Insane Guide to England’s Most Haunted Asylums

Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylums...

England has an unfortunate reputation of pioneering some of the most iniquitous mental asylums in Western history; existing buildings and surviving ruins still retain some of their sinister atmosphere -and other, more dreadful things.

Let us visit some of these reminders of (slightly) less enlightened times, including one particular establishment that I might have resided at - but hasten to add, not as an inmate. Or indeed as an overseer/doctor.

Bethlem to Bedlam

Interior of the Bethlehem Hospital

​National Library of Medicine, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

The notorious Bethlem establishment was founded in 1247, located just outside the London city walls in Bishopsgate Without. It moved a short distance to Moorfields in 1676, then St George's Fields in Southwark in 1815, and lastly to Monks Orchard (Beckenham) in 1930.

The word ‘bedlam’, meaning uproar and confusion, is derived from the hospital's nickname, representative of the worst excesses of the old asylums and some of the modern ones. What tormented spirits stalked the various homes to the hospital?

The Madness of Bedlam

Madness of Bedlam

The Bethlem asylum has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, including 1946’s Bedlam, starring Boris Karloff.

Bedlam

Haunted Bedlam

(Excerpt from The Lordprice London Experience)

The most famous ghost of (modern) Bedlam is the sad spectre of poor Rebecca. At a merchant’s house by London Bridge lived a lovely young girl by the name of Rebecca. She fell head over heels in love with a handsome young Indian man who had come to lodge with the family. So besotted was she that when he packed up his bags to return to India she was shocked that he hadn’t loved her quite nearly as much as she’d loved him. She helped him to pack his things, hoping all the while that he would change his mind and agree to stay. But all she received was a gold sovereign that he slipped into her hand before leaving forever. The grief of her spurning was too much for her mind to handle and she snapped, soon being admitted to Bedlam Hospital.

The golden sovereign he had given her was gripped firmly in her fist for the remainder of her short life, the final token from her lost love, never to be given up. When she finally wasted away into death it didn’t go unnoticed by one of the guards who prised the coin from her hand and then buried her without her most prized possession. It was after that the guards, inmates and visitors all began to report a strange sight indeed. A wan and ghostly figure began to roam the halls of Bedlam, searching for her lost love token, her spirit refusing to be put to rest until she had it back in her hand. It is said that she still wanders the halls to this day, looking for that stolen coin to make her whole once more.

Nearby where I used to live, a wall was built with some of the bricks from one of the previous incarnations of Bedlam, although it doesn’t say so here, but I’ve seen ‘em.

Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum

Friern Hospital (formerly Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum) has now been converted to Princess Park Manor and Friern Village; I was tempted to buy an apartment there once, but tales of its former use and possible unwelcome inhabitants put me off, together with the vaguely ‘off’ feel to the place - and this was before I knew of its former use.

Popstar Adam Ant stayed there following a suicide attempt in1976; I met him a couple of times in 2000s Soho when he was again semi-unhinged, but he’s apparently better now.

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Asylums in literature

P.G. Wodehouse's novel The Code of the Woosters (1938) has a scene where Jeeves suggests that a character is ‘eccentric’. Wooster responds: "Eccentric? She could step straight into Colney Hatch, and no questions asked." The asylum is also mentioned in C.S Lewis’ The Magician's Nephew (1955). When evil White Witch Jadis demands that residents of London bow down to her, the Cockneys reply, "Three cheers for the Hempress of Colney 'atch!"

In G. K. Chesterton's The Man who was Thursday (1908), the asylum is again referenced as a byword for madness, “And now, in the name of Colney Hatch, what is it?”

Bracebridge St. John’s Hospital, Lincolnshire

Now unsurprisingly a luxury housing estate, the hospital was designed by John Hamilton and James Medland in the ‘Italianate’ style as the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, opening in 1852, becoming Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1898 and Bracebridge Mental Hospital in 1919.

Much strange phenomena has been reported from within the hospital grounds; when it closed, two removal men were employed to clear the building, but unholy shrieking made them leave pronto. People walking near the former asylum have regularly heard ghastly screaming, whilst the fire brigade has even been called to the building when residents have reported sightings of strange lights. Back in September 2010, a photograph taken by a miscreants who snuck into the property was printed in the Lincolnshire Echo, showing a creepy white figure looking out of one of the windows.

The Homestead tavern in nearby Bracebridge Heath is set on the former hospital grounds, with staff and customers reporting seeing ghostly nurses and patients in the pub. Presumably not asking for booze and salty bar snacks.

Severalls Hospital, Colchester, Essex

Severalls Hospital

​Glyn Baker / Severalls Hospital

Severalls hospital opened as the Second Essex County Asylum in May 1913. Villas were constructed around the main hospital building and there was a detached building for the medical superintendent. The hospital's history consists of almost unrelenting misery...

In August 1942, the hospital was bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe. Three 500-lb bombs were dropped on its west wing and thirty-eight patients were killed. Ten years later in the 1950s, psychiatrists experimented with new ‘treatments’ at the hospital, such as frontal lobotomies - most of the 'patients' here were healthy people, admitted by their own families or friends for non-medical reasons.

Diana Gittins writes in Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, "...often women were admitted by their own family, sometimes as the result of bearing illegitimate children or because they had been raped. As they would not always (or were unable to) carry out daily tasks, they were considered to be insane and some were even subjected to electroconvulsive therapy and lobotomy." By the early 1980s, the hospital went into a state of decline, most of it closing in the 1990s, with the final section shut down in 1997.

There were the usual plans to redevelop the area into residential homes, although most people would obviously prefer not to abide in a place of awful tragedy and mistreatment. Nowadays those brave enough to explore the building report hearing female screams, as well as apparitions and shimmering orbs hovering in the air.

Nocton Hall, Lincolnshire

The original structure dates back to a stunning 1530. Since then, there have been two reconstructions. Several prominent people have been residents of the house, the most notable being Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782-1859) who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a brief 5 month period across 1827-8.

