We will be following this and other paranormal news in future newsletters.  We have some very exciting things to announce for the spring season.  We have included links to the The Psychic Spy website which is a part of the SRI family in that it provokes thought regarding a paranormal occurrence with remote viewing.  We hope you enjoy these articles.

Our organization and team offer our sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of the passengers and crew of the missing flight MH 370, as well as to all those who suffer loss from this tragic occurrence.

http://www.thepsychicspy.com/the-psychic-spy-looks-into-malaysia-flight-mh-370/

The Psychic Spy Looks Into Malaysia Flight MH 370.
The whole world has been affected by the sad news of the loss of Malaysian flight MH 370. In churches around the world prayers are being offered up for the safe return of the passengers and crew. Millions of people in their own way have been logging into Satellite sites such as Tomnod among others trying to locate wreckage under the sea, while groups of Psychics are getting together to see what they can glean. In the Remote Viewing world groups everywhere are trying to locate the craft. And like so many other remote-viewing organizations, we at The Psychic Spy could not simply sit back and do nothing.
As of Tuesday March 11th in the late evening GMT time, our top remote viewer began a session on the subject. The method used was Scientific Remote-Viewing using eight randomly chosen number co-ordinates. The first step was to sight the target at its last point of contact; the target being the aircraft. Within seconds the observer saw the plane in the air on a tilt as if it was turning. From the position observed the far wing was raised in the air higher and part of the top of the plane was clear to see. Being careful to do this remote view in steps, the viewer decided to take another set of co-ordinates, and this time the target would be to look inside the plane. What the viewer then observed looked like the pilot or co-pilot walking down the aisle towards the rear of the plane; the aircraft itself was still within its turn at this moment. Shortly this person in uniform returned back down the aisle to the cockpit. The viewer once again decided to change co-ordinates and target to look for the nearest land. Seeing a coastline that looked as if a bite had been taken out of it, obviously a cove or bay, the viewer realised without a name to this area that tracing it would be difficult. The viewer than decided that a land mark that stood out would be much easier to find. Again working the session, only one land mark stood out — three mountain peaks on an island. There is always that chance that there were more peaks, but from the position of the viewer seeing this there were three. Researching this piece of news another member of The Psychic Spy came across a photo that looked much like the drawing done by the viewer, three peaks on the Island of Penang. The viewer ceased the session here.
Wednesday 12th March, once again our viewer tried to locate the missing plane, and the first thing the viewer wanted was confirmation of being in the right location. The session started in the early afternoon and the first thing seen was flying birds, mainly white. Research shows that there is a bird park on the mainland known as Penang Bird Park. This park has all sorts of birds in all colours, but the fact of seeing birds flying verified in symbolism to the viewer they had been in the right place. Setting the target, the viewer now picked up on the Andaman Sea and its islands of the same name, heading towards the Bay of Bengal. At this point the viewer felt strongly that the plane had still been in the air. The session was ceased here.
Our viewer had previously determined that the plane’s transponder had been meddled with before it was reported in the media, and felt strongly that the plan’s disappearance was directly due to human intervention. Although our viewer was looking in the same search area a few days before the authorities themselves, they began to have reservations about doing further views due to all of the media hype surrounding the subject. They were also concerned that instead of picking up on the exact path the plane took that they could instead be picking up on the path the search teams would take in the future, which would lead to the right path. Since these initial remote-viewing sessions, our viewer has been getting strong impressions on the exact location of the plane, but will need to perform further remote viewing sessions before making a final determination.
The rest of our research team has been examining the possible flight paths to help determine where the plane could have gone. There are three possible routes it could have taken; over Thailand, South West over the Indian Ocean, or westward towards the West Coast of Africa.
At this point we do not feel this was a terrorist act. If it was then a terrorist group would have claimed responsibility by now, and either make demands. Although it is possible that the plane has been taken for future use in a terrorist act. If the plane was taken by saboteurs with the intent of ditching or crashing the plane into the sea there would have been some sign of it by now. Surely a note or message of some kind would have been left saying why, otherwise it is a fruitless event. So the plane must have flown to land. But if that were the case then it would have been seen. If it flew up over Thailand there would have been more pings in that area. It could have flown over India into Pakistan and on to Afghanistan. India is a technologically superior nation that could have tracked the plane, unless someone was seriously asleep at their job. But if the plane continued over the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean into Somalia there would be hardly any way to pick up the plane at all, less pings.
We at The Psychic Spy will continue to look into this situation in order to do our part to help find the passengers and crew of Malaysia Flight 370 so that they may return to their families.


http://www.thepsychicspy.com/psychic-spy-exclusive-malaysia-flight-370-update/

PSYCHIC SPY EXCLUSIVE – MALAYSIA FLIGHT 370 UPDATE
On the 16th of March 2014 GMT, our Remote-Viewer once again performed an RV session in an attempt to locate the missing Malaysia Flight MH370. Our viewer had a strong draw to the Indian Ocean and began the session there. Below is a screen print executed on that day by our viewer on completion of the session. It shows the path that the plane could of taken and ceases in the ocean itself.

The latest news is a sighting by satellite what could be two objects on the ocean bed. The date of the remote view and the date and time of the screenshot can be seen clearly in the bottom right corner of the of the image. Again our viewer was confused thinking they could be picking up on future events within the actual search period itself. Until our viewer can see the plane intact or the actual wreckage and location, they will continue with their remote-viewing efforts. The information on this subject was handed over to the appropriate authorities on the day of the view. Our viewer continues to view this subject as well as other current issues in eastern Europe.

http://www.thepsychicspy.com/exclusive-chinese-satellite-spots-possible-debris-in-area-where-our-remote-viewer-was-targeting/

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Satellite Spots Possible Debris In Area Where Our Remote Viewer Was Targeting
The recent news that a Chinese satellite may have found possible wreckage from missing Malaysia Flight MH 370 confirms the results of our own remote-viewer who has been drawn to that exact area over the past few days. During our Viewer’s sessions they have targeted not only the possible location of where the airliner may have gone down, but they have also conducted views from inside the aircraft during the flight to try and determine the cause of its disappearance.
The below screen shots show the date and time that our Viewer determined the possible location of the missing airplane far south of the original search areas, in the Indian Ocean SouthWest of Australia. As you can see from these screen shots the Viewer’s targeted location is very close to the area where the Chinese Satellite captured the floating debris.

