Steve Palace

The sleepy English village of Ravenswood has always been a mystical place; tales of ghosts, ley-lines, fairies and the devil have all been part of the villages heritage for over a thousand years. But nothing prepared the villagers for one summers day in the mid nineteen sixties; an alleged UFO abduction of a local farmer catapulted the village into a mecca for conspiracy theorists, paranormal investigators and new age gurus. And now, with the UFO allegedly returning to the village, a tribal conflict is brewing between the local residents and the spiritual pirates who have invaded their green and pleasant land.

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