I visited The wood a few years back, twice a week apart from each visit. I saw very strange things including weird woven tree art and ritualistic wooden structures in a ring shaped clearing. I got followed by a couple twice. On the edge of the wood was a strange stick with black wax on it and symbols written in black ink. I knew not to touch it, perhaps a magical totem or boundary marker. There was a giant beech tree in the deeper part...a huge haunting ancient thing, in its boughs up high in the tree there is the carved words “death is coming”. It is a truly creepy place mostly because it feels like the whole village knows and might even be witches themselves.
i just read about this place in Andrew Collins book called the black alchemist which is why I came to youtube to hear more about it , thanks for this awesome report on the woods , I'm based in Essex so only hour and half away , next sunday I am going over to have a good luck around
Oh awesome, I've not read that, I'll definitely check it out! Let's hope for nice weather, there are some great little areas around there to stop into for pub lunch with great views.
Dark Histories the black alchemist book mentions a lot of great places around brentwood. Wickford area including runwell church which has the burnt inprint of the devils clawed hand print on the inside of the church door. I got my copy on ebay Im looking forward to sunday to get to clapham woods i went in the library this morning to look for books related to the woods but they dont stock any so i will research for book shops in clapham that stock local history books. I want to visit clapham church as well and find the shelley family memorial Ive been looking for a map of the woods as well including the ring and the chustnuts so i know interesting areas to look for
that is an amazing book, as is the sequel, The Second Coming. Toyne Newton also looked at it in The Dark Worship, but that one is more amateurish and the research a bit off in places
I’ve been listening to your episodes and now revisiting this older one. It’s so atmospheric, and how on earth does a horse go missing?! Love this channel. Thank you Ben.
I went to Clapham woods over twenty years ago, my friends locked me out the car and there was a figure standing outside the church, this was two in the morning, I ran and never went back again lol
Brilliant summary of events. I am planning on visiting the area at some point over the coming months as this case has fascinated me since about 1990. Not sure what to make of it, if I'm honest, so I shall be maintaining a healthy scepticism to balance out my enduring fascination with the Friends of Hecate.
I live very close to Clapham wood and have walked it many times both at day and night, this latest time I was walking around it this past weekend with 2 friends at around 11pm I was hit on the back of the head by what felt like a hand, it wasn’t hard but hard enough to almost knock my hat off I turned around expecting it to be one of my friends only to see he was over 10 ft behind me and there was no over hanging branches or anything at I’ll that could of done it. It was very strange but make of it what you will.
The woods of England are overrun by satanists, occultists, pagan hecate worshipers, and witches. no wonder the UK is having so many problems these days with fascism on the rise, constant camera surveillance, and imported thugs from the third world that the government imports to oppress the native British people...
I had a book that I only read the first one or two chapters as it freaked me and I threw it out. It was written by a man who claimed to belong to a number of secret societies and cults. The one at Clapham was home to a cult that sacrificed to Hecate, particularly dogs as they believe she loves dogs and if sacrificed to her they stay with her in spirit. However, if they couldn't get hold of a dog they would try and take a different animal. Once, a horse went missing when the owner went into a bush to relieve himself for mere minutes. He wrote that the vicar was among them along with a top psychiatrist and local authority top employees as well as other powerful people, some of whom travelled from London and elsewhere. He also wrote that they had built a hideaway behind the church and it was necessary to go through the churchyard to reach it. The book must have been written pre-1987 when Britain had the great hurricane, as I later read elsewhere that their hideaway was wrecked beyond rebuild by the storm, no longer able to hide a new one in the that spot due to so many trees being blown away by their roots and others that didn't blow over suffering loss of major branches. That doesn't mean they didn't rebuild elsewhere not too far away. Chances are they might have used the church itself at times, I would guess. I also read elsewhere that a police officer was investigating what seemed to be an unusual murder of another man. He was apparently relentless and went there. He was also murdered. There has been at least one child murder not so far from there. A little girl who is was going along a field just before or a little way behind her two slightly older brothers. The bstd who did that was caught and he might not have had anything to do with the cult. It was strange though that he would have been apparently on his own and have stumbled on the child at the same short time she was out of sight of her brothers for only a few minutes, in such an isolated area. No report of him working or walking a dog or having any other usual reason to be wandering around there 'on his own'. So who knows? I am not given to being easily creeped but I would not go over to County line to go there and if I had unknowingly moved into such an area I would have quickly moved on. I have never heard or read of anything anywhere else where there are so many horrible experiences by some of those local to there. Having said that, Lewes (also in E Sussex) has a reputation for some dodgy types that I wouldn't want to meet on a dark night.
@@iamthatguyfromslipknot1137it was quite some years ago so unfortunately I have forgotten the name of the book and the name of the author. I am sorry I can't help you.
