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KTPF Magazine

Issue 3 June 2015

KTPF Magazine

Issue 3 June 2015

The KTPF Magazine

May 2015 issue 2

The KTPF Magazine is a FREE monthly publication produced by The KTPF Community Talk Show, covering the paranormal, conspiracies and other strange phenomena.

Each month we will bring you the latest news from a variety of subjects, as well as mentioning the interviews and features expressed on our weekly talk show. Including contributions from reputed writers in their field; we will also be showcasing groups and haunted venues from around the world. Plus incorporating the forthcoming events as advertised on our sister site, Paranormal Events 4U. Contributors Wanted - The KTPF Magazine is always looking for contributors to add their work to our magazine. So if you’re interested then contact us at publisher@ktpf.co.uk and let us know if you would like to regularly publish your work with us. We regret that we cannot accept every article we receive. These are unpaid, yet rewarding opportunities. Authors can write about almost anything paranormal, including ghosts, monsters, psychic phenomena, or other supernatural and unexplained mysteries. You can also contribute articles on conspiracies as well as theories of mind and consciousness. Submissions must represent the original work of the author’s and may include the author's by-line, biography, and photograph. Authors retain the copyright of their work and may publish the identical article elsewhere if desired.

Disclaimer - Contributors who wish to submit articles and photographs, do so at their own risk. By submitting material, you certify that it is original. The KTPF are not responsible for articles that appear in the magazine which do not belong to the individuals submitting them. The opinions expressed by any contributor are solely the opinions of the original source who express them.

NB: If you are aware of any material featured in the KTPF Magazine that is not credited correctly, then please inform us as soon as possible Credits: Front Page: Tetragrammaton Common use licence Charles Walker

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Editor Andy Mercer Co-Editors Steve Taggart Susanne Taggart Contributors Andy Collins Charles Walker Alison Wynne-Ryder Richard Freeman Richard Thomas Brian Langston

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Editor’s note Page 5 – Paranormal News A round up of the stories covered during the show and one or two we might have missed….

Page 10 – Steve T’s Ghost Hunting Guide The first part of Steve’s guide, that takes us through his tips on ghost hunts and paranormal investigating.

Page 13 - Alison Wynne-Ryder’s regular feature.

This edition Alison talks about Cosmic ordering with the Angels Page 16 – ‘Spotlight On’- The P.I.G.S A unique group with an interesting name!

Page 18 – Haunted locations across the UK (Interview Review) As a tie in with our interview with Charles Walker, his month we feature West Sussex’s Notorious Clapahm wood.

Page 20 – KTPF Interview Review - Keeping the OCCULT friendly Pt1 Andy and his guest Richard Ward discussed Psychic Questing and we were given permission to reproduce an explanation of Psychic Questing written by the noted writer and Researcher Andy Collins Page 25 – KTPF Interview Review - Keeping the OCCULT friendly Pt2 Andy and Richard Later discussed the ‘darker’ side of questing and how Andrew Collins found himself up against an apparent black magician called by Andrew the ‘Black Alchemist.’

Page 35 – Brian Langdon - a notorious murder Brian discusses a vicious murder in which the killer acts for no reason.

Was it demonic possession or pure evil?

Page 42 – Richard Thomas – The Devil Rides Out From The clichéd Hammer Horror portrayals to the Mysterious ‘Skull and Bones’ group Bohemian Grove and Richard t.looks at apparent ‘devil worship in high places Page 46 – Richard Freeman – The Nameless Dread Taking inspitation from H.P Lovecraft: Richard F. looks at the more sinislter Crypitids around the world Page 54 – Letters page Nothing there yet…..

Issue number 3 is here.

In this issue…

At the End of April we had a special edition of the show, which was hosted by Andy and guest Richard Ward. Andy and Richard talked abut the Occult and Psychic questing, and we have been given permission to reproduce some of the work of the ‘father’ of Modern Psychic questing; Andy Collins. Plus we talked to Charles Walker about his experiences with the Notorious Clapham Wood in Sussex.

Alison Wynne-Ryder talks od Spirit Guides and we introduce a new contributor Brian Langston All this and much more…

Paranormal News Paranormal TV changes a couple’s life. – Examiner.com ‘Marvin Gaye’ and UFO – the Mirror.co.uk Photobomb folly – Mirror.co.uk Fungus and ghosts – The Examiner Hancock’s new book – Huffpost UK Ghost Doctor – The Mirror Acorrah attacked – various

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What’s new in the world of the paranormal?

Paranormal television changes a couple's life Jay Yates began ghost hunting in 1998 without any particular direction, using disposable cameras and visiting historical locations by day. It wasn't until 2003 that Jay and Marie Yates started investigating seriously. First as a 2 person team in 2005, they started Crossing Over Paranormal Society (The COPS Crew). It wasn't until 2010 they decided to add more investigators.

Over the years the group expanded, and Jay and Marie started conducting residential as well as historical investigations. As most groups do, they found it difficult to get access to all the locations they wanted to investigate. After successfully being featured on the Biography Channel’s My Ghost Story in 2013, they found it easier to gain permission to investigate previously unavailable locations, and The COPS Crew started to gain some notoriety. Through the years the group has been on hundreds of investigations, started to speak at various conventions throughout the state of Arizona, as well as being featured on the news on numerous occasions. The COPS Crew eventually became a very well-known group throughout Arizona.

Then in 2014, the Travel Channel came calling. Ghost Adventures wanted to feature Jay and Marie on an episode taking place at the Goldfield Ghost Town in Apache Junction, Arizona, an abandoned mining town buried deep in the mysterious Superstition Mountains. After filming concluded, Ghost Adventures then asked the ghost hunting duo to fly to Las Vegas in order to be featured on an episode of Ghost Adventures: Aftershocks. Since the airing of the Ghost Adventures episode at Goldfield, Jay and Marie’s paranormal life has gotten crazier than it already had been. Calls and emails for investigations and professional opportunities came flooding in, as well as groups requesting to investigate with them. So many calls in fact, they had to enlist more help just to answer all of them.

“The good thing is we’re getting into buildings we never could have before” says Jay Yates. “The bad thing is people just want us to come investigate their residences just because we've been on television. I am much more cautious taking cases now due to people wanting us to investigate in hopes our findings will be featured on an upcoming show. Guess it’s a double-edged sword. It’s helped us get cases but also created a burden sifting through the garbage.”

For Jay and Marie who have worked relentlessly for years to build a name and reputation for themselves, this is a dream come true. After Ghost Adventures, the sky is the limit for Jay and Marie, who are now booked solid months in advance and continue to receive calls daily.

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Issue 3 June 2015 Marvin Gaye impersonator spots UFO over Birmingham

What’s Going On? It’s more UFMotown than UFO - a fleet of strange craft spotted in the sky over Birmingham by a Marvin Gaye tribute act. And Mike Bedward has heard it through the grapevine that extraterrestrials are drawn to spectacular sky scenes, such as dazzling sunrises and this double rainbow. The Stechford singer didn’t know what he’d inadvertently caught on camera until he studied pictures of the rainbows. It Takes Two, apparently, to attract aliens.

The 44-year-old was intrigued by shrapnel-type flecks against the rainbow, snapped at 6.30pm on Monday. Zooming in on the images revealed the shining slivers to be cigar-shaped crafts in the blue sky over Alum Rock. He also captured a strange vapour trail. Mike said: “I was trying to take a picture of the rainbow - it was only later that I noticed the shapes. “I’m not saying they are UFOs, although, yes, I’m a believer. I’m saying I can’t explain what I’ve pictured, and neither can other people. “The crafts are rectangular and glow like strip lights. I’ve seen strange things in the sky before. This is the first time I’ve had a camera with me.” He added: “I believe UFOs are attracted to beautiful things like rainbows.”

It’s not the first time Alum Rock has been in the grip of a Close Encounter. On November 3, 2010, the authorities were contacted following reports of a large black object moving slowly across the sky.

Witness Paul Ryan, who spotted the craft at 7pm, reported: “It was a very large object which i could tell by the sets of lights in the three corners.

“In each corner there were many different coloured flashing lights, very bright and changing colours very quickly. The object appeared to be flying very low and very slow. It was also completely silent.”

“I continued to watch for a couple of minutes, thinking that the object might reappear further along, in a south east direction, but it had vanished into the small low flying cloud and didn’t reappear.”

Birmingham UFO Group believe there’s a decidedly earthy, even mundane, explanation for Monday’s strange phenomenon.

And chairman Dave Hodrien has been quick to point out to our Marvin Gaye impersonator: “It ain’t nothin’ like the real thing”. “It’s very rare,” said Dave, “that we see a picture and think, ‘wow’.

It’s very rare we see something that can’t be explained. “In this instance the probable explanation is lens flare, a scattering of light in the lens system.

“It has nothing to do with the rainbow. It’s caused by sunlight.”

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Did a ghost ‘photobomb’ this family holiday snap? Mystery as eerie apparition lurks behind kids A family was given a fright when they eagerly inspected their holiday snaps - and spotted what appears to be a ghost lurking in the background.

The chilling picture was taken when the Islam family were enjoying a day out at Roundhay Park, near Leeds, West Yorks, over the Easter break.

Nurul Islam, 37, said his sister took the eerie photograph, which features his niece Mayrian Islam, 11, and nephew, nine-year Ryhan Kaliq.

When they looked back at the snap of the two youngsters posing in front of a folly built in 1812, they were shocked to see the spooky apparition.

The folly - a Victorian-style fake ruin - was built in 1812 by George Nettleton for the Nicholson family.

Mr Nettleton, who bought the Roundhay Park Estate in 1803, built The Mansion and landscaped the grounds, creating the lakes. Nurul said they were all shocked when they saw the image, which looks like it shows an adult wearing a cloak walking up the steps with their an arm outstretched.

Nurul said: "I don't even like watching scary films and I don't like looking at this photo, it's spooky, there was no one there.”

“My sister took the photograph and she saw it first, the castle isn't too old but who knows who lived there before.

"We were taking lots of pictures. Because people were standing on the steps and walking about, we waited for them to move on before we took a picture. "We waited and waited for a clear point when no-one was there as they wanted to hold their hands together. That's why we're sure there was no-one there. "I didn't think anything of it and took a few more. Then we got home and looked at the photos and saw this thing at the back of it that wasn't there before.

Ghost or lost tourist?

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Group researches link between mold in homes and people seeing ghosts Wonder why old houses are always haunted? Well Clarkson University might have that answer for you. According to the April 2 report from Medical Daily and the April 4 report from The Times, a team of researchers from Clarkson University are investigating the links between house hauntings and the indoor air quality. Why? Well it's known that toxic mold can trigger psychosis and they believe that it's making people see ghosts.

The group expects to collect their date through the summer. So they are still trying to get all the facts and samples. The group will be publishing their results at the end of their study.

Where are they looking for these samples? Well Dr. Shane Rogers and his group have been seen in New York measuring air quality in buildings that are reported to be haunted. One place that the group has been at is the Frederic Remington Art Museum. So Rogers wants to link hauntings and pollutants together. Its been known that people have reported having depression, anxiety, and other effects while they were exposed to bad indoor quality because of mold. So it's an interesting theory saying that mold is causing psychological effects that make people see ghosts.

