The Ghost of Bradley Woods ~ The Black Lady
The Black Lady of Bradley Woods
Is Bradley Woods haunted ? Legend suggests so - by a ghost known locally as The Black Lady of Bradley Woods
I had to take a trip there . . .
Twas a freezing cold December morning and if ever a wooded area can feel a little spooky during the day then today was that day.
The sun shone intently but the temperatures were sub zero. there was frost on the ground - mist rose gently from various parts of the trail inside the wood leaving spectral trails.
Here’s a picture I took that morning.
A Ghostly Trail ?
I’m grateful to one of our contributors Steve for the heads up on this one and it seems this myth or legend is well known.
The lady in question has been seen by a number of people over time and is said to be wear a black hooded cloak and to be young and pretty (this is not why I went)
Now for something spooky, on entering, I hadn’t been for many years, almost my first thought was ‘where is the woodsman’s cottage that was once here’ - keep that thought.
The Origins of the Legend of The Black Lady of Bradley Woods
There are one or two false leads to her origins, the usual nun and the like, but it seems it began during the time of The war of the Roses
There was a woodsman, who lived in a cottage in Bradley Woods, he was married to a beautiful young woman and they had a baby. One day he left to fight in the war as part of Lord Yarborough’s army.
Every day his wife wife would wander around the perimeter of the land hoping to catch early sight of her husband returning home - he never did !
One day the enemy came from across the Humber (nothing ever changes) and 3 soldiers brutally assaulted her - leaving her crying and humiliated they took the baby and rode off !
She continued to wander aimlessly around the woodland in search of her missing baby until finally she died of a broken heart.
From that day on there have been reports of her ghostly figure wandering the woodland paths and trails.
Generations of parents have scared their children with her tale and the threat the the Black Lady would come and carry them off if they weren’t good or didn’t go to sleep.
If you’re interested in this or have any comment, perhaps you’ve even seen her or know of someone who has then please do leave a comment if you know anything at all or just have an opinion.
Hauntingly Yours
Rod
Please report or suggest other Lincolnshire myths and legends here - many thanks
Amiguru said,
December 1, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
Rod,
I used to play in Bradley Woods in the 1940’s so to me it was a magical place but only in child’s sense of wonderment. As a totally sceptical adult all this ghost stuff belongs in human imagination along with fairies, dragons, gods, angels, santa and souls. As far as I’m concerned, when your dead your dead. There is though no harm in stories which stretch the imagination and excite people. I really don’t wish to put a damper on the thread before it gets started but you did say “……do leave a comment if you……have an opinion, so I’d better fade into the mist now.
N
le
Rod said,
December 1, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Neville,
I too used to play there as a boy - it’s a great place, all sorts o fmemories came back this morning.
As far as I’m concerned, when your dead your dead
I’m with you there - I’ve medically died twice and there were no blue lights !
Best
Rod - haunting people in real life
Steve... said,
December 1, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
You have never had an out of body experience then?
Of course our outer appearance of a material body withers and dies like all material things.
chris keyworth said,
December 1, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
Did you know Weelsby Woods Park used to be a Prisoner of War Camp….
Regards
Chris
Little Brother said,
December 1, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Rod,
Do you remember the Case of the Vanishing Car near Bradley Woods? Dad used to tell us on our way home from fishing.
I think it was a car but it could easily have been a horse and trap
LB
Rod said,
December 1, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Steve,
I find the whole thing fascinating and I seem to know lots of people who’ve seen or experienced all sorts of things.
Sadly nothing has ever happened to me.
I certainly don’t say ghosts and the like don’t exist, as of course I couldn’t, just that I’ve never experienced anything like it.
I am convinced there are all sorts of strange things that are beyond out current understanding though
Cheers
Rod
Rod said,
December 1, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Chris,
no I didn’t - more cracking information !
