One of England’s most famous cases of necromancy occurred during the 1960s in Bedfordshire.
Gaining an unwelcome notoriety for the village of Clophill, in Bedfordshire.
A reputation which still attracts those with an interest in magic.
Clophill is a village clustered on the north bank of the River Flit, Bedfordshire, almost mid-way between Luton and Bedford.
The old church building, formally The Church of St Mary The Virgin (shortened to The Church of St Mary) and known colloquially as Old St Mary’s or The Old Parish Church, is at the edge of the village and is estimated to be around 650 years old.
Locals claim that the church faces the wrong direction and this is responsible for its hauntings, but an occidental orientation is not unknown within English churches.
On 16th March 1963, in a street in Clophill, a local couple saw two youths from Leagrave, Luton, on a long bike ride and playing with a human skull.
Uncommon in a small village like Clophill, but maybe not so shocking in Luton.
The youths claimed that they had taken it from inside St Mary’s, where they had discovered it stuck on a broken piece of window frame that had been jammed into a wall.
On the floor were a breastbone, pelvis and leg bones laid ‘in the pattern used for the Black Mass’, as it was described in newspaper reports of police statements.
Scattered cockerel feathers and tracings of two Maltese crosses infilled in red, one newly done and the other somewhat weatherworn, were found inside the church.
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