Rogers is a fan of ghost stories too, so his goal isn't to debunk the legends. His goal is to provide more of an insight on why certain places are perceived to be haunted. So next time you see an old rundown house it might not be haunted, it could just be the air quality.

Graham Hancock Says A Comet Wiped Out A 'Highly Advanced' Civilisation 13,000 Years Ago In 1995, controversial book 'Fingerprints of the Gods' made waves by claiming a highly advanced civilisation was wiped out by a comet strike in Antarctica 13,000 years ago.

The book was widely panned by academics despite selling three million copies. Now Graham Hancock claims to have found clear evidence to support his theory. In an upcoming sequel, Hancock says he has outlined the "smoking gun" he lacked 20 years ago.

"In 1995, I wrote a book about all the clues - the fingerprints - that pointed to the existence of this lost civilisation," Hancock told The Sunday Times. "But what I lacked was a smoking gun. Now we have it.

"A series of papers in geophysics and geological journals have been bringing forward evidence that the Earth was indeed hit by a comet 12,800 years ago, which is exactly what I proposed in my book."

The new 500 page book, titled 'Magicians of the Gods', will be published in September, and will contain geological proof of a comet strike in Antarctica 12,800 years ago, Hancock says.

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Is this a 'ghost doctor' caught on camera lurking in a derelict hospital?

A terrified ghost hunter probing a 'haunted' derelict hospital was horrified to see the spectral figure of a doctor lurking in one of her pics.

Jamie-Leigh Brown, 21, was exploring the empty corridors of St Thomas's Hospital, a former Victorian workhouse, in Stockport, Twopenneth – A strange when sheSue’s took eerie photo.

and untrue story goes viral!

The decorator was so unnerved by spooky footsteps above them - even though the building has no working stairs - that she and her team of amateur ghost-busters didn't check the image at the time. The paranormal enthusiasts ran from the building in terror, but when Ms brown developed the photo later she found a chilling surprise - a spectral doctor lurking in the background. She said to The Sun: "It freaked me out. "It's standing in a lift shaft. It's really creepy to think my friend was just heading towards the area where the ghost was. "We'd only gone into the workhouse for a laugh and to look around. We kept hearing noises above us like shuffling and footsteps but hadn't actually seen anything." Thousands of psychiatric patients were treated at St Thomas', formerly known as Shaw Heath Hospital, over the years.

Sue’s Twopenneth - A Strange and wholly untrue story goes viral!

A POPULAR TV psychic was filming in Rhyl this week for the hit TV show ‘Most Haunted’.

The trip was cut short however, after he was found on the pavement of Edward Henry Street flailing his arms and shouting incoherently. When passers by eventually stopped to help, Acorah claimed a gang of Burberry clad ghosts had assaulted him and was admitted to Bodelwyddan hospital.The TV star was physically unharmed, and discharged himself before being seen to by the psychiatric specialist.

“I should be free to go about my job without the threat of being attacked like this. They approached me and told me I was on their turf, all I wanted to do was find out if they had any messages for the living.” he said. The only message here was Acorah receiving what he claims are ‘spiritual wounds’. He has begun proceedings to sue the town council and while he remains optimistic of a 6 figure payout, sources close to the case are admittedly dubious.

There is no truth to this whatsoever!!

The only mystery is where it came from in the first place!

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The Tameside and Glossop branch of the RSPCA is separate and independent from the parent charity (National RSPCA) and run entirely by unpaid volunteers.

Volunteer Driver to assist our cat rehoming coordinator urgently needed download our leaflet here Please note that this branch does NOT have an office as it is managed and operated by volunteers from their own homes.

Email: office@rspca-tameside-glossop.org.uk

2015 Psychic Ether Tour Derek Acorah's brand new theatre tour.

Derek Acorah needs no introduction. The pioneer for Spiritualism and mediumship on television, he is arguably the world’s most renowned Spirit Medium having demonstrated to many hundreds of thousands of people in theatres throughout the UK. Derek’s television career dates back over fifteen years when he became the first medium ever to demonstrate live on air and without the benefit of an edit suite on a weekly basis bringing hope and comfort to the viewing public.

Visit Derek’s website for more details on dates and venues

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Hi, my name is Steve Taggart and I have been interested in the Paranormal for many years. I decided to join a local paranormal group, which took my path towards starting my own back in 2007.

And with the help of some enthusiastic friends, the UK Shadow Seekers was born.

And the Rest as They Say is History …

Olfactory Paranormal Phenomena (OPP) One of the things you may experience is OPP. This is commonly known as a Perfume Ghost, which means smells you wouldn’t expect to get in an old empty building or even ones that are still being used Things like cigarette or cigar smoke. Now this is something that you shouldn’t get seeing as there has been a smoking ban in the UK since 1st July 2007 therefore, after 5 years, any residual smoke smells should have evaporated by now.

When this happens, check that the smell is not someone with you that smokes and then try to pinpoint where the smell is coming from. Keep in mind that it may not linger for long and could mean that a Spirit is near.

Ghost Odours come in all varieties and can include Floral Scents The most commonly reported odour associated with Spirits is the smell of fresh flowers. Rose, Lilac, and Jasmine, three distinctly different aromas that are said to be attributed to the Spirit of those who have recently passed. Sometimes a floral scent can be connected to a loved one with a particular fondness for certain flowers instead of someone who just crossed over. The same can be said of a particular perfume although from a sensitive’s point of view not always the case; one of our team members always smelt Parma Violets when there was a female Spirit nearby.

This smell is normally associated with older ladies, and reminded him of his Grandmother.

So if you smell something familiar when you’re at home, it could mean that you have a loved one watching over you.

But on a Ghost Hunt, like our team member, although not his own Grandmother, it could have been a Grandmother figure he was sensing.

Sometimes the smell you get can lead you to the profession of the Spirit

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Spirits can display very unique scents that were closely connected with them in life. These Connection Scents can include cigar or pipe smoke, a special perfume or cologne, brewing coffee and cooking foods. It is also thought that these odours are used specifically by the departed to let loved ones know that they are near in times of joy or pain. And these are said to be Positive Scents.

Negative scents would be the odours of mildew, rotten eggs or sulphur and rotting foods, which are often reported where unhappy or unfriendly Spirits are believed to reside.

Though not all Perfume Ghosts are sweet smelling.

In fact one smell that is associated with an entity is not thought to be that of a Ghost at all, but a Demon.

Many Demonologists will tell you that the smell of sulphur is a big hint to vacate the area.

As with Many Things in this Field though, there is Nothing Definite.

Here are some paranormal events companies offering you the chance to experience ghost hunting for yourself.

(Click on the image to visit the site)

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SPIRIT GUIDES (UPDATED) Everyone has a Spirit Guide – but who are they? Well, one of the questions I get asked a lot is “what’s the difference between a Spirit Guide and a Guardian Angel”? The only way I can describe the difference is that our Guardian Angels have never been incarnated on the Earth plane and have therefore never inhabited a human body. Within the book 'Spiritual Unfoldment' by White Eagle, he calls the Guardian Angel ‘Custodian of the Karmic Law’ which rules all life. They record all our deeds, and help us to work out our own karma.

It is my belief that our Guardian Angel & our main Spirit Guide work together for our highest good. All we need to do is to believe......

Ascended Spirits Our Spirit Guides are different to the Angels as they have lived in a human body. They are ascended spirit from the human line of evolution and have had spiritual experiences themselves similar to those that we encounter in our own lifetime. Our Spirit Guides are here to help to guide us on our spiritual path, and who best to guide us than someone who understands what it is like to have lived on earth? Our Spirit Guides are now pure spirit and have no ego and our main guide is known as our ‘doorkeeper’ or ‘gatekeeper’. This powerful ascended guide, who loves us unconditionally, is assigned to us before we are born, to help guide us in understanding life’s many lessons. These lessons could be experiences that have not been resolved from a previous life and we are given the chance to be re-born and find a solution to those problems in this life-time. Your main spirit guide will stay with you throughout your entire life and helps you to fulfil your earth mission. Other guides may make themselves known to you at different intervals on your life’s path. I have had different guides 'popping in and out' of my life dependant on what I have been going through at that time.

How do I meet my Spirit Guide?

The first thing to do before anything else, is to believe in the presence of your personal spirit guide that way, you are setting your intent to work with them. How you meet your Spirit Guide is a personal experience and is unique to you. For example, some people prefer to join a Spiritualist Church or Psychic Circle with other like minded people, whereas others will prefer to find out about their spirit guide on their own through reading books, or watching u-tube videos etc.

In an ideal world once you've set your intent, it's a good idea to be in a quiet environment. Turn off your phone; make sure you are not going to be disturbed. If you are part of a psychic circle, your teacher will have already set the intent by blessing the room & ensuring the class won't be disturbed. Meditation is the key to all spiritual work so most of you will meet your guide through meditation, although like me, they may appear in another way.

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My Spirit Guides I met my main spirit guide Zamil in a vivid dream. When I woke up, I felt loved and comforted in a way I couldn’t explain. I knew without a doubt that I had met my spirit guide and a few months later I had confirmation of this whilst sitting in the garden where, when I asked, he gave me his name and also told me where he had lived when he had inhabited his human body on the earth-plane. I have since met my other Spirit guides Ruby – who is my psychic art Spirit Guide and has a wonderful sense of humour, Star, who brings with her a nature spirit quality and is often accompanied by woodland animals, and Amy, who is a little girl spirit that works with me when I am working in Canada on the show Rescue Mediums.

More recently a new guide came forward. He was a strong First Nation's Chief who, I called 'The Wise One'. I speak to my Spirit Guides every day either through meditation or thought process called ‘telepathy’. Our spirit guides don’t have a voice-box so the voice we ‘hear’ will sound like our own, although the messages are coming direct from the spirit world. It is much the same when I am doing clairvoyant readings for a client. I know that any messages I receive either in word form or pictorial form are given to me by spirit and I love the confirmation I receive from a client about personal messages given direct from spirit no matter how bizarre the message appears to me! Our Spirit Guides never let us down To err is human People will meet their Spirit Guides through different forms of communication such as meditation or in a group situation such as a psychic circle or through their local Spiritualist Church. Whichever way you choose to develop your spirituality please don’t give up if you don’t see your Spirit Guide at first. Your guide will develop you at a pace he or she feels is right for you and it is something that cannot be rushed. Everyone develops at a different pace and never compare yourself to others. I remember when I was in my psychic development class; I couldn’t understand why others said they could see their spirit guide and all I could see of mine were long sleeves.

However, looking back now, all the signs were there – I knew it was my guide even though I couldn’t see all of him. Yes, I felt my Guide was male! - I could actually feel him beside me even though I couldn’t ‘see’ all of him in my meditation. Of course, he appeared to me (all of him!) in my dream, and after that, he appeared in meditations whether I was alone or part of a group and I have seen him many times since!. Never be disheartened, and never feel that you have disappointed your guide as they are here to help us to learn from any mistakes we make in life. After all, we are only human and our Spirit Guides will always be by our side in love and forgiveness. As the saying goes, ‘to err is human’.

Get digging!

Our Spirit Guide’s love for us is unconditional and to meet and communicate with them, is a very special and humbling experience. When we take a wrong turn in life, our guides will sometimes intervene to ensure we are guided back on the right path. If you are really stuck and need an answer, ask your guide to assist you and he or she will give you a way of resolving the problem.