Best
Rod
chris keyworth said,
December 1, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
i think it was for polish objectors, my old neighbour when i lived at habrough was in there, but there was a big on near frosts garden center at brigg too largley still there by all accounts..
regards
chris
chris keyworth said,
December 1, 2009 @ 10:24 pm
aparently there was one at Kirmington to, which answers a few questions ive had….
Annie Flinn said,
December 3, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
Okay, boys,
Here’s a quick story for you. Two weeks ago my sister-in-law took her daughter to the hospital for some minor surgery. Accompanying her, were her two granddaughters, ages 2 1/2 and 10 months. While waiting in the lounge of the hospital, my sister-in-law noticed that the baby was staring at the ceiling, and the older girl , too, was looking up, and dodging something. When she asked what was going on, the little girl replied, “Ghosts.” My sister-in-law looked up to see if there were shadows or lights reflected on the ceiling, but there was nothing. Now what do you make of this? Clearly, even if the older girl might know of ghosts, the 10 month old would not know of of them, so what was she seeing? Inquiring minds want to know.
Annie
Rod said,
December 3, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
Annie,
it’s things like this that really make you think !
I remember talking to a chap in a Lincolnshire village and he talked of spirits and ghosts in a matter of fact way - just as you would the weather - he’s known it since childhood !
Best
Rod
C.J said,
March 1, 2010 @ 3:42 am
My dad does not believe in ghosts or spirits or anything like that but one night he was driving down bradley road and there were leaves. But these weren’t ordinary leaves. If they were ordinary they would have just blown across the road but these leaves walked across the road. I mean they were moving like one leaf and then one leaf in front of that one like someone was walking across the road!
Hehe I told my eighteen year old brother this and he was terrified!
C.J
Rod said,
March 1, 2010 @ 7:56 am
CJ,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site.
That’s just the sort of thing we’re hoping to hear about on these posts thank you so much for taking the time to share it
All the best
Rod
doger said,
March 5, 2010 @ 8:49 pm
the legand is true i have seen her while walking my dog in the woods in the 1980’s
doger said,
March 5, 2010 @ 8:52 pm
cj i too have seen the thing with leaves wierd or not?
Rod said,
March 6, 2010 @ 7:59 am
Doger,
thanks for taking the time to share the experience - it seems as though something must be going on - any more sightings or experiences out there ?
All the best
Rod
History Hunter said,
April 5, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
Re: POW camp at Weelsby Woods. I knew about the POW camp nearly 35 years ago. My dad told me about it as WW was a regular haunt (not ghosts this time) for our family being about a mile from home. There were BOTH Polish and Italians at the camp.
History Hunter said,
April 5, 2010 @ 9:28 pm
the map reference for the camp is TA 288 072
Amiguru said,
June 3, 2010 @ 6:06 pm
Rod,
There were other ‘happenings’ in Bradley Woods in September 1855
according to The Grimsby Guardian and General Advertiser:
“Thomas BAILEY, George BROWN and Chas THOMPSON of Great Grimsby, were summoned at the instance of Robert RICHARDSON of Bradley, charged with nutting in Bradley Wood on Tuesday morning last. Each fined including costs, 16s 6d.”
Regards,
Neville
Rod said,
June 3, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
Neville,
superb find - love it.
Nutting certainly sounds serious - 16s 6d was quite a sum of money back then.
Best
Rod
Andrew said,
August 9, 2010 @ 3:31 pm
I hadn’t heard of the Black Lady before reading this, but I know of another regular sighting at bradley woods.
My Step Father told me a story of when he and a friend driving home from a party was travelling on Bradley Road. As they approached the woods the temperature in the car dropped very quickly to a chill that both of them mentioned. As the car was passing through the woods the driver (my step dad) noticed a white blur in the field on the right as you come out of the woods on the left hand bend. He described it as a triangular shape heading towards the road, as it came closer he could see it was a woman in a dress running towards the road, as he hit the brakes, the lady ran in front of the vehicle and collided with the car causing a very loud thump. Shaking and panicking my step dad and his friend stopped and got out of the vehicle to help the lady, but walking to the rear of the car they noticed nothing, not even damage to the vehicle. They quickly got into the car and drove very quickly towards Waltham to the street lights where they discussed what had happened. They agreed that the experience had to be paranormal and reporting it would get nowhere. They found that after telling the story a few times, they weren’t the only ones to experience it around that same time.
