The Tape Library - Archive of the Paranormal & the Unexplained - The Strange Mystery of Zigmund Adamski

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

Some mysteries fade with time. Others grow darker. In 1980, the body of a coal miner named Zigmund Adamski was found atop a coal heap in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, five days after he mysteriously vanished just miles from home. His clothes were clean, his watch and wallet were missing, and strange burn marks had been treated with an unknown gel. But that was only the beginning. Just months later, the very officer who discovered Adamski’s body (PC Alan Godfrey) reported an encounter with a UFO while on patrol. What followed was a hypnotic regression, missing time, and a story that has never been fully explained. Was this the work of a secret government experiment? An alien abduction? Or something stranger still? In this documentary, we dive deep into the unexplained death of Zigmund Adamski and the astonishing events that followed in Todmorden.  The Rendlesham Forest Incident - https://youtu.be/khOo9uvr5_s?feature=shared Support the channel with Patreon - www.patreon.com/thetapelibrary Do you have a supernatural story to share? Drop me an email at [e-mail] You can check out The Tape Library in video form at www.youtube.com/thetapelibrary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thetapelibrary Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thetapelibrary Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Tape-Library/100094332411836/ Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True scary stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime. Additional footage and audio from Evanto, Artgrid, Epidemic Sounds, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels. Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and the youtube audio library.  All other footage used under fair use. CHAPTERS 00:00 The Yorkshire Ripper 04:08 All The City Was Coal 12:31 What Happened To Zigmund Adamski? 16:29 The Todmorden UFO 23:54 I Know What I Saw 34:35 What Really Happened? 39:35 Wrapping Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Yorkshire Television in colour. Yorkshire in 1980 was a place where it felt like horror lurked around every corner. The country hadn't long moved out of a period of economic depression that saw the 70s referred to as the lost decade. The coal industry was shrinking, causing hardship for many communities where the mines were a backbone, strikes and unemployment were high. Communities were tight-knit, but,

anxious and a big part of that anxiety in this area of the country was because the Yorkshire Ripper was still at large. From 1975 to 1980, a string of brutal murders had terrified the region. Women were being killed across West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. Police were stretched thin. Trust in the authorities was eroding. Fear was constant. People were afraid of a very real evil. walking down the streets of their towns, their villages, and no one knew if they would be next.

The idea that something could happen in plain sight, something violent, something unnatural, didn't feel implausible, it felt inevitable. Playing away in the background during all of this was of course the Cold War. While this was not directly affecting the population for the most part, many point to it as creating a sense of paranoia throughout the war, the country. People began looking to the skies, convinced of seeing Russian planes, or were still, a bomb. The memories of World War II had not yet faded. But there were those who would claim to see things in the sky that they didn't believe were enemy craft. UFO fever had hit the UK, and throughout the 1970s, an increasingly high number of reports of unidentified flying objects were made. Strangely, Yorkshire appeared.

to be something of a hotspot for them, specifically the small town of Todd Morden, a place that apparently had recorded 10% of all UFO sightings across Great Britain at the time. One afternoon, two police officers in this quiet, unassuming town received a call. A body had been found. They didn't know it, but they were about to be thrown into a case that would see all of these deep-rooted fears crashing together into one, unbelievably strange mystery. A mystery that would see one of these officers experienced something that's to this day he could not explain. An experience that would totally destroy his life. Get yourself a warm drink, dim the lights and get comfortable. It's time to get into one of the

strangest unsolved mysteries of all time. This is the story of Zygman D'Dakamski. Welcome to the tape Library. Just before we get into this one, I put out a post recently asking this question, but obviously not everyone sees those. I'm putting together my plan for the second half of the year. So if there's a topic that you really want me to cover, now is your chance to suggest it. Leave a comment below letting me know what you want to hear. And if you see a suggestion that you would like to see yourself, be sure to click like on

those comments too, so I don't miss them. I have been fascinated by this story since I was a judge. child. It was the very first segment of the pilot episode of Strange But True back in 1993. For those who didn't grow up in the UK in the 90s, Strange But True was effectively our version of unsolved mysteries and was responsible for giving many children nightmares, myself included, a show that I personally blame for why I now do this. I can't believe it has taken me this long to get around to this case, but here we go. It begins not a lot of the case. It begins not in a place you'd expect a mystery, but in the quiet working-class town of Todd Morden,

nestled in the Pennine hills of West Yorkshire, England, a town of terraced houses, cobbled streets, and old mill buildings, unchanged for decades. The type of place where everyone knows everyone else, and secrets are hard to keep. But in the summer of 1980, a series of events would unfold in Todd Morden that no one could explain. It started with a man who vanished, then a body found in a place it shouldn't have been. Then five months later, a police officer would claim to see something in the sky, something impossible, and from there, the story spirals. It was June when it all started. It was just before 4pm when Trevor Parker, the son of the local co-yard owner, returned to the family business. The yard sat near the train station,

