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Northy
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:59:28 AM

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What do you think is the spookiest place you've been to in England? When I was a kid there was a tunnel under a railway line in some woods close to where I lived. People used to say it was haunted, so a few friends and myself went down there one night to find out, in the dark!

As we approached the bridge through a wooded path we could see the shape of a hooded figure standing in the middle of the tunnel. We stood watching it and a train went over the bridge. Simultaneously a wild gust of wind blew and we thought we heard a loud voice shouting "who are you?" in all the noise.

I was so frightened. Whilst running away I fell but got straight up and starting running again to keep up with my friends. Only when we were at a safe enough distance to stop did I look down to realise I'd badly cut my leg.

We went back the next night and the hooded figure was still there. After repeating our visits over several nights and finding the hooded figure in the same position we concluded it must have really been a shadow, a trick of light and the way the trees were formed in the background. As the for the voice, well who knows...

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katie1
Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008 12:15:46 AM

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Not that I have been there but the story I found about Parsonage Wood above Castle Coombe in Wiltshire has to take some beating. All those unknown terrible noises in the dark. I don't think I'd be visiting!

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SteveC
Posted: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:53:50 PM

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katie1 wrote:
Not that I have been there but the story I found about Parsonage Wood above Castle Coombe in Wiltshire has to take some beating. All those unknown terrible noises in the dark. I don't think I'd be visiting!

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Castle Combe is, more-or less, in the main crop circle target zone. That is a high spookiness zone. Mind you I’m personally haunted, so I wouldn’t know the difference in spookiness between Avebury and Altringham.

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Hi SteveC - I see from your post in the Introduce yourself thread you've lived in three consecutive haunted houses! This sounds a bit spooky. What has happened? Anxious
SteveC
Posted: Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:43:50 AM

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Northy wrote:
Hi SteveC - I see from your post in the Introduce yourself thread you've lived in three consecutive haunted houses! This sounds a bit spooky. What has happened? Anxious


I am going to address this strange spookiness on two different websites at the same time, so I’ve written a word document. You see, it isn’t that there have been three consecutive haunted houses; it is that the ghostly activities have followed. If anyone is familiar with the 1974 movie ‘Zardoz’, then the parallel can be found in the concept of being able to play god because you have advanced space technology to play with. From my 1992 electronics work on the crop circles in Hampshire (which, quite logically, incorporates the crop circles of Wiltshire), I was able to deduce that I was picking up UFO noise. Although this UFO noise had apparently followed me back 90 miles from Cheesefoot Head (near Winchester), it eventually became clear that I had been under surveillance for a long time before that. There was an occasion, at the second haunted address, where ghostly activity and UFOs occurred in perfect synchrony. We had a spirit writer with us, as a guest. The spirit writer was writing messages from ET, and ran from our place in sheer terror. As with the UFOs, the relationship between humanity and crop circles is the other way around. Humans are the primary target, with crop circles as a projection (metaphorically speaking).


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The following write-up is a modification/abridgement of an earlier piece that I’d written about the ‘Gizmo’. ‘Gizmo’ is merely a pet name for an unusual type of electronic sensor. Here, the gizmo is an electronic link to crop circles. Historically, this work also extends backwards in time, and is to be found in the 1899 Nikola Tesla case. Tesla believed that he was receiving Morse code messages from Mars. He naturally assumed this, because no transmitters existed on earth at that precise moment. Nevertheless, what I am about to tell you does have a significance.

Of course, by attempting to dissociate these signals from terra firma Tesla had missed the glaringly obvious. Not to worry, in my initial confusion I’d made a similar logical error. Let’s face it, no Martian would be able to transmit Morse Code signals, unless that being knew about Morse Code. Back in 1899, nobody had transmitted radio Morse Code. For this reason, no genuinely alien intelligences could have even known about the existence of Morse code.

Whoever, or whatever, had sent Tesla the Morse code signals had to have known about human endeavours. Similarly, the signals that I’d received 93 years later possessed a reversible logic that equally demonstrated Tesla’s conundrum. Whoever it was, its knowledge implied that it had to be close to humanity. Would a truly alien intelligence synchronise to British Summer Time? Would a truly alien intelligence understand the meaning, or concept, of Telegraph Hill? Indeed, there are logical impossibilities to consider in the Gizmo case that could only be rectified by the assertion that I’d been under personal surveillance prior to signal detection.

The early gizmos could not have worked, as they were based upon the concept of radio interference from crop circles. I could not have known about this bizarre transmission method at the time of the original experiments. Yet, at 00:30 Hrs BST, on the 31st of May 1992, a detector that could not have worked was made to work by an unseen intelligence. By default, whoever was transmitting the signals had to have known exactly why that gizmo detector would not have worked. My assertion is that whoever it was that had transmitted the signals had to have been monitoring me. This was a certainty, as it was necessary in order to artificially generate a signal that would affect that early gizmo.

The story behind ‘The Gizmo’, by Stephen Clementson.

The Gizmo, as it came to be known, only formed a minuscule part of a vast array of bizarre phenomena. Nevertheless, the Gizmo supplied an awful lot of data, although the method of information extraction frequently employed observational techniques that were essentially the reverse of the norm. In this passage, I have attempted to provide as much information as I can. But over the course of an entire decade’s worth of research into a number of factors, such results become a mighty tome. Furthermore, the connections are not always so clear.


Very much entangled within the overall scheme, this device was born as a response to several electrical interference reports from TV camera crews in English crop circles. Until the spring of 1992, I was completely unaware of such reports. But then I got to read about them in a crop circle book, published a year-or-so earlier. There were two such reports, one from 1989, and the other, dated 1990, pertained to the first crop formation that my wife and I had ever visited. Although that occurrence represents a story in its own right, the strange event that took place that summer’s day in 1990 added substantial weight to the subsequent electrical interference report.

The original design objective was based on the premise that this interference was electro-magnetic, and was occurring at the high-end of the audio spectrum. I stuck with that scheme, and had another crack at the problem. The second attempt had not yielded any results. But circumstances would dramatically change in early hours of the 31st of May 1992. Meandering through the countryside, stopping at a pub on the way, we made our way to Cheesefoot Head, Hampshire: a known crop circle hotspot in 1992. Cheesefoot Head is located close to the ancient town of Winchester.

