The westall ufo encounter COLIN VEACOCK EXPLAINS... EDITORIAL Contents Hello to all, As you flick through our April 2011 issue, you Page 2: The Challenges of selling a Haunted House. will probably notice that we have quite a number of UFO orientated articles in it. You could say ‘It’s a bit of a UFO Andy Asbury and Tim Ryan discuss the challenges of selling a Special’. But don’t worry, there’s also some interesting Haunted House. Should you declare that your home has a spook? paranormal bits in it at well. Its been a busy month with Many buyers can be put off due to things that go bump in the night book writing and TV filming, interviews etc. I have also and especially if someone has dies in the property. So... What should been in discussion with a number of people regarding lectures for this year. I will provide details of them once I you do? Well, Andy and Tim have a few ideas how to boost buyers can confirm dates. For now! I hope you enjoy this issue. interests and how to promote your haunted home in a positive way. SUB-EDITORIAL Page 3: The Westall UFO Encounter. In 1966, in the small town of Westall, Australia, something The worlds in shock at the moment. The events in Japan remarkable took place that left the community puzzled and alarmed. are still ongoing at the time of writing, and things seem Over 200 witnesses watched as a disc shaped object flew slowly over to be getting worse. Phenomena Magazine, the UPIA and MAPIT’s thoughts are with the people of that country. the school and land in a near by clearing. Moments later military On a more positive note... The whole busy busy busy personel attended the scene along with government officials who process continues, The Japanese quake led to numerous clearly wanted the whole incident kept quiet... Steve Mera explains. UFO videos going viral online. Page 7: The Drummer of Tedworth - Part 1. Most of the video’s are easily explainable, especially ones with reflection on the inside of the helicopter window. The truthers have The case of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’ is one of the most famous been having a field day, blaming everything from HAARP to 2012. episodes in the history of witchcraft. It involved a poltergeist which, I’m really looking forward to Christmas day in 2012 as everybody in the early sixteen-sixties, haunted the house of John Mompesson, a should. landowner, excise officer and commission officer in the militia, who The UPIA have several areas of media work taking place, Steve has lived at North Tedworth on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border. Kirst been very busy, also releasing his 2nd book – Paranormal Insight, D’Raven recounts this unusual and historic case. available at www.blurb.com. Several TV related appearances are due in the coming weeks as are radio shows, talking of which, jump on Page 11: What happened to Wattie? www.UKPN.com ,you have my recommendation. It was a bright spring day, and steely sunshine glinted over the mountains of Caithness when Colonel Arthur Trimble first saw the Case related, the UPIA have been working on 3 residential cases, monster of Loch Watten. The monster’s eyes were slits in a huge each totally different, and one, we hope, solved to the point that squat head, and its body, which loomed under the rippling water, minor adjustments in the witnesses environment, have caused a appeared at least 20 feet wide. It observed him for several seconds. large percent of the reported occurrences to cease. Hopefully He even had time to take a photograph. Dr. Karl Shuker investigates. psychological aspects will also adjust given time... Page 15: A Close Encounter in Reddish. Many will agree that the investigation of UFO’s and the experiences reported throughout the last 40 years have changed drastically. During the 1970’s ‘Grays’ were rarely heard of and the typical UFO was nothing more than a ‘Flying Saucer’. The late David Rees and Dean Preston looked into one such case that took place in Reddish, Stockport, UK. From the MAPIT Archives - 1977. Page 19: A Saucerful of Secrets. Step back 40 years to the heady days of 1967 as Andy Roberts explains how the summer of love was in part shaped by the hippie movement’s fascination with Flying Saucers. “UFO’s were not just in http://www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk the air, they’d become a religion and the word a common sacrament to everyone who’d tripped.” - Neil Oram. Andy reveals some A special thanks to all our contributors. If you would like to interesting facts in regards the UFO’s of that era... contribute yourself, please contact the Phenomena Magazine at: [email protected] Page 23: In Space, no one can hear you Lie. Since it’s now common knowledge that NASA airbrushed out THIS MONTHS CONTRIBUTORS anomalies and manipulated their photographs taken on the moon, and Andy Asbury, Tim Ryan, Steve Mera, Dave Sadler, Kirst D’Raven, Dr. Karl Shuker, David Rees, Dean Preston, Neil Henderson, in space, to keep up the pretence that there’s nothing of interest on our Michael Theodoulou, Andy Roberts, Colin Veacock, Vladimir V. Rubtsov PhD., nearest celestial neighbour, it stands to reason that those brave Dave Franklin, Robert Young BSc, & Gloria Dixon. astronauts taking the pictures must have seen something that scared the proverbial pants off the space agency. Colin Veacock investigates. PHENOMENA MAGAZINE EDITOR: STEVE MERA - [email protected] Page 26: SEP Spotlight - TOPS. 