Encounter at Avebury?

The following is an account of a visit by APRA researchers to the henge monument
and village of Avebury in December 1997
[This has appeared in several magazines]

The village, and henge monument of Avebury in Wiltshire is a very atmospheric place in the Wessex landscape, notwithstanding its older associations with the Celts and Druids, right through to the new-age religions.  In recent years, the Avebury area has been the ‘recipient’ of many of the most intriguing and inspiring crop formation events, and of course many UFO sightings, including CE3K events.

One of the data research members, ‘CK’, has been going to Avebury on a regular basis for the past few years, and has increasingly become aware of the natural ‘earth forces’ that flow around the whole area.  On several occasions he has also been aware of ethereal forms around him, virtually on the periphery of conscious awareness, and at times has likened the presence to that of ‘Q’ in Star Trek.  He has also been more aware recently of astral worlds, and has had increasing memories of experiences with other beings, both in astral and physical worlds.  The other person, ‘John’, has been involved in various aspects of spiritual development for several years, having had many paranormal experiences in his adult life, and has recently been drawn to the UFO aspect of the very wide spectrum of paranormal and anomalous phenomena.

During the festive period of 1997, on 29th December to be precise, while both were on holiday, the two men travelled down to Avebury for the day.  As one of them hadn’t seen many of the prime crop-event sites near to Avebury, the other took him on a brief tour of the area, and both spent a while up on Walker’s Hill, overlooking the famous Vale of Pewsey, and the Alton Barnes area in particular.
Once the two had arrived at Avebury, and after a pleasant lunch at the Red Lion, they set off for a slow stroll around the entire monument, both determined to take in all the atmosphere of the place, which was very still strong after the winter solstice.  Both had camcorders, and were hopeful of capturing something on tape that was unseen to the eye, but as it turned out, the anomalies were not so much visual as aural.

The first anomaly occurred relatively early in the walk, but wasn’t revealed until the video footage was played when back at home later in the week.  While walking from the Obelisk, and past the Ringstone, John was filming as CK described the Druid wedding ceremony that he had been a witness to at the solstice ceremonies eight days earlier.  However, on playing the tape back, in the background there is a curious Indian-like chanting, heard for only a few seconds, but distinct nevertheless.  Both are certain that there was no-one near them at the time, and no-one was engaged in any sort of ritual that involved chanting.  The tape was brand new, so would have been very unlikely to have had a previous soundtrack on it that could have corrupted the recording done that day.  This chanting was heard when the overall background noise, of the increasingly intrusive traffic going though the village had lulled for a few moments.

While walking from the Ringstone towards the large stone known as the Devil’s Chair, CK fleetingly noticed a bar of amber light in the sky to his right, in the direction of Silbury Hill, but as soon as he turned his head to bring it out of his periphery vision, he lost sight of it.  John carried on filming the stones as CK rested by sitting in the small hollow in the Devil’s Chair.  CK’s attention was grabbed by a yellow zig-zag of light that went down towards Waden Hill, it looked like a lightning fork, but was too feint in its yellow colour, and besides, the weather conditions at the time were not capable of producing an electrical discharge.  Unfortunately, CK was not videotaping at that time, and John didn’t have his camera pointed in that direction.

The walk became rather less eventful as CK and John walked down to the Overton end of the West Kennett Avenue, while filming and noting the odd face-like patterns in some of the stones, which curiously enough seemed more prominent through the mono viewfinders of the camcorders - how much do human eyes miss by seeing in colour during daylight?