We arrived at the Cheesefoot Head Car park around midnight, and found that there were already a number of people keeping an eye of the crop fields. Out of curiosity, I switched the Gizmo on. According to this device, there was nothing unusual happening, or, at least not at that stage. But at precisely 00:30 hours BST (on May 31 1992) an inexplicable radiant heat was felt by all the watchers, seemingly associated by unexplained flashes of light in the woods behind us. At that precise moment, the previously silent earpiece of the Gizmo started to emit pulsing noises. It was oscillating, as though receiving a pounding from an extremely strong, local transmitter.

At precisely the same moment, our dog, Heidi, began to act rather oddly. She was sitting in the back of our estate car, and had been a contented passenger up until that particular moment. Suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, Heidi became terrified. She was growling in self-defence at something threatening that none of us could sense. There were other dogs on site, but none of them were in the slightest bit perturbed. We’d seen nothing like this since visiting a Wiltshire crop formation, back in 1990. In that instance, Heidi had become inexplicably petrified.

Meanwhile, that pounding signal would go on for some time, enabling me to ascertain that there was some directionality to it. However, I could not identify the source, nor could I see the amazing sight that two other, quite independent, researchers were seeing. (Unfortunately, the Gizmo was unable to differentiate between signal sources that were in front, from those that were behind, its single detector coil. The only strategy I had devised to overcome this problem was to triangulate, which involved moving the Gizmo through two positions.) In any case, it wouldn’t be until the early hours of daylight that I, along with other night watchers, would spot the result of the previous night’s activities.

Not far from where we had been watching, on the other side of the road, there was field of green barley. In that barley crop, we could see the tracing of a five circle set. It was clearly incomplete, in as much as the crop hadn’t fallen. There was a small white van in the rough car parking area behind that barley field. As we approached, we could see that the two male occupants of the van were asleep. The sound of our approach appeared to disturb the slumbers of one of them. He woke with a start, and jumped out of the car in a lightening-quick action.

“You’ve got to believe me”, he demanded, gesturing towards the affected barley field. From their location, they could see the events that everybody else had missed the previous night. It would appear that the men in the van had witnessed two luminous orbs descend from the sky. If that wasn’t strange enough, the orbs that the gentleman described as being blue-white in colour, then proceeded to dance around in the barley crop. Having done so, those self-same orbs rose up into the air, came together as one, and then shot off into the night sky. No surprise, therefore, that this gent was so clearly agitated.

I was getting very quickly acclimatised to the ambience weirdness, and my lack of surprise at this mysterious activity report was supported by a new Gizmo observation. Indeed, there was a mysterious crackling noise, seemingly emanating from the unfinished crop formation. As I moved toward the formation, I observed that the signal direction altered in step, seemingly ‘locked’ on the formation. This was weird, especially as the signal strength remained exactly the same. If the signals had emanated directly from the formation, then surely the signal strength would have varied at a rate inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

The curious spookiness of the early hours of the 31st of May 1992 were fast giving way to the boring conformity of the daylight hours. The signals had vanished, and normalcy had become the predominant force. Never mind, we’d be back to do another night watch on June 6.

I had some work to do before the 6th. I needed to do some improvement work on the Gizmo, and that would mean adding some more circuitry. The Gizmo I had used was very crude indeed, and it only drove the sort of crystal earpiece that had been around for decades. Its main advantage was that you could use this kind of earpiece on a crystal set. This wasn’t really all that good, as such earpieces have a relatively poor frequency response. In order to drive headphones, I’d need to install a power amplifier stage. I got some writing paper, and scribbled-down the circuit diagram. I was taking a calculated risk; I didn’t know what would happen, because I had absolutely no data on the power of that crushing signal. I’d learn nothing if I got hit by that again. The real problem here was that there was no signal at home, against which to check the gear. For that, I’d have to go to Cheesefoot Head.

Come the evening of June 5, the Gizmo re-work was done. My wife and I headed-off into the sunset, so-to-speak, making our way down to the Winchester area. The story followed precisely the same pattern as it had, seven days previously. It started-up, right on cue, at 00:30Hrs BST, on the morning of June 6 1992. Same warmth, same light flashes in the woods behind us. Just as before, the dog got scared. And, just like before, the Gizmo burst into life, right on schedule. But this time it didn’t have a nervous breakdown. Oddly enough, the signals that I was receiving were well within the capabilities of the device. As a matter of fact, the sounds were more akin to that of an old cassette data tape.

Those peculiar signals were very directional, too. That’s when the blue-white luminous orbs came into view. There, in a field some distance from us, were the balls of light that had been reported a week earlier. Given the apparent directionality of the Gizmo, I seemed able to track the motion of these light balls. By using the triangulation strategy (mentioned earlier), it soon became apparent that these ‘signals’ were emanating from an unseen source that can’t have been more than about ten inches away from the sensor coil.

But perhaps even weirder was the mysterious chase that I would later undertake. In a bizarre manoeuvre, that bizarre signal would lead me away from the main Cheesefoot head Car Park, and across the silent A272 road. This was a crazy situation, as I’m sure you can imagine. I was chasing something that was entirely invisible, and was being followed by another, utterly mystified, night watcher. What on earth was I chasing? Just then, some distance along a dark bridleway, the signal stopped moving forward, and appeared to dart toward a hillock to our left.

As it did so, we both became aware of a blue-white light, just behind the summit of the hillock. It seemed to be akin to that of an electric arc, and, if I am not mistaken, it had a plume of smoke above it. Then, as we watched, that luminous source began to dart back-and-forth very rapidly. As it did so, the signal source followed suit. Then, just as swiftly and mysteriously as they had started, the light and signal vanished. It was early June, so the light of day was never going to be far away. And, at a little after three o’clock in the morning, the skies were beginning to lighten at Cheesefoot Head.

During the course of these two night watches, we had also seen some pretty strange things in the sky. There had been strange jet-stream clouds, that appeared to stretch-out across the sky in the blink of an eye. Mysterious, fast moving, silent aircraft, that looked more like archetypal ghosts than real planes. I vividly recall one that looked like Concorde. There was no cloud cover, yet it vanished into thin air. It was almost as though it had entered a worm hole.

Ending the second night watch, and after trudging around the mysterious hillock for a while, I rejoined my wife in the car park. It was time for a nap; we were both tired, and we had a further journey to make that day. We both slept in the car until around midday, when we commenced our journey to see friends in Lyme Regis, on the Dorset coast.

I couldn’t get those Cheesefoot Head occurrences out of my mind that day, and was determined to include a return visit to the site as part of our trip home. We’d stayed in Lyme for the night, and those thoughts persisted throughout the following day; I felt a nagging, vehement, desire to go back to Cheesefoot Head. As nightfall approached, we said our farewells to the folks in Lyme Regis, and commenced our long journey back to Hertfordshire. Needless to say, I’d already made plans to include the Winchester area in that homeward bound route.

