Its not always the most historic that are the most Haunted!

I am finding that the energies in England are much stronger than I have usually found myself encountering in Australia.
I don't know why but my physical reactions are much stronger.
I feel as though I am being pushed or shoved and the ghosts are walking through me in a much more aggressive way.
I mam enjoying the new experiences but am also aware of not freaking out my traveling companion by telling her every time I see of feel something.
Already, one night was a sleepless one for her as she jumped at every creak and sound in the room after I told her that I had heard a lady singing through the walls in the old Masonic Lodge where we had been staying.

But here the energies are so strong everywhere - so many sacred sites that pagans have prayed at and held ritual at for so many years.
I know that in Australia the sacred sites of the aboriginals are older, of course - but many of their stories are theirs and are not shared. Their sites are distant and those white men have got their hands on have been mostly totally disregarded and destroyed so for me it has been an experience to go to wells and shrines that I can sit at and enjoy.

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