There is no mistaking the powerful elemental quality on the Tor. Please note this dragon can be calm and serene too. Many visitors to the Tor have had strange psychic experiences there including suddenly leaping into the air, feelings of weightlessness and disorientation, or disappearing into subterranean passages. In 1970 a police officer saw eight egg-shaped objects in formation over the Tor. These cases were reported in the local paper.
Sightings continue to occur.
Glastonbury Tor also plays a significant part in the alignment of sacred prehistoric sites known as the St Michael line. According to the renowned author and thinker John Michell in his book New Light on the Ancient Mystery of Glastonbury , Geographically it is the longest line across land that can be drawn over southern England, extending from a point near Land's End in the far west to the eastern extremity of East Anglia. Glastonbury Tor, Burrowbridge Mump, Brentor, Roche Rock, St Michael's Mount, Carn Brea. Paul Broadhurst and Hamish Miller, the authors of The Sun and the Serpent , have used dowsing to track for 300 miles the course of this enigmatic line on the landscape with fascinating results regarding Glastonbury Tor and its environs. People who live in Glastonbury speak of the way they are sometimes impelled to go up the slopes of the Tor, while on other days they would find themselves unable to approach it.