The Immortal Hour: The True Story of Netta Fornario

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She had noticable scratches and bruises on her feet and, according to some reports(having trouble finding a good source for this) she had several other, deeper gashes spread over her body. After Netta’s death the housekeeper was quoted in the press as saying that several times Netta had said “she had been to the far beyond, and had come back to life after spending some time in another world”. A further examination of the body did not provide any more answers and the coroner was not able to ascertain just how or when she had died, finally settling on the explanation that she must have died of a combination of exhaustion, heart failure, and hypothermia considering the frigid temperatures and the fact that she had not been dressed for the cold.

A blackened silver chain with a cross hung around her neck and her body showed some unacountable scratch marks. Netta was not a member of the original Golden Dawn, joining its remnants long after its collapse following the Battle of Blythe Road. MacRae calmly told the distraught woman that there was no boat running to the mainland that day, Netta apparently became enraged and locked herself in her room. IN CONCLUSION: On going over a lot of this my gut feeling is that maybe Netta built up demons in her own mind. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings.

Clutched in her perfectly manicured hand was a sheaf of incomprehensible letters from an unidentified stranger.

Several kings, lords and holy figures have also been burried on the island, further cementing it in the imagination of those looking for the occult in those days. In the summer of 1929, Netta suddenly and without explanation left her home in London and made a journey out to the small, quiet Scottish island of Iona. No police investigation was carried out as the presiding physician noted the cause of death as heart failure from exposure.A 1911 Census lists Nora Emily Fornario as being born in 1897, her mother English and her father Italian.

Do the scratched up feet, bruises and possibly deeper gashes found on her body point in the direction of foul play? There was a detailed 1955 account of Netta’s story by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, who used the testimony of two Ionan-dwelling friends, Lucy Bruce and Iona Cammell, the latter of whom wrote an obituary for Netta in The Atlantis Quarterly. The island is very small, with only a few residents who all know each other, and no one was found to be a suspect, leaving everyone wondering who could have done such a thing. Born to an Italian father who loved to travel to ancient places like egypt, Netta developed a keen interest in the occult, supernatural and spiritual at a young age.She was going to very deep waters”, Dion wrote in Psychic Self-Defence “And there was certain to be trouble sooner or later”. With a deep fascination with occult rituals, demons, fairies, and magical healing practices, Netta would perhaps be labelled as already quite odd by many people’s standards, but her life was about to take a deep turn into the bizarre, and a weird unsolved mystery. Some years after the end of World War 1, she decides to take a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the Scottish Island of Iona. Mrs MacRae said that she did notice that Netta’s collection of silver jewellery seemed to have blackened overnight.

Authors E Nesbit, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Bram Stoker were also rumoured to be members). No doubt this caused a few raised eyebrows with Mrs MacRae, however she did notice that Netta’s silver jewellery had turned black overnight.

McRae also claimed that she had witnessed odd phenomena orbiting her houseguest, such as one incident in which Netta’s jewelry went from silver to a dark black in color overnight for no apparent reason, and she also spied Netta carrying out arcane rituals on more than one occasion. A doctor injects himself with morphine in a guest house bedroom on Iona, confessing not to a god, but to the syringe.