Paranormal Tavern - Occult & Supernatural Knowledge

                                                                                                           

Cryptozoology is the study and investigation into supposedly legendary, hidden, extinct, unknown, or mythical creatures. The animals are commonly referred to as “Cryptids” a name given to them by John Wall in 1983.

Some of the most well known “Cryptids” studied in Cryptozoology are The Yeti, also named Big Foot. Sea Monsters. The  Chupacabra, also called The Goat sucker. Mothman. Vampires. Werewolves. The Thunderbird. The Loch Ness Monster. Champ (North America’s Loch Ness Monster).  Death worms. And also Mythical creatures such as Kelpies, Unicorns and Dragons. And also extinct species of animals once known to have lived that are also investigated are: the Loch ness monster, thought to be a Plesiosaur. The Tasmanian Tiger, and the Megamouth Shark, and even the Dodo.

Criticism of the belief in many of these unknown animals is that they are people mistaking them for known animals. Or mixing facts in with ancient mythology.

The Yeti AKA Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman and Sasquatch.

These apparently half human, half primate Cryptids have been seen in forests and national parts and Rockies of the United States, to the snow swept mountains of Himalayas and China. It seems every culture across the world has a tail to tell about these mysterious creatures, that many see as the missing link from ape to man.

The Most famous film to ever be recorded of The Bigfoot, is the Patterson and Gimlin film, a short movie where two men, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin were out in the Six Rivers national Forest in California in 1967, making a documentary about recent sightings of the creature. The footage they caught of guard, shows an apparent “Apeman” walking away at speed from the two men, and eventually vanishing into the woodland.





Above a still of the video

Experts on both film footage and primates are in disagreement about the authenticity of this short movie, some say it is someone in an ape-man suit, as it walks like a man, but many of these people who use this argument forget its an unknown creature that apparently has both a mix of human and an ape, so how are they to know how it would walk? Others who are more believing of the footage as true, say that it does in fact walk in an ape like way, as the creature never straightens its arm and leg joins, which is a tell-tell sign of a primate type movement and stride. It also turns to look at the camera at one point, and turns its whole body to look at the men, instead of just its head as a human would do. Also when it turns, it has breasts (indicating its female) that swing around that would be very hard to fake on a ape like suit.

The Chupacabra aka Gost Sucker

A creature reported to have been seen all over south America, especially in Puerto Rico, its even been spotted as far north as Texas. Its said to be like a furless dog, crossed with a Kangaroo, with Lizard type characteristics and red eyes. This bizarre creature has been known to kill farmers live stock, such as goats and chickens, and even peoples pet cats and dogs, by draining them of blood, leaving only a few small holes on the neck area where the blood was drained. So some have associated it with vampires. At first satanic cults were blamed for the killings, until the creature was spotted on a more regular occasions.



Differing opinions as to what it could be are as follows. Some believe its nothing more than a large dog that some have blown out of all proportion by the superstitious locals. Some believe it could have been an alien creature left behind on earth, or something that NASA lost while transporting it in a trailer through Latin America. Some believe it is the product of a government scientific experiment gone wrong that escaped from a laboratory in  El Yunque.

Mothman

Mothman is a strange half moth half man type creature spotted in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia, in and around 1966 and 1967. Its said to have illuminous red eyes and strange powerful wings, and stands around 6 to 7 foot in height.

Many people to have come in close contact to this being have become ill and suffered terrible nightmares.

The Mothman is often seen near to an old generator plant, which is considered dangerous and toxic, which has given way to people suggesting this creature is a human mutant that has resulted in a bat or insect type of human hybrid.



A witnesses impression of the creature

Others it’s an “Elemental” being summoned by an angry native American who cursed the town of Point Pleasant when the white Americans drove him and his tribe out of there home and land.

The legend shares a similarity to the UK legend of Spring Healed Jack, another hybrid type legend of a half man half bat creature.

The Mothman was seen much less after a collapse of the Silver Bridge, that killed 47 people. Its believed by some that the Mothman was a demon summoned by a shaman, that was satisfied the people of the town had been punished and paid there debt for the stealing of the native Americans land after the bridges collapse, and the curse was lifted.

