was carefully planned, and that no paranormal activities were taking place. Brown also warned viewers about the impending Ouija board scene, advising those who objected for "religious reasons or otherwise" to stop watching the show. Messiah Shown on 7 January 2005, Brown traveled to the United States to try to convince five leading figures that he had powers in 049 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
their particular field of expertise: Christian evangelism, alien abduction, psychic powers, New Age theories and contacting the dead. Using a false name each time, he succeeded in convincing four of the five "experts" that he had powers, and they openly endorsed him as a true practitioner. The fifth expert, the Christian evangelist Curt Nordheilm, whilst impressed by Brown's performance, asked to meet him again before giving an endorsement. The concept of the show was to highlight the power of suggestion with regard to beliefs and people's abilities, and failure to question them. Brown made it quite clear with each experiment that if any of the subjects accused him of trickery he would immediately come clean about the whole thing, a rule similar to one of
the self-imposed rules of the perpetrators of the Project Alpha hoax. His conclusion was that people tend to hear only things that support their own ideas and ignore contradictory evidence; this is known in psychology as confirmation bias. The Gathering
The Gathering was a specially recorded as-live show at a secret location (hidden from the audience) with an invited audience of students from Roehampton University, celebrities, psychologists, psychics, taxidrivers and magicians. It was filmed on 18 May 2005 and broadcast on 29 May. As part of the show Brown recalled streets, page numbers and grid references from the Greater London A-Z map. Also pseudopsychic "mind reading" and "remote viewing" activities were recreated. During the show, Brown hypnotised the audience as a group and convinced them that for approximately half an hour after leaving the room, they would have no memory of the events. Furthermore, the word "forget" was intermittently flashed very briefly on the backdrop throughout the performance. A variety of audience members were interviewed afterwards; some of them couldn't recollect anything (but were nevertheless very impressed); brief clips of these interviews were shown. One of the most memorable stunts was getting a London taxi driver to choose a street in London and then choose and mentally drive a random route. This was achieved by drawing a line on a map of London made of stuck together A-Z pages. An envelope,
The Heist was shown on 4 January 2006 at 21:00, on Channel 4. In the show, Brown used his skills on selected participants who answered an advertisement. Under the guise of a "motivational seminar" (where they would allegedly learn Brown's skills) Brown recruited a number of participants, eventually manipulating a number of them into robbing a security van in broad daylight. The robbery involved holding up a security van and guard (played by an actor) using a realistic-looking toy pistol that Brown had given them earlier, and stealing a case filled with real money. Four people were selected to carry out the robbery from an initial field of thirteen, with three of them actually carrying out the "robbery". The idea was that after the conditioning they received, they would voluntarily rob the van of their own accord. There was no mention of the 'crime' to the participants, and they were not (directly) instructed to do it. The three that did it did so as a result of the conditioning and their own choice, not instructions from any third party including Brown. Brown associated colour, music and phrases to build the participants into a highly-
which had been visible onstage throughout the entire show was then opened. This contained a card listing the page number and coordinate of the destination, an acetate with the route marked on it and a receipt for £8 (the estimated cost of the journey by the driver). He started in Buckingham Palace and ended up in Shepherd's Bush Green, the street in which the secret performance took place.
motivated state, converging all of those psychological empowerment tools into a single set up. The seminar subliminally anchored freedom, childhood, opportunity and romance into various criminal acts. After having previously been convinced to steal sweets from a shop based in Codicote High Street in Hertfordshire, they were shown the euphoria that could be gained from criminal acts.
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This programme also contained a re-
enactment of the Milgram experiment carried out by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s with the aim of selecting four of the most obedient of the group. 65% of the subjects in this experiment were willing to administer lethal electric shocks to another person on the instruction of an authoritative figure (unbeknown to the subjects, the electric shocks were not actually real); these were the same results as Milgram himself found. The System The System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his "100 per cent guaranteed" method for winning on the horses, was first shown on 1 February 2008. The show was based around the idea that a system could be developed to predict the outcome of horse races with total accuracy. Cameras followed an ordinary member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race. To demonstrate the system to the viewer, Brown tossed a coin showing ten heads in a row to prove it was not impossible, just highly improbable. After Brown had placed a bet of £4,000 of Khadisha's money on a horse in the final race, he explained that The System did not really exist. He had started by contacting 7,776 people and split them into six groups, giving each group a different horse. As each race had taken place 5⁄6 of the people had lost and were dropped from the system. Far from Brown knowing which horse would win, he had a different person backing each horse in each race, and it was simple logic that meant that one individual, who happened to be Khadisha, won five times in a row. This was similar to the coin flipping earlier: rather than having a predictive technique, Brown had simply tossed a coin repeatedly until ten heads had come up in a row, taking over nine hours to produce the required film. Brown expressed the opinion that the principle behind The System (essentially confirmation bias) is what is behind belief in spiritualism or homeopathic and alternative medicine. After the selected horse in the final race lost, and Khadisha was convinced that she had lost all her borrowed money, Brown told Khadisha to look again at the betting slip in her hand. The ticket showed the winning horse's name, meaning Khadisha kept her stake and received winnings of £13,000. Brown claimed that he had decided to bet 050 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
for a different horse when he got to the booth. Other television appearances The Enemies of Reason An interview with Brown was featured in Richard Dawkins' two part documentary series The Enemies of Reason. Brown explained various psychological techniques used by alleged psychics and spiritual mediums to manipulate their audience. The most notable is cold reading, a technique to which Brown devoted a whole chapter of his book Tricks of the Mind. Some video footage was also used from Brown's TV special Messiah. Stage shows Something Wicked This Way Comes Brown's second live stage show, Something Wicked This Way Comes, toured around the UK following its success in the West End. The tour started in March at the Cambridge Theatre and finished in May at the Hammersmith Apollo. The show won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment Show 2006. The show was co-written and directed by his long time collaborator Andy Nyman. The title is a direct quote from William Shakespeare's Macbeth; Act 4, scene 1, line 45. The show was performed and filmed for a final time at the Old Vic Theatre at the end of the tour in mid-June 2006. A 90-minute edit of this show was broadcast on 29 December 2006 and 10 June 2007, on Channel 4, on 10 May 2008 and 17 Jan 2009 on E4 and once more on 17 June 2008 on Channel 4; a longer, unedited version was released on DVD in May 2008. Mind Reader – An Evening of Wonders Brown's third live stage show toured around the United Kingdom and was titled, "Derren Brown, Mind Reader - An Evening of Wonders". It started its run in 2007 on 29 April in Blackpool and ended 17 June in Bristol. The show toured again from February until April 2008 throughout the UK, and concluded with a West End run at the Garrick Theatre during May and early June. The West End run was a strictly limited season of 32 performances only. A performance from the last week of the tour at the Garrick theatre was filmed for Channel 4 and aired on 13 January 2009. Derren Brown - Enigma Enigma is the name of Derren Brown's 2009 051 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
stage tour. It began in Chatham on Friday 17 April 2009, visiting various UK towns before ending in London with a month at the Adelphi Theatre starting Monday 15 June 2009. The show includes hypnosis, where Derren attempts to hypnotise the entire audience. At the end of the show Derren pleads with audience members, particularly reviewers and the press, not to reveal the shows secrets and surprises to others so as to avoid spoiling the fun.
Brown is the Patron of the National Parrot Sanctuary, situated near Skegness. Brown claimed to be a former evangelical Christian; he states that he became an atheist in his twenties. This is discussed by Brown in the Messiah special, and in his book Tricks of the mind. DERREN QUOTES: “Fingers: We all have them and shouldn't be ashamed of them." From Trick of the Mind.
Criticism In a Daily Telegraph article published in 2003 Simon Singh criticised Brown's early TV appearances, arguing that he presented standard magic and mentalism effects such as the classic Ten Card Poker Deal trick - as genuine psychological manipulation. On Brown's television and live shows he often appears to show the audience how a particular effect was created—claiming to use subliminal imagery, body language reading and so on. Singh's suggestion is that these explanations are dishonest. Furthermore, Singh took exception to the programme's website being categorised under Channel 4's "Science" section. The minisite was moved to Entertainment for later series. In his book Tricks of the Mind, Brown writes, I am often dishonest in my techniques, but always honest about my dishonesty. As I say in each show, 'I mix magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship'. I happily admit cheating, as it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't. I am an entertainer first and foremost, and I am careful not to cross any moral line that would take me into manipulating people's real-life decisions or belief systems. Brown claims he never uses actors or "stooges" in his work. In Tricks of the Mind he offers the defence that such a ploy is "artistically repugnant and simply unnecessary"; furthermore, he "would not want any participant to watch the [TV] show when it airs and see a different or radically re-edited version of what he understood to have happened". Personal life Brown came out as gay in an interview in a Sunday newspaper supplement in September 2007. In April 2008, he clarified that he had been in a relationship for a year, but that his partner would prefer to stay out of the public eye. He lives with partner Mark, a designer, in a flat in London.
“I'm going to physically restrain you if that's alright, I'm sure it's nothing you're not used to. “ From Trick of the Mind. “Seems the séance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose. “ From Derren's website “I control the conditions so my testers become my testees. “ From Mind Control. “Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake. “ From interview on Inside Your Mind “By the end of the evening all but one of them will be dead. Only kidding. I give them a week. “ From Séance. DERREN BROWN: ENIGMA TOUR 2010 The following venues currently have tickets on sale for Enigma: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 FEB The Hawth, Crawley 2, 3 MAR Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool 4, 5, 6 MAR Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol 15, 16, 17 MAR The Mayflower, Southampton 25, 26, 27 MAR Ipswich Regent, Ipswich 1, 2 APR Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh 5, 6, 7 APR Sunderland Empire, Sunderland 8,9,10 APR Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes 12, 13, 14 APR Waterfront Hall, Belfast 22, 23, 24 APR New Victoria Theatre, Woking 27,28,29,30 APR & 1 MAY Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Birmingham
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My PSyCHIC lIFE By Sally Morgan Sally Morgan is an ordinary woman ÊÊ With an extraordinary gift, she can ÊCommunicate with the dead
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Sally Morgan saw her first ghost aged four while she was at nursery. As a child she thought her abilities were normal and only when she grew older did she realise that her gift was special. It took a personal disaster in Sally’s life to understand how to take control of the mysteries of the spirit world and become a professional medium. Since then she has been speaking to the spirits and passing on their messages, hopes and fears to the living with astonishing accuracy. Star of the hugely popular ITV series Star Psychic Sally Morgan is one of the nation’s favourite psychic medium. Packed with incredible anecdotes that will send shivers down the spines, this is the autobiography of an ordinary woman whose first-hand experiences of intense conflict and personal turmoil have helped developed her spiritual abilities. They have also served as a background to her psychic counselling work enabling her to reach out and connect emotionally with those who have come to her for comfort and insight, whether they have been Princess Diana or a grieving neighbour. Sally Morgan’s life has been remarkable and here she tells her story for the first time. The second series of Star Psychic will be on ITV at the time of publication. AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WILL SALLY WILL FEATURE IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF HAUNTEDÊ
Z-A OF THE PARANORMAL
Here at Haunted we don’t want to do things the normal way, that would be boring and not much fun. We don’t want to teach you to suck eggs either, but we do not want to assume that you know everything there is to no about the world of the paranormal. We looked at an informative A-Z of the paranormal, things that you may know about, know something about, or know absolutely jack diddley squit about. Then we decided to turn it on its head and start from the last letter of the alphabet, Zed, Zee, the Zzz.
