The Cryptid Factor - #110 EdFringe LIVE Night One Issue

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The Edinburgh Fringe couldn't keep us out if they tried! And trust us...they did. Kicking their their run off a wobbly blast, the trio find their feet with tales of swampy airport crotches, poles flipping out on Santa, UAPs coming to scope out Earth, High School teachers leaving their special marks, and a thief busted by book too good to run away from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We're back. Yes. We are back. And it's Edinburgh, 2025. And I say that because, you know, other people go back and listen to the old episodes. So in the future they might do that

and wonder, oh, I wonder what year this one was. So I've said it there. So that's stated. Handy. Handy. Thought of that earlier. Well done. Well done.

We're back, guys. Everyone was 25. The last year was amazing. So we decided to come back, didn't we? Well, we had to. So, well, there's so much going on. There's so much going on in the universe that we need to talk about. And we prefer, in a way, talking about it with a live audience of like-minded people.

So thank you all for being here today for this. Can I tell you about a weird experience that I had the other day, just very quickly? Before we kick into the... Yeah, before we kick into it, just to set the tone, because I think people need to know that we are explorers of the mysterious as well. We are journalists and note-takers and so on, and I've been studying my kid recently. He's seven years old. You mean you've been parenting?

Well, that's the word I'd love to use, but yeah, I've been observing. And he's seven years old. His name is Wilf, and he told me something extraordinary the other. day. He said, Daddy, we were walking along a beach and he said, Daddy, I've started doing a thing where I'll say a sentence out loud, but out loud in my head, and no one else can hear it. So he's basically discovered he has an inner monologue at seven, which I don't know if that's late or if that's, you know. Wow. Yeah. So I said to him, what kind of stuff are you saying? And he's like, well, one thing I say a lot, and please don't get angry with me. So I was like,

okay, what is it? He says, well, sometimes you'll get really angry at me for doing something bad and you'll yell at me. And so when you leave the room, I will say in my own head, God, dad's being a real dick face today. Wow. I was like, I was proud and also like, what a horrible parent I must be. Where did he learn dick face? I know.

But next time you yell at him or do something like that and then he just stands there kind of like, you go, what are you saying in your head? What are you saying in your head? Yeah, exactly. So, anyway, the study continues with Wilf, and I'll bring more to the table in future episodes. Hey, he's becoming a real human. That's exciting.

It wasn't. I did actually, when I was at your place, I did spend a little bit of time with him, and I think I may have accidentally said something along that. I can't remember the exact sentence, but I remember your dad and dickface may have been two sort of sets of words within that sentence. He's absorbed Leon's dickface.

Okay. That's cool. So who here has never listened to the podcast? Oh, got some virgins, good. So we've been around for a long time. In fact, we're the longest running podcast in New Zealand, unfficially. We got online together, sporadic, much like the cryptids themselves that we talk about. Sometimes you hear them.

Sometimes you go for months without a podcast. But when it comes back, ooh, it's... It lets you know. It's a little blurry. But now, without further ado, let's go into our first segment of the show, which is everybody's favorite segment. It is...

Weekly World Weird News. Crazy. It's freaky. Watch out. Oh. So what we do here is we generally say a headline of something weird that's happening in the world, a news item. We do the headline only, and we do what we call a headline off.

And you've got to be involved in this, because each headline will come from a different person and you will vote, which is your favorite headline, by doing a cryptid noise. I quite like hearing a Yatty noise for my stories. How would that go? You're the noise guy, mate. Generally, from us, it's...

Okay. Do you want to give that a go, guys? All right, so if you like Dan's headline, that's what you'll be screaming out. What's your one? I thought mine could be... Tupacabra. Okay, how does that go? Maybe just like that. Sort of an uncertain kind of winged kind of animal.

That's not so sure about itself. So that's his one. Have a go at that, everyone. Oh, that's good. That's actually good. Mine's quite difficult. It is a roepin that is doing a mating course. as it's flying out of a volcano. So it's this one. Right.

Get that one and go. From you guys, it sounds similar to yours. That's actually good for both of us. Yours has got base to it. Mine's got, yeah. Yeah, so. Mine's distinct. So let's do the headlines first.