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If you are aware of any We all visit supermarkets from time to time and rarely do thoughts of material featured in Phenomena Magazine that is not credited correctly, then please inform us as soon as possible. The MAPIT paranormal phenomena run through your head at the time. However, Copyright covers only articles wrote by MAPIT & UPIA investigators this might change if your shopping at Booth’s Supermarket in and group logos found throughout the magazine. The views and Knutsford. MAPIT investigators descend upon Knutsford in hope of opinions expressed in any of the articles are those of the authors and finding out the cause behind the strange going’s on. Apparitions, do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of UPIA, MAPIT or Phenomena Magazine. strange sounds, things being moved around... Steve Mera explains... Phenomena Magazine is covered under the Creative Commons Latest News Items include: Rendlesham UFO Papers Missing!, Iran declare building a Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives ‘Free License’. Flying Saucer!, Panther on the Prowl. Frodsham Case Remains Unsolved!, NASA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 Scientist finds evidence of Alien Life? The Virgin Mary photographed on the Cornish Coastline? Another Virgin Mary photographed near the M6 Motorway in March 2011. Page 1 Book Review: Alien Zoo by Dr. Karl Shuker, Advertisements and much more... Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk The Challenges of Selling a Haunted House By Andy Asbury & Tim Ryan Disclosing whether a property is family spent time in the house, they So what do you do if you hear noises, Notes: haunted or not can work for or against never stayed overnight. In the autumn feel spontaneous cold breezes, or see If you can produce the seller. Some buyers are specifically of 2008, the actor put it back up for sale ectoplasm oozing from power sockets? proof that you have looking for a residence with a ghostly for $3.55 million, and it currently an apparition, your home will be a hot presence, while others would turn tail remains unsold. Hiding your "houseghost" from commodity on the and run at such a suggestion. Either potential buyers won't get you very far, haunted reality way, if a seller knows something about In some cases when there is a history of especially if the haunting is common circuit, so keep your a property and fails to disclose it, they well publicised violence, homes don't knowledge in the community. In terms camera handy! are setting themselves up for a possible even get listed. Such was the case In St. of your legal obligation to disclose a Another way to get lawsuit. In some U.S. States, a seller Catharine’s, Ontario, where the home haunting, responsibilities vary by U.S. the attention of must disclose whether a death has of serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo, State. There is even word that such haunted house occurred on the property within the last was bulldozed and sold as an empty lot. obligations of disclosure may start to seekers is to start writing a blog that three years. On the other hand, the home of Sharon creep into the UK courtrooms. Either details your ghostly Tate, the scene of the Manson Family way, if you try to keep this vital experiences. Many Information that a home may be murders, was sold at full value. The information from a buyer, not only may paranormal haunted can affect the value of the new owner tore it down and rebuilt a they try to sue you later, but your aficionados are tech- savvy, so they often house and most certainly should be new mansion on the prime real estate karma will be shot as well. It's best if start their home mentioned, since it's doubtful the buyer site. you're straight with people about the search online. If you would make that discovery on his own condition of your home, both blog regularly, your home is much more before purchasing. The rule of caveat Although most people would not structurally and spiritually. likely to get noticed emptor, or buyer beware, can be used actively search out a haunted house, by your target market as an argument when the possibility of there are those who would consider You may ask, "But if I'm honest about than by relying a home being haunted was not such a residence a bonus. the house, how on earth are we ever strictly on print advertising. Create a disclosed prior to a sale. Even if the going to sell it?" buzz about your owner has no solid evidence, if he An advert on the website for San Diego property, and you'll cannot deny the existence of ghosts, it Paranormal Research states: The answer is good marketing. soon have a lineup of ghost-loving buyers is enough for a court to declare a at your doorstep. contract void and have the deposit "The San Diego Paranormal Like with any property, you need to returned. Research Project will teamed up with appeal to a target market. Ask yourself Find out where these your Professional Licensed Real who would want your particular home. buyers like to hang Value: Generally a home suspected of Estate Agents to assist with the buying Certainly it has desirable qualities like a out online. Post in paranormal related being haunted is priced according to and selling of allegedly Haunted good