A SMALL SELECTION OF PREVIOUS AND FUTURE RADIO / TELEVISION APPEARANCES PLUS MEDIA ARTICLES
DUE FOR RELEASE IN OCTOBER 2010
BOOK FEATURING ARK 666Y
MORE UPDATES SOON
DUE 2011
2011 WILL BE A BUSY YEAR
MANY MORE FILM SHOOTS ARE ORGANISED
PLUS THE CAR WILL BE ON VIEW AT VARIOUS EVENTS AROUND THE UK
A DVD AND BOOK ARE ALSO IN PRODUCTION
DURING THE WEEK 21st TO 25th JUNE 2010
RICHARD FELIX - (EX: "MOST HAUNTED")
AND PRODUCTION CREW CAME TO EASTBOURNE AND FILMED THE CAR
WE WITNESSED SOME VERY STRANGE OCCURRENCES THAT WERE ACTUALLY FILMED
MORE NEWS SOON AS CURRENTLY STILL IN PRODUCTION
FEBRUARY 2010
FEATURED IN THE PARANORMAL WATCH
WHICH IS THE UK BRITISH PARANORMAL ASSOCIATION'S ONLINE MAGAZINE
(JUST AFTER OUR INTERVIEW THE UKBPA HAD HUGE UNEXPLAINED PROBLEMS WITH THEIR WEBSITE!)
28/12/07
FEATURED IN CANADA'S NATIONAL POST NEWSPAPER
2007
FEATURED IN A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CURSES
ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL - WORLDWIDE
12/01/2003
THE FOLLOWING WAS IN THE SUNDAY TIMES
Number of the Beast
KJ and his spooky CapriEven Exorcism has failed to rid a Ford Capri of its devils, writes James Foxall.
If you sneer at the supernatural and can always find a rational reason for things going bump in the night, it’s a safe bet that you don’t believe in ghosts. KJ used to be just so sceptical of the spirit world until six years ago.
Everyone has the odd bit of bad luck, but since then KJ has suffered enough misfortune for a lifetime of running over black cats, walking under ladders and breaking mirrors.
In January 1997 he bought a 1982 Ford Capri, registration ARK 666Y. Cars that have towed it have broken down, the relationships of people who have worked on it have collapsed, cameramen filming it have dropped their equipment, KJ even claims to have seen shadowy figures in this house and around the car.
“Some of the things that have happened must be coincidence, but there have been an awful lot of them,” says the 46-year-old businessman from Eastbourne, East Sussex.
“The warning signs were there at the beginning. The day I took delivery we had the worst snow storm I’d ever seen in Sussex. Then the mechanic I took it to for an MoT initially refused to work on the car because he said that with ARK from the bible and 666 being the sign of the devil the registration number signified the fight of god against evil.”
After picking the car up, KJ put it in his garage and turned off the engine. As he shut the garage door he heard the motor running again. “I put the key back in and turned it on and off but I’m sure I’d done that already and it had restarted itself.”
The most chilling experience however, came just after he’d moved into a new house: “I was working late and I suddenly felt uneasy. I looked up and saw the rear view of a head and shoulders disappear straight through a solid wood lounge door. About 10 minutes later I saw the face of a woman staring at me.
“I had taken the battery out of the Capri and it was charging right by the lounge door. I really considered destroying the car them.
“Another time, I had a cameraman in the car doing a piece for German TV when suddenly the temperature dropped by a couple of degrees and the interior mirror fell off. He refused to get back in.” On another occasion, when discussing selling the car with his girlfriend, KJ was struck by lightening. He was inside the house at the time, but says he was flung into the air by the blast. When a photo of the car was left next to his son’s fish tank, the fish died overnight.
There have been so many eerie occurrences that KJ called in the priest, television presenter and Ghost Club member Lionel Fanthorpe to perform an exorcism. During the procedure the priest felt his holy water warm up.
“I’ve performed many exorcisms over the years but this is the only one where that happened,” says Fanthorpe.
Earlier this year KJ took a friend with a spare battery to get the Capri started. As he connected the battery the engine started to turn over. KJ recalls: “I shouted at my mate that I wasn’t ready and I saw him launching himself from the driver’s seat. At the same time, I saw a woman disappearing through a nearby bush. My friend said he hadn’t touched the ignition and he’d jumped out because he smelt perfume and saw a woman sitting in the back.”
