I’m from Luton. This place is a rite of passage for everyone in the local area. Thankyou for sharing. Planning to visit myself soon. Currently staying with my girlfriend in Essex and we visited “ANNE FREEMAN” the witches grave and tomorrow visiting “The Holy Cross Church In Basildon” supposedly haunted by “The Red Monk”.
That sounds really cool it’s great to find places and if they have a back story such as a witch you can really bring it to life. Thanks for watching enjoy the rest of your week.
In the late 90s, when I was a teenager, my friends and I went there. We thought we saw a ghost, so my friend threw a can of beer at it. The ghost burped.
I first went there in the late 80s when I was about 18, you could drive right up to it then. I remember there were a couple of cars there, with people sitting in them holding candles. It was a bit spooky then, but when I went back a few years ago it seemed a bit tame really.
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The first time I visited was around Spring of 1990. It was back in the boy racer days, where we'd stand around chatting, next minute we'd be in the cars off to some random location we'd picked. There was 6 cars in total and 8 people, a couple of cars had passengers. When we got there we all drove up to the top of the hill, and managed to squeeze all the cars in. When my brother and my mate got out they said, when driving up the hill, they see a noose tied to a tree and two hooded people standing next to it. 'Yeah right' we all said and took the pee. We made our way into the church yard, and once in we found quite a few people in hoods, they were around our age, late teens early twenties. One approached a mate of mine, and said something. Dunno what he said but a few of my mates got spooked and started back to the cars. So the rest of us followed. Within a week my car and the other five either had slight accidents or their stereo's pinched. Which we all found very weird as it was only mine and my mates cars that had made that trip. The second visit was again around Spingtime in 1992. Me and a mate went up with a couple of girls. Once we'd parked and got out, walked in, I swore I saw something block the light that was shining through the bell tower opening. This time we all got spooked and left. A week later, I had an accident with a window, which severed my forearm and the tendons. So from this point I was like, I am never going up there again. Fast forward to 1995, was sitting in a pub with my mate and a couple of girls and one of them said about going. I said nope.....but one of them said maybe its because you didn't walk out backwards. I said I hadn't, as walking backwards wasn't really my thing 😂. I got my arm twisted and we went. Nothing happened whilst up there, and we walked out backwards, and nothing happened afterwards. Coincidence's, I'm not sure. I love anything to do with the Paranormal, more so now I'm older.
What I had always heard is you must say goodbye and you leave everything behind if you don’t it can come and be with you whatever that might be. It’s a fascinating place and I will return at some point 👍
This guy doesn’t believe that if you stand on every 16 stone you’re gonna end up, falling in a big hole going to hell there’s certainly is no flies on this man
@@RobwithScoobyScooby There is a pic of it in 1976 online under ''Clophill History''... My friend told me about it and one snowy winter's afternoon we went up there.. It wasn't anything like as manicured as it is now, as you can see by the pic in the article. But the 1970's was a different era..that was a harsh winter.
@@RobwithScoobyScooby It was good to hear you say that you wouldn't walk on the Graves of 'The Glorious Dead' - Our Servicemen - They definitely deserve our Respect and gratitude.
@@Oakleaf700 brought up in a different era when respect and honesty actually ment something, a coffin goes past in the street I take my cap 🧢 off and lower my head .
Lots of paranormal activity up there, went up there when I was young and we toke some pictures uploaded them that night and one particular picture I was covered in orbs the very next day went too said picture too find it had been blacked out completely with a few others never in my life have I experience what I felt that day and it put the shivers up me !!
certainly get what your saying its that sense that something is not right , your own body reactions won't lie to you , what i don't know but something is there from the moment you start the climb and you get the Eerie Silence .
You spoke about the skull the kids found this was still happening up until at least 15yrs ago when I visited I remember there being skulls left around the place and candles etc and this was way before they had done the renovation work and moved all the gravestones, the very back right hand corner as you go through the front gates those graves under the trees are heavily haunted..
Interesting church and story, saying goodbye is pretty stupid. In no way shape or form will that stop anything from following you. Anyway, thanks for the video.
I swear that tower had no floor on it an had half the walls missing at top! Well that's what i remember, ws stoned wen we went multiple times, my mate didn't believe in ghosts so i challenged him to sleep the night in his car on own near church, he refused it proving he believes
It’s pretty iconic, if you get it right as it gets dark with a rising fog and a fox or two screaming in the fields it really freaks you out, will certainly return to it , thanks for watching hope you have a great week.
Used to go there all the time most off the time at night, Once see a person shape mist, It seemed to move like a person and came from behind the church on the right hand side, always give me the creeps. You don't hear much wildlife at night and makes it even more creepy, It used to be in a poor state and and they fixed it up a bit, Somebody else I know sware they see a face in the top window it freeked us we didnt see it but they was really freaked out, Haven't been up there for years looks like they fixed it up even more doesnt and looks as spooky.
