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A former US filmmaker has launched a High Court battle against an English council to gain control of the ancestral stately home he spent seven years trying to save from ruin.

In Asian culture, there are lots of shrines in homes, ancestral shrines with pictures of grandmas and candles.

He pauses: “It was ancestral spirits, whatever you want to call it,” adding with a mischievous cackle, “But not voodoo!”

"We are very concerned there are ancient trees, artefacts and very important ecosystems existing there. There may be ancestral remains."

Staff detailed Spanish missionaries exploiting the work of Indigenous people in the Bay Area to build California missions and congressional actions stripping Coast Miwok people of title to their ancestral lands, including Muir Woods.