location or granite countertops, forums and advertise fair market value, and then adjusted Houses and property throughout the but what sets your house apart from the on radio programs depending on buyer interest. Such was United States. We will also handle rest of the neighbourhood? It's a that deal with the supernatural. the case with a Nottinghamshire, UK requests for regular houses." resident ghoul or goblin! Use this to Performing a Google property purchased in 2007. The family your advantage and try to attract buyers search for terms like thought they had found their dream Apparently there is a market for who are dying to live with the dead. "paranormal radio" or "haunted real home when they bought Clifton Hall, a haunted houses, and they will assist you estate" should give 52-room country estate dating back to in locating one that is truly authentic. While it may seem strange to some, you a few places to the days of William the Conqueror. Various hotels and inn's often gain there is a niche market out there for start. publicity and added business from haunted real estate. There are even The structure appeared innocent advertising the fact that their websites that host ads from buyers who Include a history of the home if you're enough, until the family moved in. establishments are haunted. are eager to break bread with a spirit. able to, and share a After enduring months of ghostly These sites provide a great opportunity couple of your voices and bloodcurdling screams, the The Cashtown Inn, built in 1797 was to network with buyers who are looking ghostly encounters. owners enlisted the aid of paranormal the scene of many deaths during the for a home just like yours. You can Your guests will be greatly intrigued, investigators. Even science couldn't U.S. Civil War. The current owners reply to a buyer's post if it and may decide that intervene and the haunting’s continued. make no effort to hide this fact and sounds like a good fit, or the high jinks of a Unable to share their home any longer advertise such specials as "Ghosts of post an advert of your poltergeist are just what they're looking with these creepy tenants, Clifton Hall Gettysburg Weekend Investigation own in the sellers' for in a home! was put up for sale about one year later Package with MARK NESBITT and section. for £2.75m, and almost £1m less than his Investigative Team," where guests Good Luck! they originally paid. The property was can actually attend a ghostly finally sold, but never returned to its investigation. During "Catch the status as a residence, and is currently Spirits Weekend," guests receive being utilised as a conference centre. special tours of the Inn, including the basement, and learn about the ghostly Haunted houses may take longer to sell: happenings in the area. Actor Nicholas Cage, knowingly Houses where suicides and murders purchased the old Lalaurie Mansion in have taken place are generally avoided New Orleans' French Quarter in by the average home buyer. The grim December 2006 for $3.45 million. Built history of the house can scare away a in 1832, this home was the scene of great number of people who are afraid horrible violence and is known for its that bad mojo may still be paranormal activity. Although the Cage lingering. Page 2 Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk The Westall UFO Encounter By Steve Mera. In 1966, a small town in Australia was visited by a flying disc which was seen by over 200 witnesses. The strange object was seen to temporarily land before silently lifting and flying off. Army and government officials soon arrived in hope of keeping the story quiet... There have been a number of well Saucer in the sky'. The whole class It was described as a grey metallic known UFO cases throughout the world roared in laughter.' No, there really is... colour with a slight purple hue and that have fascinated me, but none of look'. Classmates stampeded to the around the size of a large family car. them as much as the Westall UFO window and silence befell the room as There were a few variations in incident. Maybe its because I have they watched how the strange craft description. Andrew Greenwood family in Australia, or simply that there darted side to side before descending described the craft as a silver green were hundreds of witnesses to this towards the paddock. The teacher colour. However, all witnesses agree daylight event. Whatever the reason, Andrew Greenwood fort his way to the that the object was slowly descending for me... this is one of the best window and was shocked at the sight. and flew over the school's south-west Australian UFO incidents that By this time the students were corner before dropping out of sight The Air Force depart continues to baffle researchers even hysterical. Andrew tried to calm the behind trees near the paddock. Australian Ufology. now... 45 years later. students down. 