The Dover Demon

A strange creature has been spotted in and around Dover, Massachusetts, USA. Most of the sightings were witnessed over a few day period in 1977. Even though this creature has been called a demon, this is probably the result of religious people demonising something they saw as scary or different and so judged it as being evil or demonic. There are no characteristics that would connect it to anything evil or demonic, other than its strange appearance.

It was called the Dover Demon after a devoutly religious man named Bill Bartlett said in court "I, Bill Bartlett, swear on a stack of Bible's that I saw this creature".

The creature was first seen while 3 teenagers where driving home late one night and their car headlights caught the strange creature crawling along a stone wall. It was said to be around the size of a large dog, hairless a huge head, and had skin like sand paper and had glowing green eyes that were sometimes said to change to red.

Many people in Ufology believe that this being is that of an alien, probably what is commonly known as "the Greys" although does have characteristic that are not normally seen in the legend of the greys. The Greys are not said to have green glowing eyes, or sand paper like skin, they are also not said to crawl, but to stand up right.

Other people think it could be some type of inter dimensional being that has become stuck in this realm.

Many of the witnesses drew sketches and pictures of the Dover Demon.



A recent sighing of a similar creature was seen in 2004 in Chile, which was considered more credible being all past sightings have been witnessed by teenagers.

Some have suggested that the creature is a moose, even though moose were never seen in that part of the states at that time of year, but a moose would not explain green glowing eyes, or a hairless body.

The creature was never threatening to anyone, only scary and bizarre looking and with the exception of the 2004 sighting its not been seen since the 1970s cases.

Click HERE for A photo of the creature in Chile.

The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness monster is reported to have been sighted as far back as  the 6Th century by Adamnan Who suggested that St Columba was attacked by the beast.

Its popularity really kicked started in the 1960, although it was the 30s that some started to take an interest in such a monster. Some say its just a marketing ploy to pull in tourists, whether it is or isn’t the Monster brings the locals a lot of business.



A famous photo taken by a surgeon, in 1934 of the monster with his head sticking out of the water is believed by many to be a hoax, due to the deathbed confessions of Chris Spurling the son-in-law of the surgeon Marmaduke Wetherell. But some argue that this is no evidence of a hoax at all, as it was not from the mouth of Watherell, and there is no telling if this was a true confession or not.

Spring Heeled Jack

Spring Heeled Jack is a British legend that terrified the British public in Victorian times especially in London, and the surrounding areas.
Many believe he was just a scare story to keep people indoors when Jack the Ripper was roaming London killing prostitutes, but this would not make that much sense being he had been spotted all over the UK, but mostly around London.



He has been linked to the U.S legends of Mothman and The Jersey Devil because of the slight similarities in appearance and characteristic, because all had wings or cape like flaps under their arms and sprang or jumped over houses, but Spring Heeled Jack seemed more human, some even described him as a human in a cape and hat, a little like batman, but had superhuman strength causing him to be able to leap over buildings to make his escape. There are few to no reports of him ever attacking anyone only frightening them. Many theories have been put forward as to who or what Spring Heeled Jack could have been from The Devil, Aliens to mentally ill men with above average athletic ability. Some people even claimed it was the Germans with some secret springing boots.

He was seen in many places around the UK, but London and Aldershot (A military town) are the most famous.

He has been reported to have been running and jumping down the road at night and over buildings and springing from one house to another even today, although reports are very rare today they still sometimes make an appearance in London.

Will o' the Wisp - Earth Lights

This phenomena has been seen all over the world, some say its nature spirits such as will o Wisp or faeries, some ghosts and spirits, and some UFO's. Science would just suggest it is some form of swamp gas like methane from rotting vegetation, or an electrical disturbance like ball lighting, or from electricity charges caused by the earths crust causing friction.

These things have been seen often near water of boggy ground fuelling the idea its just some form of bog or swamp gas, but these illuminated forms of light often act as if they have an intelligence and even look and are shaped like humanoid figures.

The ancient peoples saw them as the spirits of nature, normally associated with the element water, and saw them as mischievous as they would weave in and out of trees and along paths almost as if they are toying with the people seeing them.

