Bodmin Moor

 

Celia at Stanton Drew

 If you visit this area and you like stone circles then be sure to visit Stanton Drew. It is between Bath and Bristol. Have a pint in the beer garden of the Druid's Arms pub and see the Cove. We experienced a weird noise by it.

The Yatton daemoniac

 Susan got this book Bloody British History; Somerset and it had this story in it. 

George Lukins - Wikipedia

George Lukins, also known as the Yatton daemoniac,^[1][2][3] was a tailor infamous for his alleged demonic possession and the subsequent exorcism that occurred in 1788 when he was aged 44;^[4] his case occasioned great controversy in England.^[5][6][7][8]

Siberian shaman

 The earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, 17th century. Witsen called him a "priest of the Devil" and drew clawed feet for the supposed demonic qualities.^[7]

The Sorceror (cave art)

 The Sorcerer (cave art) - Wikipedia

David Bailey, Rolling Stones, Avebury Hill, 1968

 

Bad Detectives Cerne Abbas Giant. 2009

 Cerne Abbas Giant - Wikipedia

This hill figure spawned a song by the Bad Detectives.

Priddy Henges and Mounds | Aerial Film of Earthworks in Somerset, UK | Megalithomania

  Priddy Circles 

BBC Wiltshire

 Do you remember The Warminster Thing?

The sightings, well-known among locals and UFO enthusiasts, were accompanied by strange sounds and mysterious experiences in the town during the '60s.

60 years on, there's a 20 metre-long mural in Warminster, funded by the community and spray-painted by local artist Paul Boswell. It features flying saucers, strange creatures, and a portrait of journalist Arthur Shuttlewood, who documented the events at the time.

Learn more: bbc.in/45NCBZo

Girl Water Diviner (1954)

 Water diviner Catherine Bent at work in Deveran, Cornwall.

Various shots woman walking about field accompanied by man, she suddenly starts waving her arms frantically and twitching mancially. M/S two farmers leaning on gate watching. M/S woman walking with arm outstretched like a zombie. She drops her arm, sticks a flag in the ground. Various shots of woman twitching, jerking and then placing more flags in ground. She places her hand in her pocket and pulls out a piece of string. C/U woman's hand waggling piece of string. M/S woman waggling string - man hands her another, flag she sticks it in. M/S two farmers entering field and walking towards her. M/S woman does a final fling and signals the farmer to come over. The two men join the woman and she explains where the water is, one of them begins to drive in a large pipe.

Mural marks 60 years since town's UFO frenzy

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdj12q512wo?app-referrer=deep-link

Thanks to my brother for this. Bass player and artist Bos gets on BBC news. 

Our local stone circle

 Definitely worth a visit if you are in the area. 

Happy Solstice Eve

Pic from previous years. Lots of online sources to watch it live. 
 

Cley Hill

 Bos gave us a print of his drawing of Cley Hill. Cley Hill is near Frome and Warminster and has lots of legends attached to it. During the Warminster UFO flap it was the place of many sightings. Bos was saying he was involved a bit in the 60th anniversary of the Warminster UFO. The Warminster Thing 60th Anniversary conference - Warminster Athenaeum - Sunday 24th August 2025 - Home

The WarmSince the 1965 sighting of the "Warminster thing", Cley Hill has been a hotspot of UFO sightings and crop circles.^[10] Sightings were documented in 1967, 1996, 2001, 2005^[11] and 2017.^[10]inster Thing: 60th Anniversary Conference is a commemoration, but also a celebration of the events that took place 60 years ago in and around the military town of Warminster, Wiltshire, in England. 

Strawberry Moon over Stonehenge

 

Stonehenge a minute ago

 Our daughter just took this. It means you are nearing home for us.

Glastonbury Giants by Mary Caine

 

Another book I picked up today was this book on the Glastonbury zodiac. I used to have a  copy  so I was pleased to see it. Found the below film on the findings. 

Britain's largest and most controversial antiquity is literally as old as the hills that form its figures and the streams that help define them.

Though basically natural, it was completed with tracks, canals and earthworks by early Man. A vast circle 10 miles across, this Star-Temple has a guard dog, his underside outlined by the river Parrett, 5 miles long. Too big to be seen! Too good to be true? Yet the map shows its effigies clearly, while 100 significant place names and many local legends attest them, like Wagg on the Dog's tail. The Zodiac stars also fit their effigies when the planetsphere is scaled to the map. Here, said Katherine Maltwood, who found this earth Zodiac in 1925, is the first Round Table in Avalon; Arthur, his chief knights, and Guinevere still seated about it as the signs of the Zodiac. An early grail legend confirms that Merlin made the Round Table to signify "the round world, the round canopy of the planets and stars." Condensed into 50 minutes, this film explores the Ancient Mystery from the air and on the ground, and finds a message of great import for the new age embedded in its figures. Script by Mary Caine whose books "The Glastonbury Zodiac" and "The Glastonbury Giants" helped renew interest in Maltwood's discovery. Commentary by Osmond Caine. Music by Vaughan Williams and Jose Gross. Production and photography by Jonathan Barnett. Copyright: Mary Caine 1990

Corpse Road Blues

  Bos our friend and occasional bassist did the cover for this book; Corpse Road Blues published by Demain. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corpse-Road.../dp/B0DWLY16SN/...

Corpse Road Blues by Eric Nash

This collection of short stories explores the many ways we are haunted.

And highlights social issues including homelessness, domestic abuse, hate crime, and the rise of Nationalism; philosophical viewpoints, such as free thought; while discussing themes of grief and loss.

Inside, you’ll find someone’s daughter lost in a puddle; a young artist struggling with his inability to feel pain; a niece resorting to an unusual form of exorcism upon herself; a transplant patient haunted by a past that isn’t his own; a Christmas Tree that helps the dead, with terrifying results for the living...

Cover illustration by: Mutartis Boswell
Cover Design by Adrian Baldwin

Orchardleigh Stones

 Frome's prehistoric monument. Details here. I had a mate who lived on the Orchardleigh Estate so I spent a lot of time there but I don't remember these. No public access. 

Avebury yesterday

 pic National Trust