The phantasmic Ford has also led to KJ receiving some strange requests. “I’ve been approached several times by people wanting to hire the car for a couple of hours in order to conceive the devil’s child. And there was a sect in America that wanted to buy the car in order to put their recently departed leader in the rear seat and bury both in a large pit.”
Despite an offer of £10,000 he won’t be selling the Capri just yet. “I want to find out why these things keep happening.”
Nor will he be scrapping it and transferring the registration to another vehicle. The last time he swapped the number plates his then partner’s Toyota Celica blew its exhaust pipe apart within 10 minutes.
02/12/2002
FEATURED ON THE 5th GEAR PROGRAMME ON CHANNEL FIVE
NOVEMBER 2000
FEATURED IN CLASSIC FORD MAGAZINE
27/10/2000
FEATURED IN EASTBOURNE HERALD
SEPTEMBER 2000
FEATURED IN THE BOOK "DEATH THE FINAL MYSTERY" BY LIONEL FANTHORPE
13/08/2000
FEATURED IN SUNDAY PEOPLE NEWSPAPER -- PAGE 30
10/08/2000
THE CAR WAS FEATURED ON "MOTORING MADNESS" ITV NETWORK
(FILMED IN JUNE 2000)
JULY 2000
FEATURED IN FHM MAGAZINE -- PAGE 164
MONDAY 20/03/2000
ON MERIDIAN TELEVISION IN "CYBER CAFE"
NEWS OF THE FIRST ARK 666Y WEB SITE ENTITLED "BEACHYHEAD.FREESERVE.CO.UK"
JANUARY 2000
THE FOLLOWING WAS IN THE EVENING ARGUS
TAKING A NEW LOOK @ LIFE
THE Internet revolution has transformed the world of business and commerce. But, as LAURA ELSTON reports, it has also helped change the life of a man from Sussex.
Internet tradesman KJ failed to realise when he used the web to transform his business it would let loose an evil force which had been lurking in his garage.
KJ runs a website from his home in Eastbourne where he operates a business buying and selling number plates.
His car may just look like a battered purple Ford Capri to the unsuspecting but the Devil Car with its ARK 666Y number plate is being blamed for a reign of terror.
And when he launched his site for ARK 666Y in April last year, at beachyhead.freeserve.co.uk, Beachy Head suffered its biggest cliff fall to date, six bombs were washed ashore and the lighthouse stopped working.
For KJ this was enough to verify the bizarre and spooky events which had plagued him and his friends since the car came into his possession back in 1997 - including being hit by lightning.
He explained how a man first asked him to buy the Capri in 1996 because "his neighbours didn't like it because it was bringing bad luck" but they didn't finalise the £150 deal until early the next year.
He said: "He drove it down from Chatham and there was a huge snowstorm but when I met him he left as quickly as he arrived.
"But then I asked my driver to take it to the garage and he refused, so I drove it to a mechanic and he wouldn't work on it because of the number plate.
"Eventually I got another mechanic to work on it and to this day he swears he heard a woman's voice in it and another friend I have known for 25 years got in the car and swears blind she saw a lady's face in the back of the car and ran off up the road."
He added: "At this point I contacted the high priest of British Witches to explain to me exactly what significance ARK 666Y had. He explained that ARK comes from the bible and 666 comes from the 'beast'."
But from then on things only got worse - KJ and his friend were struck by lightning and the brakes on the car caught fire without explanation.
And when KJ moved the Capri to a different lock-up garage, a shed only 20 yards away burnt to the ground - after setting fire to the roof of the block of garages the car was in.
He said: "At first I didn't believe all the superstition and thought it was a bit silly, but so many things have happened now. People do have bad luck when they come into contact with the car."
His website now has a whole section devoted to the car and its antics, but just to avoid the backlash affecting his business he plans to separate ARK 666Y in its own site - to protect his clients.
KJ's story is soon to be featured in the new series of Meridian's Cyber Cafe.
Presented by Richard Orford and Claire Anderson, it begins on January 24.