What's yours? What's your first headline? My headline is that American Airport Security has announced that it is continuing. to battle a thing known as Swamp Crotch. Oh. That's good.

Okay. I have a haunting video which reveals the airy sound of the magnetic poles flipping. Oh, that's good. Well, I have got... Still looking his up.

I'm still looking right on. I'm quick. Anybody got anything? Okay, I've got burglar in Rome caught after stopping to read a book on Greek mythology in the middle of the heist.

Oh, I love that. I'm excited about that one. Okay, so those are your three headlines. Basically, this is who's going to go first. That's all it is. We're going to do them all, don't worry. I was wondering, though, we're here for six nights. If we tally up who wins the most that we give ourselves a prize at the end of it all.

You didn't get enough prizes as a kid, did you? You looked like the type of guy who didn't. And I was thinking the prize could be this. Your whiskey. Oh. I've already... You've already had it. A cheeky.

Yeah. Okay, let's hear it for swap crotch. Shameful. I can't believe that. It wasn't even the right sound from some people. They forgot. It was meant to be... I'll give you one more go. Swap crotch.

Nothing. That's... That's unbelievable. My one, the magnetic poles flipping. That counts towards mine, because that was... Damn it. That was absolutely a Yeti. He just got that late.

And I didn't hear anything else there. So buttons? The... The... The... It was. It was so long-winded. It was.

It was somebody about a book thief. Okay. Yeah, I think that was mine. Those were ropers. Yeah. All right. I'll start. Yes.

That's one for dance. I've sent the video to you. Yeah. The internet isn't working. Very well. Okay. Tell you what. While we're tripping up over that,

let's go with Dan's. Okay. Yeah. So sorry you've got to sit through this now, guys. But, okay, so Swamp Crotch is a thing that it turns out that a lot of us have getting a flight. How dare you? I got a flight from France the other day, and I was pulled up at Eric's report. security when you go through the metal detectors, and I had nothing on me, and I went through it three times, and they couldn't say what it was.

Now, I don't know if this is what was happening at the time, but basically, if you are very sweaty in the crotch region, the machine reacts to it like a metal, and so it will go off. So TSA have been trying to deal with this for years, and countries like Germany and so on, and actually France, so it might not have been that with me, have replaced the system because too many people are sending off the machine by literally the shape of their figure. Or, largely, swamp crotch, which is the sweaty bit around your crotch, if you've been on a flight for too long. And so this is costing them so much money because of time and having to hold people up and planes that are getting delayed and so on. So if you've ever been held and you're like, I've put my keys, I've taken my belt off, I've done everything. Check your underpants, because you are swampy. You are swampy. Yeah.

It'd be funny if you go through and they go, we've got another swamp crotch. We've got another swamp crotch here. Take them down to room four. No, I'm not Swamp Crotch. You're not away. I'm Chis of Bone. I'm Chis a bone. That'll be my husband.

Who's got Swamp Cratch? There you go, Brian. I didn't enjoy the dinner on the plane. Great start to the show. There's one problem with it, though, is that you go through the middle to to detect it generally before you. you hop on a plane so the whole long flight swampy crotchiness yeah one of these ones were you're landing and then going through a metal detector yeah i guess it can be sweaty business getting to a flight as well

true you know i'm not saying i have it by the way well you know i thought this was a personal issue no i mean i got pulled over and i was trying to work out why it might have happened hello welcome to personal issues this is our second year at the edinburgh fringe That's fascinating. But yeah, it is a big problem. It's literally something that they can't work out how to fix other than replace the entire systems in which they have done, as I said, in different countries. And they're not willing to do that yet. Okay. Anything more on that article? No, that was pretty much here. And I think the audience was right not to have cheered for it to be. How's the internet connection?

Well, I've restarted the whole computer, him and I. There's no internet. So you need more padding? Yeah, pad, pad, pad, pad. Oh, I got a few couple of favorite facts I discovered the other day. So this is really crazy. When Blame It on the Buggy came out by the Jackson Five, it was released in America, but it wasn't written by the Jackson Five. It was written by another songwriter. And in the time, there was a delay in releasing it in the UK.