It was already gone midnight when we arrived at Cheesefoot, and my wife was asleep in the passenger seat. Stepping out of the car, I felt a sense of unease. With no street lights, the blackness of night, combined with the quietness and solitude, gave the area a worrisome feel. Was there something out there to fear? Could the reports concerning ‘The Greys’ be correct? And, if those stories were true, was there a chance that I’d fall victim to abduction?

“Am I nuts?”, I asked myself; what, I wandered, was I doing in a remote place like this, all on my own. After all was said and done, those strange signals could have been a rouse to lure me back here. Switching on the Gizmo, I tried to overcome my fear. What I heard on thee Gizmo next didn’t exactly help calm my nerves. As I was walking down the road from the car park, I was hearing the sound of laughter on the Gizmo. Yet all around was utterly silent. It was just a transmission. But where was the transmission coming from; what did it mean, and why was it being transmitted?

All on my own, it was getting pretty worrying. There was nothing about this transmission to suggest that it was breakthrough from a radio station. Unlike accounts of people hearing bizarre messages through radio sets tuned off station, this wordless transmission of laughter was not connected to anything remotely intelligible. Then I received a transmission, the clarity and loudness of which implied to me that the transmission was coming from very close range. It was the sound of somebody blowing a raspberry. Again, there were no words, intelligible or otherwise. As before, there was nothing to suggest radio frequency break-through, and this early version of the Gizmo was filtered against such interference.

Nothing like this sort of irrational transmission is permitted on the very tight VLF band either, where bandwidth is at a premium. By their very nature, these things had to be from a localised source. As a result, I became more than a little concerned for my own safety. I made a mad dash for the car, and hastily drove off in the direction of the M3.

Nerves would be more settled, come the 13th of June. Once again, it was time to join the other night watchers. Unfortunately, Lesley was feeling rather unwell that night. She went to bed. Without moral support, I elected to go alone. Lesley and Heidi stayed at home, whilst I made my way down to Cheesfoot Head, for what seemed to me like an important meeting with forces unknown. I hope that you can guess what happened next. Yes, that’s correct. At exactly 00:30Hrs BST, on June 13 1992, the very same heat was felt, and the very same noise was detected by the Gizmo. Again, the signal had directionality, and again it appeared to track distant balls of light. There had been a problem with the Gizmo, and I asked if anyone had some tape. One of the wires had become detached, and, rather fortunately, someone had a spare roll of masking tape.

Having fixed the device, I continued to monitor a situation that went on continually, between the hours of 00:30, and about 02:55. At the latter time, the unseen signal source decided to take a hike down the deserted A272. It was apparently moving in the direction of Winchester, but at a snail’s pace in roadside terms. It appeared to be ushering me to follow it, so I did. As I gave chase down the road, I started to question my actions again. Still pitch dark at that time in the morning, the tree-covered section of the road possessed a worrying potential. It would be all-too-easy to get abducted and/or physically assaulted, by someone hiding in those trees. I froze. As luck would have it, moral support was close by. This was in the form of a young fellow named Simon, who had been wondering why I’d started to move away from the rest of the group. He’d decided to follow me down the road, and he joined me at the edge of the tree-covered section.

Together, we continued our walk down the A272. Passing through the canopy of trees, I noted that the signal had drawn to a halt, a short distance beyond it. Using the triangulation technique, I was able to ascertain that the signal had: 1. Stopped dead, over a fire Hydrant marker. 2. That the invisible signal source was no larger that 7 to 10 inches in diameter. 3. That the signal source was in the shape of a shaft.

What could I say? From its motions, the signal was clearly intelligently controlled. I did the only thing that I could think of, and greeted it. At that precise moment, the mysterious signal source shifted away. Beyond the bushes on one side of the road, I could see the flickering of blue-white orbs. It was in their direction that the signal appeared to leap. It was now approximately 03:05Hrs BST. Feeling that this episode was all but over, Simon and I headed back toward the car park. I remember stopping several times, to view those dancing orbs. I recall one of the night watchers asserting that these were the lights of a farm house, to which I replied that it was unlikely that a farmhouse would be located in amidst the crop itself.

I finally returned to the car at about 04:00Hrs BST, and immediately drove away from the area. Having driven a distance of nearly 90 miles, mainly along quiet motorways, I arrived home at about 05:30Hrs BST, and went straight to bed. I suspected nothing at this stage, but I was in for quite a surprise the following afternoon. The problem I’d had with the Gizmo was that one of the wires had become detached, so I got my soldering iron out. Having re-soldered the offending wire, I needed to check that the device was working properly. Even without that bizarre signal, all that I needed to do was to detect the ambient magnetic field of the mains. I switched the Gizmo on. Then, to my utter astonishment, I found that the bizarre noise was in the room with me!

From this moment on, the Gizmo story becomes even weirder. With hindsight, the first part of the Gizmo saga can be seen to have been deliberately staged. In itself, this would be a major clue. And in so staging the Gizmo events at Cheesefoot head, there were also a number of clues as to the relationship between different types of phenomenon. To start with, it was an amazing coincidence that or dog, Heidi, should have had such fearful experiences in two places where crop circles were to be found, and on two occasions in which UFOs were seen.

At Cheesefoot Head, we were getting crop circles and UFOs at the same time. What an amazing coincidence it was that this strange Gizmo signal should also have been detected at Cheesefoot Head. And it was all happening at precisely the same place that Heidi had become so fearful. Another amazing coincidence was that my 3am, June 13, intercept had been made at a location adjacent to a feature of the landscape, known as Telegraph hill. Telegraph…A long-distance message? Well, there was obviously a lot of data to be gleaned from this particular message. Thanks to that hair raising experience at the commencement of June 8, this information included a link to Electronic Voice Phenomena. Although not a word had been uttered, the sound of laughter and of a phantom raspberry blower directly related to aspects of human vocal activity.

That EVP connection is often attributed to the voices of spirits, but what an amazing coincidence to find it occurring at precisely the same location as crop circles and UFOs. The very absence of words actually spoke volumes here. The meaning of broken speech can often be misinterpreted, as the human brain will always attempt to make sense of incoherent words. But in this instance, it cannot be argued that this was misinterpreted, or that it was break-through from a radio station on the ‘Long’, or, ‘Medium’ wavebands.