During the First World War, the house was used as a convalescent home for wounded shell-shocked US officers. During WWII, the British Army used the house, after which it was taken over by the RAF, with an extensive hospital developed on the grounds. The house reverted to private use in the 1980s, but in 2004, a major fire left the building in a parlous state, a burned out shell:

Nocton Hall

Given that Nocton Hall has stood in various iterations since the 12th century, it's hardly surprising that the Nocton Hall estate is on the haunted asylums list.

‘The ghost of a crying young woman was said to roam the halls and particularly enjoy haunting one specific bedroom in the building. Several staff members who stayed in this room were awakened on separate occasions at four-thirty in the morning to find the apparition of a young girl standing at the end of the bed. She was sobbing, speaking incoherently and crying about a 'devilish man' who had 'done this to her.'

It’s believed that this was the spirit of a young servant girl who was murdered by the owner’s son after he got her with child.

UK’s Scariest Haunt

‘The Grey Lady’ apparently stalks the Nocton Hall grounds but there is no clue as to who she was. Other hauntings include that of a soldier who is seen standing on a staircase of the derelict building and some of the previous patients.

St. Andrew's Hospital (formerly Norfolk Lunatic Asylum)

Originally named the Norfolk County Asylum, the establishment opened in 1814 and later became known as the Norfolk Mental Hospital and then St Andrew's Hospital in 1923, closing in April 1998. People who either worked at or visited the hospital reported experiencing paranormal activity. One ‘witness’ said they saw apparitions whilst working on turning the building into apartments, which included the morgue (nice).

Inside Abandoned Asylum & Morgue

Talgarth Asylum, Wales

Talgarth Hospital

​Jonathan Billinger / Talgarth Hospital

From Totally Haunted (2018):

The site is in such a bad state of dereliction, I think it has to be one of the worst we have investigated. We eventually found a way in and that was more by luck than judgement. Everything seemed quiet for some time with no activity and the place felt peaceful and calm. Then things started to happen. We started to hear footsteps coming from all around the hall, not being able to pin point where they were coming from. Maybe it was the residual sounds of the long-forgotten patients as they danced around the ballroom.

We also heard a few knocks coming from the far end of the hall but our cameras were struggling to pick up sound or picture from that far away. There was a chair on the stage where we were stood and I asked if anybody would like to come and sit in the chair, then something was thrown. By this point the atmosphere seemed to have changed a bit and it wasn’t so peaceful anymore.

Almost straight after the first thing was thrown something else was thrown but from a different area and it was closer. After that it seemed to go quiet again, but not for long. I heard what I thought was a growl but to be sure I asked Cameron who was stood beside me if it was his stomach to which he replied “No” but he and Jack had both heard it too. Then straight away I heard it again behind me so I turned to film that area and then something was thrown right by me.

Denbigh Lunatic Asylum

Abandoned Asylum

Designed by architect Thomas Fulljames, the Denbigh asylum was opened 1848. A hospital for up to 200 people with psychiatric illnesses, but by the 1950s it housed 1,500 patients. The institution was gradually wound down as a healthcare facility from 1991, finally closing in 1995. Now (of course) being thought of as luxury apartment complex.

Said to stand on grounds cursed by witches who were once tried and executed there, it is believed that their spirits still roam the ruined hospital and surrounding land. Here were performed early remedies for malaria, insulin shock treatments, use of sulfur-based drugs, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and personality-changing prefrontal lobotomy treatments, introduced in the early 1940s. Paranormal investigators have reported their evidence on the website Totally Haunted.

TV show Most Haunted Live paid the asylum a visit in October 2008; unexplained bangs, crashes and unusual sounds and sightings were recorded and a special Halloween live exorcism conducted.

Asylum (1972)

Further afield, in New York City, the asylum at Roosevelt Island, formerly Blackwell’s Island/Welfare Island, before that Varkens Eylandt, and originally Minnehanonck (‘Nice Island’ in Lenape).

Stories include encounters with the spirits of former patients and staff, weird sounds, cold spots, lingering old cigarette smoke, and former resident ‘ Big Jim’ who murdered another patient with a bedpost.

Punishment Of Luxury - Laughing Academy

Laughing Academy

Michael Sembello - Maniac

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The Nutt House (1989) Episode 1

The Nutt House

Stephen Arnell’s novel THE GREAT ONE is available now on Amazon Kindle; his new work, THE FORTUNATE ONE, will be published later this Spring.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-One-Secret-Memoirs-Pompey-ebook/dp/B0BNLTB2G7

References

1 https://nyghosts.com/the-madness-of-roosevelt-island/

2 https://www.gothamcenter.org/gothamed-february/blackwells-island-home-for-the-poor-sick-mad-and-criminal-in-19th-century-new york

3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59163480

4. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/spine-chilling-picture-shows-something-11133602

5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4308032.stm

6. http://totallyhaunted.co.uk/denbigh-mental-asylum.php

7. https://www.thecaterer.com/news/broadmoor-hospital-hotel-plans-sale-nhs

8. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6631565/Haunting-images-faces-troubled-souls-Victorian-pauper-lunatic-asylum.html

9. https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/nocton-hall/

10. https://hauntedhistoryoflincolnshire.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/surrounding-areas/bracebridge-st-johns-hospital/

11. https://lordpricexp.uk/the-haunting-of-bedlam/

Mass Occultic Deception: Fraudulent Origins of Vatican ‘Soul Ownership’

Why haven’t the ‘meek’ inherited the world and all of its abundance yet?

Before we explore the birth certificate registration system that unlawfully grants the Vatican corporation ownership of your soul, body and mind, let’s travel back to 37 AD for a brief overview of part of the Vatican’s fascinating political and religious history, and where this extraordinary fraud all began:

37- 41 AD: The Circus Vaticanus was built by Emperor Caligula

64 AD: St Peter was martyred during Emperor Nero’s persecution of Christians

324 AD: Emperor Constantine finished construction of the first St Peter’s Basilica over St Peter’s tomb

476 AD: The Western Roman Empire fell and the Vatican became a papal residence

752 AD: Pope Zachary deposed the last Merovingian king of the Franks, Childeric III. The Merovingian dynasty had ruled the Frank region since 476 and is ‘traditionally reckoned as the ‘first race’ of the kings of France’ (Brittanica). Also known for family infighting and puppet kings.