@@RobwithScoobyScooby There used to be a derelict church near Hitchin hidden away that used to have a bit of a rep amounst the locals, Tales of bells ringing and things like that, Used to be able to get to it 30 years ago, But its been long forgotten now might not even be there now. ClopHill has creepy vibe try walking from the top of the track to the bottom to the road, Thats when you really feel an odd sense of isolation even though you know there is houses not far. And you used to get all sorts of strange people up there at times like summer solstace.
@@necronix9947 I know of and vlogged minstead chapel also out that way I think is cold Christmas tower, dropped a load of pins on places still to explore 👍
@@RobwithScoobyScooby Been to cold Christmas a couple of times, Was a very long time ago, back then you could go inside of it and wasn't that hard to get to, The church itself was pretty much intact although did have a lot of cans and stuff in it, rumours of occult goings on and stuff like that but was around 2004 last time I was that way. The one near Hitchin wa hidden away was hard to get to not even sure its there any more been that long I wouldn't remember how to get there.
@@RobwithScoobyScooby You might also want to google "Datchworth: The haunted Hertfordshire village that has 'spooks galore" if you are ever coming back this way, Their even said have a ghost of a murdered highway man and as many as 20 Ghosts in the village as well a 12th century church with a witches hat! Its close to Stevenage so is not hard to get to.
Who you gonna call? The AA you muppet, your oil needs topping up ;) Joking aside, I know this place well, very atmospheric at night with a fog bank rolling down the road towards you. I saw something strange there. But the rumour is that the story and occurrences were all the invention of a local priest...
Yep your right with the oil but why right then lol . I really want to revisit on a cold foggy and possibly deep frosty day the place certainly has some interesting and bizarre stories. Thanks for watching and take the pee 🤣 have a fantastic weekend 👍
@@RobwithScoobyScooby did you ever go to Segenhoe (Ridgemont)? Not as spectacular as it's right next to the road but that has regular fog banks by the Church.
@@shh_you_are_wrong yep I have filmed there , it’s starting to collapse in on itself but got in again as someone left the fence door open 🫣 I don’t know if it’s the Brook at the back or rabbit’s but the graves have risen up .
@@RobwithScoobyScooby hand on heart, I drove to Segenhoe years ago, to see the church at night with a mate. There was a thick fog bank across the road, and when I'd driven through it I looked in my rear view mirror and saw figures facing the back of the car. We didn't get out, I drove up the road and turned around, the figures had gone so I drove back the way I went in; when I looked in the mirror they were there again. I haven't been back since. Strange place.
@@shh_you_are_wrong now that is something I actually don’t mind as you don’t hear stories of anyone being harmed, knowing my luck it would be a group of doggers 🤣 sometimes there are explanations other times not and that’s when the folklore sets in as it can’t be dismissed.
i think when they make these places safe for future generations they destroy so much of the original splendor and character , thanks for watching have a great weekend
I dare say but no ghouls or spooks my nan tried to convince me of all this in the seventies.saying that we did live in a very very weird house in the early seventies two of my brothers think they witnessed something and a clock flew off fireplace across room so hey you never know.
@@nellyt2807 I believe if it gives people peace or hope , I am in no way shape or form a man of faith but hold onto the thought that hopefully there might be for everyone, hope you and yours have a wonderful new year.
I’m from Luton. This place is a rite of passage for everyone in the local area. Thankyou for sharing. Planning to visit myself soon. Currently staying with my girlfriend in Essex and we visited “ANNE FREEMAN” the witches grave and tomorrow visiting “The Holy Cross Church In Basildon” supposedly haunted by “The Red Monk”.
That sounds really cool it’s great to find places and if they have a back story such as a witch you can really bring it to life. Thanks for watching enjoy the rest of your week.
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I feel that laying those head stones for people to walk on is disrespectful! 😮
Couldn’t get my head around why it was done, call it respect or superstition it is wrong on so many levels 👍
In the late 90s, when I was a teenager, my friends and I went there. We thought we saw a ghost, so my friend threw a can of beer at it. The ghost burped.
🤣🤣🤣brilliant
I first went there in the late 80s when I was about 18, you could drive right up to it then. I remember there were a couple of cars there, with people sitting in them holding candles. It was a bit spooky then, but when I went back a few years ago it seemed a bit tame really.
Hi buddy, it’s still a great spot to visit, thinking I would love it in the fog
I heard about this place in my teens back in the 1980's. It was quite famous around Bedfordshire then. Never been myself though. Good video.
Thank you , it’s really quite spooky visiting by yourself, beautifully preserved I will return at night at some point just to satisfy my curiosity.
