The White Ladies Priory and the Green Stone

 The White Ladies Priory. This small ruin on the border of Wolverhampton and Shropshire is well known amongst witches and paranormal investigators in the area. The history of the priory is steeped in mystery and folklore primarily concerned with the nuns who lived there hence the white ladies ( plural) . However, some people like me believe the name is white lady’s priory . Ghostly apparitions have been seen, strange noises have been heard and the priory has a strange feeling of peace but also tension. Another tale associated with it is that of King Arthur and his wife . Some believe that the white robed nuns cared for her when she was no longer safe in Arthur’s court. 

Thirdly there is the story of the Green Stone. Graham Phillips reportedly visited the priory to return the greeen stone to the universe following a series of paranormal encounters and events that ended in what Phillips called a battle between good and evil. His book is still available and is a great read . How much of it is true? Unknown but the dagger from the book can be seen in a museum at Upton upon Severn. Well worth reading along with its the sequel The Eye Of Fire . You can visit the priory free as part of the National Trust. 

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/white-ladies-priory/

https://www.grahamphillips.net/

https://thetudorhousemuseumupton.org/

Spooky places: Rehmeyers Hollow

 

In November 1928, under the malicious advice of a woman named Emma Knopp (more commonly known as Nellie Noll due to a work of fiction), John Blymire believed that he had been cursed by Nelson Rehmeyer, a practitioner of powwow. On November 27, 1928, Blymire and his accomplices called on Rehmeyer at his home hoping to find his copy of the powwow book the Long Lost Friendand also get a lock of his hair. Knopp advised him to burn the book and bury the lock of hair eight feet underground.

Blymire and his fellow conspirators John Curry and Wilbert Hess (who likewise felt victimized by Rehmeyer) demanded Rehmeyer hand over the book and lock of hair. When he refused, they killed and mutilated him in hopes that this would lift the curse. The three men also set fire to the body, hoping the body and house would burn completely, thus destroying any evidence of the murder.

However, the house did not burn down as they had hoped. Rehmeyer's charred corpse was discovered a couple days later on November 29, Thanksgiving Day of that year. Some people believed Rehmeyer's alleged powers prevented the house from burning. The three killers were brought to trial in January 1929, which caused a media sensation

Paranormal Places: The Bell Witch

The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern United States folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee. Farmer John Bell Sr. resided with his family along the Red River in an area currently near the town of Adams. According to legend, from 1817 to 1821, his family and the local area came under attack by a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the physical environment, and shapeshift. Some accounts record the spirit also to have been clairvoyant and capable of crossing long distances with superhuman speed (or of being in more than one place history time).

In his book An Authenticated History of the Bell Witch, author Martin V. Ingram published that the poltergeist's name was Kate, after the entity claimed at one point to be "Old Kate Batts' witch," and continued to respond favorably to the name.^[1] The physical activity centered on the Bells' youngest daughter, Betsy, and her father, and Kate expressed particular displeasure when Betsy became engaged to a local named Joshua Gardner.^[2]

The haunting began sometime in 1817 when John Bell witnessed the apparition of a strange creature resembling a dog with the head of a rabbit. Bell fired at the animal but it disappeared. John's son Drew Bell approached an unknown bird perched on a fence that flew off and was of "extraordinary size." The daughter Betsy observed a girl in a green dress swinging from the limb of an oak tree. Dean, a slave belonging to the Bell family, reported being followed by a large black dog on evenings he visited his wife. Activity moved to the Bell household with knocking heard along the door and walls. The family heard sounds of gnawing on the beds, invisible dogs fighting, and chains along the floor. About this time John Bell began experiencing paralysis in his mouth.^[3]The phenomena grew in intensity as sheets were pulled from beds when the children slept. Soon the entity pulled hair and scratched the children with particular emphasis on Betsy who was slapped, pinched and stuck with pins

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