Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Kintraw

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This place scared me.

I was driving back to Dingwall having spent the day in Kilmartin and intended to stop off and visit this site as I had ignored it on the way down in the morning, keen to get to Kilmartin itself.

It was November and late in the afternoon, so was pretty dark.
I came round the corner and there it was. Slowing the car down ready to pull in to the layby, I looked at the place and one of those 'bolts' of fear went right through me.
I was perfectly relaxed beforehand and had just spent a great day in Kilmartin, so there was no real reason for it. Just the look of it, in the fading light scared me to death.

These days I would force myself to go up to the monument (I've made a promise to myself regarding this 'fear' feeling that I get now and again at sites) but at the time there was absolutely no question about it - I wasn't going anywhere near it.
For whatever reason, at that particular moment, in that light, no one around, the stone and cairn together looked like one of the most menacing things i'd ever seen.

I slammed the clutch down, put it in gear and carried on driving back up North, but the image of it stayed in my mind all the way back as I tried to work out what it was that caused me to feel that way.
Maybe thats what you get for willfully ignoring the ancestors.

I'll visit next time. In the morning, probably.

I have had a similar feeling at at a few other sites.
My one and only visit to Dunnydeer RSC, an early visit to the Rollright Stones just after sunsrise (been many many times since with no issue), Assycombe Hill (Visited with a friend which made the feeling somewhat easier to deal with, but I think i'd have freaked out if on my own) and Bacombe Hill, a bowl barrow in Buckinghamshire. (Awful lot of B's there)

You seem to have had a good few lives Evergreen! The rollright stones, callanish and loch buie stone circles have all spooked me on moonless black nights as well, one night at callanish the place was loving and welcoming, the next horrible and oppressive and the next back to loving and welcoming, we left after this one, as i loved the place that much i wanted to leave on a nice note, something tried doing all it could to stop me getting to lock Buie one dark night, an invisible force even pushed me over, i thought if i could just get to the circle everything would be alright, it wasn't!!! as when i got there the terror increased, i left and when i went back in the morning the place felt bloody lovely, and whenever we've stayed at the rollright's with no moon, it always feels like something is following you when you leave the circle, i've just realised this is all very apt, seeing as hallowe'en is acoming.

This is pretty vaugue I am afraid!

I was carrying Sophie (as a baby) to a site (can't remember the name of it) and all was fine. But as we started to get near she started to cry for no apparent reason. The closer we got the worse she was. In fact she got so bad that I only got to within about 20m of the site before turning around and heading back to the car. Needless to say, the further we walked away the more settled she became and was back to normal by the time we got back to the car.

As for myself, I have never 'sensed' anything that has spooked me - other than looking over my shoulder for farmers when in places i shouldn't be!

I don't know what conclusions I could draw from either of our stories, but I do like thinking about the possibilities. Your story sounds frightening in the extreme and there are elements of it that I couldn't possibly hope to explain.

Its interesting in itself that you are more inclined to think of a past life connection and I'd probably be more inclinded to think of it as my brain adding together all sorts of 'data' - dark skies, 'mysterious' site, nobody around, a site of 'death' and put that together with perhaps my own fatigue, hunger etc etc and the brain comes up with something which acts as a 'warning' of sorts.

However, i'm not satisfied with thinking that way either. It 'makes sense' in a very logical sort of way but it doesn't 'feel' like necessarily the right reason for these feelings.

I find myself positioned somewhere between the two on subjects like this. I still haven't worked it out to my own satisfaction and probably never will but I love reading stuff like your above post, because it opens up other possibilities, and thats what I enjoy most - Considering everything from the plain or logical to the more elaborate things that ask you to take a leap of faith into a different kind of thinking, which can be hard for a lot of people.

Its pretty much what drives my love of prehistory i'd say, that combination.
I do have a feeling that the people who built and 'used' these monuments knew something rather important that a lot of us living now do not.
I can't defend that position, it's just a feeling.

I agree, That's why the happenings are strange, because of my past lives i'm not scarred of death, so am therefore not scarred of anything [apart from ending up cabbage like, but that's the same for everyone], and in these moments i do feel fear, that's why the memories stay so strong to me, i honestly claim to know about my past lives, but my reality is mine and everyone is different, with there own different realities, some will fit in with my beliefs others not, this doesn't make some right and others wrong, because there's parts of life so thick with mystery that they can all be right.

My strongest past life memory [i've had it from the start of this life] is been taken along a hedge and walking around the end of it, and it opening into a field with standing stones [it looked like Loch Buie again], i saw a man in Robes that i recognised [ he looked just like the archbishop of canterbury ], i thought i was safe and walked over to him, and the last thing i remember was him hitting me on the head with a neolithic battle axe, the next thing i remember was this life!

Bloody hell!

I'm genuinely interested (I think we've got past the point now where we're trying to prove something to eachother, thank gawd), in why you consider these memories or experiences to be definitely 'past lives'.

Have you been 'told' in some way, literally, or is it a feeling?

Also, could somebody elses opinion in any way change your thinking or are you absolutely 100% sure in yourself?

I'm only asking because as I said in my post above, I feel I sit somewhere in the middle. I feel I need to retain logic but I am also drawn to the supernatural and/or the illogical.

Or perhaps you don't consider 'past lives' to be supernatural or 'mysterious' but just genuinely part of a natural cycle? Part of being a human being or part of the workings of the planet were on, even?

Sorry Paul, lots of questions there. I'm really interested to know though.