'Sit down, sit down... if Around 20 minutes later the object 4 January 1994, RAAF Wing Commander Brett Biddington, on ‘He looked up to see a silent silver disc lifted silently, gathering speed and behalf of the Chief of Air Staff, headed off towards the north-west. A informed every civilian UFO shaped craft move slowly across the back of groups around Australia that number of witnesses described the craft "The number of reports made to the school. It was around 50 feet up in the sky as gaining altitude and being pursued the RAAF in the past decade had declined significantly, which may by five small aircraft which must have and was seen to make its way towards the indicate that organisations such been in the vicinity. as yours are better known and are meeting the community's paddock’. requirements." Therefore, the Three days later on April 9th the RAAF was not going to On April 6th 1966 an incident took there's any problem, the bell will ring'. location was visited by a number of ipnuvbelsitci graepteo rotrs cforollmec tth aant yd matoer oen . place that was to change the lives of Surely enough a few moment later, the uniformed officers of the Australian Although the RAAF have hundreds of people. At around 11.00am bell started to ring. The children ran to Armed Forces accompanied by the ofrfofimci athlley pruebmloicv eredp tohretm csoelllveecsti on over 200 students and teachers at a the door and headed out for a better local police department. The officers phase, there is evidence that Victoria State School in Melbourne, look. were seen to take soil samples from the iGnotevrenranlm inenvet sdteigpaatritomnesn, btsy, sottihlle r Australia were shocked to see, what location where the object came to continue under the new title of only can be described as a 'Flying Another class had been doing sports ground. You could clearly see that there Unusual Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or Unusual Aerial Saucer' descend from the sky and outside on the main oval when the was an area of flattened grass that Sightings (UAS). Called the seemingly land in a near paddock close object flew over. The class came to a seemed to be singed. Later, reports state “1996 - Defence Instructions (General) ADMIN 55-1”, this to a wooded area known to the locals as standstill as they watched the disc move that the local farmer had burnt the area 1996 Department of Defence 'The Grange' which in more recent silently over them. himself in hope of deterring children (DOD) policy document better known as 'ADMIN 55-1' concerns years has been converted into a nature from entering his property. There were UAS Policy is still in used. reserve. After a short time, the object further reports of official looking lifted from the ground and traveled gentlemen visiting the school and For further information on UFO towards the suburb of Clayton South, talking with the students, who had been and the Australian Government, files and case reports from 1950 Victoria. individually sent to the headmasters to 1984 search the: office.   National Archives of Australia. As usual, it was a beautiful sunny day and the first report came from a student in one of the science classes. Michael Fisher aged 14 slowly walked over to the classroom window and as he gazed into a sample pot, something caught his eye. He looked up to see a silent silver disc shaped craft move slowly across the back of the school. It was around 50 feet up in the sky and was seen to make its way towards the paddock. Michael screamed out 'Hey, there's a Flying Page 3 Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk The Westall UFO Encounter By Steve Mera The two gentlemen would question Also, another local newspaper called They were also taken to the location what the student had seen and then 'The Age' ran a small article on April where the object was said to have ridicule them. They also warned them 7th 1966 that read: landed. VFSRS investigators noted the not to talk about the incident. This of strange marks left on the ground by the course upset many of the students. "OBJECT PERHAPS BALLOON - An UFO and in December 2000 they School teachers were also asked not to unidentified flying object seen over the included an article and a photograph in discuss the matter with anyone during a Clayton-Moorabbin area yesterday their 'Australian UFO Bulletin' staff meeting. Clearly, someone wanted morning might have been a weather magazine. Brian Boyle, an investigator the incident kept quiet. Frank balloon. Hundreds of children and a with PRA arrived at the school the Samblebe the headmaster was seen in number of teachers at Westall School, following day along with four his office discussing the matter with Clayton, watched the object during Australian army investigators. Boyle army officials and later instructed morning break. They said a number of immediately got out his film recorder school teachers to discourage students small aeroplanes circled around it. and started shooting. After he had The Birth of f r o m talking about it. However, a check later showed that no conducted a number of interviews with Australian Ufology. commercial, private or RAAF pilots students and local farmers he visited the The first gathering of UFO Countless researchers have attempted to had reported anything unusual in the landing site and gathered a few samples enthusiasts occurred in locate official records of the event in area. The Weather Bureau released a from within the ground mark. Melbourne Victoria (Australia) the Australian National Archives. Some balloon at Laverton at 8:30 a.m., and in March 1949 at the Aeronautical Research documents do reference the incident the westerly wind blowing at the time ‘A student from Laboratory – Melbourne, and point towards the location of said could have moved it into the area Victoria (ARL). The non- Westall school government meeting