Dark Darzet

In this episode of the Dark Dorzet Podcast, Ross and David, along with their long-suffering partners, head to the infamous Dorchester Prison for a night of ghost hunting.

Dorchester Prison was a Category B men's prison located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was built in 1855 and closed in 2013. The prison was originally designed to house 200 inmates, but by the time it closed it was holding over 500.

The team used a variety of methods to try to contact the spirits of the prison's former inmates, including table tipping, Ouija boards, and processed robots.

Also, we hear more about Nigel's friend's ghost encounter.

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https://www.mosthauntedexperience.com/dorchester-prison

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We went to Knowlton Church, a ruined church in Dorset, UK, which is said to be one of the most haunted places in Dorset. The church is located in a beautiful countryside setting, and the surrounding area is said to be home to many ghosts and spirits. We visited the church on a Sunday morning, and the sun was shining brightly. We felt a sense of peace and tranquillity at the church, and we did not experience any negative vibes. The bells of Knowlton Church were stolen, and the third bell was either thrown into the river or cursed by a witch.

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The Ghost of the Toll Gate

A witch, who had taken the form of a black cat, was killed while sitting on the toll gate in Ulwell near Swanage. Since then, the gate is said to open for those who travel late at night...

The Sheela Na Gig of Studland

St Nicolas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students.

After raiding Lindisfarne Priory in Northumbria in AD793, the Vikings occupied, harassed, and sacked parts of England until the Norman Conquest. Studland's own church was destroyed in C9, and Wareham was sacked at least three times.

Studland's St Nicola church is unmistakably Norman and probably dates from the end of the 11th century. Oral tradition tells us that it was used by smugglers to store contraband between the 16th and 19th centuries. One of its most notable features is its corbels.

An ornamental bracket that juts from a wall to support a superincumbent weight is called a corbel. A corbel is an integral piece of the wall, while a console is attached to the structure. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger" in England.

The corbels in Studland include a copulating couple, one (maybe two) shela na gigs and a couple of men who have had their knobs knocked off.

Sheela na gigs are figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They are architectural grotesques found throughout most of Europe on cathedrals, castles, and other buildings. The greatest concentrations can be found in Ireland, Great Britain, France and Spain, sometimes together with male figures. Ireland has the greatest number of surviving sheela na gig carvings; Joanne McMahon and Jack Roberts cite 101 examples in Ireland and 45 examples in Britain

Most of all the surviving in situ sheela na gigs are found in areas of Anglo-Norman conquest (12th century). The areas that remained "native Irish" have few sheela na gigs. It is argued that their location on churches and the grotesque features of the figures, by medieval standards, suggest that they represented female lust as hideous and sinfully corrupting.

Another theory is that the carvings are remnants of a pre-Christian fertility or mother goddess religion. They note what they claim are differences of materials and styles of some sheela na gigs from their surrounding structures, and noting that some are turned on their side, to support the idea that they were incorporated from previous structures into early Christian buildings.

Jørgen Andersen writes that the name is an Irish phrase, originally "Sighle na gCíoch", meaning "the old hag of the breasts"

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The Singing Barrows of Weymouth were mentioned in The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain, where they claim that, if you put your ear to the ground on the mounds at Midday, you can hear otherworldly fairy music.

It would seem that the specific barrows they are talking about are the line of six barrows known locally as the Bincombe Bumps.Bincombe, which probably means ‘valley where beans are grown’, lies midway between Dorchester and Weymouth on the South side of the Dorset Ridgeway.

The bumps are Round Barrows or Tumulus a mound of earth and stones piled over a bronze aged grave (another name for a Tumulus is a Kurgan - which we all know is the name of the baddie in Highlander).

There seems to be a number of references to music emanating from these structures, with most of the online stories pulling you back to Bincombe.

Other methods to keep Fairies off your back are:

Turn your clothes inside out. Even a pocket inside out will do –this would appear to confuse fairies, much the same way people seem to be confused by my shaving off my beard.

Wear a holed stone amulet or bells apparently also works for cattle.

Open scissors hung above a baby’s cot: apparently stops the baby been taken and replaced by a changeling.

Don’t eat any food offered to you. If you do you are obligated to give them something in return, and therefore you are under their power.

Apparently any fairy music you may hear will be fantastic, however will be impossible to remember.

I also came across an Artist called Tessa Farmer who made a brilliant set of sculpture/installations showing what it may look like in side the fairy mounds at Bincombe, it would appear to be a mixture of taxidermy (is this what you call Mounting and Preserving Insects?) she includes my favourite depiction of fairies yet which seem to be made of bits of flying ants reconfigured to look like tiny people with wings.

http://www.tessafarmer.com/new-gallery-4/4rcozjju450uywyo96d1mmji3u58rr

HELLEBORE

a collection of writings and essays devoted to British folk horror and the themes that inspire it: folklore, myth, history, archaeology, psychogeography, witches, and the occult.

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Ancients of MuMu – Raspberry Ripple

"Re-brew of our collab with Elusive Brewing combining two of our favourite things... beer and ice cream.

Juicy malts combine with tart raspberry and sweet vanilla to create this dessert in a glass."

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Bluebeard’s Revenge

"We have begun work with another Devon based company, Bluebeards Revenge. With a leading range of men’s grooming products that all have distinctive branding Bluebeard have wanted a beer to compliment their ‘manly’ range!"

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