Many sightings seen on or near rivers often seem to be connected to the UFO phenomena and often come from the sky, float around the observers and later shoot of at unimaginable speed, some even report missing time also connected to the UFO abduction possibility.

Will o' the Wisp



Also known as "Ignis fatuus" meaning "Fools Fire" These are seen mostly in the British Isles, and are more than not seen as malevolent, and seen as either mischievous nature spirits or the souls of people who have died and now haunt places in the British countryside. Some legends tell of how human spirits haunt bog land and marshes and deserted country paths. It is said that they are the souls of angry peasants who would live in the countryside and wonder around at night holding lanterns, and in death they still continue to do the same, only to scare unsuspecting night ramblers and sometimes even lead them with their eerie lights the mortal follower into hazardous or unfamiliar ground putting their lives in danger in the dead of night. Some have even suggested that these souls will cause people to be guided of the side of cliffs and to their deaths below.

One particular legend is the story of a blacksmith called Will, who was banished by St Peter to walk the earth and wonder the wild countryside in purgatory for eternity in darkness and the cold. Its said The Devil took pity on Will and granted him one piece of burning glowing coal to warm him and to light his way.

Many went as far as to say that the lights are Satan, also known as "Old Nick" in some parts of the UK looking for new souls to tempt over to his control and to steal their soul.

Many would see these lights as death omens because they would often be seen in graveyards, so they would be closely connected to death and tragedy also, as they were commonly seen just before a terrible tragedy.

Selkies - Celtic Legends

Selkies may well be just Celtic, and Icelandic legends, but the myths and stories surrounding them always make for enjoying reading.

Selkies sometimes called “Silkies” are said to be Seals that come from the sea and transform into human form when on land. Its said they take of their skin to live as a human and to marry, or have relationships with humans, but always only for a short period, so often, the stories surrounding these creatures are often tragic romantic stories.

Selkies in human form are always said to be very attractive and have seductive type powers.

The legends often state that Selkies will when in human form hide their skins until they want to return to sea life, and in some cases the humans they have married will find their skins and hide them, so they could not leave them and return to the sea. And In some cases had even burned them so the Selkies can not leave. Its said that human form Selkies often could be seen standing at the side of the ocean looking out longing for their aquatic way of life, but are in torment at leaving their human family that they love like any human wife would.



One story tells of a female Selkie who came to the land to marry a man, she did so and hid her skin, but her husband found out and hid the skin from her. They had two children together, but she longed to return to the sea and couldn’t until she had her seal skin. One day at night while her husband and kids were asleep, she found her skin, and in the silence of the night left for the sea, put on her skin, and was never seen again. Although its said that Selkies can return back to their human families after 7 years, and if a human wants to call to their Selkie wives or husbands, they can do so by shedding 7 tears into the sea and they will come to them.

In some legends, such as in The Shetland Island of Scotland, it said Selkies can call in whole human families into the sea who are then never to return to land, and some believe they themselves then become Selkies.

It is not surprising that Selkies also have strong similarities to the legends of Mermaids


Black Shuck, Old Shuck and Barguest, and other dark or demonic dogs

Ghostly animals are not uncommon, but some of the most bizarre and intriguing reports are of demon type dogs and other animals seen deep with in the British countryside. They are spotted on misty moonlit moors, deep dark forests and even in lonely grave yards. A common character of these creatures of ghostly animals are that they are dark in appearance and have red or orange and sometimes green glowing eyes, its also said that anyone seeing these phantom hounds especially if they look directly into their fiery eyes their death will soon follow.

Reports of sightings of these dogs are spotted all over the UK mainly over moors such as the Pennines and flat lands of the southern west country. Another common report is these beasts travel using water ways such as canals and rivers or streams, some suggest that these hounds and other demonic type beings use "ley lines" to travel about, whether or not this is true is anyone’s guess.



Above is an old depiction of Old Shuck

Their howls and growls have been heard by people living alone in old country cottages with no-one else about for miles, this must have been a very frightening experience for anyone, especially in the times before telephones and the light bulb. Many people that live in these remote country places have said you can look out over the moors and see shadowy figures moving about in the moonlight which resemble animals on four legs, and again the red fiery eyes are always reported.

