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This thread has been established to consolidate ports originally appearing in the Ella Hewett thread:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...cident-trawlers-fireball-sighting-1957.62931/
... and the 'Funny Little Hut' CE3 thread:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...-hut-can-anyone-identify-this-ce3-case.63092/
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...[O]ne from Modern Mysteries of Britain by Colin & Janet Bord (which has some absolutely fantastic accounts of high strangeness and encounters with weird beings)
It's some time since I read this account in the book but it stayed with me because it's really odd and, in particular, because of the quoted dialogue between the children and the 'entity'. However reading it back now two thoughts strike me -
1) a seven year old in 1973 would only be 51 today so presumably there is every chance these kids are alive and well somewhere. I wonder what they think of their experience viewed through the lens of adulthood?
2) while the description of the 'entity' is very strange, the details of the furnishing of the hut and the conversation they had are very... human. Could they have met a real person while playing who lured them into a real hut of some sort to abuse them, the memory of which has become twisted due to the trauma of the experience?
The whole thing is very, very odd. Anyway please accept my apologies if this is not the case you were thinking of!
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...cident-trawlers-fireball-sighting-1957.62931/
... and the 'Funny Little Hut' CE3 thread:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...-hut-can-anyone-identify-this-ce3-case.63092/
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...[O]ne from Modern Mysteries of Britain by Colin & Janet Bord (which has some absolutely fantastic accounts of high strangeness and encounters with weird beings)
The strangest case in this chapter deserves far more space than we are able to devote to it. It is a classic example of the strange experiences so often reported by children, who sometimes seem to be able to see things denied to their elders. This is not in any way to belittle their experiences, which are so obviously real to them; children 'uncontaminated' by adult concerns may well see through windows on to other realities. Chapter 18 on the Little People contains several strange experiences reported by children, and thisnone could well join them, except the entity in question was nearly 7 feet tall.
The encounter between a seven year old girl, a boy of about the same age and a colourful entity took place early in May 1973, not far from Sandown airport on the Isle of Wight. The entity spoke to the children and showed them around the interior of a windowless metallic hut which he said he had just made. It had two levels, the lower containing an electric heater and simple wooden furniture with the walls 'papered' in blue-green with a pattern of dials, the upper less spacious and with a metallic floor. The entity wore a bright yellow pointed hat which joined the red collar of his green tunic. On top of the hat were a round black knob and antannae. He wore white trousers with 'wooden slats' protruding from the bottom and from his sleeves. On his white face he had triangular marks for eyes, a square brown nose and yellow lips which did not move. He had only three fingers on each hand, which were covered by blue gloves, and only three toes on his bare white feet. The children asked if he was a ghost and he replied "Well, not really, but I am in an odd sort of way." When they pressed the point, asking "What are you then?" he would only say "You know." and nothing more. He said that he had no name and that there were others of his kind. He drank river water after cleaning it and ate berries.
On being told the story the girl's father did not at first believe her, but later became convinced she was telling the truth, and the boy also confirmed that he had seen the entity. However, on what level did the children see him? They were talking to him for over half an hour, during which time two workmen were repairing a post nearby, and they paid no attention to the entity or his hut, as if they could not see him.
It's some time since I read this account in the book but it stayed with me because it's really odd and, in particular, because of the quoted dialogue between the children and the 'entity'. However reading it back now two thoughts strike me -
1) a seven year old in 1973 would only be 51 today so presumably there is every chance these kids are alive and well somewhere. I wonder what they think of their experience viewed through the lens of adulthood?
2) while the description of the 'entity' is very strange, the details of the furnishing of the hut and the conversation they had are very... human. Could they have met a real person while playing who lured them into a real hut of some sort to abuse them, the memory of which has become twisted due to the trauma of the experience?
The whole thing is very, very odd. Anyway please accept my apologies if this is not the case you were thinking of!
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