Guildford Cathedral, Stag Hill, was used as a scene backdrop for the creepy 1976 movie The Omen; yet, even away from such works of fiction, this location is no stranger to genuine supernatural happenings .
2 photographs taken in April, 2012, that appeared to show a spooky shape on The Mount in Guildford, have caused a stir among investigators of The Paranormal.
Amateur photographer, Mark Baker, 37, took the pictures when trying out
a new camera timer, and when he downloaded them to his pc, they appeared to show a ghostly white form. “It was not until I got home and was downloading, I noticed it,” he said; and Mark went on to stress that he had not digitally altered the images in any way.
Mr Baker's Images
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Yet More UFOs For The Area 15 years' worth of previously unseen UFO files opened up by the National Archives, revealed a very interesting UFO report for Guildford.
Two objects measuring “elbow to finger size” were spotted for about two minutes hovering above the railway bridge footpath in Woodbridge Hill, Guildford, in July 1994 at 10.20pm.
The unidentifieds, described as having a browny-grey colour, were spotted during a clear night and reported to police 12 hours later.
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Mother Ludlum: Guildford, The Location of Her Other 'Hole'
Records show that there is a small, narrow opening in Guildford, leading to a natural subterranean rock passage.
Although barely big enough for an adult to squeeze through, this eventually leads to Mother Ludlum's Hole,
an artificially widened outflow cave with a spring stream flowing through and from it. The main entrance of the cave is located in a sandstone cliff in Moor Park near Farnham, Surrey, but is now closed-off to the public
due to safety concerns following a partial collapse of its roof.
Folklore suggests that in the 13th century the "Ludewell" (other spellings through history include "Ludwell" and "Luddwelle"), was once home to a White Witch known as 'Mother' who supplied the nearby *Waverley Abbey, (now a ruin after being dismantled in 1536
under the Dissolution of Monasteries act) with fresh water and cooking utensils in return for food.
*It is worth a quick mention that Waverley Abbey is where both my partner and I had rather a good UFO sighting while skywatching there back in 2010;
the grounds are reputed to be haunted also.
Of course, that quaint little story of her arrangement with the monks may be just hearsay;
and looking at the legend another way, (from a pagan, living earth belief angle), the 'Mother' reference might just as easily be considered
as alluding to the 'Mother Earth, (rock womb of), and the 'Hole', a symbolic reference to the opening where the water emerges from,
a cavernous vagina ...now there's a thought!
Curiously, on the bank above Mother Ludlam's Cave there once existed another, much smaller cave.
This was allegedly the shelter of a man named 'Foote', who is supposed to have excavated the hollow;
locals referred to it as 'Father Foote's Cave'.