Somewhere in the Skies - Just Another Tin Foil Hat | The Nottingham Anomaly

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Starting point is 00:00:42 Fit for your ambition for Citizens Bank. Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar. Join Zilia as she walks us through some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness. Today we are going to be discussing the absolutely intriguing case of the nebulous, Nottingham Anomily. Now this case occurred in the autumn of 1966 and perhaps unsurprisingly in the area of Nottingham, England. Now the main figure of this case is a guy named Frank Earp. And it's actually really exciting for me. I first found this case in Jenny Randall's fantastic book Mind Monsters. But upon looking for more information on it, I actually found one of his

Starting point is 00:01:28 blog postings about this very event. So it's in the works cited, but definitely go check out the blog Nottingham Hidden History team. Tons of amazing information there, including this case. So anyway, the main figure of this case is Frank Earp. And as he states in his blog, you know, in this time of the mid to late 1960s, the UK, much like the US, had some major UFO mania going on. So he was 15 at this time and along with a rather large group of school friends, they actually started a UFO club. Now for this case in particular, two other club were with him at the time of the event. According to Earp's recollection,

Starting point is 00:02:09 he and one friend walked to a third boy's house to join him for a skywatch, and from there they walked along the disused wallaton canal with the intention to go to the Wallet and Colliery, thinking that the hilly slag heaps which lined the area would provide a great vantage point to look for UFOs.

Starting point is 00:02:25 So, unfortunately, they didn't see any UFOs in the area at that time. They played there until around twilight, and then decided to go back home. Now again, this canal was a disused, canal. However, the, you know, inside of it was still kind of wet and sort of marshy. So as they crossed a spot where the canal opened into a wide basin, the trio noticed that a ground mist was starting to rise from the ground, which began to thicken in a certain point to what they claimed

Starting point is 00:02:51 was a donut-shaped object about the size of a, and I absolutely love this, to quote, Dodgeham Car or bumper car. So this mist, however, started to kind of separate from the rest of the ground mist floating above the ground at around height of four feet sparkling and glowing with some odd light now by this point the boys had made it out of the canal and we're still keeping a close eye on this bizarre donut-shaped blob of mist they claimed that the mist moved towards the bank where they were and then this abstract glow kind of congealed into these two large balls of light in the center of the object each one a couple feet apart from the other it appeared to stop

Starting point is 00:03:33 at this point and as it was quickly turning darker you know turning to nightfall the three boys decided that you go club or not it was time to get the heck out of there so they began walking quickly away um still rather confident that it had stopped in the disused canal however they did chance a glance backward and noticed that unfortunately or fortunately for them it was following them and just about 20 feet away so they quickened up their pace a little bit now after they crossed an area where a stone bridge used to stand. Then it was just a rather tall bank. They got up on the bank, turned to look at the thing, and yet again, it appeared to have stopped. So yet again, they were kind of thinking, okay, it's stopped, it's going to stay there. It didn't the previous

Starting point is 00:04:16 how many times, but this time we're good. It seems like a weird kind of cat and mouse game with this bizarre donut-shaped blob of lighted mist with orbs on the inside. So they continue on their way. When they were finally in view of one of their houses, they decided to turn and look to see if they could still see it. Now, too likely their horror, not only had the thing moved, but it had changed. Now, one of Earp's friends was the first to notice this kind of new development in the anomaly. So when Earp turned to look at the bizarre cloud, he still saw it, yet again, rather close to them. However, his friend pointed near their other friend, and what Earp saw was no longer simply some nebulous anomalous, mist. Not necessarily standing, but I guess,

Starting point is 00:05:03 we could say hovering, just six feet away from Earp's other friend was a bizarre humanoid entity. He claimed that it was silhouetted by the light of the orb, standing about six feet tall, and it appeared fuzzy or hairy around its silhouette. He said that the being had no neck, rather the head just sat in its shoulders, long arms which tapered to a single finger. And strangest of all, well, honestly, between just arms tapering to a single finger and this, I don't know which one's stranger. But in the running for strangest of all, the legs just seemed to disappear into mist, almost like a cartoon ghost, I guess you could say, you know how they have like kind of the swirly tails. So the being itself had no feet. And in each of these kind of curved, claw-ish

Starting point is 00:05:51 finger hands, it held on to what Earp described as a glowing red rod about the size of a pencil. Now, the friend who had seen the creature first yelled out simply, run. So he and Earp took off. However, the remaining boy, the one that was closest to the creature, a mere six feet away, just stayed there calling after them. Hey, do you guys see it? Do you guys see it? Now, when the three young witnesses drew what they had seen,