During their sessions our Viewer received strong impressions that the cockpit had separated from the fuselage, and that part of the wreckage was being moved by the ocean currents.
Our Viewer was able to see several scenes that depicted a fairly routine flight from the beginning. There did not seem to be any indications of foul play or human intervention. Our Viewer could see the pilots in the cockpit going about their normal routine, with the older pilot seeming to be seated in the co-pilot’s chair. The passengers were calm and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. Further viewing sessions using the Phase Five Matrix honed in on the emotions of either one or more of the passengers. The levels of emotions that our Viewer sensed from this person or persons in the aircraft evolved from calmness, curiosity, concern, anger, panic, waiting and thinking.
These emotions do not indicate to us that there was a hijacking or any other violent take-over of the aircraft. The natural progression of these emotions are very similar to the stages of grief that people feel during a loss or tragic event. Whatever happened aboard the aircraft, it was not sudden and it took some time before the passengers realized that something was not right.
As was posted in this recent article, one of the theories currently being considered is that lithium batteries were being carried in the plane’s cargo hold. These types of batteries are known to be dangerous and could combust or explode during flight. The article makes the case that perhaps these batteries caused an explosion in the cargo hold of the Boeing 777. This may not have been a large explosion, but one small enough that it could have damaged some of the plane’s electrical systems, knocking out communications and the ATS. It may have also knocked out the plane’s rudder controls, which could explain why the plane suddenly changed directions on a new course southwest. It’s possible that if the pilots lost their ability to not only steer the plane, but also to communicate with the ground and alert them to the situation, that they would have no choice but to keep the plane flying for as long as possible, until they eventually ran out of fuel.
Based on the emotions and other data obtained by our viewer, at this time the above theory sounds like the most reasonable explanation for the fate of MH Flight 370. With no ability to steer or call for help the passengers and crew continued flying for several hours before running out of fuel and crashing into the ocean.
We will continue to monitor these events as well as to continue with our remote viewing efforts in the hope of helping bring closure to the families of the passengers of MH Flight 370.

SRI Newsletter - December 2013

Everyone here at Spirit Rescue International would like to wish everyone of our followers a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, and we wish you all a wonderful New Year in 2014!

It's been a heck of a year for most of us at SRI, and we've certainly had our highs and lows. We've welcomed new members to the team and bid others farewell. We have ventured forth with new endeavors and we've suffered unwarranted attacks by negative people. But we've continued to move forward with our mission to help those people most in need of spiritual assistance.

We hope you will continue to follow our research as we move into the new year. Have a fun and safe holiday season with your families.

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SRI Forums

For those of you who have not yet discovered our official SRI Forum Boards, you are truly missing out on a wealth of information and discovery. Come join our SRI team members as we discuss all things having to do with the paranormal on a variety of topics that are educational and enlightening. Save the following link to your web browser and join in on the fun! You won't be disappointed!

http://spiritrescueinternational.freeforums.org/index.php

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Krampus - The Bad Santa?

Krampus is the dark companion of St. Nicholas, the traditional European winter gift-bringer who rewards good children each year on December 6. The kindly old Saint leaves the task of punishing bad children to a hell-bound counterpart known by many names across the continent — Knecht Ruprecht, Certa, Perchten, Black Peter, Schmutzli, Pelznickel, Klaubauf, and Krampus. Usually seen as a classic devil with horns, cloven hooves and monstrous tongue, but can also be spotted as a sinister gentleman dressed in black or a hairy man-beast. Krampus punishes the naughty children, swatting them with switches and rusty chains before dragging them in baskets to a fiery place below.

Krampus is celebrated on Krampusnacht, which takes place on the eve of St. Nicholas’ Day. In Austria, Northern Italy and other parts of Europe, party-goers masquerade as devils, wild-men, and witches to participate in Krampuslauf (Krampus Run). Intoxicated and bearing torches, costumed devils caper and carouse through the streets terrifying child and adult alike. Krampusnacht is increasingly being celebrated in other parts of Europe such as Finland and France, as well as in many American cities.

The European practice of mummery during the winter solstice season can be traced back tens of thousands of years. Villagers across the continent dress up as animals, wild-men and mythic figures to parade and perform humorous plays. This ancient guising and masking tradition continues to this day as the primary source for our modern Halloween with its costumes, trick-or-treat, and pagan symbolism. Among the most common figures in these folk rituals were Old Man Winter and the horned Goat-Man — archetypes now found in the forms of Saint Nick/Santa Claus, and the Devil (‘Old Nick’), aka Krampus.

In 19th century New York City an American St. Nick emerged in the form of Santa Claus. Although based on the Dutch Saint Nicholas, Santa incorporated more elements from pagan winter solstice customs. He relinquished his white bishop garb for a red suit, traded his horse and staff for a sleigh and reindeer, and moved his franchise to Christmas Eve.

Santa also tried to take over the dark companion’s job of punishing the naughty, but his New World temperament was apparently unsuited for the task. As Santa neglected and abandoned his punishing duties, American kids lost all fear of Santa and his lumps of coal. Thankfully, in the 21st century, Krampus has arrived in this land of spoiled and dissatisfied children to pick up the slack.

Information borrowed from - http://www.krampus.com/who-is-krampus.php

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My Mysterious Christmas Visit

by Irene Allen

I have one of those minds that always seem to be active if I am not searching for answers then I am just mulling over life as it is now or once was. On this day I find myself mulling over Christmas those traditions that were in my early child hood or before that are now still kept in this modern day we live in. Sadly the ghost stories around an open fire, a tradition from Victorian time when our ancestors craved all things spiritual and the scarier the better seems to be dying out.

The evening set aside for this would be the 24th Christmas Eve. Friends and family would gather round the fire to tell each other their most frightening stories. For the Victorian English this was one of the best parts of Christmas and as important to them as many of our own little rituals are to us today.

There is something of a ghostly air at Christmas maybe it is the cold winter’s night, the dampness that seems to draw up the feeling of ghosts. In Victorian English society for ghost stories to be told on any other evening other than the 24th of December with the same effect would be impossible.

This is the true story of my one and only Christmas ghost. The names and location has been withheld and the only name mentioned is a fictitious one. - Irene Allen-Block

It must be getting on five years now since my visitor at Christmas first came to visit. I remember well that feeling of being excited the night before Christmas day. As was the usual tradition in our house I would share the chores in preparing the Christmas fare for that evening and the big day itself. I am no good as a cook and also a vegetarian so preparing and stuffing the bird and other meats for the main day always fell to my husband. My job was the pastries and vegetables. As I stood at the kitchen sink peeling Brussels sprouts I glanced up and looked out of the window in front of me. The darkness of the night outside and the light on the ceiling behind me reflected the room I was standing in on the window itself. I could just make out the tall fir tree in my driveway and the wrought iron gates that opened the drive onto the road. I could see my hubby’s reflection as he moved around the kitchen busying himself in his task. Christmas carols were playing in the other room and as the music drifted around the house I remember thinking that if it snowed for Christmas day everything would be perfect.

I finished doing the sprouts and moved on to pealing the potatoes as I worked I kept glancing up and looking out of the window to the scene outside. It was on one of these glances that I suddenly realised there was something else reflected in the window, the fir tree and the gates were as normal barely visible, the room behind me being the stronger and brighter of the view, there was hubby still doing his thing but there was someone else. Standing about three foot behind me and watching me was a man. I turned and he was gone.