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You may have to do some ‘digging’ yourself to find a solution, but if you want confirmation that you are on the right path, ask for a specific sign. These signs are often in the form of ‘coincidences’ or synchronistic events that your Spirit Guide has put on your path to make you sit up and take notice! Look out for the clues – they are out there. Once you have recognised them for what they are, remember to acknowledge this by thanking your Spirit Guide.

How to connect with your Spirit Guide 1. Believe in their presence! If you don't believe, why are you even here? It is imperative to have an open mind even if you are not sure exactly what or who you believe in 2. Set your intent. Be mindful of finding out about your Spirit Guide - how they can help you along your spiritual path, how they work with your Guardian Angel to bring you the peace that you deserve in your life.

3. If you are part of a psychic circle, listen to what your teacher is saying, be willing to learn all you can about higher dimensions and don't try too hard! Keep it simple.

4. Find your quiet space - somewhere you won't be disturbed - a place where you feel totally comfortable and at ease. This will make it much easier for your Spirit Guide to communicate with you. The best way to relax your mind is through meditation but if you feel this is too much to start with, go for a nature walk, or sit in your favourite place in the garden.

5. Don't give up; remember that God loves a trier! and more than anything, trust and have faith in their guidance. They will come forward when they feel you are ready and in a way that is the best way to communicate with you. Your Spirit Guide knows you as much as, if not more, than you know yourself.

6. Practice meditating or sitting quietly every day even if it's only for 10 minutes. After a while, your body and mind will start to relax and if you ask a question, your guide will answer either through an idea or thought that pops into your head - you may hear your voice being called, or feel your ears buzzing as they fine tune you to their higher vibrational energy.

7. Once you are no longer worrying about what the day will bring your mind will quieten down and during these gaps in thought process, you can start to ask questions of your guide. First of all, tell them you are happy to work with them, and ask them a simple question such as "What is your name"? If a name comes to mind instantly, that is the name they are happy for you to call them. It may not have been exactly the same as their name when they were on the earth plane but it doesn't matter! If you get nothing to start with don't worry, all spiritual communication comes with experience and perseverance.

The main thing when communicating with spirit, the angels, and other ascended beings, is to enjoy the experience. If you worry or give yourself a hard time it will take much longer for you to connect with your guide BIO - ALISON WYNNE-RYDER Alison Wynne-Ryder is a Clairvoyant Medium of international fame whose extraordinary abilities bring comfort and guidance to her many clients worldwide. Her book ‘The Quirky Medium has been published and is receiving excellent reviews globally. She has been awarded a Silver Winner's certificate in the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards and was a runner up in the People's Book Prize awards. In her book, Alison shares the astonishing story of her life as a Medium and co-host on the popular reality TV Show Rescue Mediums with candour and humour.

Alison tweets @rescuemediumali e-mail at thequirkymedium@gmail.com websites at thequirkymedium.blogspot.co.uk/

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The Paranormal Intelligence Gathering Service An Investigation team built from a core of ex police officers, we let the evidence tell the story.

Established since 2006, we have a dedicated team of professional people who have all been hand picked and recruited not just because of their ability as investigators but also because they are friendly down to earth and always have a smile.

We like to gather actual recordable and replayable data, which can be presented as evidence. We do this in a number of ways using all we can from various detection devices infrared and thermal imaging; various styles of audio and even will monitor the environment throughout a location. We will always publish our findings normally within a 14 page case file which is organised in a easy find images, audio, environment format so people don’t have to read thousands of words.

We have done a great deal of community and charity work with our biggest achievement being able to raise just short of £100’000 for the charity Anthony Nolan during the time we were working with them hosting Ghost Hunting Events.

Our events have been described as the most professional and organised however I don’t want to tell you what to think as I feel people’s unsolicited comments on our testimonial page speak s for themselves.

We only hold a few select events through the year simply because we believe in collecting as much data as we can. The data collected on a 6hr PIGS event typically will be around 56 hours of CCTV, 20 Hrs of Audio and normally 10 hours of hand held or worn video camera footage plus what ever else we decide is needed to collect data on a location after an extensive research period which all has to be analysed looking for points of interest to publish in the case file. We are passionate about investigation, we are passionate about equipment and experiment techniques, we are passionate about service levels to our customers and we care a great deal for the paranormal community as a whole. As such we are always willing to help, learn & teach where we can.  So When Booking with Us, Be Prepared For more details visit: http://www.the-pigs.co.uk Twitter: @PIGScouk Facebook Page: Paranormal Intelligence gathering Service

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Haunted locations special: Clapham Woods and its links to The Friends of Hecate Following our interview with the paranormal and occult researcher Charles Walker; we present Charles’ article on the events history and mystery that is West Sussex’s Clapham Wood.

Clapham Wood - The Occult Connection The quite village of Clapham, Sussex, had its peace shattered in the mid 1960's when stories in the local press gave details of unidentified flying objects which had apparently been seen in the vicinity.

Suddenly local ufo enthusiasts were descending on the village at all hours, day and night, in search of evidence of ufo landings, of which several were reported, as well as local witnesses to the sightings. It has to be said that there were very few local people who had seen anything. Or is it that they were reluctant to speak of their experiences? It is difficult to say.

For several weeks there was an almost constant stream of sightings, although not all of them made news in the local press. All night vigils were a regular thing throughout the summer months, when hardly a weekend went by without there being at least ten people wandering through the woods and village hoping to see something. Most reports at that time were what is these days considered to be a classic sighting - 'strange lights in the night sky'.

Occasionally stranger and less easily explained sightings were reported, although it has to be said that these were almost always made by those involved in the investigations. Those already convinced that ALL the reported sightings were genuine. One such sighting occurred in the summer of 1967. Mr Paul Glover, a well-known local ufologist, was walking with a friend over the downs towards Clapham. At about 10pm they both noticed a large black mass in the sky moving at speed towards them. In written statements made later the described the object as boomerang-shaped. It moved fast but silently across the sky. After a few minutes their attention was drawn to two bright objects. One of these 'ufos' released a smaller object, which made its way towards and eventually entered the second object. Within seconds it left and disappeared from sight. As they continued their walk across the downs they saw more objects, a total of six that evening.

Mr Glover's own group investigated this case but they could find no explanation for what he and his friend had seen. The case remained on their files as unexplained. After a while ufo sightings like this became less newsworthy. They were it seemed common place and there was really nothing new to report.

Peace was not about to return to the village however, as a new mystery began to unfold. Reports of dogs disappearing in certain parts of Clapham Wood attracted new interest.

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Dog owners reported that their dogs had wandered off in to the woods and were never seen again. In other cases dogs appeared to go mad in certain parts of the wood, running round in circles and foaming at the mouth. When they were taken out of that particular area they recovered fully.

Mrs Rawlins of Worthing lost her labrador dog after taking it for a walk in the woods. Entering a part of the wood known as the chestnuts she waited until she was well away from the main road (A24 Worthing to Arundel road) before letting her dog of his leash, allowing it to run free. The dog disappeared in to the woods for a short while, returning with no problem when it was called. It was not until she returned home that she noticed that there was something wrong. The dog appeared to be paralysed from the middle of it's back down to its rear. It came on so suddenly and Mrs Rawlins decided to call her vet. After a brief examination he decided that there was nothing he could do and as the situation was getting worse there was no choice but to put the creature down.

The following day Mrs Rawlins re visited the area where she had walked the dog in the hope of finding out what could have caused her dog to become paralysed. She found nothing. As far as the author is aware the body was not examined and therefore no explanation for this sudden illness was forthcoming.

For the ufo enthusiasts the disappearance of the dogs was just what they had been looking for. There were reports of ufo landings at about this time and they were quick to conclude that there must be some connection between the two. This is something which most people looked upon as a joke. They could not accept that ufo's were anything more than natural phenomena, i.e. planes. weather balloons etc, let alone that creatures from outer space would want to steal dogs. What on earth would they want them for? Despite the instant dismissal of such a suggested connection the subject continued to be newsworthy, and for much longer than just plain ufo sightings. However whilst all this was going on there were some serious investigations taking place in to the disappearances, and the first thing that had to be established was whether the reported disappearances were fact and whether they could be explained away naturally. Perhaps the dogs had been shot? Could it be that they had been caught in a trap? Had they eaten something used in the control of pests? All of these possibilities were considered and investigated when it was possible to establish the exact area where the dogs had gone missing. In time all of these possibilities had been dismissed. So what was the explanation? At that time there did not appear to be one. Throughout all of this I had been working on my own, attempting to follow through the various reports etc. Although I had been able to collect some information regarding the various phenomena reported my files were by no means complete. In many cases the local ufo groups had got to witnesses before me and either they were unwilling to discuss the subject any further or they had made an agreement with such organisations not to pass information on until the investigations they were conducting had been completed. Either way at that stage the situation was preventing me from carrying out my research.

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For this reason I decided that the best course of action was to join one of these groups. That would at least give me access to their files and at the same time allow me to be in at the start of any new investigation.

It soon became obvious, even if I had any doubts, that there was not even the slightest thread of evidence to connect the ufo sightings and the disappearance of the dogs. The ufo sightings in themselves were interesting, particularly as it appeared that detailed investigations had been carried out in almost all cases and still about 30% remained unexplained. The data in the files of the particular group I had joined was, like all other groups before and since, no nearer to providing an explanation for the sightings, unless of course you are prepared to seriously consider that these dazzling discoids come from another solar system. What I became very interested in whilst looking through the various notes relating to Clapham Wood was the reports of the dog disappearances and the fact that a number of people had reported strange feelings whilst walking through certain parts of the wood. Such cases had, although I was not aware of it before, been reported some time prior to the first ufo sightings. Many people had always felt that there was something strange about the wood but they were not quite able to explain it. However having established myself within the group I was able to extract information from the files and visit one or two of the people who had reported their experiences. What I was particularly interested in of course were the experiences which had been reported before the publicity began, and there were quite a few cases. As far as the dog disappearances are concerned they seemed to occur in two definite areas, there were one or two exceptions to this of course. The main area was along a footpath which runs from the Arundel Road through the village of Clapham. A short way along the track (from the Arundel Road) four footpaths meet. In this vicinity a number of dogs had disappeared, unfortunately there is no accurate record of the exact numbers, and a dozen or so people have reported feeling sick, suffering from stomach cramp and vertigo. The second area was in the vicinity of the church, which is on the edge of the wood and slightly isolated from the village.

Looking through the recorded cases there did not seem to be a set age group, more males than females or visa versa, or fixed dates when this happened. These were all factors which I looked at in an effort to find an explanation. I even checked the phases of the moon and the general weather conditions, if they had been recorded, in an attempt to explain what had happened. There did not seem to be any obvious explanation.

However their files were not complete and there had been so much publicity regarding the possible ufo connection that a great many people were reluctant to come forward with any information which they might have.

CLAPHAM WOOD FROM THE AIR

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The only way I could see of getting this information was to make it known that I was interested in all aspects of what had reportedly taken place there, and this meant further publicity. The media was still covering stories and articles reporting recent experiences and this gave me an opening I had been looking for. I began writing letters to the local papers pointing out my interest in the subject. At the same time I had received some information regarding a possible connection between the strange feelings which, by this time, a considerable number of people had reported, and possible occult activity in the area.

