Catherine

This story came to my mind because I met the alleged victim during similar stormy weather to that we have now. 

Catherine, no her real name, lives in a state of confusion, she lives in a small flat on her own, and battles with mental health issues and fear, she has nightmares and flashbacks and is afraid of being alone but has no choice. She tells me that the Samaritans can be very clumsy when she phones them, and sometimes they make things worse. 

For many years her family were connected with a local C of E Church, but not always in a good way, after one family member stumbled across something that was going on in the church. 

I have no proof for this story but I did witness Catherine's mental state, and it didn't come from nothing, she had the symptoms of trauma. 

Some of the family remained in the church after the family member discovered what was happening there, and as a result, Catherine allegedly suffered harm. 

The family member who spoke up, along with others who spoke up, were apparently afraid for their lives. 

What was apparently going on was occult or Satanism, and babies and young children were involved. This was being carried out by senior church figures. 

Catherine told me that if I looked round the churchyard, I would see that there were a number of graves of babies and young children, on the other hand she advised me not to go near the church as she felt that things were still going on, and snoopers would be at risk.

I could see no reason not to look round the churchyard, anyone can go in and look; it was a historic church, but still with space for continued burials and interments, unlike many historic churches, which run out of space if they cannot extend their burial grounds. 

It is true that there were a number of baby and child graves in the period that Catherine described, but nothing to indicate anything untoward. It would also be hard to understand how any children could have died as part of rituals and then been buried legally without any questions or queries, although Catherine indicated that a doctor was part of the circle. 

There is no conclusion to be honest; a traumatized young woman who herself had an interest in the occult, whether stemming from her experiences, as she told me, or not, and my knowledge that all is not well in the Cof E, and that eerie and chilling experiece of hearing the story. Elsewhere I have seen stories of occult and Satanism and some thoroughly bad things intertwined with the C of E, and have witnessed some of it. In the 90s I fleetingly caught sight of a book by a Vicar, who told of how his church was repeatedly broken into and used for black masses, and people in his village tried to interest him in the occult, but I can't remember his name or find the book. 

Nothing has ever reached the news regarding that particular church and Catherine, but again, that doesn't mean much, only a fraction of abuse in the church reaches the news and the C of E try hard to prevent it. As I have witnessed. One case I witnessed was so high profile, so serious, but the fact that the prolific paedophile was a church officer and worked with the church's children was forcibly omitted. This case was part of the root of my decision to abandon the Anglican Church. 

All I know about the Catherine case is what Catherine has told me. And the Diocese were apparently made aware but the cases were 80s, 90s and earlier, when complaints were even less well received than they are now, indeed the relative who was allegedly afraid for speaking up, was afraid of the church itself. He believed himself to be in danger from the church for speaking up. He apparently carried a camera with him to photo anyone who attempted on his life, this was before mobile phones or camcorders or body worn cameras etc. 

It is an elusive and misty case, which touched me briefly and chilled me, and yet I know very little, and Catherine was deteriorating when I met her, so I don't know what became of her or what might have happened with that church.