There's a grave there for a dog that went missing there are some mtb jumps there I go there all the time and the grave for the dog is quite often visited
Man this is great but would be sooooooo much better w/rolling pics & depictions of the area and the people and whatnot. add some visuals and watch your viewership rise.
Hearing someone who kinda sounds like myself, reading the exact words that I just read somewhere else is a very weird layer of icing on already weird subject
This is a big forest/wood and the weather conditions can play a part, on a dry, clear night if you are in the right place, you will experience paranormal or supernatural activity.. Yes people may of stayed in certain parts and had a peaceful time. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not haunted.. When the wildlife goes dead quite! Something is about to happen. I don’t disbelieve anyone’s comment saying they experienced something that they couldn’t explain. Go to Cannock chase or Sherwood Forest 😂 and walk deep into the woods, and I guarantee you you’ll experience a supernatural experience.. It’s how you deal with it. We tend to put fear in our minds, because we tell ourselves to be fearful! Why? Especially when we don’t know what is going to happen, and the more fear you show, the more you feed the negative entities that are at these places, and people going through hauntings at home. It can be extremely fearful if you don’t know how to deal with it. There’s usually a reason why these experiences happen to the people that have them.. Its understanding why?
OK could you explain dogs foaming at the mouth and a feking hors diserpiring I mean iv lost my car keys in the woods before not a horse how do you come to understand that...
I'm sure I came across this cult yesterday in Sussex. I went on an explore to find a guy digging a grave. Inside was plastic sheet with blood on and a pigs head and feet 😮 no idea what he was burying as I left
Been there on my own in 2004.Around 11-12 pm. Experiences akin to what I have read. Most enlightening time of my life and also the most scariest. Turn fear around and it becomes something else, the energy of that is not easily explained has to be experienced. And when you have experienced fear grow to a energy that is not easily explained you will know something is protecting you. And that is perhaps ones GAngel.
Yes, if you were to be Christian Orthodox ! Otherwise no Holy Guardian Angel for heretics and schismatics and obviously satan worshippers ,like the very grand majority of your countrymen !
I now a paranormal investigator! Most of my life has been around paranormal. I have been to clappem woods and iv fallen in love with the tree that some people fear! There is no reason to be scrard of that tree
What’s interesting to me about the voice heard in the woods.... Do cults really refer to themselves as such? “Cult” is a derogatory term, and groups generally take offense at being called a cult. It reminds me of the JonBenet Ramsay case (murder of a young girl in Colorado), where the (quite obviously faked) kidnapping letter featured kidnappers who referred to themselves as “a small foreign faction”. FBI profilers immediately targeted on this red flag, as “small foreign factions” like dramatic names like “People’s Liberation Army” and such. They don’t refer to themselves as “small foreign factions”. 🤣 So the voice in the wood scenario is a bit sketchy for me.
You make a solid point that I never considered, it does seem weird, doesn't it? tbh whilst the book he wrote was fascinating, it did seem to me to be a bit of a yarn. I thought that perhaps more than anything, it might have been someone pulling a bit of a prank on him perhaps if we take his story at face value.
Absolutely, I live just down the road and have been to the woods a fair few times, never knew this happened until I started doing this so I found the whole thing really interesting! Amazing how easy it can be to miss the local stuff.
OMG Yes! I saw your "Do cults really refer to themselves as such?" and instantly thought of the JBR letter where the author refers to herself as a "small foreign faction." Would a "foreign" faction refer to itself as such? I realize this comment is far too late but I'm startled by the coincidence.
@ overlyCaffinated Squirrel.. I see how you would have stood against Journalist Henry Stanley. So sad people with such a denying spirit cannot learn to allow for opposing thoughts.
I wanted to pause in my binge-fest to compliment you on your exhaustive research and excellent presentation. There isn't a bad episode in the bunch!
I visited The wood a few years back, twice a week apart from each visit. I saw very strange things including weird woven tree art and ritualistic wooden structures in a ring shaped clearing. I got followed by a couple twice. On the edge of the wood was a strange stick with black wax on it and symbols written in black ink. I knew not to touch it, perhaps a magical totem or boundary marker. There was a giant beech tree in the deeper part...a huge haunting ancient thing, in its boughs up high in the tree there is the carved words “death is coming”. It is a truly creepy place mostly because it feels like the whole village knows and might even be witches themselves.
That is a creepy story!
I love your channel. Truth is way creepier. In the hospital listening to this playlist at night while thunder and lightning outside. Perfect
Hope you have left the hospital weeks ago !
@@nicu-andreipaduraru9634 rumour has it she is still there still listening,,,hooo scary..😨..
i just read about this place in Andrew Collins book called the black alchemist which is why I came to youtube to hear more about it , thanks for this awesome report on the woods , I'm based in Essex so only hour and half away , next sunday I am going over to have a good luck around
Oh awesome, I've not read that, I'll definitely check it out! Let's hope for nice weather, there are some great little areas around there to stop into for pub lunch with great views.