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Zooform Phenomena is a term coined by Jonathan Downes, an Exeter-based investigator of mystery animals. The term describes entities that outwardly resemble animals, but appear supernatural rather than corporeal. (The actual Zooform Phenomena is in itself an A-Z ranging from the likes of the Abominable Snowman to the Yeti etc, there is however a “Z� in this phenomena): ZEUGLODONTS:: these creatures are supposedly extinct serpentine whales, able to move about on land for short periods of time and for short distances. ZOMBIES are a very real phenomenon typically associated with the voodoo practicing, West Indian country of Haiti
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on the island of Hispaniola. Zombies are persons who have 'died' but are not really dead, they are alive in a state of being, referred to as the undead. Evil sorcerers called bokors bring their victims back to a zombie state of life. This life is not a full life but a weird half-life where the zombie is incapable of thinking for itself, and it has no prior knowledge as to who it was. The bokors take their victims to remote areas where they are put to work as slaves. The whole idea of zombies is so ingrained in the psyche of the locals, that even the poorest of peasants are willing to pay quite large amounts of money to have heavy slabs placed on the coffins of their loved ones. This is thought to deter the bokors.
An American biologist Wade Davis suspected that some mysterious substances were used in zombification and he set about to find them. He discovered two noteworthy constituents: Tetrodotoxin - obtained from puffer fish - an effective nerve poison, inducing deep paralysis. A fluid - secreted by the skin glands of the highly poisonous cane toad Bufo marinus - an effective hallucinogen and strong anaesthetic. Other drugs such as 'zombie cucumber' Datura stramonium were thought to aid in the resuscitation and mind control of the victim.
It was also found that if persons that had been paralysed using the above drugs and left in their coffins too long, the effects of the mind controlling drug Datura stramonium were enhanced due to oxygen starvation, also adding to irreversible brain damage. The idea of a rotting corpse brought back to life possibly has more to do with the work of novels and movies. However the idea of zombies as drugged individuals, pronounced dead and then buried alive in a coffin awaiting complete brainwashing appears to hold more truth. THE ZODIAC is an imaginary beltshaped region in the heavens, 16[deg] broad, or 18[deg] broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It is made up of and divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes. In (Western) astrology it is represented as a circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal constellations and showing their birth signs. There are twelve signs in all and depending upon the date of birth of an individual, a corresponding sign is allocated to that individual. It is believed that individuals born under any one of the twelve signs will exhibit certain character traits which are associated with those signs. The table to the keft shows the twelve signs of the zodiac (Western) and their corresponding symbols. Sometimes the zodiac in conjunction with astrology is used in the production of a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly horoscope - this is a method of using the relative positions of the stars to predict a person's future it is a method of divination. ZERMATISM is a form of pseudoscience which was intended to show that all languages came originally from a single ancient language and that all art could be distilled down to a single series of universal symbols. The theory was conceived by a man called Stanislav Szukalski who was born in Gidle in Poland around 1893 and died in 1987. "According to his theory, differences in races and cultures were due primarily
to inter-species breeding between near-perfect ancestral beings and the Yetinsyn (humanoid creatures reputed to live in remote Himalayan valleys which some people call Abominable Snowmen".
Warsaw in 1939. Unfortunately much of his early work was lost during the German invasion, but luckily, he managed to escape back to the United States and to California where he went to live with his American wife.
Stanislav Szukalski's talent had an incredible talent for art and apparently when he was only six years old, he was sent to the head-teacher for whittling a pencil. on close examination of this pencil, the headmaster discovered that Stanislav had carved a tiny but nearperfect figure. The figure had obviously impressed the head-teacher, who subsequently contacted the local newspaper instead of punishing him.
Szukalski died in relative obscurity in 1987 after having spent much of his life relentlessly producing art which was to help prove his hypothesis that all human culture was indeed derived from a single origin on Easter Island after the biblical 'Deluge of Noah'. In his lifetime he illustrated thirty volumes of text devoted to his pseudoscience which he invented and called Zermatism.
The newspaper duly did an article on the young art prodigy. Szukalski then went on to the Fine Arts Academy in Krakow, where he studied art and won two gold medals. After moving to Chicago in 1913 he picked up English from reading National Geographical magazines, and very shortly became hailed as an art genius, along with other Renaissance luminaries such as Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg and Clarence Darrow. By the time he reached thirty there was already a major monograph published about his work. In order to pursue his sculpture he returned to Poland in 1927, but this was prematurely cut short by the Siege of
A year later his ashes, along with those of his wife, were scattered at Rano Raraku, the sculptor's quarry on Easter Island. ZENNER CARDS are a set of 25 cards made up of the symbols above. These cards are used in a card-guessing game to help test for the presence of ESP in an individual. They are also known as ESP cards and were devised by the perceptual psychologist Karl Zenner. If there is anything you think that we have missed out, then please do let us know, we are only too happy to be educated. Next Issue: Y!! (Because we want too)
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THE STREETS OF LONDON JOIN A CREEPY CRAWL AROUND N AMBULANCE ANDRAISE VITAL FUNDS FOR ST JOH
g on adventurous souls dressed in their scariest This Halloween’s eve, St John Ambulance is callin l around the sinister landmarks of London to raise costumes to embark on a new 10k Creepy Craw money for the charity’s life saving work. on Friday 30 October, the eve of Halloween, start The first ever Creepy Crawl will take place at dusk d fame ts, sigh its way around the capital’s historical ing at atmospheric London Bridge and winding for their bloody past and ghostly sightings. other fundraisers in fancy dress will take in high Throughout the walk over 100 ghouls, ghosts and on dem Ripper’s victims, Fleet Street’s location of the lights such as the murder site of one of Jack the Street the Bank of England who spooks Threadneedle barber Sweeney Todd, the ‘Bank Nun’ ghost of murr acto an by d’s Adelphi Theatre, haunted searching for her hanged brother, and The Stran rgeists, ghostly apparitions and legends, take part dered by a jealous colleague. Hear tales of polte ed snacks to keep your energy up for the frights in spooky activities along the way and enjoy them ahead. and ther and dress up as ghosts, zombies, monsters Let your imagination run wild, get a team toge ey sor you to scare yourself silly while raising mon mummies while getting friends and family to spon for the nation’s leading first aid charity. g on Events at St John Ambulance, says: ‘We’re callin Tara Sherjan, Head of Corporate Partnerships and ts even ng chilli the t story and want to learn more abou the curious and brave, who love a good ghost the is and ed l. This is an opportunity not to be miss in London’s history to sign up to the Creepy Craw e raising money to help St John Ambulance conperfect way to get into the Halloween spirit whil tinue its work training, caring and saving lives.’ rs. ensure no one suffers for a lack of trained first aide St John Ambulance needs your support to help to provide vital first aid assistance while £53,000 Just £45 equips one volunteer with a medical kit hwork supporting events from gigs and sports matc could buy and equip an ambulance. Through its will l the nation have fun, and the 10k Creepy Craw es, St John Ambulance is committed to helping d to s for St John Ambulance all participants are aske be no exception. In order to raise sufficient fund t be mus 18’s er Und . a minimum sponsorship of £100 pay a £15 deposit followed by a pledge to raise accompanied by an adult. il rg.uk/sja/support-us or call 0207 324 4172 or ema To take part in the Creepy Crawl visit www.sja.o be also may t in things that go bump in the nigh gemma.marshall@nhq.sja.org.uk Those interested over in a haunted manor house. interested in the St John Ambulance Spooky Sleep
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Following on from its success in 2008, the St John Ambulance Spooky Sleepover is back and a new haunted location looms. Brave participants are needed to experience an unforgettable and unique night in a haunted mano r house while raising money for St John Ambulance to continue their life saving work. The Spooky Sleepover takes place on the night of Saturday 21 November until Sunday morning at Eastbury Manor in Barking and is guaranteed to be a hair-r aising occasion. Situated upon the former site of Barking Abbey, which was founded in 666 AD, the Elizab ethan manor was built in the 1570s and is steep ed in history. Falling into decay in 1918, the house was resto red by The National Trust. With stories of vamp ires, hangings and the alleged meeting place for the gunpowde r plot, this beautiful manor has a plentiful past. Starting at 9.00pm with a welcome and buffet meal the night takes a sinister turn…You’ll be given your own private candlelit tour of Eastbury Manor, an inves tigation into the paranormal and the chance to hear ghost stories. If that doesn’t leave you shaking with fear then you can watch a scary movie or simply snug gle down and endure the rest of the night. First aid trained St John Ambulance event coord inators will be present for the whole night, so will help you with any problems you may have (though be warn ed, even they won’t be able to save you from any supernatural terrors of the night!). Tara Sherjan, Head of Corporate Partnerships and Events: ‘We are calling on the fearless to stay the entire night in these ghostly surroundings. This event will test your nerves and promises to be a night to remember! Endure the night and raise money to help us save lives.’ St John Ambulance needs your support to help ensure no one suffers for a lack of trained first aider s. Just £45 equips one volunteer with a medical kit to provide vital first aid assistance while £53,000 could buy and equip an ambulance. Through its work supportin g events from gigs and sports matches, St John Ambulance is committed to helping the nation have fun, and the Spooky Sleepover will be no exception. In orde r to raise sufficient funds for St John Ambulance all parti cipants are asked to pay a £35 registration fee followed by a pledge to raise a minimum sponsorship of £150 . You must be 18 or over to sleepover. For more information visit our website www.sja.o rg.uk/spooky-sleepover or call 020 7324 4177 or email rosie. myres@nhq.sja.org.uk For information about St John Ambulance pleas
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St John Ambulance is the nation’s leading first aid, transport and care charity. They believe that every one who needs it should receive first aid from those aroun d them and that no one should suffer for the lack of trained first aiders. They have over 40,000 volunteers who are comm itted to training, caring and saving lives. They’re also one of the country’s largest youth organisations – more than half of their members are aged under 25.
