| CLOPHILL CHURCH |
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| History It was march 1963 that seven altar tombs in the churchyard of St. Mary's were found to be damaged. Unknown vandals had apparently attempted to dislodge the heavy stone slabs, but found the entrances to six of the tombs sealed by brickwork. Finally they managed to gain entry into the grave of Jenny Humberstone, a young wife of an apothecary, who died in 1770 at the age of 22. The coffin had been broken into and the skeleton removed. Jenny's bones were discovered in the church arranged in a circle, with cockerel feathers scattered nearby. It is said that a child was seen playing with the skull, which had been found impaled on an iron spike. Six years after these events another tomb was damaged in what appeared to be a similar attemped to remove the body. The vicar bravely kept a vigil for a couple of nights, but on the third night when all seemed to be quiet he went home, only to discover the next day that two more graves had been damaged. Again in 1975 human remains were removed from a tomb and scattered by unknown vandals. A local newspaper reporter who visited the ruined church at the time had discovered a human skull lying on the ground near the damaged tomb, and also a small statuette of the virgin mary with the head broken off! With such a grim history, it is not unreasonable to imagine that Clophill's ruined church and graveyard might be the haunt of disturbed spirits. This is a quest which are Bedfordshire team are determined to find out......... |
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| The entrance to the site |
| As reported by Mark......... Having left Houghton House we arrived here around 1 am. We stayed here for around a hour and 20 minutes. I walked up to the church took a few photos called the rest of the group up to me. We walked into the church, we were standing in the tower part and noticed a warm feeling but when we took two steps either way we were immediately cold. One of the group was starting to worry by now and felt very uneasy so we left cold, and in need of a cup of tea. |
| October 31st 2005 |
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