GOING DARKER AT BRAMBER CASTLE KING JOHN WILL ANSWER ME
Bramber Castle was founded by William de Braose as a defensive and administrative centre for Bramber, one of the six administrative regions – each of which was controlled by a castle – into which Sussex was divided following the Norman Conquest. It was held almost continually by de Braose and his descendants from its foundation by 1073 until 1450.
One of these descendants, another William de Braose, was among those barons suspected of disloyalty to King John in the early 13th century. The king demanded William’s two sons as hostages. Lady de Braose refused, saying she would not trust her sons to a man who had already murdered his own nephew. The castle was confiscated by the king and the family captured. Lady de Braose and her two sons died of starvation while imprisoned at Windsor Castle.
King John held Bramber Castle only briefly but is known to have carried out repairs to the buildings. Later the castle passed back to the de Braose family, who held it until the 14th century, and then to the Mowbray family.
Subsidence on a large scale led to the ruin of the castle during the 16th century. Its masonry was later used for building roads in the area, and it may have been occupied briefly by Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War.
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Night time Graveyard Buncton Chapel Matt & Alfie
Buncton existed as a settlement at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, when it was called Bongetune. Its origins lie in a manor whose land lay within two exclaves of the parish of Ashington within the Rape of Bramber, one of the six ancient subdivisions of Sussex. The medieval manor house has vanished, but a 17th-century replacement still stands.
The settlement's church was built on a rural site, considered a "picturesque setting", at an unknown date during the Norman period. Most sources date its construction to the late 11th or early 12th century; others offer no more confident attribution than 12th-century, "1066 to 1200" or "mostly Norman". An article published in volume 38 of the Sussex Archaeological Collections (1892) dated it to 1150–1180 and attributed its construction to the monks of Sele Priory at nearby Beeding, although a wide-ranging study of Sussex church architecture 15 years later suggested a date of c. 1070 for the nave and chancel arch—partly based on the lack of buttresses. This date would make the church a Saxon–Norman transitional building
The church had a chancel with a squared-off east end and a nave with no aisles, with a chancel arch between them. This "two-cell" style was characteristic of small Sussex churches of the 11th and 12th centuries, especially those around the South Downs. The walls of both parts are quite high, and have been called "too tall for so small a church". Some rubble and tiles from a nearby Roman building were used in its construction; an east–west Roman road, the Sussex Greensand Way, on the lower part of the Greensand Ridge passed close to the chapel, and a large villa stood about 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) away, near the original Buncton manor house. (The villa's hypocaust was discovered in 1848.)
The chancel was altered in the 13th century, and the east end was further changed a century later. It was shortened, the east wall was rebuilt with square masonry blocks, and a Decorated Gothic window was inserted. The church also gained an aumbry and a piscina at this time, and some richly decorative Norman-era masonry arches were inserted in the exterior walls on the north and south sides. They came from another building—possibly Sele Priory—at some point between the 14th century and the Reformation. The only significant structural alteration was a 19th-century bellcote; compared to many ancient churches in Sussex, the church remains "delightfully unrestored". Some modest renovation was also carried out in 1906. Ancient churches which have survived intact or with minimal alteration often indicate a moribund local economy and loss of local population: local worshippers neither needed nor could afford to update their church.
The 14th-century piscina
There have been many changes in the parochial arrangements of the church, and for most of its existence it has been a subordinate church within a larger parish. It was recorded as a parish church in 1323, and its rectors occasionally administered the church at nearby Wiston. In the 15th century, though, All Saints lost its parish status as it was linked with St Peter and St Paul's Church in neighbouring Ashington. Thereafter it served as a chapel of ease to that church. (Ashington had been split from the parish of nearby Washington in about the 12th century.) By 1535, the parish and benefice name was Ashington with Buncton. In 1977, Ashington with Buncton and Washington with Wiston parishes were united into a single large benefice; this legal entity still exists, but by the end of the 20th century All Saints was in the parish of St Mary's Church in Wiston. St Mary's was declared redundant by the Diocese of Chichester at the end of 2009.
The north impost of the chancel arch had a strange carved stone figure dating from the 12th century. Although it is common for Norman churches to have carved or painted representations of human faces or figures, Buncton's was a very unusual example: an 8-inch (20 cm) sculpture of a person of indeterminate sex showing its genitals. It was similar to a Sheela na gig—typically a smiling naked woman with exposed genitalia, common in churches in the Republic of Ireland but rarely seen elsewhere, and reputedly associated with pagan sites, Celtic fertility rites or medieval anti-immorality teaching. About 30 such carvings exist in Britain. In December 2004, an unknown person entered the church and destroyed the carving with a chisel, smashing it into dozens of pieces.