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Scooby Dooby Doo Where Are You? We got some work to do now Scooby Dooby Doo Where Are You? We need some help from you now C'mon Scooby Doo, I see you Pretending you got a sliver You're not fooling me Cause I can see The way you shake and shiver You know we've got a mystery to solv e So, Scooby Doo, get ready for you r act Don't hold back And Scooby Doo, if you come thro ugh You're gonna have yourself a Scooby Snack That's a fact Scooby Dooby Doo Here are you You're ready and you're willin' If we can count on you Scooby Doo I know we'll catch that villain
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Its forty years since the “Mystery Inc.” gang first graced our television screens, and what better way to celebrate such an achievement with a tribute to what must surely be one of the first paranormal investigation teams, all be it in animated format and with a big talking dog. 'Scooby Doo' follows the adventures of a cowardly and ever-hungry mutt named Scoobert 'Scooby' Doo, and his owner Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers - a similarly cowardly beatnik hippie with an insatiable appetite for food. Together they travel around in their van, 'The Mystery Machine', along with their group of friends: Freddy Jones - a good looking and far too sensible young man; Daphne Blake - Fred's pretty redheaded girlfriend; and Velma Dinkley - the speccy know-it-all. Each episode sees our heroes, collectively known as 'Mystery Inc.', pitted against hideous monsters and diabolical demons, which would eventually turn out to be the bloke we met in the first couple of minutes of the show, now dressed up in a costume in an attempt to scare people away as part of a convoluted plot to steal gold / silver / jewels, etc. The Cast Name: Scoobert Doo Nick-name: Scooby-Doo Phrases: “Scooby-Dooby-Doo” “RutRoh” Scooby is a cowardly 7-year-old Great Dane who loves to eat. He will do anything for a Scooby snack. Scooby is Shaggy's pet and best friend. Scooby and Shaggy are usually the bait for the villains, and always seem to end up in Fred's traps. In the end, they accidentally catch the villains. Scooby always goes with Shaggy when the gang splits up to look for clues. They are occasionally accompanied by Velma. Scooby was the hero of the show and has become one of the most famous cartoon dogs in history. The cowardly dog always seemed to save the day on every episode. Scooby was Shaggy's partner in helping him eat hamburgers, pizzas, hotdogs and whatever else was edible and non-edible (like the witch’s laundry). Name: Norville Rogers Nick-name: Shaggy Phrases: “Zoinks” “Like, no way man” “Gang way” Scoob! Old friend, old buddy, old pal” Shaggy is Scooby's owner and best friend. He's lanky, has a goatee, typically wears a green shirt with brown bellbottoms, and has a huge appetite. Shaggy is a coward, though he and Scooby are usually the bait for the villain. Shaggy and Scooby usually get caught in the traps that Fred sets, along with the villain. When the gang splits up, Shaggy gets paired with Scooby, and occasionally Velma. His ventriloquism and disguise skills frequently come in handy. Shaggy was
by far the most entertaining character on the show (maybe second to Scooby). Shaggy was usually the bait to catch the villain(s) and he occasionally stumbled across a clue or trap door by accident. His wimpish cries, 70's clothes, comical ways to get away from villains (namely disguising himself and Scooby on the spur of the moment), and bottomless stomach created one of the most unique cartoon characters that made its way to the Saturday morning television screen. Name: Fred Jones Nick-name: Freddy Phrases: “Let’s split up, gang” Freddy is the leader of the gang. He is known for his ascot, which was removed for the series What's New, Scooby-Doo? He usually drives the Mystery Machine. He is always good at setting traps to catch the villain, but he can never keep them from being fouled up. When the gang splits up, Fred would go with Daphne and Velma, though sometimes Velma went with Shaggy and Scooby. Freddy led the gang and was usually the one to initiate the mysteries. He would always pair himself with Daphne which has developed many rumors among Scooby-Doo critics and fans. Freddy also created those amazing traps that almost always failed towards the end of the show. Name: Daphne Blake Nick-name: Dangerous Daphne Phrases: “Jeepers” Daphne is a fashionable teen who takes great pride in the way she looks. She is known for her red hair and purple dress. Daphne, out of all the other characters, is the one who is most likely to be kidnapped by the villain. She is depicted as coming from a wealthy family. When the gang splits up, she
usually goes with Fred and Velma. Daphne (also know as Danger prone Daphne) was the bimbo of the show. She was usually the one to get caught by the villains or mess up the traps that Freddy created. The only useful trait she had was to occasionally stumble across a clue and look pretty. Name: Velma Dinkley Nick-name: None Phrases: “Jinkies!” “My Glasses! I can’t see without my glasses” Velma is the brains of the gang. She always figures out who the villain is in the end. She is known for wearing an orange sweater and glasses, which she seems to lose a lot. When the gang splits up, Velma usually joins Fred and Daphne, though occasionally, she goes with Scooby and Shaggy. Velma is the only cartoon character I know of that can speak every language in the world. She was the brains of the gang and helped put together the clues to solve the mystery. Despite her intelligence, she always seemed to lose her glasses in most episodes. Velma was sometimes paired with Shaggy and Scooby which sometimes proved to be very comical. Without Velma, none of the mysteries would have been solved in that small 30 minute time gap that most television networks require. The Mystery Machine Though the Mystery Machine is not a character, it is just as important and we felt it needed to be included. The Mystery Machine is what the gang uses to get everywhere they need to go. It breaks down a lot, especially when there is a mystery to solve, but it always gets fixed in the end. Fred is usually the driver, though sometimes Shaggy drives.
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Following Scooby’s first appearance in 1969, subsequent shows saw him gain a hyphen in his name, and the introduction of other members of his family: his parents, two cousins (Scooby-Dee and Scooby-Dum), and his indescribably annoying nephew Scrappy-Doo. Other series teamed the 'Mystery Inc.' gang with such famous celebrities as Batman and Robin, the Harlem Globetrotters, Laurel and Hardy and Sonny and Cher. The show then became a double-bill with various other Hanna Barbera characters, while another series saw the gang in their adventures as children. There have also been several animated movie spinoffs, and two live action feature films featuring a CGI Scooby. 'Scooby Doo, Where are you?' follows the adventures of canine Scooby Doo (remember, he didn't get his hyphen until later on) and his owner Shaggy, together with their pals Fred, Daphne and Velma. These young chums make up 'Mystery Inc', a crime-solving gang dedicated to solving spooky mysteries... Haunted Magazine presents an in depth guide to the first two seasons of Scooby Doo, unmasking every villain.
discover an ancient suit of armour called the "Black Knight", and the gang delivers it to the local museum. The kids later break into the museum to search for clues, thinking that the archaeologist who was transporting the suit may be missing, and instead find that the suit of armour may be alive. What: The Black Knight Where: County museum Who: Mr. Wickles Why: Used legend of Black Knight to cover up his kidnapping of Prof. Hyde White 'A Clue for Scooby Doo' - 20th September 1969 At the beach, the gang encounters what the local populace claims to be the ghost of Captain Cutler, an old sea diver. After first hunting for clues around the marina, the gang dons scuba gear to explore the depths of the ocean and look for the ghost. Produced after "Hassle in the Castle", but aired before it. (A continuity error has one scene showing Shaggy with Fred's blonde hair!)
Season 1
What: Captain Cutler's Ghost Where: Rocky Point Beach Who: Captain Cutler Why: Was stealing yachts from marina for resale
'What a Night for a Knight' - 13th September 1969
'Hassle in the Castle' - 27th September 1969
Series pilot. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo
Stranded on Haunted Island, Mystery Inc. finds themselves at odds with a phantom that appears to haunt the abandoned Spanish castle built on the island. First episode to open with the familiar Mook/Raliegh theme song. What: The Phantom Where: Vasquez Castle Who: Bluestone the Great Why: Wanted to scare people away while he searched for the Vasquez treasure 'Mine Your Own Business' - 4th October 1969 Lost on the backroads, the gang winds up in Gold City, an old ghost town, and attempt to solve the mystery of the ghostly Miner '49er. What: The Miner Forty-niner Where: Gold City Who: Hank Why: Was trying to scare off employer so he could buy land cheap for the oil underneath
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'Decoy for a Dognapper' - 11th October 1969 When a rash of local dognappings alarms prize-winning dog trainer Buck Masters, the gang offers to have Scooby-Doo pose as a decoy to catch the dognappers. However, their plan works too well: Scooby is himself dognapped, and the dognappers appear to be under the command of a ghastly Aztec witchdoctor. (Several continuity errors -Aztec were in Mexico not the United States; villain is caught but his accomplice is not; villain is in room when gang decides to use Scooby-doo as decoy but later express outraged surprise when accomplice brings Scooby-doo to him!) What: Ghost Witchdoctor Where: Ancient Indian village Who: Buck Masters Why: Was kidnapping competitors' dogs so he could win the dog show 'What the Hex Going On?' - 18th October 1969 The kids pay a visit to their friend Sharon Weatherby, whose Uncle Stewart is being haunted by the ghost of Elias Kingston. When Stewart vanishes altogether, the gang explores the grounds of the haunted Kingston Mansion for the missing uncle and for clues. Note: the title card cartoon teaser for the first season is from this episode. (Two continuity errors show kidnapped Sharon in a secret room -- later she is shown when villain is captured -- how did Mystery gang find her; also Sharon remarks that she found out her uncle wasn't old when she saw his wig blow off; yet when his disguise is removed, she is surprised that her uncle is revealed as villain!) What: Ghost of Elias Kingston Where: Kingston-Weatherby estates Who: Uncle Stuart Why: Was trying to swindle his family out of the Weatherby fortune 'Never Ape an Ape Man' - 25th October 1969 Daphne's Uncle Maxwell, a filmproducer, hires the gang as extras on the set of his latest picture, The ApeMan of Ape Mountain. However, trouble arises when the titular Ape-Man begins disrupting the set and endangering the cast and crew.
What: The Ape Man of Forbidden Mountain Where: Film set. Who: Carl the Stuntman Why: Wanted to ruin picture because he didn't get the lead part 'Foul Play in Play land' - 1st November 1969 Finland, an abandoned local amusement park, appears to be haunted by a strange robot named Charley. The gang goes to investigate, and instead find them defending each other against the strange-acting humanoid robot. What: Charlie the Robot Where: Funland Who: Mr. Jenkins Why: Built Charlie to run the carnival, but the robot went haywire after Jenkins's sister interfered 'The Backstage Rage' - 8th November 1969 Shaggy and Scooby-Doo find a violin case filled with money, which is extracted from them while Scooby is distracted by a puppet. Shaggy, Scooby, and the rest of the gang follow this lead to the local theatre, where they uncover a counterfeiting scheme masterminded by a shadowy Phantom of the Operaesque figure. (A continuity error is that the villain is seen chasing the heroes through a tunnel whose door locks behind them. When the heroes go out through a ladder to the stage, the villain tries to block the trapdoor--how did villain get out of tunnel with one exit blocked and the other exit used by heroes?) What: The Phantom of the Puppet Theatre Where: Pietro's Puppet Theatre Who: Mr. Pietro Why: Was scaring people away from his counterfeiting operation 'Bedlam in the Big Top' - 15th November 1969 Mystery Inc. meets a circus strongman and a midget, both on the run from a circus allegedly haunted by a ghost clown. The gang goes to the circus grounds to investigate, but one-byone fall victim to the Ghost Clown's powers of hypnotism before solving the mystery at hand. What: The Ghost Clown Where: Circus Who: Harry the Hypnotist Why: Was
revenging himself on the circus that had sent him to jail for theft 'A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts' - 22nd November 1969 On the road, the gang pulls up to an ancient castle, transported "brickby-brick" from Transylvania. Upon entering the castle, however, they find that it is apparently haunted by three monsters: a vampire, a werewolf, and a Frankenstein's monster pastiche. What: Ghosts of Franken Castle Where: Franken Castle Who: "Big Bob" Oakley (alias, The Actor) Why: Was frightening people from the castle so he could search for the treasure 'Scooby Doo and a Mummy Too' 29th November 1969 The professors of archaeology at the local college show the gang the school's latest acquisition: the mummy of Ankha, an ancient Egyptian ruler who placed a curse upon any who would violate his tomb. The curse appears to be valid, as the gang finds their professors apparently turned to stone, and a mummy figure roaming the grounds looking for a particular Egyptian coin. What: The mummy of Ankha Where: Dept. of Archaeology Who: Dr. Najib Why: Wanted to scare the kids into giving him a valuable coin
of a witch and a mummy, two figures who, according to local myth, haunt the countryside. When Daphne is kidnapped by the witch and zombie, the gang trails them to an abandoned haunted riverboat. (A continuity error is when Daphne Blake falls through trap door-dust on door indicates she fell backward straight down-yet trapdoor opens sideways.) What: The Witch and Zombie of Swamp's End Where: Swamp's End Who: Zeb Perkins and Zeke Why: Wanted to scare people off while they searched for a sunken armoured car 'Go Away Ghost Ship' - 13th December 1969 The newspaper reports that local shipping magnate C.L. Magnus's ships are being haunted by the ghost of the pirate Redbeard. After reading the story and consulting Magnus, the gang ventures out into the bay, but soon find themselves kidnapped by Redbeard and his crew. What: The ghost of Redbeard Where: Skull Island Who: C. L. Magnus Why: Was trying to stave off bankruptcy by stealing cargo from his own ships 'Spooky Space Kook' - 20th December 1969
'Which Witch is which?' - 6th December 1969
A fluorescent ghastly alien figure terrorizes an old abandoned airfield, and when the Mystery Machine runs out of gas nearby, Mystery, Inc. takes to exploring the airfield in order to solve the mystery.
