I’ve been meaning to post the video here for a while, and I hope you enjoy this brief overfly of this ruined church near Bix in South Oxfordshire from earlier this month.
It’s a potentially spooky place and has featured in at least two movies, according to the Dark Oxfordshire web site, which has been kind enough to use and credit me for a couple of non-drone pictures of the place.
Apparently ‘interest in the ruined church spiked in 1925 when notable figures in the worlds of witchcraft and modern paganism began to take interest in it, and it became something of a site of pilgrimage.’ If there is a curse associated with the place, perhaps @Kirky was a victime, and yet the end result was a refurbished drone for an excellent price. The devil moves in mysterious ways …
The horror movies
The 1966 Hammer Horror film The Witches has a scene where an abandoned church is the scene of a black magic ritual involving human sacrifice. Dark Oxfordshire thinks this clip from the trailer uses the ruins as a location.
‘Blood on Satan’s Claw’ (1971) has a scene that appears to use the ruins, and interestingly the entire film seems to be available at no charge on YouTube. Dark Oxfordshire says it is an ‘influential folk horror classic’.
Speaking of influential folk horror classics, a year or so ago I flew at a location used in The Wicker Man - see Anwoth Old Kirk, Dumfries & Galloway.
