Easter Bunny And Easter Chick In Horror Film Clip

These two creatures star in a rather sinister little film clip. The little film turned out to be quite creepy and the music which was played by my daughter, kind of added to the overall spookiness of the whole thing. It was actually done as a kind of ritual.

Spirit Images Shown In The Smoke

Many people who are interested in the supernatural believe that spirit images can be captured in smoke or steam. One method is to boil a pan of water and to photograph the steam. Obviously this can cause condensation. Shower steam can also be photographed for spirit images, as can cigarette smoke and incense smoke.

The top image above shows a woman's face. The second image shows a baby in the womb and the third image shows a monster like creature.

Black Bear And The Titanic

Steiff the famous bear making company  - brought out a black mourning bear after the Titanic sunk in April 1912. Another similar bear was brought out in 2012 to mark the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. This bear is a limited edition copy. He is actually a lovely bear.

What is often missed where the Titanic is concerned, because it is not romantic and just gritty, is that many of the boiler stoker's families were from Liverpool in the United Kingdom and these families were left penniless and having to ask for money from church relief organisations. People tend to look at the illustrious passengers who sailed on the boat rather than those whose families depended on whatever small wages could be earned working in the heat and dark of the underbelly of the ship.

FISH CAN -YES THEY CAN, MOST DEFINITELY AND HONESTLY CLIMB TREES

Fish can climb trees, well this one shown above can and the Mudskipper has flexible fins which allows it to climb up tree roots and on to trees if it has to.

The saying is credited to Einstein, but some believe he didn't actually give this quote, though in popular myth he did. It is a weird thing to say really, because it doesn't really prove anything. I suppose it is an interesting thought, though.

The books above are about two completely different things. One is about dyslexia and the other, written some years later by a different author is about the astrological associations of people, which place them in different characteristic groups. But anyway this fish is up a tree.

Mr Martinez At The Hotel Cecil

The picture shows a special banquet held in honour of an important dignitary called Mr Frederick N Martinez, who had travelled through South America and North America, on business, at the Hotel Cecil in London in 1898. It is a follow on from the last post about hotels named 'Cecil' and is from an old book written at the end of the 19th century. Mr Martinez sits at the top table (wearing white) which is situated at the back end of the photo.

Cecil Hotels, Their Connection To Cleopatra’s Needle And Their Rather Odd Legacies

Although I am sure there are a few Cecil Hotel’s or Hotel Cecil’s in the world today that are successful, there have been several hotels with ‘Cecil’ in their title name that have had a lot of mystery, misery and/or upheaval attached to them.

One of the most notorious is the Hotel Cecil, in Los Angeles where a few years ago a Canadian Chinese student was found dead in the water tank on top of the building. No one has really said how she got there. Then there was the tragedy of the pigeon lady – a woman who lived at the Cecil and fed pigeons. A number of other highly notorious persons stayed at the place too, which sadly became run down and shabby.

There was however another Hotel Cecil in London that began having problems even before the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. The London Cecil, an 800 room hotel near The Strand, was built between 1890 and 1896 and the manager, who was called Jabez Balfour, a well-connected businessman ended up going bankrupt and being sentenced to 14 years in jail. This hotel was pulled down in 1930 but some of its frontage was kept for another building.

Then there is yet another Cecil Hotel – this time one built in 1929 in Alexandria in Egypt on the site of where the monument Cleopatra’s Needle used to be. This also went through difficult times and ownership changes, when the real owners were thrown out of the country, even though Winston Churchill, the writer Somerset Maugham and Al Capone all stayed there once.

Could Cleopatra’s Needle (any of the three) have exerted some strange force on Hotel Cecil’s throughout the world? Cleopatra’s Needle is an obelisk with a twin in New York and an obelisk from a different pair at a site in Luxor is also erected in Paris. The London and New York obelisks were made in the 18^th Dynasty and the Paris one is from the 19^th Dynasty so it is newer than the other two.

There is a time capsule box buried under the London obelisk and it has exerted a dark and depressing force on many people. A number of people have committed suicide near to the London Cleopatra’s Needle and others have reported feeling depressed and dizzy if they have stood near it for too long. This obelisk was near to the London Cecil Hotel. It was also removed with its twin that went to New York, from near the site in Alexandria, Egypt where the Egyptian Cecil Hotel is now. So there is a connection with these obelisks and hotels called ‘Cecil’. It is still possible that this influence could have had an effect on the Los Angeles Cecil Hotel because of the twin obelisk in Central Park, which admittedly is nowhere near Los Angeles, but nonetheless time and distance mean nothing to spirits or members of the supernatural.

