| Return
to Oxney Bottom
Kim, Paddy, Dave
Our return seemed fated from the start,
four of the core team had to pull out from the investigation for one reason
or another.
We decided to go very light on equipment
and use our senses.
Paddy, Dave and myself decided to conduct
the investigation come what may. We arrived in Deal early evening and
spent sometime in the surrounding area.
Later that evening we drove up to Oxney
bottom and parked at the gates to Oxney Court as we have done on numerous
occasions.
We tracked through the woods being a little
wet and muddy, and soon we arrived at the chapel. We walked the surrounding
area familiarising Dave with the layout as it was his first visit.
The large fire that had been there previously
had moved a few feet and had a selection of large rocks placed around
to contain the fire.
We entered the chapel and were disgusted
to find that several of the headstones had been moved and some broken!
We took several pictures in this location. Dave caught sight of a red
glowing light through one of the chapel windows, as he mentioned this
Paddy aimed his camera and took a picture. Paddy did capture a light anomaly,
waiting on photograph from Paddy to draw conclusions.
For the first time since beginning to
visit Oxney I felt fairly calm in the chapel. We decided to move back
outside as it had begun to rain. We moved for cover under the large yew
tree where the fire is situated.
We stood under the tree for quite sometime
viewing the surrounding area and listening to the sounds of the wood.
On several occasions we heard what we
can only describe as movement, the movement came from the same direction
but never came any closer. Dave who joined us for the evening is as spiritualist
medium, he began to call out for spirit communication.
Several noises were noted and movement
between the trees and at the chapel door. The noises could be put down
to the wood, and the movement tricks being played with our eyes in low
light!
Dave sensed three spirits close by, one
directly behind where Dave and I was standing, one to the left of Dave
and one directly in front of Paddy next to the chapel door. Dave was given
the name George Sanders for one of the spirits and gave a description
of the one to the left, being dressed in a tunic and leaning on a sword.
Dave assumed that this spirit was possibly 12/13th century, whereas the
other spirit was 1920’s. The spirit that Dave sensed by the door
to the chapel was very vague, although Dave told us that he was less inclined
to have visitors. However he did state that all three were protecting
the land and the chapel.
After sometime of Paddy and me chatting
to Dave about the spirit realm we stood in silence again. A strange lightness
came over the area, as if a veil had been lifted and for quite sometime.
We were able to far much further than our normal night vision would have
allowed us!
After a further quiet time we decided
to venture further into the wood where we have noted occult activity in
the past. As we began to walk down towards the clearing we all clearly
saw a flash and heard a loud movement in the undergrowth, this made us
a little apprehensive and we stayed rooted to the spot for sometime listening.
When we were happy that there was no other visitors in the area we preceded
to the clearing. We were a little disorientated for a few minutes as the
path we usually take had been blocked deliberately with a large branch,
we were soon back on track and at the clearing.
We found as before the alter stone upturned
on the ground, there seemed to have not been any further activity since
out last visit. We walked around the area, pointing out to Dave several
of the signs we had seen before.
We walked back towards the chapel took
one last look at the surrounding area and decided to close the investigation.
Many thanks to Dave for joining us for
the evening, it made a change to view things from a spiritual angle rather
than scientific.
The majority of our photographs from the evening
are discounted as there was a great deal of moisture in the air, also
the breath from ourselves has been captured on several of the photographs
as shown in the pictures on the right.
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