Truth Proof Report 269 ~ Green man?

2010, Huddersfield area

Dear Paul.

Regarding my experiences involving the green man in Yorkshire I will first give you some background information which could try and give some meaning to these experiences.

Years ago I tried to find myself spiritually and became very interested in connecting with nature.

Having read numerous books and articles and talking to people who who were according to them spiritual and connected to nature I began my own journey. At the time I was quite unhappy with where my life was heading and sought peace in a local woodland which had a reputation of having a RAKE which lived in it. For years I had been warned about the RAKE by lots of people when I told them I was going walking it this woodland. I didn't take much notice to be honest but it always remained in the back of my mind. This woodland is in 3 sections with a farmed field between the first and second section and a thin meadow between the second and third. Since a very young age I had always been interested in nature And still am very familiar with birds animals and other flora. To get into this woodland you have to walk down a lovely meadow which slopes downhill to a style. As my journey of connecting to nature progressed, I became more in tune with it all and walking down the meadow to the woods I would get a feeling of being watched by the woodland. I would always say hello and say I mean no harm and I was only visiting. I was basically asking permission to enter.

Every time I visited, which was about once a week, I would perform this little ritual and gradually it felt I was accepted and even welcomed. Over time I began to experience some strange things.

There is a steam that runs through the beginning of the first woodland, and there I could sense being watched. To the left it felt as though I was being watched by something always just out of sight; to the right it felt a little more welcoming up to a point. After that, about 100m further, the atmosphere would change to the point that I felt I was most definitely not welcome, and I would get away from there sharpish.

Over time I began to hear things in this area of woodland which felt were OK. I would hear voices very faintly saying things like "hey over here, over here", but only very faintly as though something was trying to get my attention. These voices were coming from all around and they weren't the breeze in the leaves either.

I wasn't scared or anything like that, but rather surprised and felt elated in a way as if the woodland was accepting me and showing me it was present and alive. As time went by I saw a few small sparkling orbs close to the ground which would show and dance and the then stop. I would investigate to check for insects or dew on the grass but that wasn't the cause. Now I am very familiar with fire flies as I used to see them when I lived abroad and these were definitely not them.

All this occurred on the first section of the woods. The second section was completely barren of any experiences, apart from one which came years later and may not be significant. Please don't think I'm some kind of nutter as I have only told a couple of people about the following:

So the first green man encounter is as follows. The third section of the woods (called Molly Carr Wood) is a strange place. It seems to be split in two as in one area is a normal pleasant woodland made up of a vast variety of trees. There is a stream which runs along. The other side is populated by large amounts of holly and dense undergrowth with lots of sycamore, oak and silver birch. It looks dark dense and oppressive.

I once tried to go through this side but felt I was being literally chased out by something dark and evil. To be honest it was frightening as though this thing or presence was really going to do me harm or worse if it caught me. I was literally running out of there through thickets of brambles and holly as fast as I could go, panicking that whatever was chasing me was going to get me. I'm no scaredikat but that really frightened me.

Now that area which felt fine and normal I used to visit very often but I never ever tried to go to the other dark side again. The reason I found the nice part is another story which is very important to me and would love to tell you about another time unless you throw this story in the bin.

So the green man -

I was on the good side of the stream, in what is known as Royd House Wood. I had walked down as far as I could go and walked back. I sat down in my usual spot to just chill out and think about nothing. Just taking in nature. After a while, I got up and started to walk back. To my left I had the feeling I was being watched. That was the bad side of the steam, so I kind of ignored it but the feeling became very intense. Now at the edge of the stream on that side there are obviously some large trees that there is no bad atmosphere from. It's deeper in where the bad intense feelings come from. I couldn't help but look over to where this feeling of being watched was. As I looked at a tree where the feeling was, a face materialised in the trunk. Now this was the face of the green man: as clear as anything and the eyes were looking straight at me.

I stopped and looked for maybe 20 seconds, trying to work out if it was just strange bark but it wasn't. I was quickly comparing it to other tree trunks and this was three dimensional. A face watching me!

But when I moved to walk further, its eyes followed me. I wasn't scared at all. It was as if I knew I was being shown something. I didn't know what to do really, so I carried on walking leaving it behind. Or so I thought. But just a few paces further along, I had the same feeling to look - which I did and there it was again on another tree trunk.

I stopped and for some reason I began to scan other trees and back to the face which was still just there looking at me. I decided it was time to go then not through fear but I just didn't know what was happening. I walked off and and as I went, I kept glancing and saw the face again on another couple of trees. At one point there were at least two, maybe three, faces looking at me at the same time.

Was this a nature spirit?. More than one nature spirit or elementals of some kind? Woodland elementals? I just don't know. I had the feeling I had been shown something that is not always seen or visible. I think I was shown for a reason.

I obviously went back a few times looking for the faces but never saw them again.

Now Paul I hope you find this slightly interesting and as I said I found that area of woodland through a very very strange experience which I could share with you if you wish. I warn you it's very strange. I had one more green man experience later which is shorter but different. I hope i haven't bored you.

Regards Jez .

Paul: Thanks for this really personal and interesting account. By all means send me your subsequent experience.