Chaos of Robbie Williams
Is Robbie Williams a Chaos Magician? Is this merely outlandish remarks by an uneducated media or is there an attraction with the celebrity and the occult? Most people wouldn’t associate the practise of chaos magick and Robbie Williams, in fact you would think it was worlds apart, however this seems far from the truth. Basic...
Search for a Relic
By Martin Jeffrey For six hundred years one of York’s most powerful catholic relics, the hand of the martyred saint, Margaret Clitherow had disappeared. Her house in the Shambles is one of the most visited catholic shrines in England, we wanted to know what happened to the relic and if it still existed today. Before...
A Place of Ghosts of Skulls
Hickleton on the outskirts of Doncaster is a pretty village that once stood as an oasis in the middle of countryside marked by coal mines. It’s an ancient village and its stories revolve around its Norman church. In its Lychgate, were once three skulls embedded into the wall with the motto “’To Day for Me,...
Clapham Wood Strangeness
Nestling in the shelter of the South Downs in West Sussex, is a densely-treed area known as Clapham Woods. Recently Living TV’s “Scream Team” visited the area causing interest in the paranormal community but most researchers won’t know about the real strange incidents that kicked started long term investigations. Clapham Woods has always been known...
A Stonehenge Mystery
Pagan ceremonies celebrating the summer solstice performed at Stonehenge on the 21st June 98 for the first time in 10 years. About 100 people, including druids, gathered at the prehistoric monument – but the focus of the dawn ritual, the sun, failed to shine for them. Summer solstice gatherings at the stones were banned in...
The Hagg House mystery
The Hagg House, Staveley, Derbyshire, a mile and a half west of Staveley stands the fine old Jacobean mansion known as the Hagg. This building was erected in 1630 by Sir Peter Frecheville as a shooting box, so it was said, and it may have been so, but it would seem to be more in...
Three Nuns of Kirklees
This is not directly connected with Robin Hood and the prioress who murdered him but it is connected with Kirklees priory – or Robin Hood fame – two centuries later. In 1539 the priory was dissolved by King Henry VIII along with many other monastic houses in England. There was only a few nuns left...
Spiritual Healing – for a building
A spiritual healer and water diviner may be called in by Highland Council to save £250,000 by curing a “sick” building. The council’s Bruce Gardens Centre in Inverness has lain empty for several months after 20 social work staff specialising in mental health problems were evacuated. It followed frequent complaints of mysterious sickness and headaches...
Ghosts : An Occult Perspective
Article for talk given at “The “Moot with no name”. October 13th 2004 by Paolo Sammut One of the oldest ghost stories we have was recounted by Pliny the Younger in his letters (VII.27). In this the scholar and philosopher Athenodorus spent some time in a house that had a reputation for being haunted. The...
Welcome to the Hell-Fire Club
The name ‘Hell-fire Club’ conjures up all sorts of sensational and lurid images, but what was the truth behind the legend? First of all, the most famous Hell-fire Club was the organisation allegedly founded by Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781) yet is was never called that name by its members. It was more formerly known as...
A view of Panswyck
By Martin Jeffrey More than three hundred years ago a lodge was built high above the Gloucestershire village of Painswick, this was no ordinary folly, and it was built in the name of Greek God Pan. For many years through Mysterymag we have received many reports of supposed occult activity occurring in and around Painswick....
1963 : Year of Black Magick
Mysterymag uncovers evidence that the Black Alchemist could have made his first forays into the Black Arts 20 years before the famous Black Alchemist books of Andrew Collins. The premise of the Black Alchemist books (Black Alchemist, Seventh Sword and The Second Coming) is that an educated lecturer or teacher based in the South of...