I have grown up being able to see, nothing fazed me and this sighting to me was no different. My reactions to it were as they normally are I just accepted what I saw. I am not the type to go into flappy mode squealing out “I just saw a ghost, I just saw a ghost” that was not me; I just took it and did not mention it. What did happen though is within those few seconds of the sighting I took in everything I saw. Those few seconds of the vision the man was clear almost solid like I could judge his height what he looked like in every detail but as soon as he had vanished as far as I was concerned that was it. I never gave him another thought.

The evening went on and as it did my excitement of Christmas increased. For me when it came to Christmas time I never grew up. I wanted everything to look perfect and went around the house through every room titivating all the decorations making sure they were looking right in the places that I had put them. The ornaments hanging on the tree were spread equally out, so whatever side you looked at it from, there were no bare spaces. Now with only one thing to do before I could sit down and relax with hubby was to put the wrapped presents under the tree, the final finish to it. Retrieving the gifts from upstairs, my arms full I made my way back down the staircase. Nearing the bottom there he was again and as I approached him the words that filled my head were “tell her I am sorry.”

Christmas day arrived and I was up early for the usual exchange of gifts between my husband and myself before the onslaught of our family and grandchildren would descend on us. As I watched my husband opening my gift to him I was aware of a presence close to me, I turned again to see the man and the words once again “tell her I am sorry.” There was nothing I could do for this lost soul; his was a message that he needed to get to its receiver. I had no idea who he was or for whom his message was intended. I knew also that we would be spending our Christmas with another unseen visitor to my guests. He was there again when my granddaughter sitting on the rug ripped the wrapping off of her presents and again when we were all sitting around the table eating our Christmas dinner. Each and every sighting that I had of him that day always the same words were impressed into me “tell her I am sorry.” This continued all day and into the evening, where ever I went he seemed to be there.

Finally when all the fun of the day was over and all had returned to their own homes, I got out my laptop. Logging on to my forum at Spirit Rescue International I decided to post my events of Christmas for the other members to read. I wrote about my Christmas visitor and gave a detailed description, not expecting anyone would claim him but someone did. Janet had been a member from nigh on the birth of Spirit Rescue International she had been a frequent poster contributing some very good articles on the forum and I liked her very much as a person. Janet claimed my visitor as her father; she had bad feelings towards him and spoke about him unfavorably. She told me that he had left her mother at Christmas when she and her siblings were very young. There was no Christmas for them that year, no presents from Santa. Janet never saw him again and could not forgive him for what he had done. Posts between us went back and forth as she told me stories that she remembered of her father and try as I might I could not change her mind set on him. She had built up a hatred to him her memories were not good. As time went on and the days passed we talked, eventually she said she would think about what I had said about forgiveness. That week leading up to New Year’s Eve the spirit was a regular visitor in my home and his words continued “Tell her I am sorry.”

New Year’s Eve arrived and as I sat watching the celebrations on the television building in London I decided to log onto the forum, I could feel the spirit close by and was doing my utmost to ignore it. Janet was already logged in and we began to chat. The conversation got round once again to her father I told her that he was with me. She mentioned that she had been giving the whole situation a lot of thought and although as a child she had suffered she could not carry on feeling the way she did about her father. She knew she needed to let the negativity go. As she spoke I could feel the energy in the room begin to shift a feel of lightness began to fill the room. My visitor was still there beside me but now what I was sensing from him was different and then Janet said what I and obviously the spirit needed to hear. “I forgive him” she said in her post and as I read it I felt my visitor go. I believe that is all that he needed was to know that he was forgiven but I also knew that he wanted his daughter to have closure to be able to move on with her life as well. Where he had failed her in life he needed to make up for it in death. The negativity and bitterness she had been holding onto was pulling her down. Janet from that day onwards changed her life she became an author of books and as a writer I hope she will excel. I never saw or heard from my Christmas visitor again and I can only hope he too found peace. And now five years later as I sit and recount this story to you I discover something I did not know before. Christmas Eve is traditionally one of the most haunted nights of the year besides Halloween. And just as Halloween it is said, that the barrier between the worlds of the living and the dead are at the thinnest. Christmas Eve is when ghosts can walk the earth and finish unsettled business. The Charles Dickens masterpiece Scrooge amplifies this with the apparition of his dead partner Marley and could well go towards answering the reason for my ghost as well.

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Among The Spirits

Be sure to pick up your copy of Irene Allen-Block's engaging autobiography, "Among The Spirits".
Among The Spirits tells the story of Irene Allen-Block who discovered at a very early age that she wasn’t like the other children she played with while growing up in England - she could see and communicate with spirits! This would lead Irene down a unique and sometimes lonely path of self discovery. Filled with laughter, tears and frightening visions of the other side, Among The Spirits is a personal story of one woman’s spiritual journey as she travels through the world of the strange and paranormal. From crossing over the spirits of young Victorian era children to battling demonic forces in a terrifying fight to the death, Irene uses her gifts to help out people in need on both sides of the spiritual veil. And as you journey with her you will see first-hand how her experiences have affected her own life, but those closest to her.
Reviews for "Among The Spirits"

"If the title suggests a nice warm heart rendering book about being surrounded by spirits then you're in for a real surprise. From the age of 4 Irene saw and spoke with the dead, and by the time she had moved to London aged 9 she was helping spirits move to the light, well the good ones anyway. Imagine being that age and confronted by Demons. This is one woman’s terrifying story about the tormented souls that have been with her for most of her life. However, it’s more than a book about naughty ghosts; it’s an honest, down to earth account of Irene’s life, including her mischievous teenage years, her journey into the paranormal and the tormented dark side of the paranormal that is hardly ever spoken about. Let’s not forget that wherever there is good, there is bad AND this lady has a habit of encountering the bad spirit out there. This is why she created Spirit Rescue International, a worldwide agency dedicated to helping rid the world of the bad spirits, the demons and the tortured souls that choose to hang around and torment the living. From demons to devilish poltergeists Irene and her team have solved cases all over the world using their natural gifts AND scientific remote viewing. This book is a must read, if you want to know the real truth about how to get rid of spirit then this is the book for you."
- Paul Stevenson - Haunted Magazine

"The title of this auto biography not only defines the life of Irene Allen-Block, but is also explanatory of what she experiences on a daily basis. Writing a memoir usually involves recall of various anecdotes and personal encounters the author assumes the reader will enjoy and remember. Irene's personal story not only includes many fond reflections of family and friends, but it also introduces the raw truth of a young girl's life evolving in an intimidating psychic domain.
- Lon Strickler - Phantoms & Monsters Blog

Among The Spirits is available on Amazon.com in both soft cover and Kindle formats.

http://www.amazon.com/Among-Spirits-Irene-Allen-Block/dp/1477491856/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387825821&sr=8-1&keywords=Among+The+Spirits

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"Haunted Highways" - A Review

by Mark Johnson

On Tuesday December 17th the SyFy Channel presented a brand new episode of their show “Haunted Highways”. In this particular episode, the second segment had Jack Osborne and Dana Workman investigating the legends of hauntings surrounding “Shades of Death Road” (yes that is the real name of the road) in Warren County, NJ.