DECEMBER 1999
THE FOLLOWING WAS IN SKY MAGAZINE
When The Exorcist first hit cinema screens, its young star Linda Blair gave the term 'she's a head-turner' a horrifying new meaning. With its gruesome special effects and chilling premise, this tale of a young girl possessed by a malevolent spirit had cinema audiences fainting in the aisles on its release in 1973.
Showing this month on Sky Premier for the first time on British television, The Exorcist was, until recently, believed by British censors to be too psychologically disturbing to be shown on the small screen, a fact that has only served to enhance the movie's controversial reputation. The Exorcist remains embedded in the mind of even the most sceptical cinemagoer. Sky film critic Barry Norman admits it remains the only film to date that raised hairs on the back of his neck after leaving the cinema.
"Our fascination with The Exorcist is that it epitomises the struggle between good and evil, and that the struggle can be inside any one of us," says Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, a paranormal investigator who has carried out his own exorcisms in his professional capacity as a man of the cloth.
"Of course, the film goes way beyond any exorcism or anything a 20th-century exorcist has seen. It was extremely entertaining - but what I find disturbing about the film is the way in which the power of evil seems to overflow. Good is having a very narrow victory."
Driving force
Even so, Fanthorpe himself has often been called to purify a home or meet individuals who believe themselves to be the focal point for some sinister force.
" I've always felt like a doctor who is called in to convince a patient that there really is nothing wrong with them," says Fanthorpe, who most recently was called to exorcise a possessed Ford Capri. "This guy believed that the car was, in some way, possessed by Aleister Crowley, the infamous black magician; Crowley identified with the number of the beast, 666, which happened to be the number plate of the car. I blessed some water from the tap, sprinkled it inside the car, said a few prayers of exorcism and the water actually got hot - not hot enough to burn my fingers, but hot enough, like a cup of tea.
"On my way home on the train we were halted by a juddering crash. Vandals had tossed something on the line. I felt that if I had inconvenienced the evil spirit, it was going to do the same to me."
Superstitions aside, advances in thinking have spawned a generation of people now less inclined to believe in malevolent forces. But Fanthorpe says that these forces are still relevant to the modem world. "In the 20th century, the idea of being possessed by evil spirits has been used to explain mental illness, the negative power of the imagination and the possibility that evil forces exist," he says. "If Jesus believed these forces existed, then I'm not going to argue with my guv'nor. He's a lot cleverer than I am !"
JULY 31st 1999
THE FOLLOWING WAS IN THE DAILY MIRROR
A MOTORIST who bought a car with the number plate ARK 666Y called in an exorcist to banish the evil spirit which he claims has caused a catalogue of disasters. Terrified businessman KJ asked the Anglican priest to bless the 16-year-old Ford Capri yesterday. He said the coupe had brought him nothing but bad luck since he bought it 18 months ago. He added: "I've been told the number plate is causing conflict between good and evil. The letters ARK battle with 666 - the number of the beast. Friends won't travel in the car because of Images of a woman with burning eyes staring from the rear-view mirror. And Fergie, his pet goldfish, died suddenly after pictures of the Capri were left by his bowl overnight. The final straw came on Monday as he discussed selling the purple devil car with his girlfriend - and was struck by lightning. KJ, of Eastbourne, Sussex, said: "That freaked me out so I sent for exorcist Father Lionel Fanthorpe."
Since buying the car for just £150 from a man desperate to sell it, KJ has had the worst year of his life. He'd had the rogue Capri less than 24 hours when:
IT failed its MOT three times after rust spots mysteriously appeared.
A MECHANIC fled after it started to rock and he heard a woman's voice and began to switch itself on.
A SHED yards from where it was parked burst into flames - but the car was untouched.
KJ said: "But Monday night's storm did it for me. "I was talking about getting rid of it to my girlfriend Michelle when the house was hit by lightning. "I was flung nine inches in the air. I saw sparks coming out of my toes." Father Fanthorpe, 63, presenter of C4's Fortean TV, which reports spooky stories, said: "I prayed for assistance if it was a lost soul and told it to begone if it was evil. KJ and I both felt a sense of peace afterwards."
Visit the Web Site of LIONEL FANTHORPE.
Lionel is a very well known television personality and has featured in many of the "ARK 666Y" programmes and newspaper articles