The occult is something I had always been interested in but I must admit that I had not, at that time, thought of connecting what had been reported at Clapham with the occult. I had been so busy collecting together information and looking at all other possible explanations, and at the same time trying to convince those attempting to connect all of this with ufo's that there was no connection, that I had actually overlooked the occult as a possibility. My letters to the press, together with additional publicity, prompted replies from all sorts of people. Some were serious and provided valuable comments and information which I was to use in later investigations, whilst others (probably the majority at that time) contained somewhat stupid comments and were therefore of no value. Unfortunately when dealing with such matters as ufo's and the occult you are bound to attract idiots and fanatics who very often hamper serious studies because they are able to attract publicity. However in November 1978 the lead I had been looking for came along. I received a telephone call from a well-spoken person asking me to meet him in Clapham Wood that evening. The location of the meeting was to be at the crossroads along a footpath known as The Chestnuts, a place where several strange things are reported to have happened in the past. The meeting, if I was prepared to attend, would be half an hour from the time of the telephone call. Not a lot of time to consider whether I should go or not. I had received telephone calls before offering information but I had never attended simply because the callers just did not sound sincere. On this occasion however there was something about the tone of the voice that told me that I should take the caller more seriously than the others I had received.

After some brief thought I decided to go. It might just be worthwhile. The idea that I might be in danger never entered my head. It was not until after the event that I realised the stupidity of going without telling anyone about it. Although I had been communicating with one or two other serious investigators there was no time to get in touch with them on this occasion, and even if I did there was no guarantee that they would be able to drop what they were doing at that moment and join me. Anyway I set out for Clapham Wood, which was just a short cycle ride from my home. I had no other means of transport at that time. I rested my cycle against the large gate that blocked the path to motor vehicles and began walking up the track towards the meeting point. As the light from the vehicles passing a long the main road gradually disappeared from sight the atmosphere of the place began to creep up on me. I began to feel totally isolated for a while. Had I not been able to pull myself together slight fear could so easily have turned to panic and I might have ran back to the road and cycled home without ever finding out what the mystery caller wanted. However I managed to control my feelings, convincing myself that it was just my imagination and nothing more

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Within a few minutes I reached the point where the four tracks meet and, in the limited light, began to look a round for the person I was supposed to meet. I could neither see nor hear anything and began to wonder whether I had finally fallen for a hoax call. I paced up and down the track, twenty yards or so either side of the crossroads, four or five times. Just as I was about to give the whole thing up a voice coming from behind some bushes on my left told me not to attempt to look round. 'Just listen to what I have to say', he said. Hearing this voice so suddenly coming from the darkness and silence I had experienced for the past twenty minutes or so made me feel fear again. I was frozen to the spot yet felt like running as fast as I could. What was going to happen? 'What an idiot', I said to myself. 'Why on earth had I let myself in for this?' After a few seconds of silence the mystery person began to relate information regarding the activities of an occult group in the area. He also indicated that they used a sacrifice regularly at their rituals. The group was called the Friends of Hecate and they were devoted to the Goddess Hecate whose close association with dogs meant that such creatures were being sacrificed in her honour.

He went on to tell how the group, whose activities he said were of a satanic nature, was formed in Sussex and had been using Clapham and the surrounding area for some time. They had been responsible for taking the dogs and would continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The dogs, and occasionally other domestic and farm animals, were sacrificed at their monthly meetings. He also added that they would stop at nothing to protect the identity of their members and the activities of the group.

The meeting ended as abruptly as it had started. I did not hear him leave but when he failed to respond to my attempts to ask questions I assumed that he had left, or at least that the meeting was over and made my way back to the main road and home from there. It was not until I arrived home that I gave any serious thought to what might have happened. I could have been in real trouble. Fortunately this was not the case and I soon got down to analysing what had actually happened. Why had this person decided to give me this information? He had also warned me not to pursue my enquiries any further.

Surely he did not seriously think that I was going to leave it there, not after being given a possible explanation for one of the mysteries, which, by this time was almost constantly in the press. I am not one to go looking for trouble but I could not let this go. It was potentially far too important for that. If what I had been told was true these people had to be stopped, if that was possible.

The reasons for this person passing on the information is something which I had discussed with a number of people. One of the conclusions reached was that perhaps he was not entirely happy with what had been going on. It may also be that he was trying to get out of the group or perhaps he realised that I would not leave it there and hoped that in time the group would be exposed and their macabre practises stopped. That really remains a mystery. What was not a mystery was the connection between thee Goddess Hecate and dogs. She is depicted as a triple headed Goddess, one of the heads being that of a dog. When invoked she is said to appear followed by a pack of hounds and in the past dogs were sacrificed in her honour.

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I had established a connection between Hecate and dogs but I still had to find out whether or not there was any occult activity in and a round the village of Clapham. I was already in contact with someone who had a friend living in Clapham so I asked them if they had heard anything. Although they were aware of the reported ufo sightings they had not heard mention of 'witchcraft or anything like that'. On my behalf they made some enquiries and met with a very hostile response. In fact so much so that there was a feeling that some body was hiding something. Certainly there are a great many people living in and a round the village that are not aware of what has been going on. However it is equally certain that the Friends of Hecate had and probably still have at least one if not more contacts in the village. It would not be possible for the group to operate in the way they do without 'someone on the inside' so to speak.

Every time I attempted to obtain more information about the group I came up against a brick wall. It seemed to me that there was no way of confirming the presence of an occult group in the area. It was at about this time that I met up with fellow researcher Toyne Newton. He had been studying press reports and speaking to some of the witnesses with a view to writing an article for 'The Unexplained' magazine.

We had both been working independently up to that point but, after some discussion, decided that if we were to get anywhere we would have to work together. There was little point in us both going our separate ways, particularly as we discovered that our opinions of some of the reported incidents were roughly the same. We spent the next month exchanging information and, as we looked through our combined files it became obvious that the whole thing was bigger than either of us had at first imagined.

Far more detailed enquiries were going to have to be made if we had any hope of uncovering the truth behind this. Much of the material we had gathered had been clouded by the past investigations carried out by the 'ufo experts' and this had to be sorted out first. Although we sifted through the ufo reports and studied those which we considered to be serious and worthy of further study, we did not intend to get too involved with this aspect of the case. We failed to see that there was any connection between them, the occult activities and the disappearance of the dogs. Having done all this we decided on a plan of action and whilst Toyne continued looking through our combined files and interviewing those witnesses still prepared to co operate with a serious investigation of the reported incidents, I concentrated on collecting any available information from my contacts inside 'occult circles'. The most important and informative of these contacts being Elymas, the High Priest of an established coven of witches (pagans) in Brighton, East Sussex. When I first asked Elymas what he knew of this group he said, 'They are a group who know what they are doing and if you have found an area like Clapham which they find extremely atmospheric and right for their rituals then nothing will move them. Such people will do almost anything to protect the site'. He ended that first meeting by warning me of the dangers involved.

'If what you say about the woods is true then you are treading on very dangerous ground. Be careful, be very careful'.

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He ended that first meeting by warning me of the dangers involved. 'If what you say about the woods is true then you are treading on very dangerous ground. Be careful, be very careful'.

This is something which neither *Toyne or I have ever forgotten. Certainly I would never consider attending a meeting such as the one I did in 1978. We relied on information I had been given at that meeting and various enquiries from safer sources to carryout our research the results of which were published in a book entitled 'The Demonic Connection' Blandford Press 1987.

If you would like to read the rest of the story of Clapham’s sinister reputation and Charles’ experiences investigating the Friends of Hecate. You will have see if you can track down a copy of The Demonic Connection!

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The best place to look is bookfinder.com Look for it via its ISBN number.

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On the final weekend of April, while Sue and Steve were away on their 25th Anniversary holiday, Andy was joined by his old friend and fellow occult researcher Richard Ward. Richard and Andy first met via a group involved in the investigation of ‘anomalous events and phenomena.’ The group, called Earthquest, was put together by writer and researcher, Andy Collins. The group would investigate some areas and mysteries using a technique called Psychic Questing.

But what is Psychic Questing?

The Following is taken from Andy Collins’ website with his permission.

If found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 'psychic questing' would be listed as 'using intuitively inspired thoughts and information for creative purposes, be it the exploration of history, the search for hidden artefacts or simply the quest for enlightenment'. It can begin with a strange dream, a visionary experience or an overwhelming compulsion which prompts the person to embark on a sequence of discovery. This often involves uncovering confirmatory facts, visiting sites and places revealed only by intuition and communicating with perceived external forces and influences through either meditational practices or magical processes. Often this takes the form of contact with a so-called genius loci, 'spirit of the place', or site guardian, which provides information in order that the quest might continue on to the next level. However, psychic questing does not have to involve outside exploration. It can simply revolve around archive research or just further magical or psychic experiments which all help the quester to gain a better idea of what they need to know.

In Tibetan Buddhism psychic questing is known as the Terma ('hidden treasure) tradition, and whole books have been written on the processes involved and past great achievements in this field. Those monks who become involved in Terma hunting are known as Tertons ('treasure finders'). However, similar methods of discovery have been used for thousands of years by enlightened individuals all over the world. There are many recorded instances of holy men or women being inspired to find hidden relics (e.g. Joan of Arc), occultists using necromancy to find buried treasure (e.g. John Dee and Edward Kelly) and psychics being brought in to uncover archaeological remains (e.g. Frederick Bligh-Bond)

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Meonia fore Marye The modern revival in psychic questing began in October 1979 with the discovery by Andrew Collins and Graham Phillips of a short steel sword of unusual design, bearing the copper-plate inscription 'Meonia fore Marye' on its blade. It was found behind the dry-stone foundations of a footbridge at a place called Knight's Pool in the English county of Worcestershire As the weapon also bore a monogram at the base of the hand-guard which resembled the personal insignia of Mary Queen of Scots, it was felt that the sword had been cast originally in the late eighteenth century by supporters of the exiled Stuart dynasty of British kings. However, the example in question was, it seemed, a copy cast in Victorian times, very possibly for use in pseudo-masonic ceremonies. The discovery of the 'Meonia Sword', as it became known, was followed just days later by the retrieval of a seventeenth-century brass casket in which was found a small cabochon stone in green agate. This was located by Graham alone at a spot on the River Avon, not far from Knights Pool, known as the Swan's Neck, so named because it resembles a gigantic swan reclining into the landscape (as seen from nearby Bredon Hill). Since Graham, Andrew and their colleagues believed that the swan was a secret code-name for Mary Queen of Scots, they became convinced that the 'Green Stone', or 'Meonia Stone', had once been in a finger ring worn by Mary Queen of Scots. After her death, they felt it had passed into the possession of Robert Catesby, the leader of the so-called Gunpowder Plotters, who with his co-conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, was caught attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 4 November 1605, hence the British tradition of Guy Fawkes' Night. Thereafter the stone was concealed in the Worcestershire landscape by Humphrey Packington of Harvington Hall, a Catholic sympathiser, where Andrew later found that a legend concerning the existence of the stone had lingered through to the last century.

Gradually, over the years, an intriguing story emerged to explain the origins of the Meonia Sword and its accompanying stone. Through psychic work and historical research Graham and Andrew developed a mystical lineage, known as 'the Heritage', which began with the fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten and ended with the revival of ancient Egypt in occult circles during the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.