Starting point is 00:06:16 he was completely oblivious to the figure that, again, was right in front of him, paying attention apparently only to the cloud, even though how you can possibly miss a six-foot-tall, hairy, claw, hand creature right in front of you, I don't really know. But yeah, so the boy that was closest to the creature part of this encounter didn't see it at all. Now again, from Earp's own blog posting, his conclusion is that he had a run-in with a Boggart, which of course fits very nicely with the folklore, you know how very much I love the fairy faith of the British Isles. Now, often described as a smelly, shaggy-haired being, they have strong folkloric ties to marshy areas, much

Starting point is 00:06:57 like the drained canal. Also, he made a fantastic point in his blog posting about how, you know, and this is something I've been talking about a lot lately as well. He felt as though he was both observing and being observed by the phenomenon. So again, please go check out his post on this event. It gets into far more detail from his first person standpoint. So definitely go check that out. Now, this is genuinely, I say this all the time, but this is genuinely one of my all-time favorite cases simply because it's so bizarre and it's so restrained into a relatively short encounter that manages to pack a lot of anomaly into it you know so for the first part um to begin with of course the mist i mean that is what first attracted their attention was this bizarre you know bumper car

Starting point is 00:07:47 sized donut shaped thing of mist which kind of congealed separately from the ground mist now again this has been something I've brought up many times recently is the prevalence of mist in paranormal encounters. You know, there is a huge question in my mind as to whether it's almost some sort of just psychological filter. Maybe it is sort of kind of like a screen upon which these things can project a stronger image. Because in this case especially, it seems as though the mist begins as this very nebulous thing. Then it kind of congeals or solidifies into the two orbs of light. And then from there, it goes on to a further stage, which is this actual entity. You know, it does kind of seem like some sort of progression.

Starting point is 00:08:31 You know, just one short little memo, too, about the two lights in the cloud. It's impossible for me not to see a kind of abstract vision of two large glowing eyes in this nebulous donut-shaped cloud. There's another case of the father of the witness in the Sam of All Colors, the Sandown clown case who claimed that he saw among other many other UFO encounters he claimed to have seen two points of light out in the ocean which again just conjures up kind of this image of some large blowing-eyed beast now not saying that's what it is of course i'm just saying that i do wonder if there is some sort of you know symbol there symbolism to these visions of just kind of glowing lights and pairs

Starting point is 00:09:13 of two even the infamous roo the rochdale creature a woman claimed that she was looking outside of her house in the dead middle of the night and was seeing just pairs of eyes moving in the darkness. As well, you have the double whammy of actually take that back, triple whammy of a perfect setting. So not only does this encounter begin in what was a canal, so we have a waterway. It's a disused canal in addition to the disused bridge, the bridge that had previously been torn down. Yet again, bridges in the paranormal go hand in hand or perhaps claw in claw. In addition to that, their main intention was to go to Colliery, which, I mean, mining and the paranormal, yet again, there's a bunch of different accounts.

Starting point is 00:09:59 The van meter visitor is like one of the first ones that comes to my mind, where it seems as though, mining especially, but almost anything in the earth. You know, you can even think of caves, seem to have a tie to different types of paranormal phenomenon. And in addition to that, their main intention was actually to go to these slag heaps, these kind of piles of mining detritus to get a vantage point for UFOs. So with that, you know, this concept too of, you know, garbage dumps and things that are no longer used, you have the disuse canal, the disused bridge, the piles of slag, and then all of a sudden amidst this kind of, it's very liminal area, this place where things used to be and now

Starting point is 00:10:40 no longer really are, we have this fantastic encounter. However, the weirdest part of this case has got to be the fact that the person that was nearest the anomaly in its final form, I guess you could say, didn't see it. Now, of course, yes, I suppose he could have just been focusing on this bizarre donut-shaped cloud. However, the thing was right in front of him. His friends were screaming, like, pointing at this, screaming, saying, run. You know, and he was looking around saying, you know, oh, do you see it? Do you see it? All he saw was still this bizarre donut-shaped anomaly floating off over that way. So yet again, this is simply a perfect example of how different people witnessing the same anomaly will see different things.

Starting point is 00:11:24 And, you know, the question really is, you know, is why? I mean, it seems to me that perhaps there is some sort of like psychological priming that goes on. Maybe certain people are more attuned to certain types of symbolism. Maybe, you know, in effect, if we go by what John Keel believed, maybe two of them saw the thing which was less important, which was this fantastic monsoon. whereas the third was just focusing yet again on the ever-present light anomaly. I also find it simply amazing that you have these three teenagers who went out with this strict intention of looking for UFOs and they end up instead with an event which can only be classified as cloudy with a chance of boggards.

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Somewhere in the Skies - Just Another Tin Foil Hat | The Nottingham Anomaly

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