I admit to being a fan of the show since it first premiered last year, although I also admit to being a bit peeved that SyFy ripped off my own YouTube series of short documentary films entitled “Paranormal Highways”, where my team and I investigate strange roads and other exterior locations that are rumored to have paranormal activity. With Haunted Highways, the show’s producers hired two teams of two investigators each, and follows the same basic concept of investigating strange outdoor locations across the country. The “hook” for this show as that each team films the entire episode themselves with “no big camera crews following them around”. Oh wait, that’s Ghost Adventures. Still, the Haunted Highway teams do film the entire episode using their own cameras which are rigged to shoot both what is in front of the camera as well as another camera pointing back to capture their own facial reactions. So far this season I’ve been enjoying the show as they have investigated some unusual areas, and some of the evidence of paranormal activity looks impressive at first glance.

But then there was this Tuesday’s episode, and my faith in this show has been torpedoed by the greedy, stupid and moronic producers and executives at SyFy who have proven once again that they can’t present a serious show on the paranormal without trying to twist facts and manipulate the outcome in order to present something that is not reality.

This past February I was contacted by the producers of Haunted Highways notifying me that they were going to shoot an episode on Shades of Death Road, and that they were looking for people who had paranormal experiences on the road. My team and I, New Jersey Paranormal Research, had conducted an investigation of the road a couple of years prior (which ironically became an episode of my own Paranormal Highways series) and I agreed to be interviewed on their show. So arrangements were made to meet up with Jack Osborne and Dana Workman in March at a specified location to shoot a brief interview with me, presumably before they would do their night time investigation.

I arrived at the small deli where they wanted to shoot the interview to find several other people milling about, all waiting to be interviewed as well. I found out that my friend Chris Nicolletti from SCREAM Paranormal was also shooting an interview with them earlier in the day, and Chris called to tell me they had finished with him and they were on their way. Not long afterwards a black SUV pulled up with Jack and Dana, and following on their heels were several other vehicles including a motor home. That’s when it hit me that the whole concept of having two investigators out in the middle of nowhere all alone with no back-up was a sham. Jack and Dana are followed around by a large crew of about 15 people including producers, production assistants, and even a caterer! They began shooting interviews with some of the other people while I patiently waited for my turn. Having a background in film and television production I understood the process. Finally Jack approached me and we started to do the interview, and I explained how my team and I had heard about the paranormal activity on Shades of Death Road and how we conducted our investigation. I was about halfway through my story when this woman entered the deli holding a clip board and a walkie-talkie – obviously a producer – and stopped the interview. She then asked me to tell the story again, but this time don’t mention that I was part of a paranormal team, but that I just happened to be there with some friends and experienced activity. I was dumbfounded that she was asking me to change the facts of my story. I told her that’s not how it happened, but she said that they can’t mention any other paranormal groups and I needed to tell the story as if I was just a witness, not an investigator. I retold the story, and although I downplayed my group’s involvement, but it was still clear that I wasn’t just a witness but that I was there doing an investigation. After the interview was over I got a photo of myself with Jack and Dana and I left while they shot more interviews.

It was when I drove away from the deli that I began to become angry and upset with myself. In hind site I understood that I should have stuck to my full story, and if that wasn’t good enough for them then I should just walked away. It was at that moment that I vowed I would never do another TV show unless I had 100% control over what I could say and how it was presented to the public. Too many of these so-called “reality shows” are not reality at all. They are scripted and manipulated in the editing room to portray whatever the producers or the network want to portray, whether it is real or not. After my previous bad experience with Paranormal State I should have known better to trust working on any show that I have no control over. I had also learned that the SyFy channel has a standing edict that they will not mention or promote any other paranormal research groups other than the ones on their own shows. I learned this when I was approached by the producers of Haunted Collector and set them up with one of my cases to do for their show. I was supposed to be interviewed by the cast, but an executive at SyFy wouldn’t allow it because I represented another paranormal group. So in essence they reach out to other groups looking for cases for their shows, and once they get them they toss them aside. After several months of waiting, I finally received an e-mail from the producers that the episode would air on Tuesday night. So I told all my friends to tune in and see me on TV like most people would do. I was very curious to see how the rest of the episode would play out and if Jack and Dana would capture any of the same evidence we encountered in our prior investigation of the area. When the episode aired I quickly realized that I had been cut from the episode entirely. To be honest I was relieved. I would rather have my story not heard at all than to have it twisted around by these scumbag producers and executives to serve their own agenda. As the rest of the episode unfolded I began to see how the network altered the footage to mislead the public, and how they may have faked some evidence.

Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of the episode. When Jack and Dana pass underneath the overpass they lose their external cameras. I have no explanation of that phenomenon. However, the tire on their vehicle blew and Jack had to change the tire while Dana walked back to the overpass to do an EVP session. After seeing the large production crew following them, I can tell you right now that I do not believe for one second that Jack actually changed that tire by himself. Remember that these investigators are followed everywhere by a large production crew. Jack was diagnosed with MS, and they shot the new season during the colder weather as it wouldn’t affect him as badly. So while they may have filmed a couple of shots of Jack looking like he changed the tire, the actual work was most likely done by one of the production staff. When the tire was changed they drove further down the road until Dana saw what looked like a man standing next to a tree on the side of the road. They backed up the car to find that no one was standing there at all, and they were all excited to have seen an apparition. But in my opinion there was nothing paranormal about it….it was a live person standing there, either one of their own crew members or someone who lives nearby (yes, people do live on the road).

At this point Jack and Dana jump out of the car and start to explore the woods looking for the person. They find a run-down shack and Jack captures what looks like the figure of a person quickly disappearing inside the shack on his thermal FLIR camera. This figure was all black in the thermal camera indicating extreme cold. I couldn’t help but be struck by the fact that the figure looks identical to other figures captured on the FLIR camera during several other investigations on the show. In the past I was impressed with the thermal footage and thought they had captured real apparitions, but now I’m not so certain. Since we cannot see the menu on the screen that shows the levels of hot and cold, I have the feeling that SyFy is trying to pull another fast one on us by inverting the color palette. So where a living person’s heat signature would normally look red or white, inverting it could make them appear black. Apparitions are extremely rare and difficult to capture, and in this season alone the show has captured 3-4 similar black so-called apparitions on its thermal cameras. As I have recently learned, when something appears too good to be true, it usually is.