And so in that time, the guy who originally wrote the song went, oh, it's going massive in America. I'll release my own version here. So he released it at the exact same time that the Jackson Five released it, which meant there were two blame it on the boogies that were in the charts at the same time, fighting for higher positions. I don't remember that. I know, right, but what made it more confusing is the writer of the song was called Michael Jackson. Therefore, you had, blame it on the boogie by the Jackson 5. Not by the Michael Jackson, but another Michael Jackson.

Yeah. No. Isn't that wild? So people were accidentally buying it. It was like when Pete Best tried to get one up on the Beatles after he was kicked out, and he released an album called Best of the Beatles, and everyone bought it thinking it was the greatest hits, but it was just his songs from their early days.

Oh, genius. Yeah. That's actually a brilliant idea. If you're like, say, Rees Darby and you want to be a famous musician and you find an incredible musician to make all your songs for you to make you famous.

I know a couple. Yeah? You sign a contract with them and say, before you can write my songs, you have to change your name to Reese Darby. So all the songs are written by and performed by Rees Darby. Produced by Rees Darby. Produced by Reist Darby.

Everybody associated with the song changes their name to Reist Darby. drummers, all the musicians, everybody is Reith Darby. So it just looks like you did your... You should do that on this podcast. The Cryptid Factor. With Reistabi, Reist Dobby, and Reist Dobby. I mean, I love the name, but even I get sick of it after a while. Here's another fact I read. Errol Flynn, that he originally wanted to name his autobiography, In Like Me. Isn't that cool? Because that was named after him. In Like Flynn was named after him.

Yeah. Terrible human, by the way. Don't look him up. Back to the comedy. Australian, wasn't he? Yeah, okay, mate. You're off of him. Okay. Okay, well, we've got internet, guys. Yay!

Researchers have sonified the sounds of the Earth's magnetic field, reversing 780,000 years ago. Now, a complete reversal of the Earth's magnetic field might seem like a cataclysmic event, but it is, in fact, perfectly normal. Don't stress, it's happened multiple times over the aeon. another may occur at some point in the not-so-distant future. Do you think we'll notice it?

Yeah. When the polls flip? Well, they kept telling, I don't know if you remember at school that being a thing. Like, I had a teacher called Mr. Jones, who basically every lesson went, well, this is all pointless, the polls are going to flip soon, we're all dead. That was his catchphrase. Yeah. Oh, Mr. Jones was wild. Yeah.

He got kicked out of the school for throwing a kid out of the window. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Then he's trial out and say, the polls will go! Go! He did a thing as well. We went on a hiking trip. My friend Xander had a backpack on him.

And when we did a pit stop, we were like this huge hiking trail. Mr. Jones, Zander was like killing it with his backpack. And he put it down and he discovered there was a giant boulder-sized rock in there that someone had put in because he was asked to carry this bag. And he took it out, went, who the hell did this? And Mr. Jones was at the corner going, it was a real character. It's funny when you think about your school teachers,

because you think, God, they must be so old now. But when we're little, they were like, you know, legendary. Yeah. My science teacher was called Mrs. Newton. No. I had the hots for her, and I thought about her the other day, and I thought about her the other day, and I looked, God, she must be in a rest home now. I looked her up, and she's only 58.

Watch out, Rosie. We did have chemistry. So. Wah, wah, wah. And a bid to understand this pole ship, scientists have put together a sonified version of the magnetic field flipping by converting ancient magnetic data into audible sound. Isn't that cool what we can do these days?

So to begin with, geophysicists Sandio Panavaska and Ahmad Nasal Makub from the Helmut Center for Geosciences. God, I'm good. You guys were writing this crowd. Created a model of the Earth's magnetic field as it was flipping using data obtained from drill core samples around the world. This was then visualized and turned into audio by, I want to say, Hans Zimmer. But it wasn't, it was Klaus Nielsen and Maximilian Arthus Schana.

Okay. To give any pronunciation there, that was incorrect. But none of you probably know, so. The resulting audio, is haunting to say the least, which is why I thought would play it. It's an eerie cacophony of, well, I shouldn't really spoil it. It does describe it here. Let's just listen to it. When does fast grocery delivery through Instacart matter most? When your famous grainy mustard potato salad isn't so famous without the grainy mustard. When the barbecues lit, but there's

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Self. Ho, ho! Shit, South, are you ready to flip? No, no, I'm not flipping. I've got toys to build and things like that. No, you're going to become the North Pole. No! Me and the elves!

