Malign Frequencies No.96 - Harlow Hill Field Report 2: The Path Beside the Witching Tree

The public footpath toward the crown of Harlow Hill passes by the Witching Tree (as it is known locally), upon which a coven of witches (said to be an offshoot of the Horsingdon Coven) was hanged in 1672, under the direction of local magistrate and landowner Sir John Hargreaves. Notably, the mass hanging occured a scant few hours after Hargreaves had ceremonially laid, atop the Hill, the foundation stone to what was to become Harlow School and later, Harlow University. 

The remains of the thirteen witches are said to have been interred in a secret crypt somewhere deep below Harlow University, forming (according to some of the more outre conspiracy theories which cluster about the place), a hidden vortex of praeternatural energy - a source of monstrous, unearthly power used to fuel the secret initiation rites by which certain of the student body are inducted into the exclusive fraternal Houses for which the elite, world-renown University is known.