754 AD: Zachary's successor, Pope Stephen II, re-confirmed and crowned Pepin the Short. Thus began the Carolingian monarchy.

774 AD: Charlemagne expanded papal lands in central Italy

The Fraudulent Donation of Constantine

9th century copy of the Donation of Constantine as part of the False Decretals by Pseudo-Isidore

​Pseudo-Isidore(Uploaded by Stephan Dinkgreve), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The general consensus is that somewhere between the 750s and 760s AD, a Roman Imprerial decree entitled the Donation of Constantine was written by an unnamed cleric in Rome, possibly with the knowledge of Pope Stephen II or III (752-757). The decree recorded a grant from Roman Emperor Constantine to Pope Sylvestor I (314-335) and his successors which bestowed them vast territory, spiritual and temporal power. Unsurprisingly, it wielded great influence on political and religious affairs in medieval Europe until it was proven to be a forgery by Lorenzo Valla in the 15th century.

The Donation of Constantine allegedly started with Constantine’s conversion to Christianity after Pope Sylvestor I cured him of leprosy. Constantine then declared the importance of Rome to the church because it was the city of the apostles Peter and Paul.

The second section of the forgery contained the actual donation:

~ As Constantine prepared to depart to his new capital of Constantinople, he bestowed upon the pope supremacy over the sees of Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem and all the world’s churches.

~ Then he granted administrative rights to Sylvester and his successors over estates granted to churches throughout the empire.

~ The biggest prize of all was granting the pope control of the imperial palace in Rome and all the regions of the Western Empire. This conveyed the notion that the pope had the right to appoint secular rulers in the West.

I first became aware of the fraudulent Donation of Constantine via a historian called Paul Larsen who wrote about Vatican bloodline families and other curiosities. Until that point, I had little interest in the Vatican and it had never dawned on me that this age old institution was invented by people like you and me – the only difference being that these particular bloodlines considered themselves to be rulers of the world. Also known as the Black Nobility, some of whom seem to share an ancestral trait of compulsive fibbing.

Paul Larsen consulted with a wide range of Vatican insiders and other well place sources. Aside from his claim about the Vatican bloodline families creating the fraudulent Donation of Constantine and giving the title of Roman Emperor to the Pope, he alleged that the Vatican awarded itself the authority to select every monarch in Europe from then onward, regardless of bloodline. Meaning virtually all European nobility since then, have been illegitimate. But they have desperately tried to legitimize their rule by marrying Merovingian princesses.

Occultic Fraud Is No Bull

The Vatican City pine cone represents the crystalline pineal gland in the centre of our brains which allows us access to Source/Creator/God (Image: Canva)

​The lucrative birth certificate registration system is comprised of specific papal bulls (official letters or papal documents), three Crowns and the creation of the Cestui Que Vie (CQV) Act.

If you missed Alan of Salisbury’s London University Birbeck lecture ‘Art of Occult Law’, he estimated that every monetized sauverin (sovereign) account that most ‘registered’ men, woman and children don't know anything about, is worth about two million pounds in today's money.

​Alternatively, Contract Law and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) specialist and educator Bibi Bachus estimates that our sauverin trust funds are worth far more.

“A pound of gold is set aside by the Crown for every pound we weigh at birth. The median value of a 50-year-old in the USA is over a billion dollars.”

And

​“When a prime minister says they are going to the common market, where do you think they are getting the money? Not from your wages that you pay taxes on. That’s a different set of money. They get it from your trust fund; from your birth certificate. That’s where they get the money to build the roads and do everything you could think of.”

Lastly, the late David Straight provided detailed explanations of the Cestui Que Vie Trust account. Here are some pertinent notes from one of his videos:

​’At least half the money in the Cestui Que Vie Trust account that we know nothing about, is technically ours. We are supposed to be the co-trustee and co-beneficiary, and control it with a business plan and our signatures. We are the signatories and are meant to be in a co-partnership with our government but instead, our trust has been hidden from us. Everyone who was registered as a legal fiction at birth, has a trust with their name on it.

Governments are the trustees of the people, who are the beneficiaries. The beneficiaries have a trust indenture (legal and binding contract) with millions of dollars in it that they are co-trustees of. There is supposed to be a co-partnership with government. The government puts up the initial investment, bonds it, insures it, manages the securities and does a good job on their side. But they hid it from us. We are the signatories but most people don’t yet understand their trusts. That’s why we have NESARA/GESARA.’

NESARA: National Economic Security and Reformation Act

GESARA: Global Economic Security and Reform Act

All countries have a Cestui Que Vie Trust and NESARA/GESARA* essentially allow us to be the co-trustees, co-beneficiaries and the only signatory officers of our trust.

​*Some circles are of the opinion that Nesara Gesara quantum financial system is a psyop (psychological operation) and that the ascended master that started it all, St Germain, was a freemason. Whatever the story is, the increasingly impoverished American population and the whole world, deserves respect and remuneration. I was given a web address of an American institution where I could enter the registration on my birth certificate to reveal a amount of money that was linked to it. To my surprise, it worked but I have yet to make enquiries abiout how to claim it.

The Infamous Papal Bull “Unam Sanctam”

In 1302, Pope Boniface VIII created the first and largest Express Trust in world history. He not only crowned himself as King of the World, declaring control over the entire planet and everyone on it but also appointed himself as “Christ’s Trustee”.

Upon issuing his papal bull Unam Sanctam (One Holy), and declaring a Claim of Right, the Vatican owners proceeded to take control over land, rights and titles across Europe. To this day, the 1302 Unam Sanctam remains the primary papal document that underpins the Vatican corporation’s claim to global power.

