Ley Lines & the Paranormal

Ley Lines & the Paranormal

By

Mick Mclaren

I am often asked, "what are Ley Lines"?

My reply is Ley Lines are Lines of supernatural energy that crisscross around the Earth, these crossings are at points where sacred sites and the land is naturally formed, most of the lines have five or more sites within them. The sites range from Holy springs, stone circles, barrows, and cairns.

I do believe our ancient ancestors new of these lines and used them as means of traveling along and worshipping on them by building monuments.



The term Ley Line was coined by Alfred Watkins in 1920, he described them as channels of force which flowed through the ground, he also believed that places like Glastonbury Tor and Stonehenge were places which had nodes where mysterious energies could be tapped into.

In my younger days I had encountered many strange events on ley lines, which at the time I did not know anything about them or could not explain the feeling I was picking up and the things I had witnessed at these locations.

On one occasion I had an experience not far from where I lived. I was in my early 20’s at the time and had headed over to pick up a prescription from a local chemist. It was on the way back; I had chosen to take a path that lead to a bridge over the river to Hall I’th Wood museum. The museum started life as a rich merchant’s home during the mid- 17th century. Years later the building was split into several rented dwellings and, whilst living in one of these with his family, Samuel Crompton famously invented the Spinning Mule in 1779. I was walking up the old cobbled lane passing what was an old kitchen area of the old Tudor building towards a road called Green Way. I started feeling cold even though it was a lovely warm summers day and had a sense that someone was watching me, I looked up to a door to my right I saw a middle aged woman dressed in a Tudor style outfit looking in my direction. My first thought was they must be filming something, which regularly occurred with the BBC and other film companies around the museum. I said “hello” as I walk past, she just carried on looking in my direction, which really freaked me out. I carried on and started feeling a little warmer and less nervous before turning round to see she had vanished, I looked around to see that
there was not a single person around, and the museum was closed.

Not knowing at the time but knowing now after many years that a Ley Line that Alfred Watkins talked about in one of his books, was one of the first recorded Ley Lines in Lancashire that runs through Worsley Old Hall, Great Lever Hall, Hall I’th wood and Cheetham Close Stone Circle on Turton Heights. 

After years of research I have come across people reporting all sort of phenomenon pertaining to Ley Lines, which connect to folklore creatures like trolls, boggarts, elves, fairies, goblins and pixies, and also cryptids such as Bigfoot, Dog men (werewolves) and Black Shuck the demon dog that haunts burial mounds and graveyards. Also, ghostly white lady forms, UFO’s, and other strange lights. 

Perhaps with all the activity we have surrounding the unexplainable events, we could almost think that these lines could be areas of a thin veil that is connecting over other dimensions of reality, which is somehow letting these other worldly creatures into our reality. With so much paranormal activity in the world that people encounter, it could be possible that other realms do exist especially when we start to look at the events of people who mysteriously disappear without a trace. Some whose family members who turn their backs for a minute and then turn to find their loved ones gone.