The information that could be gleaned from this first two-week period included a very mechanical observation about the nature of the events. It was all done in a very precise manner, as though controlled by a white-coated scientist with a stopwatch. Later research revealed that the Gizmos used on all four occasions were not in keeping with requirements. As I could not possibly have known those technical requirements, I must conclude that I had been given help. In retrospect, it became clear that the Gizmo used on May 31 1992 was so utterly inadequate for the job that it had to be ‘clobbered’ with a very powerful signal, just in order to get a result. Although better, the second Gizmo attempt had only worked because of a fortuitous constructional error.

The events of June 13 1992 were equally pre-determined. I was later able to deduce that it had all been a deliberate numbers game. Furthermore, the intelligence behind the signal generation already knew who I was, and exactly where I lived. One of those later deductions had to do with the bizarre, unscientific, manipulation of numbers that is known as Numerology. Through what I had found, I was not only able to tie UFOs to crop circles, but also able to tie UFOs and crop circles to EVP. In itself, this suggested that the EVP phenomenon was not quite what it appeared to be. Perhaps it was as bogus as the other things I later discover discovered.

This contrivance of numbers and, of course, names, was inclusive of the A272 itself. It is known as the Petersfield Road, and with the knowledge I would later gain, I was also able to deduce that there was a deliberately concealed religious message. In short, I now had a connection between UFOs, crop circles, EVP, and religion.

But the events of June 13 were also to reveal another link. It should be considered that we had been experiencing peculiar, and somewhat erratic, poltergeist phenomena in our home for the previous seven years. Prior to June 13 1992, this poltergeist activity had been relatively subdued. Yet upon the arrival of this signal, the poltergeist activity jumped to a frequency that we’d never experienced before. What an amazing coincidence, if that was what it was. But, as I was soon to learn, this signal could also play the role of a ghostly figure. Back in the early days, it was occasionally observed to move in human-like manner. Equally true were the observations regarding the signal’s abilities to smoothly shift polarity, as though it was a directed beam from a UFO.

The interconnections were getting ever more convoluted. And, returning to the activities of May 31 & June 6, the adverse, fearful, reactions of our dog, Heidi, had also been observed in a 1990 crop formation. That 1990 formation was the first we’d ever visited. It was also in this formation that a weird signal had been picked-up as electrical interference, by a TV camera crew. The formation was called ‘The scrolls’ and, whilst I would also go on to deduce it’s meaning according to that name, it also looked like a pair of headphones. This was one of the two reports that had led me to develop the Gizmo, and final contact, on June 13 1992, involved the use of a pair of headphones.

Very quickly after that June 13 experience, I was able to deduce a link between UFOs, ghosts, crop circles, and EVP. During the rest of that summer, there was further confirmation of the link to crop circles. With genuine circles/formations, my wife and I discovered that the signal’s polarity would alter in such a way that, no matter where we stood, it would remain aligned with the crop circle. If the crop formation was invalid, we noted quite the opposite effect. Not only was there no lock, but we couldn’t get that signal alignment where ever we chose to stand.

Whilst the nature of the signal was still the subject of investigation, the use of two Gizmos would demonstrate that there could be more than one of them. Right at the end of the 1992 crop circle/formation season, we were challenged to check the validity of one particular crop formation. Located near Ramsbury, Wiltshire, the outline of suspicious crop formation could still be seen amidst the stubble of an already gathered crop. It was a test set by Ralph Noyes, who, a little suspicious of our motives, wanted to see just how effective this device really was.

Ralph knew that the 1992 Ramsbury formation was a hoax, but had kept this knowledge under his hat. We arrived on scene, and stepped out of the car. We could both see the formation, and turned both the Gizmos on. To our complete surprise, the two signals had shifted to the maximum angle that they could away from the formation, but not so far as to confuse the fact that there were two different signals. No matter where we stood, we couldn’t get either signal source to align with that formation. Upon our return home, we got in telephone contact with Mr Noyes. He seemed rather surprised to hear that we had found it to be a fake. Ralph had assumed that, like the motives behind so many other gadgets, the Gizmo was just another fame-seeking fraud. The truth is that this case is so utterly bizarre, that nobody could be blamed for not accepting it.

During the course of a lot of experimentation during 1992, I discovered that the very nature of the signal defied the standard model. Studying the effect in our home, I had noted a distinct drop in the level of 50 Hertz background electro-magnetic radiation in relation to the strongest point in the mysterious signal source. This had come directly after finding that the signal would simply vanish if all possible traces of magnetic feedback coupling were removed. This was found, because I’d actually built another sensor device, in order to replicate the effects seen in the previous one. There was nothing to be heard, until a very small amount of magnetic coupling between the output and the receiver coil was permitted. Yet in tests prior to the events of June 6, the previous version had not revealed the merest trace of feedback oscillation.

This was getting really weird. The signal source seemed to be sucking-in the ambient magnetic field, and I needed to inject something to get a response. Yet, through the use of a large saucepan as a screen, I’d already proved that these signals were coming from outside. There was no evidence to suggest that the Gizmo had been generating them by itself. It couldn’t have, given what had happened at Cheesefoot Head. There were simply too many unlikely coincidences for that to be true. But there it was; with no feedback, there was simply no signal to be heard. With no feedback, I could detect a drop in the level of ambient magnetic field.

It was at this juncture, that I was to learn about a device that I’d never heard of before. This device was known as a UFO detector, and, though I’d never heard of the device, it’s parameters were a match to the ones that I’d accidentally unearthed. This UFO detector connection was yet more evidence of the link between UFOs, and just about everything else. Things got even stranger as experimentation continued. Not only had I found the magnetic factor, but I went on to discover that it involved the consumption of energy. Whist the effect looked like reversed magnetism, its effects were being observed through the said consumption of energy. I could get precisely the same effect, by feeding-back a very restricted amount of electrical current. The levels of this electrical feed-back were minimal; levels less than that required to cause oscillation.

Then I discovered that the same effect could be achieved through the use of capacitive coupling. Following that, I found that the effect could be replicated by injecting minute amounts of energy from an asynchronous oscillator, tuned to the right frequency band. I could achieve this electrically, magnetically, or through capacitive coupling. The oscillation source was running in the range of 15 to 20 kilohertz. It could be any wave-shape, it made no difference whatsoever. I used a square-wave oscillator technique for quite a while.