Dark Histories the black alchemist book mentions a lot of great places around brentwood. Wickford area including runwell church which has the burnt inprint of the devils clawed hand print on the inside of the church door. I got my copy on ebay Im looking forward to sunday to get to clapham woods i went in the library this morning to look for books related to the woods but they dont stock any so i will research for book shops in clapham that stock local history books. I want to visit clapham church as well and find the shelley family memorial Ive been looking for a map of the woods as well including the ring and the chustnuts so i know interesting areas to look for
that is an amazing book, as is the sequel, The Second Coming. Toyne Newton also looked at it in The Dark Worship, but that one is more amateurish and the research a bit off in places
I’ve been listening to your episodes and now revisiting this older one. It’s so atmospheric, and how on earth does a horse go missing?! Love this channel. Thank you Ben.
Easily one of my favorite episodes. Keep it up, Ben!
I went to Clapham woods over twenty years ago, my friends locked me out the car and there was a figure standing outside the church, this was two in the morning, I ran and never went back again lol
sod that.. haha
@@DarkHistories I know, don't know what it was but I wasn't hanging around to find out lol
I think I'd have knocked my friends over the head for that prank!
Which such friends you don't need enemies .
Wow
Brilliant summary of events. I am planning on visiting the area at some point over the coming months as this case has fascinated me since about 1990. Not sure what to make of it, if I'm honest, so I shall be maintaining a healthy scepticism to balance out my enduring fascination with the Friends of Hecate.
So... Did you ever visit?
Just to note.. Tyrones nans dog in Coronation street is called Cerberus. Synchronicity is alive and well and living on a soap set in Manchester..
I found your video because Walter Bosley did reading from a book by Tonye Newton and I went searching for “Friends of Hecate.”
I live very close to Clapham wood and have walked it many times both at day and night, this latest time I was walking around it this past weekend with 2 friends at around 11pm I was hit on the back of the head by what felt like a hand, it wasn’t hard but hard enough to almost knock my hat off I turned around expecting it to be one of my friends only to see he was over 10 ft behind me and there was no over hanging branches or anything at I’ll that could of done it. It was very strange but make of it what you will.
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The woods of England are overrun by satanists, occultists, pagan hecate worshipers, and witches. no wonder the UK is having so many problems these days with fascism on the rise, constant camera surveillance, and imported thugs from the third world that the government imports to oppress the native British people...
I had a book that I only read the first one or two chapters as it freaked me and I threw it out. It was written by a man who claimed to belong to a number of secret societies and cults. The one at Clapham was home to a cult that sacrificed to Hecate, particularly dogs as they believe she loves dogs and if sacrificed to her they stay with her in spirit. However, if they couldn't get hold of a dog they would try and take a different animal. Once, a horse went missing when the owner went into a bush to relieve himself for mere minutes.
He wrote that the vicar was among them along with a top psychiatrist and local authority top employees as well as other powerful people, some of whom travelled from London and elsewhere.
He also wrote that they had built a hideaway behind the church and it was necessary to go through the churchyard to reach it. The book must have been written pre-1987 when Britain had the great hurricane, as I later read elsewhere that their hideaway was wrecked beyond rebuild by the storm, no longer able to hide a new one in the that spot due to so many trees being blown away by their roots and others that didn't blow over suffering loss of major branches. That doesn't mean they didn't rebuild elsewhere not too far away. Chances are they might have used the church itself at times, I would guess.
I also read elsewhere that a police officer was investigating what seemed to be an unusual murder of another man. He was apparently relentless and went there. He was also murdered. There has been at least one child murder not so far from there. A little girl who is was going along a field just before or a little way behind her two slightly older brothers. The bstd who did that was caught and he might not have had anything to do with the cult. It was strange though that he would have been apparently on his own and have stumbled on the child at the same short time she was out of sight of her brothers for only a few minutes, in such an isolated area. No report of him working or walking a dog or having any other usual reason to be wandering around there 'on his own'. So who knows?
I am not given to being easily creeped but I would not go over to County line to go there and if I had unknowingly moved into such an area I would have quickly moved on. I have never heard or read of anything anywhere else where there are so many horrible experiences by some of those local to there. Having said that, Lewes (also in E Sussex) has a reputation for some dodgy types that I wouldn't want to meet on a dark night.
What was the name of the book please mate as id love to read it if i could get a copy somewhere..
@@iamthatguyfromslipknot1137it was quite some years ago so unfortunately I have forgotten the name of the book and the name of the author. I am sorry I can't help you.
The pit that was mentioned is a plague pit. A mass grave for victims of plague. I'd say medieval.
Yep thats when the plague was as i dont think the black death has ever been about twice,,lol..