Over the years many more artefacts would appear under mysterious circumstances, including six more swords, all identical to the first. The seven swords were brought together for the first time by Andrew and his friends in August 1992. It is a story told in part within Andrew's book THE SEVENTH SWORD (1991), and in Graham's work THE GREEN STONE (1984). Andrew has since gone on to work with a number of what he terms 'direct information' psychics, and is now considered to be the pioneer in this field.

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QuestCon Prior to 2003 QuestCon was billed as the Questing Conference, and until 1998 it was called the Psychic Questing Conference since it featured presentations in which the speakers spoke of how their historical work had been inspired originally by intuition, dreams and psychic work. However, as the alternative history field became more popular it was necessary for authors such as Andrew Collins and Graham Phillips to strengthen their cases for an alternative history of the world by excluding any references to psychic work. Thus the whole air of the lectures changed, and Andrew agreed that it might be better to drop the 'psychic' element from the conference's name. It is now been shortened to QuestCon to fit better with online attitudes prevalent these days.

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS Andrew Collins is accredited with having coined the term psychic questing in the 1980s, and has written various books on the subject including THE SWORD AND THE STONE (1982), THE BLACK ALCHEMIST (1988), THE SEVENTH SWORD (1992) and THE SECOND COMING (1993). Other key books on the subject include Graham Phillips' classics THE GREEN STONE (1984) and THE EYE OF FIRE (1988), BEGA AND THE SACRED RING by Alex Langstone (1992) and THE SUN AND THE MOON: THE HILL AND THE WELL by Michael Smith (1997). All of these books are non-fiction, but read like supernatural thrillers.

Andrew Collins and Graham Phillips

You can find more information at Andrew’s website – www.andrewcollins.com Richard Ward’s Seconhand book site – manmythandmagic.com

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As The Black Alchemist book had featured so heavily in the ‘KTOF show’, and was briefly discussed with a later guest Charles Walker, we asked its author Andrew Collins if we could feature an extract form the book. Andrew very kindly agreed.

To set the scene….. ‘Previously Andy and his psychic ‘side kick’ Bernard had accidently stumbled into what appeared to be work of a black magician they’d dubbed the “Black Alchemist’. Andrew and Bernard had recovered some artifacts that appeared to have been deliberately placed in sacred and holy places in order to disrupt the local energies. (See the Maria Wheatley’s article in the previous edition of the KTPF Magazine for discussion of lay lines and localized energy fields) In the following Andy and Bernard closely examine a shale ‘spearhead’ that had been engraved with symbols…’

The following is taken from the book.

“Monday, 10th June. In the busy, but somewhat familiar surroundings of The Griffin pub in Danbury, where Bernard and I had met to discuss our questing activities for some time now, the psychic joined me clasping two pints of beer, bitter for me and Guinness for him. It was our first get together since the visit to Lullington the previous month.

After only a short while, our conversation turned to the disturbing events of that fateful day and, hoping that he might consent to psychometrising the shale spearhead, I brought out and placed the offending object on the table between us.

The last time Bernard had touched the inscribed spearhead, in Lullington churchyard, he had picked up a considerable amount about ” “the mysterious cowled figure who had concealed it as part of his dark ritual; it had also made his physically sick. Even though I had since doused the spearhead with holy water to dissipate its ritualistic charge, I hoped it still contained enough residual energy for him to be able to tell me a little more about the man behind its concealment, that’s if he was willing to do so, of course.

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As if to accept my request, he picked up the stone spearhead and held it loosely in one hand. After rolling it around in his fingers for a minute or two, he looked up. ‘Well, it still retains a very mild negative feel about it. Do you want any scribbles?’ he asked, pulling a notepad across the table. Scribbles was his term for automatic writing.

Naturally I did, so handed him a pen and waited for a response. Sitting quietly amid the hustle and bustle of the comfortable, yet noisy pub surrounds, he cleared his mind and waited. A few moments later words began to appear on the notepad. I read them upside down:

Bernard with the Spearhead

Great magistry not correct. Re-work. Fuse.

The words made no sense to “ but at least the line was open, so to speak. I asked him to see if he could find out when the ritual had taken place at Lullington.

‘1985’, was the prompt reply.

1985? This was a total surprise to me. I assumed that the ritual had occurred some while back. So, this man was still around, out there somewhere now. My next question was inevitable: who carried out the ritual?

Bernard’s hand wrote once more: Magister magnus in igne. White stone not correct. Re-work. Re-fuse. Re-live. Heat vessel hot. Black substance is right.”

“Yes, but who put it there?

His hand responded with more words.

It comes. Use. Skulls. Black blood. Dying into flame. Relive. Re-birth. Soul. Michael Mayer. Kalsination is good. Black. Re-live. Bring to life. Zozzimoz. Place. Re-work. Re-live.Heat.

It was still not an answer. I wanted to know who buried the spearhead?

His hand scribbled again. Enclosed power. Worked alone in house. Dark. Heat. Relight flame. Sulphur.”

“That was it. Bernard got no more from the spearhead. Putting it down, he lit a cigarette before swallowing a mouthful of Guinness. ‘Well, whoever it was who planted that spearhead, they are strong on a psychic level and quite capable of blocking out anyone who tries to attune to them, or their home.’

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He stopped to crystallise his feelings. ‘As I was writing I could see a man in a darkened room. Around him were old benches, skulls, things being burnt in glass bottles and more black birds.

More black birds? What, in the room?

‘No, I think it was a symbolic image to show me that he is surrounded by very chaotic energies and emanations, for some reason.’

In questing lore large black birds are generally taken as omens of ill fortune, imminent death and chaotic magic. They are not really a good symbol at all. Yet the rest of the imagery and automatic writing appeared to indicate that our occultist friend was an alchemist; a person who, through complex and tedious magical operations and experiments, was trying to achieve an alchemical transmutation – the changing of base matter into a pure state, usually base metal into gold.

Words and statements such as ‘Dying into the flame’, ‘Bring to life’, ‘Heat’ and ‘sulphur’ all seemed to confirm this fact. The man was into alchemy which concerned, not only the transmutation of base matter into a pure state, but also the transition of the alchemist’s own ‘base’ soul into a higher state of perfection in order to achieve immortality.

‘That may be so,’ Bernard admitted. ‘Yet whatever this man is into, he is warping and distorting the process to his own ends, hence the negative energies he created in Lullington churchyard.’

But who was he? Where did he live? And was he aware that we had wrecked his carefully planned ritual?

‘I’m not sure,’ he said, hesitantly. ‘But I get the feeling that when he does find out that his spearhead is missing, he will replace it with another one.’

At the same place?

‘Very possibly, yes. I also get the feeling that we have not seen the last of him.”

--------“On arrival home that night I scanned my bookshelves for anything on alchemy. I soon found that Michael Mayer (1569-1624) – or Maier as his name is also spelt – was a German exponent of a mystical doctrine known as Rosicrucianism, as well as an important alchemist of his age.

The name ‘Zozzimoz’, picked up by Bernard, was a reference to Zosimos of Panopolis, an influential alchemist, writer and visionary who lived in Panopolis – the modern town of Akhmin – in Upper Egypt, around the beginning of the fourth century AD. He also appears to have been a Coptic Christian, who believed that the roots of alchemy went back to the fall of the angels from heaven, citing certain holy books that tell their story. By this Zosimos was unquestionably referring to a Judaic work composed in the second-century BC known as the book of Enoch, the oldest extant copies of which were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls 33

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among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It tells the story of the Watchers, rebel angels, or ‘daimons’ as Zosimos refers to them, who slept with the Daughters of Men to create giant offspring called Nephilim. They also revealed to mortal kind the arts and sciences of heaven“ including, so Zosimos believed, the art of alchemy. Zosimos is most remembered for a series of highly symbolic dream visions involving the ritual sacrifice of the alchemist. These were thought to contain the keys to the ultimate alchemical transmutation – the release of the soul to become a free spirit that might ascend to heaven, where it could become at one with God. From the automatic writing Bernard had received that evening, it looked as if our alchemist friend had been attempting to achieve what is known in alchemy as the First Matter or Black Stage in his transmutation. It was referred to also as the Negredo, the Black Crow, the Crow’s Head, the Raven’s Head or just the Black Man. It was a stage reached – if using Zosimos’s dream visions – by mixing flesh, blood and bones with sulphur and then heating them in a bowl, called the ‘bath of rebirth,’ in order to attain a black substance. This would then be re-heated, or calcined – Bernard had picked up the word ‘Kalsination’ – until the whole thing became a powder. Then, after further liquid had been added, the heating would be continued for one whole year before the resulting“mess would be mixed with the alchemist’s own moisture. It was then slowly calcined once more until the so-called ‘divine spark’ was released from the mixture as a glowing form.

I was pretty sure that the alchemist had chosen Lullington for his ritual because of its association with the episode in the Peredur story concerning the beheading of the white stag, as originally proposed by SF Annett in 1932. In Zosimos’ dream visions – and within alchemy in general – the removal of the head of the alchemist is seen as the symbolic extraction and rebirth of his divine soul.”

Excerpt From: Andrew Collins. “Black Alchemist.”

These are the symbols inscribed on the spearhead that were later identified as being ‘The Formula of the Crab’ by Zozimos

You can order The Black Alchemist by clicking on the cover image on the left.

This is the NEW updated edition containing new material not found in the original!

All text and images are copyright of Andrew Collins

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In this month’s edition of our magazine we present to you a new contributor. Brian Langston, a former Assistant Chief Constable (Operations) for Thames Valley Police, presents to us the grizzly tale of George Allen who, for reason that defy logic, carried out the heinous of murders, his own family.

Was Allan possessed? Was there true evil at work, or had Allen lost his mind?

Brian Langston explores the events… (Be warned the description is graphic) In 1807 the rural tranquillity of the pretty hamlet of Upper Mayfield in North-east Staffordshire was

shattered by the brutality of a shocking triple murder perpetrated by a quiet local man upon his own children. So inhuman was the slaughter that it was once dubbed the worst crime ever committed in England.

Amidst rumours of supernatural agency and demonic possession, the country clamoured to discover what had driven a devoted husband and father to the barbaric massacre of three innocents and the attempted murder of his wife.

George Allen was 42 years old and had been happily married to Mary for seventeen years. They lived in a simple one bedroom farm labourer’s cottage with four of their eight children. The eldest four children were in service and lived away from home. Under the same roof but in a separate apartment lived an elderly bed-ridden lodger Hannah Hayes.

George was described as honest and industrious. He had previously worked as a gamekeeper for the local landowners but had taken to labouring on the farms in the Totmonslow Hundred surrounding his home.

On the evening of Monday 12th January 1807 as was his usual habit, George went to bed around 8.30pm and smoked his last pipe of tobacco. A short while later he was he was joined by his wife with her baby at the breast having its last feed. The other three children, George aged 9, William aged 6 and Hannah aged 4 were asleep in the same room in a separate bed.

As his wife sat down next to him in bed feeding the baby, George’s mood suddenly changed and out of the blue he asked her which other men had been in the house. Somewhat taken aback by this comment, Mary answered indignantly that no man but him had ever been in the house and demanded to know what had prompted this offensive accusation. George did not reply but got out of bed and went downstairs. Mary could hear him rummaging around downstairs and sensing something was wrong, she walked out onto the landing, still holding the baby, to see what was going on. She saw George coming back upstairs brandishing a cut throat razor and he calmly ordered her back into the bedroom.