This was in the 60’s, I’ve heard similar stories up to today from residents of Waltham. I remember the Grimsby Telegraph started to report sightings at Bradley Woods for a while, but I don’t think anything has been reported for a while.
As for sceptics, you can only wait and SEE for yourself when the time is right.
Oi Oi said,
August 9, 2010 @ 7:12 pm
I work in a old home in welhome rd grimsby and on my first shift i saw a dark figure walk past me i thought nothing of it till a few nights later i said to a member of staff what i had seen and they had also seen the same thing many of times , from that day on i have seen and heard many things like walking round a upstair room that was empty . and while in the celler i had this feeling i was being watched by a little boy and girl dressed in old clothing i let it go and about year later was told the celler was once used for the servent and there familys see i would not say anything about this but am not aloan in seeing and hearing things
Rod said,
August 9, 2010 @ 7:34 pm
Great stuff guys - many thanks for taking the time to share it and welcome to the site
All the best
Rod
elaine said,
August 9, 2010 @ 8:38 pm
enjoyed listening to all your comments hope more to come and i beleive them all i have experienced many things in the past so i know
Gary Stafford said,
August 9, 2010 @ 10:16 pm
I have heard similar stories of strange lights appearing on the left hand bend. I always put it down in the summer to entering the dark section of road, covered by the large trees making the light fade causing your eyes pupils to open, then suddenly on that bend the light returns & your pupils are still wide open.
Mrs HH said,
August 13, 2010 @ 6:06 pm
My Mum told me of a courting couple in Bradley Woods in the 1960’s who were parked up in a car in the woods at dusk. During their canoodling the young man screamed and drove away at full speed, when asked what he saw all he could say was ‘the eyes’ . The story goes that through the increasing darkness he saw a pair of glowing red human eyes watching them, and had an overwhelming feeling of terror (as you would!).
I don’t know if this was my Mum’s idea of stopping us going into the woods, but it worked for many years. The place still gives me the creeps now!
There are many ghost stories in and around Grimsby, and all I can say to the sceptics is try to be open minded to the possibilities of things beyond our understanding. The world would not have progressed,as it has, if all the great inventors hadn’t looked into the seemingly impossible!
I have pictorial evidence of what the seemingly impossible can do!
all the best Mrs HH
Rod said,
August 13, 2010 @ 6:45 pm
HHette,
another nice tale to add to the collection.
I’ll tell you what caught my eye about this spot
4 comments all on the same day - August the 9th =- what sparked that off ?!?
Cheers
Rod
Sarah said,
August 18, 2010 @ 6:27 pm
Approximately 10 years ago I was at a carol singing service at Waltham Church. The place was crowded as we waited for the Choir to make its way down the central isle to their pews towards the back on the right hand side. As we waited, I looked towards where the choir would be and saw what appeared to be a Vicar or Priest dressed in old fashined robes. He was reading the hymm books and as I looked I realised that I could see the wall through him. I was confused and tried to figure out how this was possible as there were no windows around, just solid stone. This was not a fleeting glimpse. I was looking for around 5 minutes eliminating possible causes for this. As the choir began to walk down the isle, I turned my head briefly for no more than a few seconds and when I looked back, he was gone. I was not scared but instead felt a warm feeling of wellbeing. I discussed this with the others in my party but nobody else had seen him. I still to this day cannot think what could have created this image. Very strange!
Rod said,
August 18, 2010 @ 7:33 pm
Sarah,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site
What a great experience and thanks for sharing it - I’m jealous !
