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Supernatural Activities in Heytesbury

Heytesbury House

Dennis Wheatley's horror novel 'The Devil Rides Out' was located at Heytesbury House following his time there during The Great War.

There was a satanic shrine in the coach house in the stable block presumably to service the coven that actively operated in Heytesbury in the 1980s. They used to turn up at the Angel and show upside down crucifixes to one another when not visiting Salisbury Plain for a session of nude levitation.

During the refurbishment of the house a number of paranormal activities took place.  On one occasion a builder was working on the exterior of the main house and was pulled from the scaffolding by an unseen force.  The developer himself was also visited one night in is caravan by an amorphous being that exuded pure evil (as they do) and consequently relocated his caravan to a less hostile pitch.

A number of horror films have been made at the house.  One involving Nazi zombies running amok in the woods and another about a post apocalyptic world of deformed mutants.  The latter involved a sequence filmed in one of the flats in the courtyard where the new messiah was in the process of being delivered by a deranged scientist.  As the camera pans in to the scene the face of an elderly lady can clearly be seen moving across shot and as there were no scowl-faced crones at the shoot this proved somewhat of a surprise.
Other known apparitions:
  • The Puritan. It does what it says on the tin. He removes bedclothes whilst one is busy doing other things and used to appear on the third step up on the servant's staircase.  As his perch was destroyed in the fire he must now, presumably, hover in mid-air mouthing hell-fire and damnation in somebody's fitted wardrobe or gold-plated jacuzzi.
  • The Grey Lady.  Essential 'must have' for any stately pile.  She glides about rather pointlessly.
  • The amorphous presence Part 2.  The author required a large intake of the Grouse to deal with this particular night as the entity chose to stay with him in the north bedroom brooding and breathing with an irritatingly loud death rattle type noise.  On reporting this to George in the morning he informed me that it was an owl at roost in the rafters and asked after his whisky.
  • Multiple choice: The Bricked Up Virgin or Ex-Landlord of Red Lion in Victorian Gown Holding Riding Crop in Stable with Zoe the Ewe.  One of these is true.  All of the above reports are definitely true and from a number of sources.  Any more please?  The Angel certainly has a plethora of the walking undead.