BETTER THE DEMON YOU KNOW: Has Bael manifested in Essex?

CASH’S WELL,ESSEX

There’s nothing better than letting a paranormal team write about their investigations, in their own words… telling it how they experienced it, how they felt about it, how they lived through it…

RICH AUSTIN AND MARK KENNY

Cash’s Well is situated in the eerie surroundings of Langdon Hills Country Park in the depths of Essex and is a notoriously renowned haunted hotspot in the UK, one of which we, WLP, have wanted to visit for some time. The logistics for this included a 180-mile round trip and an ALL outdoor location, so weather conditions had to be considered too. Once we had agreed on a date and time it was in to the ‘batmobile’ and off we set, stopping on the way to pick up two guests that were joining us on this investigation: ‘Mediums’ Jacquie and Nick from the SEPT (South East Paranormal Team) joining us, who bring another element to our investigation, bringing out the more spiritual side of things, allowing us to work more in depth in an attempt to seek and search for concrete evidence in the paranormal world.

On arrival at the site of the investigation, it was obvious that we were in an area that had a long history and chequered past to go with that. We were waiting for one more guest to arrive to help us on our investigation, actor Adam Oakley who had been interested in all things paranormal for a long time, and as the location was quite close to him we offered him the chance to join us in learning our practices and gaining a more in depth knowledge of the paranormal whilst enhancing his skill set.

Once Adam had arrived and all the formalities were over, we set about getting our equipment ready for the walk down to the actual site of the Well. We had to walk about a mile through woodland, overgrown trees, and bushes either side of the precarious path, this was not for the feint hearted as the decent was quite steep and slippery. On our way down a couple of us felt that we were being watched, but that is often the feeling one gets when in the woods isn’t it?

Approaching the Well itself you could not help but be stopped in your tracks and look towards the pillars that were standing derelict and weathered right in front of us. It was an immediate effect of ‘oh wow look at this place it’s scary’. Once over the initial feeling that overcome us we proceeded to the Well itself, and although the actual Well was still there it wasn’t full of water and, sadly, it has been vandalized over the years and various items of rubbish had been thrown down there, bottles, cans etc.

This did not though detract from what we’re standing in and around, pillars from the 1800s which held up the sides and roof of the building were in poor shape but still standing, there was odd pieces of graffiti on the walls and it made for a very eerie place indeed. On approach to the pillars Adam mentioned that he had a dream the night before it which a little girl appeared and said to him don’t go further than the pillars that were laying across the floor, as we approached Adam announced that this was the image he had seen in his dream, so that had set a tone for the events that were to follow, we were all a bit shocked and subdued and I think the calmness that ensued was that of wonder of what Adam had dreamt about, and had told us about, and now we had just seen.

As we had arrived at the location we put our equipment down and walked around the small site for 15 minutes or so when Mark said “Jacquie look what’s happened to your leg” we all turned to her as we were in close proximity and we were all stunned at what we saw..... 3 Scratches!!! They were fresh as the blood was still wet and bright red, there was nothing around that could have made that happen, no bushes, no brambles nothing, it was a wideopen space! Once again, we were all a little stunned and shocked, WHAT WAS IN STORE FOR US TONIGHT? The darkness was falling, and the woods were becoming silent it was rapidly becoming something out of a horror movie. We had lots of different equipment with us and set about getting all the kit up and ready for the night’s investigation. We set 4K videos up, the usual

various located audio recording devices, temperature readers, EMF Readers, all the usual kit and more there was no way we were going to come here and not cover all the bases.

Our first delve into the investigation was Jacquie setting out a protection for all of us in which made us all feel comfortable and more at ease for the evening. We moved straight on to doing some ‘calling out’ and recordings, followed by moving around the Well changing things up, changing the people who were talking to see if we could engage in any spirits, one thing that we all wanted now, more than anything, was to see if Adam could perhaps contact the girl who he said was in his dream. So it was off to the Ouija board and after the opening prayer we all had sat around the board in our cold and dark outside location with just a headtorch to illuminate the board so as not to disrupt the night vision cam.

We were stunned at what followed, after a feel around the board warming it up and making sure everything was in order and safe we proceeded to call for any spirits to join us, it didn’t take too long before we had some movement and some mumbled words and letters, you could feel the energy that was present there was no doubt in our mind or anybody else that it was full of energy and we felt a little uneasy to be honest. We felt that the energy around us was negative a dark force energy, and we were not, as a group, feeling good things. We persisted on the board for about 40 minutes and in that time we had a female spirit visit the board, who confirmed that she was the girl in Adam’s dream, this little girl was scared, she was being held back by something or someone and Jacquie, one of the mediums from SEPT could feel she was being controlled and not freely speaking. Eventually, we got the name Emily and she had already attached herself to Adam, after a few more questions it dried up, so we decided to come off the board for a break and regenerate ourselves.

