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welcome to my latest para documentary

which actually starts in the village of

kanuda in Essex why kanuda I'm hoping to

focus upon the ghostly legends

associated with this church the Church

of San Nicolas and also its neveress

reputation for witchcraft and to examine

more closely in detail the background

and origins of some of the legends

attached to the church which if to be

believed would make canoed n' one of the

most actively witchcraft infested areas

in the entire world but of course as one

knows through life that quite often

once you've separated truth from fiction

the true reality of these places is

nothing more different than perhaps to

other locations within the county of

Essex and elsewhere and of course I'm

hoping to examine them in much more

detail but firstly let's look at the

church here of San Nicolas it is of late

medieval origin and this magnificent

tower which stands on the hill

promontory rises 123 feet above sea

level and gives unparalleled views

across a valley and certainly perhaps

through history it may have been used as

a possible defensive position and more

certainly as a lookout and the tower was

constructed as celebration for the

English victory over the French

following the Battle of Agincourt in the

year 1415 and certainly today the tale

can be seen from many locations at great

distances as you approach this area and

in sir she was safe quite a landmark

which most people and particularly so

boats using the nearby river have used

as a navigable feature the actual

origins of lean canoe Dhin dates back to

sex and times and means basically hill

of cannas people certainly King Canute

on his campaigns across England had a

base camp nearby and

we'll have used this promontory as it

afforded such a good view across the

neighboring valleys and hills but

firstly that's deal with why I'm here

I'm hoping to after I visited the

village of kanuda to travel over to

Felton and Essex which has a personal

association with me perhaps with a

possible witch and witchcraft and to the

village of monetary and miss lis in

Essex which was the home base of Matthew

Hopkins self-styled which find a general

in the 17th century who during his time

dispensed or should we say Cyril

murdered where his assistant mr. stern

over three hundred innocent women but

this firstly look at the alleged

reputation for witchcraft associated

with this church and the village

if we examine the court records and

testimonials of actual witchcraft trials

here in the village of kanuda we have to

look firstly in the year 15 85 when a

local spinster by the name of rose pie

appeared before the court here accused

of bewitching to death a 12 month old

baby with a name of Jonas snow who lived

at nearby scald hearse farm on this

occasion the corpse showed leniency

because the evidence to convict was

insufficient but by cruel twist of fate

although she was acquitted she actually

died in prison because she wasn't able

to pay her release fee and sadly five

years later a lady by the name of Cicely

making or good wife making appeared

before the court here charged with

practicing witchcraft here of course on

this occasion they showed a degree of

leniency they gave her five years to

mend her ways and to return back to the

teachings of Christ suffice to say that

five years following she was back again

before the same Court where instead of

being executed or being imprisoned or

tortured on this occasion by modern

standards they showed a degree of

leniency because she was excommunicated

from the church but by the standards of

medieval England that meant her soul was

going to be consigned to hell as Cicely

Macon was obviously a practicing Wiccan

that wasn't much of a threat and as far

as where we're from that period onwards

she was able to live her life out

peaceably after these two trials in

canoed and there appears to be no

further records indicating that any

other citizens of this village were

brought to trial accused of witchcraft

which of course cannot be said for other

parts of England and particularly in

this county of Essex and Suffolk where

witchcraft was considered to be quite a

prevalent and common offense but what

canoed in' is particularly known for or

its legends associated with witchcraft

and the rituals of witchcraft that are

connected to this village

of course to this church one of the most

interesting characters that could be

connected to the village of kanuda was a

man by the name of George P king Gill

who was born in 1813 and died in the

village in the year 1909 and it's

believed that he's buried somewhere in

the churchyard but without the headstone

George was known as a cunning man

cunning in this case meant that he was a

witch and had practiced he's worshipped

to a horned God allegedly and during his

lifetime

although employed as a farm worker many

people used to go to him for cures for

many ailments and walks and also to

improve crops and so on and so forth

which he could give some kind of potion

or make some kind of spell it is said

that he walked along a hedgerow and

touched it with a stick all the animals

in the hedgerow would run out and they

could easily be captured and caught

again it was also said that if anyone

crossed swords with George their life

and indeed their prosperity in life

could be severely hampered by what

George could do in the manner of witches

and spells

the problem with the legend of Jaws

picking Gil is that despite all his

grand claims that are added to his

reputation most of those were actually

discovered as it were some fifty years

after his death might a writer Eric

maple who went around many old age

people's homes interviewing some of the

elderly residents to get their take upon

the legend of Jaws peeking Gil and of

course as one gets older one's memory

tends to fade and certainly in this case

his reputation was she would say

somewhat elaborated by those who he

spoke to

it was said that if you went to his

cottage just on the outskirts in the

village I looked for the window during

the evening time you could see his

familiars in the form of mice suckling

at his nipples and a manner of weird and

wonderful tales associated with this man

were researched by this writer of

folklore Eric maple and of course going

further into I believe the 1970s an

American by the name of the thurb also

added more to the reputation of George

picking gel and so as a witch and as a

cunning man he somehow tion out from all

of the other witches there recorded and

known who were operating within the

county of Essex but George picking go

was no fault and he was also a person

that went to rewrite the rituals of his

worship to witchcraft the Horned God and

was also a man who was known to make

some fairly grand statements for example

he claimed that he had nine covens

across the county of Essex and also

believed in neighboring counties such as

Hart this year and that on one occasion

he had to showdown with another witch

where he struck this witch down dead

and of course all this added to his

reputation as a man to be feared and

certainly the villagers and indeed the

church did fear him

regardless he claimed that he could sit

quietly smoking the pine why he would

employ imps to bring in the crops from

the farmer's field and that farmers

would pay him extra money to be able to

perform his miracles on their behalf

another reputation added to the legend

of Aleister Crowley for example was that

he was at one time a disciple of George

picking Gill and that he was eventually

thrown out from the sect for his

behavior which was considered to be

outside their teachings and practices

however further research in later years

by other researchers can find no

evidence of any connection between

Aleister Crowley and George P Burdell

and yet we can prove here that in later

years people have added more to the

legend of George picking Gill which

today has given rise to the fact that

kanuda is regarded as the focal point of

witchcraft in the county of Essex and

indeed if one needs further proof that

the reputation of witchcraft in Canada

was a concoction of the 19th century

there's a local rhyme which says that

there are always be six which is in the

village three of cotton and three of

silk

well if that had been something which

was claimed to be a medieval saying then

surely it would not have been cotton it

would have been war cotton was a

discovery of the 19th century and

certainly during the era of George

picking Gil without going into more

detail about his national claims and

what he could do what he cannot do in

his victims it was quite clear that he

had a grudge against the church and that

many times had run-ins with the local

priest it is claimed that when he died

he was walking through the churchyard at

kanuda when at night

daylight suddenly appeared from behind

across a stone cross in the cemetery

which reflected upon him and struck him

dead nothing could be further than the