Terrified and wondering what on earth was amiss, Mary attempted to reason with him to no avail.

George went over to the bed where his three children lay and drew back the bedclothes and raised the blade into the air. Mary realising what he was about to do, began to wrestle with him but he pushed her aside saying “Let me be or I will serve you the same sauce”.

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Mary begged him to desist but he responded by slashing her across the throat with the razor. It was only the fabric of her neckerchief which prevented the wound from being fatal but she was severely injured. He slashed out again, narrowly missing the infant in her arms, and slicing her across the breast. Fearing for her life she fled from the bedroom with the baby still in her arms, but in her panic fell from the top to bottom of the stairs. As she struggled to get to her feet, she saw her husband throwing a bundle down the stairs after her. To her horror, the blood drenched body of her 4 year old daughter landed at her feet, revealing a yawning gash across the throat which had virtually severed the child’s head from its body.

Screaming with terror and covered in blood, Mary ran out in the street where two teenage servants, Thomas Harper and Joseph Johnson, were passing on their way to their master’s stables. Unable to comprehend the hysterical ravings of the poor woman, the two servants instinctively ran towards the cottage.

Joseph was carrying a lantern but in running across the road, the candle had extinguished and it was now too dark to see. The front door was ajar and as they approached the cottage, they noticed the flicker of a light coming from upstairs. Thomas took the candle from the lantern and the pair tentatively climbed the stairs to find the source of the light. They had gone no further than four or five steps when they caught sight of a figure through the banister rails. As their eyes grew accustomed to the dark they could not believe the scene of carnage which was taking place before them, a scene which would live with them for the rest of their lives.

Bent over the bodies of his two young boys was George Allen, slashing maniacally at their chests with the razor. Their bellies had been cut open and their bowels had been torn out and trailed across the floor. Recoiling in horror, Thomas and Joseph ran out of the house and banged on the door of John Gallimore, their employer who lived opposite. The three of them then approached the cottage which was now eerily silent.

As they stepped over the threshold, their candlelight fell on the crimson stained body of little Hannah lying at the foot of the stairs with horrific injuries, gurgling her last breath. The bowels of another child had been thrown half way down the stairs.

John Gallimore called out “Christ Jesus sake George- what are you doing- you’ll not go on in this way surely?”

A voice from the darkness called out “I am here.” Gallimore was understandably cautious about going upstairs and sent for help from David Shaw, a farmer who lived just 150 yards down the lane.

As all four men finally entered the house of horror, they saw George Allen standing in the darkness in a blood-sodden nightshirt and cap, still holding the razor which was dripping with the blood of his children. John Gallimore asked him what he had done. He looked up at them and without a glimmer of emotion said calmly, “Nothing yet. I have only killed three of them”. George Allen stood impassively and offered no resistance to being restrained by David Shaw. He calmly told them that it was his intention to murder his wife and all her children together with the elderly lodger and then kill himself

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Once George Allen had been secured, Gallimore went upstairs where he saw the bodies of the two boys William and George lying on the floor. William was lying on top of George both face up. He was cut wide open across the belly and lengthways through his breast with his entrails draped across the floor and down the stairs. The head of one of the boys had been almost severed from the body with the ferocity of the attack.

Gallimore cried out “In the name of the Lord, George what hast thou done?” He replied “I have not done much yet. They are my own aren’t they? - I’ll sell them”. Shaw asked if he meant to kill his wife and he said “I did and send her spirit to the Devil.”

John Getliff a neighbour who had known George Allen for twenty years then arrived and asked him “George what have you been doing of” Allen replied “ It is no business of nobody’s they are my own. I have a right to do as I like with them. They want nothing- they felt nothing. They are happy and you may hang me if you like.”

Getliff was sent upstairs to get clothes for Allen and to check for any signs of life in the children. Allen said chillingly “No need to look for that. I have cut them all to pieces and cut their heads off with a razor.”

Shaw sent for a pair of handcuffs and the prisoner was taken away and handed into the custody of Mr. Bowler the Head Borough Constable and later guarded overnight by the Parish Constable John Milward.

Those who attended the inquest the following week gasped in revulsion when they heard from the surgeon John Nicolson of the horrific injuries that had been inflicted upon the children by their father.

George Allen was well known in the village and it was unthinkable that the man that they had known for so long was capable of such atrocity.

What had driven this happily married man to commit such an evil act remained a mystery. He offered no explanation or excuse for his actions but then suddenly in the middle of the inquest; George Allen asked the coroner Mr. Hand if he could unburden himself with an issue which had been weighing heavily on his mind. Acceding to his request the jury listened with incredulity as he related a bizarre story of encountering a ghost one night in Upper Mayfield. In a scene reminiscent of a medieval witch trial, he told a hushed courtroom that the phantom had appeared in the form of a black horse and had enticed him into a stable where it ‘drew blood from him’ and then flew off into the sky.

The Coroner was taken aback by this disclosure which caused an outbreak of commotion in the public gallery. He appealed for calm and asked the bewildered jury to retire to consider their verdict

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George Allen stood impassively before them showing no emotion or contrition and calmly declared to the Coroner that he supposed; “it was as bad a case ever he had heard of” A verdict of murder of the infants at the hands of George Allen was recorded and he was committed for trail at Stafford Spring Assizes.

During the criminal trial there was little explicit reference to the bizarre revelation about the spectral steed. Mary Allen was not called as a witness as a wife was not permitted to give evidence for or against her husband. The case was therefore proved by a procession of witnesses who related gruesome and distressing details from their harrowing experiences at the scene of the crime.

John Gallimore told the court that he had known the prisoner for over 20 years. About a fortnight before the murders he was aware that he had been ill and had seen him out walking looking rather unwell. This would have coincided with the experience he claimed to have with the phantom horse.

George Allen was previously of good character although his medical history was explored in some depth when it emerged he was prone to fits.

Shaw had known the prisoner since childhood and had frequently employed him as a gardener and for general duties around his farm. He was aware that he suffered from fits and witnessed an episode some seven years previously, when he collapsed ‘as if dead’. He had seen nothing however to lead him to a conclusion that he was insane. His brother, Thomas Shaw, the former village constable gave evidence that he had once taken Allen into custody for an hour to cool off after being enraged and insensible. John Milward the present constable of Mayfield had known George Allen all his life. About four years previously he was working for Milward when he found him collapsed in the garden after having a fit. Milward took him into his house for ten or fifteen minutes when he regained consciousness. His wife gave him some warm ale and he seemed quite recovered and worked happily for the rest of the day. There was nothing violent about his conduct once he had recovered, Milward told the court.

The Judge then called for any medical men in packed courtroom to give evidence about the nature of epileptic fits. Several doctors came forward and gave evidence that epilepsy would not have accounted for his behaviour on the night in question and would not account for the frenzied madness which had been exhibited at the time of the murders. The surgeons described the usual pattern of an epileptic episode as collapse in a fit of convulsions and then to become inanimate for a period of five minutes to half an hour after which the sufferer re-awakens feeling weak and often unaware of what has happened to them, with muscular strength returning by slow degrees thereafter. There was no doubt to the judge and the jury that epilepsy could not be blamed as the cause of his murderous actions.

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The jury took only fifteen minutes to find him guilty of the vicious murder of his three children. The judge commented that he believed unfounded jealousy was the true reason for the crimes. At this point the prisoner called out anxiously “Will your Lordship give me leave to speak?” Unfortunately this request was not heard by the judge who continued to pass the sentence of death ordering him to be taken to the County gaol at Stafford and on the following Monday be hanged by the neck until he was dead.

We will never know what explanation George Allen intended to give in those closing moments of the trial. Rumours circulated in the immediate aftermath of the case that he had been responsible for other atrocities, but despite being interviewed about other offences, he denied there was any truth in the reports. He maintained the bizarre story about the phantom horse that flew away after drawing blood from him and gave no explanation for the murders other than to assert that reason had left him.

Whether or not there was any occult explanation to his behaviour remains a mystery. Some of the more superstitious villagers, unable to come to terms with the awfulness of the brutality, felt the only explanation must have been that he was bewitched or ‘beset with demons’ when he committed the massacre.

On Monday 30th March 1807, the morning of his execution, George Allen complained he was hungry and asked for some bread for his last meal. At 11am the gallows at Stafford Gaol were prepared and a crowd of thousands watched as he walked undaunted, emotionless and silent into the hangman’s noose and was launched into eternity. After remaining hanging for the statutory hour, his body was cut down and handed over to the surgeons of Stafford for dissection.

Postscript Although George Allen’s assertions of his midnight encounter with the malevolent mount, in the stables was dismissed, by most people, as the ramblings of a disturbed mind, there is historical precedence for this demonic entity. Legend has it that in 1245, while Peter of Verona was preaching to a large crowd, the Devil appeared in the form of a raging black horse and attacked the multitude. Peter made the sign of the cross and the horse flew away leaving in its wake a horrible smell of sulphur and the people were saved.

Brian Langston is a law graduate and MBA and the former Assistant Chief Constable (Operations) for Thames Valley Police.

Since retirement he has drawn upon his extensive detective experience to conduct forensic research into reported supernatural phenomena. His new book ‘True Ghosts and Ghouls of Windsor & Eton’ is due for publication in the Spring of 2015.

He currently lives in the Languedoc region of Southern France with his wife Jenny and several adopted cats, where he writes and compulsively haunts fleamarkets.

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The Devil Rides Out By the late 1960's the once cutting edge Hammer Films was falling quickly behind the times. Back in the 1950's, the small British studio had been the leader in horror. It was the innovator that bravely treaded where others were afraid to go. Meanwhile, American studios were making mostly bad science fiction films about alien invaders from the Red Planet and giant radioactive monsters (obvious stand-ins for Communists and the bomb).

Hammer, on the other hand, were busy remaking the classic Universal gothic horrors that first launched the talkie era back in the 1930s (Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy) in glorious techno colour. This time round, though, adding the "dangerous cocktail" of blood and nudity to the horror mix. This might sound rather tame by today's standards but was genuinely shocking to 1950's audiences. Sadly, however, the studio that dripped blood was unable to stay ahead of the horror game indefinitely.

Between the 1957 release of their first gothic horror The Curse of Frankenstein and their last film to date To the Devil a Daughter in 1976, the basic Hammer product for the most part failed to evolve at all. There's only so many Dracula and Frankenstein sequels a studio can make before audiences get bored. By the time Hammer made The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires in 1974 (kind of a mad mix between a Dracula and a Bruce Lee film), the writing was already well and clearly on the wall. Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist ... these are the films that Hammer should have been making a year before their transatlantic competitors did, not an eighth Dracula sequel without the franchise's biggest star Christopher Lee as Seven Golden Vampires was!

Richard Thomas is a published author, freelance feature writer and columnist. He has appeared as a guest on the radio show Coast To Coast AM and written over 200 columns, feature articles and reviews on a wide range of subjects for the South Wales Evening Post, Swansea Life, Starburst Magazine, Fortean Times, Paranormal Magazine and many other publications.

