The Curse of Clapham Wood

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[Music] the small village of Clapham is located on the outskirts of the coastal town of Worthing in the English County of West Sussex historically Clapham has led something of an unremarkable existence aside from a brief mention in the Doomsday Book it was largely overlooked with no remarkable events to distinguish it from countless other Villages which dot the surrounding Countryside however this would change during the 1970s and 80s following several suspicious deaths and mysterious incidents which would take place near the village some of these occurred in the vicinity of chanbury ring an Iron Age heritage site

that sits 8 miles to the northeast of the settlement others transpired within the heavily wooded area lying between the two locations which would be the sight of no less than four suspected murders crimes for which no person would ever be arrested nor imprisoned and would remain unsolved to this very day the first of these tragic occurrences was reported during the summer of 1972 and involved a local police Constable by the name of Peter Goldsmith the former Soldier was based at staining police station and had arrived arrive for work as normal on the morning of the

6th of June his shift that day had been unremarkable and upon its completion the officer had changed back into his running gear and then set off for home several hours later when Goldsmith had still not arrived back at his house he was reported missing by his family prompting an immediate and wide ranging search over the next few days using a helicopter and up to 10 tracker dogs a team of 30 police officers comb the rout between the police station and the Constable's home despite having varied and expanded their search parameters several times these officers were

unable to find any trace of their absent colleague it would not be until 6 months later on the 13th of December that the remains of the missing officer were eventually found a dog walker discovered his body lying alongside a path which led out from clap and wood in the general direction of chanbury ring this would lead to awkward questions being asked of those who previously searched for him and had reportedly combed the same track and its surrounding area several times over the officers in question maintain that the body of their colleague had not been there

at that time and must have been placed there after the search operations had wound down with the body of Peter Goldsmith having been too badly decomposed for the coroner to determine a cause of death little further investigation into the matter was undertaken 3 years later another local resident would suddenly disappear under similarly mysterious circumstances the on Foster was a T who had told his wife he was going out into the woods that bordered The Village as part of his daily exercise routine as with PC Goldsmith he too then failed to return home but on this

occasion the body of the missing man would be discovered much quicker than before 3 weeks after Foster had disappeared a couple who were out searching for their horse stumbled across the body of an unidentified if IED male the clothing worn by this badly decomposed corpse would eventually identify it as that of the missing pensioner but the pathologist who later examined the kadava noted how there was no way for him to realistically determine a cause of death the rate of Decay was far in excess of what would have been expected for a body that had only

been missing for a period of 3 weeks this wording in his report would take on a somewhat haunting connotation with the discovery of a similarly degraded body in November of 1981 workers from the Wilton estate unexpectedly happened upon the naked body of a deceased female whilst out acting as beaters for an annual pheasant shoot it was eventually surmised that the woman was likely Jill Matthews a patient suffering from mental health issues who had walked off into the woods 6 weeks prior but once again the Doctor Who had completed her postmortem commented that he could not

account for the advanced degree of decomposition with the weather during the previous weeks having been unseasonably mild no extreme conditions had been reported in the local area only weeks before this the authorities had been stunned to receive a letter from a Canadian tourist who claimed to have discovered a fourth body lying in the woods at his Direction the remains of the Reverend Harry Snelling were then located and recovered for further examination by the local police the retired clergyman had been reported missing 3 years prior to this after heading off on a lunchtime ramble through the

Woodland near his home once again the officers who had previously over seen the search for him found themselves being summonsed to explain their actions the body of the dead priest had apparently been found lying out on open ground which they had previously searched with sniffer doogs and thermal cameras having seemingly failed to find any trace of him these were issues for which the search teams could offer no logical explanation besides an unknown third party having for some reason moved the remains back into the heart of the search area long after their actions had been concluded

for this reason many local residents believe the remains of the neighboring Hill for could be hiding a dark and murderous past which has forever cursed the ground it sits upon whilst originally constructed as a military installation by Iron Age tribes artifacts found at chanbury ring have suggested the site was used for other purposes item of pottery and Foundation walls have revealed the existence of at least two Roman erish shrines which were also built at the same location rumors of Arcane rituals historically carried out at these temples have posited theories that some of these may have

continued up to modern times during the 1970s the police were called to investigate a series of incidents involving local pets reported to have gone missing within the boundaries of clap and wood the first of these occurred in 1975 when a Chow Chow owned by the love family slipped its lead whilst on a walk and ran off into the surrounding brush given the relatively small 47 acre size of the Woodland the family were confident they would soon be reunited with their beloved companion but despite a significant amount of time spent searching for the three-year-old dog it

was never seen again then the following week a local farmer by the name of cornford reported that his border colag had managed to escape despite having always been an obedient animal it too disappeared Into the Heart of the Woodland never to be seen again several weeks later a dog walker named Rollins lost track of her golden retriever for just a few minutes only to later come across the animal in a state of extreme distress having rushed it to the local vets she was informed that her pet was now inexplicably paralyzed from the hips down and

had seemingly gone blind many tests were carried out but nothing was found which might have explained the dog's Affliction local historian Charles Walker later claimed to have proven that all three animals had been abducted and tortured by a cabal of local devil worshippers even going as far as to show reporters underground layers that had been dug by these satanists and alleging he had met one of them in person for an interview the anonymous figure he spoke with claimed the dogs had been sacrificed to hecy the goddess of Witchcraft dating back to 1228 this same entity