Then, in June 1994, after a couple of years of research into the subject, I discovered that these mysterious signals were best detected by a sensor that emulated some sort of crystal. It still used a 500-turn coil on ferrite rod detector, but the associated circuitry converted it into a tuneable, self-resonating device. I have not since found a more efficient form of receiver. Two and two most certainly equals four here, as the Gizmo had effectively linked a number of phenomena together, as well as adding an unknown technology to the list. This unknown technology was clearly linked to UFOs, and involved the use of crystals.

Stephen Clementson.



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Wow what a story.
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katie1 wrote:
Wow what a story.


Well, Katie1,

I’ve had years and years of this stuff. That story is only part of the weirdness. I have circuit diagrams of more recent versions of the gizmo, as well as an AVI video clip of three megabytes. If you are interested in the information, I can post details, even if you just want the video clip.

Steve
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Things had been strange for me a long time before the gizmo experiments ever started. Back in 1985, when I first visited my girlfriend’s home, my arrival was greeted by inexplicable object disappearances and reappearances. This activity was repetitious, but it was also unevenly distributed through time. There were mysterious invisible finger poking sessions, which were entirely focussed on Lesley. There were also acts of violence and vandalism. However, Lesley’s 1986 encounter with a kitchen cupboard that was ‘pushed’ horizontally off the wall was an act of vandalism, but it was far too crafty for an act of pure aggression.

After the incident, I inspected that cupboard. The hardboard back of the cupboard had two cone-shaped extrusions, centred on the screw holes. This meant that the cupboard was pushed off the wall. It couldn’t have been gravity. Indeed, the two eight-inch screws were still firmly fixed in the wall. The screws were into breeze block, and were so tight that I had a devil of a job getting them out. Furthermore, the contents of the cupboard should have been randomly smashed, but in this instance only Lesley’s treasured memorabilia got smashed. All the everyday kitchen crockery in that cupboard remained intact.

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I got complaints from one paranormal discussion group, because my work on the paranormal was too heavy. But the simple, and by now quite obvious, truth is that governments have never been in control of the situation. My case long predates meeting Lesley in 1985, it’s just that I didn’t know it at the time.

The strangeness of my childhood actually served to confuse the issue. In retrospect, it was extremely spooky. But you cannot see it that way, when you’re in the midst of it. It was such a stressful time for me, and I suffered from psychosomatic illnesses (and, presumably, allergic problems due to dust mites), such as asthma and eczema. At the age of five, I was rushed to hospital suffering from an extreme asthma attack.

My father’s repetitive joke about me being adopted meant nothing to me at the time, but now it seems to have been a snide comment. Given the unexpected pregnancy, he was probably confused in his own mind. Given that my parents had been told how unlikely parenthood was going to be, it must have appeared doubly strange to my father that my mother should have fallen pregnant again, just a couple of years later. However, this baby died. The fact that it happened twice is really weird.

In actual fact, starting in August 2006, I was able to back-track involvement to 1940. My mother’s father, ‘Frank’ (actually named Alwyn Francis Williams (of Welsh ancestry), born in Grays Inn Road, London [1901]), was an army reservist. Frank was amongst those fortunate enough to be rescued from Dunkerque in 1940. He was then billeted in the Hill’s residence, at 7 Clarence Street, Taunton, Somerset. Frank then brought the rest of the Williams family down to Taunton from Welwyn Garden City.

It was at 7 Clarence St that my mother, then roughly 12-years old, first met up with ‘invisible friends’. This invisible friend business is said to be the preparatory stage for an ET selected breeding female. It would appear that her time at number 7 Clarence St was the happiest time in my mother’s life. This factor would definitely explain why her later schizophrenic state incorporated the alter-ego of a 12-year-old girl.

Furthermore, during the sixties and very early seventies, my adult, schizoid, mother repeatedly ran away from home. Take a guess where she ran to? Of course, she caught a train into London, and then caught a train to Taunton. She thought that she was still twelve. And, back in the sixties/seventies, number 7 Clarence Street was still occupied by Mr & Mrs Hill, and their adopted son. In reality, 7 Clarence St was a run-down Victorian dwelling, complete with an outside toilet. The Hill’s had been able to purchase it cheaply, all those years ago, because it was so hopelessly out-dated.
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lola wrote:
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Quite frankly, I didn't see my life as being that spooky until I looked back. Yikes!Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall

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Goodness Steve your life certainly seems to have been an eventful one!
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katie1 wrote:
Goodness Steve your life certainly seems to have been an eventful one!


I have so much to report that people think I’m just plain bonkers. As a matter of fact, it’s very stressful to read comments that imply that I am some kind of psycho. I didn’t write the goddamn script. Yet I had no idea what these things meant, back in, say, March 1984. There’s a Forest Gump expression that best describes an unfortunate situation that is almost guaranteed to happen, even if you’ve tried to avoid it. That expression of random ill fortune goes back to circa 1988, and certainly wasn’t invented for the Forest Gump film.

I had assumed that this expression best fitted my circumstances up to 1985. But that random fate principle wasn’t the correct theory. I actually know I guy who gets a much heavier duty haunting than me. He was born in Sacramento, California, but has lived in England for many years. He still holds a US passport. He gets close encounters style electrical failures as standard in his Watford pad. He also gets weird telephone and internet failures, and even had a CD literally explode in his computer. This guy was the first to experience the malfunction of my alien-shaped alarm clock. I don’t use it, but the alarm started going off on its own. It was going off when the alarm was set to off.

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In summary, I have never met a human spirit, even though I have found much personal evidence for ghost-like activity. It is technically possible to use the word ‘haunted’ as a metaphor, and that metaphorical usage definitely applies to my case. As with the Nikola Tesla Morse code case of 1899, the subtle intricacies of the Gizmo case of 1992 (onwards) demonstrate that there is a non-human intelligence operating on Earth.

Paradoxically, the gizmo is a UFO detector and does not detect human spirits, irrespective of whether they exist or not. Although the most obvious facets of this UFO-related intelligence are such phenomena as the crop circles and UFOs, its primary target is undoubtedly humanity. This intelligence possesses knowledge of human languages, sciences, cultures, etc.

In keeping with Arthur C Clarke’s 1961 prediction, this non-human intelligence possesses technology that is sufficiently advanced as to appear indistinguishable from magic. Whilst Arthur C Clarke repeatedly attempted to dismiss his own UFO sightings, it does appear that Arthur’s own work on Sci-Fi was to the advantage of this non-human intelligence.

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I hope that the moderators of the ‘Enjoy England’ website do not mind my curious posts, regarding some very curious phenomena. I have experienced a personal haunting, and so has my wife, Lesley. In any case, these spooky events are not without reasoned contemplation. According to our friend Mark (originally from the USA, and moved around the US with his parents), this is also quite common in New England.