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to scare off neighbours so he could buy their land cheap 'A Night of Fright Is No Delight' - 10th January 1970 Scooby-Doo is a potential heir to the fortune of Colonel Beaureguard Sanders... provided he stays the night in the Colonel's allegedly haunted Southern mansion. This proves to be more difficult than first assumed when two green phantom figures do away with the other four heirs and set their sights on Scooby and the gang. What: The Phantom Shadow Where: Mansion of Col. Beauregard Sanders Who: Creeps and Crawls, Attorneys 063 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
at Law Why: Wanted to scare off heirs so as to keep control of the Sanders fortune 'That's Snow Ghost' - 17th January 1970 A planned ski-trip to Wolf's End Lodge goes awry when it seems that a Yeti-like Snow Ghost is haunting the mountain ridge. In their search for clues, the gang eventually turns up at an old abandoned saw mill, where they find both clues and danger, by way of the Snow Ghost. (A continuity error shows villain and accomplice being captured at end-but how accomplice is caught is never shown)
What: The Snow Ghost Where: Wolf's End Lodge Who: Mr. Greenway Why: Wanted to scare snoopers away from the scene of his smuggling operation Season 2 'Nowhere to Hyde' - 12 September 1970 On their way home from the Malt Shop, the gang encounters "The Ghost of Mr. Hyde", a known jewel thief, sneaking into a spooky house. The house turns out to be the home of Dr. Jekyll (greatgrandson of the fictional character), who fears he may be transforming into the Ghost of Mr. Hyde. The gang begins searching the house for clues, pegging
the maid as a likely suspect, but are pursued at every turn by the ghost. Song: "Recipe for My Love" What: The ghost of Mr. Hyde Where: The city Who: Dr. Jekyll Why: Turned to life of crime after his experiments failed 'Mystery Mask Mix-Up' - 19th September 1970 Daphne buys a decorative, and purportedly cursed, mask in Chinatown, and is subsequently kidnapped by a pair of ghastly ancient Chinese figures. The rest of the gang trail the kidnappers to the temple of the evil Zen Tuo, who is apparently haunting the temple and wants to do away with the gang. Song: "I Can Make You Happy What: The ghost of Zen-Tuo Where: The Temple in the Hills Who: Mr. A. Fong Why: Was running a smuggling ring 'Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright' 26th September 1970 Sea-fishing Shaggy catches, of all things, an ancient caveman frozen in a block of ice, and the kids take it to Oceanland, the local aquarium. When they come back to the aquarium later that night to retrieve Shaggy's fishing pole, they find that the ice has melted and the caveman is now apparently alive and roaming the grounds. Song: "Seven Days a Week". What: The Caveman Where: Oceanland Who: Prof. Wayne Why: Wanted to steal colleague's marine life communicator 'Jeepers! It's the Creeper!' - 3rd October 1970 A school dance at a rural barn is disrupted by The Creeper, a zombielike figure who has been seen robbing banks at night in town. The gang searches the woods and countryside for clues, encountering an insane old hermit and a newborn baby chick, who comes to think Scooby-Doo is its mother. Song: "Daydreamin" What: The Creeper Where: The bank Who: Mr. Karswell Why: Was stealing money from the bank
'Haunted House Hang-Up' - 10th October 1970 The Mystery, Inc. gang gets lost on the way to a rock music festival, and their Mystery Machine breaks down right in front of an allegedly haunted mansion. The gang enters the mansion looking for a bucket of water for their van's radiator, but find a headless spectre figure, who attempts to drive them off of the grounds.
and Scooby-Doo are contestants, is interrupted by a figure identified as the Wax Phantom. The gang trails the Phantom to the local wax museum, hoping to find clues and solve the mystery of the Wax Phantom before he causes more trouble. Song: "Little Mary Sunlight". Following this episode, reruns of the first season were broadcast alongside those from the second season.
Song: "Love the World"
What: The Wax Phantom Where: KLMN; Wax Museum Who: Roger Stevens Why: Wanted to frame wax sculptor for thefts and kidnappings
What: The Headless Spectre Where: The Haunted Mansion Who: Penrod Stillwall Why: Wanted to scare snoopers off so he could search for hidden family fortune What: Phoney phantom Where: The Haunted Mansion Who: Asa Shanks Why: Was searching for Stillwall fortune 'A Tiki Scare is No Fair' - 17th October 1970 Mystery, Inc's package vacation of Hawaii is interrupted by a figure identifying as the ghost of the witchdoctor Mano Tiki Tia, who has a fifty-foot stone idol as a henchman. The gang explores the area for clues. No song in this episode. What: Witch Doctor (with Mano Tiki Tia) Where: Haunted village (Hawaii) Who: John Sims Why: Scaring natives away as he poached pearl beds 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?' - 24th October 1970 Mystery, Inc's camping expedition is ruined by the presence of what appears to be the ghost of a werewolf. The gang pursues the wolf, which haunts a local mill and the areas surrounding it, hoping to solve the mystery of its appearance. Song: "Tell Me, Tell Me". What: Werewolf ghost Where: Abandoned mill Who: Unnamed sheep rustler Why: Wanted to scare people away from sheep rustling operation
The Bluffers guide to the Scooby Doo, Where are you? The plot varied little from episode to episode, running as follows: • The Mystery, Inc. gang turns up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function--a dance, a rock festival, etc. • Their destination is suffering from a "ghost" or "monster" problem. The kids volunteer to investigate the case. • The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. • Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/ monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it. • The ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked; the person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure that is using the disguise to cover up criminal activity. • The offender(s) - after giving the parting shot of "And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids" (or some similar line) - are taken away to jail, and the gang is allowed to continue on their way to their destination.
'Don't fool With a Phantom' - 31st October 1970
Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat. They eat many various foods, including "Scooby Snacks".
Johhny Sands' dance-contest TV show, on which Fred, Daphne, Shaggy,
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Nothing is certain but Death and Axes On Friday the 13th of February 2009, a new Friday the 13th was released (the 12th overall), which restarts the film series continuity after a break of six years. In this film, after witnessing the be-heading of his mother, Jason follows in her footsteps and kills anyone who comes to Crystak Lake (sound familiar?). Fast forward almost thirty years, Jason kidnaps a young woman who reminds him of his mother and six weeks after her disappearance her brother, Clay Miller comes to look for her, the pair are reunited and work together to seemingly kill Jason… yeah right!! It was suggested many “full” moons ago that there would be 13 films in total, so with the 12th available in all good (and not so good) video emporiums we proudly present the “history of Friday the 13th and bring you the complete “body count”, who got killed, who by and how (lovely…) from the first eleven “Jason” films (we have a special feature coming up in a future issue on the 12th film). On Friday, June 13th of 1958, two Camp Crystal Lake counselors, Claudette and Barry, slip away from the campfire for an illicit rendezvous. They are discovered and murdered by an unseen assailant. Two decades later, the camp is preparing to reopen. The town loony, Crazy Ralph, warns camp cook Annie that "Camp Blood" has a death curse, but Annie continues to hitch her way to camp. Local truck driver Enos tells her the camp lore: the murders in '58, a boy drowning in '57, the fires and
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bad water that thwarted attempts to reopen the camp. Annie then catches a ride with the wrong person, who chases her through the woods and slits her throat. At Camp Crystal Lake, Steve Christy is eager for his counselors Marcie, Jack, Ned, Brenda, Bill and Alice to begin their preparations to open the camp. After they get underway, Steve leaves for an urgent errand in town. The counselors work for a while longer, and then break for some swimming. After a drowning scare, a snake in a cabin and visits from both the law and Crazy Ralph, Ned goes to investigate a noise in one of the cabins, and doesn't come out. A storm begins, and Marcie and Jack seek shelter in the same cabin, where they make love in a bunk bed. Meanwhile, Brenda, Bill and Alice amuse themselves with a rousing game of strip Monopoly. When Marcie leaves for the restroom, Ned's body, hidden on the top bunk, drips blood onto Jack's face. Jack is then stabbed through the neck with an arrow, and the killer leaves for the camp restroom. Marcie goes to investigate a sound in the showers and the killer splits her face open with a vicious axe swing. The door blows open in the main cabin, interrupting Brenda, Bill and Alice's game. Brenda leaves to close the windows in her cabin. In town, Steve finishes his meal in the local diner and starts back for camp. From her cabin, Brenda hears a child crying in the woods and braves the storm. As she slogs through the driving the rain, the archery range is suddenly illuminated, with Brenda standing in front of the targets. Alice thinks she
hears a scream, and she and Bill go to investigate. On Brenda's pillow they find a bloody axe. The phones are out and the truck won't start, so they decide to go back to the main cabin to get out of the rain. In the meantime, Steve's Jeep has slid off the road. A passing police car gives him a ride part of the way, and he walks the rest - only to encounter the killer, who Steve recognizes before he is stabbed in the stomach. Back at camp the power goes out, and Bill goes to check the generator while Alice takes a nap. When she awakes she goes to look for Bill in the generator shed, but instead discovers his body mounted on the door, riddled with arrows. She returns to the main cabin and seals herself in, only to have Brenda's corpse thrown through the window. She flees, and runs into Pamela Voorhees, an "old friend of the Christys." Alice is left alone against Pamela, whose son Jason drowned at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957. Now all the counselors of the camp must die, and it is one or the other in a match to the death . . . who will survive the long night at Camp Blood? Two months after the events of the original, Alice, the sole survivor of the Camp Crystal Lake massacre, is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. But when she opens the refrigerator door to find Mrs. Voorhees' severed head, an unseen assailant stabs her through the temple with an icepick. Five years later, Paul Holt opens a Counselor Training Center at Packanack Lodge, adjacent to the now-defunct Camp
Crystal Lake. Crazy Ralph again tries to warn of the coming danger, but is again ignored. Around the campfire, the counselors are told to ignore the local lore that Jason Voorhees, whose mother was responsible for the earlier murder spree, is alive. Crazy Ralph watches Paul and Ginny in her cabin, and is strangled with barbed wire by the killer. The next day, two of the counselors, Sandra and Jeff, slip away to the off-limits Camp Crystal Lake and are caught and escorted back to the Center by a police officer. On the way out, a figure darts in front of the officer's car and into Camp Crystal Lake. In pursuit, the officer discovers a ramshackle cabin and is killed with a hammer to the back of the head. That evening, most of the counselors go to a local bar, leaving six behind - Sandra and Jeff, Scott and Terry and Vickie and Mark. Scott spies on the skinny-dipping Terry, but when he tries to get away with her clothes he's caught in a rope trap. Terry leaves to get a knife, only to discover Scott's throat has been slit before her return. Terry runs back to camp, only to be killed herself. Back at the bar, Paul, Ginny and Ted discuss the legend of Jason Voorhees and what he would be like if still alive. Ginny guesses he would have seen his mother decapitated by Alice, and that seeing the only person who had ever loved him killed would leave an indelible mark. When Vickie leaves the wheelchair-bound Mark is killed with a machete. Sandra and Jeff are impaled together with a spear while having sex, and the killer -- now revealed as the bag-wearing Jason
