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The Cave of Kelpius
In the late 17th century, celebrated musician, doctor, astronomer, botanist, scholar and acclaimed occult leader, Johannes Kelpius retreated into the woods of the Wissahickon Valley with a group of like minded spirits. There they awaited the second coming and its subsequent set of Earth Changes. Unfortunately the end of the world never came and by the early 1700’s, the group had disbanded.
While it lasted, the Society of the Woman of the Wilderness (as they called themselves) was something very special. They were like the Druids of Stone Henge, 19th century trancendentalists, Mason offshots and general pagans all in one. They welcomed all people and were sought out by many non-hermit monks for their wisdom and guidance. And all of it happened in the very same woods I’ve been exploring since I was a kid.
It’s the sort of thing I probably write a book about… but at this point I don’t know a whole hell of a lot about the Society. Until I learn more and in the meantime, here are some pictures of the Cave of Kelpius. Liza and I visited the ‘cave’ this past Sunday morning.
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One last thing. In my brief internet research on the Kelpius Cave, I came across this site and photo. It was accompanied by the following text:
Well a few days later when I got the photos back from the photo lab one out of the four photos had something strange in it that gave me chills and haunts my dreams now.
In the one photo it looks likes a large cloud of smoke and at the bottom of the cloud is clearly the face of something that is not human. It sorta looks like one of those “gray aliens” I didn’t see anything when I was there taking the photos. I scanned up the photos for you to see.
I didn’t edit this photo in anyway. In this day and age where you can’t believe what you see I didn’t even want to adjust the brightness/contrast it’s totally untouched. It really spooked me. When I was at the cave I didn’t see anything but I didn’t feel like going in the cave.
…Thinking back, I just felt that I didn’t want to stay too long, it’s a strange place. I’m glad I didn’t go in the cave because that face was clearly looking at me.
Kelpius cave is little known but you can find more information on the web about this strange dooms day cult and it’s leader Johannes Kelpius.
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4 Comments
1. Sol replies at 31st October 2006, 10:32 am :
That photo is creepy. Smoke?
2. steve replies at 31st October 2006, 10:43 am :
tis the spirit of Kelpius… or smoke/fog. My visit was very pleasant.
3. mraff replies at 31st May 2007, 8:16 pm :
eeeeh, ride the trails back there, everytime i go by i look for that face, cool pic!
4. Jessie replies at 29th June 2007, 3:21 pm :
This is so creepy. I recently moved to the area and decided to take a hike with my roomate and dog and we came across this cave. I had no idea what it was at the time but I felt really creeped out. We kept walking but when we were on our way back I decided to look inside the cave and there was definatly a cloud of smoke just resting right inside of the cave. Seeing this picture is so freaky!
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