Almost immediately Adam started to walk off on his own, his mood had changed significantly for us to notice he wasn’t happy, and when we spoke to Adam, he was angry and aggressive, totally out of character. We tried to calm him down, he was saying that Emily the girl was in trouble, she was scared, hated what is happening to her and that we had to help her.

After we had calmed Adam down, we decided to move location about 60 yards away was an old bridge that connects the old asylum at the top of the hill to the lower part of the Well. In the 19th century the asylum was home to lots of children, many suffering from TB and other illnesses, IS THIS THE PLACE WHERE EMILY WAS? They used to cross this bridge to visit the well and surrounding areas, to play, to drink etc.

Once we were all on the bridge and settled we put down a Rem Pod which was cunningly hidden inside a Winnie the Pooh Bear as we wanted to try attract the children, it wasn’t long before we felt the bridge move, now this bridge is solid wood, so it’s easy to say it can sway a little yes 100% agree, but this wasn’t that feeling at all this was like small footsteps running across the bridge footsteps of small children perhaps? We continued with the bridge for a while but could not get anything else to come through or anymore interaction with the children, so we decided to have a break something to eat and drink and refresh ourselves. It was about 11pm now and pitch black and almost silent in the woods it was definitely now something set in a horror film. As we were refreshed and ready to go again we decided to bring out another piece of new equipment that Mark had picked up, a Smoke Vortex Machine, if you haven’t seen them, it is a machine that spins a mirror disc, there’s lasers that go on that to reflect, next to this we have smoke like dry ice rising once the lasers go on the disc, through the smoke it produces a smoke vortex and it has been known to pick up faces, spiritual energy manifestations etc. so we were very excited to give this a good go here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4alzl2u2nezcpe/Bael. mov?dl=0

We got it running the film was rolling and we all took in turns to call out, Richard was controlling the lasers to keep a steady vortex, after a few minutes with Jacquie, Adam, Nick and Mark all working hard to try get something through we all at one stage felt we saw an image appear but nobody quite new what it was but we thought little of it and carried on with the investigation again seeing things left and right the energy was intense and everybody thought that it felt a bit dark not the usual happy bubbly energy, it felt sinister, so we decided to stop the experiment for a while and do something else, it felt quite intense, like a very dark vibe was around us but couldn’t pin point anything.

We returned to the Ouija Board for a final session, it was around 1am and we were all getting tired but wanted to give it our all. We once again opened the board in a safe manner and warmed our energy, we go on the board with the intention of trying to find out what the dark energy was that was with us, we knew it was present, it was just a matter of trying to find out who or what it was.

This session didn’t disappoint, the board was very active we thought we had Edwin Cash come through but then the board was doing all sorts of trickery, spelling out die, demon, even now, writing this, I (Richard) have gone cold and shivery, it was not pleasant but we carried on as we felt safe doing so, Adam decided to come off the board, Richard was also off the board now filming Jacquie, Nick and Mark, the board was going crazy and Adam who was next to me said he felt his neck was burning, insisting that it was burning him, bearing that this was 1am, middle of the night, it was very cold. We stopped the Ouija board session, closed it down properly and looked at Adam’s neck.

OMG, WTF and all other suitable acronyms. Adam has 3 huge scratches running downwards through his tattoo!! now what!!!! we knew there was something here a dark energy, we’d been feeling it for hours (I’ve gone cold AGAIN this second, just writing this) something had scratched Adam, was it the same thing that scratched Jacqui earlier?

We decided to end the investigation a couple of hours later, do our protection closing prayer and make our way back to the cars in what seemed like the longest walk ever looking over our shoulders most of the way. Once we had regrouped and said our goodbyes it was a mass topic of conversation on the way home we couldn’t believe what had happened and couldn’t wait to get stuck in to the hardest part of the investigation, going through endless hours of footage and audio.

We had no idea at the time what we were dealing with BUT WE DO NOW, we (think) we have caught some of the most amazing footage of what we believe to be a demon, we believe we caught the demon BAEL* on camera, on live film during our vortex sessions.

You can see the pictures in this magazine BUT by the powers of modern technology, some might call it “witchcraft if you scan the QR code on this page, we’ve prepared a video where you can actually watch what we caught and see for yourself. We think it is truly amazing.

*Bael is a demon described as a hoarsely voiced king with the power to make men invisible and ruling over sixty-six legions of demons. Legend states that he is a nasty piece of work. Is he the one who scratched Jacquie? Is he the one who scratched Adam? Is the the one that made the Ouija board go crazy. We cannot wait to get back there again.

We always carry protection when we investigate, ranging from Lavender, Sage, and other assorted herbs and custom made by crystal made by (if I am allowed a plug) by the fantastic Beaux Bracelets Company. Rich and Mark

West London Paranormal