Its said the Vikings brought these spiritual entities to the British isles and sometimes they are seen headless, but yet the eyes can still be seen burning away where the head is supposed to be.

Its also said that the Celts believed that they where spirits of the underworld looking for human souls to devour

Names for these phantom hounds differ in different parts of the country. Old shuck is a very common name given to sightings in East Anglia and Norfolk.... Black Shuck is common more up north and in Yorkshire, there are many other names around the UK such as The Wish Hound, Barguest, The Grim, Hairy Jack ect..... Its been seen in the countryside of Cambridgeshire, often prowling along the banks of the river Ouse. Its also said that Conan Doyle based his story The Hound of the Baskervilles on these legends.



The weather vane at bungay depicting Black Shuck.

There are reports that these hounds have killed people in Blythburgh. The Legend tells of a dark black dog reputedly appeared in the church and struck three people dead as they prayed for help. The hound was said to have left scorch marks on the church door from its fiery claws.

Graveyard Ghouls

The Ghoul is a creature known to be found hanging around graveyards or burial grounds. Its most commonly found in Arabic Legends, which were called "ghul" which in Arabic means "Demon". They are said to be living demonic creatures said to rob graves, and to feed on the rotting flesh of the copses found within.

The idea has crossed over from Arabic legends to western legends also. In Western legends they are not always seen as "Monster" type beings, as the name Ghoul was often given to grave robbers who sometimes would eat the dead, normally because they were poor and hungry. In some legends those who ate the dead would eventually turn into one of these demonic creatures, a type of human mutant.

Many serial killers especially ones who ate their victims were given the title of Ghoul.

They can also be found in literature, such as the character of Renfield found in Bram Stokers Dracula. They can also be found in H.G Well's The Time Machine.

In some Islamic beliefs, Ghouls are not necessarily evil, but are a type of Jinn. Its also where the term "Ghoulish" comes from.

Vampires

There are the un-dead vampires from cultures all over the world. The myth comes from people in the dark ages, as they did not have as good medical understandings as we do today. Many people in the times of the black death and other harsh illnesses would have rushed the victims to there graves to avoid infection, resulting in many people being buried alive, as coma could have been a symptom, which at a later date may well have been dug up, and the horrified onlookers would have seen scratch marks on the coffin lid where the person buried alive would have desperately in vain tried to have clawed there way out, and to the onlookers it would have looked like the un-dead trying to escape to feed on the living. Also the black death would cause bleeding from the mouth and nose after death, which would have look as if they had been feeding on the living at night. The decomposing body would swell giving it a look that it had been feeding on the living. When the people exhuming the bodies would put a stake through the dead persons heart in a belief that it would kill the vampire, gases that have built up would escape through the mouth, which to the onlookers would look like the corpse was crying out or even growling.

The people of medieval times did many barbaric things to insure the dead remained in there coffins, such as staking them in to the ground and nailing them to there coffins. They would also do ritualistic and religious type of acts, such as put silver in the mouths of the dead, as silver is a strong defence against evil spirits, and also because it was thought that the spirit of a vampire could enter through the mouth to possess the corpse. Others things done are to fill all the holes in the body with garlic, which is also supposed to warn away evil. Salt was also used for its magical properties in repelling demons and evil spirits.



Its also said that a wooden stake made out of oak would kill a vampire if thrust into the heart, as Jesus was crucified on a cross made of oak.

Counting Vampires

A fairly uncommon myth is that if a vampire is chasing you, throw down a hand full of seeds, because apparently vampires can not resist wanting to count small things, and will stop in their tracks to count the seeds on the floor even when about to kill. This idea probably influenced the name Count Dracula, and the vampire in Sesame Street that counts everything.

Dracula

There is no evidence to prove that Dracula was a vampire, although it is documented that Dracula also known as ‘Vlad Tepes’ or as the Turks called him "Vlad the Impaler" would dunk bread in the blood of his victims that he had impaled and then eat the bread, this is about the only connection that can be found that links Vlad the impaler (A Romanian warlord) to vampirism. The name Dracula would have come from Vlad Tepes fathers name "Vlad Dracul," Drac meaning Dragon or "devil" in Romanian.

