my paranormal awakaning in dorset uk

firstly i must say sorry for any miss spelling or annoying punctuation... i will try and spell check but im dyslexic...so try and let it slide.


now to the point...


i used to be a heavy skeptic of everything paranormal.. untill my own experiences.


the first brings me back to two summers ago whe me and 4 close freinds went searching for haunted spots in our local area.

The first we visted was knowlton church...

www.knowlton.clara.net...

this is connected with badburry rings.... witch sit on lay lines and old roman roads.

en.wikipedia.org...

anyways back to the story...
to set the seen we had had a boring day gone down the pub for a drink very late in the evening (bout an hour before closing) and a few games of pool.

At this point me and my friend david have had a beer or 2. my friend smith was sober as he was a driver as was cock boy “bad nick name but his name” and rob had joined us late and had had one beer.

So we left the pub at approximately 11:20

obviously with the knowledge of driving to a haunted area our spirits where a bit high telling story's etc.... I was with dave n cock boy.....rob and smith in the other car.

We arrived at the site. Witch if you look at the link is a small church built on old lay lines and a roman hill fort... quite a small site.

Well since we where already pre freaked out due to apprehension it was a bit of a disappointment.

Nothing relay scary some nice ruins so we sat down and me and jones decided to smoke a joint. .. we then were all chatting and looking up at the starts trying to make out the consolations ( note at this point absolutely clear night no clouds just the moon and stars in the sky...amazing veiw!!) we had pretty much given up on a paranormal experience at this point.

Then a lull happened in general conversation and everyone fell silent staring up at the stars.


At this point I have to point out where we where sitting .. on the first link I posted you can see a side on photo of the ruins we where in the middle on the side you see.

[edit on 3-3-2008 by jericanman]

This is when I senced something in the far of the ruins like something was looking at me.... I was re lighting the joint so I passed it off as paranoia. Then it happened.

I heard a set of footsteps thudding past me round the the whole building..12-13 steps in all a very long stride and it sounded like someone very heavy set running on gravel or something hard .... a real thud thud.


My very first thought that sprang threw my head was dont worry its a dear get loads of dear in dorset.......then my brain kicked in ....you dont hear deer they just spring out silent like ...and on top of that there was no galloping sound more like a 2 legged sprint .this realization set my hairs on end...

at this point mere split seconds later I turned to jones who I was stinting next to sharing the joint I said did you hear that ..he had a frightened look and just nodded..... I stood up and then asked smith and cock boy. At this point just thought we where sketching cus of toking (even though we are hardened smokers) smith looked at me like I was mad ...so did rob they heard nothing. Cock boy heard the same thing (he was a driver so stone cold sober!!!) this all happened in a few seconds...

as soon as I knew I had heard something I ran to where the sound stopped at the corner of the building... there was nothing there

Then something happened that everyone noticed...it suddenly got darker... now as I said urlyer it was cloudless and moon lit nothing can make it suddenly get darker outer than a could over the moon...thins was not the case... it got so bad we spent at least 3-4mins stumbling around trying to find the path.


Now this shud be very easy as the path is clipped very short and showed very nicely in the moonlight when we went in. ( from the areal photo you can see its a circle with one way in and out from the road.we couldest find this!!!)


this really got us freaked out, even rob and smith that hadnt heard anything because they noticed this.

The cars where parked facing the church... I jumped in with jones and coxboy as that was the car I got ther in and it had my skateboard...any way when the lights when on the building became siloeted.... I had to turn away as we drove off as the shadows in the windows and tops of the ruins where moving you could clearly see things moving in and out of the prominent building siloet.... ( I must point out only me jones and rob noticed this). Then we drove off fast

the whole experience left me feeling freaked.

Plz note before putting this down to drugs im a hardened stoner one measly joint shared is nothing plus ...the main plus because I wouldn't have believed my own senses otherwise... cockboy also heard the noises... and everyone noticed the dark ...and a mixture noticed the shadows.


We have been there many times since hoping to experience something else....but allase nothing..

I wud post my outher experience but I think this post is getting on a bit now.....


anyway the church as ledges with the devil removing the church bell allways wondered if what we heard / happened was the deviel somehow ...or maby a lesser demon...not realy shure what it was but definatly real

just a link www.twilightshadowsparanormal.com...

to some of the paranormal stuff associated with the place... well the local legends.

guess this is a dead thread then

It sounds like one heckuva night. What do you mean by paranormal awakenings though. Do you mean you now sense ghosts around you all the time, see auras that sorta thing or just kind of like that popped your paranormal cherry? Anyways, cool story but speaking from experience don't directly mention drugs you'll catch a smack down from a mod.

i meant more i believed in the paranormal ..now i know

and ill remember the drugs thing....just wanted to portray the night as it happened.intoxicated and all... i know it gives flamers an excuse but i know what happened and no amount of discredit due to a .."minor drug use" will discredit that in my minds eye

Well firstly gotta say you and your mates sound like a laugh. Its all about a cheeky smoke or two in creepy places. I believe you when you say it wasn't the weed, you know how much you can take without your senses being affected. Its weird, I've not been to much of dorset but it seems to have quite a few haunted places. I would have been completely freaked out by the noises too, you should go back there and take some pictures. You might find that there are things there that you can't see with the naked eye.

