It is an interesting fact that legends and myths have an extremely long life. They live on through centuries and are either narrated or written about through generations even if just to keep our imaginations alive. As James Christensen says, “Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear we shall close an important door to the imagination.”

And so it has been for centuries. Legends and folktales not only open up the door to our imagination but also to some form of human history and civilisation. Not to mention, that quite a few of them, even though exaggerated or distorted by time, do have their roots in true events.

In Somerset, England, up on a cone shaped hill is Glastonbury Tor, an old mediaeval monastery which has so many stories and mysteries attached to it that even today, researchers are baffled at the stories and experiences that people have told regarding this rundown monument. Amongst the many strange phenomena attached to it are that it is a fairy hill, an entrance to theunderworld and the legendary island of Avalon, where King Arthur was buried.

Author Nicholas Mann, wrote a book about the intriguing stories regarding the place in The Secret Energies of Glastonbury Tor.

This interesting site, aside from being the world famous location of The Glastonbury rock music festival, attended by more than 180,000 visitors that camp there for three days, has enough energy going around even without the tales attached to it.

But there are so many legends and mysteries attached to this Tor on top of a spiral, natural looking hill that one cannotdisregard what people have experienced there. Firstly, it is argued that the natural-looking spiral hill is manmade as it is quite systematically made. It has not only steps to ascend but was made like a maze so that unwanted people, negative energies or spirits could not climb it. If that sounds strange, so are the accounts of people who have witnessed not just unique kind of lights around the Tor and hill but also feeling of extreme fear and anxiety at certain points on the pathway that leads to the top.

It is said by reliable researchers that this is a spot where the ‘veil’ between worlds wears thin. To explain this most fascinating theory, there is a web of energy lines or grids around the Earth and even in space. There are certain times when these ‘ley’ lines, as they are called, are stronger than at other times. Moreover, Glastonbury Tor is on one of the many ‘ley’ lines that crisscross across England in which other mediaeval churches or old buildings have also been deliberately built over the past, includingStonehenge.

Researcher Dan Green has shared many personal experiences on his various visits to the Tor, including many notable writers and historians.

First of all, the site is old. The grassy spiral has been dated back as the third or second century. During those times, the entire land was full of marshes and water around this hill, which must have looked like a sentinel on an island. Moreover, a wooden pathway-like bridge has been discovered where once water and marshland must have made it difficult to climb the hill. This is called the Sweet Track. This ancient track is now known to be the oldest engineered road in the world, built in 3,800BC. Why would people want to take so much trouble to climb a lonely Hill?

Anyway, we want to know more about the strange goings on there. It is said that the wind sometimes is so strong that a group of monks were levitated in the air for several minutes. And some people have even been blown off from its top.

Dan Green states that the winds had stopped as he climbed the Hill in 1970. Suddenly out of nowhere a silver streak of light went from four feet above his head. Then what he saw is what many people report still seeing today, dots of lights dancing like ping pong balls at the top of the Tor. All this within a span of a few minutes!

Also, he writes that there was a certain spot while he was climbing where he felt a kind of fear, so intense that he could not move forward. It was as if he was powerless. The dots and a strange black smoky shadow did appear in the photographs that he took.

But of course, many have said that the pictures could have been altered in the age of Photoshop but so far no one has been able to prove them as fake.

Lights striking across the top of the hill and the strange ping pong ball kind of lights that appear according to stories have been reported not only by tourists and visitors, but also by an ex-Mayor of Glastonbury.

Historical records show that in 1911, some monks from the abbey declared that they had found the grave of the legendary King Arthur and his queen. Now King Arthur is said to have been injured in battle and taken by Morgan le Fay, a fairy witch to theIsland of Avalon to heal in its pure wealth of nature and energy where she lived. But Arthur did not return from there. Many people believe that such an island did exist and evidence points to the fact that Glastonbury was indeed the fabled Avalon.

Is Glastonbury Tor a place where there is a portal or doorway to other dimensions or unseen worlds? Are the many accounts of unexplained apparitions and strange visions by psychics true? Maybe a tour of the ‘Tor’ would reveal itself to someunsuspecting visitor.