The Psychic Vampire (Astral Larvae)

There are beliefs in the occult world that there are ‘intentional psychic vampires’ and ‘unintentional psychic vampires’

The unintentional psychic vampire

These are people that drain the life force or psychic energies from people unwittingly when around others, more than not these unintentional psychic vampires will have a low level of psychic energy or life force, so there astral body will automatically drain the life force of others around them, and attach them selves to the living in order that it can keep functioning. For this reason unintentional psychic vampires can be seen in the elderly or people with a terminal illness, or those who have negative traits to drain and take from others, and will cause others around them to feel drained, because the physically weakened peoples astral body will naturally be feeding on the life force that they can naturally find around it self. I’m sure that many people will have meet people in there lives that they feel drained just being around. Unintentional psychic vampires that have these things attached are not always evil or negative, all though people that have suffered an attack by a unintentional psychic vampire might feel drained and weakened. The person that has caused the unwitting psychic attack, will not even know they have even done it or are doing it, or are infested with such an energy.

The intentional psychic vampire

These are the people that knowingly attack the living to drain people of there life force, or psychic energies wittingly. Many achieve this by learning astral travel type rituals, or meditations, where they can astrally leave there physical bodies at will, in order to travel to peoples homes while they sleep to feed. Its said when they find a victim they will sit on the victims chest and then drain there heart chakra of there life force or psychic energy. Many people have seen the figures of people they know standing in there rooms or sitting on there chest while the attacks take place. Its reported that people undergoing an astral psychic attack will be totally paralysed, and will not be able to speak, many also report an old lady type figure, or an "old hag" apparition, so many people that have been attacked by the intentional vampire attack have named the attack a "hag attack". The Medieval belief in demons can also be connected to this type of thing, such as the Succubus and Incubus attacks, where demons where said to sexually attack the living in there beds. 

The scientific community have come to the conclusion that these attacks are nothing more than sleep paralysis, where the mind wakes up before the body and causes people to be in an awaking state, where there body is still asleep, and can not move, resulting in a terrifying experience.

The Highgate Vampire/Vampyer

Most people don’t believe in real cryptozoic vampires of legend and gothic horror movies, but one case said to be the most famous in modern times is the events of Highgate Cemetery in London England in the late 1960s and 70s.

It all started when two convent school girls where walking home by the cemetery late one night from a friends house at nearby Highgate Village. As they walked by the old gothic iron graveyard gates they saw through the gates bodies apparently rising out from their tombs, in terror they fled, and in the following months both girls were reported to have suffered from “night terrors” and dreams of visitations from a hideous looking ghostly man, this could have easily be put down to a childs overactive imagination if it was not for the blood loss they both suffered.

Another strange sighting of the alleged Highgate Vampire that happened only a few weeks after the two school girls sighting was two lovers walking through the Cemetery at midnight spotted a hideous spectral figure floating down the cemetery path, with a look of “basilisk horror” on its face, so frightening in fact the couple were frozen to the spot in which they stood, the creature was said to slowly vanish leaving an eerie green glow behind it around the back of some of the many tombs that run along side the path leading up to the iron railings that surround the cemetery.

Soon animal corpses were found in the cemetery grounds, the animals had been drained dry of blood, so much so that forensic detectives could not gather any blood for analysis. It was not to long until a human body was found laying in a puddle of blood, although it had not been drain of blood, blood was missing, and the body had suffered its throat to be ripped out. No one responsible for the killing was ever found. The police were said to have gone to great lengths to cover up the vampire connection to avoid unwelcome public attention.

Soon the public did find out about the murder, and the previous sightings of the vampire like apparitions. After it was made public the cemetery became home to occultists and black magicians in search for the vampires supernatural power.

The now Reverend Seán Manchester took an interest in the case and went on a 70s style Buffy the Vampire Slayer rampage, to hunt down and stop the vampire who he had become convinced had killed the victims in the cemetery previously. Many believe he was nothing more than a superstitious eccentric thrill seeker looking for media fame, but he up until this day still believes wholehearted in the existence of the Highgate Vampire.