In his Bull of 1302, Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII proclaimed that “it is necessary for salvation that every living creature be under submission to the Roman pontiff," pushing papal supremacy to its historical extreme. The Pope...wields two swords, one spiritual, one secular and does so in God's name*. The secular power is exercised by the civil authorities but under the guidance of the Church. Anyone who does not recognize the authority of both swords stands eternally damned.” ~ New World Encyclopedia

* My research concluded that the Vatican worships Lucifer and their new world order expects all of the world’s population to worship this one god. No thankyou.

A System Built Upon Deprivation

The creation of a trio of Crowns condemned us to perpetual slavery without legal title over our own soul. We were deprived of all beneficial entitlements, rights on the land and ownership of our flesh. We were also denied legal standing, instead treated as things; cargo without souls upon which the BAR is legally able to enforce Maritime law.

1st Crown of Crown Land (Earth)

1455, Pope Nicholas V created the first Testamentary Trust with the papal bull Romanus Pontifex. This deed and will created a Deceased Estate. In conjunction with the Express Trust Unam Sanctam, it effectively allowed all land to be claimed as ‘crown land’ controlled by the Pope and his successors in perpetuity.

2nd Crown of the Commonwealth (Body)

1481, Pope Sixtus IV created the second Testamentary Trust with the papal bull Aeterni Regis (Eternal Crown). Initially named the “Crown of Aragon”, it was later known as the Crown of Spain, the highest sovereign and highest steward of all Roman slaves subject to the rule of the Roman Pontiff.

3rd Crown of the Ecclesiastical See (Soul)

1537, Pope Paul III created the 3rd Crown and final Testamentary Trust through the papal bull Convocation. This was set up to claim all the lost souls, lost to the sea (See). Bar Associations are responsible for administering the ‘reaping’ of the souls of the lost and damned, including the registration and collection of Baptismal certificates representing the souls collected by the Vatican and stored in its vaults.

Creation of the Cestui Que Vie Act

1540, Henry VIII of England created the Cestui Que Vie (CQV) Act which was updated by Charles II through the CQV Act of 1666, wherein an Estate may be effected for the Benefit of a Person presumed lost or abandoned at ‘sea’ and therefore assumed ‘dead’ after seven (7) years. To this day, a CQV trust is established at birth when a birth certificate is issued, and if a claim is not made within 7 years, the individual is declared dead by the legal system which cashes in on that individual until the day they die. Without telling them. Some mothers and fathers are now aware of this and navigating their way through the system to ensure that their offspring don’t end up being perceived as ‘lost or abandoned at sea.’

Note: Many people who work within the legal system are either unaware of this mass occultic deception or choose to perceive it as a conspiracy theory. In Australia, ‘sovereign citizens’ are now labelled as ‘extreme terrorists’ and there have been two tragic confrontations that resulted in the deaths of both police men and women, and people who called themselves sovereign citizens. However, the media, government, law enforcement and sovereign citizen folk don’t seem to realize that:

1. ‘Sovereign citizen’ is an oxymoron. ‘Sovereign’ implies self-governing independence, while ‘citizen’ implies being subject to the laws and authority of a state.

2. We are all born sovereign, although my preferred spelling is sauverin, and we are all entitled to claim our hidden estate money.

Some circles claim that ‘sovereign citizen’ was a term coined by the FBI to demonize people that question government authority. I personally don’t see anything wrong with politely questioning authority when money laundering of both taxpayer and crime money, lies, corruption, blackmail and obeying cult ‘bosses’ appear to be a way of life in their realm. And it’s high time that we all started to behave like grown men and women, and have civil discussions about the many concerning elements involved in this mass occultic deception that I would rather not have to study at such length in order to write about it to present a case against the neverending engineered poverty across the globe. The minority who live like gluttonous cult kings and queens and care not for anyone except themselves, and whose unfillable material voids now have them playing the ‘let’s steal the entire world’s wealth and hoard it in our special realm’ game, must be held accountable. And if the vatican is supposed to be God’s representative, even though they worship Lucifer, then the buck stops with them. Just my opinion.

Read The Great Taking by David Rogers Webb, a former hedge fund banker:

​”Perhaps this Great Taking might not be allowed to happen if we each hold up our end - even the investment bankers - and say forcefully: We will not allow this. It is a construct. It is not real.” David Rogers Webb

Fraud invalidates all contracts, agreements & treaties

​Investigative journalist and 2016 Prague Peace Prize recipient Ole Dammegard has stated that each Cestui Que Vie Trust created since 1933 represents one of the 3 Crowns representing the three aforementioned claims of property. In turn, each corresponds exactly to the three forms of law available to the Galla of the BAR Courts: corporate commercial law (judge is the ‘landlord’), maritime and canon law (judge is the banker), and Talmudic law (judge is the priest). He also poses a vital question to ponder:

Q. If the Roman Legal System assumes we are merely the beneficiary of these CQV Trusts, when we go to court, who represents the Trustee and Office of Executor?

A. The judge is the trust; the real and legal name that operates under the principles of Trust Law, created by the Roman cult. The judge administers a trust in the presence of the beneficiary under Roman Law and all the statutes, maxims, and procedures.

Says Ole: “We are the mirror image to them. The ghost. The spirit. The dead. This high sorcery and trickery has remained ‘legal’ for far too long. The whole system is a fraud. Where did you ever agree to be part of it and were you ever told what was going on? Fraud invalidates all contracts, agreements and even treaties.”

​To add insult to injury, every time you pay a bill to a private corporation or government department, your recipients are paid twice. Once from your ‘sweat equity’ and again from your sauverin trust. Alan of Salisbury state that he spoke to senior finance players about this and they confirmed this long running secret scam be true.

​Protection or protection racket?