It's time to flip. We talked about this. Oh, no! This is North Pole. Yep. Have we flipping? Yeah, I'm just having an issue with the self-pole leader. Well, it's in the contract. He's got to do it.

This video covered the time from 798 to 760,000 years ago. Wow! This is, yeah. I mean, that was the best part of the show so far. I think so. Yeah, really? So, wait, hang on. Swamp Crutch wasn't that bad.

Did they get the music from 760,000 years ago? I mean, but look, who's to say they didn't just make that on their laptop yesterday? Is that the original rock music? Oh! I think it might be. Wow. So, Leon, your story, there's a guy. He's mid-heist.

Is it a bookshop? So, no, this is a guy in Rome. He was a cat burglary. He had climbed into the window of somebody's apartment. Terrible, terrible human. I mean, it's great he got caught. Not bloody Earl Flynn, was it? No, for once.

After those old tricks again? There's some ladies up here. No, no, it wasn't. Get out, Flynn. We know what you're up to. No. Mrs. Newton. What are you doing here?

Was this beautiful? Guys, guys, what happened? He was hopping in through the window to go and steal some fancy clothes from this house. And he was leaving the building, and he saw a book on the shelf, and it was Homer's Iliad. And it so captivated him that he stopped and started reading Homer's Elliott. So he was mid-theft. What was his initial goal? It was to get some fancy clothes.

Why? This is a really good question. I'm not entirely sure. But is he naked? It was the science ball. And he knew Mrs. Newton was going to be there. He had no. He had really bad case of swamp crotch.

He needed some new underwear. He had to dry himself off. Anyway, he was climbing through the internet is, I'm going by memory now. Anyway, so he sits down. takes a seat and starts reading homis earlier the thing was he was in the bedroom of a person who was asleep in bed oh no and he sat down and was reading then it was like an old person this person woke up saw the person read it just sort of like said they're just sort of probably a little candlelight or something probably made themselves a cup of tea oh oh shit that's right i've got

i don't know if that's actually what he said he probably said an italian as well uh because it was in rome and then he jumped out the window, ran away, but the cops caught him because he had a bag full of fancy clothes. I don't know why he did get the clothes. Yeah, but I don't know how he had fancy 70. Must have been on the way out there. Yeah, the guy was a 7-year-old who woke up. We should probably check some of these facts when the internet comes back.

That's amazing. But this will be life when the internet does die. Yeah. It'll be back to just us. Well, the fast... We're talking fabulous. We're heading that way now. We'll have to read the newspaper.

No, but the thing is, I was reading the article, and it said the author heard about this incident that this criminal was stealing this book, and so the author had decided to send him a book in prison. What, Homer? What's what I'm thinking? I'm like, wow, I don't know. I'm going to wait. It's come up now, thank God.

I think I needed to check on the year on this. This could be the oldest news article you've ever found. You often bring old news to the table, but 2,000-year-old news is quite a... I'm going to read it word for word. And just so you know, he said, News of the failed burglary attracted the attention of the book's author, who told local media he wanted to send the man a copy so he could finish his read. So it turns out the author is a guy Giovanni Nuki,

and he's the author of The Gods at 6 o'clock. It's about what the gods thought of Homer's Elliott. And so there is an actual author of it. So it wasn't actually Homer's. It was about Homer's Elliott. So look, I may have abolished a little. Can we hear the... What a journey.

That's the one you guys cheered for, just so you know. But the one surreal part of it is... The one surreal. That Mr. Nuky said his personal favourite, deity was Hermes. Hermes. Hermes. Hermes. Hermes. Hermes. Which is the god of thieves, but he's also the god of literature. So that's why the thief was so attracted. Mixed emotions, yeah. Do you remember that's one of my favorite crime stories ever where someone broke into a house and was stealing stuff and then the couple who lived there started opening the door. So he freaked out

and he ran upstairs and he looked around, couldn't see an escape and he hid under the bed. So he's laying under the bed thinking, what do I do? have no idea that he's there, and they're just doing their thing downstairs, and then the guy says to his wife, oh, I heard the most hilarious joke today, and he tells his wife the joke, hits the punchline, and she goes, that's really good. But then they hear upstairs, there's because the guy hiding found it so funny. He couldn't, he was like, and just had to let it out, and he got busted for laughing at a joke told downstairs. Fucking brilliant. That's great. I love us. The power of humor. Yeah. That's what