The animal mutilations continued, and an exorcism in 1974 was performed on one of the tombs which was said to house the remains of the vampire, it was opened and the exorcism was conducted, which was said to have worked, and although a few reports were muttered of sightings later, it was never seen again in such vivid detail, and the mutilations of animals ceased. Photos of the corpse believe to be the vampire were taken, causing come controversy at the time on the morality of it all.

What makes me suspicious of these tales and case its self are not only are they so far fetched and hard to believe, they all happened when the vampiric Hammer Horror movies were at their height, so vampirism would be in the forefront of the publics imagination.

Alien big cats in the UK

In some countries like in the United States or in Asia or Africa, large wild cats in the countryside and even venturing into towns and cities are not uncommon, as they are natural to them locations. But in the UK large carnivorous cats are not native to the environment, with the exception of maybe the wild bob cats in some parts of the Scottish Highlands, that are only a little bit bigger than your average domestic cat.

Yet nearly on a weekly basis large cats are seen in and around all of the British isles such as Black Panthers, Puma’s, and even Lions. At first the authorities did not take this seriously, as they believed it was impossible for such cats to be able to breed here mostly undetected, but they are detected so makes that theory look unlikely. Also some believe there would be evidence of dead large cats, but as with any animals, how often do you see the corpse of other common wild animals like bears, deer’s, and other large animals? Hardly ever, because nature and other wild animals have a way of disposing of their remains.

I my self have seen a large black cat in the Hampshire countryside, that I will go into later on in this article.

Now when a sighting of a panther or lion has been reported, especially from multiple witnesses, the police are called out in helicopters to destroy the animal with guns, even though never once have these cats harmed or even threatened anyone, with the exception of a few myths that cant be proven. The cats have cleverly learnt to stay out of direct contact with humans who are so ready to kill them, even though it is man him/her self that took these magnificent animals out of there natural habitat’s and into our countries for entertainment, such as in circuses and zoos. All they are trying to do is survive somewhere they were forced to be by the very same species that now wishes to kill them for being here. This I feel sums up the selfishness and ignorance of many humans today and in the past. The most famous of animals is known as "The beast of Bodmin" and "The Beast of Exmoor"

Many of these Pumas, Panthers and Lions seen so often are here because of a law that came into effect in the 1960s called the Dangerous Animals Act, which made it illegal to keep animals deemed to be dangerous, so people who kept these animals as pets had to release them into the wild, instead of having them destroyed, and just in the hope that they could survive undetected in the UK countryside by themselves, which they seemed to have done. They seemed to have survived by keeping a low profile and eating rabbits, occasionally farmers livestock and wild deer. Some people are still sceptical about the possibility of these animals living wild in the UK, but some people don’t want to believe anything that might be unlikely just for the sake of it.

The sightings have been photographed in some cases. In some reports younger cats have been seen with adults, interacting they are breeding. Large cat paw prints have also been photographed.





Above a photo taken in the English countryside and a close up of it. Source of the photo



Above, another taken in the UK

Some say they would be seen more commonly and that there would be more proof if they were a breeding population, but evidence shows they only travel at night mostly, and use disused railways lines and abandoned roads to travel around the United Kingdom.

I believe they are living amongst us now naturally, and should be left alone. We brought them here against their will, so we can be entertained in zoos and circuses and for trophies, so I say good luck to them, and I welcome them here. The least we can do is give them a home here, and I say take all the livestock you wish, and keep out of humans way, as we will only seek to kill and harm you, as we are obviously a lot more dangerous than the large cats, as history and today proves.

