Where to start !!

Okay so, I’m not sure exactly where this will go, but I have a little time, enjoy writing and thought I should start getting stuff out there! Basically in this day and age (sound like me Dad now), a writers first port of call is the Blog!

Enough about why I’m doing this, lets talk about the Paranormal.

The Paranormal, be it ghosts, weird stuff, bumps in the night, stuff moving or even that old building which lets admit it looks blooming scary, we all have had some kind of experience thats made us think. With the flood of TV shows on the subject like Ghost Hunters, Most Haunted and the new Docu-Drama Paranormal State hitting our screens recently its hard to know which to set the old SKY Plus to record. Ofcourse the bueaty of this subject is that it can’t really get old and probably never will. Why? Simple, we can never 100% prove either way if these annomalies exist or not.

So whats my point? A good question! Well for years I have been interested in writing and getting something published somewhere, but never really got that far. Think the closest I managed was submitting a TV Series script to a competition which didn’t pan out. However, that aside I have always enjoyed investigating stuff, even the boring research part to find out what was before it is now!! In this I have discovered a greater thirst for more factual writing, which is where I am up to now.

More recently I have been investigating the Knights Templar and the history surrounding them in the local area around Hertfordshire. However, this little investigation began its life as an interest in a ruin church in Bedfordshire, which supprising enough was apparently haunted. My current girlfriend brought the church to my attention and thus began a small quest and definate thurst for information regarding the church. St Mary’s Church at Clophill, which sits upon an erie hill top in a spooky surroundings worthy of a Stephen King novel (or even film) has numerous stories of hauntings and history. If you google it, you could be there a while trying decide which you believe and which you don’t.Apparently back in the 60’s it was the location of a Black Magic ritual, possibly a Black Mass or Necromancy. A couple of the accounts that I read indicated that there was an odd cross painted on the ruin’s wall at the time of the ritual. A cross which matched that of the Knights Templar. Hence my link and interest to the Knights. Also, just down the hill used to be a castle, the motte and bailey type, which at one point housed a knight that joined the crusades to Jerusalem.The Knights Templar side tracked me to Jerusalem and then back to Hertford, where apparently there are Templar tunnels under the town. However, after a lot of investigation this is beginning to seem less likely. However, there is a cold war bunker below Hertford town and thus tunnels of a sort!

Where has all this investigation led me? Well nowhere so far, but here!Right, if you havn’t fallen asleep yet then hopefully your still interested. I would like to write about the paranormal and locations like Clophill, even stories like Hertford Tunnels. However, I will approach them as a skeptic with the mind to disprove any paranormal activities. That way if the evidence is good then the results will be too.

This is where you, my readers come in, if you have any suggestions for places that you think could warrent investigation, drop me a comment or mail.

I plan to return to the ruin at Clophill in the near future and conduct a proper investigation, which I will write up for all to read. Following Clophill I have another ruin Church which is older and closer to Stevenage, Minsden Chapel.

So, if like me you too are interested in the Paranormal or even just knowing more about the unknown, please feel free to comment or contact me. All are welcome.