police need to do if they're looking for missing people yeah they should be a branch yeah the laughter just joke joke squad yeah yeah all right we hear you can't get them so uh we've got some of our best jokesters here knock them dead brian okay uh good evening uh funny thing happened to be on the way hill not that one brian no then you hear the crook up under the bear going nah heard it heard it try again try no heckling heckling it Heard that one. Hey, by the way, just while we're in criminal news before we move on to our next section,

there was another thing. This happened in France the other day. This is hot off the press. A prisoner finished their sentence, was allowed to leave, took their laundry bag, went out, and then they discovered that his cellmate was gone as well. And basically, he packed himself in the laundry bag,

and this guy walked out with him on his back. So two prisoners walked out. The guy he finished his sentence. The other guy was in for many, many more decades. and then they're like oh we sorry we stuffed up and they don't know where he is that's amazing and they don't know if the guy who took him out was complicit in it or whether or not he thought his bag was that heavy it's the old mr jones rocking a bag situation again right have they checked all the washing machines his every chance he just took

his laundry straight into the washing machine they should just check all the laundromats he's shrunk yeah uh listen we should move on now right to my next story yeah we've got our main event of the evening, something we want to bring up, which I think a lot of you may have heard in the news. So let's play The Sting. Oh, this is exciting. This sting has been played for a long time. It's time for...

Space Update. Yeah, space updates. So we haven't done a space update since 2012 when we thought the world was going to end. It didn't. Thank goodness. So we've got a new update, but unfortunately this is very similar. Some of you have heard of this interstellar object that's heading towards Earth.

Who's heard of it? Yeah, it's from another solar system. It's called 31 Axelis. There's a slight worry. I'm not going to put too much worry out there tonight for you guys. This is all lighthearted, of course, but I think we've got two months before it gets here. Yeah, so, you know, at the moment they're saying it's a comet, but it doesn't have a tail. It's definitely come from another solar system.

Who remembers Omoa Moa? That was a few years ago now. That was a kind of a scary moment. There was a astrophysicist. He's still around and still being very vocal. His name's Avi Loeb. And he goes out there on a limb with the hypothesis that it could be, you know, an alien, not necessarily just a space rock, but something more like a craft.

Mainly because of the trajectory of the object, how that one came in. and then went out again on it. And they actually called it, which is, I think, Hawaiian for Scout. Now, this one has come through, and Avi has jumped back on his own bandwagon. And he's speculating that it could be alien technology again. This is him back at it.

Yeah, one thing is for certain, it's definitely not from Earth's solar system. That's the most exciting thing about it, if it's not what Abby is saying, is that we are only starting to detect interstellar objects. So this is an object coming into our solar system that is not bound by the gravity of the sun. So we've never really had that.

I think this is the third instance that we've ever probably seen it, and we've never collected anything that's interstellar. One of the things that Avi did was a Moa Moa when it passed, there was a bit before where an asteroid of some sort, a comet had come and crashed into the ocean. And he did a big boat trip to collect these metals. And there's a lot of controversial.

about whether or not he was saying that they were looking as if they were manufactured metals like part of a scouting ship but even if they weren't even if they're interstellar this will be the first time we've ever collected anything from outside of our solar system so it's it's remarkable for science what's going on he's taking that one extra step of saying that it might be an alien thing i'm surprised harvard are still allowing him to yeah he's the hit astrophysicist of harvard yeah like you figure they'd go avie just pipe down buddy we're but he's taking risks. He's like he's stepping outside the box of the kind of a system. And most of these scientists stay within their system because they've got to hold on to their jobs. You can't

have sort of speculation and people calling them kooky or weird because then the upper management will go, well, I'm going to have to give you your notice. And do you have to wear the UFO hat? But in this day and age, when we know that UFOs actually are a thing, they're called UAPs now. You know, it's all in the news that these objects, people are seeing them more often. often, but getting back to this and the fact that it needs to have a tail, as 31 Atlas gets closer to the sun, it will be warmed by absorbing sunlight. If it is indeed a comet, then it's outgassing will result in an extended coma of dust and gas. So very soon we're going to know as it gets near the sun whether it's going to have that tail, basically. If it doesn't

have it, then it's not a comet. It's as simple as that. But the interesting thing with Umoor and Abbey is that he only noticed Omoor more after it had left our solar system, it was on the way out of our solar system. And so couldn't get any of the data. It was based just on the trajectory and go, hang on a second. Here's a thing that sort of came in real close to us and then took off again. And his argument was that that trajectory was just totally out of ordinary for that sort of object. And so he's like saying it then is more likely to be something that is being controlled or propelled by something else.