When Jack and Dana leave the shack they walk through the woods and suddenly find themselves standing next to Ghost Lake. I laughed at this bit of editing deception as the lake is surrounded by high cliffs on the side of the lake where they “appeared”, and the only way to reach is it to park their car in the nearby parking lot. Jack stayed to investigate the shore while Dana hiked back to where a small cave used by the local Lenape Indians sits. In the episode Jack mentions that the Indians used it for rituals and ceremonies, which is not true. Archeologists feel the cave was used more as a rest stop for hunters and did not involve ceremonies. The rest of the episode shows Dana doing an EVP session in the cave and encountering some possible activity in the form of disembodied voices, which is consistent with the activity my group and I encountered when we investigated the cave. However, at one point Dana reacts to something brushing near her, and at the exact same time a shadow moves in front of the camera. This seems to indicate that what she reacted to was related to the shadow, yet SyFy choose to completely ignore that piece of evidence and it wasn’t mentioned again in the episode. Also, while Jack was standing on the shoreline he sees through the FLIR camera two large pillars form in the center of the lake. He becomes excited as it seems to corroborate other witness testimony of people seeing two figures appearing on the lake. Yet once again SyFy cut to commercial, and when they came back from break it was as if the incident never happened, and the footage was not seen again. This type of poor editing and storytelling seriously irritates me as SyFy is only concerned with showing something creepy, yet they have no intention of attempting to explain it, something real investigators would have done. I got another chuckle when Jack says that the sun is coming up so they will have to go back to base camp to review their evidence, yet the clock in the corner of the frame says that it’s only 1:45 AM. Seriously, the sun comes up at 1:45 in the morning in New Jersey? Who’d have thunk it?

In the last scene where Jack and Dana supposedly review their evidence the next morning and have a conversation with the other team members via Skype. The insult comes from the fact that their car is parked in a forest, but it’s the wrong forest! The camera shows them standing amongst a grove of California Redwood trees…something we don’t have here in New Jersey. They are also not wearing jackets, showing that the scene was shot in warmer weather, weeks to months after the episode was actually filmed. And most of the more interesting pieces of evidence from the investigation, including the shadow in the cave and the pillars on the lake, were completely ignored; while the figure of the very much alive person standing on the side of the road was the highlight of the investigation.

Let me say upfront that I don’t have a problem whatsoever with Jack Osborne or Dana Workman. Meeting and talking to Jack I found him to be very pleasant and friendly. Dana was more quiet and didn't say much to me, but that doesn’t mean anything negative against her as a person. My issues are directed at the producers of these programs and at the executives at SyFy in particular!

Let this serve as a warning to all other investigators who are contacted by these shows to be careful and realize that when you work with these production companies you are working with the devil. They don’t care about you, and they certainly don’t care about the truth. They only want to sell their product and make money, and they will lie, cheat, and manipulate the facts in order to do it. I will never, ever, do anything for the Syfy Channel again, not until they change their policy of not mentioning the other hard working paranormal groups out there who they contact for cases and give them credit where credit is due. I won't play their game or put money into their pockets. They don’t care about the paranormal, they only care that it’s popular at the moment and they can make money off of it.

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Review of SyFy's "Haunted Highways"

On Tuesday December 17th the SyFy Channel presented a brand new episode of their show “Haunted Highways”.  In this particular episode, the second segment had Jack Osborne and Dana Workman investigating the legends of hauntings surrounding “Shades of Death Road” (yes that is the real name of the road) in Warren County, NJ.

I admit to being a fan of the show since it first premiered last year, although I also admit to being a bit peeved that SyFy ripped off my own YouTube series of short documentary films entitled “Paranormal Highways”, where my team and I investigate strange roads and other exterior locations that are rumored to have paranormal activity.  With Haunted Highways, the show’s producers hired two teams of two investigators each, and follows the same basic concept of investigating strange outdoor locations across the country.  The “hook” for this show as that each team films the entire episode themselves with “no big camera crews following them around”.  Oh wait, that’s Ghost Adventures.  Still, the Haunted Highway teams do film the entire episode using their own cameras which are rigged to shoot both what is in front of the camera as well as another camera pointing back to capture their own facial reactions.  So far this season I’ve been enjoying the show as they have investigated some unusual areas, and some of the evidence of paranormal activity looks impressive at first glance.

But then there was this Tuesday’s episode, and my faith in this show has been torpedoed by the greedy, stupid and moronic producers and executives at SyFy who have proven once again that they can’t present a serious show on the paranormal without trying to twist facts and manipulate the outcome in order to present something that is not reality.

This past February I was contacted by the producers of Haunted Highways notifying me that they were going to shoot an episode on Shades of Death Road, and that they were looking for people who had paranormal experiences on the road.  My team and I, New Jersey Paranormal Research, had conducted an investigation of the road a couple of years prior (which ironically became an episode of my own Paranormal Highways series) and I agreed to be interviewed on their show.  So arrangements were made to meet up with Jack Osborne and Dana Workman in March at a specified location to shoot a brief interview with me, presumably before they would do their night time investigation. 

I arrived at the small deli where they wanted to shoot the interview to find several other people milling about, all waiting to be interviewed as well.  I found out that my friend Chris Nicolletti from SCREAM Paranormal was also shooting an interview with them earlier in the day, and Chris called to tell me they had finished with him and they were on their way.  Not long afterwards a black SUV pulled up with Jack and Dana, and following on their heels were several other vehicles including a motor home.  That’s when it hit me that the whole concept of having two investigators out in the middle of nowhere all alone with no back-up was a sham.  Jack and Dana are followed around by a large crew of about 15 people including producers, production assistants, and even a caterer!  They began shooting interviews with some of the other people while I patiently waited for my turn.  Having a background in film and television production I understood the process.  Finally Jack approached me and we started to do the interview, and I explained how my team and I had heard about the paranormal activity on Shades of Death Road and how we conducted our investigation.  I was about halfway through my story when this woman entered the deli holding a clip board and a walkie-talkie – obviously a producer – and stopped the interview.  She then asked me to tell the story again, but this time don’t mention that I was part of a paranormal team, but that I just happened to be there with some friends and experienced activity.  I was dumbfounded that she was asking me to change the facts of my story.  I told her that’s not how it happened, but she said that they can’t mention any other paranormal groups and I needed to tell the story as if I was just a witness, not an investigator.  I retold the story, and although I downplayed my group’s involvement, but it was still clear that I wasn’t just a witness but that I was there doing an investigation.  After the interview was over I got a photo of myself with Jack and Dana and I left while they shot more interviews.

It was when I drove away from the deli that I began to become angry and upset with myself.  In hind site I understood that I should have stuck to my full story, and if that wasn’t good enough for them then I should just walked away.  It was at that moment that I vowed I would never do another TV show unless I had 100% control over what I could say and how it was presented to the public.  Too many of these so-called “reality shows” are not reality at all.  They are scripted and manipulated in the editing room to portray whatever the producers or the network want to portray, whether it is real or not.  After my previous bad experience with Paranormal State I should have known better to trust working on any show that I have no control over.  I had also learned that the SyFy channel has a standing edict that they will not mention or promote any other paranormal research groups other than the ones on their own shows.  I learned this when I was approached by the producers of Haunted Collector and set them up with one of my cases to do for their show.  I was supposed to be interviewed by the cast, but an executive at SyFy wouldn’t allow it because I represented another paranormal group.  So in essence they reach out to other groups looking for cases for their shows, and once they get them they toss them aside.