Not far from Todd Morden Town Centre. He had been there earlier in the day but hadn't noticed anything unusual. But then he saw something. What he saw stopped him cold. In front of him was a large heap of coal, surrounded by the mess of the coal yard, tools and machinery. But from this angle he could see there was something on top of the pile, something that hadn't been there before. Laying, face up on top of a 15-foot-high heap.

of coal was the body of a man. He looked like he had just been placed there, carefully, deliberately. It was as though he had just appeared from nowhere. Trevor had never seen a dead body before. Once he regained his senses, he made a call to a local police station. Officer Malcolm Hagley was asked to head towards the train station that day, and he took with him another police officer by the name of Alan Godfrey. When they heard a body had been found, their minds undoubtedly went to the worst-case scenario, had the Ripper descended upon their small town. But this victim was male, and when they arrived at the scene it was instantly clear that something odd had taken place. Malcolm awkwardly crawled up the coal pile first. It was difficult

to do so. The police officer slid back down multiple times before reaching the top, covering his uniform in coal dust as he did. When he did finally get there, he instantly shouted down to Alan to come up. He said that Godfrey needed to see this. The dead man was in his 50s. He was wearing a suit jacket, but his shirt was missing, instead just having a stringed vest underneath his jacket. His watch and wallet were gone. His trousers were fastened strangely. Similarly, his shoes and his shoes and socks were on, but like they had awkwardly been placed onto his body. The man looked well groomed, his facial hair was only a day old. There were some small scrapes and cuts on his

hands, but it was what was on the back of his neck that raised the most questions. A series of black burn-like marks on his head, followed by another wound on the back of his neck that appeared to have been weeping. It also seemed that someone had tried to treat his burns. There was some sort of ointment to ply to the wounds, a yellowy green cream that had been rubbed in. The man's clothes, despite as the police suspected being apparently placed on him after death, in a strangely haphazard way, was spotless, his shoes sparkling clean. It did not look like this man had crawled or been dragged through a dirty coal yard and up this huge pile of coal.

It was as though he had just appeared there. But the thing that Alan Godfrey would remember, most from that day was the man's face. This wasn't the first body Godfrey had seen, but it was the one that was seared into his memory for the rest of his life. Eyes open wide, mouth contorted. Alan would later say, it looked as though the man had been frightened to death. But this apparently wasn't a murder at all. The coroner would later identify the death as a seemingly natural one. The man had suffered a heart attack. The mystery deepened when the forensic experts attempted to analyse the substance that was smothered over the burns.

The ointment couldn't be identified. It wasn't in any local or national pharmaceutical databases, not recognised by police toxicologists or forensic pathologists. In the words of the coroner James Turnbull, much like the body, it was as if it had come from nowhere. It took the police a little a while to identify the man, but it wasn't too long before they connected a missing person report. From a town 20 miles away called Tigley, they had identified their mystery man. He was Zygman D'Amsky, a 56-year-old coal miner, but Adamsky hadn't been seen in five days. Zygman was a Polish immigrant who had lived in England for many years at this point. He was well liked in his community, but mostly kept himself to himself.

A minor in good health. He lived with his wife Lottie and was known as a quiet, dependable man. On the 6th of June, 1980, he had left his home around 3.30pm to Ronanerrant. He told Lottie he was going to the local shops to buy potatoes. He left wearing a brown suit and a shirt. Seemingly, according to the report from the local shopkeeper, he did come into the shop that day. Zygman made his purchase, left the shop, and then, just, just, didn't return home. There was no reason to suspect foul play at first. There was no history of mental illness, no debts, no enemies. He was carrying no luggage, no passport, no change of clothes. He'd simply vanished into thin air. In fact, Namski was due to give away his goddaughter at her

wedding the day after he disappeared. He had been excited about it and even had his speech written for that day. Family had flown over from Poland to join in on the happy occasion. The timeline of his disappearance was thin and unsettling. On the 6th of June, Adamski left his home mid-afternoon. He disappeared after being seen his local shop. Between the 7th of June and the 10th of June, there were no verified sightings, no leads. He missed his goddaughter's wedding and a missing person's report was made. June 11th, his body was discovered 20 miles away in Todd Morden, around 3.45pm.

That's it. Five days completely unaccounted for. Yet when his body was examined further, the evidence told a strange story. He appeared clean and well-fed. With no signs of exposure to the elements, his beard growth indicated he had shaved, or had been shaved, just a day before his death. When he left on the 6th, he was. had longer messy hair, but when his body was discovered he had a shortened crop haircut. He was wearing a vest that he didn't leave the house in on that day. The burn marks on his neck and head were days old, suggesting he had been alive for most

of the time he was missing. A fact that was backed up by the coroner, who seemed to suggest that the heart attack had taken place not long before his body was discovered. The mysterious ointment applied to his wounds was still completely untraceable. The autopsy concluded that Zygman Adamski had died of a heart attack sometime on the 11th of June, mere hours before his body was discovered. But beyond that, there were no clear answers. Where had he been for the previous five days? Why was his body so clean?