One thing is certain though. It is probably best not to name a hotel ‘Cecil’ just to be on the safe side.

Graham Bond, The Pippins, Knights Of The Solar Cross,Ghosts In Highgate And Rocky Valley

This is the Pippins blog so they appear everywhere. The whole thing that connects these photos is a massively complicated story which would take several hours to do it proper justice, so this is a brief piece of it all.

I had never heard of the musician Graham Bond until I was contacted in 2015 by the author of the pamphlet in the main picture. The pamphlet is actually very rare and the author did write another one a decade and some later with a similar title. The person who contacted me in 2015 said they knew Graham Bond when they were a music journalist working for a well known music paper in London back in the 60's. It was a case of 'Graham who?' at the time where I was concerned, but I was curious. The man who contacted me expressed that it was odd the way Mr Bond died - which was under a Finsbury Park tube train on 8th May 1974, aged 36.

Whilst experiencing a bad bout of flu recently I noticed Graham Bond mentioned in another book I have and started looking him up in more detail. I found out he was an occultist - this was mentioned to me in 2015 by the author of the pamphlet, who I shall call GBS, above, who was head of the O.T.O. in Europe at one time. I didn't believe him when he told me in the email in 2015, but it is apparently true as shown on the cover of the pamphlet.

Anyway, it seems there was lots of goings on in Highgate Cemetery, London over a period of the late 60's until the cemetery was closed to the public in 1975. There is an East and West cemetery. The West graveyard is open for paid guided tours and the East has an entrance fee. Lots of the notables are the the old part - the West - but there are some others in the East one. Highgate is a village in North London which is thought to be a desirable place to live.

A rash of novels have now appeared for sale, all including a Highgate vampire or ghost. It has become an authors paradise in itself.

There are many complications about exactly what was going on and many different stories. There was also rivalry between too occultists connected to Highgate rituals - Bishop Sean Manchester (as he is now) and David Farrant, a local Wiccan. I will not go in to detail about goings on here, but a follower of David Farrant supposedly sent 60's musician Long John Baldry,then of Muswell Hill, a curse in the post after he had reported to the police that Farrant had killed his cat in a ritual. This was not true as the cat turned up fine some weeks later.

Graham Bond dealt with the curse - this was 1973, as he was an experienced occultist who had taken on some of Aleister Crowley's magickal names and called himself Lashtal. However he apparently felt some of it had stuck to him and met a strange demise under the subway train the following year. There were also dark rumours about some kind of feud with one of the cemetery magicians.

On to Highgate Cemetery -  I first read about 'The Highgate Vampire' years ago in a second hand book called The Vampire's Bedside companion' by Peter Underwood.  It has a photo of a tomb  belonging to a William Fisher-Wace who allegedly became some kind of revenant. This is of course shown in the aforementioned book. However, the tomb associated with other goings on in Highgate belonged to Sir Francis Cory-Wright, a London notable of Victorian and Edwardian times who ran a coal company. He lived at Caen Wood Towers in Highgate, later known as Athlone House, as shown in the picture above. Cory-Wright had been called up in a necromancy ritual to do the bidding of the caller.This is what caused a lot of the other bother associated with Highgate Cemetery and some of the people previously mentioned.

Graham Bond's ashes were scattered at Rocky Valley in Cornwall, on the trail that leads from the waterfall at St Nectan's Glen, over the rocky outcrops to the sea.

There is also a reported vampire at a cemetery in Shipley, West Yorkshire. The details shown below appeared in the Bradford Telegraph And Argus on 27th October 2009 - written by reporter David Barnett. This is his piece below not mine.

Windhill Cemetery
Cemeteries would seem to be a good place to find ghosts, but if we venture to Windhill Cemetery we might find more than we bargained for. As recently as the 1980s there were reports of a strange figure which came to be known as the Owlet Vampire. It had a classic vampire appearance – a tall, dark man with a pale face and bright red lips, and even the fangs to match. He would appear in front of passers-by from seemingly nowhere, terrifying them and causing them to flee.