Best
Rod
Jaymo/Artist said,
October 26, 2010 @ 6:06 am
Hi Rod,
Hmm, the black lady thing, I’m tempted to draw a few sketches of her. I have walked Bradley woods from the age of 8ish and I still do now at the age of 50! There always was a strange feeling of being…..not alone, when I walked the tracks by myself.
In fact I’m almost tempted to put something of her permanently in Bradley woods like a carving or wood sculpture?
It’s something I’ve often thought about.
Would you be interested in looking at my sketches when done?
Gary
Rod said,
October 26, 2010 @ 8:19 am
Gary,
if you do a sketch then please do email me a scan of it - with your permission I’d love to put it here on the site
Best
Rod
Bobby T said,
November 15, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
Loved reading everything. I have heard and been told many stories about Bradley woods and it use to creep me out when i was little. It never stopped me from going tho, I have even camped in the woods 3 times which added to the stories. I still find the place creepy even tho i didn’t experience anything to crazy apart from the odd orbs in photos which i don’t care to much about :p When i was younger my uncle told me about a lady ghost being seen by a driver and something happened. He said you would be able to find the story in the Grimsby library, true or not i couldn’t tell you
Rod said,
November 15, 2010 @ 8:53 pm
Bobby,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site.
It really does look spooky on a cold foggy morning - one could imagine seeing ghosts everywhere as the mist and fog drift about in spectral whisps !
Cheers
Rod (sounding a M.R. James there)
Jean McKeating said,
December 2, 2010 @ 6:56 pm
Hi Rod, do remember the boys next door out in the lane going from Bradley church towards the woods in the dark they definitely saw something that scared the life out of them and would not go there again in the dark,this happened in the mid 50,s .Did go nutting there best hazel nuts in the area,didn,t get fined for doing it ! Do love all your quirky interests.Had my own spooky experience at RAF Faldingworth in the 70,s,couple of years later met someone with the same experience,there has always been stories of the Polish pilot what happened to me was different:riding my bike on the flat in that beautiful summer of 76 no wind around I realised something was pushing my bike I was going very fast without peddling anywhere else I would have thought I,m going down hill but the camp was as flat as a pancake.
Rod said,
December 2, 2010 @ 7:19 pm
Jean,
great yarns - many thanks for sharing.
There’s certainly a lot of ‘action’ around Bradley Woods, this article gets a lot of traffic from peope searching about it as well - so clearly people seem to be experiencing something in the area
Best
Rod
Babs said,
January 21, 2011 @ 10:51 pm
My husband and I are in our 50’s. About 4 or 5 years ago we were driving back home down Bradley Road towards Grimsby (other cars where behind us and in front of us). It was Spring and late afternoon I think. As we approached Bradley Woods near the entrance on the edge of the road facing us was a young woman and she was rocking with her arms folded. She was dressed in clothes from the 1800’s; long woollen skirt, blouse and a shawl around her neck, some kind of hat. These clothes were all different shades of grey. Infact she was totally grey apart from her hair which was a strange pinky red colour. She looked very wierd. We both saw her and she just didn’t look right at all, although she looked ’solid’. It was the colours, or lack of them, that was strange. I often wonder if any of the other cars saw her. I wish now we had turned around and had another look, but we didn’t. This is the first and only time we have seen anything like this. Did anyone else see her?
Rod said,
January 22, 2011 @ 8:40 am
Babs,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site, that’s a very interesting account and the amount of sightings that seems to be associated with Bradley Woods, rather than other woods, means surely there’s something to be found out ?
I’ve never seen anything at all like this but would love to hear if anybody else has seen similar to you at Bradley Woods
Best
Rod
Babs said,
January 26, 2011 @ 11:01 am
Thanks for replying. We did at first think that it was someone messing about, dressing up in strange clothes. But the colour or her clothes and hair made us doubt that. How would anyone find such old looking clothes in all shades of grey? Her complexion was very pale as well. Very strange. I am pleased my husband saw her as well. It’s nice to have another witness.