truth he actually felt ill at home and

he was taken to a hospice but eventually

he died of old age and was subsequently

buried in the churchyard

certainly there are many many legends

and attachments between the church and

its association with witchcraft

it is alleged that should a stone fall

from the tower of the church it would

indicate that one of the six witches

inside the village had died and that

another was due to take their place

still adding to the legend of the tower

and the witch is that so long as the

church tower stands there will always be

which is in the verge apparently anyone

who walks around the tower at midnight

could be forced to dance with witches

and apparently at Halloween if you go

around the tower seven times you will

see a witch thirteen times you will

become invisible if you run around the

tower anti-clockwise on Halloween the

devil will apparently appear before you

and more interestingly if you run around

the tower backwards three times a portal

will appear before you and you will be

able to travel back through time now of

course I have yet to find any reference

to any person has a claim to have

experienced any of these experiences

inside the church errotica Newton and

again it's something that people have

welded to the legend of George picking

Gill and to which is inside the village

which has made it such a fascinating

place for study and particularly for

folklore and local anecdotes I certainly

don't feel that canoodle is perhaps any

more haunted with witches or infested

with which is whichever way you want to

look at it and anywhere else in the

country but why I find particularly

intriguing about the whole deal is that

if we go back to the 17th century we

have the Witchfinder general Matthew

Hopkins persecuting innocent people

accusing them of being witches and in

the 19th century we have George picking

girl doing exactly the reverse but this

time on church members of a local

congregation a certain irony perhaps and

one which of course has stuck quite

firmly in my mind since I started to

research this particular

ah q mentoree I find these legends and

local anecdotes to be fascinating but by

and large I regard them as just that

anecdotes and stories nothing more but

they do add a rich character to the

fabric of what the village of kanuda is

to this day and sadly because of it it

attracts a lot of people there at night

and the church have been forced to add

security gates to prevent people from

entering at night and it is also fair to

say that some people have gone into the

churchyard and have seriously damaged

headstone because on one portion of the

churchyard the cemetery

it is absolutely devoid of any

headstones which have been ripped up and

smashed up in the past which perhaps is

a tragedy to the history of the village

and our knowledge of the past

apart from the church and the villages

association with witchcraft

the church has two notable ghostly

legends attached to it

the most notorious has been seen on a

number of occasions a lady wearing a

pope on it hat who has no face who's

been seen to pass through the West Gate

into car park at the front of the church

and disappeared down before the river

and on one night a lady was parked

outside who had no knowledge of his

ghostly reputations when she saw this

apparition she saw that it had no facial

features she was petrified and she fled

in flight from this sighting and never

to return again to the church no doubt

today probably to recall that situation

with horror and fear of what happened to

her on that particular night but apart

from that there's also been an alleged

headless ghost seen inside the

churchyard who's been known to deposit

his victims in neighboring ditches quite

how true any of these legends are one

can only conjecture eyes but I would

have thought that the occasion of the

lady who saw the figure with a pope

boniface is probably one of the more

truthful elements attached to any of the

ghostly sightings here but what is more

particularly worrying and frightening

for any visitors to this churchyard are

its associations with witches and some

of the rituals which have been seen and

performed inside this very active

churchyard

I'm actually standing outside this

rather delightful timber-frame building

in the village of Felsted on Essex which

as you can see was built by George boot

in the year 50 96 certainly today it

stands out as an interesting feature and

particularly so when its opposite the

guild hall and the beautiful church here

and of course Felsted is noted for its

public score but coming back to this

building it also has an addition which

you don't find on any other buildings in

this area and that is known locally as

the felch did hang and allegedly depicts

according to the Builder a carving of

his wife she being a rather plain and

ugly woman he decided to display that

more as a joke rather than with

reference to anything else but if you

look more closely at this figure which

is actually a support bracket you'll

notice that she has cloven feet and she

also has exposed breasts and appears to

be restrained or held back and contained

on the side of the building I think the

truth here is that the figure was carved

as a grotesque to ward off evil we have

only got to go back three years earlier

in the year 1593 when a local spinster

at the age of 59 years a woman by the

name of Alice Albert was declared to be

a witch according to a local farmer she

had hexed a number of his animals which

fell ill and diet and she apparently had

bewitched them and in order to gain

retribution against her he complained to

the local magistrate here who issued a

warrant for her arrest and she was taken

to Chun soo decisis where along with a

number of other innocent women

she was judged guilty of which car and

she was Punk one can also imagine that

she was probably tortured a great length

where under torture under pressure she

may have admitted to anything at all but

there the story doesn't quite end and

this is where I come into the picture a

few years ago I came to this village to

shoot a piece on George boot house and

some of the other buildings and the

church and as I was carrying my camera

across the road to get a better view of

George boot house I was standing in a

central position as you can see from

this short clip here when I recorded the

most unusual EVP

if you listen closely the background

audios completely wiped out and its

substituted by this very evil sounding

voice a number of voice analysts have

listened to this at live and have

declared that they can find no logical

reasonable explanation for that voice to

be there and so I think it's fair to say

a most certain to say that that is EVP

or electronic voice phenomena which was

inadvertently recorded by me as I

carried the camera across the road could

there be an association between that EVP

the legend of George boot house and the

poor spinster Alice Albert and of course

today I can't answer that question I can

only surmise that there may be a tenuous

connection perhaps many centuries ago

when George boot built this beautiful

house that Alice Albert had lived very

local to where the restaurant is today

and pants Alice Albert spirit still

reigns supreme in this part of the

village of Felsted as I said I'm only

speculating it's just idle speculation

that only from what I recovered on

camera certainly a strange place to

recall evey

in the middle of the busy road but it

happened and so did of course the legend

of Alice Albert and the self dead hag

which today still intrigues and

fascinates many tourists that come to

this area and so now we move on to

another area much notably witchcraft but

in later years in fact in the 17th

century

the final part of my documentary on the

Essex witches actually brings me to the

villages of mists near Manningtree in

fact I'm standing within the grounds of

mystery towers

Manningtree miss lis will always be connected with

one man the Nemesis of all witches in

the 17th century a man by the name of

Matthew Hopkins the son of a Puritan

priest who was born in great venom in

Suffolk in the year 1620 and following

the death of his father who was quite a

wealthy man

owning tenements at framlingham Castle

in Suffolk he came to this area with a

hundred marks as part of his father's

will where he purchased the mystery

forum Hotel today there is still a

mystery for hotel but unfortunately it's

not the original building that Hopkins

purchased it was torn down much earlier

and a later version was built in the

year 1735 whilst here he came across an

alleged witchcraft trial that was being

prosecuted at the behest of villagers by

a man of the name of John Stone he

actually appeared at the trial and

listened to how stone presented his

evidence and obviously at that point

decided to throw his bottom with Stern

to carry out their own investigations

into witchcraft because it was paint ly

obvious that people were willing to pay

for the death of other people and before

