maximus otter
Recovering policeman
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Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious world!
Golden Dawn down under!
The Sai Kung mystery!
maximus otter
Golden Dawn down under!
The Sai Kung mystery!
maximus otter
Really looking forward to this issue- ACC'sMW has had a big influence on me. Fond memories of lying on the carpet watching it is a youngster with the rest of the family, and it was also something that I bonded with a kid at primary school over, and was one of the reasons we went to become (and still are) very good friends.Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious world!
Golden Dawn down under!
The Sai Kung mystery!
maximus otter
no Hunt Emerson this month?
He’s been ill recently, presumably that’s the reason.no Hunt Emerson this month?
I hope it's nothing serious. I'm a big fan of his.He’s been ill recently, presumably that’s the reason.
Trying to find the Goodies parody on line, where the running joke is Graeme Garden (playing a skeptical ACC-like show host) presenting gravely to camera that, for instance, in a month of searching they have found no evidence of Abominable Snowmen in the area, and therefore the reports must be hoaxes, mistaken identification, or just folklore. While Graeme is speaking to camera, in the background three or four yetis realise the camera is there, and form a high-stepping can-can line. Or Nessie swims on screen behind Graeme/ACC while he is denying the loch Ness Monster exists, and grins at the camera. In its way, the parody is every bit as Fortean.
Cancer I’m afraid. Recently out of hospital after chemo. Thoughts with him.I hope it's nothing serious. I'm a big fan of his.
I hope he'll pull through.Cancer I’m afraid. Recently out of hospital after chemo. Thoughts with him.
My daughter lived in Headington whilst at Oxford. Sigh. I miss my visits there. Wonderful city.The little girl (Amelia Drewitt) who found a boa constrictor, or at least its discarded old skin, in bushes underneath a bridge at Headington, Oxford. First observation: Headington is where JRR Tolkein lived. What would he have made of this and if this had happened a century ago.... could a discarded alien snakeskin have made it into LOTR as a sign of the Forces of Evil encroaching on Hobbiton?
Second observation.... maybe the other half of Oxbridge heard about this, decided not to be outdone, and decided to go one better in the University Snake Race: this is from August 2021. Wild living python found in Cambridge. Maybe the Oxford one elected to change uni?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58385875
Welcome to the board,Hello, my name is Judith. I joined the forum yesterday and this is my first posting. I am an on-off Fortean Times reader. I have never had a paranormal experience but have an occasional interest, and as a teenager, I used to scare myself sleepless by reading a Peter Underwood book from the library.
Anyway, back to FT410. Has anyone read the contribution ‘Missing Time’ by Elizabeth Lloyd-Folkard in ‘It Happened To Me’ (page 75)? It relates the loss of about 3 hours on an unremarkable car journey taken by 2 friends in 1993. The only odd feature was that when they stopped for coffee at Membury Services, only one other person was in the cafe, even though it was a Saturday ‘with plenty of traffic’. The upshot is that a trip that should have taken 2 hours 15 minutes, actually took more than five.
When I first read it I thought, ‘How banal. Why have they printed this?’ As time has gone on, it has stayed with me. If it had happened to me, I would want an explanation.
Perhaps both friends misread their watches at the start of the trip. Perhaps they drove at a more leisurely speed than they realised. Perhaps they were in the cafe 40 minutes rather than the 20 they thought.
Even so 3 hours is a long time to lose. Is Membury Service Station a liminal space?!
Hi Judith, welcome to the boards!Hello, my name is Judith. I joined the forum yesterday and this is my first posting. I am an on-off Fortean Times reader. I have never had a paranormal experience but have an occasional interest, and as a teenager, I used to scare myself sleepless by reading a Peter Underwood book from the library.
Anyway, back to FT410. Has anyone read the contribution ‘Missing Time’ by Elizabeth Lloyd-Folkard in ‘It Happened To Me’ (page 75)? It relates the loss of about 3 hours on an unremarkable car journey taken by 2 friends in 1993. The only odd feature was that when they stopped for coffee at Membury Services, only one other person was in the cafe, even though it was a Saturday ‘with plenty of traffic’. The upshot is that a trip that should have taken 2 hours 15 minutes, actually took more than five.
When I first read it I thought, ‘How banal. Why have they printed this?’ As time has gone on, it has stayed with me. If it had happened to me, I would want an explanation.
Perhaps both friends misread their watches at the start of the trip. Perhaps they drove at a more leisurely speed than they realised. Perhaps they were in the cafe 40 minutes rather than the 20 they thought.
Even so 3 hours is a long time to lose. Is Membury Service Station a liminal space?!
Hello, my name is Judith. I joined the forum yesterday and this is my first posting. I am an on-off Fortean Times reader. I have never had a paranormal experience but have an occasional interest, and as a teenager, I used to scare myself sleepless by reading a Peter Underwood book from the library.
Anyway, back to FT410. Has anyone read the contribution ‘Missing Time’ by Elizabeth Lloyd-Folkard in ‘It Happened To Me’ (page 75)? It relates the loss of about 3 hours on an unremarkable car journey taken by 2 friends in 1993. The only odd feature was that when they stopped for coffee at Membury Services, only one other person was in the cafe, even though it was a Saturday ‘with plenty of traffic’. The upshot is that a trip that should have taken 2 hours 15 minutes, actually took more than five.
When I first read it I thought, ‘How banal. Why have they printed this?’ As time has gone on, it has stayed with me. If it had happened to me, I would want an explanation.
Perhaps both friends misread their watches at the start of the trip. Perhaps they drove at a more leisurely speed than they realised. Perhaps they were in the cafe 40 minutes rather than the 20 they thought.
Even so 3 hours is a long time to lose. Is Membury Service Station a liminal space?!
By definition, it is. It may also have depended upon the time when they got there. It may have been in the early hours of the morning.Is Membury Service Station a liminal space?!
I was in touch with Hunt a little while ago. He sounds optimistic, so we hope he'll pull through.@gordonrutter Let him know that the forums are rooting for his speedy recovery!