It felt like a controlled trajectory. Yeah. And now the interesting thing with this one that he's getting excited about is that it's inbound so that we actually get to do all this data testing. Get to know it on the way through. Yeah. We actually went and visited him in Harvard and he has a project called the Galileo project. And it is effectively just cameras and microphones and that pointing up in the sky to try and catch glimpses of UFOs that are sort of jetting across the sky and stuff like that.

So he's well into it. But of course it's called the Galileo project because Galileo was the person who, you know, said the... He put himself out on the limb and they shunned and got in trouble. Yeah. And then got house arrest and what have you. So I kind of think that he's trying to make himself the new Galileo. Possibly.

There's certainly a... The boy who cried wolf element to all of this because he's doing it again now. The first interstellar object is the one that crashed. The second one was, oh, Moa, moa, and this is the third one. And so each time he said, it's alien, it's alien. Now, if this one... Is that what he said? Well, you know, I'm paraphrasing.

But we see that this one ends up with a tail in about a month's time. It may be closer than that. I have to get the details. We're not known for details here. You know, that's something you can do at home. But if it has a tail, there's a sigh of relief. It is definitely an icy comet at that point. But if it doesn't, then that's the real tell-tow sign.

But going back to the fact that if it does, that's him crying war for third time. To be fair on him, I thought that is an outlier for a Harvard professor, but I put in Harvard Professor as a Google search just to see if any other controversies have happened. And there are a few. You've got Harvard Business School Professor goes to war over $4 worth of Chinese food. Goes to war. What sort of war? It turns out this is a later article, Harvard professor, actually, serial restaurant terrorizer.

So maybe he lost that case. There's a lot of Harvard band's professors from sleeping with undergrads. That's a big headline that happens a lot. And then my favorite one, Harvard professor who studies honesty has been found guilty of being dishonest. So you do get this kind of stuff. We're going to have to move on because we have got 13 minutes left of our show. I'm excited. Well, it's time to do one of our favorite things, which is sometimes we read stories, these eyewitness accounts, and they're interesting on paper, but we feel sometimes they could be more interesting.

So what we thought is we would inject that more interestingness by reading you an eyewitness account, but having some sound effects from someone overlaying the experience. Oh, I'm looking forward to this for you, well? I'll do it. Oh, what have you got there? Oh, great. Another eyewitness account. Account, account. Okay, we're in alien land with this eyewitness account for our cryptid. Alien land. As in, it's an alien encounter. Oh, right. How appropriate. Where is alien land? I want to go there. That sounds like a cool place. Buttons, you're not part of this, but. Oh, sorry. So this happened in November 5th, 1994 in Manchester, in Rochdale, Manchester.

Alien. Sorry. If anybody's from Manchester, sorry. Don't, I think that's, sorry. At a little after 9 p.m. on Guy Fawkes Night, 1994, a teenage couple from Rochdale, England, drove their vehicle to the Pennine Hills. Shortly after the arrival,

the couple began to hear what sounded like the ticking of a clock in the vehicle's dashboard, getting louder and louder with each time. so loud in fact that the radio was almost round out what's your news tonight there's something happening on the news tonight then John realized that the driver's door appeared to be getting hotter so hot he couldn't place his hand on it he caught the side of brilliant flashes of light in the wing mirror and both heard a strange resonating tone as he looked out

Oh, that's fascinating. As he looked out the back of the window, a large luminous cloud with lightning-like flashes inside was heading directly towards them. Both scared and on the verge of panic. John started the car's engine. I'm on the verge. He swung it around in an attempt to leave.