long they had actually formed a company

which involved three professional which

identify as these were women who knew

the signs of the witch and stone

employers of which pricker they were

certainly psychopaths

they had no feelings or remorse for

their victims and they were handsomely

rewarded not only to dispose of alleged

witches by identifying them but also

innocence that other people were

prepared to pay good sums of cash for to

be rid of them in fact by the end of his

reign he had accrued

the princely sum of a thousand pounds

which by modern standards were placing

within a level close to being a

millionaire so it was certainly a very

very profitable exercise and the sad

part about all of this was the fact that

this occurred during the English Civil

War so there was no proper lawful

jurisdiction by authorities because some

could be under the controlled Royalists

others could be under the control of the

parliamentarians and so Hopkins was able

to work within this grey area and he

even had a letter of Good Conduct to

allowing through two different areas in

order to carry out his alleged

persecutions of witches

it is believed by the end of his reign

that he had murdered over 300 women and

also some men too and on one occasion

had persecuted an elderly priest who he

accused of being a witch quite clearly

Hopkins had gone beyond his dream it is

a Witchfinder general and was a

psychopath completely out of control

now why would people want somebody

persecuted as a witch well most of his

victims were poor painless elderly

widows easy victims to torture and to

confess to alleged crimes and as a

result of their prosecution they would

receive a financial settlement from the

grateful villages and the reasons behind

all of this mostly were the fact that

the great play existed during that

period of history and of course there

were a number of ailments and diseases

affecting livestock which all could be

attributed to the work of a witch nobody

really understood the mechanics of

science at that period of history it was

still very much in its infancy and

particularly with medicine and so if

somebody fell sick or if their animals

fell ill it had to be the work of a

witch

of course there is no testimony

following any of these persecutions that

any of these animals or people recovered

from their alleged ailments as a result

of a witch being persecuted and wired

and certainly during their early days

here in Miss Lear Manningtree they

prosecuted and had hung 19 women from

this area who were completely innocent

of any crime of witchcraft in fact

during the early days in the year 1645

most of their early victims were tried

by water at the infamous hopping bridge

which can still be seen today along the

walls at miss Li and here victims were

tied to chairs and thrown over the side

into the pond below if they died they

were clearly innocent but if they

floated back to the surface they were

obviously guilty as a witch and they

were later taken to Colchester where

they were tried and hung and indeed

today in the castle basement are the

remains of the cells in which a number

of his poor women were incarcerated but

it can be considered that they would

have been cold they would been damp and

the victims would have been stripped

naked and beaten other methods to detect

witches could be signs of a witch

particularly if people have walks or

moles these are normally the signs of

witches apparently or if people have an

extra nipple which is definitely the

mark of the devil and so on and so forth

I in fact have a birthmark on my back

which quite clearly could indicate that

I'm a witch because if you look at this

birthmark it actually resembles a witch

on the broom stick so had I lived in the

17th century and was wrongly

unfortunately accused of being a witch

I would not legally have been able to

defend myself such was this savagery and

the bigotry of that period of history

Methos they employ to extract

confessions and to prove their guilt

that was simply by using a blunt knife

placed against their arms and of course

a blunt knife would not cut their skin

and with not draw blood which was a sure

sign of witchcraft or by using a knife

with a retractable blade so that the

knife will appear to pass through the

victims arm and be retracted with no

trace of any blood or indeed any

customers skin which was also a sure

sign of witchcraft it's believed that

Hopkins drew his inspiration from the

works of King James the first who wrote

the book on demonology it is also

suggested that for a period he was

employed as a clock in Holland where he

learnt much of the continental methods

of detecting which is all bar one of his

victims were hung only one was burnt at

the stake whereas that practice of

burning at the state of witches was

fairly commonplace throughout Europe one

of the questions that arises is why

didn't Hopkins visit Keynesian and Essex

and the suggestion is that he was too

terrified after which he's there well as

I've shown in the earlier part of my

documentary the alleged witchcraft in

the village was more a confection of the

19th century and he had no reasonable

call to go there and I'm very sure that

someone like Hopkins would not easily be

dissuaded from attending a village which

was noted to be haunted with witches it

is interesting to note that Hopkins

produced in the year 16 47 the discovery

of witches which he used in his defense

against the priests John gall at Great

Staunton in Huntingdon Sher who

denounced him as a witch Huntingdon was

perhaps his last final battle and he was

forced to retreat and suffering from an

illness of a chest infection he went

back to his home in Manningtree

in south street which in fact today is

an empty lot next to the red line public

house

where he died of his illness within

hours Hopkins have been buried in the

grounds of miss lis church not this

churchyard but another church which

sadly no longer exists today and so we

are unable to place exactly where

Hopkins is interred but suffice to say

that he legacy lives on for eternity the

discovery of witches was taken across to

America by the early settlers to the

town of Salem in Massachusetts where it

was put to good employment in another

reign of terror which is known today as

a Salem witch trials today the legacy of

Matthew Hopkins still lives on in the

form of his ghosts apparently he has

been seen at hopping bridge walking

along the walls area facing the river

store also ghostly and mysterious

screams have been heard coming across

from the salt marsh which is believed to

be the spirits surface on his victims he

apparently has been heard inside the

mystery horn hotel on the upper floor

walking up and down as a restless spirit

perhaps and lastly at the White Hart

Hotel a Manningtree

where his spirit is allegedly said to

haunt quite how true any of these

stories are I cannot attest but I can

say that for a long long time thereafter

the legacy of Matthew Hopkins will live

on in this area perhaps as a vessel to

sell tourism more perhaps for people to

come and reminisce over the terrible

deeds carried out by two men in the 17th century

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well I've arrived to a church which for

me has many fond memories having been

here on numerous occasions in the past

I'm actually asked some evans church on

the island of mercy and essex and this

is actually the eastern side of the

island

there is another church at the western

end this particular church has an

interesting history it took over 200

years to construct and dates from the

12th 13th 14th and 15th centuries

respectively so there's been an ongoing

development here over the centuries

which has brought us today to this fine

church that stands here as testament to

the craftsmanship of the medieval past

and very light and airy has a wonderful

ambiance and it's certainly something

that I'd love to come back to whenever I

have the occasion and it's great to be

back here today and usually perhaps it's

sunny outside and there is very little

wind which gives me great opportunity to

share with you one of the legends

outside associated with this church

let's have a wander around this church

has probably got the most unusual pulpit

which I've seen anywhere the notice of

the pulpit and it's hourglass shape is

actually created on top of a column and

the reason for that simply was up until

1920 this church was filled with box

pews so the height of the pews would

have touched just below the actual

paneling here from which the priest

would stand

please are a rare sight in churches

mostly ones we find are made from wood

but this is a casting brass and probably

dates to the 19th stroke early 20th

century it's a particularly fine piece

and obviously well looked after and well

cleaned one can just imagine the

prohibitive cost even for that period of

history but nevertheless it's quite

beautiful with no

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there are are two interesting exhibits I