For instance, on Friday 30th of May 2008, just as Lesley was leaving her friend’s house, she discovered that her disabled scooter key was missing from her key ring. Lesley’s friend Estelle, and Estelle’s children, live at number 4 Wellcroft Road. After a rummage around in her bag, she eventually found the scooter key. Curiously, the scooter key was in the small, zip-up, section that Lesley keeps her Sony-Ericson mobile phone in. The scooter is a karelma Hercules.

Based upon my original discovery that humanity was being watched by an intelligence that was conversant with human cultures, languages, etc, here are some interesting facets of this peculiar event: Hercules (Greek) means ‘Grandiose gift; glory of Hera’ (Hera [Greek] means ‘Lady; Protectress’ [also from Maori: ‘princess’]), Eric (Norse, as in Ericson) means ‘Eternal Ruler’. Sony (Japanese company) is a made up name, but the name ‘Sonya’ means ‘Wisdom’.

In the English language, the word ‘paranormal’ is simply used to describe something that is outside the norm. In popular culture, Paranormal has become a word that relates to realm of bizarreness. Are they implying that the paranormal is a place? Some, it seems, actually think of the paranormal as a dimension. How weird! Is it, I wonder, ruled over by demons and hobgoblins?

Likewise, the assumption that ETs were forever flying about in silver saucers was nothing more than a supposition. ET=UFO? Is ET=UFO the same as human=automobile? When the train arrives at King’s Cross station, London, do you just stay aboard it? It is, of course, very convenient for some to assume that ETs just buzz about in the sky, and that there is no ET link to the paranormal events recorded on this planet. But when I undertook the UFO codebook work I already knew that ETs were close to hand, and that they did not simply stay aboard flying saucers.

Considering the theory that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic, any society capable of reaching earth from another part of the galaxy would have to possess such a technology. It is also quite evident that ETs can, and have, generated bizarre events, and that, by default, they knew our languages and cultures in detail. Through the power of their own technology, ETs had the clout to act as though they were gods. That was my chief reason to deduce that the ETs had once played gods, backed up by ET’s own predilection for implanting biblical clues in weird events. As I have seen for myself, it’s a doddle for these people to play the part of ghosts & poltergeists.

This example of poltergeist activity is not from an English speaking country, but the clues are, nevertheless, identical. I am not religious, and offer no apology for the biblical quotes (which are intended as nothing more than quotes), as they follow the actions taken. According to the book, 'The World of the Unexplained' Page 81, by Janet & Colin Bord, ghostly behaviour of a rather less benign nature surrounded a Rumanian peasant girl....

..."Known as the 'poltergeist girl', Eleonore Zugun was a Rumanian peasant born in 1913: In 1925, while she was on a visit to her grandmother, poltergeist phenomena broke out around Eleonore, and again when she arrived home. When parapsychologist Fritz Grunewald heard about the events, he had her removed to a monastery where he went to study the events. He recorded the movement of objects in her presence, and sometimes Eleonore was hit by them. She believed she was being plagued by a devil, Dracu. The phenomena, including the attacks by Dracu, continued when Eleonore was moved to Vienna for further study."...

..."As well as things being thrown at her, she was slapped, knocked over and thrown out of bed, her hair was pulled, her shoes filled with water, needles were stuck into her and she was scratched on her face, neck, arms and chest, these attacks leaving clearly visible marks. Spittle would appear on her arms and face and, when analysed, it was found not to have come from her skin, nor from her mouth; her own saliva contained few micro-organisms, whilst that found on her skin was full of bacteria. Thankfully for Eleonore, the phenomena faded away in 1927 as she began to menstruate, suggesting that the turmoil of puberty somehow awoke the bizarre powers that afflicted her."...

My personal observations with regard to this bizarre occurrence commence with a view from an altogether different angle. I say this because these manifestations were, like so many other events, very surrealistic in nature. To my way of thinking, the fact that she was 'born in a thirteen' (1913) tends to imply that it was a 'set-up job'. As you will see, the clues most certainly stack up that way…

In an effort to establish whether-or-not her name contained any clues, I first noted that the name 'Eleonore' was a version of 'Eleanor' (French), which means: 'Light'. Whilst it would prove very difficult for me to obtain the precise meanings of all European names, there is an interesting parallel between the name 'Zugun' and three German words. The first example of this is the word 'zug' (-es, -e) (pronounced: 'tsu:k'), which means:

..."Drawing, pulling; pull, tug; stress; draught, gulp; whiff, puff, pull (at a pipe); move (in chess); draught, current of air; march, marching; expedition; procession; band, gang; (military) platoon; troop; section; groove (of a rifle barrel); flight (of birds), migration; drift (of clouds); range (of hills); row (of houses); (railway) train; stroke (of pen); outline, line; (figurative) feature, trait; characteristic; impulse, bent, inclination; "auf einen zug": at one draught; "in einem zug" (figurative): at one stroke, straight off; uninterruptedly; "im zuge sein": to be in full swing; "in zug bringen": to set going, start", and so-on...

The second example, 'zugehen', means: "to close; to go on, go faster; "zugehen auf": to go towards or up to; to be sent to (a person), reach (a person); to take place, happen; "einem etwas zugehen lassen": to forward or send something to a person."...

Thirdly, the poltergeist activity could be considered to be in direct opposition to the meaning of the German word 'zugel' (-s), which means: "rein, bridle; check, curb."...

All these symbolisms relate to biblical prophecy, for example:

… “[Revelations 16:14] For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, [which] go forth to the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”…

But that extract is tame when it is compared to the infantile, vindictive nature of Revelations 9…

… “[Rev 9:1] And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. [Rev 9:2] And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. [Rev 9:3] And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

[Rev 9:4] And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads. [Rev 9:5] And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. [Rev 9:6] And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

[Rev 9:7] And the shapes of the locusts [were] like to horses prepared for battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men. [Rev 9:8] And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions. [Rev 9:9] And they had breast-plates, as it were breast-plates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. [Rev 9:10] And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.

[Rev 9:11] And they had a king over them, [who is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew language [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek language he hath [his] name Apollyon. [Rev 9:12] One woe is past; [and] behold, there come two woes more hereafter. [Rev 9:13] And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, [Rev 9:14] Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates.

[Rev 9:15] And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, to slay the third part of men. [Rev 9:16] And the number of the army of the horsemen [was] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. [Rev 9:17] And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breast-plates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] as the heads of lions: and out of their mouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.