Justinian Deception

Aetherical Blogspot’s exceptional video Human Image – The Fundamental Legal Fiction provides further insights into the language used in the Birth Certifucate racket. Note the difference between legal and lawful:

“According to the government's Registration of Birth form, the mother is identified as the informant. Namely, one in the state of in-forming or creating a form of man in the legal realm... A new legal entity cannot be created unless this form is completed and submitted… That which is legal has been formed by man. That which is lawful is of substance/essence and is a creation of God. A lawful man is of substance/essence.”

Furthermore, when the Birth Certificate is issued to the mother and father, the baby is considered an acting legal entity - a human in the legal system.

“Almost everyone's birth estate has been registered into a sovereign's register. Surrendering a legal title for an equitable title (beneficiary title) to the estate. All for protection and care. A protection racket.”

While mothers and fathers are not obliged to register their children, if they do, they create a legal entity/PERSON and literally hand ownership of that PERSON over to a foreign entity/The CROWN. The Government seizes the PERSON under Maritime Law and it becomes their chattel property. Every Birth Certificate is a financial instrument lodged in the Vatican bank. As stated by Alan of Salisbury, mothers and fathers have 7 years to declare their child is alive before the courts take over as administrator. When they do that, mothers and fathers officially become parents: pair - rents.

There is clearly no reason for debt slavery

Tired of debt slavery and paying neverending bills and expenses? UK psychiatrist Alan of Salisbury reminds us of the magnitude of this mass occultic deception in his Art of Occult Law presentation:

“When you want to buy a house, they get you to sign a promissory note and put it into an account. Then, out of thin air, they create a million pounds. You’ve gone into the bank as a sovereign, living, creative soul, with flesh, blood and an inheritance.

Your signature has created one million pounds and they now have an undertaking from you to work for the rest of your life to create another million pounds. And they are going to charge you interest on that as well. Does this sound fraudulent to you? It certainly does to me.”

​​Notable Quote:

“At the moment we don’t have a court of law. We have a color of law, which is fiction. UCC is a set of codes that was set up over 100 years ago by lawyers, and with the UCC comes Contract Law. It is all to do with contract so we are not under any law. We are just under contract. The UCC is very important for people to learn about.” ~ Bibi Bacchus, Contract Law and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) speciaist

How do ‘the meek’ claim their monies owed?

​From what I have learned, claiming our sauverin estates is a convoluted, complex and time consuming process. Beware the burgeoning ‘sovereign estate industry’ where various prices are being attached to differing versions of how to claim your money. In a moral world, governments would make an official announcement and roll out a claims process.

Some circles recommend that we reclaim our trust account from both the United Nations and Vatican by formally declaring that they no longer have control over us, our estate or our property. Perhaps a handwritten letter addressed to Pope Leo and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is a good place to start.

In part 5 of this Mass Occultic Deception series, I will provide a helpful list of legalese word definitions and how you can use Contract Law to your advantage.

Recommended Viewing

The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)

Runtime: 54 mins

The Money Masters - Rise of the Banksters

Runtime: 3 hrs 29 mins

If you don’t have time to watch videos, this 2008 Financial Contagion article provides the key points about the Men Who Stole the World:

2008 Financial Contagion: Money Masters Who Stole the World

Why ruthless top tier bank fraud criminals must be dealt with

rattler.mystrikingly.com

References

Brittanica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donation-of-Constantine

Superprof blog: https://www.superprof.com/blog/vatican-city-history/

UK gov: legislation.gov.uk

New World Encyclopedia: newworldencyclopedia.org

Bibliotecapleyades: bibliotecapleyades.net

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In his 12 Presumptions of Court overview, Adrian reminds us that:

~ Common Law is based on God’s Law or Natural Law and is based on two simple principles: Do No Harm and Cause No Loss. Everything else fits in and under them.

~ The legal system has over 100 million codes and laws. If you had access to these immense libraries of law books, there is no way that any individual, group, organisation, company or even country could come anywhere near close to any or all of the codes that are in these code books.

~ Most countries, if not all, are companies masquerading as countries. Legalese is the language of the Law Society and corporate employees. When they summons you to court, you are being given an invitation to appear in court; the same way you would summons the dead.

Adrian encourages people to ‘get to grips with the fact that you can rebut the presumptions of court which negates them and brings everything back into order the way it should be.’ In his experience, you start to behave like a grown man or woman when you take the time to ‘figure out how this works’. And he is right on the money when he describes this information as being ‘well hidden, obfuscated, occulted if you will... so the merry gang of gangsters can carry on with their illegitimate and unlawful theft of everything from us to fan their own coffers...’ (Surely their coffers burst a long time ago?)

Adrian also believes that all of the courts and all of the lawyers have been trained incorrectly:

“When we step into the Canon Law 3228, you may be shocked at how corrupt and bent the game really is. But when you understand this, you are in a much better position to do something with it because all you need to do is rebut the presumptions...

​Read through these presumptions many times so you can start to internalise them and capture the information into your being because this is very much about mindset and knowing your position and who you really are.”

​Canon Law 3288 – The 12 Presumptions of Court

Original Source: Code of Canon Law: The Bridge Life in the Mix website

Presumption of Private Record: Any matter that is brought before the lower Roman court is a matter for the public record when in fact it is presumed by the members of the Private Bar Guild that the matter is a Private Bar Guild business matter unless openly rebuked and rejected by stating clearly that the matter is to be on the public record. Unless you state that you want this as a matter of public record, it remains in the private where a whole different set of rules apply.

​Presumption of Public Service: All members of the Public Guild have all sworn a solemn secret oath to their guild and then act as public agents of the government or public officials that make additional oaths to public office that openly and deliberately contradict their private superior oaths to their own guild. Unless openly rebuked and rejected, the claim stands that these Private Guild Members are legitimate public servants and therefore Trustees under public oath.

Presumption of Public Oath: Unless openly challenged and demanded, the presumption stands that the Private Bar Guild members have functioned under their public oath in contradiction to their guild oath. If challenged, such individuals must recuse themselves as having a conflict of interest and cannot possibly stand under a public oath.