want to share with you now part of the

church furniture isn't work one is this

wooden frame plaque to the memory of the

tenor Colonel Edward Bellamy citizen and

fishmonger late of this parish who

deceased the 28th of August in the year

1656

at the age of 59 and considering its age

and how far actually goes back and the

fact that it's still here and it's so

well perfectly preserved this is indeed

an enjoyable rarity to actually see

inside a church today and next to it we

have a staircase a medieval staircase in

stone which goes up but comes out at the

top there which was originally access to

the rude loft and the Rood screen used

to literally run across here separating

the chancel from the nave and of course

the Rood screen has long since

disappeared but there are still

references to the fact that it actually

existed and to see it as a curiosity is

quite fun really a detail which I always

appreciate particularly so in medieval

churches and it are these large archways

which separate this part of the Church

of the nave from the adjoining chapel

from the detail that I can see these

would probably date to the late 14th

early 15th century and even to this day

the preservation of the detail the

carving is is still there there's

virtually no damage and it seems to have

survived history fairly well and

certainly accredit to the Churchill

authorities here which maintained this

building in such a high state of

renovation and repair

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just over here we have a rather

attractive late 14:30 15th century

medieval font with ecclesiastical

carvings around the tunnel sides which

is particularly interesting this has

much closer look

certainly just looking at this piece

listen fine carving here of arches and

here is an empty space I can only assume

at some point this may have contained an

image of a now prescribed Saint which

may have been taken away there's

certainly other panels which attests to

the fact that there may have been

something else there originally but

having said all that the detail was

still very strong

it's albeit slightly chipped and damaged

and after centuries have used them

bearing some signs of graffiti it's

still very much here today and very much

used and enjoyed by the people that

celebrate at this church there are two

historical characters attached to this

church which I wish to go into some

detail with one I will need to travel

outside to two grave of a 15 year old

girl and the other perhaps to a famous

author and was also the priest here in

the nineteenth century but let's wander

outside first and let's look at the

legend of Sarah wrench

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one of the most unusual and perhaps one

of the saddest burials here in the

church art at some edmonds Church in

East mercy and Essex is an iron cage

grave burying the legend of Sarah wrench

who died May the 6th 1848 aged 15 years

and five months but she is buried alone

in unconsecrated ground nobody actually

knows who sarah wrench was and certainly

there's no record of her birth which in

those days wasn't particularly unusual

unfortunately but for a burial to take

place here in East mercy from somebody

from Feldon and there's no record of her

death or birth then it seems rather odd

to say the very least but anyway I

digress a lot of people believe that

this grave had this iron cage or more

safe placed over it to prevent a group

of people known as resurrectionists or

burkas from removing her body and

selling it for medical research

first of all let's examine the fact that

the Resurrectionist as they were known

may have been intent on removing her

body to be sold to a medical school

either in London or Cambridge which

would have been the nearest medical

schools for that period of history where

obviously they would have received a

bountiful price for her corpse that to

me is a rather fanciful explanation so

now we must look at the facts in more

detail

Sarah was a native of children village

which in those days would have taken by

a horse a cart probably around 40

minutes only terribly unmade roads which

existed in those days and say just for

example if it was a grave robber he

would have to know that she had recently

died

he would also have to know that she has

been buried here for him to even dream

of removing the corpse and taking it by

cart to the nearest railway station of

that period which was cultures there

which would have taken probably two or

three hours on the roads that existed

and then the long journey into London

but then having to explain to people why

they're carrying a cadaver of a young

girl and then of course if you're a

resident here on Murray Island you would

have to know somebody in a medical

school in London who would be prepared

to break the law on by this corpse and

I'm coming back again to what the locals

believed that she was at the time of her

death it was suggested that she was

which and that was the reason she was

buried with an iron cage to prevent her

from rising again and tormenting the

locals by modern science and

understanding of the world this is a

completely ridiculous notion but

understandable when you look at the

mindset as I've explained of the people

from that period I find the whole event

surrounding her death and also the the

grave robbers evolved highly repellant

really and quite sad when you look at

things and examine them under a modern

light we have to remember for example

between 1506 and 1750 to such was the

interest in the human anatomy by medical

schools that the supply human bodies

cadavers had completely dried up and so

they decided to introduce a piece of

legislation which was known as the

murder Act which allowed convicted

felons who were executed as part of

their punishment for their bodies to be

taken away for free by medical schools

for their medical classes and of course

as the interest in medical science grew

and blossomed and particularly so in

Edinburgh and in London where medical

schools they were receiving students

from all over the world such was the

interest the supply of convicted bodies

grew less and less because also at the

same time it reflected a social change

insist

no longer were people going to be

executed for the most minor of offenses

and so that ready supply of bodies

completely dried up there so the only

course for further action to enable them

to continue their business was to employ

or to do business with these people that

were known as resurrectionists or burkas

burka comes from Messrs Birkin hare who

were Irish immigrants living in

Edinburgh or I believe between 1827 and

1828 murdered I believe up to 16 people

and solved their bodies to an

unscrupulous doctor at an Edinburgh

Medical School and that these supply of

bodies were taken without question by

the said medical school and when they

were eventually caught and convicted and

executed no punishment was dealt out to

the doctors involved that the medical

practices and in fact in the case of

Burke his skeleton was placed on public

display his body was deceptive book

covers were made from his skin and also

appointment card folders were also

created from his skin the end result was

that after Burke and Hare were arrested

and convicted there was a huge landslide

in change with regard to the care of

bodies after death because up until then

nobody had really given it a second

thought after they brought in

legislation they decided that in future

all deaths should be properly registered

with certificates that accompany each

corpse to ensure that those who had

control over a corpse had the correct

paperwork giving them authorization to

do so which obviously cuts out the

middleman the tomb robber who would

remove these bodies for sale so in 1848

here in East merci I can give you a

rough idea of what life was like here

which it was fairly harsh there was

mostly farmers and people who made their

living from the sea they weren't

particularly wealthy of course there

there were landowners but importantly

this she was a forgotten corner of

United Kingdom wine earth would anybody

want to place a mock safe over a young

girl's grave my view whichever the

legend is with regard to Sarah wrench is

that she was not a witch she was a

victim of a narrowed social mentality

which pervaded in England at that time I

think that an according to the facts

that she was indeed pregnant I think

that in her village she was confronted

over her pregnancy and she obviously

didn't wish to name the father of the

child and so she lied and she may have

said something to the effect that she

had been raped by demon or or something

like that what you have to understand is

that in the year 1848 and despite the

Witchcraft Trials of the 17th century

people still here and particularly so in

Essex and in Suffolk had these

deep-rooted fears of the devil and

almost peasant virus as it were which

completely possessed the minds of most

god-fearing Christians who lived in

these remote rural districts and if

proof be needed the last witch trial

occurred in Essex actually in the 1860s

in the village of still heading them

where the villagers decided that a deaf

and dumb mute who was believed to be

French a man by the name of dummy was a

witch and he was tried by being doused

into water as a result this poor man

caught pneumonia and died but best

beside the point

it shows though that this mentality

surrounding the paranormal and

surrounding the works of the devil still

held very strongly in people's minds and

regardless of whatever people would say

to this day it's a very very sad story

but one which I'm sure you will find

interesting if not a little sympathetic

to this poor young lady and thank you

Sarah

and I hope that you can spend the rest

of your time

in peace and away from all those people

who perhaps misjudge you so badly and

now we return back inside to the church

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that was indeed an interesting tale