When is the next story? I'm intrigued.

[edit on 21-4-2010 by eyesdown]

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we have been back a few times.. 2 times with a camcorder the only thing we got was a weird very low pitched church bell sound that was on the tape but we never heard while their... it rang 12 times in the recording... ill ask my mate dave jones (from the night from the original experience) if he still has it

yeh dorset has load of apparently haunted sites.. we visited loads that summer this was the only place we experienced anything

p.s thanx for creating some life in my very dead thread

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No probs

Would be interesting to hear that recording. If the church bell rang twelve times does that correspond to the time you were there? Also I saw you post this link in another thread about the devils stamping ground or something, did you think that the things you experienced on that night had something to do with the devil? I don't personally believe in a devil, just curious how you came to think about that (if in fact you did).

Originally posted by jericanman
firstly i must say sorry for any miss spelling or annoying punctuation... i will try and spell check but im dyslexic...so try and let it slide.


now to the point...


i used to be a heavy skeptic of everything paranormal.. untill my own experiences.


the first brings me back to two summers ago whe me and 4 close freinds went searching for haunted spots in our local area.

The first we visted was knowlton church...

www.knowlton.clara.net...

this is connected with badburry rings.... witch sit on lay lines and old roman roads.

en.wikipedia.org...

anyways back to the story...
to set the seen we had had a boring day gone down the pub for a drink very late in the evening (bout an hour before closing) and a few games of pool.

At this point me and my friend david have had a beer or 2. my friend smith was sober as he was a driver as was cock boy “bad nick name but his name” and rob had joined us late and had had one beer.

So we left the pub at approximately 11:20

obviously with the knowledge of driving to a haunted area our spirits where a bit high telling story's etc.... I was with dave n cock boy.....rob and smith in the other car.

We arrived at the site. Witch if you look at the link is a small church built on old lay lines and a roman hill fort... quite a small site.

Well since we where already pre freaked out due to apprehension it was a bit of a disappointment.

Nothing relay scary some nice ruins so we sat down and me and jones decided to smoke a joint. .. we then were all chatting and looking up at the starts trying to make out the consolations ( note at this point absolutely clear night no clouds just the moon and stars in the sky...amazing veiw!!) we had pretty much given up on a paranormal experience at this point.

Then a lull happened in general conversation and everyone fell silent staring up at the stars.


At this point I have to point out where we where sitting .. on the first link I posted you can see a side on photo of the ruins we where in the middle on the side you see.

[edit on 3-3-2008 by jericanman]

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reply to post by jericanmanI dont know that church, but I remember Badbury Rings as pretty spooky. Do you know Spetisbury Ring? I've had a few paranormal experiences near there. I've seen a ghost only twice. Once was there.
Another place worth checking out is an island in the Stour in Blandford. I think its private property, but when I was there the house it's closest to was unoccupied. Its just downriver from the bridge by the entrance to Bryanston School. The river is very shallow so its easy enough to wade.

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dont suppoze you know the post coeds of those locations or could give me a link with google maps or something.

then i could punch it into satnav and take a look.

reply to post by jericanmanHere's a link to Spetisbury: www.strollingguides.co.uk.... The best way to get onto the hill fort without having to trespass over someone's house is to 1st get onto the old railway, which actually cuts through part of the ancient earthwork. You can see its on the west side of the A350. The fort itself is between the turnoff over Crawford Bridge & the village shop, both on the east side of the road. You'd have to go through a garden to get to it from the main road there tho. If you walk down the old railway, you can tell where the rings are because there are a lot of flints lying around.
The island in Blandford is close to the east bank of the Stour, very near the carpark of the supermarket that edges onto the river right by the bridge over to Bryanston. Literally, you can just walk through the shallows downriver from there. There was a wrecked flimsy bridge from the garden of a house onto the island, but I'd guess if its been repaired, someone wouldn't be happy about you being there!
This pub is very close by & not bad: www.beerintheevening.com...

thanx for posting a detailed location. its something ill have to check out this summer

would you mind sharing your paranormal events at Spetisbury. im eager to read them