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Paranormal Adept
Thanks for the show guys. Was hoping David would elucidate more about the area and hoped he would have shared some more "goings on". Any music fans will note there is some crazy music history around Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch End.
I came across the witch's curse of Ally Pally in one of those cheap warehouse book shop real life ghosts and mystery books back in the late 80s. There was a picture of a a vicar and some people in the grounds of the then ruins of Alexander palace. It was a clipping from a newspaper describing how they were conducting an excorcism on the site and they were burying some "metal rods" to counteract the curse. I can't for the life of me remember the book or where the newspaper clipping was from. I did find out that when the original land owner Rhodes died the land went to his children and not his wife as per law at the time who objected to plans for part of the land being sold on to developers.
Crouch End at times was like living in a David Lynch film. On anyday you'd see locals dressed in 17th century garb, these two really fat blind identical twin guys in dark glasses c-list celebrities etc..
Crouch End itself ye olde englishy for "cross end" and is a ventricular cross roads with a middle road leading to a clock tower built in comemoration to Henry Wiliams who saved Highgate woods from developers.
Crossroads have always been identified with occultists as a place of significance, its where the veil that seperates worlds is thinnest. During my time there i experienced some weird stuff, it was like the amount and frequency of coincidence and novelty was so high it was imploding on itself creating a self referential narrative eg. one time in the space of one week a man had been "assasinated" mafia style at a restaurant by the clock tower, the actual clock face and mechansism had broke coincidently and so the hands began to spin backwards. When turning on the TV on an evening i turned onto the Graham Norton Chat show during which he interviews Gillian Anderson who grew up in Crouch End and then pulls out a postcard of Crouch end with its clock tower and inadvertently points towards the window of the place I am in as i am watching him at that moment on the frickin TV! And then turned over to Channel 4 where there is a programme which happens to be on called Peep Show set in Archway(near high gate) and the titles are filmed in Crouch End centre by the clock tower.
The stephen King story set in Crouch End is a Cthullu one too, which to any horror afficiandos out there will know fits well with the "thin veil between worlds". Significantly one of the roads off middle lane is a road called Elder Avenue. Middle lane lent itself to Derren Brown who dressed as an evil clown and spent a few days filming tricks there using pattern interrupts to stick people to the "middle" of the road. Oh yeah Sean of the Dead was filmed round there too at the time so i got to see a bunch of people walking around dressed like zombies, ...ha crazy times.
I came across the witch's curse of Ally Pally in one of those cheap warehouse book shop real life ghosts and mystery books back in the late 80s. There was a picture of a a vicar and some people in the grounds of the then ruins of Alexander palace. It was a clipping from a newspaper describing how they were conducting an excorcism on the site and they were burying some "metal rods" to counteract the curse. I can't for the life of me remember the book or where the newspaper clipping was from. I did find out that when the original land owner Rhodes died the land went to his children and not his wife as per law at the time who objected to plans for part of the land being sold on to developers.
Crouch End at times was like living in a David Lynch film. On anyday you'd see locals dressed in 17th century garb, these two really fat blind identical twin guys in dark glasses c-list celebrities etc..
Crouch End itself ye olde englishy for "cross end" and is a ventricular cross roads with a middle road leading to a clock tower built in comemoration to Henry Wiliams who saved Highgate woods from developers.
Crossroads have always been identified with occultists as a place of significance, its where the veil that seperates worlds is thinnest. During my time there i experienced some weird stuff, it was like the amount and frequency of coincidence and novelty was so high it was imploding on itself creating a self referential narrative eg. one time in the space of one week a man had been "assasinated" mafia style at a restaurant by the clock tower, the actual clock face and mechansism had broke coincidently and so the hands began to spin backwards. When turning on the TV on an evening i turned onto the Graham Norton Chat show during which he interviews Gillian Anderson who grew up in Crouch End and then pulls out a postcard of Crouch end with its clock tower and inadvertently points towards the window of the place I am in as i am watching him at that moment on the frickin TV! And then turned over to Channel 4 where there is a programme which happens to be on called Peep Show set in Archway(near high gate) and the titles are filmed in Crouch End centre by the clock tower.
The stephen King story set in Crouch End is a Cthullu one too, which to any horror afficiandos out there will know fits well with the "thin veil between worlds". Significantly one of the roads off middle lane is a road called Elder Avenue. Middle lane lent itself to Derren Brown who dressed as an evil clown and spent a few days filming tricks there using pattern interrupts to stick people to the "middle" of the road. Oh yeah Sean of the Dead was filmed round there too at the time so i got to see a bunch of people walking around dressed like zombies, ...ha crazy times.