Great to find you
@@CandySoulAndSoil likewise will have a good look at your content later, I have put content that might be of interest to you in my playlists hope you enjoy 👍
The first time I visited was around Spring of 1990. It was back in the boy racer days, where we'd stand around chatting, next minute we'd be in the cars off to some random location we'd picked. There was 6 cars in total and 8 people, a couple of cars had passengers. When we got there we all drove up to the top of the hill, and managed to squeeze all the cars in. When my brother and my mate got out they said, when driving up the hill, they see a noose tied to a tree and two hooded people standing next to it. 'Yeah right' we all said and took the pee. We made our way into the church yard, and once in we found quite a few people in hoods, they were around our age, late teens early twenties. One approached a mate of mine, and said something. Dunno what he said but a few of my mates got spooked and started back to the cars. So the rest of us followed. Within a week my car and the other five either had slight accidents or their stereo's pinched. Which we all found very weird as it was only mine and my mates cars that had made that trip. The second visit was again around Spingtime in 1992. Me and a mate went up with a couple of girls. Once we'd parked and got out, walked in, I swore I saw something block the light that was shining through the bell tower opening. This time we all got spooked and left. A week later, I had an accident with a window, which severed my forearm and the tendons. So from this point I was like, I am never going up there again. Fast forward to 1995, was sitting in a pub with my mate and a couple of girls and one of them said about going. I said nope.....but one of them said maybe its because you didn't walk out backwards. I said I hadn't, as walking backwards wasn't really my thing 😂. I got my arm twisted and we went. Nothing happened whilst up there, and we walked out backwards, and nothing happened afterwards. Coincidence's, I'm not sure. I love anything to do with the Paranormal, more so now I'm older.
What I had always heard is you must say goodbye and you leave everything behind if you don’t it can come and be with you whatever that might be. It’s a fascinating place and I will return at some point 👍
That’s so strange, the same happened to me , I was 27 miles away and my fuel light came on it said 10 miles till empty. Explain that 😬
Car maintenance is not my strong point it just a cool coincidence that it happened then and not at any other time. 🫣🤔🍻
This guy doesn’t believe that if you stand on every 16 stone you’re gonna end up, falling in a big hole going to hell there’s certainly is no flies on this man
Never counted how many there actually were, not for me to believe or disbelieve my position was to bring the story across 👍
I saw this church briefly when a boyfriend lived nearby at Ampthill in the late 70's as a teenager.
they have done a lot of work to preserve it , id say it was prob better in the 70's
@@RobwithScoobyScooby It was a lot wilder, for sure...I was terrified, as the place had a really bad reputation back then {1978}
@@RobwithScoobyScooby There is a pic of it in 1976 online under ''Clophill History''... My friend told me about it and one snowy winter's afternoon we went up there.. It wasn't anything like as manicured as it is now, as you can see by the pic in the article. But the 1970's was a different era..that was a harsh winter.
@@RobwithScoobyScooby It was good to hear you say that you wouldn't walk on the Graves of 'The Glorious Dead' - Our Servicemen - They definitely deserve our Respect and gratitude.
@@Oakleaf700 brought up in a different era when respect and honesty actually ment something, a coffin goes past in the street I take my cap 🧢 off and lower my head .
Ain't ben there since the early 90s. Used to get stoned up there and bring girlfriends
Sounds like fun 🤩
i spent many hours at clophill church i took lots of photos too
Love it there need to do it on a foggy day
Lots of paranormal activity up there, went up there when I was young and we toke some pictures uploaded them that night and one particular picture I was covered in orbs the very next day went too said picture too find it had been blacked out completely with a few others never in my life have I experience what I felt that day and it put the shivers up me !!
Also the church is known too be built the wrong way round.
certainly get what your saying its that sense that something is not right , your own body reactions won't lie to you , what i don't know but something is there from the moment you start the climb and you get the Eerie Silence .
You spoke about the skull the kids found this was still happening up until at least 15yrs ago when I visited I remember there being skulls left around the place and candles etc and this was way before they had done the renovation work and moved all the gravestones, the very back right hand corner as you go through the front gates those graves under the trees are heavily haunted..
@@tezza907 thank you for sharing this i thought the skull being found was a one off didn't know there had been other events and in more modern times 👍
Interesting church and story, saying goodbye is pretty stupid. In no way shape or form will that stop anything from following you. Anyway, thanks for the video.
it's one of them old folklore things , thanks for watching 👍
I spend a lot of time here! It’s the most peaceful place ever
I need to get back and will do soon to get away from it all 👍
Happy Birthday! 😁
Thank you
I swear that tower had no floor on it an had half the walls missing at top! Well that's what i remember, ws stoned wen we went multiple times, my mate didn't believe in ghosts so i challenged him to sleep the night in his car on own near church, he refused it proving he believes
It’s pretty iconic, if you get it right as it gets dark with a rising fog and a fox or two screaming in the fields it really freaks you out, will certainly return to it , thanks for watching hope you have a great week.