After several months of waiting, I finally received an e-mail from the producers that the episode would air on Tuesday night.  So I told all my friends to tune in and see me on TV like most people would do.  I was very curious to see how the rest of the episode would play out and if Jack and Dana would capture any of the same evidence we encountered in our prior investigation of the area.  When the episode aired I quickly realized that I had been cut from the episode entirely.  To be honest I was relieved.  I would rather have my story not heard at all than to have it twisted around by these scumbag producers and executives to serve their own agenda.  As the rest of the episode unfolded I began to see how the network altered the footage to mislead the public, and how they may have faked some evidence.

Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of the episode.  When Jack and Dana pass underneath the overpass they loose their external cameras.  I have no explanation of that phenomenon.  However, the tire on their vehicle blew and Jack had to change the tire while Dana walked back to the overpass to do an EVP session.  After seeing the large production crew following them, I can tell you right now that I do not believe for one second that Jack actually changed that tire by himself.  Remember that these investigators are followed everywhere by a large production crew.  Jack was diagnosed with MS, and they shot the new season during the colder weather as it wouldn’t affect him as badly.  So while they may have filmed a couple of shots of Jack looking like he changed the tire, the actual work was most likely done by one of the production staff.  When the tire was changed they drove further down the road until Dana saw what looked like a man standing next to a tree on the side of the road. They backed up the car to find that no one was standing there at all, and they were all excited to have seen an apparition.  But in my opinion there was nothing paranormal about it….it was a live person standing there, either one of their own crew members or someone who lives nearby (yes, people do live on the road). 

At this point Jack and Dana jump out of the car and start to explore the woods looking for the person. They find a run down shack and Jack captures what looks like the figure of a person quickly disappearing inside the shack on his thermal FLIR camera.  This figure was all black in the thermal camera indicating extreme cold.  I couldn’t help but be struck by the fact that the figure looks identical to other figures captured on the FLIR camera during several other investigations on the show.  In the past I was impressed with the thermal footage and thought they had captured real apparitions, but now I’m not so certain.  Since we can not see the menu on the screen that shows the levels of hot and cold, I have the feeling that SyFy is trying to pull another fast one on us by inverting the color palette.  So where a living person’s heat signature would normally look red or white, inverting it could make them appear black.  Apparitions are extremely rare and difficult to capture, and in this season alone the show has captured 3-4 similar black so-called apparitions on its thermal cameras.  As I have recently learned, when something appears too good to be true, it usually is.

When Jack and Dana leave the shack they walk through the woods and suddenly find themselves standing next to Ghost Lake.  I laughed at this bit of editing deception as the lake is surrounded by high cliffs on the side of the lake where they “appeared”, and the only way to reach is it to park their car in the nearby parking lot.  Jack stayed to investigate the shore while Dana hiked back to where a small cave used by the local Lenape Indians sits.  In the episode Jack mentions that the Indians used it for rituals and ceremonies, which is not true.  Archeologists feel the cave was used more as a rest stop for hunters and did not involve ceremonies.  The rest of the episode shows Dana doing an EVP session in the cave and encountering some possible activity in the form of disembodied voices, which is consistent with the activity my group and I encountered when we investigated the cave.  However, at one point Dana reacts to something brushing near her, and at the exact same time a shadow moves in front of the camera.  This seems to indicate that what she reacted to was related to the shadow, yet SyFy choose to completely ignore that piece of evidence and it wasn’t mentioned again in the episode.  Also, while Jack was standing on the shoreline he sees through the FLIR camera two large pillars form in the center of the lake.  He becomes excited as it seems to corroborate other witness testimony of people seeing two figures appearing on the lake.  Yet once again SyFy cut to commercial, and when they came back from break it was as if the incident never happened, and the footage was not seen again.  This type of poor editing and story telling seriously irritates me as SyFy is only concerned with showing something creepy, yet they have no intention of attempting to explain it, something real investigators would have done.  I got another chuckle when Jack says that the sun is coming up so they will have to go back to base camp to review their evidence, yet the clock in the corner of the frame says that it’s only 1:45 AM.  Seriously, the sun comes up at 1:45 in the morning in New Jersey?  Who’d have thunk it?

The final insult came in the last scene where Jack and Dana supposedly review their evidence the next morning and have a conversation with the other team members via Skype.  The insult comes from the fact that their car is parked in a forest, but it’s the wrong forest!  The camera shows them standing amongst a grove of California Redwood trees…something we don’t have here in New Jersey.  They are also not wearing jackets, showing that the scene was shot in warmer weather, weeks to months after the episode was actually filmed.  And most of the more interesting pieces of evidence from the investigation, including the shadow in the cave and the pillars on the lake, were completely ignored; while the figure of the very much alive person standing on the side of the road was the highlight of the investigation.

Let me say upfront that I don’t have a problem whatsoever with Jack Osborne or Dana Workman.  Meeting and talking to Jack I found him to be very pleasant and friendly.  Dana was more quiet and didn't say much to me, but that doesn’t mean anything negative against her as a person.  My issues are directed at the producers of these programs and at the executives at SyFy in particular!  Let this serve as a warning to all other investigators who are contacted by these shows to be careful and realize that when you work with these production companies you are working with the devil.  They don’t care about you, and they certainly don’t care about the truth.  They only want to sell their product and make money, and they will lie, cheat, and manipulate the facts in order to do it.  I will never, ever, do anything for the Syfy Channel again, not until they change their policy of not mentioning the other hard working paranormal groups out there who they contact for cases and give them credit where credit is due.  I won't play their game or put money into their pockets.  They don’t care about the paranormal, they only care that it’s popular at the moment and they can make money off of it. 

It's time for these TV shows to go away and to leave the investigating to real investigators.

An Important Announcement Regarding Cyber Bullying

This is to address the recent and false accusations made by former SRI Case Manager Mr. Lon Strickler where is has stated that SRI team members have been waging a campaign to have his Phantoms & Monsters Facebook page shut down, which is totally untrue.  He has also made personal attacks against specific SRI members, including Directors Irene Allen and Mark Johnson, all of which are also completely untrue. Mr. Strickler has used false accusations in order to manipulate his followers and supporters, and has openly requested a "call to action" against SRI.

This will be our final public response to Mr. Strickler’s attempts to attack and defame SRI and its members.  For the record, no member of SRI is engaged in any campaign to shut down websites run by Mr. Strickler.  SRI has no desire to engage in conflict with Mr. Strickler or any other group or individuals for any reason.  Our mission is to help people who are experiencing paranormal issues in their lives while also bringing a greater awareness of the paranormal and other concepts to the public in general, of which we will continue to do so.

