Uncanny UK has now moved to a new home at http://www.uncannyuk.com/ This new and improved site is on a better server and is fully content managed, which means that previous bugbears in which articles were taking up to a week to upload should now be eliminated. There should be no excuse for me now not to write and upload at least one article every week as planned - laziness notwithstanding!
This blog will therefore cease to be, with the Uncanny UK blog instead transferring to http://www.uncannyuk.com/ .
Avanti!
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Sunday 24 February 2008
Senseless things
Almost every book on ghosts I buy - and I buy too many to fit my shelf space - presents me with some absorbing new story, some memorable account which had previously escaped my notice.
Such a case impressed me early on into leafing through my recently acquired copy of Graham J McEwen's 'Haunted Churches of England'. McEwen describes an extraordinary occurrence in a churchyard in south Devon. I outline this bizarre and inexplicable incident in the latest article to be added to the 'More Uncanny' section of www.uncannyuk.co.uk The article, 'Hole lot of nothing' can be accessed by any registerd reader of Uncanny UK. If you havent registered (it's free), please follow the 'Register now' link from the home page.
So much strange phenomena has been recorded and analysed, patterns of behaviour recognised and theories expounded that there's a particular attraction about an occurrence that makes no sense whatsoever (even in supernatural terms).
I remember reading a strange first-hand account in a newsletter of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomolous Phenomena. This chap had been walking home from work when he met his ex-wife, with whom he was on friendly terms and who lived further along his street. She couldn't resist pointing out that his coat looked a bit threadbare and could do with a couple of buttons being sewn on it. She invited him to call round later so she could make the necessary repairs.
After he'd had his tea and a bit of a sit down, the gentleman decided to take his wife up on her offer and went to fetch his coat from where he had earlier hanged it up. He was astonished to find that someone - or something - had sewn several very large, very red and entirely inappropriate buttons on it in that short space of time. His ex-wife was as mystified as he was. It was almost as if some helpful fairy or other cosmic being had overhead the conversation about the coat and had tried to clandestinely help - but not very efficiently. No explanation for this weird little domestic incident was ever forthcoming.
Such a case impressed me early on into leafing through my recently acquired copy of Graham J McEwen's 'Haunted Churches of England'. McEwen describes an extraordinary occurrence in a churchyard in south Devon. I outline this bizarre and inexplicable incident in the latest article to be added to the 'More Uncanny' section of www.uncannyuk.co.uk The article, 'Hole lot of nothing' can be accessed by any registerd reader of Uncanny UK. If you havent registered (it's free), please follow the 'Register now' link from the home page.
So much strange phenomena has been recorded and analysed, patterns of behaviour recognised and theories expounded that there's a particular attraction about an occurrence that makes no sense whatsoever (even in supernatural terms).
I remember reading a strange first-hand account in a newsletter of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomolous Phenomena. This chap had been walking home from work when he met his ex-wife, with whom he was on friendly terms and who lived further along his street. She couldn't resist pointing out that his coat looked a bit threadbare and could do with a couple of buttons being sewn on it. She invited him to call round later so she could make the necessary repairs.
After he'd had his tea and a bit of a sit down, the gentleman decided to take his wife up on her offer and went to fetch his coat from where he had earlier hanged it up. He was astonished to find that someone - or something - had sewn several very large, very red and entirely inappropriate buttons on it in that short space of time. His ex-wife was as mystified as he was. It was almost as if some helpful fairy or other cosmic being had overhead the conversation about the coat and had tried to clandestinely help - but not very efficiently. No explanation for this weird little domestic incident was ever forthcoming.
Tuesday 15 January 2008
The spookiest swinger in town
For possibly the weirdest video you will see this year, visit http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article385529.ece and click on the video box.
The video was shot in a playground in the town of Firmat, Argentina (not the UK, I know, but I couldn't resist drawing your attention to it). The middle seat of a children's swing moved busily back and forth for at least ten days without stopping, as if a ghostly child was enjoying himself on it. No satisfactory scientific explanation for the phenomenon (electro-magnetic fields etc) was forthcoming.
I'm not sure whether the phenomenon is still taking place. Perhaps a little spirit was having some innocent, earthly fun before 'moving on'. Anyway, there's no suggestion that the video was hoaxed in any way and it's all rather gobsmacking. Enjoy!
(Don't forget to visit www.uncannyuk.co.uk for articles on supernatural events in Britain, and my other blog http://hauntedwales.blogspot.com)
The video was shot in a playground in the town of Firmat, Argentina (not the UK, I know, but I couldn't resist drawing your attention to it). The middle seat of a children's swing moved busily back and forth for at least ten days without stopping, as if a ghostly child was enjoying himself on it. No satisfactory scientific explanation for the phenomenon (electro-magnetic fields etc) was forthcoming.
I'm not sure whether the phenomenon is still taking place. Perhaps a little spirit was having some innocent, earthly fun before 'moving on'. Anyway, there's no suggestion that the video was hoaxed in any way and it's all rather gobsmacking. Enjoy!
(Don't forget to visit www.uncannyuk.co.uk for articles on supernatural events in Britain, and my other blog http://hauntedwales.blogspot.com)
Thursday 10 January 2008
Nightmares can come true, too
The latest monthly 'More Uncanny' articles is the flip-side to the previous article on dreams which led to people being rescued from a horrible fate.
In this story, a man had the same dream over several nights; actually it was a nightmare. He dreamed his daughter was trapped in a narrow space and that shadowy figures were stuffing cotton wool in her mouth! Ignoring the dream led to horrible consequences, which I will allow you to discover for yourself. It's all rather creepy, though.
The 'More Uncanny' series of articles is intended to cover weird subjects that won't fit under the other four categories of Ghosts, Fairies, Witchcraft and Strange Creatures. The series is updated every month.
To read them, you need to become a Registered Reader. To do this, click on the 'Register now' button on the left-hand side of the home page and follow the simple instructions. Your email address will be safely stored and won't be used for any marketing purposes, by us or anyone else. It's just useful for us to see how many people like the site enough to revisit on a regular basis. Enjoy!
Visit www.uncannyuk.co.uk You may also enjoy my blog devoted to the supernatural in Wales: http://hauntedwales.blogspot.com
In this story, a man had the same dream over several nights; actually it was a nightmare. He dreamed his daughter was trapped in a narrow space and that shadowy figures were stuffing cotton wool in her mouth! Ignoring the dream led to horrible consequences, which I will allow you to discover for yourself. It's all rather creepy, though.
The 'More Uncanny' series of articles is intended to cover weird subjects that won't fit under the other four categories of Ghosts, Fairies, Witchcraft and Strange Creatures. The series is updated every month.
To read them, you need to become a Registered Reader. To do this, click on the 'Register now' button on the left-hand side of the home page and follow the simple instructions. Your email address will be safely stored and won't be used for any marketing purposes, by us or anyone else. It's just useful for us to see how many people like the site enough to revisit on a regular basis. Enjoy!
Visit www.uncannyuk.co.uk You may also enjoy my blog devoted to the supernatural in Wales: http://hauntedwales.blogspot.com
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