Charles Walker on Clapham Woods and the Friends of Hekate
Clapham Wood is a small patch of hillside woodland in West Sussex which, along with Chanctonbry Ring and Rackham Hill, forms part of Sussex’s ‘Devil’s Triangle’; in light of which it has a reputation as being a focal point of ufo sightings, is allegedly a site at which black magic ritual are regularly practiced, and where unearthly presences have been encountered - including one account of a twelve-foot high shadowy entity which left in its wake inhuman, four-toed footprints. A number of disappearances of dogs and other domestic animals have also been reported in the vicinity of Clapham Wood, and the bodies of four people have been discovered there since the 1970s - at least one of whom was murdered. Apparently there is also a crater at the centre of the Wood (known as ‘The Pit’), and supposedly caused by either a meteorite or a ufo landing, depending on who you listen to.
Toyne Newton and Charles Walker, in their 1987 book The Demonic Connection, claim that Clapham Wood has regularly been used as a ritual site (sometimes involving human sacrifice) by a Satanic cult known as The Friends of Hekate (an entity who is, of course, evoked in Lovecraft’s The Horror of Red Hook). This claim has been further explored by Andrew Collins in the book which popularised the activity of psychic questing, The Black Alchemist.
If all of the above were not Lovecraftian enough, I am also aware of one occultist who attempted to contact the Fungi from a Yuggoth through a Cthulhuvian occult dream-working at Clapham Wood - a working which, I have reason to believe, was relatively successful; I was also informed by one individual involved in the strange affair of The Black Alchemist that some of the psychic questing activities which occured in and around the area of Clapham Wood May have involved uncovering ancient sites and contacting alien entities believed to be related to the Cthulhu Mythos...
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