We recognize that the paranormal community is no stranger to drama with many groups and individuals having had very public conflicts over the past several years.   It’s our opinion that this type of behavior does nothing but make the paranormal community look unprofessional, and we at SRI want no part of it.  However, Mr. Strickler has continued to wage public and private attacks against SRI and its members on both his Facebook pages (where SRI members have been banned from viewing or responding to his attacks), as well as his Phantoms & Monsters and Astral Perceptions blogs.  

In April of this year Mr. Strickler chose to leave SRI of his own free will when it was discovered that he was sending threatening messages to SRI founder Irene Allen under a false e-mail account on the SRI Guestbook Page. When the IP addresses were traced they led directly to Mr. Strickler’s front door. When confronted with this information during a telephone conversation between himself and SRI founder Irene Allen, Mr. Strickler admitted to posting the threats because he did not like the direction where SRI was heading, a direction that gave more responsibility to the SRI team as a whole and less to him personally.  Before the matter could be discussed further Mr. Strickler hung up on Irene and immediately and publicly posted his resignation for all to see on Facebook and his blog pages, as well as personally e-mailing clients of SRI.  Mr. Strickler then engaged in a scorched earth campaign of damaging all SRI related websites and media of which he held control over by deleting content in a fit of anger. He then blocked or banned SRI members from his Facebook pages in an attempt to prevent them from seeing his attacks. 

In the months that followed Mr. Strickler has repeatedly engaged in attacks on SRI and its members, both publicly on his websites and Facebook pages.  He has also continued to post threatening messages under false e-mail accounts on the SRI Guestbook page, as well as sending threatening e-mails to SRI Director Irene Block. Twice in the past few months Irene had reached out via telephone to Mr. Strickler asking for him to stop the attacks and for our two organizations to co-exist in peace.  During the first conversation Mr. Strickler agreed to the truce, yet soon afterward the attacks continued. When Irene contacted him a second time, Mr. Strickler was openly defiant and belligerent, and his behavior was witnessed by others present during the call.  Since that time the attacks have not only continued but have escalated.

This post is not intended to agitate Mr. Strickler to further attacks or to fuel a so-called “feud” between organizations. It is simply to present the truth to the public since Mr. Strickler’s false accusations have dominated the Internet for the past several months.

From this point forward SRI will no longer respond or react to further taunts and accusations from Mr. Strickler or his followers.  Any further attacks or false accusations from Mr. Strickler or his followers will be met with silence. Any transgressions from Mr. Strickler or his followers that break the law or are libelous/defamatory will be handled through the courts.  The decision to end this matter rests solely with Mr. Strickler and we hope that he would make the correct decision.
 

If anyone has any questions we ask that you contact SRI Directors Irene Allen or Mark Johnson directly via e-mail at mail@spiritrescueinternational.com.

Thank you and God bless.

Grieving Belgian woman sleeps next to the grisly remains of her dead husband for almost a year!

A grieving woman was so devastated by her husband’s death that she couldn’t bear to report it – and slept next to his corpse for almost a year.

The mummified remains of Marcel H, 79, lay undiscovered in a Brussels apartment.
It’s thought that he died of an asthma attack in November last year, but his beloved 69-year-old wife, who hasn’t been named, continued to sleep next to the grisly remains, despite the smell of decomposition.

Neighbours didn’t detect any unusual odours and the authorities in Belgium only became suspicious after the landlord claimed the couple had not paid their rent since 2012

When they entered the apartment they found the mummified remains of Marcel H.

Philippe Boxho, pathologist at the Forensic Center of Liege said: ‘A body can mummify in a dry, warm environment.

‘It takes at least a week to reach such a state. In this case the body had rotten in the bed and his internal organs had melted and liquefied.


‘This liquid would have spread and the bed would have been swarming with insects as the body rotted, this would have been a real shame.

‘Even though the smell of human decay is quite specific, many people equate that smell to the smell of garbage and once the body has become rotten the smell does decrease significantly.
‘This is not the first time I have made a discovery of this kind, I've been faced with two or three other occasions where people have continued to sleep with the corpse of their partner.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510068/Grieving-Belgian-woman-sleeps-grisly-remains-dead-husband-year.html#ixzz2m349yRAq

California Ghost Town For Sale

California ghost town for sale, including liquor license: $225,000

Down a narrow dirt road in the Sierra Nevada lies a once-bustling gold mining ghost town — “the real McCoy” — complete with a gin mill and memories of an opium den.

And for $225,000, the Northern California town of Seneca could be yours, according to an ad posted on Craigslist.

Liquor license and all, the sleepy Plumas County town is for sale by its private owners, who are selling due to health issues, the ad states.

The remote property includes the bar, three run-down cabins and 9.8 acres through which the Feather River runs, the ad says. But you will need a generator — there are no utilities — and access depends on the weather.

The town sprung up after gold was found in 1851, according to a bronze plaque on a boulder near the bar. It had a dance hall, feed store, post office and a hotel with solar-heated showers, but the most famous spot was the Gin Mill, a bar run for decades by Marie Sabin, known as “the guardian angel of Seneca.”

Remnants of a mine where Chinese immigrants worked also remain, the ad states.  In the 1970s, owners Jerry Manpearl and Tim TenBrink held music festivals there, calling it “Woodstock West.” Now, the bar is the only draw, but even that has mostly dried up.

“You get weekend warriors, and folks who are panning or prospecting,” TenBrink told the San Francisco Chronicle. “But that’s about it.

The pair bought the town in 1975 when they visited the bar on a hunting trip, TenBrink’s nephew Jeff Potter told ABC News. 

The sketchy dirt road to get to the town is dangerous, with a 1,000-foot drop on the side, Potter wrote in a blog post. The cabins are run-down, but the liquor license is a draw, the ad says. It’s one of only a few in the county.

“Expand it into a unique getaway!” the ad states, cautioning that visitors should be acquainted with remote territory before visiting.

 

The Witch of Wookie Hole - UK

Introduction

Wookey Hole is a village close to Wells in Somerset, England. It is within the parish of St Cuthbert Out. The name Wookey is thought to come from the Old English wocig (an animal trap). The village of Wookey Hole is dominated by the Wookey Hole Caves. Wookey Hole cave was formed by the action of the River Axe on the limestone hills. 

Wookey Hole Caves have been inhabited for 35,000BC years, when they were explored by Neanderthal Man, in his search for a home offering shelter and security. Durring 600BC- 50AD the Celts used the caves and after them numerous travellers from the Romans onwards have made reference to the caves. This shows that even when vacated as a home for Iron Age people, they remained a place to visit and marvel at.  In 189 AD, the Roman diarist Clement of Alexandria relates to the "clashing of numerous cymbals", a known phenomenon where changes in air pressure produce extraordinary noises.

