HEYTESBURY HOUSE Case Histories
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Case Histories
Recorded and reported local paranormal events
For a detailed location use the ‘what3words’ positioning app. Using the reference quoted, such as, ///monk.looms.myths (Heytesbury churchyard).
The county of Wiltshire, England has a rich association with the unexplained, and the partially explained.
From the original purpose of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Stonehenge and Avebury, to the phenomenon of crop circle activity, ley lines, a surfeit of hauntings and Warminster as the global epicentre of extra-terrestrial visitation.
The village Heytesbury, recorded in the Domesday Book (1086), has become both a peculiar and remarkable focus. The earliest known crop circle formation recorded here in the 1950s, the first instance of UFO activity in the 1960s, public exorcism in the 1850s and deep and direct association with the occult in popular culture.
All I did was ask. From the Heytesbury House Archive, I asked generative artificial intelligence to interpret and expand upon the data found.
These case histories form that data, expanded. A common theme emerges and the cumulative direction is what you see here.
Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.
All images are from originals as originally contained in the archive box retrieved from the cellars network (now inaccessible).
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Heytesbury House
Heytesbury, Warminster, Wiltshire.
“The Warminster Thing”
Warminster, Wiltshire, local town to Heytesbury was the global epicentre of UFO activity from Christmas Day 1964 until the mid-1970s.
The first ‘sighting’ was an overwhelming but ‘unknown’ sound disturbance at Knook army camp, Heytesbury. Christmas Day, 1964. “Soldiers reported hearing an intense sound described as a massive chimney being ripped apart and scattered; a droning sound accompanied the noise.”
“That same morning, five miles away in Warminster, a local woman was woken by the sound of giant hailstones battering her roof. The noise transitioned into a loud hum before fading to a faint whisper.”
Various ‘visits’ continued with the local vicar and family reporting this sighting in Heytesbury in 1965. Ai expanded from original image retrieved from archive.
“little men in balaclava helmets and glistening trousers”
For reasons unknown, the ‘skew’ railway bridge at Heytesbury (///otherwise.intruders.nearly) has featured repeatedly in alien sightings. In October 1965, midnight, not only did a local woman run over a figure in a black bodysuit on the bridge, who disappeared, but she then almost hit two more on her way back. And saw their mothership. As also, separately seen over the bridge complete with the now iconic car engines cutting out and blinding white light.
Location ///clerics.pickup.generally
Alien Activity 1964/5
June 1965: Cigarshaped metallic object remained stationary for half hour over Heytesbury, near Warminster. Witnessed by vicar, wife and 3 children. Featured in book The Warminster Mystery by reporter Arthur Shuttlewood.
The Devil Rides Out
Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Dennis Wheatley’s best-selling novel from 1934 ‘The Devil Rides Out’ and the movie of the same name by Hammer Horror as released in 1968 located at:
Heytesbury House. The Angel of Death is summoned along with Goat of Mendes by an occult sect operating at Heytesbury House, also with much drama on Salisbury Plain. Coincidentally, there was indeed, an occult sect operating at Heytesbury with accompanying ritualistic activity, nearby on Salisbury Plain including ‘naked’ levitation as reported locally.
There was a ‘satanic’ shrine in the stables at Heytesbury House in use at the same time as these reports.
Location ///complies.sends.daredevil
Speak of the Devil
The author was billeted at Heytesbury House in the summer of 1916, and later used it and the surrounding countryside as the backdrop for part of ‘The Devil Rides Out’. Heytesbury is substituted for Chilbury.
The movie stills that follow are to illustrate the cast of The Devil Rides Out on location in Heytesbury. These images are simulations and do not claim to represent original footage from the movie based on Heytesbury House.
Heytesbury 1950s
Crop circles in Wiltshire were reported from the 1940s with the first recorded in the 1950s at Heytesbury, Wiltshire. From CERES and BUFORA archive.
Singles and a quintuplet crop circle formation in the pattern of a ‘five of dice’. Appeared at Devil’s Dip, Heytesbury ///resources.remarked.selection
This very early report was significantly before crop circle phenomena commenced in earnest in Wiltshire in the late 1970s.
“(1966) Along the road between Sutton Common, Norton Bavant and Heytesbury,…a number of obvious landing spots have been brought to my notice. In every case, reeds and grass have been curiously flattened in what invariably seems to be clockwise fashion, blades swept smoothly inert in shallow depressions. Yet there were no signs of tripod legs having gouged the soil beneath: simply these circles.” The Warminster Mystery.
In 1966 we had alien landings creating clockwise circles. 15 years later they were ‘crop circles’.
Location ///square.shunning.circling
Crop Circles
Records of the organisations CERES and BUFORA (see Crop Watcher issue 14). It included the following: “1950s, Heytesbury, Wiltshire, singles and quintuplet”.
The formation known as a Five of Dice, first appeared at Heytesbury but has since been repeated at multiple locations in Wiltshire. The layout seems, coincidentally, identical to an occult Circle of Protection?
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