albeit rather sad and perhaps sadder for

the fact that nobody knows very little

about this young lady but at least by

being buried here in this beautiful

quiet country church or at least give

her centuries of peace from a torment

that she must have suffered as a child

and that brings me on to another famous

incumbent of this church a man by the

name of Sabine baring-gould who was the

rector here between 1871 and 1882 and

what can I say about this man

he was probably one of the most

prodigious rioters of the period in fact

the British Library can record at one

period that the majority of submissions

for registration by a library were

actually works written by Baron Gord he

came here as he believed as a form of

punishment

and nobody knows what the punishment was

for it was certainly known that he was a

very open-minded free-thinking

individual and probably may have

travelled on some toes somewhere in the

church hierarchy but he certainly wasn't

happy about being posted to this church

he found the Islanders very difficult

people to get along with he found them

to be very suspicious and wary of

outsiders for which of course

baring-gould

was certainly a very interesting man

while he was here as part of his

presumed punishment he was able to write

a very famous hymn but the name of

onward Christian soldiers which to

anybody associated with the Christian

faith may have heard over the years

being played literally anywhere in the

world a very very popular tune he also

wrote a book on the island and

characterized the people on the island

as part of this thriller which he wrote

and certainly even to this day people

can attest to some of the descriptions

of the characters in this novel to

people that actually existed during

ferrying God's time and perhaps that was

his form of revenge against them I

personally feel that the church rather

than in punishing him by sitting here

they realized that this man was a

literary genius and thought that perhaps

by sending him to a very quite post such

as here it would enable him to get on

with his work I don't think that they

particularly prescribed against him he

was certainly a very interesting man he

was entirely self educated and traveled

freely across the continent on his many

travels where he acquired great

knowledge

picked up some interesting items which I

believe some of which are still here in

this church today during his period here

he actually renovated the church for his

own personal expense he was certainly a

man of certain means and if you look in

a number of the windows you will see

some sixteenth and seventeenth-century

round doors which I believed to be of a

continental origin and perhaps

baring-gould

acquired these on his travels and had

been put into the windows here because

often there there is no sign of any

medieval glass and the chancel window as

beautiful as it is is certainly a late

Victorian masterpiece but let's carry on

with the tour inside you'll have to

excuse the rather strong light that's

coming for the church windows but here

is an interesting exhibit which is a

reconstructed niche and you can see that

there are cracks in the stonework where

it's been completely rebuilt this

unfortunately is not an uncommon

phenomenon in many churches of this

period as I've already explained on

earlier videos when the church went

through a period of Reformation many

things that were regarded as idolatry or

to Catholic were destroyed by the

Protestants and it would appear that in

the early days at least this was

actually removed and broken up but

fortunately it's been recovered and it's

been put back into place but here of

course would have stood a statue

probably of one of the Saints and

fortunately only the other day I was

able to travel over to fingering her

Church which has such a statue of some

Margaret which had been removed a head

was partially broken and she was buried

into the rubble at the back of the niche

and filled in and it was only during the

period of renovation inside the church

that she was rediscovered and put back

onto display which is such a terrible

shame these beautiful objects of artwork

these

handcrafted by people these were painted

by artists and yet they were so

unceremoniously disregarded and

discarded as refuse but here at least

the lesions that exist in this hope that

perhaps one day the snatcher which

originally filled this dad made me

rediscovered and put back on to display

there's a story I want to share with you

an anecdote about baring-gould

and he had apparently 15 children in

fact he had so many children that on one

occasion he had a party at the vicarage

and he picked up a little girl he went

oh you're pretty whose little girl are

you and she burst into tears and

exclaimed but I'm yours daddy

he was so wrapped up in his work and his

life they'd actually forgotten the

identities of his own children this

shows you the eccentricity of that man

but a really nice story

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below through here this wave of energy

all the time might be cold in here it

certainly feels warm in some way

beautiful

on a spiritual level I'm actually

feeling and I can actually see on the

altar area an impression in my mind of a

man and priest and a boy and the boy

wearing a white surplice as though he

may have been in a choir whether this

was a vicar and his son or some other

relation I don't know but they feel very

warm nothing negative here at all well

unfortunately time is drawing to a close

here it's starting to get dark and this

beautiful light naturally illuminated

Church is slowly drawing into darkness I

hope you've enjoyed the towels that I've

shared with you today and particularly

appertaining to Sabine Barry gold and of

course poor Sara wrench and had been

able to enjoy the beauty of this

building which for me is crucially important

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Hadley was first constructed by hubert

