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lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 865 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
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| bunnymousekitt wrote: | It sounds like a dream list so far! Is there perhaps a way of marking them on a map with estimated mileage/best travel routes and so forth? Speaking as someone on another continent who hopes to visit the UK at least once before I die, it would be nice to know how many one could reasonably visit in a few days.
When my brother went, he sadly couldn't make it to Stonehenge due to confusion about bus schedules.
ETA - I'd like to visit Wistman's Wood. I've heard it's a mysterious place. |
Been to Wistman's Wood. Stunted, weird trees and trecherous moss covered rocks. Very silent and spooky. |
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| Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-06-2013 16:25 Post subject: |
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| lordmongrove wrote: | | Ringo_ wrote: | | lordmongrove wrote: | Loch Morar
Cashen's Gap Isle of Man
Loch Ness
Ilkley Moor
Warminster
Marsden Bay, South Shields
Mawnan Smith
Falmouth Bay
Dartmoor
Bodmin Moor
Canock Chase
Lake Bala
Ben McDuhi |
Nice list but why Marsden Bay in South Shields??? Apart from a a limestone rock covered in birdsh*t? The grotto is hardly Top 20 Fortean Places in the UK - or am I missing something? |
Sightings of a sea serpent called the Shoney by locals. Apprently during the Danelore Vikings sacrificed victims to a sea dragon there. The cult supposedly lasted far beyond the time of the Vikings The last of the killings alledgedly made in 1928. |
I lived 20 minutes from there but have never heard of the Shoney. I'll have to look it up. I used to get taken to the Marsden Grotto a lot. They used to get a lot of suicide jumpers landing on their roof aparantly. |
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| Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 27-07-2013 18:27 Post subject: |
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I'm back from a huge road trip to the UK. I managed to visit a few fortean places.
Stonehenge
Rendelsham Forest
Mawnan Smith and the church
The Witchcraft Museum at Boscastle
Marsden Bay (no Shoney)
Bodmin (but no beasts)
Tintagel Castle
The most fun was Mawnan Smith actually. I had to ask the lady working in the local shop which church was involved in the legend. She kind if took a step back and raised an eyebrow, in a kind of "stick to the roads" kind of way.
The church and churchyard is lovely and I had it all to myself. There is however a path/trail behind the church which leads down to the coast and there were loads of people laughing down there. It kind of spoiled my beasty hunting. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-07-2013 18:29 Post subject: |
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| Was it the light tinkling of merriment or was it a diabolical "Mwahahahahahahaaaaaa!"? |
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| Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-07-2013 07:11 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Was it the light tinkling of merriment or was it a diabolical "Mwahahahahahahaaaaaa!"? |
It was certainly more merriment than evil doings. I suspected there was alcohol involved - heathens!! |
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| skinny Roaring Fortean
Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2010 Total posts: 215 Location: Adelaide Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-07-2013 09:33 Post subject: |
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| Boleskine House on the shore of Loch Ness was Crowley's house where he apparently attempted to conduct the Abra Melin ritual without completing the rite. This meant (apparently) that there was a portal into the spirit world left open whereby an uninvited demon or two crossed into the physical realm and harrassed subsequent owners. One, a retired British major, blew his flippin' brains out. Jimmy Page once owned the house and left it under the care of friends who experienced various spooky phenomena. Perhaps there's a thread nearby... |
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| Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 08:15 Post subject: |
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| At the witchcraft museum in Boscastle, they have a Crowley display and you can listen to a recording of his voice as he reads through an incantation (or something). |
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