Babs
RButhnot said,
February 1, 2011 @ 11:58 am
A slack week at work means I get more time to read these fascinating accounts. I used to live in an old house and from my experiences there, I am completely convinced of the presence of ghosts and the different sensations they bring. More locally, there was always supposed to be a headless horseman on the roads near Keelby, and countless monks walking the grounds of Thornton Abbey. I wonder has the area had any of the ‘big cat’ sightings that seem to crop up everywhere else?
Gordon Luck said,
February 1, 2011 @ 1:06 pm
There were plenty of stories going around about 30 years ago of people driving on the road around Thornton Abbey at night, checking their rear view mirror and seeing a hooded monk sat on the rear seat!
Sarah said,
August 2, 2011 @ 6:11 pm
Reading about the couple who saw red eyes reminded me of another story i read about “the black lady” where a woman saw red eyes in her house which was built on a graveyard in Bradley woods
Rod said,
August 2, 2011 @ 7:32 pm
Sarah,
thanks for chipping in - really appreciated and welcome to the site - hope you’ll return
Regards
Rod
Rich said,
November 22, 2011 @ 5:24 pm
Ok…some cool stories here…I live 5 mins from the woods and walk my mutt there almost evert day.unfortunatly I have had no experiences as yet…recently I renovated my loft and came across a newspaper..daily mirror Saturday 11sepember 1965 … Cool eh…. There’s a story in there of a body found at the woods the body of a maths teacher from Cleese school.. Burnt to a crisp the car and a petrol can were found close by…so I’m surprised there’s no story’s of a burnt man or something wandering round there…would make fore an interesting tale…I’ve tried resercheing it on the net but no info…anyone know anything more I’d be intrigued to know….cool site btw
Rich said,
November 22, 2011 @ 5:25 pm
Sorry…Clee school
Rod said,
November 22, 2011 @ 7:52 pm
Rich,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site, I’d not heard that story before, thanks for getting it on record here.
Keep your eyes open
Best
Rod
The Saxman said,
November 23, 2011 @ 11:28 am
In reply to Rich,
The body was that of “Jock” Roberts a brilliant maths teacher at Clee Boys Grammar School who taught me maths.
I thought the location was Weelsby Woods but after so long the mind can get confused on locations.
Postman Pat said,
December 4, 2011 @ 8:58 pm
While you on the subject of Ghosts,
The former Post office now Argos at 64 Victoria St in Grimsby is definitely haunted. I am a former postie and used work in this building. A colleague and I often used to talk about a ghostly figure walking up the stairs at night in the old part of the building. It was that bad at times whilst working the night shift we would not go into that part of the building alone. To this day we do not know if it was male of female as we did not hang around long enough to find out.
As I understand it this site is part of the cemetery of the now long gone St Marys Church.
Regards
P.P
minnie said,
December 5, 2011 @ 11:20 am
Thats interesting Postman - I was told about the ghost in the old post office a long time ago but I was told it was the ghost of one of the postworkers that had been killed in action WWI. I can remember standing in the queue in there one day and hearing a couple of the counterstaff chatting about somebody having seen the ghost. I used to know somebody who worked in the shoe shop next door who told me they would only go upstairs in pairs because somebody had seen something once ( but no idea who saw it or what they saw?)
minnie said,
December 5, 2011 @ 11:33 am
Have only just got round to reading the Bradley woods ghost that started this thread as well. Again I have been told a slightly different story (its easy to see how these tales change over the years when you look at all the different versions)
As it was told to me the story comes from the time of the crusades and it was that a wife had child whilst her husband was away fighting but that she died in childbirth and the child was raised by others. The child died some time later but they didnt share a grave and that this is the shade of the lady searching for her child. I think there have been a couple of bits in the telegraph about people seeing her certainly within the last five years or so
Rod said,
December 5, 2011 @ 3:11 pm
PP,
I’m pretty sure this rings a bell with me - interesting that Minnie has also heard of it - anybody know anything else ?