de burgh in 1215 and the site chosen was

in the high natural ridge constructed

from London clay de Berg realized the

site afforded good views across the

Thames Estuary

and the castle would help to protect

London from raids by French warships the

Kentish rag stone used was brought by

raft across the Thames from Kent from

where it was quarried and a ramp was

constructed to haul the stone from the

foreshore which was until the 18th

century at the base of the hill land

Reclamation's pushed the sea much

further back which exists to this day as

cultivated farmland Hubert was a trusted

follower of King John and custodian of

two important role castles at Windsor

and over a Dover he was soon to prove

his great military skill by successfully

defending the castle during a fierce

siege in 1216 de Burgh was later given a

license to Crenna late in 1230 under

Henry the 3rd but by 12:39 his

relationship with the King had

deteriorated to such an extent that the

Berg was arrested and had his

possessions including Hadley stripped

from him the castle by the 1250s had

fallen into neglect and despite some

investment after it was given to Queen

Elinor in 1273 it remained in relatively

poor condition a new hall and an

adjacent solar complex were built at the

castle around 1290 but collapsed due to

subsidence shortly afterwards in 1299

the castle was given to Queen Margaret

and Edward the third acquired the castle

in 1330 and between 1361 and 1363 the

internal buildings were renovated which

was completed by 1365 after 1540 for the

estate began to be broken up first the

parks were sold and then the castle

itself bought by Lord Richard rich from

Edward VIII 6-4 700

in 1551 rich dismantled the castle for

the value of its stone primarily between

1551 and 1575 and the castle now

thoroughly ruined passed through Rich's

descendants the English painter John

Constable visited Hadley in 1814 and

made a drawing of the castle as

preparation for ten old sketches and a

single painting the old painting Hadley

Castle was produced in 1829 and

exhibited of the Royal Academy in the

same year William Booth Purchase Hadley

Castle and its surrounding site in 1891

for the use of the Salvation Army which

established a farm to Train the English

poor prior to them being sent overseas

to the British colonies considerable so

science and slippage on the ridge

occurred between 1898 and 1923 causing a

collapse of the southern curtain wall

The Salvation Army gave the castle to

the Ministry of Works in 1948 and it is

now owned by English heritage and

classed as a scheduled monument and a

great one initiative building subsidence

and land slips have continued the north

east tower largely collapsed in the

1950s and further major slippage ease

occurred in 1969 1970 and 2002 today I'm

fortunate to be able to visit the ruins

of Hadley Castle and Essex very recently

I featured a para documentary on Essex

witches the center of which was based

upon the village of kanuda which of

course was central to that particular

documentary and also featuring the arch

nemesis of all which is self-styled

Witchfinder general Matthew Hopkins

and of course it wasn't long before

comments were raised as to why I never

featured perhaps Essex is most famous

cunning man a man by the name of James

Merle and the reason simply for that was

that the para documentary was

essentially rooted in kanuda and also

miss Lee Manning Terry because the two

fitted quite nicely within the sense of

one group of people that were alleged to

persecute church-going people and then

an alleged churchgoer persecuting

alleged witches and so it featured quite

well but of course within the remit of

that there was not enough time to talk

about James Merle and his life and his

claims James Merrill was born at

Rochford in Essex in around the year

1780 won and in 1785 he was baptized and

grew up to become a fairly well-adjusted

normal young man except for his material

gifts accorded to him

according to legend but a fact that he

was the seventh son of a seventh son and

these gifts were pivotal for what James

Merrill became in later life a

well-known cunning man a man who was

alleged to have gifts which included in

the empowers herbal remedies divining

for lost objects astrology and

clairvoyance to name but a few

in around 1812 James decided to become a

cobbler and set himself up with a shop

at Hadley in Essex as his client base

grew his knowledge grew and more more

people including the wealthy were

travelling from much further afield

traveling down from London Suffolk half

Fisher and even further abroad to seek

him out because of his acclaimed

reputation as a seer and cunning pair he

possessed a tremendous knowledge of

herbal remedies medicine and astrology

and owned an expensive library of

magical books and papers although none

of these have survived his library is

said to have contained the works of

Henry Cornelius Agrippa

nichelle Nostradamus and William Lily

for his consultation room he allegedly

used the front room of his cottage which

was festooned with all types of curves

tied to the beams and slowly drying out

for future remedies and clients in the

corner of that room he had an extremely

large wooden chest which contains

various texts and books relating to his

craft as a cunning man he also had a

magical knife a human skull and a

writing desk but what was interesting

amongst his collection was a large brass

telescope now one can assume that the

telescope was used for looking at the

sky and that the Stars but as I believe

part of his reputation as a cunning man

relied extensively on local intelligence

information that he could pick up or

quire locally either directly from the

individual themselves quite mean

obviously or by a third party or in this

case by observing people through his

telescope seeing what people were up to

in a day to day basis so that when they

came to him he may have had copious

details of notes pertaining to that

individual which he could then reveal

which would obviously amaze and surprise

the person concerned and reinforced his

belief in him

as a cunning man or mount witch on a

day-to-day basis morale would often be

seen wandering around the town of Hadley

as it became or wandering to the ruins

of the old castle where Deeping thought

he was seeing

muttering or whispering to himself as he

walked along no doubt thinking about

particular clients or causing his thirty

was occupied with at that particular

time but one thing about Merrill people

didn't fear him people adored him

because if he's wiseness his wisdom and

his ability and creativity in the way

that he could help or assist people now

bearing in mind as i've always mentioned

in all of my paradox men thérèse people

were deeply superstitious and of course

talking of the black magic and the black

arts with frightened people particularly

devout church-going folk and of course

Merle was a man who had deeply held

religious beliefs he was a devout

Christian he was perhaps so well-versed

on the Bible New Testament that he could

quote word-for-word a particular psalm

much better than the local priest

it would have to research anything that

Merle had told him as quotes from the

Bible such was his ability and his

memory and his memory is certainly key

to his ability as a cunning man he

challenged me services usually Halfpenny

for curing warts and other simple herbal

remedies half a crown to break a spell

cast by another witch and the same one

for his famous which was all spells but

if he was asked to call upon the aid of

high spirits he were charged even more

though that magical cure was required

then he was set about by raising spirits

or good angels as he described them

certainly most cunning men of that

period were eccentrics and James Morel

was second to none and his own

eccentricities how would people describe

him there are certainly no photographs

