T. Stokes

The haunted council house

February 20, 2006 |  0 comments
Image Credit: One always imagines that haunted houses would be ancient buildings, but surprisingly that is not often the case. Some years back, in the mid Seventies, Londons Hackney Borough Council was renovating its council house stock, these were family homes built after W.W.II, and gave cheap housing to both the many British families, and the newcomers from other countries. It was a sunny summers day and I was looking forward to finishing work, when the boss called me over saying I had a visitor. I did not recognise this visitor who had a sense of urgency about him, in his painters and decorators overalls, but he explained that one of these council houses just could not keep its tenants, no sooner were they settled in than they wanted to leave, all claimed the place was haunted, the council took a dim view of this officially, and normally put it down to some other reason.

He went on to explain that this house had new tenants every 3-4 months on average, and the council had this man and his team in once again to decorate through for the incoming tenants, he exclaimed they knew this house well, and the men felt uneasy there and would I come and look at it, I said I would need a good reason to do so, and I then learnt that the decorating team had been forbidden to talk of the houses problems, but they had gone through quite thoroughly this time and had found under the wallpaper in one room, a painted picture of the Goat of Mendes in an upturned pentacle, despite strict instructions from the council to paint over this, the man had decided he wanted someone outside to see it. To save time on the journey back to the house the decorator to his credit did fill me in with the houses history, just the usual toxic building syndrome, of families breaking up, arguments and unhappiness, a cot death, and one families aged father taking an overdose of his sleeping tablets.

I said probably students before a party paint this sort of thing, and it perhaps meant nothing, but when we got to the room, the picture was very well done, whoever did this had an extensive knowledge of demonology and primitive witchcraft, and the picture which was on a matt black wall, was very accurate. The floorboards underneath the picture had a black tarry stuff sploshed onto a small area, we took a decorators trowel and scratched off a piece this covered a protective pentacle drawn on the floor, with staining which looked very much like blood stains to me, with signs that 3 boards may have been up a while ago.I apologised to the decorator as I did think until then it was a hoax,- but the chilling feeling in that room particularly, meant I may be very wrong. Then a chap in a suit and tie, with a clipboard and a hard had , marched in and said, “who’s he” I gather the decorators were told not to tell anyone of this, and this foreman looked angry, I said I will wait outside and let me know what you want to do, a few minutes later I was asked in sworn to secrecy and told to just get on with it.This was no place for an ordinary exorcism, several indications were that elemental forces were invoked and would have to be very carefully dispersed. I then explained that I would need the keys to come back later that evening with several others to conduct a thorough analysis, before a cleansing through, I was told angrily this was impossible only the foreman could have the keys and he thought I was a crackpot, and believers in this stuff should be locked away. I said, “just you be here to let us in and to shut us out afterwards”, and this he agreed to do. So that night after ritual bathing fasting and meditation, our group of 3 arrived to be let in by the foreman, We had the boards up to find several partly decayed bodies of small animals, I shone the torch round carefully as statistically those who kill animals gravitate to children Relief must have shown on my face, as we collected up the bodies into a black bag. There was also a picture of Lucinda, sometimes known as Juno or Diana the roman god of childbirth, this can also symbolise birth into the next world, and this added to my concern as to the use, and purpose of the animal sacrifices, my suspicion from the animal remains was that certain organs were missing, and these were the ones a sorcerer would eat in front of the goat picture.

The house needed all the doors and windows left open in the sunshine and scrubbing through with antiseptic and bleach, while our teams devout Muslim Samnan, with his intimate knowledge of “Jadooka” or Indian sorcery, said his prayers and blessings, we also left a small container of herbs smouldering in each of the corners, and splashed lavender and tee tree oil at the picture and the entrance door. The building had to be what is known in spiritual circles as, “Terrafah” an old Greek/Yiddish term for spiritually cleansed. Next day a feeling of calm and peace had come over the building and the relief for our team of 3 was palpable, we expected from the sacrifices that the life force, would be transmuted into another dimension to bring in something unpleasant from the elemental kingdoms into this one, this is usually done to project the creatures at an enemy, and this can wreak indescribable terror.

The catholic mass where the bread and wine is said to be transmuted into the body and blood of Christ, which is then eaten and drunk by communicants, is an adaption of Necropophagy, or flesh eating which is the principle crime of the most common aspects of black magic, now a growing concern in Britain’s multicultural cities. However, we asked to be allowed back a few days later to observe, and this was refused. Three weeks later, my boss at work said the decorator and his boss came round and dropped in a large bottle of wine and an envelope containing £20. I rang his office to thank him in the morning to be told; “ there must be a mistake, the council does not allow exorcisms on any of its property” So that was it ? a big build up to nothing happening, we were all very relieved. Comments (0)

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