thanks and regards
Rod
History Hunter said,
December 5, 2011 @ 4:26 pm
Postie, there seems to be a few versions of sightings or knowledge of the ghost/s at the old post office building but one thing I think can be guaranteed is that it isnt a ghost relating to the old churchyard/cemetery of St Mary’s. Ghosts tend to retrace and replay things that happened at either great times of sadness or at the time of death, whereas I very much doubt anybody buried in the vicinity would have walked up a set of stairs above the old cemetery. It is very much more likely to be the aforementioned WW1 casualty, of which the names of all the postal workers from grimsby who signed up/died in action are on a wall plaque in the new post office on Victoria Street. Considering there were 18 P.O. workers who died, there is only one known to be buried locally in Scartho Road Cemetery for definite.
Postman Pat said,
December 5, 2011 @ 8:55 pm
H.H
I dont care where the ghost came from, it scared the hell out of me.
Maybe it was on a walkabout.
I only know of one death in that building and that was long after my sighting.
P.P
the historian said,
January 25, 2012 @ 7:06 pm
The fields below bradley woods towards grimsby , are the site of the great battle between the traitor Tostig and his norman and scandinavian mercenaries on one side, and Edwin and Morcar, the northern Earls in charge of the English forces, on the other, in May 1066.Tostig’s boats were harboured at Grimsby,his camp on the shore while he laid waste the royal domaign in north Lincs. This was in order to get the english to use up their compulsary service, so that when the main attack came at York and Hastings later on, the english would be short of men.The english used thse woods to provide cover on their approach from Lincoln ,and annhilated the foreign forces to the extent that the survivors needed only 19 of the 300 boats they came in to limp away.I have a late saxon mace head (similar to those at the end of the Bayeux tapestry) from the field in front of the wood.There is a case to be made for the ghost story to be about events from this battle , as the woodsman may well hav!
e been part of the citizens ordered to go to Lincoln to form an army,and the foreign soldiers could have been fleeing from the field of this battle.Was there any other time when mercenaries were about?
Chris Keyworth said,
January 25, 2012 @ 7:17 pm
TH
not sure about the battle but sounds more like a rendition of the battle of stanford bridge, although years ago i heard a similar tale and payed no note to it…
regards
chris..
Emma Skinner said,
February 8, 2012 @ 12:14 am
Rod,
I’m a little torn on where this comment may be best to placed, because it relates to both local folklore, belief in the paranormal and possibly the said Black/White ‘Lady of Bradley’!?!?!
I share a similar standing point to belief as you on the matter of ‘belief’… as you said in t’other article:
“I was discussing this a few weeks ago and said I would need proof in order to believe, the reply I got was . . .
But you can’t prove there are no ghosts or that those people who’ve seen them are lying or mistaken !
I’ve never understood this argument, it’s much like those who say ‘You cannot prove there isn’t a God’ - of course you can’t . . . It’s impossible to prove a negative !”
For me, the challenge of “if there is a God;Prove it!” can ever be counteracted by “Prove there isn’t a God!” - i haven’t met anyone yet who has proven either to me! And i have at times, explored the avenues of belief and theology and have been fortunate in meeting a wide range people with a variety of beliefs…
As you said …. “Surely in a logical world the onus of providing proof falls upon the person making an extraordinary claim ?” Definately in a scientific world. But in law, which is similarly a process of logical reasoning, in many legal cases; the burden of proof can fall on either party, it is entirely dependant on the circumstances upon which it has arisen; the nature of the case.
I’m incredibly wary of people who would seek to convince other people to believe in something, as much as i am wary of people who would seek to challenge someones personal beliefs! i believe, the only true freedom we may ever truly own is the freedom within our own minds and i think that, ownership cannot be assumed - how many of us are brainwashed as children, by armchair potitician parents?!
Also, In the words of Bernard Shaw “it is easy, terribly easy, to shake a mans faith… but to do so, is the Devils work”.