minutes official files, but further investigation where the sighting was reported". show an attendance of 23 revealed that the documentation was enthusiasts from various state claimed to have and local groups such as the missing. Official army records also give A number of investigators and British Interplanetary Society, no mention to the event. Investigators researchers were surprised to learn that touched the object Royal Aeronautical Society (RAS - Melb), Commonwealth Aircraft descended upon the local airport in the large and popular tabloid 'The Sun Corp - Melbourne (CAC), RAAF hope of finding the pilots of the five News-Pictorial' didn't run the story, yet just before it lifted and the Army Research Establishment. By May 1949 this small aircraft seen in the sky at the time a few days after the incident 'The Sun' early gathering became known of the incident. Again... no such records and 'The Herald' newspapers both ran a and shot off at as the Aeronautical & Meteorological Phenomena were located. cartoon making light of the incident. A incredible speed’. Research (AMPR) under Mr. TV company known as GTV Channel 9 Brian Boyle and Jack Seers. The local newspaper 'The Dandenong interviewed one of the students. Joy AMPR started to list and research “Flying Saucer” Journal' did cover the incident in detail Tighe described the events on film. Again, Investigators were unable to stories and produced a small and produced two front page articles on However when investigators contacted locate any records of aircraft being in limited quarterly publication called “Interplanetary Saucer”. April 14th and 21st of that year. GTV Channel 9 for a copy of the tape, the vicinity at the time of the UFO they were surprised to hear that the TV incident, even though several witnesses company did not have it and that it had reported seeing five Cessna type planes. been removed from their archive and The local airport at Moorabbin were not returned. contacted, however they claimed that there were no aircraft in that location at Initially the incident was investigated that time. The Royal Austraian Armed by two organisations. The Victorian Forces also reported that there were no Flying Saucer Research Society military aircraft in the vicinity. (VFSRS) and Phenomena Research Australia (PRA). For both organisations As in many UFO cases, there does the Westall UFO incident represented seem to be a few discrepancies... one of the best UFO cases in Australian Several students claimed to have seen, history. The VFSRS were quick to not one... but two disc shaped objects attend the scene and arrived at Westall near to the ground and that they were school on April 8th to talk with some of almost in reaching distance. As they the students. approached the objects they both immediately lifted from the ground and headed off out of sight. Both UFOs were described to have moved identically and at the same time. A student from Westall school claimed to have touched the object just before it lifted and shot off at incredible speed. Some students said the object was disc shaped, others described the object as looking like an upside down tea cup, on a saucer. A few witnesses only saw the UFO whilst others watched five small aircraft circle above. Some witnesses claimed to have seen a flattened area of Page 4 Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk The Westall UFO Encounter By Steve Mera grass where the object landed, whilst There were also physical traces left by There A mystery that was quickly others believe the area had been burnt. the UFO, such as the strange mark left covered up and suppressed, a mystery The Documentary. that will haunt Australian Ufologists, a A couple of student near the farmers on the ground. A Westall teacher that mystery that will never go away... In 2009 a documentary was field claim to have seen two army had taken several photographs of the released in regards the Westall transporters and a number of officers in object as it flew over the school was UFO Encounter titled: Below is a photograph of a reporter differing uniforms stamp over an area ordered to not only hand over the film holding original statements and Westall 66’ A Suburban Mystery, in the field. Once the officers had left, to officials, but the whole camera. It drawings of the UFO; Also a more written and edited by Rosie Jones and produced by Carmel the students went over to the location was clear from the start. Someone recent photograph showing the alleged Mcaloon. The documentary and found a spiral patterned area of wanted to keep a lid on this incident. location where the UFO was said to follows an investigator as he have landed. You can still clearly see attempts to unravel a 45 year old flattened grass which looked to have mystery. Details of the an area of affected grass. Again, not been covered over a little. As if in an The events that took place on that day documentary and press kit can many people know of the Westall UFO be found at: attempt to hide it. Several students back in April of 1966 will most likely Encounter, probably one of the most claimed that military officers cordoned stay in the minds of witnesses forever. significant cases in Australian Ufology. hwtetspt:a//lwl6w6wuf.ow/e stall66ufo.com.au/ off the landing site and that soil samples were taken by the truck load. University lecturer Shane Ryan was so intrigued