I my self saw what I believed to be a wild cat, a Black Panther to be exact in around 1993. It was a summers night around 11:30 pm, I was coming home from a night at a friends house in Basingstoke in my friends car. The drive was mostly deep countryside through the fields of Greywell, half way through the journey I spotted a large dark figure standing in the middle of one of the fields as our headlights lit up the field, my friend driving had seen it too, and stopped the car, I said to back up the car and to direct the headlights on full beam into the field, which he did, and standing in the centre of the field was a large figure of what looked like an over large black dog, but its eyes illuminated green/yellow in the headlights, it was looking directly at us, then after around 20 or so seconds its turned and started to run away towards the opposite side of the field, what made me realise that it was not a dog, but a cat, was that it bounced like a cat not a dog. And the eyes of dogs don’t illuminate in such a way. Excited that I had just seen a Black Panther (or maybe Puma) I told him to follow it down the side of this dirt track that went along the side of the field of the road we were travelling on, we came to the end of the field where the cat had vanished into and I got out to look around, until I become aware of what I was doing (looking for a huge large cat in a dark field) realised my stupidly, got afraid, and then got back into the car and we drove home.

I feel so privileged that I got too see what so many will never see even in countries that they are native too, so I will never forget it.

The Glowing Maggot Of Doom

I was reading a book the other night called Ghosts Ghouls & other Horrors by Bernhardt J. Hurwood. Its a book from the year 1971. It has some quite unique paranormal stories in it that you don’t often see in your average book. One of them I want to share with you. its called "The Glowing Maggot Of Doom"

One moonlit night in a Yorkshire village, a postman Mr Mullins was walking late by a graveyard on his way home. As he passed he noticed something glowing, illuminating yellow coming from a grave named ‘Peter’, on closer inspection he noticed that it was some slimy blob which was crawling out of the grave, as it emerged, he saw it was a huge luminous Maggot, which preceded to crawl away towards the local vicarage leaving a trail of green ooze behind it, although terrified Mullins started to follow the maggot, as he did so, he noticed that it had eyes, that he described as “being evil incarnate, and almost human like” slowly it crawled out of the cemetery and disappeared into the vicarage next to the graveyard.

The following day he told his wife and a friend about what he had seen, and they all agreed to wait that night in the graveyard to see if they could see it again. After a while of waiting, Mullins, his wife and friend saw an eerie glow start to come from the grave named ‘Peter’ just as it had done the night before. The maggot oozed out of the grave and slithered towards the Vicars house vanishing into the vicarages grounds. The following morning they received the shocking news that the vicar and his entire family had become ill and had died before sunrise, of what the doctor diagnosed as ‘ptomaine poisoning’. So the following night they once again agreed to watch for the strange phantom maggot that had always come from Peters grave. Again the Maggot appeared in the same way, but this time headed for the village blacksmith, they followed it until it vanished again into the grounds of the blacksmiths house.

The next morning Mr Mullins his wife and his friend were again shocked to hear that the blacksmith had died again before sunrise, by ‘ptomaine poisoning’. The three continued to do their nightly visuals on the graveyard, and for 10 nights they saw nothing. But on the tenth night it reappeared in its same disgusting fashion from the peters grave. But this time it proceeded to crawl to the Mullins house, in terror they followed it, and again it disappeared into the grounds of their house, they ran into the house in horror, and found Mullins son that was sound asleep in his bed. With no sign of the Maggot they retied downstairs thinking it had over looked their home. The next morning they went to wake his son, but they found him dead in his bed.

Stricken with grief and anger Mullins and his wife planned another visit to the graveyard that night, but this time with the intention of doing something. Before they did so, they found out who the man Peters was who was buried in the grave, and found out that he was quite a detestable man, who had in his life both had a falling out with both the vicar and the blacksmith, but never with the Mullins family.

That night they went to the graveyard and dug up the grave of Peters, they then opened the lid on the coffin, but the look on the face of the corpse was with such a deep malevolence that they slammed shut the lid in fright. After regaining their nerves they then took the body of Peters and dragged him to a near by field and poured flammable liquids on him and burn his corpse into to cinders. After scattering around his remains they then retuned to the grave site and filled in the grave.

Nothing of the strange maggot was ever seen again, although three people had paid with their lives, including Mr Mullins own son.

What I find interesting about this story is that there is a demon known as ’Magot’ that is often summoned by people into the conjuring of spirits. He is known as a 'sub prince of Hell' and is closely connected to the demon ‘Beelzebub’ that is known as the demon of decay, diseases and flies.

By Barry Stevens (Faeden)



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