Presumption of Immunity: Key members of the Private Bar Guild in the capacity of public officials acting as judges, prosecutors, and magistrates, who have sworn a public oath in good faith, are immune from personal claims of injury and liability. Unless openly challenged and their oath demanded, the presumption stands that the members of the Private Bar Guild has public trustees acting as judges, prosecutors and magistrates, are immune from any personal accountability for their actions.

Presumption of Summons: By custom, the summons unrebutted stands, and therefore one who attends court is presumed to accept a position: defendant, juror, witness, and jurisdiction of the court. Attendance in court is usually invitation by summons. Unless the summons is rejected and returned with a copy of the rejection filed prior to choosing to visit or attend, jurisdiction and position as the accused and the existence of guilt, stands. You can read that as meaning since you turned up as the defendant, you are presumed guilty unless you can prove your innocence.

Presumption of Custody: By custom, the summons or warrant for arrest unrebutted, stands, and therefore one who attends court is presumed to be a thing and therefore liable to be detained by custodians. This includes the dead legal fiction, not human person that government rules and regulations are written for. Custodians may only lawfully hold custody of property and things, not flesh and blood soul possessing beings. Unless this presumption is openly challenged, by rejection of summons and/or at court, the presumption stands that you are a thing and property, therefore lawfully kept in custody by custodians.

Presumption of Court of Guardians: the presumption that you may be listed as a ward of a local government area and have listed on your passport the letter p. You are a pauper and therefore, under the guardian powers of the government and its agents as courts of guardians. Unless this is openly challenged to demonstrate you are both a general guardian and general executor of the matter, which is the trust before the court, the presumption stands that you are by default a pauper, a lunatic and therefore must obey the rules of the clerk of the magistrates court. (Apart from you, the clerk is the most powerful figure in the courtroom.)

Presumption of Trustees: Members of the Private Bar Guild presume you accept the Office of Trustee as a public servant and government employee. Just by attending a Roman court, as such courts are always for the public trustees by the rules of the guild and the Roman system, unless this presumption is openly challenged to state you are merely visiting by invitation to clear up the matter, and you are not a government employee or public trustee in this instance, the presumption stands and is assumed as one of the most significant reasons to claim jurisdiction simply because you appeared.

​Presumption of Dual Role: The presumption of government acting in two roles as executor and officiary is that for the matter at hand, the Private Bar Guild appoints the judge/magistrate in the capacity of executor while the prosecutor acts in the capacity of beneficiary of the trust for the current matter. Unless this presumption is openly challenged to demonstrate that you are both the general guardian and general executor of the matter, which is the trust before the court, the presumption stands and you are by default the trustee, therefore must obey the rules of the executor, the judge and the magistrate.

Presumption of False Executor: The presumption of Executor de son tort is the presumption that if the accused does seek to assert their right as the Executor and Beneficiary over their body, mind and soul, they are acting as an Executor de son tort or false Executor, challenging the rightful judge as the executor. Therefore, the judge/magistrate assumes the role of true Executor, has the right to have you arrested, detained, fined or forced into a psychiatric evaluation. Unless this presumption is openly challenged by not only asserting oneself as executor as well as questioning whether the judge or magistrate is seeking to act as Executor de son tort, the presumption stands and a judge or magistrate of the Private Bar Guild may seek the assistance of bailiffs or sheriffs to assert their false claim.

Presumption of Incompetence: Presumption that you are at least ignorant of the law, therefore incompetent to present yourself and argue properly. Therefore the judge/magistrate as executor has the right to have you arrested, detained, fined or forced into a psychiatric evaluation. Unless this presumption is openly challenged to the fact that you know your position as executor and beneficiary, and actively rebuke, and object to any contrary presumptions, then it stands by the time of pleading that you are incompetent and the judge/magistrate can do what is needed to keep you obedient.

Presumption of Guilt: The presumption that it is presumed that the private business meeting of the Bar Guild that you are guilty whether you plead guilty or not plead or plead not guilty. Therefore, unless you have prepared an affidavit of truth and motioned to dismiss with extreme public prejudicee onto the record or call a demurer, then the presumption is that you are guilty and even the Bar Guild can hold you until a bond is prepared to guarantee the amount the guild wants to profit from you.

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The Principles: The 12 (Shocking) Presumptions of Court

​December 2020 - Runtime: 17 mins

Ep.198 | The 12 (Shocking) presumptions of Courtx§

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​The aforementioned 12 Presumptions of Court were originally sourced from The Bridge - Life in the Mix - well worth a visit for additional information:

Note: The Digital ID is also based on presumption and not on your biological reality. Learn more on the For the Love of Truth - Law or Legal page.

Elements of Roman Law - Larry Hannigan

More legalese curiosities to ponder

Definitions of Human & Homo Sapien

​Legally, the NAME OF A HUMAN MUST ALWAYS BE IN CAPITALS (DOG-LATIN) TO IDENTIFY THAT INDIVIDUAL AS PROPERTY as distinct from a free man.

Human: ‘Hu’ and ‘man’ mean ‘hue’ and ‘man’. Color of man. It has form but not substance. A living body without spirit is not in the realm of reality. A human being is therefore the form rather than the substance of man.

Websters Dictionary 1828 definition of human: [Latin Humanus; Heb. Form, species] 3. Profane; not sacred or divine; as a human author.

Oxford New English Dictionary 1901 definition of human: Belonging or relative to man as distinguished from God or superhuman beings; pertaining to the sphere or faculties of man (with implication of limitation or inferiority); Mundane; Secular; Often opposed to Divine.

Unbaptized indigenous populations were legally defined as ‘humans’ and therefore ‘animals’.

Homo Sapien: Latin homō (stem homin-) means ‘man’ in the sense of ‘human being’ (male or female). Sapien means “wise, sensible, judicious man or woman."

Sapient Animals: Animals that have self-awareness and the capacity for abstract thought (dolphins, some apes, us) are called sapient (again, thoughtful or wise). Animals with senses are described as sentient (sentientem – ‘feeling, ‘perceiving’).