The Witch of Wookey Hole is a stalagmite in the first chamber of the caves and the central character in an old English legend. Because of the witch connection most of the caves are named after her. There is her kitchen, and her parlour, there is Hell's Ladder and The Lake of Gloom. As with most of England, there is not much information about Wookey Hole after the Romans left. However, there is one tale that is believed to date from these dark ages of history. The tale of the Witch of Wookey.

The Story

One version of the story tells of the "black witch who lived in the cave at the head of the Stream of Sorrow on the confines of Hell" who was slain by that most famous Monarch, Arthur, King of the Britons. However, it is likely that that story was made up in the eighteenth century in an effort to attract tourists. The real legend is much older and runs as follows:

During the Dark Ages  in the village of Wookey lived a beautiful young woman, her name is not known. What is known, however, is that she was devoted to her lover. This man, it turned out, was not as devoted to her, and late one night, when he failed to return from the local alehouse, she went out looking for him. To her horror she discovered him in a somewhat compromising position with one of the local wenches. Tearful and wailing, she fled from the scene, and ran out of the village towards the caves which the local preachers claimed lead to the caverns of Hell.

Once inside the caves, her sorrow turned quickly to anger, and, crying out, she called on the devil to curse the man who had betrayed her. That night, as she lay, shivering in the dark subterranean chambers, a diabolic vision appeared to her. The vision claimed that it was a demon from hell and that Lucifer himself had heard her calling and was offering her the chance to gain the power to curse her wayward lover. The price, of course, was her soul. Still in a rage about what had taken place, the woman accepted and was given the power of black magic. The next day the man woke up to discover that he was afflicted with a pox.

Though the New Witch took great pleasure in the man's suffering, it did not sate her appetite for revenge. A chagrined and disappointed woman, having been jilted herself she frequently spoilt budding relationships by using her merciless arts to blight girls' lives and keep them from the joys denied to herself.  One day upon spotting a couple venturing towards her cave, she cursed their relationship to fail. Sure enough, a few short days later the man and woman were arguing and only hours after that, the man stormed off to take holy orders, forsaking the love of women forever. Angered by this provocation of good works, (for the man became a good minister, much given to charitable works) the Witch vowed never to dabble in the relationships of others again.

The years passed and the Witch became increasingly bitter. She lived alone, with her dog and horrid familiars (her goat and its kid) deep in the dark caverns of Wookey Hole. The local people believed she was a witch  and everything that went wrong in the village was blamed on her.  She took her feelings out on the townspeople, causing their crops to fail, storms, drinking habits to change and their milk to turn sour, and even causing them to suffer terrible plagues of disease. In desperation they called for Father Bernard, the man whom the witch had caused to become a monk. Acknowledging their need, his superior, The Abbot of Glastonbury, obliged and appointed him to exorcise the Witch.

Father Bernard had particular skill in such matters, being deeply versed in the exorcising of necromancers and wizards. The villagers led the Father to the shadow of the cliff at the valleys end where his keen grey eyes rested on the entrance to the rock; then he looked up to the sky, as if in invocation. Father Bernard approached the entrance to the caves flanked by villagers, but as they drew closer, one by one they halted in their approach, too frightened to continue. Indeed, the priest himself must have felt some fear, unfastening the rosary and the crucifix about his neck, but, believing his God to be with him, he continued into the dark caverns and was swallowed up by the interior darkness of the hill.

For a time, with his arms stretched out before him, the monk groped blindly onwards, and already the tunnel he traversed appeared to be unending, when a point of feeble light shone through the blackness. He pressed on until he was within the threshold of the first cavern.

Something moved by the stone lamp set on the floor at the farther side. A crouching heap of rags stirred, heaved and then erected itself into the uncertain light from the wisp of flame. A peering form, gaunt and terrible, confronted the monk across the width of the cavern. The pale features of the stranger were barely visible in the gloom; the face of the Witch glared in full, misshapen relief above the flicker of yellow light.

There was a hissing intake of breath, a lean arm shot out towards the Benedictine, and a gloating chuckle sounded through the chamber. Then a voice, malignant and threatening, addressed him; "Rash beyond all reason, why comest thou to look on me? "

The beads were swiftly passing beneath the touch of Father Bernard's fingers, but his answer sounded high and calm in the quiet of the cave.

"It is Holy Mother Church that bids thee. Repent O misguided spirit, and leave thy wickedness ere judgment overtake thee. Thou troublest heaven with thy sorceries and thy mischiefs are abhorred of all mankind. Repent; put away the powers of evil, for thy spells shall not avail thee against the wrath that is to come."

The arm was gradually withdrawn, and behind the monk rose a sound of hoarse and laboured breathing. Father Bernard lifted up the crucifix and never turned his head. Ss he finished speaking he realised the Witch was muttering something into the pool, when she fell silent he tried again," Woman " he said solemnly, " I say once more, Repent; for thy wizardry can harm me not." An empty hush came down on the cave again, but for a moment only; then peal after peal of long-drawn laughter, beating on the ears and distracting the senses, ran round the gloomy void. 

A circle of livid light grew about the rock on which the Benedictine stood, and a thick haze interposed between the Witch and the hooded figure of the man.With his lips moving silently, and his eyes riveted on the obscuring outline of the Witch, the monk advanced. As he stepped beyond the confining ring of flame with unscorched robes, a rending crash shook the Cave, and a mass of rock, breaking out of the lofty roof, fell headlong over the place he had just forsaken. With a shriek of execration and anger, the hag sprang back towards the river, signing swiftly with her hand. She fled deeper into the cave down a narrow passageway called Hell’s Ladder. The brave monk followed her and they met again in the shadowy depths of an inner cavern.Father Bernard had raised his  hand. His gaze was relentless and fixed, and a stern and quelling authority showed in his aspect. 

The Witch checked, and halted suddenly immovable, while a shadow of fear flashed across her intent and baleful visage. In strong, unhurried tones the monk was speaking, and the sonorous Latin phrases rang with a hollow echo through the cavern. Quickly, Father Bernard scooped up a handful of water from the river, blessed it and threw it over the witch. The Witch of Wookey convulsively stiffened, as if held in an invisible grasp. The glare froze in her eyes, and her lips writhed back in an effort to frame a final malediction. Her evil figure subtly changed, appearing to solidify and straighten; the tattered garments seemed to sink in and merge with her aged flesh. A supreme tremor passed into an unbreathing, deathly rigour, and, as the monk's voice ceased, only a stony image reared itself by the unheeding river. She had turned instantly to stone and her frozen figure remains in this cavern - known as The Witch’s Kitchen - to this day.

Folding his black robe about him, Father Bernard turned towards the way he had come. As he gained the rocky passage, the oil in the lamp sent up a hovering tongue of flame and went out

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