Contact him via his website RICHARD THOMAS.COM

It's worth noting that Whitley's black magic books sold in their millions, even outselling James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Though, they were never popular in America due to Whitley's VERY British style of writing and imperialistic heroes. Upon its 1968 release, the film adaptation of The Devil Rides Out was immediately hailed as a return to form by impressed critics. Today, the film is widely considered by fans as perhaps the best of the Hammer Horrors. In 1976, Hammer adapted another of Dennis Wheatley's bestselling black magic adventures: To the Devil a Daughter. But despite doing the best business Hammer had seen in years, it was already too late for the collapsing company ... if they had only released it sooner.

Old British horror films starring Christopher Lee might be interesting to film buffs and might even make fun late night viewing, but what does any of this history lesson have to do with the unexplained, paranormal or even parapolitics? That's the question most regular readers will probably be asking themselves right about now. Well consider this, what if it wasn't all fiction? Both Dennis Wheatley and Christopher Lee (who was instrumental in getting the film rights for Hammer) had at least been somewhat associated with Britain's elite ruling class.

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Wheatley, spending much of WWII in Churchill’s basement fortress as part of the Joint Planning Staff, with the rank of Wing Commander. And Christopher Lee, even claiming (via his mother Contessa Estelle Marie) to be a descendent of Charlemagne, the famous European monarch who through his conquests effectively recreated the Roman Empire in the middle ages.

The question must be asked then did this pair know things the general public didn't? At this point, it's important to point out that by "Satanism" we're definitely not talking about the very limited Christian fundamentalist definition of anything they don't understand but, more seriously, any attempt to use the Occult sciences for selfish, destructive or evil ends. The secretive Sith religion practiced by the evil Emperor of the Galaxy and Darth Vader in the popular Star Wars films (which oddly enough also star Christopher Lee) would definitely qualify, but the Wicca faith, which emphasises a "rule of three," most certainly would not.

That said, the answer to all of the above, as weird as it might sound, is an alarming but definite "yes."

Dennis Wheatley was famous for saying, when asked about the supernatural and occult, "don‘t meddle!" More substantially, though, in a recent documentary titled To the Devil ... The Death of Hammer, made to accompany the DVD release of To the Devil a Daughter, Christopher Lee goes into some detail about how he and Wheatley originally intended the Hammer adaptations of The Devil Rides Out and To the Devil a Daughter to be a kind of "propaganda" warning about the serious dangers of Satanic worship and belief. Also in the same documentary, filmmaker David Wickes goes into detail about how Wheatley was an "authority" on Satanism and the Occult. Wheatley didn't just make stuff up, he actually knew the meaning of all the different symbols and based his black magic books strongly in real Occult lore and fact. This might explain why the Satanic worship scenes and certain plot elements from The Devil Rides Out seem to mirror, bizarrely, events and oddities in the real world. The most obvious example, of course, being the "Cremation of Care" ceremony which marks the beginning of the annual (and very weird) three week long ‘encampment' each summer at Bohemian Grove. A secluded 2,700-acre redwood grove located in northern California. Readers who aren't familiar with either the Bohemian Grove or "Cremation of Care" should read my earlier Blade Runner: Electronic Owls and Illuminati Symbolism article or watch Alex Jones' excellent documentary Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove. However, it's pretty well documented that the ceremony involves the mock human sacrifice of an infant to a giant 45 foot stone owl god, and what more, many of America's and even the world's most elite names in politics, business and the media attend the annual gathering dressed in outlandish but expensive Ku Klux Klan style robes. Which, rather suspiciously, are just like the robes worn at the black magic ceremony to call the "Goat of Mendes" in The Devil Rides Out. It's worth pointing out, too, that the "Great Owl of Bohemia" (which may or may not be meant to represent the Canaanite idol Moloch) has horns.

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Then there's the less well known Skull and Bones Society at Yale University, of which President George H. W. Bush, his son President George W. Bush, and the latter's 2004 presidential opponent, Senator John Kerry, are all admitted members.

The secret societies headquarters, ominously known as "The Tomb," have become famous on the university campus for their own bizarre rituals (which involve members dressing up as the Devil, getting in and out of coffins, oh and more mock human sacrifice) as well as the malevolent screams and chants of "Devil equals death!" and "death equals death!" emanating from the building. The windowless "Tomb" is also allegedly decorated with pentagrams and other Occult type imagery. And this is where America's political class have spent their college years since 1832 ... maybe those wars suddenly make a lot more sense. Perhaps the creepiest and definitely the strangest parallel, though, is that just as in The Devil Rides Out (and again the Star Wars films, strangely enough), after being initiated into The Order of Skull and Bones members are given new Satanic sounding names. George Bush senior's Skull and Bones name allegedly being "Gog" or "Magog." How seriously anyone in Skull and Bones, or the Bohemian Club takes these strange rituals is anyone's guess. However, the elite have certainly put a lot of time, money and research into Exterior Skull and Bones New Haven Connecticut something they claim is just a bit of harmless recreational fun. Whether Dennis Wheatley knew about either of these secret societies and their rituals isn't known but one things for sure: what they appear to be is exactly the sort of obscene practices he was writing about in his books and, with Christopher Lee, wanted to warn the world about in the Hammer adaptations.

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To round off our ‘occult themed’ edition of the KTPF Magazine Richard Freeman talks of the stranger crypto encounters that inspired one crypto-zoologist to describe these kinds of experiences as facing the ‘Nameless Dread’, invoking images of monsters from the Cthulhu Mythos created be American Horror Writer H.P. Lovecraft

The Nameless Dread by Richard Freeman Encountering a shambling hairy giant on a dark rural road or a writhing serpentine monster in a lake would certainly frighten the average person. The shock of having one’s world view so abruptly changed coupled with the distinct possibility of physical threat would leave most people quaking in their boots.

This is an understandable human reaction to something unknown and potentially dangerous. But some fortean phenomena seem to generate a level of fear far beyond the norm. This fear can paralyse. This fear can stay with a person for years. This fear can even give the feeling that the phenomena has somehow invisibly followed the witness.

Australian researchers Tony Healy and Paul Cropper, borrowing the term from the H P Lovecraft story ‘The Very Old Folk’, dubbed this intense, blind terror ‘The Nameless Dread’.

In 1954 Miss Georgina Carberry – a librarian from Clifden- and three friends went on a trout fishing trip to Lough Fadda, a small lake in Connemara that lies in the Derrygimlagh-a bog some thirty miles square, dotted with small loughs connected via streams. What she and her friends saw there would stay with them for the rest of their lives.

They saw a thirty foot long creature emerge from behind an island. Carberry stated that it had a shark like mouth in a head held high out of the water. The body formed two loops or rings as it moved. She also saw a forked tail. She described the beast as ‘wormy’ with ‘movement all over the body’. As the black, coiling thing turned towards them the group fled back to their car and drove away.

Carberry was later interviewed by veteran monster hunter Ted Holliday. She told him that as she was driving away she found herself watching for the monster. She had the feeling that it had slithered out of the water and was perusing them. She suffered nightmares about the monster for weeks afterwards and one of the other witnesses had a mental breakdown. None of the group dared to go back to Lough Fadda for seven years afterwards. Even then they refused to go alone and would never go at night.

Think about this for a moment. It takes an abnormal amount of fear to affect four grown women in such a manner. Other water monsters have had the same effect on witnesses. One of the most famous eyewitnesses to the Loch Ness Monster George Spicer who saw the thing slither across the road in front of his car on July the 22nd 1933. He said “It was horrible--an abomination. First we saw an undulating sort of neck, a little thicker than an elephant's trunk. It did not move in the usual reptilian fashion, but, with three arches in its neck, it shot across the road until a ponderous body about 4 ft. high came into view.... Its colour ... a dark elephant grey. It looked like a snail with a long neck...."

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He later called for the Loch to be dynamited. Spicer freely admitted that the thing had badly scared him.

Mr Richard Jenkyns and his wife saw the beast from their lochside house on 30th of September 1974.

They watched a sixty foot thing on the water for half an hour. Mr Jenkyns later commented...”I felt the beast was obscene. This feeling of obscenity persists and the whole thing put me in mind of a gigantic stomach with along writhing gut attached.” Miss Greta Finaly, an Inverness housewife, and her son had experienced this recoiling of the mind over 20 years before. They had gone fishing off Aldourie pier on the north shore on August 20th 1954. Ted Holliday later interviewed Mrs Finaly. She told waves braking against the shore and splashing had made both her and her son look up. They saw a long neck creature with rough grey skin. It had two projections from its head that ended in ‘little blobs’. She confessed to being literally paralysed with fear. Her son was so horrified that he gave up fishing altogether. She said that she never wanted to see he monster again, even from behind six inch steel bars.

Back in 2006 I led an expedition into the swamps of West Africa in search of the Ninki-Nanka a serpentine dragon held in deep dread by local people. It is said to have a horse-like head with a fin or crest and a vast snake-like body festooned with shining scales. A sighting of one of the creatures had once caused a whole village to be abandoned. We were interviewing a man called Bula whose uncle had seen the beast at a swamp called Kiang West. Bula’s fear of the monster was so great that he dared not even look in the direction of the swamp. We had to interview him from behind a bush. Our guide Bakary walked a little way into the swamp but hen fear consumed him too and he turned back as we went on alone. Locals believed the dragon had the power to kill just by looking at you. One man, a guide at a national park said just such a thing happened to his grandfather in the 1940s. Could it be the effects of sheer terror?

Sea monsters can have an equally awful effect. The Reverend Dr Donald Ormand, regarded as the20th century’s greatest exorcist had a strange encounter in Norway whilst holidaying with his friend Captain Jan Anderson. Anderson had offered to show Ormand the ‘eeriest place in Norway’ the Fjord of Trolls (note the link with hairy giants, more on that later).

As the pair travelled along the narrow waterway Ormand noticed a feeling of menace and dread creeping over the area. The waters began to seethe and a huge beast with two humps rose up and swam towards their boat. Ormand thought it would turn their boat to match wood but at the last moment it veered to starboard and submerged. When Ormand suggested they peruse it for a better look Anderson replied...

“Sufficient onto the day is the evil thereof. The further we keep away from that thing the better. When I said evil it’s what I really meant. This is the third time I’ve seen it. On the other occasions it was further north, closer to the North Cape. They are what our ancestors called the Sea Serpents. Today people regard them as existing only in legend. But when you have seen them you believe in them.

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They don’t do physical harm. They want to convince any who see them that they are harmless. The evil they do is t men’s characters. The serpent in the Garden of Eden was no ordinary snake and what you have just witnesses is no ordinary creature.

I don’t know for certain, but I think their character was described in the first book of Genesis. I am not even sure even that it exists physically or not-there are things which do not exist and yet may be visible to man.”

Some years later Dr Oraman tried, unsuccessfully, to exorcise the monster in Loch Ness.

Land monsters too have the power to instil The Nameless Dread. Monster apes and ape-men seem to wield this fear making technique with awesome skill.

Tony Healy interviewed a 17 year old youth called ‘Len’ who, with some friends had encountered a yowie, an Australian ape-man near Cotter Dam, Australian Capital Territory, one night in 1990.

After hearing strange cries and footsteps in the scrub the youths retreated to their campsite in the park below the dam. As they walked their stalker over took them, running faster than any human possibly could and vanished into the shadows ahead. It reappeared under a street light some 50 meters from them. It looked man shaped but covered in grey hair and seemed to move with a blurring speed. It emitted a weird moaning sound. The youths became very frightened and huddled together on the steps of a locked and deserted pub clutching pen knifes and literally crying with fear.

