01/11/2025
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So we started our celebrations last night at ST.James Memorial Gardens.
Steeped in history ( and alleged haunting) we wander peacefully and quietly checking out our favourite graves and superstitions of this beautiful place. It was so warm as we made our way down the steep winding pathway lined with gravestones and arm with flowers and candles entered the peace below.
You forget until you go how very deep the gardens are sunken below the cathedral itself, the cathedral shadow dominating the skyline with the odd bat fluttering around us as we made our descent .
First we explored the part of St James that has the tunnel beneath, now gated off but a dark deep cavernous space, beautifully gated and unavailable to mere mortals like me but standing dark and gothic, and using torches explored the writing and symbols etched high above in the limestone walls.
Onto to the Chalybeate spring said to hold healing properties where soldiers from WW1 are alleged to have bathed, praying for cure from what ever injury they had suffered.
We left a rose and doll for little Mary/ Grace says to be a tiny little girl in white dress buried secretly in an unmarked grave denied by her father in life, does she appear wanting company / acknowledgment who knows.
For the grey lady we left your white rose in the waters of the spring itself. I know somebody who claims to have seen you, graceful and elegant your dress flowing around you, reported around the spring and surrounds. Your ghostly wandering have been witnessed by many, you never engage but carry out your ghostly mission in silence.
Onto grace 666 the number of the grave speaking for itself. Many a year I’ve come and seen dark mischief attempts with the remanence of dark spells left behind. Although no name is visible as to the owner, the gravestone now lies flat and forms part of the paving stone leading to the spring. We simply left a white rose and a candle, whoever you are whoever this stone honours may you rest in peace.
Moving on to the William Huskisson mausoleum. It dominates the gardens, tall dark and imposing but so so beautiful! William was the first victim of a rail accident in the uk. We left you a white rose William, deepest sympathy for your early tragic loss but thank you for the beauty and history that is your final resting place.
Finally we came to the grave that in summer was filled to brimming and hard to find as it’s usually covered by wild garlic the white flowers dancing and obscuring what is said to be the marker, but last night so easy to find. Laid here just outside the consecrated grounds are the remains of the Everton Vampire. Found bound and buried upside down with a stake through his heart was a man discovered during the laying of the foundations for what we now know as Everton Valley. The remains where reinterred in the shadow of the Cathedral but outside it’s blessed boundaries. Many Many times has evidence of spell work been found at this location. We chose to leave two crossed white roses and candles and offerings that will remain private between us and whoever lay beneath us, denied consecrated burial by the law of the time, but remembered by us last night, hopefully now at every lasting peace.
We left and carried on our night with magic and spells and feast ghost stories and messages from our ancestors and elders long passed.
It was a fabulous night celebrated just as I love to celebrate it with the people that I love.
There’s 12 days to Christmas and only 1 sadly to Halloween. But I’ll carry the magic in my heart until next year, I have the full and new moons that fill my heart with magical joy to keep me going, keeping me protected, keeping me contented and forever blessed.
Happy November don’t forget to blow your cinnamon through your door to invite prosperity and harmony in.
Love Always
Anna ###x