Voorhees -- murders Vickie as well. Paul and Ginny return to the camp, and after finding the lodge empty, Paul is attacked by Jason. Ginny flees through the woods, finally coming to Jason's shack, now filled with the bodies of the dead counselors. Seeing Mrs. Voorhees' severed head and sweater on Jason's makeshift altar, Ginny puts on the sweater and readies herself for the final confrontation. . . Jason (now in glorious 3-D) leaves his cabin after his showdown with Ginny and comes to a roadside store where he gains a new set of clothes - and kills the owner and his wife. Meanwhile, Chris and her friends make their way to her family cabin, Higgins Haven. The party includes Chris' boyfriend Rick, the pregnant Debbie and her boyfriend Andy, the bong-tokin' Chuck and Chili, Vera, and Shelly, an overweight kid given to gruesome pranks. At a local store, Vera and Shelly are confronted by a trio of bikers and Shelly drives into their motorcycles. The bikers, Ali, Loco and Fox, make their way to Higgins Haven for retribution, where they siphon the gas from the van to burn down the barn. Before that happens, though, they're killed by Jason. That night, while Chris and Rick are off in the woods, Jason slits Shelly's throat and takes his hockey mask. Wearing the mask, he dispatches Vera with a speargun. In the house, Andy is split in half while walking on his hands and Debbie is stabbed from beneath her hammock. Chuck is killed in the cellar while looking at the fuses, and Chili is impaled with a hot fireplace poker. Returning to an empty cabin, Chris and Rick investigate. When they're separated, Jason kills Rick by crushing his head with his bare hands. Jason throws his body through the window at Chris, who flees in the van. But when it stalls (from being siphoned), Chris has to flee back to the barn on foot for the 3-D showdown. After Chris' confrontation with Jason in the barn at Higgins Haven, Jason's presumably dead body is taken to the Wessex County morgue. Jason escapes, kills an attendant and a nurse and makes his way back to Crystal Lake. Friends Paul, Jimmy, Ted, Doug, Samantha and
Sara are on their way to a lakeside house they've rented. On the way they pass a hitchhiker, who is soon killed by Jason. Next to the rental house lives Mrs. Jarvis, her teenaged daughter Trish, and her twelve yearold son Tommy. Trish and Tommy meet the renters, and run into them the next day skinny-dipping at Crystal Point with local twins Tina and Terri. When the Jarvis' car breaks down, Trish and Tommy are helped by Rob, a passing camper. That night there is a drunken party at the rental house. When her boyfriend Paul starts dancing with Tina, Samantha goes for a swim - and is killed. Paul has second thoughts and goes out looking for her. Terri goes after Jimmy, and Jason kills Paul. While Tina is sleeping with Jimmy, Terri leaves for home and is killed. When Mrs. Jarvis returns home after jogging, she finds the house empty. The lights go out, and when she goes outside to look for the kids she is killed. Trish and Tommy come home and Trish goes to look for her mother but only finds Rob in his tent. At the rental house, Tina goes to freshen up while Jimmy heads downstairs to gloat to Ted. But when he goes into the kitchen to find the corkscrew... Jason hands it to him. Tina is soon thrown out the window and Ted is stabbed while Rob tells Trish about his sister Sandra, who Jason killed (in Part 2). Doug is killed in the shower, as is Sara when she tries to escape after discovering the body. Returning to the Jarvis house, Trish and Rob try to call the police, but the line is dead. They go next door where Rob goes into the basement - and is killed by Jason. Trish escapes back to her house, where she and Tommy prepare to face Jason. Twelve year-old Tommy Jarvis stands in the woods in the driving rain, watching two young punks dig up Jason Voorhees' grave. They open it, and Jason springs to life, ending the lives of the desecrators. Then Jason's gaze turns to Tommy, and he raises the machete high over Tommy's head. Tommy, now a teenager, wakes up drenched with sweat in a van from the Unger Institute of Mental Health. Tommy soon arrives at his destination, a halfway home for troubled teens. Tommy is brought into Matt Peters'
office, where the doctor explains that the clinic is run on an honor system, with the intention of preparing the patients to re-enter society. Tommy then meets young Reggie, whose grandfather George works at the house. Sheriff Tucker and his deputy return patients Tina and Eddie to the institute. Following close on their heels are Ethel and "Junior" Hubbard, whose property adjoins the halfway house. The foul-mouthed Ethel raises Hell about the kids again having sex on her property. Ethel's fears about the "loonies" are justified in short order when the anti-social Vic hacks up Joey with an axe. Vic is arrested by the police and ambulance attendants Duke Johnson and Roy Burns come to take away the corpse. Night comes and the murders begin. Greaser Vinnie and Pete are viciously dispatched with a road flare and a machete. The next morning Tommy hallucinates Jason standing behind him. At breakfast, Tommy beats Eddie senseless when Eddie wears a mask Tommy made. Has Tommy become the killer he fears? Or is it the drifter that shows up at Ethel's house looking for work? That night the murders continue when waitress Lana and her boyfriend Billy are viciously murdered with an axe. The next day, patients Tina and Eddie sneak off into the woods to have sex. The drifter watches them intently, but he is soon struck down by the killer, as are Eddie and Tina. That night Pam drives Reggie to see his brother Demon, with along Tommy along for the ride. As Reggie and Demon catch up on old times Tommy is accosted by Junior. Tommy again loses control and pummels Junior, running off when interrupted by Pam. When Pam and Reggie return to the house, Demon and his girlfriend Anita are killed. Soon after, Junior and Ethel Hubbard are killed as well. Pam goes to look for Tommy but the killer is at the house, killing patients Jake, Robin and Violet. Reggie discovers the bodies in Tommy's room just before Pam's return, and they both run into a hockey mask-wearing figure. They flee into the woods and come across the body of ambulance driver Duke Johnson as well as that of Dr. Peters. Separated from Reggie and back at the institute, Pam flees from Jason toward the barn, but
she slips in the mud. Just before the killer can reach her, Reggie drives a tractor into him. Reggie and Pam flee into the barn - who is the killer who wears Jason's mask? Tommy Jarvis is released from the mental institutions in which he has spent most of his adolescence. Along with his friend Allen Hawes, Tommy goes to dig up and cremate Jason's corpse. But when he pierces Jason's chest with an iron fence post, a bolt of lightning resurrects him. Jason quickly takes out Allen with a fist through the chest, and when Tommy flees Jason heads for the renamed and reopened Lake Forest Green. Tommy enters the Forest Green Police Department and demands the help of the Sheriff. But when Tommy tries to grab a shotgun to take matters into his own hands, the Sheriff Garris has Tommy thrown in jail. Meanwhile, counselors Lizabeth and Darren are killed by Jason on their way to camp. The next morning, Garris' daughter Megan and her fellow counselors Sissy, Paula and Cort visit the station. Tommy warns them of Jason's resurrection before the Sheriff escorts him towards the town limits. Back at camp, the counselors prepare for the coming campers. Meanwhile, Jason picks off five survivalist gamers in the woods. On the way out of town Tommy makes a break for the graveyard to prove Jason's not in his grave - but the caretaker has covered it over. The officers continue their escort, but when their out of view Tommy turns right back around towards the town he's always known as Crystal Lake. That night, Cort heads off for a tryst with a girl named Nikki. Jason cuts the power to her RV and boards as they drive away. He slams Nikki's head through a wall and stabs Cort in the head. When the police discover Lizabeth and Darren's bodies, the Sheriff suspects Tommy. But Megan isn't convinced, and when Tommy calls the station she answers and makes plans to meet. At camp, Sissy is killed as Megan and Tommy try to evade the police. Tommy is thrown in jail despite Megan's alibi for him. Jason uses camp counselor Paula to repaint one of the cabins in blood red, and Megan busts Tommy out. The police make their way to the camp, and
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officers Thornton and Pappas are killed before the Sheriff comes up against Jason. Megan and Tommy arrive at the seemingly serene camp, but soon find Paula's remains. Sheriff Garris is killed trying to keep Jason away from his daughter. Despite Megan's protests, Tommy goes out on the lake alone and calls to Jason. Near the site of Tommy and Jason's final watery fight, young Tina Shepard accidentally killed her father with her developing mental powers. Now seventeen, Tina returns to Crystal Lake with her mother Amanda and her psychologist, Dr. Crews. In the cabin next door, a group of friends has gathered to throw a surprise birthday party for mutual friend Michael. Tina meets Michael's cousin Nick, who introduces himself and helps her when she knocks open her suitcase. Dr. Crews soon has Tina testing her mental abilities, pushing her to the edge with insinuations of guilt over her father's death. That night, Tina senses a presence in the lake and brings up Jason, imprisoned there by Tommy. Tina passes out, but soon tells her mother and the disbelieving Crews of the "man in the lake." Nick comes over to invite Tina to the birthday party that night, but the birthday boy Michael and his girlfriend Jane are killed on the way. At the party, Tina sees a vision of Jason killing Michael with a spike and runs home, but Crews calls it a delusion. Nearby, campers Dan and Judy are soon killed by Jason. The next night, after a confrontation with the stuck-up Melissa, Tina's session with Crews goes awry, and she levitates a television at him. Tina confides in Nick her suspicion of Michael's death, while next door, Russell and Sandra are killed when they go for a swim. Dr. Crews goes for a walk and finds Michael's body. At her house, Tina's mother finds that Crews has been antagonizing Tina to increase her telekinesis. When Crews returns, he threatens to have Tina committed and she drives off - only to see a vision of Jason killing her mother. She crashes, and makes her way back to the house on foot. Meanwhile, Maddy leaves the cabin next door and is killed by Jason. Tina runs into Nick on her way home and they find Michael's body. Meanwhile, Jason kills Ben and Kate and cuts the power to the