@@iamthatguyfromslipknot1137 black death went through multiple times, wasn't just once.
There's a grave there for a dog that went missing there are some mtb jumps there I go there all the time and the grave for the dog is quite often visited
Man this is great but would be sooooooo much better w/rolling pics & depictions of the area and the people and whatnot. add some visuals and watch your viewership rise.
When you mentioned Clapham, I thought you meant the London District most famous for Clapham Junction.
Yeah, a friend of mine bought this subject to my attention and I thought he meant Clapham, London too and this Clapham is actually local to me!
Yes I admit it took me a moment as well :D
I thought he meant Clapham Common but got it wrong!
Thank you, another excellent episode!
Hearing someone who kinda sounds like myself, reading the exact words that I just read somewhere else is a very weird layer of icing on already weird subject
The missing dogs were shot by the gamekeeper. Sad, but true.
This is a big forest/wood and the weather conditions can play a part, on a dry, clear night if you are in the right place, you will experience paranormal or supernatural activity..
Yes people may of stayed in certain parts and had a peaceful time.
But that doesn’t mean that it’s not haunted..
When the wildlife goes dead quite!
Something is about to happen.
I don’t disbelieve anyone’s comment saying they experienced something that they couldn’t explain.
Go to Cannock chase or Sherwood Forest 😂 and walk deep into the woods, and I guarantee you you’ll experience a supernatural experience..
It’s how you deal with it.
We tend to put fear in our minds, because we tell ourselves to be fearful!
Why? Especially when we don’t know what is going to happen, and the more fear you show, the more you feed the negative entities that are at these places, and people going through hauntings at home.
It can be extremely fearful if you don’t know how to deal with it.
There’s usually a reason why these experiences happen to the people that have them.. Its understanding why?
OK could you explain dogs foaming at the mouth and a feking hors diserpiring I mean iv lost my car keys in the woods before not a horse how do you come to understand that...
David stringer also passed away
I'm sure I came across this cult yesterday in Sussex. I went on an explore to find a guy digging a grave. Inside was plastic sheet with blood on and a pigs head and feet 😮 no idea what he was burying as I left
Been there on my own in 2004.Around 11-12 pm. Experiences akin to what I have read. Most enlightening time of my life and also the most scariest. Turn fear around and it becomes something else, the energy of that is not easily explained has to be experienced. And when you have experienced fear grow to a energy that is not easily explained you will know something is protecting you. And that is perhaps ones GAngel.
Yes, if you were to be Christian Orthodox !
Otherwise no Holy Guardian Angel for heretics and schismatics and obviously satan worshippers ,like the very grand majority of your countrymen !
listening from the ukwales 2021❤️
Those experiments regarding the “Wick effect” appears completely useless as they not only used Accelerant but also took out the pigs organs first??
Stick to the path and stay off the moors
I now a paranormal investigator! Most of my life has been around paranormal. I have been to clappem woods and iv fallen in love with the tree that some people fear! There is no reason to be scrard of that tree
What’s interesting to me about the voice heard in the woods.... Do cults really refer to themselves as such? “Cult” is a derogatory term, and groups generally take offense at being called a cult.
It reminds me of the JonBenet Ramsay case (murder of a young girl in Colorado), where the (quite obviously faked) kidnapping letter featured kidnappers who referred to themselves as “a small foreign faction”. FBI profilers immediately targeted on this red flag, as “small foreign factions” like dramatic names like “People’s Liberation Army” and such. They don’t refer to themselves as “small foreign factions”. 🤣
So the voice in the wood scenario is a bit sketchy for me.
You make a solid point that I never considered, it does seem weird, doesn't it? tbh whilst the book he wrote was fascinating, it did seem to me to be a bit of a yarn. I thought that perhaps more than anything, it might have been someone pulling a bit of a prank on him perhaps if we take his story at face value.
Dark Histories - Still a fascinating tale that I thoroughly enjoyed, as always!
Absolutely, I live just down the road and have been to the woods a fair few times, never knew this happened until I started doing this so I found the whole thing really interesting! Amazing how easy it can be to miss the local stuff.
J McIntosh its because the guy who came up with this old crap was a right Walter Mitty weirdo.
OMG Yes! I saw your "Do cults really refer to themselves as such?" and instantly thought of the JBR letter where the author refers to herself as a "small foreign faction." Would a "foreign" faction refer to itself as such?
I realize this comment is far too late but I'm startled by the coincidence.
Charles walker has passed away
We are camping up there tomorrow night thumbs up for an update
How did you get on
same we must meet up :)
Paul glover is my dad
@ overlyCaffinated Squirrel.. I see how you would have stood against Journalist Henry Stanley. So sad people with such a denying spirit cannot learn to allow for opposing thoughts.
Mazuku...
You should warn people before you recite demonic incantations while most are in their own homes listening to this.