[Rev 9:18] By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. [Rev 9:19] For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like to serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. [Rev 9:20] And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: [Rev 9:21] Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their lewdness, nor of their thefts.”…





Steve
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"Saved by a ships hoist"

This is yet another example of weirdness, but I’ll start with a rationalization/clarification of symbolic oddities...

Pleiadesian sixes and sevens...

The topic of numerology is a bizarre incongruity, and its application in these peculiar instances is rather odd. Numerology runs counter to nature, and its presence seems to imply the presence of a manipulative intelligence that can conceptualise abstractions. This is one of the subtle ‘twists’ in the paranormal event chronicle that appears to imply that things have been deliberately contrived.

The numbers six and seven are symbolic of the Pleiades, once known as ‘The Seven Sisters.’ The Pleiades are a cluster of very new stars that wouldn’t normally be considered in a search for extraterrestrial life. The Pleiadesian stars shine like tiny blue jewels, but are estimated to be in the region of 75-150 million years old. Compared to the amount of time it took for complex organisms to emerge on Earth, 75-150 million years seems far too young for a group of stars to harbour worlds with evolved life on them.

Out of an estimated 100+ stellar partners (it is also quoted that the Pleiades contains a number of brown dwarf stars) only six stars in The Pleiades open star cluster are of sufficient brightness to qualify for naked eye astronomical observations. Indeed, Ian Ridpath & Wil Tirion identified the abnormality in the naming of this star cluster in a quote from the 1993 edition of ‘The Monthly Sky Guide’:


..."According to myth, the Pleiades were seven nymphs, followers of Artemis, the huntress. Orion, smitten by their beauty, began to pursue them. To save them from his advances, Artemis placed them among the stars. And in the heavens, Orion still forlornly chases the Pleiades across the sky.

Unlike the Hyades cluster, none of whose stars are named, the stars of the Pleiades bear the names of all seven sisters: Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope and Taygeta. Their father and mother, Atlas and Pleione, are also present. There is even a legend to explain why ONLY SIX Pleiades, rather than SEVEN, are easily visible. Electra is said to have hidden her face so as no to witness the ruins of Troy, the city founded by her son Dardanus.


But some say that the ‘missing’ Pleiad is Merope, ashamed because she was the only one of the sisters to wed a mortal, Sisyphus. In fact, the naming of the Pleiades has not followed either legend, because the faintest of the named stars in the cluster are Asterope and Celaeno."...

Although the seven nymphs concept was a myth, I have identified the numbers 6 & 7 as being of the utmost significance. Indeed, these two numbers have turned-out to be a remarkably common feature in the field of unnatural phenomena.





The story...

Back in the summer of 1997, Julie Priestman (a friend of ours at the time of the incident) was driving eastwards through Southern England, on the M4 motorway. She’d been to Wiltshire to view that year’s ‘harvest’ of crop formations, and was on her way home to Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Although she was heading towards the Greater London area, her intention was to join the M25 (London Orbital Motorway) at Junction 4 of the M4. This, she hoped, would get her safely and quickly around the seething, congested, metropolis, and onto her Hertfordshire home.

But things went badly awry; somewhere around the Slough/Windsor area, something very odd happened to Julie. She remembered seeing the sign for junction 7 (Slough [West]), and then there was a completely blank space, a period in which she remembers nothing. The next thing she remembers is passing junction 2, and being trapped into negotiating the busy A406 (London North Circular Road) off junction 1. As well as being annoyed, she was also confused, especially as the fuel gauge in her car indicated that she had used no fuel whatsoever. Odd, as she’d apparently travelled seventeen miles between no-less-than six motorway junctions.

My observations on this case are as follows:

I would ask you to note the presence of the Pleiadesian numbers 6 &7. Junction 7 (the last junction that Julie had seen) was the turn-off for Slough (West), and the next, junction 6 (the first junction that Julie couldn’t remember passing), was the turn-off for Windsor. This is far more important than it first appears. Early records of Slough appear to go back as far as 1195AD, and ‘Slough’ meant ‘The Slough’ (Marsh, bog, quagmire, fen), or, ‘miry place'...

Windsor, accessed at junction 6 of the M4, meant 'bank, or slope, with a windlass'. The term 'windlass' is highly relevant, as it refers to "a ship's hoisting device". In other words, she had been saved from the mire at junction 7, thanks to a ship's hoist at junction 6.
Furthermore, Julie didn't see a sign for a period of six junctions. Dare I ask exactly what kind of ship, and precisely what kind of hoisting device, was used here?

Julie was using her former married name at the time of the incident. As her former married name was 'Priestman' (Old English, meaning 'servant of the priest', or, 'of the priests'), the connection to religion was forged. Before marrying a man named Priestman, Julie had the married name of ‘Canon’; Canon has obvious connections to the church hierarchy. Naturally, this biblical connection had been exploited here, as the first few lines of Psalm 69: 'A lament and a plea for help' imply...

[69:1] {To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul. [69:2] I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me. [69:3] I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. [69:4] They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.


Boo hoo! d'oh!
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[b][b]"The Owen ghost sighting"

During the 1990s, having found the gizmo link to the poltergeists in our home, I decided to look at unrelated ghost reports. I wanted to know if my link was commonplace. It was, after all, important to know if my case could form the basis for a general theory. Although there was a growing interest group, whose energies were expended on efforts to prove that these disincarnate entities were human spirits, I have never found any evidence to support that theory. I wanted to believe that the human spirit hypothesis was true, but I drew a blank on that thought. I just kept coming back to a third party situation, where the invisible entities were not actually human.

The topic of numerology appeared yet again, and its presence, again, seems to imply the presence of a manipulative intelligence that can conceptualise abstractions. Likewise, the numbers six and seven, a symbolic reference to the Pleiades, once known as ‘The Seven Sisters’, appears once more. It’s all quite strange, because there is currently no scientific evidence that any of the stars in the Pleiades could support life. Yet this pair of numbers has ancient cosmological significance, and also come up frequently in biblical matters. The repetitious appearance of six and seven suggests that such biblical writings are a distorted reference to something of an altogether unreligious, cosmic nature. In a similar manner, the magic number seven even underwent a metamorphic change, becoming the seven spirits of Revelations.

