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I thought I'd share some experiences of "shadow people" encounters that occurred in my old family home. My grandparents had moved into the house in the late 1920s just after my father was born, and 33 years later I arrived into the world. Around six months later my grandfather passed away in the...

Stats from the interweb: Violence and Sexual Offences: The most common crimes in Walton-on-Thames are violence and sexual offences, with 1,907 offenses reported in 2022, resulting in a crime rate of 28. This is a 9% increase compared to 2021.

Sadly, it's all shades of that kind of activity, including sexually motivated murder. On the opposite bank of the Thames on this stretch lies Desborough Island, known to locals as Desperate Island. The whole area has long enjoyed a seedy reputation and has a distinctly dodgy vibe.

An old friend in the US, now sadly deceased, had a publishing company called Little Giant, and there's also an excellent UK outfit that performs and records as Big Dwarf. Some of their material displays a distinct Fortean tinge.

I'm amazed that this non-event has attracted so much attention. I see nothing strange or unusual about this encounter whatsoever. The only creepy aspect of the story I pick up on is Frank's behaviour. I live near Walton, and the area where this took place has a reputation as a haunt of sexual...

Just speaking from personal experience, the lurgy is the least of it...

That could conceivably cause a bolt to move across if it were loose, but my recollection of this particular one was that it required a degree of effort to engage the bolt with the catch. I can recall this as one of the managers at the store had a predilection for young males - he would employ...

Nah, yucky things, you don't know where they have been and you can catch nasty stuff if you get too close to them.

I don't eat in restaurants, not even vegan ones. Humans are gross things with gross habits - I don't want them near my food!

Glad someone got that reference. :D

Indeed, or has fish sauce or other hidden animal ingredients.

I'm vegan, I only eat food I have prepared myself.

It would, but I don't eat Chinese food - I'm one of those strange people who don't eat animals. :)

It has changed considerably, and even more changes are on the way, but none of it has been for the good! Not those shops, but these. Golden Empire being the unit in question...

In 1978 I began working for Greens Cameras and Hi-Fi (a now defunct retail outlet) at their branch in Feltham, Middlesex. It was a small shop, built in 1966, although there were a couple of unused storeys above the shop floor that had once been a sub-aqua showroom. There were only a couple of...

Not a condiment I am particularly fond of. :D

Sorry, pressed post reply by mistake - full story now there!

In the early nineties, my then girlfriend and I, along with her young child, moved in to a house at 8 Wilton Street, Old Basford, in the suburbs of Nottingham. The house seemed quite ordinary and pleasant enough, but within days, "things" began to happen. First off, an old music box that...

I am also familiar with those, they project on to clouds and have a much bigger optical presence than the lights I saw. I have also run professional light shows for live events in the past and know the technology well, so I can easily discount that as an explanation. These particular lights in...

This clip reminded me of seeing something of a similar nature about a decade or so ago. A friend and I had gone to Windsor Great Park in the hope that we could see the Perseid Meteor shower, so this would have been in the middle of August. At that point in time it was possible to wander around...

Here's my local focal point for the deluded.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5524911/Olivia-Attwood-Holly-Hagan-scream-Celebrity-Ghost-Hunt-Live.html

Sadly you do occasionally find rabid bats in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3697490.stm

I often dream about one of my good friends who passed away over twenty five years ago. It's odd because in the dreams I know he is dead and mostly it's about sharing music with him that I know he would have loved when he was alive.

This was likely to have been before the film was even shot.

Mine most certainly is!

My first thought was the Desert Monitor, but didn't think it fitted the "dog like" description - of course, I now realise I was conflating two separate posts... Those Monitor lizards can be vicious things, I saw one kill a large snake by grabbing it by the tail and smashing the head on the...

That is a good description of a Dhub lizard, I would imagine that was what you spotted. Sadly they are considered a delicacy in Saudi and are hunted and killed by the thousands each year. https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environment/uae-s-dhub-lizard-the-mini-dinosaur-of-the-desert-1.412354

Surely it would be an ape, seeing as we are all descended from a common ape like ancestor. :chimp::chimp::chimp::chimp::chimp:

I'd classify them both the same way I classify myself - freaks! (man).

It wasn't, it was just an every day juvenile detention centre. It was originally built as an Industrial School in the mid 19th Century before becoming a Borstal in 1910. In the nineties it became Feltham Young Offenders Institute. It is now HMP Feltham. Some notable former inmates included...

He used to flog acid at Hawkwind gigs - that would seem to pretty much cement his hippy credentials to me.

My own personal conversations with members of the band.

Except, of course, Lydon was a hippy all along.... https://i.pinimg.com/474x/f6/11/6f/f6116fd9248ffbc6f9b9ef8fab5b5b38--hippie-look-johnny-rotten.jpg

All I know is that George Radford was a local businessman, and that he and his wife ran a successful upholstery business. Mrs Radford made the band matching costumes.

The inside story. https://randybowlestories.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/i-was-an-unwitting-participant-in-a-bigfoot-scheme/

I used to do quite a lot of work writing sleeve notes for reissue CDs, and it was while I was researching a group called the Velvet Illusions that I discovered a connection to the Patterson/Gimlin film. The Velvet Illusions came of of Yakima in Washington state and were managed by one George...

On the subject of bad taste bubblegum cards, I always felt that this set was a strange thing to market to kids in the seventies. I guess they thought that adding the jokes at the bottom of the card defused the impact of the gory Hammer horrors...

A number of years ago I went on one of the guided tours of Chislehurst caves. When we got to the cave with the pond I hung back for a couple of minutes while the rest of the tour carried on just to soak up a little of the ambience on my own. Standing alone in the pitch black darkness, I felt...

That's not politics, just pointing out the obvious truth. :)

It's called a Tory government, and it will only get worse with Brexshit.

Bob.

I went to school with a kid called Wayne Kerr, and I later knew a chap named Cecil Pitt, AKA Cess Pitt.

My first job on leaving school in 1978 was at a branch of Greens Cameras and Hi Fi in my local high street. The building covered three floors and had been built in 1966 when the high street had been modernised, replacing the Victorian shops that had formerly occupied the space. Within days of my...

Blackwood's short story 'The Willows' is another good one.

'Ritual' by David Pinner is well worth a read, supposedly the inspiration for The Wicker Man.