Len phoned his mum from a call box next to the pub begging her to pick them up. The thing at vanished by the time she arrived but the atmosphere of terror remained. As they drove back home they all got the feeling that the thing was somehow following them. Even Len’s mother started to cry with fear. Len suffered nightmares for some time afterwards.

Another witness ‘R’ who encountered a yowie whilst parked on the Mount Kembla Road New South Wales, gave a graphic description of The Nameless Dread. Having a ‘bad feeling’ he looked over his shoulder to see that his car was being approached by a man-like, hair covered beast with glowing red eyes.

“My immediate reaction was to flee. I had this feeling I was being hunted-an immense feeling of dread...like someone had drained all the life blood out of you...an awful, awe-inspiring feeling of like...all your sense come alive. It is very hard to explain.”

He lost no time in driving away as fast as he could.

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In 1996 Dean Harrison was jogging one night near Ormeau, Queensland when he began to get the feeling he was being followed by something that stayed hidden by the bush. The thing brought a horrid sensation with it.

“I just had an indescribable chill that ran from my head to my toes. The unfamiliar and hugely terrifying sensation just overtook my entire body...I simply could not understand why I suddenly felt so uneasy and so vulnerable as I did but I knew something was terribly wrong and it had something to do with whoever or whatever was behind me.”

Turning round he saw a seven foot, hulking silhouette behind the trees. Dean felt paralyzed and had to force himself to move. The creature perused him with a blood chilling roar. He narrowly escaped its grasp as it lunged for him from the bush line and he dodged into the light of a street lamp.

Jerry and Sue O’connor whose property backs onto the forested wilderness of the Blue Mountains have had many yowie sightings. They too speak of a weird effect the creatures seem to have. They describe a ‘sickening electrical feeling’ in the kidneys that they liken to liquid nitrogen. It induces paralysis and can even waken them from sleep it is so intense. They feel that the yowies somehow ‘project’ the feeling.

Scottish scientist Bill Grant was approaching a small lake near the Tibet / Nepal boarder in 1983.

Suddenly he heard what he describes as a ‘voice that was not a voice’ warning him to go no further. A profound feeling of fear crept over him and, despite being a veteran explorer; he felt he could not take another step forward. He fled but returned hours later to find the feeling of fear had gone. But beside the lake he found huge, man-like tracks in the mud.

A malevolent ape-like beast has been reported in of all places Essex! (Not so surprising if you visit an Essex pub in A Saturday night – the Editor) In his book Realm of Ghosts Eric Maple describes a case that occurred at a very old farm known as Devil’s House on Wallasea Island among the marshes bordering the River Crouch. A labourer working in the barns heard his name called several times and felt a cold sensation come over him followed by an overwhelming urge to kill himself. In a trance he picked up a length of rope, fastened one end round his neck and walked towards a ladder with the intention of fastening the other end to a beam. He said he heard a voice saying “Do it, do it, do it.” Looking up he saw an ape-like beast crouching on one of the beams. It had black hair and slanted glowing eyes. The sight of the thing broke his trance and he fled from the barn.

In his1813 book A Relation of the Apparitions and Spirits in the County of Monmouth and the Principality of Wales the Reverend Edmund Jones related the story of a young woman who intended to walk from Laugharne, Carmarthenshire one evening. Her mother warned her of a phantom black dog seen near a water filed pit by the side of the road leading to Laugharne but she took little heed.

“On coming back before night, though it was rather dark, she passed by the place; but not without thinking of the apparition: but being a little beyond this pit, in a field where there was a little rill of water and just going to pass it having one foot stretched over it and looking before her, she saw something like a great dog, one of the Dogs of Hell, coming towards her; being within four or five yards of her, it stopped, sat down, and set up such a scream so horrible, so loud and so strong, that she thought the earth moved under her with which she fainted.”

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In some cases it seems that The Nameless Dread can kill with fear. I her book English Folklore Christina Hole recounts a story she heard herself whilst staying with a friend in Norfolk as a child. Her friend’s mother described how, thirty years before, her brother had been sent on an errand at dusk. On reaching his destination he found the house shut up and turned to leave. Just then a massive black dog seemed rise up out of the ground and placed its paws on his shoulders. Breaking free he ran home in a state of terror and told his parents what had happened. Gradually he calmed down and wet away to his room to study. But at midnight he fell down stone dead, apparently from the delayed effects of shock.

The Reverend Dr Donald Ormand had his own run in with a hell hound. Before joining the church he had visited Kettleness, a desolate promontory on the Yorkshire coast. He was there with his family just prior to WW I. He fell that the area ‘seemed laden with corruption’. Years later, as a reporter he interviewed a man who claimed to have seen a monstrous black dog in the very same area. Later still after being ordained and becoming an exorcist the Reverend was on holiday in Whitby with two friends. Looking over to Kettleness all three saw a huge black hound that vanished leaving behind an overwhelming of evil.

One of his friends, a schoolmaster asked Reverend Ormand to exorcise the monster. After making preparation they returned. A black hound that Ormand says was bigger than any mortal dog came loping towards them across the desolate sands. The schoolmaster fled to his car but the exorcist held firm. Casting holy water at the brute he cried out...

“Be gone in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be one to the place appointed for you, there to remain forever. Be gone in the name of Christ.”

The monster melted away and the atmosphere of corruption and menace vanished with it.

Another, even weirder dog-like apparition was encountered by the grandfather of Dermot MacManus who wrote about it in his book The Middle Kingdom. In the 1860s he was walking through an orchard one summer evening on the family estate in Ireland. He was going to join a party that was going on in the summer house. Upon hearing a rustling sound he looked round to see a fox-like creature the size of a wolf approaching him. When it reared up on its hind legs he saw to his horror that it had no head. Despite this he knew it was looking at him and pouring out ‘hate, bestiality and evil’.

He made the sign of the cross at the thing and if fell back on all fours and ran away. In 1901 at the age of 91 he made a signed statement that the event was still fresh in his memory. The entity puts one in mind of the Irish shape sifting spectre the Pooka. That was the beast attributed by many to a weird and disturbing encounter that took place in 1997 in the Grayfield-Greencastle district four miles from Kilkeen in County Down.

Louise Donnan and her niece Clare. As they drove along a certain section of road the saw what appeared to be a big sheep up ahead.

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As they drew closer they saw its coat was not wool but composed of what looked like rags. Both women felt a wave of revulsion as it turned its head to look at them. It ran over to the car and they saw that its round head was level with Clair’s window. The only feature they could see through the tatty coat was one of its eyes.

“We were both almost frozen with fear as the eye looking straight at us was reddish in colour, and gave a terrible, wild, penetrating stare. When I looked at its eye I could almost see its mind working powerfully behind it, a mind not of an ordinary animal but of one with another sense and evil I have never encountered before (or since). I felt sick with fear but thankfully Clair was able to compose herself enough to accelerate the car and we took off at an impressive speed. Our relief was short lived as suddenly we felt a ‘thud’ at the side of the car. To or horror this mad ‘animal’ we thought we had gotten away from was running alongside the car and deliberately banging into us.”

After chasing the car the thing abruptly stopped and the two women felt as if it had got to ‘the edge of its territory’. Neither drove anywhere near the area again. The reader will have noticed witnesses use words like obscenity, and malevolence. Not commonly used words. This points to experiences that have deeply affected them.

None were weirder than the case recorded in The Powers of Evil by Richard Cavendish. It involved a couple he referred to as ‘The Smiths’. One evening in 1940, as she was chatting to her husband Mrs Smith said, quite out of the blue “It will come over the hill when it comes”. Afterwards she had no recollection of saying this, even though her husband insisted that she had. Shortly after she became nervous about being in the house after dark. About three months later she awoke her husband one night and told him that the thing from over the hill was nearly upon them. They heard one of the outside doors opening and a heavy, wet tread upon the stairs. As the Smiths clung together the door swung open and a hideous thing waddled in. It was bloated and naked with skin blotched green, purple and yellow. It had a head that almost came to a point at the top, long earlobes that nearly reached its shoulders, webbed feet and a thick bull neck. It crossed to the window and vanished. Mrs Smith later commented.

“It was horrible and the absolute essence of evil...I have never experienced anything so dreadful before or since and I hope I never shall, God willing. I still experience the same horror when I talk about it or write about it as I am doing now. I have never been able to discover why I saw it and I have never been able to find out what it was.”

Monsters of the skies bring The Nameless Dread on their wings. Mothman, the red eyed, dark winged, almost featureless entity that haunted Point Pleasant in West Virginia in the 1960s evoked a stark terror that often rooted its witnesses to the spot.

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The classic case was that of Marcella Bennett. On the evening of November 16th 1966 she and two other adults were walking back to their car after calling on friends. Marcella was carrying a baby. A massive figure stood up from behind the car. It was grey with no discernable head but two large glowing red eyes close to the top of what appeared to be the torso. Bennett felt terrified but unable to move. She was so scared she dropped her child. Thankfully one of her companions, Raymond Wamsley managed to grab the child and drag his two friends back inside the hose. Mothman lumbered onto the porch and looked through the window as they frantically rang the police. By the time they arrived it had gone. For weeks afterwards Mrs Bennett was so traumatised she sought medical help.

England has its own answer to Mothman. The Owlman has been haunting the woods around Mawnan Old Church, Cornwall since the mid 1970s. Once again witnesses speak of an overwhelming fear. I am good friends with a man who, as a teenager back in 1988 saw the creature himself. He and his girlfriend had been walking in the woods when their torch beams fell upon something perched in a tree. It was an owl-like creature with brown and grey feathers. Its wings bore claws like some archaic prehistoric bird.

It had a horned head with glowing eyes and a gaping maw were the beak should have been. Instead of talons it had pincers like a crab or lobster. It leapt backwards out of the light as the witnesses fled.

My friend wishes to remain anonymous as he is now a very well respected and prominent scientist. A confident and articulate man he, even now, goes to pieces when recalling his encounter and seems to change into a scared teenager again. He told me of the feeling that Owlman had somehow followed him back to his home, hundreds of miles away. He felt as if the creature were lurking in woods near his house watching him. He felt that he could see it through his bedroom window. He was haunted by bad dreams in which there were a number of Owlmen. In one dream he was forced to hunt and kill a man using a bow and arrow whilst a black and white Owlman watched.

What is going on here? Can these creatures really generate fear? Some have suggested that they may use infrasound. Attacking tigers employ this to freeze prey. In addition to the audible sound of a tiger’s roar another component is below our range of hearing. At 18 cycles per second this can cause confusion and terror that disorientate and freeze prey.

It may be possible that some of the ape-like beasts and other creatures may use a similar technique.

But this does not explain the feeling of being perused or the feeling that the entity has invisibly followed the witness.

Some of these creature resemble flesh and blood animals (living and extinct) and some probably are but others look like nothing known to man. In fact it is almost as if some or outlandishly horrific, almost as if by ‘design’. It seems the creatures rarely cause physical damage but push fear to immense and sometimes fatal levels.

It also seems that if a victim can say calm, as Dean Harrison did or do something to break the creature’s mental hold like Marcella Bennett and the Reverend Oramand then the thrall is broken and the phantasm retreats. Could we be dealing with some kind of inter-dimensional predator that somehow feeds off or is charged by fear? And maybe the dimension these predators inhabit was once known to our ancestors by the name of Hell.

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