they exist to this day there are

drawings based upon his description but

nothing more and this is how he was

described he was a small man in stature

but had an aura of great authority with

piercing blue eyes

the ruddy complexion went out and about

in the village she wore bobtail coat and

a fashionable hard hat and always

carried an umbrella he was a married man

and then also allegedly had up to 20

children although no records can be

verified to actually establish that as a

fact he also had what he called a

magical mirror which is something that

he used to stare into as a seer to be

able to draw more closely into a

particular problem brought to him by a

client and the mirror also served as a

lost property finder allegedly because

of his divinations he was able to see

and locate the missing item and had a

great thought and the claim for that

particular reputation as an astrologer

he was incredibly accurate and many of

his predictions did come true maybe not

in the immediate future but certainly

many years hence with regard to anything

spiritual there was nothing that James

Merrill could not do and nothing of

course he he would refuse to do to help

other people certainly a far cry from

the reputation of George picking Gill

who came later here we have a man that

was very deeply associated with the

local village and with the church people

held him in great respect people didn't

fear him people came to him for help and

for assistance and in return he gave

their systems he never claimed to call

upon imps or demons to fight a

particular enemy or evil instead he used

what we would call today as white magic

perhaps a predecessor of the modern

Wiccan movement perhaps one of his

claims was that he had a magical

telescope now whether it was the brass

telescope that I mentioned earlier or

some other telescope this telescope was

able to see through walls now remember

as I came back to earlier

about James Morel taking notes and

observing people I think that was the

purpose it was one of the same items

which he used to observe people from a

distance from the telescope because if

he looks at people from a great distance

they would never have seen him and so

anything that he could attest to a later

date was obviously a magic a divination

which has come to him through the white

forces that surround him he was never a

man who was regarded as being Woolley

and his predictions or his conduct he

was somebody that people very deeply

admired of local Fisher perhaps he also

had a talismanic copper bracelet with

which he was able to detect evil online

people I think in truth that James Morel

was a uniquely gifted psychologist I

think that the people he came across he

could get vibes off them he very quickly

was able to work out whether somebody

was good or bad and obviously there was

a level of success attached to that

because certainly for here the copper

bracelet that he wore was one of the

popular gimmicks that he employed and

his trade as a seer and I certainly

think that people that had a guilty

secret were no longer to hold that

secret if they were in the presence of

James Morel he had that cunning ability

to find and seek the truth an

interesting story which I think is

largely apocryphal but relates to James

Morel and that concerns one of his which

is bottled now his witches bottles were

made out of metal they were cast by

local blacksmith they weren't

particularly easy to make as many could

break in the firing process but they use

an effectiveness particularly on a

psychological basis around the town of

Hadley was particularly effective one

particular famous case was a young girl

who was barking like a dog

maril diagnose that she was suffering

from witchcraft and so using one of

these

Oh spirit bottles will which his bottles

he heated it up in the fire intending to

give the sense that burning back to the

person that was hex in this young girl

legend has it that the bottle exploded

in the half of the fire and the

following day the which the center of

this evil upon this young girl was found

dead half burnt by fire but there was no

trace on a Caesar fire so people were

scribed her death to the actions of the

spirit bottle of the witch's bottle

which James Morrel had placed earlier in

the half of his fire whether this was

true or not

it certainly aided his reputation and

increased the number of people who would

come to him on a regular basis seeking

help another story was that he killed a

witch using the powers of magic white

magic against this evil force which

allegedly came from the village of

kanuda now as you recall in later years

George picking Gil allegedly struck a

witch down dead could this story be

lifted from the reputation of morale and

transferred by somebody else to George

speaking Gil and I think certainly there

are a number of claims ascribed to pagan

girl which in fact could be ascribed to

James moral in December of 1864 'el

became quite seriously ill and foreseen

his death which he said will occur on

the 16th of December of 1860 and he's

fine Wales the village Vicar tried to

minister the last rites but when Morel

could stand it no longer he fixed his

piercing eyes upon him and roared I am

the devil master

at which point the Vicker gossip

terrified and ran for his life he was

later given a proper funeral in the

churchyard at the church in Hadley

unfortunately there is no market to this

day as to where he is buried and of

course later he was joined by his family

who two were also buried in unmarked

graves and allegedly on his death

certificate of time of death was written

his occupation as a quack doctor perhaps

rather insulting for the reputation and

the enjoyment that his presence gave to

the people of Hadley but unfortunately

there's always been this psychological

battle between the church and people

like James Merle and George pecan girl

although I hasten to add and I will

underscore that James Merle did not

worship any horn gods as pick and go did

he was a deeply devout Christian this

was an extension in his mind of his

teachings and understanding of the Bible

after his death the landlord of his

rented cottage where he lived placed all

of his books in the chest and buried it

in the garden

they were later dug out by his son but

Merle and certainly they were believed

to have survived until a roughly the

year 1956 when they were largely taken

out and burnt since his death stories

have proliferated about James Merle as

indeed with draw picking Gayle as indeed

with any of the other more notarized

witches that were extant in essex over

that period of history and of course

it's people like Eric maple and a few

others that have stepped into the bridge

picking up secondhand stories from other

folk which

were rightly or wrongly attributed to

Eva George picking girl of James Merle

I'm inclined to believe that much of the

legends associated with James Merle were

later adopted by others to include

installation of Jaws peaking girl I

absolutely no proof to prove or disprove

this but it is a theory which I think

hold reasonably well in the

circumstances one of the most enduring

legends that's held to this day about

James Merle is a fact that he

prophesized that there will be which is

in Lee for over 100 years I think that

would probably be quite a safe bet

particularly today with people's more

wider interests in esoteric arts and

beliefs and perhaps in me today there

are still those witches

of old who knows it is a story in the

legend of the story which I find

fascinating and certainly one could say

that with regard to James Merle he was

certainly a wired and cunning man and

certainly a person whose reputation and

good name will probably live on for centuries to come

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This is the front room of the cottage. just generally where you know where we spend most of our time