Ballentine's Law Dictionery 3rd Edition definition of human: ‘Human. Of the form and characteristics of man.’ Therefore, by Ballentine's definition, a human is not a man but resembles one.

Source ~ Aetherical Blogspot: Human Image - The Fundamental Legal Fiction

Why the 14th c. Vatican global slave trade needed ‘human beings’

The following definition of human being was provided by ex Jesuit Frank O’Collins in 2005:

Human Being. From Latin ‘Humanus’; a lesser/inferior man or woman defined legally as an ANIMAL or MONSTER distinct from the ancient (pre-Vatican) term homo: man.

A key rule of law from the 14th century describing a fundamental LEGAL FICTION was the NOTION of an inferior man or woman as an animal (as defined by Papal Decree) and therefore not subject to the laws of free men, but the laws of property.

The decision to create a second word for Homo (man) denoting an inferior ‘animal’ man, was crucial to the legal implementation of the Vatican global slave trade from the 14th century – to overcome the questions of legality and morality of the Vatican slave trade.

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The Mysterious Ash Tree - Beware or Befriend?

​In my front garden stands a typically fast-growing Ash tree, one whose roots are perilously close to destroying the garage.

Which got me thinking about the Ash tree in folklore and in the paranormal world; my cultural touchstone being M.R. James’ disturbing tale The Ash Tree (1904); links to two BBC2 versions are linked below.

The Ash (or Fraxinus) is generally regarded as a positive member of a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, or Oleaceae. Indeed, in Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is held to be a sacred Ash tree and was regarded across Northern Europe as a symbol of cosmic connection, healing, and strength.

The Old Ash Tree

​Symon Parsley / Old Ash Tree

In popular culture, the World Tree recently featured in season 2 of Marvel’s LOKI (2023).

For the Vikings, the first man, Askr, was formed from an Ash, whilst the first woman Embla was made from an elm. In the Norse poem Hávamál, Odin described hanging himself from a "wind-swept (Ash) tree" for nine nights, wounded by a spear, in a self-sacrifice to himself to gain wisdom and learn the secrets of the runes.

​In Celtic and British folklore, the Ash is one of the three sacred trees, along with Oak and Thorn; a healing tree, particularly used in rituals to cure poorly children.

For the ancient Greeks, the Meliae were nymphs associated with the Ash tree, born from the blood of Uranus falling onto Gaia.

​The Askafroa (wife of the Ash tree), or in Danish ‘Askefrue’ is the guardian of the Ash tree, a malicious creature. To appease her, it was necessary to make a sacrifice every Ash Wednesday by pouring water on her roots and declaring: "I am offering to you so that you do us no harm".

​Ash Wednesday, while nowadays of course, a Christian observance marking the start of Lent, has roots in pagan customs of purification, mourning, and the return of spring, including using ash for protection, fertility, and renewal. Ashes were used to mark the forehead for Odin’s protection often done on "Odin's Day" (Wednesday). In Celtic tradition, ashes were used to bless livestock and ensure fertility during the transition from winter to spring, frequently associated with Imbolc celebrations.

There are fictional takes on less than benevolent Ash trees, including in the 1990 3-part BBC television adaptation of Kingsley Amis’s novel, The Green Man (1969), where it puts in a truly terrifying appearance at the beginning of the first episode:

​Note: Green Man sculptures are often created from fallen Ash trees.

The Green Man in Lesnes Abbey Woods, London Borough of Bexley.

​Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The UK - in ‘real’ life?

1869’s Haunted Ash of Lampits (Scotland), part of The Ghosts of Carnwath series of supernatural reportage

An account in Scotland’s Hamilton Advertiser of 28th August 1869 detailed a melancholy apparition and haunted Ash tree near Lampits Farm, to the east of Carstairs Junction in South Lanarkshire:

“There long stood a solitary, melancholy-looking ash tree in a field on the Lampits Farm, in the vicinity of Cockysyetts, which was cut down to make way for the Queen’s branch of the Caledonian Railway, and which was still more melancholy, in my imagination, from its dismal associations; for here, on one of the branches of this dowie-looking tree, a poor heart-broken girl of Cockysyetts closed her earthly sorrows and her earthly pilgrimage. No mavis or blackbird was ever seen to nestle in it scanty foliage, no merry note of music was ever heard from its dull half-blasted branches; the raven might croak and the pyot chatter there by day, and the owl scream by night, but no other merriment, dear tree, was thine. Ghosts love the darkness and the shade, and the ghost of poor Jessie was often seen gliding at midnight among the shadows of the fearsome neuk.”

Today, few trees grow on the flat windswept carseland around Lampits. There remains, however, a solitary ancient ash tree that commands a view across the flat fields towards the Caledonian Railway. Many of its upper branches have been lost to past storms, and disease ravages others, however new growth continues to sprout from a gnarled and weathered old trunk.

With scanty foliage and half-blasted branches it has an uncanny resemblance to the melancholy old ash tree described in the newspaper article over 150 years ago. Ash trees can live for up to three hundred years, therefore it’s possible that the surviving tree could have witnessed Jessie’s melancholy end, early in the 19th century. It might even have sprung from a seed of the haunted ash.

The Hardy Tree (St Pancras Old Church, London)

​David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Hardy tree was an Ash tree located in the very ancient, possibly Roman St Pancras Old Church's churchyard in London. Notable for the stacked gravestones embedded at its base in around 1860, when graves were moved by writer-then-architect Thomas Hardy to make way for the Midland Railway to run through the churchyard.

In 2014, the tree was infected with fungus, and with storms further weakening it, the tree fell in December 2022.

The Hell Tree

From: The Mysterious Hardy Tree | Graves that Circle a Tree….(2021)

It’s thought that during his time here, Hardy actually uncovered the body of a two-headed man during the excavations. Thomas never documented anything regarding and this and more recent photographs of the tree has encouraged speculation if he ever had anything to do creating the design at all. He did write a poem named Levell’d Churchyard. Thomas’s poem suggests that he didn’t have fond memories of the work he did here but its hardly surprising given the job he was expected to do.