The curious thing about the seven spirits of Revelations is that ‘they’ are both cosmological and, at the same time, invisible entities. This means that John’s Revelation was identical to my extraterrestrial encounters. As my encounters are anything but religious, yet parallel ancient religious writings and have implied biblical connections, the paradox can only be resolved by stating that extraterrestrials were indeed behind the creation of religion. Similarly, Arthur C Clarke’s notion of sufficiently advanced technologies being indistinguishable from magic does imply that religion was the actual falsehood, deliberately concocted by aliens. That aside, the notion of religion would seem to have been intended to artificially civilise humanity. The idea of a civilising force would include efforts to stop the carnage of irresponsible wars. And surely no war could have been as utterly meaningless as WWI?

The Wilfred Owen ghost sighting may be a clue to this...


... "World War I ended officially at 11 am on November 11, 1918. On that day Harold Owen was an officer on the H.M.S. Astraea, a British cruiser then anchored in Table Bay, Union of South Africa. To celebrate the armistice, the ship’s captain invited all the officers for drinks in his cabin, but Owen, then 21 years old, was unable to en¬ter into the happy mood. A feeling of apprehension gripped him; had his brother, Wilfred, survived the war? A fit of the deepest depression settled on him. Before long the Astraea left table bay for the coast of the Cameroons. There, at anchor off Victoria, Owen fell ill with malaria and, in a weakened still depressed state, had "an extraordinary and inexplicable experience", which he later described:

I had gone down to my cabin thinking to write some letters. I drew aside the door curtain and stepped inside and to my amazement I saw Wilfred sitting in my chair. I felt shock run through me with appalling force and with it I could feel the blood draining away from my face. I did not rush towards him but walked jerkily into the cabin...all my limbs stiff and slow to respond. I did not sit down but looking at him I spoke quietly: "Wilfred, how did you get here?" He did not rise and I saw that he was involuntarily immobile, but his eyes which had never left mine were alive with the familiar look of trying to make me understand; when I spoke his whole face broke into his sweetest and most en-dearing dark smile. I felt no fear...I had not when I first drew my door curtain and saw him there: only exquisite mental pleasure at thus beholding him. All I was conscious of was a sensation of enormous shock and profound astonishment that he should be here in my cabin. I spoke again: "Wilfred dear, how can you be here, it’s just not possible....”

But still he did not speak but only smiled his most gen¬tle smile. This not speaking did not now as it had done at first seem strange or even unnatural; it was not only in some inexplicable way perfectly natural but radiated a quality which made his presence with me undeniably right and in no way out of the ordinary. I loved having him there: I could not, and did not want to try to understand how he had got there. I was content to accept him, that he was here with me was sufficient. I could not question anything; the meeting in itself was complete and strangely perfect. He was in uniform and I remember thinking how out of place the khaki looked amongst the cabin furnishings. With this thought I must have turned my eyes away from him; when I looked back my cabin chair was empty.

I felt the blood run slowly back to my face and looseness into my limbs and with these an overpowering sense of emptiness and absolute loss...I wondered if I had been dreaming but looking down I saw that I was still stand¬ing.

Suddenly I felt terribly tired and moving to my bunk I lay down; instantly I went into a deep oblivious sleep. When I woke up I knew with absolute certainty that Wilfred was dead.

Wilfred Owen, the famous war poet, was killed on November 4, 1918. His parents received notification of his death at 12noon on November 11; one hour after the hostilities had ceased. He is perhaps best remembered for his poem "Strange Meeting", in which he imagined an encounter with the spirits of those who had died in the war.”... (From the 1982 Reader’s Digest book, ‘Mysteries of the Unexplained, p.172, from Andrew McKenzie, ‘A Gallery of Ghosts’, pp.139-41; Harold Owen, ‘Journey from Obscurity, Wilfred Owen’, 1893-1918, Vol.3, pp.192-201)

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This was yet another case where things weren't quite what they appeared to be, and there’s a strong aroma of biblical symbolism within it. Indeed, there were a number of clues in this apparently ghostly occurrence to indicate that it wasn’t in keeping with any classical concepts. Firstly, I would ask you to consider that the vessel upon which the ghostly sighting was made was named: ‘The As¬traea’. This was a very interesting choice of venue, as the names ‘Astra’, ‘Astera’, ‘Asta’ and ‘Astrea’ all mean: ‘Star like’. Secondly, I would ask you to note the ‘The Astraea’ was anchored off Victoria at the time of the sighting, a name that means: ‘The Victorious One’.

Thirdly, I would ask you to also consider that ‘The As¬traea’ was anchored along the coast of the Cameroons, and the name ‘Cam’ means, rather appropriately: ‘Noble and Righteous’. My fourth point is that the name ‘Wilfred’ means: ‘Firm Peace Maker’ ("peace, but not at any price"). My fifth point is that Wilfred and Harold’s joint surname suited the circumstances, as ‘Owen’ means: ‘The Young, Well Born Warrior’. Sixthly, the meaning of the name ‘Harold’ was quite the reverse of ‘Wilfred’. For the purposes of sym¬bolism, therefore, the name ‘Harold’ was also suitable for such an occasion, given that it means: ‘Army Comman¬der’. Providing me with sufficient ammunition for a sev¬enth point, Wilfred Owen had died on November 4, 1918, where 1+1+4 equals 6, and 1+1+4+1+9+1+8 equals 25, where 2+5 equals 7.

Having established that there were a number of symbolisms beyond the meeting of two brothers, the real significance of this ‘laid-on phenomenon’ has to be a pointer to the termination of World War I. Given this, my eighth point is that, as with Wilfred’s death, 11 am, on the 11th of the 11th gives us a ‘6’, with 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+9+1+8 equalling 25, where 2+5 equals 7. But there’s a further point here; a set of converging factors like these ones seem to project themselves to another point in time, to a prophecy deliberately implanted in religion. There are clearly parallels to be found in the bible, as can be seen in this snippet from Revelation 3: 'Behold I stand at the door and knock’

[3:1] And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. [3:2] Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die, for I have not found thy works complete before my God. [3:3] Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep [it] and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come [upon thee] as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.

Snippets from Revelation 2: ‘Letters to the Churches’ also echo this theme...

[2:1] To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamps: [2:2] I know thy works and [thy] labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil [men]; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves [are] apostles and are not, and hast found them liars; [2:3] and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied: [2:4] but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

[2:5] Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: but if not, I am coming to thee, and I will remove thy lamp out of its place, except thou shalt repent. [2:6] But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitanes, which *I* also hate. [2:7] He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, I will give to him to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of God. [2:8] And to the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

[2:26] And he that overcomes, and he that keeps unto the end my works, to him will I give authority over the nations, [2:27]