is also referenced in the text of a story relating to the woods which describes how a local landowner named Robert lauler failed to obtain a petition he desired from the local Parson in Anger at being denied his request he is said to have invoked the name of the goddess in order to curse both the priest and his Parish it is this story that some believe has resulted in strange and Sinister Supernatural occurrences being reported at chanbury ring by those who have stayed there overnight in 1966 members of a motorcycle gang attended the local police station

to report having been attacked whilst they were camped out at the location the group had taken their girlfriends up to the site and then made a rudimentary camp in which they intended to stay for the evening but at roughly 2:00 a.m. their conversation was suddenly interrupted by a loud and foror howling sound em ating from the nearby [Music] Woodland as the group turned to try and identify the source they could make out a solitary silhouette moving slowly back and forth along the tree line before them this figure would occasionally cry out or shriek as if

in pain but would then Retreat further into the trees if any of the group tried to approach it as they did so the men stepping outside of the boundaries of the Ring would suddenly double up in severe Agony with shooting pains Lancing up and down their bodies whatever had affected the bikers then began to spread to the rest of their group with some experiencing severe migraines and others succumbing to heavy vomiting eventually as the menacing figure before them continued to stalk back and forth the group fled for their motorbikes and headed away from the site

as quickly as they could the writer Robert McFarlan records having slept out at the site during the 1990s only to suddenly and unexpectedly be roused from his Slumber by a shrill sound as he strained his ears to figure out what it was that had awoken him he suddenly heard a piercing scream in the skies above initially believing this to have been a bird he was chilled to his very core when the scream had sounded again directly above him recognizing it as that of a human female for the next 15 minutes a dark humanoid form sweeped

through the skies above howling in an apparent mixture of sorrow and rage at one point it seemed to part itself into two separate masses that screeched and screamed in an identical manner until they collided and were once again joined together together then the two entities were gone rising up into the heavens and leaving the lone witness behind in their wake with only the memory of their pitiful cries for company of course no story of haunted or cursed Woodland would be complete without at least some accounts of bizarre lights witnessed in and around the area perhaps

unsurprisingly The Unexplained deaths of the four people found within clap and wood have been linked to reported UFO sightings from around the same time period one evening during the summer of 1967 a local resident named Paul Glover was walking with a friend across Clapham Downs when they caught sight of a strange aerial object both Witnesses would describe this aircraft as being completely black shaped like a large Boomerang and remaining completely silent as it moved through the sky eyes towards them a minute later after it had passed directly over the pair and was now heading away

from them this large vessel then discorded two smaller craft neither of the watching Men could make out the exact shape of these objects which presented very differently from their originator instead resembling masses of pure Bright Lights these two shining orbs cannoned around the skies below the larger craft for sever minutes at one point seeming to transfer a smaller dark object between one another having by now drifted further away from the witnesses several more lights then appeared until there were six in total which darted about before all then disappeared 5 years later a telephone engineer driving

home one evening along finden Road was startled to see a strange light circling above his vehicle bringing the van he was driving to a halt the engineer peered up into the night sky suddenly realizing the source of this light was a large glowing disc this object had initially been hovering quite close to the road but immediately increased its altitude as the van it was apparently stalking had halted continuing to Circle slowly above him the unknown fly and craft then began to emit a series of bright beams of light strobing the encompassing Woodland this bizarre and

haunting light show would continue for several minutes before the object then shot off at incredible speed five more years would pass by with no additional UFO sightings until August of 1977 when one final incident would take place a witness named Dave Stringer had gone out for a nighttime walk in the woods only to catch sight of a strange light shining through the trees directly ahead of him coming to a halt Stringer waited and watched as the unknown light source gradually increased in intensity and then began to rise up through the forest moments later a disc-shaped

object roughly the size of a family car appeared directly above the tree line emitting a soft pulsating glow as it did so the speed at which this craft was moving began to increase rapidly until it was shooting vertically up into the sky above the woods at once it disappeared from sight inside a much darker and imposing mass that had now emerged from the clouds above it a looming and half- hidden larger craft then moved back into the clouds it had emerged from disappearing completely there are a stark number of parallels between the shocking events that

have taken place in the vicinity of clap and wood and those reported at canic Chase both locations feature heavily wooded areas which are largely undisturbed by human activity and is situated in close proximity to the remains of Iron Age Hill forts theories in relation to the mysterious incidents which have been reported in rural Stafford share Center largely upon modern day conspiracy theories and extraterrestrial visitors but this is largely not the case for clap and wood where events appear to evoke a much older period in history imbued with a distinctly more Supernatural Aura did past events

at the chanbury ring unleash an ancient evil which continues to inflict pain and suffering on the local populace many years into the future do the stories surrounding hecy and Witchcraft provoke the Manifest station of sinister spirits and malevolent Supernatural entities or is it simply a case of one or more Disturbed individuals following a dark path as both human and animal deaths continue to be reported within the bounds of this idilic part of Southern England it appears that either Theory might well be true it appears this particularly haunting mystery unlike many which we have previously examined

continues into the present day and may yet yield the evidence needed to solve it once and for all [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] [Music] with me and the butterflies and be we wonder through the forest and do so as we come along you're not even a little weirded out by this what no man [Music] nice Jes back