with the story he decided to do some investigating of his own. Ryan an English lecturer from Canberra, Australia visited the location and conducted dozens of interviews with local residents. Unfortunately, like his predecessors, he found no official records. More recently Shane Matthews, a Westall student revisited the location and took a number of photographs. One of which shows the location where the UFO landed. ‘Police and military turned up at the location only 20 minutes after the object had vanished. Rather quick considering the nearest military facility was a considerable way away. It's true to state that this is one of Australia's best UFO cases. Unlike many other incidents, this one took place during a sunny day, there were hundreds of credible witnesses along with a police and military presence, which coincidentally turned up at the location only 20 minutes after the object had vanished. Rather quick considering the nearest military facility was a considerable way away. Many have suggested that they must have been waiting somewhere locally with their engines running. Of course, when approaching the military for confirmation of their attendance, surprise surprise... there were no records of anyone attending. 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Visits Paul’s Amazing Blog Spot at: http://redstarfilms.blogspot.com UPIA ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON FACEBOOK GROUPS The Drummer of Tedworth - Part 1 By Kirst D’Raven THE DRUMMER OF TEDWORTH By kirst d’raven Page 7 Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk The Drummer of Tedworth - Part 1 By Kirst D’Raven Drumming could never be considered a rarity, there have been many percussionists throughout the world, and down through the ages, some distinctly more talented than others… but of all the Dave Grohls, the Keith Moons and Rick Allens who have delighted fans with their rhythms, no drummer has inspired and intrigued a nation, and even the Church and Crown, quite so much as the fabled Drummer of Tedworth. Our drummer, a stout and sturdy Englishman would have been in his prime around the time the Cromwellian wars broke out. He would have suffered as many did, from the hard rule of the Stuarts, and so, wishing to better his fortune, he volunteered his services under the Man of Blood and Iron. It is said that the call of his drum inspired the revolutionists to mighty deeds of valor from the very first skirmishes till at last bloody battle. Then with the conflict at an end, Charles separated from his royal head, memories that it held for him, of fire days of the Great War. Little did the Documented Facts: and the fifth Monarchy men invoking and battle and victory… of greater Squire know that he would be given The case of the ‘Drummer of bedlam in their efforts to establish the times. But his plaintive cries fell on chance to make good his boast, for no Tedworth’ is one of the most Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, our deaf ears... “Go!” he was told--"go, and sooner had the household retired than famous episodes in the history of witchcraft. It brave drummer lapsed, forgotten, into a be thankful thou escapest so lightly!" the disturbance began again. involved a poltergeist haze of obscurity which lasted until the which, in the early sixteen- sixties, haunted the house of Restoration. Go he did. To where nobody knew, and Lighting a lantern, slipping into a John Mompesson, a nobody really cared. The following dressing-gown and snatching up his landowner, excise officer Then he reemerged, not as the veteran month, Squire Mompesson had cause brace of pistols, the irate Squire dashed and commission officer in the militia, who lived at hero living a life of ease and to make the long and treacherous downstairs. As he neared the door, the North Tedworth on the tranquility, but as a beggar, wandering journey into London to pay his respects hammering and voices became almost Wiltshire-Hampshire border. from town to town, the fearsome beat to the King, and the people of unbearable. He quickly turned the great of his beloved drum no longer Tedworth had occasion to wish that the key, slipped back the bolts and threw In March 1662, Mompesson provoking great and heroic deeds, but poor drummers lamentations had open the heavy door… intervened in the case of a drummer, William Drury, played to implore alms and sustenance moved the Squire to pity, for in the who had requested money to facilitate his very survival; And so middle of the night, the Squires family The moment he opened the door all from the local constable at the neighbouring village of he journeyed, unnoticed, undisturbed were roused by angry voices violently became still. He warily extended his Ludgershall on the basis of and scraping a meager existence, until demanding entry, windows being tried lantern and peered into the night, but a pass which turned out to be counterfeit. Mompesson in the spring of 1661 his weary and an unrelenting banging on the front nothing but empty darkness met his had the man arrested footsteps chanced upon the quiet door.. The house was situated in a eyes. Then the knocking began again – (although he was later freed) and his drum village of Tedworth, in Wiltshire, UK. remote spot, and to the occupants it this time at a second door. Quickly confiscated; subsequently, seemed certain that having heard of the securing