In letters that were written by the St Pancras Old Church vicar John Tweed in 1859 to his wife Charlotte, he appeared to have witnessed a supernatural manifestation. The vicar detailed how his churchyard was home to a mass gathering of apparitions and how tombstones seem to appear at the Ash tree and that he had even seen them moving towards this tree by a unseen force.

In December 1859 he wrote to Charlotte: ”More missing headstones. Increasingly certain of connection with my guests. Today I traced strange lines of disturbed earth across the graveyard. Each lead to the Ash Tree. Are they being dragged there? And then where? The ash tree itself is looking increasingly unhealthy, possibly diseased. I don’t like to get too close to it.”

And then: “If I hadn’t seen such as I have seen these past months I may not have trusted my eyes, but trust them I must. I shall record it in as plain a manner as I know how: By the light of the moon last night I saw a gravestone, moving with some speed, and quite of its own accord, across the graveyard. It hurtled towards the ash tree, at the base of which it disappeared, as if plunging in to the very bowels of the tree.” Finally: “Good God. Hundreds of them, of all shapes, just pouring into the tree.” He later refers to the tree being a gateway and it’s believed by some that he felt it could have possibly been a hell gate.

​“Dearest Charlotte, I do so love hearing your news from the vale, it pains me to have to recount the horrors of my life here… At night I am plagued by nightmares so vivid and dreadful that I am afraid to sleep at all. I have been nailed to the cursed iron frontage of a flame-licked and hell-bound locomotive. I have walked through the dark miasma and fetid slime of a London choked by death. I have seen the flagstones of the church floor thrust violently upwards by a sudden eruption of uncertain origin. And these are only the visions I have the constitution to retell… I begin to suspect that it is not just the lost ones that are being dragged down to that place. For how to account for the sheer number I watch descend every night? Where will it end? Must every dead soul in the parish, every dead soul in London be reclaimed for damnation?! No Charlotte, I shall not see it happen.”

​Allegedly John Tweed closed the hell gate in 1860 by burying a Bible under the tree, and scans of the Ash tree show a large book buried within the roots… but nobody has ever been allowed to dig the area. No reports were made from Tweed after 1860, when he lost the ability to record his findings; his writing hand apparently useless.

​And...this from Exit Strategy for the Restless Dead: The Hell Tree of St Pancras (2017)

He wrote to Charlotte: “Every thief, vagabond and ne’er-do-well in London seems to have wound up buried at St P. Which would be all well and good, except that the digging up of late seems to have unearthed more than just bones. Judging by the number of lost souls drifting about the place in one spirit form or another, I would offer that many of my guests are far from welcome in Heaven. I can only assume that having been buried in consecrated ground further precludes them from the other place, which leaves them, it is my horror to say, stuck in the churchyard with me”.

Tweed was not entirely without sympathy for his ghostly companions, going on to tell his wife that they were: “Sad seeming things. I feel quite sorry for them. I don’t suppose I should mind at all if only they kept their mournful meanderings to the night-time hours. Last Sunday I was midway through service when a wraith came down the aisle – an infernal thing, it stalked among the shadows between the shafts of morning light, wailing and moaning like a baleful cat. There were already murmurings amongst the parishioners about the foul stench from the digging up. Dearest Charlotte, I am not sure how much longer I can pacify them.”

The Beatles at Old St Pancras (1968)

Although St Pancras Old Church is in central London, minutes away from the great Victorian Gothic pile of a station, the area can be quite a haunting, lonely place, perched on a hill overlooking the railway junctions of St Pancras and King’s Cross. I remember visiting in the snows and blizzards of Winter 2015, when the church grounds felt like something from one of Grimm’s tales.

The Lively Arts: Thomas Hardy - A Haunted Man (1978)

The Ash Tree - Vampire/Zombie Killer

​In folklore, an ash stake is traditionally used to kill vampires, especially in Slavic, Russian, and Baltic traditions. Ash wood represents protective, "life" energy in Norse mythology, where it can help destroy the Draugr (Undead), or at least weaken their supernatural powers. The Viking version of vampires/zombies are described as bloated “death-blue/black” revenants who ferociously protect their treasure, with the ability to grow to giant sizes and shapeshift.

Note: other words for the Undead or Vampires in Norse legend include:

Aptrgangr (Again-walker): One who walks again.

Haugbúi (Barrow-dweller): One that dwells within its burial mound (howe).

Gjenganger: A ghost or revenant.

​In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Abraham Van Helsing utilizes wooden stakes associated with specific woods like ash or white oak to impale vampires by piercing their Undead hearts.

Three BBC adaptations of The Ash Tree by M.R James

The Ash-Tree (1986)

And a later telling from 2000; my idea but ripped off by a then senior BBC colleague:

​A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (1975) - The big reveal...

​Ash Wednesday (1973) full movie

LINKS

​The Haunted Ash of Lampits: https://clydesdalesheritage.org.uk/article/the-haunted-ash-of-lampits/

​Askafroa: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/askafroa

​Ash Wednesday and its pagan origins: https://susannesanlier.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/ash-wednesday-and-its-pagan-origins/

​What is Imbolc? The Celtic fire festival that welcomes spring—in February: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/imbolc-celtic-celebration-brigid

​Draugr, Haugbui And Aptrgangr – The Undead of Norse Myths: https://vikingr.org/other-beings/undead-viking-age?srsltid=AfmBOooD9FPhdZ_fGZNJpou74mRFiwpS_qX8UmyR39HCDmJHrj0w4hDj

​Thomas Hardy: Gravestone-encircled tree falls in Camden: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64110086

​The Mysterious Hardy Tree | Graves that Circle a Tree….:https://paranormalhauntings.blog/2021/12/26/the-mysterious-hardy-tree-graves-that-circle-a-tree/

​Exit strategy for a restless dead: The Hell Tree of St Pancras: https://portalsoflondon.com/2017/01/20/the-hell-tree-of-st-pancras/

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