More Simulcra- The Dartmoor Demon

So we,re just on our way back from a great weekend in Cornwall earlier this month (October) and we stop in the middle of Dartmoor to take a few snaps of the stunning landscape, the cows, the car etc etc. After downloading the pics I see a strange simulcran shape in the tarmac which is not unlike a pointy-eared Demon! Can you see it too?

Chippenham Ghost Appears on Wall

A dirty faced, bearded and long finger nailed man keeps appearing in a wall in a house in Chippenham...

He's known as Christoff. He's got long finger nails and dirty hands, a beard and dirty face and is always spotted wearing a heavy coat and cut-off trousers. But more extraordinarily, according to Claire Bracey, he keeps being seen in a wall at her home in Chippenham. From the outside... the 1940's style terrace house in Derriads Green is perfectly ordinary. To Claire and her family, however, it's anything but... Orbs in the sitting room... In fact, according to the family, behind their closed door it's definitely spooky: "We get various things happening," says Claire, "like lights going on and off and people running up and down stairs. "We also hear voices and my son wakes up in the night saying there's someone sitting on the end of his bed." And it's not just Claire that's experienced the haunted happenings in the house. Claire's mother, Sue, has experienced a bit of a chill there as well: "We'll be sitting in the lounge, quite quietly, and we'll hear running feet, " says Sue. "We'll check the children and they'll be sound asleep. "We'll also feel, on our shoulders, cold patches. That's happened quite a few times." Faces in the wall and glowing orbs But despite both mother and daughter agreeing that whatever has the run of the house is definitely not evil... the appearance of a face in a wall has to be a little unnerving: "We've got a face in my daughter's room at the moment of a man on the wall," says Claire. "He's quite a dirty faced, sort of a bearded face, long finger nails, dirty hands sort of ¾ length trousers, a heavy coat quite a sort a mature man. Kristoff is his name." ...are acccompanied by a drop in temperature And Claire has the digital photographs to prove it. But it's not just bearded men in the walls that Claire is snapping... white glowing orbs are also appearing in her photographs: "We get lots of orbs in the house especially in the lounge and the attic. They're the start of spirit manifestations, before they appear to you, which is kind of unsettling because you get a cold atmosphere along with them. "You take a photo and they're there on the photo. You take another one and they're gone. So I don't think it's the camera." But since calling in a medium, to dispel the spirits, things at Derriads Green do seem to have improved: "It's not actually as if it happens every night or every week," says Claire. "It can be weeks of just peace and then all of a sudden it will all start off again."

Psychic Reveals Haunted Painting

A painting alleged to be possessed by spirits has just been unveiled by Psychic medium Phillip Solomon. The painting, pictured below has apparentley been causing its owners problems for years and is has been exhibited at Phillips Clairvoyant live shows.

The painting of a castle standing on rocks first came to light when a lady called Mrs R bought it from a junk shop. At first she liked it but then it would fall off the wall each night despite her husbands attempts to reattach it. Her children took a dislike to the painting stating that they could see weird figures coming out at them.

After a while Mrs R got scared and gave the painting to Phillip in the hope that his psychic abilities could help.

After a while with no further problems the painting was given to the owner of a new age shop in Birmingham. It was hung up in the shop and customers often commented that the painting gave them eeries vibes and figures could be seen emerging from the canvas. The shop owner happily parted with the painting which then made its way to The United States and ended up in the hands of another couple who also tried their hands at ownership of the weird artefact. Before too long they were so freaked that they gave it to another medium after complaints of evil faces being seen and bad atmospheres.

Amazingly the painting did a full circle trip, eventually ending up back in the hands of Mr Phillip Soloman after the American medium had had enough


" I lent it out to photographer friends with an interest in the paranormal and the unusual, and other paranormalists, it quickly came back with some strange photographs taken of it too. One in particular of the tower in the painting came out with a brilliant bright light when taken in the dark, but when blew up or zoom in on the light, you could clearly see a figure in the middle that looked sort of like a sixties hippy figure. Zooming a little closer and you could clearly see the face of a Viking warrior. Other photos showed perfectly clear globes with a white spot right in the middle. Other pictures were taken that showed what looked like a Victorian figure, a Romany vargo caravan, sometimes with people, sometimes not and ghostly figures in the clouds. Perhaps more alarming were claims that one of my friends upon waking, saw figures coming out of the tower and the painting itself and a general feeling that just wasn't very good."

So the paininting remains in Phillips possession as he has no plans to sell and feels that perhaps it belong with him.

Good luck!

Dunster Castle Simulcra

Heres a bit of fun simulcra taken at Dunster Castle gardens. Check the bottom left window. The trees behind the window frame look like two faces. There is a misty blob there too!

Boscastle witch museum: orb captured on camera

Boscastles museaum of Witchcraft is a fascinating place to visit whatever the weather. But make sure you take a camera because you might just get something like this one I captured this spring! Look in the right hand corner of the cabinet with the white frame next to the small wooden statue of Baphomet and theres an orb!

Is this Reverend Densham saying hello?

ORB BY THE DOOR

Reverend Frederick Densham died in 1953 after falling down the stairs at this home. He remained there for some days until he was found. Afterwards he was buried in Plymouth despite his wish to have his ashes scattered near the church he loved.

We visited the church on a bright spring day and found ourselves at the end of the drive that leads to the church. It was here that a sightseer took some photographs of two companions and found that a third unidentified figure was among them. Reported sightings of an old man in a long dark coat and hat are common and the atmosphere inside the church is unnerving to say the least. I stood near the altar and took a few pictures and tried to say how sorry I was for this poor soul who is still around Warleggan to this day. The photograph above shows an orb and some kind of glow near the main door. I was very grateful to Rev Densham and I am sure I will be back there again soon.

Ghosts in Cornwall; Warleggan Orb Photograph

After reading the story about this place and the sad story of the parish vicar Rev Fred Densham many years ago; this place was high on my list of must-visit places in Cornwall. The church in the little village of Warleggan known as St Bartholomew holds a peculiar atmosphere and I was more than happy when an orb turned up one one of my photographs.

Reverend Densham lived here between 1931 and 1953 and never seemed to hit it off with the locals. By all accounts he was a kind man but highly eccentric and his forward thinking spiritual beliefs did not sit well with his parishoners. After disputes over the church organ being sold off for charity and Denshams beloved dogs running around farmland disturbing sheep his services at the church became devoid of worshippers. Densham lived at the neighbouring rectory and created a garden for the children of the village to come and play in but no one ever came there. A rumour has circulated that he made card board cutouts of people and seated them in pews and preached to them but this is untrue. He did however sometimes write names of people on postcards and place them in the church to remember them in his prayers.

About me

I first became fascinated with old places, buildings, myths and ghost stories when I was very young mostly thanks to books by Peter Underwood whose descriptive writing and detailed accounts fired my imagination and an urge to check out places for myself.