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partiers' cabin before killing David. Tina and Nick arrive at her house, and next door, Melissa goes out looking for Nick before Jason kills Eddie and Robin. Nick heads to the party cabin, while in the woods Jason kills Amanda Shepard. Nick finds Eddie's body, but Tina has left her house when he returns. Tina soon finds Crews and goes looking for her mother when he says she is "gone." Jason dispatches Crews via brush saw, and Tina heads after him. Tina electrocutes Jason, but he rises and chases her into the party cabin. After she telekinetically collapses the porch onto him, she runs back home and finds Nick and Melissa. Melissa opens the door to leave, but Jason is standing there and he splits her head open with an axe. Tina and Nick run upstairs but she turns around, ready for the final fight of mind over matter. Jim and Suzy drift peacefully through Crystal Lake on his houseboat - at least until its anchor snags an underwater power cable and drags it to the submerged body of Jason Voorhees! As Jim and Suzy make love, Jason boards the boat and kills the two teenagers. The graduating class of Lakeview High boards the SS Lazarus, bound for New York City. Boarding the ship with her teacher Miss Van Deusen, Rennie Wickham is accosted by her uncle (and trip chaperone) Charles McCulloch. Despite his obvious displeasure at her attendance, she boards and meets up with her boyfriend Sean Robertson. Sean also has problems with his father, Admiral Robertson, the captain of the Lazarus. But their personal problems are about to become secondary to one big problem Jim's boat drifts by and the Lazarus picks up an unwelcome stowaway. Soon JJ is killed by Jason when she goes below decks to jam on her guitar. Rennie is assailed by visions of a young Jason, and her dog Toby runs off. Elsewhere, Julius pummels a hapless opponent in a boxing match. Above, Tamara and Eva watch the match, and then head off (at Tamara's request) to do some cocaine. They are interrupted first by Rennie, then by her uncle. Jason kills Julius' opponent in the sauna while Tamara, afraid of being ratted out by Rennie, knocks her
overboard. Rennie can't swim, and is first hit with visions of a young Jason as she flails in the water, and then again in the restroom after being rescued by Sean. After Tamara gets Wayne to tape McCulloch in a compromising position with her, she is stabbed with glass shards by Jason. A storm breaks out, and Jason makes his way to the bridge to kill the first mate and the Admiral. Sean and Rennie, going to radio the Coast Guard to get off the ship, find the bodies and call everyone to the bridge. Jason cuts the radio, and everyone splits up to find the killer. Eva finds Tamara's body, is chased into the dance room and killed. Below decks, Wayne loses his glasses and accidentally shoots a crew member before being thrown into an electrical panel by Jason. A fire breaks out below as Sean tries to get the ship back on course. Miles is killed by Jason and Julius is thrown overboard. Rennie has another vision and then is attacked by the real Jason, who she stabs in the eye. Below, the fire causes the fuel tanks to explode and most of the kids onboard are killed. The crazy deck hand is axed in the back by Jason and only Rennie, Sean, Miss Van Deusen, Rennie's dog and McCulloch make it to the lifeboat. In the water, Julius climbs aboard. Julius and Sean row from the sinking Lazarus to New York. Once there, the group is accosted by two thugs who take Rennie away and inject her with a filthy syringe. The others split up to look for help, and Jason kills the two thugs. Rennie escapes but Julius runs into Jason. After a valiant fight, Jason literally knocks Julius' block off, sending his head flying. The others find each one another, along with a cop who lets them into his cruiser. On the dash sits Julius' head, and the cop is dragged away by Jason. Rennie takes the wheel and slams the car into Jason. But when she tries to run down a vision of the young Jason, she rams into a wall. The car explodes, and Miss Van Deusen is killed. The trauma forces Rennie to remember her childhood, when her uncle took her out on Crystal Lake. He pushed her overboard to teach her how to swim, and she had a vision of Jason then. Sean and Rennie run off, leaving McCulloch to be killed by Jason. They are chased by Jason
through the subway and Times Square - can Rennie and Sean stop Jason from taking Manhattan? Jason is ambushed by the FBI and blown to pieces... but during the autopsy at the Federal morgue in Youngstown, Ohio, the coroner is possessed by Jason's heart. A week later Diana Kimble, a waitress at Joey B's Diner in Crystal Lake, watches "American Casefile's" report on the disappearance of Jason's body and the coroner and the death of the coroner's assistant and two FBI agents. AC host Robert Campbell offers famed bounty hunter Creighton Duke $500,000 to kill Jason if he is, as Duke claims, still alive. Meanwhile, the Diner is celebrating Jason's "death." Diana comes face-to-face with Duke, who asks for her help and tells her he knows who she "really is." Diana's boyfriend, Sheriff Landis, has Duke taken out to his cruiser. That night, Steven picks up three hitchhikers and takes them into Crystal Lake to "have a little premarital sex, smoke
interrupted by the now-possessed Josh, who attacks Diana. When she sees Jason's reflection in the mirror, she shoots him in the head. But Josh doesn't stay down, and Steven comes in to find Josh and Diana struggling. When he separates them Josh accidentally hits Diana with a knife-sharpening pole in the back. Steven runs Josh through with a fireplace poker and pushes him out the window. The sheriff arrives to find Diana dead on the floor. Steven protests his innocence but when he looks out the window Josh is gone. Steven is taken to a holding cell. Jessica arrives at the station to take care of business, and Steven sees her - and their baby daughter - while he's being moved. In the cell, Creighton Duke gives Steven the information he needs to know - Diana was Jason's sister, and he needs a blood relative to be reborn in his own body. With Diana dead, his only remaining family members are Jessica and her daughter Stephanie. To protect them, Steven breaks out of jail. He goes to the Voorhees house, where he hears Robert Campbell outlining his plans to spice up American Casefile's Jason coverage with his theft of Diana's body. But Josh bursts in
a little dope." When he leaves the three, the redheaded girl is sliced up with a scalpel and the other two are split open with a spike. The Coroner returns to the diner and kills Edna, who is having an affair with Josh. He takes Josh back to the Voorhees house, where he transfers the evil heart into the deputy. Diana talks to her daughter Jessica, who is now dating American Casefile's Robert Campbell. They are
and transfers the heart into Robert. Josh's body melts away and Robert leaves. Steven catches up with Robert at Jessica's house and runs him over. Jessica doesn't believe Steven's explanation and throws him out of the car. She runs into the police station and Deputy Randy is sent to retrieve Steven. Meanwhile, Robert begins a massacre at the police station. Steven and Randy arrive as Robert tries to transfer
the heart into Jessica. Steven steals Randy's gun and shoots Robert in the head. Jessica and Steven head to the diner with Robert in hot pursuit. Stephanie is gone but there's a note which Jessica doesn't tell Steven about. When she takes off, Steven sees the note and arms himself with a machete from the wall. At the Voorhees house, Creighton Duke waits with Stephanie. He tells Jessica only she can kill Jason and gives her a knife and warns Jessica that Jason could have jumped into anyone . . . but he falls into the cellar just as the Sheriff arrives, quickly followed by Randy. The Sheriff lunges and impales himself on the knife. Then Randy grabs Stephanie and tries to transfer the heart - but Steven runs in and slams the machete into his neck. Jason's mutated heart, now a Hellbaby, escapes through the neck wound and climbs down into the cellar, where it finds Diana's corpse. Now reborn, Jason bursts up from the cellar. Duke is bearhugged to death while trying to protect Steven and Jessica. Steven gets thrashed by Jason while Jessica tries to retrieve Duke's knife from the cellar . . . who will survive to send Jason to Hell? Freddy Krueger is in hell - literally. It's been nearly ten years since Krueger, one of the scariest horror movie characters of all time, invaded peoples' dreams to exact his deadly form of revenge and murder. But now, his memory has been systematically erased by a town determined to put an end to Freddy once and for all. Potential victims have been drugged to prevent them from dreaming, rendering impotent the master of nightmares. They've eliminated their fear of Freddy, absolute torture for an egomaniac psychopath who's a legend in his own mind. Like an inmate with a life sentence, Freddy's been reduced to plotting a fantastic revenge that will never happen. Until, that is, Freddy resurrects Jason Voorhees, an equally iconic madman. Jason is the perfect means for Freddy to once again instill fear on Elm Street, creating a window of opportunity for him to emerge from his purgatory. Recognizing how easily manipulated Jason is, Freddy tricks Voorhees into journeying to Springwood to start a new reign of terror. But as the bodies begin to pile up on Elm Street and Freddy's
fearsome reputation assumes new life, he discovers that Jason isn't willing to cease his murderous ways and step aside so easily. Now, with a terrified town in the middle, the two titans of terror enter into a horrifying showdown of epic proportions, alternating between the world of dreams and the harsh reality of the living world. Who will win and who will lose in this battle to end all battles? The time is the near future. A team of government scientists working at the Crystal Lake Research Facility have finally captured the notorious and seemingly indestructible killer Jason Voorhees. In order to at least contain Jason, the plan is to freeze him in cryogenic suspension; but, as usual, things go horribly wrong and he breaks free to resume his murderous ways. The sole survivor of this latest rampage, Rowan, manages to lure Jason into the cryogenic chamber, but before she can complete the process and escape, she is mortally wounded and frozen in time along with Jason. Flash forward over four hundred years to 2455. The place is Old Earth, now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries, a world of violent storms, toxic land masses and poisoned seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place they once fled; not to live, but to research the artifacts of the lost civilizations that caused this enormous environmental disaster. Little does the most recent landing party of interplanetary explorers realize the fate that awaits them when they stumble upon an unusual find from a primitive technological age. The student explorers, led by Archaeology Professor Lowe and their tech-droid KAY-EM 14, enter the ancient underground remains of the Crystal Lake Research Facility. There, they make a major archaeological discovery: two frozen ancestors; a beautiful young woman and a large man wearing a strange mask. There's only one problem: the auto-regeneration procedure has somehow been triggered. The frozen cry-jell is melting like a block of ice and soon the two bodies will thaw and deteriorate! With time running out, the young explorers return to their starship and blast-off for Earth II, where they are
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surprisingly able to revive Rowan, the young woman. But very soon, these students will come face-toface with a shocking, totally new form of evil as Jason comes back to life as well and begins to silently stalk them through the corridors of the spacecraft. Forget what has gone before. Welcome to the future of horror.
The Friday the 13th “Body Count” The body count explained, as easy as possible…. The body count for each film is listed under the person responsible. The killings are numbered chronologically, and each killer has a running total. For example, from Friday the 13th Part VII: 9 (61): Ben - head crushed in Jason's bare hands Ben is the 9th victim in FTTP VII, as well as Jason's 61st victim in total.
dead Friday the 13th Part 3 Jason Voorhees 1 (11) : Harold - meat cleaver to chest 2 (12) : Edna - knitting needle to back of the head 3 (13) : Fox - pinned to rafter with pitchfork through neck 4 (14) : Loco - pitchfork to the stomach 5 (15) : Shelly - throat slashed (offscreen) 6 (16) : Vera - spear fired into eye 7 (17) : Andy - macheted in half while walking on hands 8 (18) : Debbie (pregnant) - knifed from beneath hammock 9 (19) : Chuck - electrocuted on fuse box 10 (20) : Chili - impaled with fireplace poker 11 (21) : Rick - head squeezed until eye pops out 12 (22) : Ali - bludgeoned with a wrench; later recovers and is macheted.