the first, the Squire hurried in April, it was sent to his house at Tedworth. Tedworth, at the time, was under the Squires absence, one of the many towards the hellish noise, and threw Thereafter, he and his rule of a certain Squire Mompesson, a gangs of highwaymen, who roamed the open the second door - only to find the family were assaulted by thumpings, tattoos of the gouty and miserable old git who was countryside had planned to turn quiet darkness, and to hear, with drum and other noises. unimpressed that the peace and burglars. With no men folk to protect mounting anger, a tumult at yet another tranquility of his little kingdom was them, the women and children could door. Again, he secured the door and There were also scratchings, panting like a being shattered by the drummers’ loud make little resistance. Panic reigned at raced to the renewed bedlam, and again dog, sulphurous and other and raucous battle cries, and his even once. And consequently there was met only silence when the door was smells, and strange lights; in addition, objects were louder drum. And so it was on the much quaking and trembling, until, thrown open… thrown around the room, Squires direct orders that the faded beds were elevated, horses finding the bolts and bars too strong for lamed and the like. These soldier was seized, beaten and driven When Mompesson related the story them, the unwelcome visitors retired. disturbances continued over from the little town minus his precious afterward, he said that as he stepped several months into 1663, Mompesson's wrath was unsurpassed despite the fact that for part drum. The drummer pleaded in vain out into the darkness he became aware when he returned and learned of the of this time Drury was with the Squire to return his drum, with Midnight siege. of "a strange and hollow sound in the incarcerated at Gloucester tears streaming down his battle worn air." This instilled in him the suspicion on a charge of theft. Meanwhile, the case became and weather beaten face he begged, He only hoped, he declared with great that the noises the household had well known, and many protesting that the drum was the only enthusiasm, that the villains would witnessed may be of supernatural people visited Mompesson’s house to witness the strange friend he had left to him in the whole return, he would give them a greeting nature. As the Squire hurried back to occurrences for themselves.. world. In vain he related the happy such as had not been known since the the sanctity of his bed the suspicion Page 8 Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk The Drummer of Tedworth - Part 1 By Kirst D’Raven deepened to a certainty, and an John also suffered from bedroom Gloucester, accused of theft. With this irrational alarm filled his very soul - an visitations in much the same way as the discovery came the word that the alarm that grew into a deadly fear children, his bedclothes removed and drummer had openly bragged of hexing when a tremendous booming sound being struck by an unseen force. John Squire Mompesson. This was all the came from the top of the house. For it found, however, that if he brandished a evidence the outraged Squire needed. was there, for safety he kept the sword he was left alone. Clearly, the There was in existence at the time an beggar's drum, and a terrible idea ghost seemed to respond to the threat act of King James I. which stated it began to twist and turn Mompesson’s of cold steel. It didn’t, unfortunately, was a felony to "feed, employ, or mind: "Could it be that the drummer is respond to the exorcism rituals which reward any evil spirit." It was under dead, and that his spirit has returned to were performed with no effect. All this Act that the Squire quickly had his torment me?" went well as long as the clergyman was alleged persecutor indicted as a wizard, on his knees saying the prescribed and amid great excitement, the aged Documented Facts: A few nights later, the Squires darkest Latin verses by the bedside of the veteran was brought from Gloucester fears seemed to come true when terrified children, but a bed staff was to Salisbury to stand trial. Although in The notoriety of the case stems largely from its central instead of the usual cacophony of thrown at him the moment he rose the seventeenth century such a trial was position in one of the most nocturnal shouting and knocking, there from his genuflection, while other sure to end in the drummer’s famous works on demonology ever published, began a veritable concert from the articles of furniture whirled about so execution, his spirit remained that by the divine and room containing the drum. This violently, that the room had to be unbroken. Not for him the lesser acts of apologist for the new philosophy, Joseph Glanvill. concert, Mompesson informed his cleared of people for fear of serious confessing or humbly begging mercy. A lengthy narrative of the friends, opened with a peculiar injury. Instead the drummer tried to bargain Tedworth case first appeared in the version of "hurling in the air over the house," and with Mompesson, promising that if the Glanvill’s book entitled A closed with "the beating of a drum like The Squire Mompesson was, squire would only secure his liberty Blow at Modern Sadducism. that at the breaking up of a guard." One understandably distraught. As well as and gave him employment as a farm In