Wait, swung right around. Oh, the car. I go swing it round. We should just drive it. Get back in. Do one of your ones. Oh, yeah. There was your little cameo.

The whole area in front of them as well as the car was a wash in white light. John pressed the button to close the side windows, but they failed to respond. Not responding. It was then that he realized his foot was pressing on the accelerator at full. Yet the car was moving as if stuck in thick mud. As John continued to floor the accelerator pedal, Michelle laughed, the kind of laugh

that was an attempt to cover rising panic. That's my laugh. Also sounds like a chupacabra, turns out. John would note he found this very distracting. He would later describe it as though someone had... Can you please? You see what's happening here? Laugh, it was not the thing to do.

John would later describe it as if someone had held them back with a giant rubber band and then let them go all of a sudden. When they both arrived back home, they both expressed how much later it felt than 9.35 p.m. Oh, it's safe. seems later they appear to have lost over two hours of time what the watch it's wrong you stopped laughing for once in your life

Michelle John would suffer from incredibly intense nightmares over the following days what get to laugh at me when I wake up Turns out Michelle's a dolphin. I'm laughing because I'm leaving you. The worst dream he would recall

was of him leaving the vehicle after Michelle began laughing. I'm leaving. The car itself also appeared to suffer continuous effects after the incident. The engine would struggle to turn over or even cut out. There were lights and noises everywhere. Hang on, that makes sense.

When investigators interviewed the witnesses and each of their parents, it would come to light that John's mother had previously had an encounter 20 years ago, also in Rockdale. John? Yes, ma'am? Oh, so I forgot to tell you this, but I had an encounter myself many years ago. With the car. Right. You could have brought that up earlier.

No, it's just come to mine. Both decided it was a UFO encounter. Holy shit. Well, you know what they say, Mum. What's that, now? Well, these UFO things, they happen in generations. So it's happened to you. It must have happened to me because I'm.

I'm your son. Yeah, that'll be right. The end. Restorby, everybody. And a little bit of me. Hey! Very good. Well, listen, we've got three minutes left before we need to wrap up. Let's do our final thing.

Yeah, our final thing is we want you to raise your hand. Can we get the lights up, please? Raise your hand if you've got something weird that has happened to you and can reveal it in two sentences. I can see one arm up at the back, one here. Okay, we'll go two at the back. So why don't we start with you in two sentences, a weird thing that happened to you?

I'm so sure I saw a panther in the field behind my grandson, so he's got a six. Wow. Okay, and so for those of you that didn't hear that, he's definitely sure he saw a panther in the field behind his grands when he was six. So whereabouts was that location? And that's an airshed in the west of Scotland.

Right. Okay. That's very believable and definitely within the realm of what we're into. So that's an alien big cat. That's a good opener. Okay. So who else? We got up the top there. Yeah. Yeah. I was felt up by a ghost.

You were what, sorry? You were felt. Felt up by a ghost. Felt up by a ghost. Was it like a cool experience or a terrifying experience? It was pretty terrified. They do like, I'm from Manchester. They do like ghost tours on the state on the square.

square and there was a particular ghost there apparently that haunts women in particular and he took a liking to me and you could feel my temperature on one of my hottest was a lot cold very oh wow yeah that's you pay for the extra bonus features tour yeah right yeah that's one I'd pay for but that's that's freaky That is freaky. That's terrifying. Are you saying that one bodocks was warmer and the other one was cold? Do you think it was the ghost making it warmer or colder? Oh, right.

The cold hands. I was really excited there for a second that all the swamp crotch experiences may be hauntings. The hauntings of the nether regions. No, it's not haunting. Well, on that observation, we do need to wrap up. We actually do. We've run over now. So, well, let's leave those two.

and even though that one is freaky I'm going to have to go with the Panther because it's accrupted But the one last question though Did you get any photographic evidence? He was six Did you do a drawing on your etcher sketch? What do you want, buddy?

Listen we do need to wrap up Thank you for your Panther story You have won a bit of merch So come to the merch stand to collect an item from the table And Reese take us out I was just going to say, let's give them both prizes. What do you think? Yay!

Because I felt bad for the lady who got felled up, like, goes, I'm going to do with nothing. So you can choose one item, both of you from the merch stand outside. How does that sound? Yeah. Awesome. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Thank you for being with us today.

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