Friday the 13th Friday the 13th Part 4 Killer: Pamela Voorhees 1: Barry - knife to the stomach 2: Claudette - knifed off-screen 3: Annie - throat slit with hunting knife 4: Ned - throat slit 5: Jack - arrow through neck from below bed 6: Marcie - axe to the face 7: Brenda - killed off-screen, thrown through window 8: Steve Christy - hunting knife to the stomach 9: Bill - pinned to door with arrows Alice 10: Mrs. Voorhees - decapitated with machete Friday the 13th Part 2 Jason Voorhees 1 : Alice - stabbed in the temple with an ice pick 2 : Crazy Ralph - garrotted with barbed wire 3 : Policeman - hammer claw to the head 4 : Scott - throat slit with machete 5 : Terry - knifed 6 : Mark - macheted in the face 7 : Jeff and 8 : Sandra - double impaling with a spear 9 : Vickie - knifed 10 : Paul - disappears, presumed
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Jason Voorhees 1 (23) : Axel - surgical hacksaw to the throat, neck broken 2 (24) : Nurse Morgan - gutted with a scalpel 3 (25) : Hitchhiker - knife through the neck 4 (26) : Samantha - knife through the torso 5 (27) : Paul - spear to the groin 6 (28) : Terri - spear in the back 7 (29) : Mrs. Jarvis - killed off-screen 8 (30) : Jimmy - corkscrew through hand, cleaver to the face 9 (31) : Tina - thrown through a window, lands on a parked car 10 (32) : Ted - knife to the head through movie screen 11 (33) : Doug - head crushed in Jason's bare hands 12 (34) : Sara - axe to the chest 13 (35) : Rob - garden harrow to the throat Tommy Jarvis 14 (1): Jason Voorhees - machete to the head Friday the 13th Part V Jason Voorhees 1: Neil - macheted in Tommy's dream 2: Les - icepick in the neck in dream
Vic 3 (1): Joey - hacked up with an axe Roy Burns 4 (1) : Vinnie - road flare in the mouth 5 (2) : Pete - throat slashed with a machete 6 (3) : Billy - axe to the head 7 (4) : Lana - axe to the chest 8 (5) : Raymond - hunting knife in the stomach 9 (6) : Tina - garden shears in the eyes 10 (7) : Eddie - head crushed with a leather strap 11 (8) : Anita - throat slashed 12 (9) : Demon - speared through an outhouse wall 13 (10) : Junior - decapitated with a cleaver 14 (11) : Ethel - cleaver in the head, falls face first into stew 15 (12) : Jake - cleaver in the face 16 (13) : Robin - macheted from beneath bed 17 (14) : Violet - macheted in the stomach 18 (15) : Duke - found butchered in his own ambulance 19 (16) : Matt - railroad spike through his head and into a tree 20 (17) : George - eyes gouged out, thrown through a window Tommy Jarvis 21 (2): Roy - impaled on a tractor harrow 22: Pam - knifed in Tommy's hallucination Friday the 13th Part VI Jason Voorhees 1 (36): Allen - heart ripped out. 2 (37): Darren - impaled on a spear and tossed aside. 3 (38): Lizbeth - speared through the mouth. 4 (39) : Burt - arm ripped off, impaled on a tree branch 5 (40) : Stan and 6 (41) : Katie and 7 (42) : Larry - triple decapitation with a machete 8 (43) : Martin - broken bottle in the throat 9 (44) : Steven and 10 (45) : Annette - double impalement with a machete on their motorcycle. 11 (46) : Nikki - face crushed against RV wall 12 (47) : Cort - hunting knife in the head 13 (48) : Roy - pieces of him are found strewn in woods 14 (49) : Sissy - head ripped off
15 (50) : Paula - hacked up with a machete 16 (51) : Officer Thornton - dart in the forehead 17 (52) : Officer Pappas - head crushed in Jason's bare hands 18 (53) : Sheriff Garris - broken in half Friday the 13th Part VII Tina Shepard 1 - John Shepard - drowned in Crystal Lake Jason Voorhees 2 (54) : Jane - tent spike in the neck, impaled to a tree 3 (55) : Michael - tent spike thrown into his back 4 (56) : Dan - Jason's hand through his body, neck broken 5 (57) : Judy - bashed against a tree in her sleeping bag 6 (58) : Russell - axe to the face 7 (59) : Sandra - pulled underwater and drowned 8 (60) : Maddy - scythe in the neck 9 (61) : Ben - head crushed in Jason's bare hands 10 (62) : Kate - party horn in the eye 11 (63) : David - butcher knife in the stomach, beheaded 12 (64) : Eddie - throat sliced with a machete 13 (65) : Robin - thrown through a window 14 (66) : Amanda Shepard - speared from behind 15 (67) : Dr. Crews - tree-trimming saw in the stomach 16 (68) : Melissa - axe to the face Friday the 13th Part VIII Jason Voorhees 1 (69) : Jim - impaled with a spear gun 2 (70) : Suzi - stabbed with a spear 3 (71) : J.J. - bashed in the head with her electric guitar 4 (72) : Boxer - hot sauna rock in the chest 5 (73) : Tamara - stabbed with a mirror shard 6 (74) : Jim Carlson - harpooned in back 7 (75) : Admiral Robertson - throat slit with a machete 8 (76) : Eva - strangled 10 (77) : Wayne - electrocuted on a control panel 11 (78) : Miles - impaled on a deck post 12 (79) : Deck Hand - axe to the back 13 (80) : Gang Banger #1 - stabbed through the back with his own
syringe 14 (81) : Gang Banger #2 - bashed and scalded on a steam pipe 15 (82) : Julius - decapitated by punch 16 (83) : Cop - dragged into an alley, killed off-screen 18 (84) : Charles McCullough drowned in a barrel of sewage 19 (85) : Sanitation Worker - bashed in the head with a wrench Wayne 9 - Crew member - accidentally shot by Wayne Accidental Deaths 17 - Colleen van Deusen immolated in an exploding car. Plus, 20 to 30 students drowned on the sinking boat. (Watch the opening scenes in slow motion; you will see at least 20 passengers who are not in the main cast.) Jason Goes to Hell Jason Voorhees 1 (86) : Coroner - eats Jason's heart and becomes possessed 2 (87) : Coroner's Assistant - Autopsy probe in the back of the neck, face pushed through a metal grating 3 (88) : FBI Agent #1 - pencil through his spinal cord (off-screen) 4 (89) : FBI Agent #2 - fingers through his skull (off-screen) 5 (90) : Alexis - slashed up with a straight razor 6 (91) : Deborah - stabbed through the back with a barbed wire spike ripped in half 7 (92) : Luke - head crushed (offscreen) 8 (93) : Edna - head slammed in car door 9 (94) : Josh - possessed by Jason, shot in head and impaled with poker, later melts away XX (XX) : David - head bashed against faucet (cut from theatrical prints) 10 (95) : Diana - knife-sharpening pole in back 12 (96) : Robert Campbell possessed by Jason, later shot in head, run over with car, impaled on a barbecue skewer 13 (97) : Officer Ryan - head bashed against a locker 14 (98) : Officer Mark - and 15 (99) : Officer Brian - heads bashed together 16 (100) : Ward - arm broken, falls dead through the diner doors 17 (101) : Diner Patron (plaid shirt) -
crushed onto diner counter 19 (102) : Shelby - burned to death on a deep-fat fryer and grill 20 (103) : Joey B. - face bashed in 21 (104) : Vicki - impaled on a barbecue skewer, head crushed by Robert 23 (105) : Randy - possessed by Jason, later his neck is severed with a machete 24 (106) : Creighton Duke - bear hugged to death by Jason. Plus "Five more Jason-style murders" in the week between Jason's escape from the morgue and his arrival in Crystal Lake. Freddy vs. Jason Vicki 18 (1): Diner Patron (blue shirt) caught by stray shotgun blast Accidental Deaths 22: Sheriff Landis - impales himself on magic dagger Jessica Kimble 25 (1): Jason Voorhees - stabbed with magic dagger: sent to Hell Jason Voorhees 3 (107) : Trey - stabbed with machete, folded in half in bed 4 (108) : Blake's Dad - decapitated by machete 5 (109) : Blake - slashed with machete 6 (110) : Frisell (Glowing Raver) and 7 (111) : Gibb - double impalement with a long pipe 8 (112) : Teammate - head twisted around 9 (113) : Shack - impaled by flaming machete 10 (114) : Raver #1 - sliced with machete 11 (115) : Raver #2 - sliced with machete 12 (116) : Raver #3 - slashed in shoulder 13 (117) : Raver #4 - sliced in stomach with machete 14 (118) : Raver #5 - slashed with machete 15 (119) : Raver #6 - sliced with machete (off screen) 18 (120) : Security Guard - crushed by heavy door 19 (121) : Deputy Stubbs electrocuted on console 20 (122) : Freeburg - possessed by 'Freddypillar', chopped in half with machete 22 (123) : Linderman - impaled on shelf bracket 23 (124) : Kia - slashed with machete
and thrown into tree 24 (125): Freddy Krueger - arm ripped off by Jason, then own glove rammed through torso Freddy Krueger 17 (1): Mark - Set on fire, and then face slashed Flashback/Dream Deaths 1: Little Girl - stabbed in the eyes by Freddy (off screen) 2: Heather - pinned to tree with machete by Jason 16: Mark's Brother - motivated to slash wrists by Freddy 21: Lori's Mother - stabbed in the stomach by Freddy Lori Campbell 24 (1): Freddy Krueger - final decapitation with machete (The total amount of victims from the rave is unknown.) Jason X Jason Voorhees 1 (126) : Private Johnson - head wound, chain wrapped around neck 2 (127) : Guard 1 - machine gun to the head 3 (128) : Guard 2 - choked and thrown, shot by Guard 3 4 (129) : Guard 3 - face bashed in by noose pole 5 (130) : Guard 4 - choked by chain around neck 6 (131) : Dr. Wimmer - impaled by noose pole 7 (132) : Sgt. Marcus - thrown through metal door 8 (133) : Adrienne - face frozen in liquid nitrogen and smashed on counter 10 (134) : Stoney - stabbed in stomach with uber-machete, which is then pulled through blade first 11 (135) : Azrael - back broken over knee 12 (136) : Dallas - head crushed against wall 13 (137) : Sven - neck broken by slowly twisting it 14 (138) : Condor - impaled on large mining drill 15 (139) : Geko - throat slit with uber-machete 16 (140) : Briggs - impaled on large claw hook 17 (141) : Kicker - Cut in half with uber-machete 18 (142) : Fat Lou - hacked to bits (off-screen) 20 (143) : Professor Lowe decapitated (off-screen) 22 (144) : Crutch - electrocuted on
pilot console 24 (145) : Janessa - sucked through grate into space 25 (146) : Sgt. Brodski - impaled on spike, stabbed with uber-machete, dies entering Earth 2's atmosphere while riding Uber-Jason Accidental Deaths 19: Dieter Perez - dies in Solaris explosion Self-Inflicted Deaths 21: Kinsa - rams shuttle into Grendel, dies in explosion 23: Waylander - back broken, dies in walkway explosion Virtual Reality Deaths Azrael - cut length-wise by ubermachete Dallas - decapitated by ubermachete VR Teen Girl #1 - beat to death while in sleeping bag VR Teen Girl #2 - beat to death while in sleeping bag (Plus, 60 marine soldiers and the entire population of the Solaris space station die in the explosion.)