Some Philosophical can only imagine the mental torture of the injuries received by members of his hand, he would rid him of the haunting Considerations about Witchcraft, published in the Squire and his family, but worse family and household, people from all that had plagued the Mompesson 1668, and it remained was still to come. As the ghostly over the country began to flock to the household. Sadly, the Squire felt the equally prominent in the drummer gained confidence he laid house every night, hoping to witness drummer "could do him no good in any omnibus Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and aside his drum and began to play the otherworldly events. The Squire honest way," and rejected the Plain Evidence Concerning practical, and sometimes very painful, found himself accused of staging the drummer’s ingenuous proposal, and so Witches and Apparitions (1681), brought out after jokes on the members of the Squires phenomena himself, of having the drummer was left to face his fate Glanvill’s death by his household, and this malicious practice committed some terrible secret sin for mentor, the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, who was directed primarily at the Squires which he was now being punished. A packed court room listened had encouraged Glanvill in children. It is recorded that for a time Such was the reputation of the events attentively to the tales of mishaps and his investigation of the case in the first place. "it haunted none particularly but them." at Tedworth, sermons were preached misadventures that had made with the Squire as the text. The people Mompesson House a national center of Not only was the case Linen was dragged from their beds as were divided, half angrily affirming the interest. During the trial proof was prominent in the various editions of Glanvill’s own they slept and thrown to the floor, a paranormal nature of the disturbances, submitted that the accused had been book, it was further scratching noise was heard emanating the other emphatically denying it. friends with an old vagabond who propagated by subsequent, more derivative from under the bed, described as ‘of claimed to possess supernatural demonologists, such as the some animal with iron claws’. In time, news of the events reached the powers. Emphasis was placed on the New England cleric, Increase Mather, in his Sometimes, the children were lifted ears of the King, who sent an alleged ‘fact’ that the drummer had Essay for the Recording of bodily, "so that six men could not hold investigating commission to boasted of having taken revenge on Illustrious Providences (1684), and the Scot, George them down," and their limbs were Mompesson House. Nothing untoward Mompesson for stealing his drum and Sinclair, in his Satans beaten violently against the bedposts. It occurred during the visit, to the great the beating that had been administered Invisible World Discovered (1685). would seem the unseen visitor bore no delight of the disbelievers. After the on the Squires orders. prejudice regarding age either, visit, however, the most sensational Mompesson’s elderly mother’s bed and vexatious phenomena of the It was to the drummer’s great fortune was often found to contain ashes and haunting so far occurred. The events that Mompesson did not have the knives among other things, and her continued for many months in this power in Salisbury that he held in bible was frequently nowhere to be manner, until one day it occurred to Tedworth. The jury was moved by the found. Mompesson and his friends that the drummer’s eloquent defense, acquitted cause was not ghosts as they had first him, and sent him on his way rejoicing. As time went by, the seemingly presumed. This idea rose from the The Drummer was never heard of unexplainable events became more singular circumstance that the voices again, and with his disappearance came frequent and profound – chairs moved heard in the children's room began "for an end to the knockings, the corpse by themselves, a board pulled itself a hundred times together" to bellow "A candles, and all the other uncanny from the floor and reportedly hurled witch! A witch!" One of the bravest phenomena that had made life a itself at a servant. Lights were individuals in the throng of spectators waking nightmare for the Mompesson observed to float around, described as suddenly demanded, "Satan, if the family. So astonishing was the story of similar to corpse candles. John, the drummer set thee to work, give three the drummer of Tedworth, it was still Squires personal manservant, was often knocks and no more!" Three distinct cited by the superstitious as a capital the focus of the eerie occurrences. The knocks were heard, as if in response. example of the intermeddling of “stout fellow of sober conversation” By way of confirmation, five knocks superhuman agencies in human affairs, found himself confronted one night by were requested, and received by and still mentioned by the skeptical as horrible apparition which he described another onlooker. A hunt for the one of the most amusing and most as “a great body with two red and drummer was launched, and eventually successful hoaxes on record, until the glaring eyes…” he was discovered in a jail in beginning of the twentieth century... Page 9 Phenomena Magazine: April 2011 - issue 24: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk