BS3
Abominable Showman
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A recent, er, "showbiz news" story about filming for Amazon's Tolkien series taking place in Winterfold Forest in Surrey reminded me of a classically British, classically incomprehensible 'entity' case that took place there in November 1967. As often with these things (cf the Little Blue Man on Studham Common) our main source is Charles Bowen, editor of Flying Saucer Review, who wrote the case up in FSR v14, n1 (1968) as "The Spectre of Winterfold". Bowen was a UFO believer (and the paranormal / demonic interpretation of the phenomenon at that) so this colours his presentation, obviously.
In brief it's a case where a young couple, driving through the forest at night, stop to clear the car's windscreen, whereupon the man smells a foul odour and sees an odd, partly luminous figure alongside the car; the woman doesn't see it but does experience the sense of fear connected with it. Here are the details, and collation of the few sources available, in Patrick Gross's URECAT.
Feels a bit like some kind of prank is at the root of this but...who knows.
In brief it's a case where a young couple, driving through the forest at night, stop to clear the car's windscreen, whereupon the man smells a foul odour and sees an odd, partly luminous figure alongside the car; the woman doesn't see it but does experience the sense of fear connected with it. Here are the details, and collation of the few sources available, in Patrick Gross's URECAT.
Feels a bit like some kind of prank is at the root of this but...who knows.