The Witch’s Vault
A spooky discovery of a witch’s vault of bones, clothing and bottled powder has been made in a 16th century cottage. The strange find was made when owner Colin Graves began renovating his ancient home at Appledore but discovered there was more behind the wallpaper than he expected. Mr Graves noticed a chimney rising from...
Killing the Divine King
By Martin Jeffrey At 7 o’clock on the evening of August 2nd 1100, the King of England William II, nicked named “Rufus” because of his red hair made his last drive of the day’s hunting. According to records Walter Tyrrel, a friend of the king, loosed off an arrow at a stag that the king...
The Old Religion in England
By Martin Jeffrey Many tales can be found of Witches and Wizards across Britain, whether they were truly evil or maybe misunderstood we will never know for sure. There are also tales that seem to relate to pre-christian rites and early forms of magic. Abbotsbury, Devon An ancient custom thought to be the survival of...
White Wells Encounter
By Martin Jeffrey For over 250 years The Spaw Baths known today as White Wells have looked down onto Ilkley from another world famous landmark Ilkley Moor. They are Britain’s first Hydropathic Spa for the Cold Water Cure our Victorian forebears took in quantity. In 1859, one Charles Darwin took the waters at these very...
Silbury Hill – Place of Power
The ‘hill’ is the largest man-made mound in Europe, being 130 feet high and covering 5 acres at its base and is estimated to have taken 18 million man-hours to construct. A broad, deep ditch surrounding it has become filled with silt but originally would have been full of water. Could it have been some...
The Power of Three
By Martin Jeffrey Since the earliest times of our development the number three has represented a symbolic figure, one of the first written symbols for 3 appearing in the Ogham alphabet, the number three has been closely linked throughout time within aspects of many religions from the Catholic to Celtic (Holy Trinity to the Triple...
The Copgrove Mysteries
By Martin Jeffrey Little has changed in the Yorkshire village of Copgrove since the roman legionnaires deserted the nearby fortification of Isurium Brigantum (the village of Aldborough now covers the site). Lying in the undulating lands between Knaresborough and the market town of Boroughbridge (Devil’s Arrows), Copgrove is dominated by its Hall that is surrounded...
Storm God’s Crest
by Martin Jeffrey This neolithic burial mound lies two miles south from the beautiful Cotswold village of Winchcombe. It’s known as a place of power, a fairy mound, a place of antiquity and the supernatural. Belas is thought to derive from an ancient storm god, Baal (Belus in Latin), and Knapp is Old English for...
Mystery of the Moorland Carvings
A mysterious carving of an egyptian god is the last thing a rambler would expect to come across whilst exploring the bleak South Pennine moorlands near Widdop. And not yet far from a rough path near almost empty Gorple reservoir is a chunk of gritty weathered stone on which is carved an authentice likeness of...
The Devil’s Arrows
Standing nearly 22 feet in height, the three Bronze age monoliths, The Devil’s Arrows are the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom apart from the Rudston Monolith. The stones are devilishly black with deep grooves running from top to bottom, the victims of countless years of corrosive rain on their millstone grit. The grooves...
White Horses of England
By Clive Jennings In the English countryside there are several “white horses” whose origins are shrouded in mystery or lost in time, the reason why they were created is unknown. We do know that a horse as the hill figure was often used as a sacred sign by primitive people and was associated with traditional...
Zero Point Field
By Marie D Jones Most ufologists agree that alien spacecraft must be using a highly advanced technology or propulsion system to move them across vast distances in short periods of time. Quantum physics may hold the answer to how they are getting “here from there,” and that answer is the Zero Point Field(ZPF). Paul Dirac...
