Today’s card is The Hanged Man from the Light Visions Tarot deck.
You may feel as though you’ve taken a step backwards. It’s as though everything was on the up for a while but then suddenly without warning, everything dropped and it feels like you’ve gone backwards. Use this time to reflect and plot your next step. There is a lesson to be learned from your current experience.
Today’s card is the King of Swords from the Light Visions Tarot deck.
Whether it’s a decision you need to make or a setback, you need to use logic to make your next move. Don’t make any decisions based purely on emotion. Try and take yourself out of the situation and work out what you’d advise someone to do if they were in your shoes. Don’t doubt your own intelligence, take some time to consider your options and take a rational decision.
Today’s card is The Chariot from the Light Visions Tarot deck
The journey you’re about to embark on will be filled with lots of ups and downs. You need to maintain your self confidence to end up at the correct destination. Don’t be discouraged by the setbacks and try not to give into self doubt, it is determination that will get you to your end goal, not luck!
Today’s card was picked from the Light Visions Tarot deck and we have the Five of Swords!
If you’re the kind of person who over thinks social interactions and conversations you had the day before, then you are probably not feeling good about a recent conversation you had that turned ugly. Instead of focusing on what you said, try to remember what they said! It’s time to look at it from their point of view, maybe an apology is in order.
I moved to Cleethorpes over a year ago but I’d not really explored it. I’d visited the beach and the shops but I felt like I hadn’t really got to know this seaside town as much as I should.
Yesterday, I went for a walk with a friend and was surprised when we came across this water tower and pond, I began taking pictures as it really stood out from the rest of the area. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t spotted it before. My friend who has lived here since he was a kid said that in the 1970s there was a rumour that the pond was bottomless and children were warned not to go near it. It sounded like an obvious ploy to stop children falling in the pond and drowning but still, there was something about that pond and that tower that felt a bit off. I got a strange feeling about it so when I went home, I did a little research.
I found that the pond is not actually bottomless and is infact 40 feet deep.
It was originally a brick pit owned and dug by Walwyn Thomas Chapman and his family from 1881 until it was abandoned in 1915 when it was closed down due to fears that the light from the fires of the clay kilns would result in unwanted attention from German Zeppelins. In 1904 the workmen hit an underground spring and were unable to stem the flow of water. The pit was then abandoned and was allowed to fill with water. It was fenced off and sold to the local waterworks company.
The Water Tower which stands next to the pond was built sometime around 1910. It was originally taller than it currently is. For reasons unknown the original top was replaced with the current one sometime prior to 1963.
Of course, you know where this is going, the pond and the tower are haunted!
According to the Facebook page which is dedicated to Chapman pond, there are a few ghost stories associated with the pond and the tower. In the early 1900s, a horse and cart accidentally fell in one night and both the horse and driver drowned. The ghost of the driver is said to still haunt its waters. Perhaps this was another reason why children were warned not to play near the pond; a ghostly cart driver might drag you into his watery resting place. Obviously that’s just a legend, right? Well not necessarily because a child actually did drown in the waters some time afterwards. Her ghost has been seen numerous times, crying out for help. Whenever someone goes to save the drowning girl, she vanishes. The tower is also haunted! There have been numerous sightings of a figure plunging from the top of the Water Tower.
In trying to research who these ghosts might have been when they were alive, I turned up nothing! There were plenty of stories but no names. Apparently many children have drowned in the pond but it’s only the ghost girl who is regularly spotted. It’s surprising that there are more myths and legends surrounding this little pond than there are about the beach which is only a few metres away, especially since there are plenty of actual news stories about people drowning in the Humber.
Since I can’t find any confirmation that anyone died in the pond or the water tower, I can’t really say whether it is actually haunted. They could be made up stories to stop kids going near it or they could be rumours that came about because of how creepy the tower looks. No matter what, it deserves to be explored and I will probably visit there again one night to look out for any ghost children or jumping figures, I am not expecting much but I’ll update you!
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