“I would rather create my own system than be controlled by anothers” (bit of William Blake now - oh my, Mr Collins you have led my thoughts astray!
Anyway… back to the Black lady! (sorry for the detour)
I’d been carving for a year or two when i camped in the Bradley/Dixon wood ‘area’. I love the woods; the sanctity of the canopy is more of a home to me, than a cage of bricks and mortar. Especially broadleaf woodland - oak, ash, birch, hazel, wood anemone.. are in abundance. During my second nights stay i had a dream. . . in it, i was in the woods and remember feeling sadness and desolation - a woman appeared from around the tree’s - we spoke for some time and tho’ i cannot recall the words exactly, it was of life, the world and my place in it - she said i should continue carving and sharing my learnings of the wild and that everything would be ok if i carried on. As she turned away from me, i saw that instead of hair, it was instead strips of birch bark.
I didn’t hold any significance to it - i’d already made the decision that carving wood was ‘what i would do with my life’.
A couple of years ago i was reading about the Living Wisdom of Tree’s - and their interpretive characteristics and associations ie willow is associated with ‘the moon’ and is said to have feminine qualities… it was then i discovered that The Silver Birch (betula pendulla) had a lot of folklore surrounding it… and is also known as the Lady of the Woods!!
She’s certainly inspired me with ‘a few’ of my carvings
Always,
Em
Rod said,
February 8, 2012 @ 6:57 am
Emma,
wonderful comment, a joy to read and very well reasoned.
I’m a bit sulky about the fact I’ve never had ‘an experience’ !
I’m out in the country more than most yet I’ve never seen a big cat, I’m at churches and abandoned buildings etc more than most yet I’ve never seen a ghost.
I’ve been to Bradley Woods and Newsham Woods etc countless times and seen nothing - it’s a rip off
I’m open-minded but also logical so some things seem far more likely than others, that said it’s dangerous to theorize with sufficient data !
I can’t help but think carving wood in an ancient historic woodland must be one of the ultimate ways to get taken back to a time of old - what could be more in keeping and in tune with what’s passed there before - a beautiful thing . . .
Regards,
Rod
Emma skinner said,
February 8, 2012 @ 2:55 pm
He he its a ‘rip off’
Rod,
i completely identify with that feeling of disappointment - from a young age I’ve frequented those same places with similar aspirations; from ‘twaggin’ school alone in graveyards; knocking on church doors (south first; then the devils door to the north, other times) and then running clockwise (anti clockwise other times) - and no devil tripped me up!; 13 times around the witches tree at the stroke of midnight (in boggy marsh) and was not struck down; and a youth full of ouija boards: and nothing.
I did have a perhaps a strange experience with tarot. . . Doing my own readings (which you’re not ’supposed’ too) - once, during a dozen consecutive attempts, i noticed one card in particular, was in the same place (the ‘me, as i am and will be’ place as i understood it!) what did it tell me? Nothing I’ve not always known! ( the hermit).
:-)
so for me; the lack of experience to the contrary suggests ‘belief’ is a matter of choice or a leap of faith. I don’t seem to easily accept ‘convenient’ answers. . But Then maybe that’s the problem with the logic of a scientific mind - we never reach that heightened awareness necessary to perceive things; feeling comfortable in these places perhaps doesn’t help with that - minds and eyes dilated (with fear or expectation perhaps) may be more open to seeing things out of the ordinary.
Whereas calm, detached and unexpectant observators with scientific reasoning are more likely to logicide our experiences.
Rod, I’d say we are equal in our affinity with nature - maybe you should camp there, if you haven’t already. . Could be the difference!
All the best
ever, Em
Rod said,
February 8, 2012 @ 5:07 pm
Em,
I’ve had plenty of strange experiences in a somewhat evetful life - sadly non of them supernatural
Perhaps campling out is the answer, I know someon ewho camped out a Newsham Woods and . . .
Best,
Rod