I'm not sure in relation what this what

this room had to be on which is present

but it is certainly part of it I don't

think the witches were actually kept in

here well that's in the next room there

but in this room certainly it was 70

parts not prison I'm saying in this room

London I'm fitting anything but of

course as the night comes in things

changed and they and the rooms next door

here is it Rwanda fruit so what room are

we actually in now this is the room what

the ladies I know men that many

prisoners were kept in in the holidays

especially cage and shove it up to these

walls here so they have literally have

been hung like this and in those days a

very small area you can imagine how that

by 10:30 in cramped Scranton all packed

in this small space but they were

shuttled up to the islands and all the

waters the interesting observation here

when poverty sometimes become

troublesome and indicate it can be a

number of factors but the one that

striking me very strongly at the moment

is all of this is being rebuilt wasn't

it what happened was because the

building was so so old these bricks and

new bricks it was exactly the same

dimensions but it's funny I know Levi's

they would have a reason money to do but

sometimes when you rebuild something if

there's a spiritual presence in a

property that sometimes I'm happy with

what you've done or what was done was

this done before you arrived or after

before I arrived and out of interest

you've lived here in total 150 for three

years seven

general activity would be the tap some

way so only one enough so me up and down

the stairs all the time the door latches

actually as consequently going you know

night yeah you'd see figures all at the

time or just bright flashy lights that

German sit sit on race swing

TVs going on and off things moving about

I mean just just constant all the time

things would disappear and then turn up

in a placement when I swear I put it

quite classic from what I understand

about these things but all the time very

upset constantly and if they frighten

you to the degree that you thought it

was too many singing for you yeah I mean

I basis five three years the first year

I was with my family Cole and then John

moved in as I have boyfriends and then I

was living with Nicole and John and to

be honest it was very active there but

it's kind of okay when you're living

with somebody in the house it it's not

as scary then they moved out and I was

on my home it didn't take long before I

you know because it's kind of when it

happens if there's somebody there then

not not so much about you wait a bit mmm

but you can it's not as scary when on

your own I was terrified I succumbed

every single night from work straight up

the stairs not myself in a bedroom I

never came downstairs and so I literally

had a cup of tea upstairs and I mean she

lived upstairs for every year you clear

all things like temperature yes no

absolutely my god you could feel

straight harsh you sit and then also wow

that's freezer and you could actually

feel it go past the inside areas and you

can see as well dark dark I mean I've

seen three ghosts in here which had four

as if I can see you know absolutely oh

yeah I've seen that too and when you see

it you know you're looking at something

which is paranormal and one time you're

right this ain't real that have a side

your brain is saying this cannot be

right and you have that kind of

confusion in between

the middle ground to be honest I was new

I saw it because it was always during

the day it wasn't sort of an evening

class someone with friends or anything I

always in you because it wasn't for two

seconds I could see them for quiet you

know for a good half a minute or maybe

longer and your brain has the time

amazing this yes I am and then you

actually look at the features and then

you say that you kind of you know frozen

it was always trained the day to be

honest what roughly during the day it

was a permission time one was 2:00 in

the afternoon late afternoon around half

past five and the other one was about

1:00 today and you've been pushed more

yeah one day I was brushing my teeth

bending over the bathroom to get ready

for work in the morning by 8 o'clock the

one washing my teeth and I got hit so

hard and it was like a full brain was

smack a really really hard whack and I

was completely on my own I've been

pushed as well many people in here many

people are these have been pushed or

slack for have the hair ruffled and

things scratched even there's this

actual footage of actually you know to

scratch this there's roots laying on

with this house you see one fitting in

this room at the moment it there is a

negativity that I can feel it's not

overwhelmingly impressive negativity but

it's here but what stands more

strikingly in the middle of that is a

man and a figure

now I'm thinking as I'm standing here

could this place also be haunted by

retain presence of a jailer

somebody who has techniques people

practice I have had many parallel groups

here and it seems like he controls the

spirits are here here's something he's a

nasty one he's the aggressive one when

people do investigations and they shout

in when they ask him or they say to him

maybe he gets very angry and that's

where things fly about he really really

does hit he holds it

it is like being challenged from what I

understand is on tasting a child here

the other step back 22 there's lots of

children here as well maybe we've caught

on using our voices EVP and floats

across which is you look fantastic but

they're very very simulated way and it's

kind of like popping pop out and they're

very and when he makes an appearance the, they are scared they sucrry away.

I think he def...from what I understand about this type of thing he controls what goes on here, still, even now. 500 years later

There is really really heavy atmopshere, here I know. As soon as I stepped on this step. as soon as I got off the starecase I could feel it very very much stronger

and I am being drawn into this bedroom. Is this your bedroom or the kids bedroom? This was my old bedroom.

You can feel, can't you? It's horrible, That's what I mena you can feel it. It's very bad in here. it makes

People feel sick. I am feeling quiet sick. Yeah, exactly that is what happens, yeah. let me just. it's actually brining up wind, it's so powerful

yes it is constant, the door is always like. making the cubbard doors fly open. I was here one night

can of coke on he bed side table. flew straight on

the cup flew. this this is a core this is the core

area of the property this is the each

house has its core point it's here in

this room and I can fill this male

presence I know I'm aware I mean the

stuff you put here is for the church

child spirits but I'm not fitting them

at the moment and it could well

obviously be his own children he might

be a say

he might be a killer but this mainline

I'm fitting him very very strongly in

here and when I walked in here when I

got to the landing that almost gnaws his

fearless withdraws from the ins my body

only pain I haven't felt any female

strong female presence is other than

downstairs

his presence seems to surmount

everything it seems to be encapsulate

everything that's here I know you're

picking up on but there's also another

male presence I probably will find ya

but how can I say one thing this month I

will probably from across there and this

another room here is dead we have huge

this room is awful. we have massive, huge black energies in here children

see what your fireplace I would imagine

I don't know maybe the Jamis up here in

the old days this was his kind of place

the prison was downstairs but this room

is hybridizes Victorian yes yeah there

would have been some form of Ypres via

some kind of a fire downstairs pushing

the heat through the building I'm not

sure but this room is you know you're

talking about children now I can feel

very vaguely at this moment I think the

two children but I'm not hitting him but

I'm feeling this terrible sadness of

fear of what is in that room

coming into this room the matrons have

seems to be there's someone ruling all

those presences that terrified the rest

and is word oppressive it's very very

sad and there was a lots and lots of

fear in this house and I know that you

know this reason I left left Lots up the

house and left left it for years and

didn't stay in it anymore there's really

lots of things are under this house but

that's interested in the there is a

connector between the third on what

we're going to do tonight just basically

sit through positive rooms measuring and

evaluating waiting to receive hopefully

capturing something interesting to

camera

I feel confident things are going to

change this this room this whole

building has a certain own business

about it but the interesting thing about

it is that it's very distinctive in

certain parts of the building it's not

like you walk into the house and the

whole building feels just the same some

rooms as with the sitting room

downstairs those are quite pleasant and

in that room and this room and to a

lesser degree the cage really on the key

areas but the the core area of activity

the route is in that room

okay it's n o'clock now I return back to

the haunted house the cage and some O's

if and already just wandering around the

property the atmosphere is certainly

starting to change so very shortly it's

lights off and we are going to commence

what could be one of the most

interesting paranormal investigations

that I perhaps ever been able to carry

out just do not go up there oh my god

it's getting closer

that sounds very heavy

it's the door the doors opening look

jeez oh my god this is incredible this

is fantastic thank you can you do

something can you come through please

it's starting to get a lot more

interesting we just heard steps coming

footsteps coming up the staircase and

onto the landing a very short landing

door is opened there's nobody there

nothing has come through I thought it

might be Vanessa

the owner of the property coming back

for some reason but she would have

shouted out and said something but

nothing has been said and instead we've

had this incredible event of the door

actually opening and actually hearing

the footsteps on the staircase it is

absolutely fantastic. there is something i can still feel the energy, it's still here, still in this area. let me take a couple of stills

nothing oh my god there's a weird light

anomaly coming through make sure it's

not a reflection I'll take that one and

it's still there but it's got smaller

there's a strong energy reading and it's

gone completely that's the first one to

show on camera you can see this you can

see that yellow light anomaly as you can

see clearly here it it looks like it

looks like a hockey stick and it light

appears to be coming down with the

energy weaker at the top very very odd

indeed nothing at all I'm gonna sit here for a while. it feels completly dead in here. yeah nothing at all

do you think we should just round up I

think we've done enough up here she

would just round up with the page we

haven't actually done that yeah well no

that's a problem we do the cage and then

we reconsider where we go from there the

only active area and this building so

far tonight has been on the staircase

and that bedroom but there's been no

real activity anywhere else is it but

it's just kind of weird to say the least

any friendly spirits any persons trapped

in spirit here could she make yourself

known to us please I picked up a man

called Joshua Josh are you here

I'm just seeing a light flick across the

beams and going to the opening what the

beep. what the hell was that oh yeah that was over I can see it here

that was over there why is it widget board. what the hell is it doing down...

OK. I'm getting the impression whoever

whoever is here at this moment wants to

make a contact point with us however I'm

not prepared to double with Ouija board

I think they're very dangerous things to

use I think that they can draw through

even more trouble activity in an already

troubled property and there is

absolutely no way I'm going to use a

Ouija board and I recommend anyone not

to are now saying the experts can use

them and I might be an expert but I

still don't trust them

but this is profound this is an

indicator they're twine say something

this is a signal let's see where we go

from here what is Paul back well it

would comfort well I think it was behind

that old table in the corner yeah I

think well I've read those things though

it gets around there wow this is a very

interesting property very very

interesting there's a lot going on here

she's said man you John

I think overall tonight it's been good

we've been investigating for over three

hours and we've certainly got some very

good activity to share and that is not

including the possibility of course of

any electronic voice phenomena and I'm

hope I can return there late today