The next odd, and possibly the most pleasing occurrence, happened as the two started walking back towards the village of Avebury itself.  As they were between the fourth and fifth stones by the roadside, they both heard “Hello!”, and stopped to try and see the source of the male-sounding voice, which was not shouted from a distance, but was spoken softly from very close.  It was obvious that there was no-one else present, at least in a physical form.  The two stood for a few minutes while still trying to see who, or what had apparently spoken, before starting to walk on.  Now at this time, you might think that one, if not both of them would have switched his camcorder to ‘record’ - just in case, but as seems to happen so often in these cases, neither did!  They had only completed a few paces when the voice came again “Hello!”, seemingly this time from the stone just behind them, the fifth in the avenue.  They both stopped again, and CK even went and walked round the stone, while asking for ‘Q’ to make himself known again, though he, or whoever it was, didn’t.  While you are reading this, you will have difficulty in appreciating the tone and inference of a simple ‘hello’, but this seemed somewhere between a greeting and acknowledgement, and CK felt it had expressed satisfaction within one simple word.  Despite hanging around for several minutes nothing more was seen or heard, and the unseen being had apparently gone, but to where?

A rather amusing piece of video footage was taken by both men, when a black cat was seen stalking though the longish grass towards the village, but an annoyed magpie ‘bombing’ the cat rather puts the cat’s size into perspective, so no claims of the ‘Beast of Avebury’ can be made!

Nothing else unusual was experienced while at Avebury, but both John and CK felt very relaxed yet exhilarated as they travelled home.

A further occurrence happened later that night, when CK astrally travelled back to Avebury, as if drawn back for some reason, and even more curiously, yet another data research member was there in her astral self.  CK recalls very clearly standing within the main ring of stones in the night, looking towards the Avenue, with the banks of the henge silhouetted against the sky,  the clump of trees on the bank adjacent to the West Kennett road seemed to be standing guard.  A bright red ball of light appeared above the Avenue, and it moved slowly around in the sky, sometimes pulsing, occasionally flashing.  After about a minute, it flashed brightly and then vanished.  CK instinctively knew that this light was an energy form, and it was the being that he and John had encountered in the physical world earlier that day.  He also feels that this being is one of the ‘circlemakers’, and expects to encounter the being again this summer.

John experienced a rather different occurrence, this time with the mischevious nature of ‘Q’ being apparent.  While he was at Avebury, John bought some magazines, crystals and other items at the Henge Shop.  When he returned home, he put the bag containing items down next to a cabinet in his living room, from where they promptly vanished, never to be seen again!
Two weeks after the event, John and CK were able to have aspects of the encounter confirmed at a channelling session, and details of this, and other information, will hopefully be revealed at a later date.

It is well worth reminding ourselves of some of the earth energies that run through the Avebury complex, which may well be very significant for many experiences within the henge monument.

Those of you who know of the St Michael alignment from Cornwall right through to Norfolk will have some idea of the energies involved.  You will also know of the two positive and negative, or male and female energy lines, known as ‘Michael’ and ‘Mary’, that are intrinsically linked with the St Michael alignment, though are quite separate entities in their own right - perhaps it is a question of which came first, the energy line or the sacred place.

 For those of you who do not know the details of the earth currents, the two energy lines, Michael and Mary flow, and that is the right word in this context, through the very centre of Avebury, though they make their own course independently until they meet, and partly converge at the Obelisk, they then flow together under the Ringstone, and across to another nodal point between the Devil’s Chair and it’s un-named adjacent stone.  These two large stones seem to form a portal, and indeed they do, as the Michael and Mary currents split.  Mary breaks away here, and heads towards Silbury Hill itself.  Michael continues across the earthen banks, then crosses the road, and follows the West Kennet Avenue.  Indeed, as the two respected earth energy researchers, Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst, note in their wonderful book The Sun and The Serpent, it is the stones of the Avenue itself that mark the boundaries of the energy current.  It is clear that both CK and John were well tuned into the frequency of the natural energies.

It is also worth noting that CK is fortunate to have the Michael current flow very close to his home in south Oxfordshire, as it flows within 100m of where he lives, and it runs through the hillfort that he uses for many of his skywatches.

Parts of this encounter, or encounters, do raise some interesting questions within aspects of paranormal and UFO research.  An unseen entity was encountered, but one who had an interest in the humans present.  Odd lights and sounds were seen, heard, and recorded, as if a parallel dimension was very close to our world.  What are we to make of an UFO-like sighting while in the astral world?  Is a sighting ‘there’ any more or less legitimate or believable than one while ‘here’ in this realm?  I suspect that much more will become apparent in the future...