Adel Woods

Adel Woods

By

Mick Mclaren

On Friday 6^th March we went to Adel wood on a hunch that there might be some sort of paranormal activity after going to an area in the woods the summer before called Adel Crag which is also known as Alwoodley Crag. It is a rock outcrop situated not far in the woods near the car park on Stair Foot Lane.

Adel Crag

On the first visit we went with the intention of just going out for an afternoon walk and looking at the rock, on our way back we ended on the path which ran along the road back to the car park and we both felt a strange feeling of pressure to the head with dizziness as well as being unsteady on our feet, with it starting with my partner’s hand having a tingling sensation. These are the feelings we usually pick up when we are out investigating a ley line that I am currently working on that stretches from the north west coast to the east coast near the River Humber.

The day we went was quite a lovely spring day, the sun was shining, and the temperature was reasonable to not wear a thick coat. As we pulled up there were a couple of cars and one van with someone changing into boots from shoes with a very excited dog in the back waiting for its owner to take it out.

Car Park on Stair foot lane

We got out of the car and headed off up the path to where we felt the strange feeling the last time we went. As we got closer, we felt it again creeping stronger and stronger until we reached the spot were felt it the most.

This time we went with another agenda as well as ley hunting. Just recently I had come across online a map of cryptid reports from a lady named Deborah Hatswell who is a Writer, Researcher and owner of the #BBR (British Bigfoot Research), after looking at her map and aligning it with my map I was surprise to find that some of the old sites I was researching matched either on or around the cryptid sightings on Deborah's map, so after looking at the websites and watching a few videos and listening to podcast that’s when I decided to get in contact and ask to become a member of the BBR team.

https://ukwildman.blogspot.com/

So as we walked around with the feelings we were experiencing we started noticing things which we had been seeing in the videos we had been watching and podcast we had listened too, long sticks being pushed into the ground and lent against trees, large branches not from the same tree hanging in branches and being woven near the base by smaller branches. Marks in the ground that looked like large sticks had been pushed into the soil and then removed, bent branches twisted and broken way too thick for one person to do. Signs of the Wildman himself, all around this one place not a few yards from the crag itself.

After placing a marker on Google maps, we headed back to the car, along the way we did notice the paths having a few tree branches placed across them.

When we got back to my partner's home in Leeds, we started looking at the megalithic portal website and matching sites and alignment, and if any ley line was going through where we had just been. To our surprise we came across two leys. One line follows a ley that goes through the three henges at Thornborough running south going through Adel woods and on to and through a park area near Headingly Hill in Leeds where there had been a sighting of a Black Shuck or the north east name of Padfoot.

 Black Shuck/Padfoot

The other ley which runs through Roundhay Park in Leeds where again there has been a sighting of another Black Shuck which was reported in the Yorkshire Evening Post:

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/womans-shock-after-capturing-photo-ghost-dog-which-haunts-roundhay-park-483601

After Roundhay it meets and crosses at Adel woods and going over Ilkley moor through several ancient sites from cairns to standing stones.

So with the two ley lines crossing in the woods I decide to look into the history of the area and came across an old Iron age/Celtic settlement in the location called Adel Dam which has an old roman road running in between the dam and the old mill, and also there was a Roman camp there with two natural springs, in the same area and at the end of the road in the church yard of St. John the Baptist is what is thought to be the base of a lost stone cross.

Lost Stone cross

As with looking into the cryptid side of thing I think I need to ask a few questions first before heading back here and doing more investigations, but the more I research ley lines the more the paranormal side of things come into play and especially within the cryptozoology area.