panic

In the summer of 1994, when I was unemployed for a while, I took a walk down to St. Mary's Church in Llanfair P.G., Anglesey, North Wales, U.K. The church is centuries old and the adjoining cemetery is full - there is hardly any room left for further burials. The church is right next to a...

Hi all :lol: new to this board. Some of the stuff is serious............... Can I ask opinions on 2 things????? 1/ I always used to mock my father for his story, when he was a child about 5/6, that would be in the late 1920's he claims he was playing in the road when he clearly saw what he...

Don't know if this is the right forum for this post, but the subject matter seems to fall roughly into the "encounters with Pan" category. I grew up on a farm in Suffolk. Open wheat fields separated by shaded lanes overgrown by tall trees. On many nights, I would stay at a friend's house...

A few years ago I found myself utterly lost while walking the dog in some local woods. After some time I came upon a preserved Bronze Age barrow called (somewhat misleadingly) Caesar's Camp. It was a local landmark and I realised that if I cut through it, I could be home within the hour. At...

I'm doing some research about cases of panic and unexplained fear, along the lines of Patrick Harpur's article "Landscape of Panic" (FT 141 - on this site). In particular, I'm trying to find out more about the example he mentions of "the last person to die of panic" in the New Forest. I'm...