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A tribute to the legend that be...
DEREK ACORAH HAUNTED was very keen to feature Derek Acorah in our first issue. Personally speaking, I feel that he is the reason, or one of the main reasons why the Paranormal Industry “grew” on television as it did, and why we love to watch the programmes that we do. Derek was very keen to do an interview with HAUNTED. A Paranormal magazine without Derek Acorah in the first issue would be like the Radio Times not listing BBC 1. For some inexplicable reason the contact with Derek dried up, this was about the time that he was interviewed on a paranormal radio station and made some comments that forced the station to apologise and take the recording off the internet. We do hope that Derek wants to come and talk to Haunted. We don’t bite, well unless there is a full moon and we’re in need of brains.
answers to during various interviews, interspersed with one or two things that you might not know.
In the meantime for those of us who share our affection for Mr. Acorah here is a selection of questions that he has given
do people you have knoWn in real life ever come and visit you?
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When did you first start contacting spirits? My first experience of meeting a person from the spirit world was when I was a small boy aged six. I met my grandfather whilst I was living in my grandmother’s house. Throughout my childhood I experienced spirit connection though I would describe it as them contacting me. do you actually see the spirits? if so - do they look different to the living? I do see spirit people. Dependent upon the strength of that spirit, they can appear as solidly as a person in the physical body or in a more ethereal state.
Yes, my parents and my
grandparents come in visitation to me. My wife’s parents have also made their presence known plus other family members. In fact most people with whom I have been close and who have now passed over to the spirit world have at some time let me know that they are with me. This does not happen all the time of course, but just now and again, to let me know they’re OK. do you hear spirits all the time? if so, hoW do you sWitch it off? No, I do not hear spirit all the time. I practise a discipline where I open myself up to and close myself down from spiritual connection. Born Derek Johnson, Acorah, 59, began his working career not as a spiritual medium, but as a footballer with none other than Liverpool FC. Ending his sporting run at USC Lion in Australia, he returned home to Liverpool and eventually found what he terms his “niche” developing the
spiritual powers he claims to have inherited from his grandmother, also a medium. In 1996, after years on the circuit, Acorah gave a psychic reading on the Granada programme Livetime, and a television career was launched.
a brighter way. They start to say it’s all worthwhile because at the end of the day it’s nice to think that there’s somewhere else that we’re going and that we’re not being snuffed out at the end of this physical life.
What does one gain from an acceptance that your performances on stage and tv are, indeed, the real deal?
you Worked With a lot of celebrities on most haunted, Who had the best reaction?
When a person opens up to the possibility and the probability that [communication with spirits] is the truth, then something happens to them; a metamorphosis takes place of some kind and, you know, they start looking at things brighter, and looking at their lives in
Paul O’Grady. He was moaning, “Derek, Derek I need to go to the toilet”, and grabbing my hands. Very funny. Vic Reeves was wonderful too, lovely. I was talking about the spirit person in one room, while in the other room Vic saw a shadowy figure in front of him, and then it bolted. So Vic ran out and
chased it up the stairs, “You bugger, you beggar, argh I’ve found you”. He said he’d jammed him in the room, but the spirit disappeared. What’s sam like? He’s 5’ 5”, quite slim, lean looking. Black skin, because he was an Ethiopian. He is a very unassuming sort of person, very quiet. But he had the gifts like myself in his time. He used to walk into villages and tell them things – whether the crops would yield – he was an oracle. When did you meet him? I was 17, just back from my football training. I sat on the sofa reading a 072 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
guide a lovely soul like Sam in whatever he is meant to do do you think We all have inert psychic potential?
magazine, and then suddenly from nowhere I heard a voice saying my name four times. I thought I was going mad. The voice was speaking in English, but was of accent, if you like. He said he was my guardian and my guide - I just bolted off the sofa, and raced up into my bedroom. He talked to me again and told me that when I went to rest at night he would show me things I’d never seen before. I didn’t want to go to sleep because I knew what would happen – this dream scape of a foreign place, seeing people I’d never met before. He took me back, in thought, to a previous time when I knew him, when I was an Ethiopian child. I had been re-incarnated. so he Wasn’t re-incarnated? No the plan was that he would stay with me, guiding me. In the past three years I have been told that when I go over to that side of the life, the roles will be reversed, which I am really excited about. Why are you so excited? I think it’s unbelievable, to get the opportunity to 073 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
Yes. Everyone has that potential. If you want to open up that side of your nature, you have to go about it in the right way – develop it in a safe, responsible manner. There are such things called circles of development where a medium will take on 7 or 8 people, and sit with them once or twice a week. And it could go on for a number of years before that person develops, but the eventuality is that they do. What Would you do if you ruled the World? Put paid to global poverty and have the heads of different nations meet every six months to work on making the world a better place. What’s your guiltiest pleasure? Having a sweet tooth. I love tiramisu and cream buns. When did you last feel sorry for yourself? When I went to Gambia with my wife and caught some kind of virus. We flew back and I was diagnosed with pneumonia. It took me three months to get over it. What do you Wish you had never done? Started smoking cigarettes. That was my biggest mistake. Would your mother be proud of you? Yes. I know she’ll be walking round in the world of spirits bragging to
everyone. What is your earliest memory? Being pushed in a pram by my grandmother, along a cobbled street in Liverpool. A big shadow came down the road and stopped just in front of me. It was a lorry that just avoided crushing us. What song is the theme tune to your life? ‘Spirit in the Sky’. Who Would play you in the movie of your life? Johnny Depp! What is your most treasured possession? The wedding ring my wife put on my finger. What do you remember better, your first car or first kiss? First kiss! It was with Linda Hart, and she was my first girlfriend in senior school. you played for liverpool – has bill shankly ever come forWard in spirit? Yes. I was at Anfield, invited by the supporters’ club, and as I sat in the stand talking about my days at the club the Boss came through. He was very upset and said, “Ask them what those two men are doing in the goal at the Kop End.” There were two men there, so I did. The club guy said, “It’s top secret, so we shouldn’t really talk about it.” So I said, “Shanks knows about it.” Then the Boss said, “I’ll tell you what they’re doing. They’re putting false grass in there.” After that it was stopped.
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PROFILE
LIBBY CLARK It is with great pleasure that haunted has managed to “acquire” the services of Libby Clark. Libby will be giving her thoughts, her views, and her opinions on love, life and the universe in each issue of haunted, for those that have their head in the sand for the last umpteen years, here is a short but informative profile on Libby.
Libby has been aware of the spirit world from being a small child, but with her paternal grandmother being mediumistic and her Grandfather being a working trance medium there was always going to be a strong potential for mediumship within. It was never strange if her grandmother said she had been talking to ‘Mrs Smith’, it would just be the thought, ‘Oh yes she is one of the dead ones’. Communicating with spirit was just like coming home and although Libby was 16 before she entered a Spiritualist Church it was for her a very natural and simple continuation of her pathway. Within 18 months she was taking her first
Church service and has never looked back. In those early days she was guided by some of the UK’s finest mediums, Gordon Higginson, Glynn Edwards and Robin Stevens to name just a few.
Based in Nottinghamshire, Libby has worked as a Spiritualist Medium, travelling the length and breadth of the UK. Throughout this time she has gained a great deal of experience and a higher profile within the Spiritualist movement serving Spiritualist Churches groups, organisations and private individuals, undertaking Church services, demonstrations of Mediumship, private sittings, healing, workshops, seminars and teaching groups. In more recent years she has been working extensively overseas including, Italy, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Southern Ireland and the USA. Teaching a range of subjects from relaxation and meditation skills through to all aspects of Mediumship, Healing, Trance, Awareness and Sensitivity. She enjoys teaching Philosophy, Public
Speaking and Presentation Skills and over the last fifteen years has gained experience and skills in the fields of stress management and personal development and is a fully qualified Counsellor and Life Coach.
For several years Libby has been privileged to be a Course Organiser and Tutor at the Arthur Findlay College and thoroughly enjoys teaching and sharing with her students, many of whom return again and again to continue their spiritual and personal education under Libby’s expert guidance. Libby undertakes Private Sittings to allow individuals the opportunity for a closer communication with their loved ones in Spirit on a one to one basis. Libby has appointments available for clients for Spiritual Healing and Trance Healing and has many testimonials to confirm the help and healing that has been received from the spirit world. you can read more about libby on her website www.libbyclark.biz 080 HAUNTED MAGAZINE
LIBBY’S LAST RITES
Have you noticed how much ‘Spirituality’ there is around these days? I am bombarded by emails, books, articles and adverts all saying that they have the answer to our spiritual needs. Even on my Facebook account people send me messages and notes, invitations to attend their next event, all promising that they have ways of speeding up our abilities to become spiritual, create quicker access to our understanding, improve our healing powers etc. As if one course or one book can instantly provide us with all of the answers. In my 30 years as a Spiritualist Medium, teacher and counsellor I have always taught and understood that spirituality is not an instant, ‘add water and stand well back’, kind of thing. Though I know that we live in a society of instant gratification, we want it now and we want it all, some things are just worth the wait. Your spirituality is something that you find within yourself and must nurture, feed and develop at your own pace. Sure there are teachers and
inspirers that can help but at the end of the day, you are you and must grow yourself at a rate and energy that feels right for you. Take your time, live at your own speed, we are all drawn in to the rush of mankind’s accelerated development process, but, when just for a moment you stop, breathe and look around you, natural law and Mother Nature simply progress at a natural easy rhythm. Recently I watched a squirrel gathering up dried leaves, rushing back up into the tree and stuffing them madly into a space between a bundle of branches dashing around to have everything ready for what he thinks lies ahead, so like us. Just looking out of the window here already the world is preparing to slow down, the leaves are beginning to turn and the winds whisk them off the branches to swirl them around our feet. Autumn is once again upon us, shaking out the cold winds and windy weather that has been stored away since last year, and preparing
everything for the future ahead.
Listen to the natural ebb and flow that is within us and find again the peace, harmony and balance that comes from our own soul space, our natural, eternal spirituality. Take time for you in this busy world and know that you are spirit moving eternally forwards in your progression as a spiritual being. So read the books, take the classes, experience all that is possible but don’t be in too much of a rush spirituality is about quality not quantity, be the best you that you can be in the current climate that surrounds you. Oh, in your thoughts spare a moment for that squirrel, you see as fast as he was pushing the leaves into the hole, his partner was throwing them out and chattering at him in disgust, it seems preparations for the future are never simple. God Bless libby for more information on libby please visit www.libbyclark.biz
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