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The Lost Soul's of Buncton The Chapel
All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Buncton in the district of Horsham, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Built in the 11th or 12th century as a small chapel of ease to a nearby parish church, and hardly changed or restored since, the stone chapel stands behind a "delightful ... wooded ravine" beneath the South Downs and has been called "a real piece of hidden Sussex". The chancel arch, between the nave and chancel which made up the simple two-room building, had a bizarre 12th-century carving of a person of indeterminate sex exposing their genitalia—until 2004, when an unknown vandal destroyed it with a chisel. The church is still used for Christian worship, and English Heritage has listed it at Grade I for its architectural and historical importance. The church is also known as Buncton Chapel.
HAUNTED SLINDON FOREST
This Forest has a long past, a lot of history, here is the link - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol4/pp234-237
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2345hrs WE RETURNED TO THE DOME
MYSELF & MATTHEW, RETURNED TO THIS PLACE TO COMMUNICATE AND POSSIBLY CROSS THESE TRAPPED SOUL'S OVER
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Paul Paranormal At JayWick
Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Clacton-on-Sea. It lies on the North Sea coast of England, 60 miles (97 km) from London and 17 miles (27 km) from Colchester. It was constructed in the 1930s as a holiday resort for Londoners, but has, over time, been officially named the most deprived area in the country.
The land on which the village is built was originally fields and salt marsh and unsuitable for agriculture. It was purchased by the entrepreneur Frank Stedman in 1928 to build low cost, affordable holiday homes for working-class families, and became a popular holiday destination throughout the 1930s. After the Second World War, a shortage of housing meant the properties became permanently inhabited despite not being built for this purpose. Many holiday homes are now in a state of disrepair, and the local community have resisted demolition. Jaywick has significant problems with unemployment and is at risk of flooding, despite several attempts by the local council to transform the area.
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DEATH right on our Doorsteps
We walk where People have lived and died throughout time,
Death over thousands of years,
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Upper Beading The River Adur Haunted by Spirit's
Scariest few minutes on Matt's life in this video,
We walked along the pathway along the river Adur, Lots of whispers.
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DURRINGTON CEMETERY DAY TIME EXPLORE
Day time explore and communication with the SOUL'S at Durrington Cemetery,
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THE HOUSE WITH NO HISTORY BUT HAS A PRESENCE
We returned to this location, High Down's, because Emma whilst in the car, took some photo's, and got some strange images,
So whilst there, we investigated the house as well
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Sinister woodlands Just before SUNSET
I will be returning here late at night, to carry on investigating, as we picked up lots of girl's names, responses like, TRAPPED, STUCK HERE, EVIL, SATAN,
The soul's need to be saved.
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OLD BOATYARD SHOREHAM LISTEN FOR THE WHISPERS
THIS BOATYARD HAS MANY STORIES MANY YEARS OF MYSTERY,
MATT AND MYSELF WALK THE PATH AND TRY COMMUNICATING,
I WILL RETURN HERE
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The Haunted High Downs WORTHING
WE RETURNED TO THE DOWNS AS PROMISED,
LOTS OF WHISPERS AND CREEPY SOUNDS CAUGHT ON CAMERA,
NECROPHONIC APP, GHOST TUBE AND SPIRIT TALKER USED,
RECORDED IN NORMAL CAMERA.
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GHOST HUNTING WITH THE FAMILY
Matt took me a local woodlands, that him and his wife Emma, felt is very eerie at night, and often felt followed whilst walking the dogs.
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Daytime Explore of the st botolph's church
Link to the history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Botolph%27s_Church,_Botolphs
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GHOSTLY WHISPERS AT BRIGHTON RACE HILL
MY SECOND ATTEMPT AT FILMING THIS LOCATION, AS FIRST ONE THE VIDEO WAS MYSERIOUSLY CORRUPTED,
LOTS OF WHISPERS THROUGHOUT.
JOIN DAVE ON HIS EXPLORES - https://www.youtube.com/@UCGts-ivJ5PEcNjv-BcxpjmA
JOIN TOMMY & LEAH FOR FUN STUFF - https://www.youtube.com/@UCZbuMAk3KVUrIDfUEiKrWng
JOIN CAROLYN FOR TAROT READINGS - https://www.youtube.com/@UCvnFwMaw1y1DD8zGkjJIp-g
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#Murdered #Unknown Woman #Brutally Killed #1979 #haunted Forest
We visited where the forest used to be, but was ripped down for roads - motorways.
We were on the edge of What's left,
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R I P Jay Took his own life Can I Cross him over
My second visit to Lancing seafront, to finish the job I started 3 years ago.
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