There is actually an ice cream van goes up there in the summer
If I knew at time of filming you could drive up there it would have saved a pretty long uphill walk.
Google earth ?
@@davebayliss3142 road only went as far as the row of houses this was two years ago in February
Used to go there all the time most off the time at night, Once see a person shape mist, It seemed to move like a person and came from behind the church on the right hand side, always give me the creeps. You don't hear much wildlife at night and makes it even more creepy, It used to be in a poor state and and they fixed it up a bit, Somebody else I know sware they see a face in the top window it freeked us we didnt see it but they was really freaked out, Haven't been up there for years looks like they fixed it up even more doesnt and looks as spooky.
The old church at segenhoe had so much more to it and looked more of a spooky place but doesn’t have the iconic status , I must go again.
@@RobwithScoobyScooby There used to be a derelict church near Hitchin hidden away that used to have a bit of a rep amounst the locals, Tales of bells ringing
and things like that, Used to be able to get to it 30 years ago, But its been long forgotten now might not even be there now. ClopHill has creepy vibe try walking
from the top of the track to the bottom to the road, Thats when you really feel an odd sense of isolation even though you know there is houses not far. And you
used to get all sorts of strange people up there at times like summer solstace.
@@necronix9947 I know of and vlogged minstead chapel also out that way I think is cold Christmas tower, dropped a load of pins on places still to explore 👍
@@RobwithScoobyScooby Been to cold Christmas a couple of times, Was a very long time ago, back then you could go inside of it
and wasn't that hard to get to, The church itself was pretty much intact although did have a lot of cans and stuff in it, rumours of occult
goings on and stuff like that but was around 2004 last time I was that way. The one near Hitchin wa hidden away was hard to get to not
even sure its there any more been that long I wouldn't remember how to get there.
@@RobwithScoobyScooby You might also want to google "Datchworth: The haunted Hertfordshire village that has 'spooks galore" if you are ever coming back this way, Their even said have a ghost of a murdered highway man and as many as 20 Ghosts in the village as well a 12th century church with a witches hat! Its close to Stevenage so is not hard to get to.
Last time I tried to drive up there I got turned away from the police lol
Is it true this site is locked and alarmed at night?
Unfortunately yes there is cctv in operation also
interesting dark figure moves past at the back of the graves 10:43 yet i was the only person there !
Nah that’s so creepy!
Omg!
Who you gonna call?
The AA you muppet, your oil needs topping up ;)
Joking aside, I know this place well, very atmospheric at night with a fog bank rolling down the road towards you.
I saw something strange there.
But the rumour is that the story and occurrences were all the invention of a local priest...
Yep your right with the oil but why right then lol .
I really want to revisit on a cold foggy and possibly deep frosty day the place certainly has some interesting and bizarre stories.
Thanks for watching and take the pee 🤣 have a fantastic weekend 👍
@@RobwithScoobyScooby did you ever go to Segenhoe (Ridgemont)? Not as spectacular as it's right next to the road but that has regular fog banks by the Church.
@@shh_you_are_wrong yep I have filmed there , it’s starting to collapse in on itself but got in again as someone left the fence door open 🫣 I don’t know if it’s the Brook at the back or rabbit’s but the graves have risen up .
@@RobwithScoobyScooby hand on heart, I drove to Segenhoe years ago, to see the church at night with a mate.
There was a thick fog bank across the road, and when I'd driven through it I looked in my rear view mirror and saw figures facing the back of the car.
We didn't get out, I drove up the road and turned around, the figures had gone so I drove back the way I went in; when I looked in the mirror they were there again.
I haven't been back since.
Strange place.
@@shh_you_are_wrong now that is something I actually don’t mind as you don’t hear stories of anyone being harmed, knowing my luck it would be a group of doggers 🤣 sometimes there are explanations other times not and that’s when the folklore sets in as it can’t be dismissed.
No where near as good as it used to be. But I guess people ruin these places otherwise.
A nice walk round though
i think when they make these places safe for future generations they destroy so much of the original splendor and character , thanks for watching have a great weekend
I live in Townshott
The great thing about that is you can wake up one morning see that it’s foggy and travel up to an even more spooky clophill.
The only thing that inhabits that church is spiders and other bugs .
You forgot squirrels and bunnies they were certainly about and the odd bird or two 👍
I dare say but no ghouls or spooks my nan tried to convince me of all this in the seventies.saying that we did live in a very very weird house in the early seventies two of my brothers think they witnessed something and a clock flew off fireplace across room so hey you never know.
@@nellyt2807 I believe if it gives people peace or hope , I am in no way shape or form a man of faith but hold onto the thought that hopefully there might be for everyone, hope you and yours have a wonderful new year.