Who dressed him? Who treated his wounds? And most puzzling of all? How did he end up on top of a 15-foot coal heap without the sturd? a single piece of coal. There were no drag marks, no signs of struggle, no evidence of a fall or lift. It was as if he had been lowered from above. With no easy answers, the void quickly filled with speculation, and the longer the case remained unsolved, the weirder the ideas became. One of the earliest and most grounded theories was that Adamski had been abducted, or possibly held against his will.

There were whispers of a family feud over a niece's marriage. Some speculated that Adamski had become entangled in a domestic drama, involving a relative in the Polish immigrant community. The suggestion was that he might have been taken somewhere remote and held while the issue was dealt with. But this theory doesn't explain the lack of injuries, the unidentified ointment, or the condition of his body. He hadn't been beaten or tied up, he was fed, clean.

His wounds were treated with care, and then there was the location of the body. If someone wanted to dispose of a body, they wouldn't gently place it on top of a coal pile in a public area during daylight hours without leaving any trace of how they did it. Even the police admitted it didn't make sense. Although a variation on this theory became one of the more widely accepted explanations, but we'll need to get into that a little later. There was the idea that this was somehow self-inflicted. Could Adamski have wandered off in a fugue state?

Suffered a breakdown, fallen in with strangers. Perhaps he had died of natural causes after an accident, or even taken his own life somehow. But that would raise more questions than it answered. Where did he go? Who took care of him? Where did he get the ointment? And still, how did his body end up so carefully placed in Todd Morden?

The official verdict remained, death by heart attack, cause undetermined. Then the theories got more wild. Poland was firmly behind the iron curtain on the eastern side of the Cold War. Had Had Adamski gotten himself mixed up with operatives from the other side? Had someone who came over from the wedding, wanted him to do something he wasn't happy with, to maybe betray his new country in some way. The conspiracies grew wild. and wilder, with some claiming this random coal miner in a quiet Yorkshire town, had been

assassinated by the KGB. But seemingly, other than him being from Poland, there wasn't too much to really delve into with this one. And then, there was the UFO theory. This was seemingly spurred on by the coroner's remarks about how if you had told him that Adamski had been dropped on the pile by a UFO, he would only raise one eyebrow. Whether he meant this literally or was simply making a remark about the unexplainable nature of how he got up there is up for debate. On the surface, it sounds ridiculous. A man goes missing, turns up dead, and people start blaming aliens. But consider the context.

Todd Morden and West Yorkshire in the late 1970s and early 80s were hotbeds for UFO sightings. Throughout 1979 and 1980, locals reported strange lights, metallic objects, an unexplained aerial phenomena across the penines. In fact, these reports would continue for years after the Adamski discovery, leading many to believe that something genuinely strange was going on in the area. Some believe Adamski was taken, experimented on and returned. The wounds, the ointment, the placement of the body, all part of a bizarre abduction. process gone wrong. This should be the fringe theory, the silly one that most people don't put

too much stock into, and that would very likely have been the case. If it wasn't for what would happen, just five months later. The leads into the Adamski case dried up. No arrests were made and no one was ever able to explain what had happened to him. His wife took his body back to Poland, where he was buried, and seemingly she never returned. It was the 28th November, 1980, and Alan Godfrey was back on the beat. But this time, he was working a very different case. The police station had been inundated with calls that night about a herd of cows roaming through a residential area of the town.

Godfrey drove around the streets on his own looking for them, but could find no sign of the cows, assuming it was some sort of prank he returned back to the station. But curiously, they then received an even stranger call. An elderly woman called up to say she had seen the herd of cows in her front garden and blocking the road out front. The operator asked the woman, were the cows still there, preparing to send Godfrey back out to find them. But the old woman went quiet for a moment. The operator repeated the question. The old woman hesitated before answering.

admitting that this was going to sound strange but no the cows were no longer there the operator asked which direction they had walked off into the woman said they hadn't she had seen a flash of light coming from outside a really bright flash and then the cows were just gone calls about this rogue herd of cows continued throughout the night and eventually as a shift neared its end Godfrey agreed to go out and do one final sweep for the animals. It was now around 5am. He was tired and likely frustrated that this silly issue had eaten up so much of his time and forced him out multiple times now on this rainy night. But it wasn't like there was much going on in Todd Morden, at least not since Adamski was found. The town had fallen back into its normal quiet routine.

Alan jumped into his car and set off for his own. the town. It was quiet, dark still, barely anyone was on the roads. He turned on to Burnley Road, a long stretch that led out of town, through the moors, an especially creepy place at night. The moors have always had a reputation, a vast expanse of moorland without another human in sight. Alan later questioned what would have happened if he had just turned left that night instead of right. He wasn't going anywhere specific, just looking around. But that tiny decision completely changed the trajectory of his life. As Godfrey was driving through the moors, the rain began to clear.

He thought to himself it was amazing how quickly the isolation had set in. Moments ago, he was in the town, and now he was on this empty road. But it wasn't empty. There was a light up ahead. Curious, he drove clear. closer toward it. But as he grew closer, he realized this wasn't just a light. Godfrey drove until he was just 20 yards from the object, before stopping his car in the middle of the road. He froze, unable to comprehend what he was looking at. He lifted up his radio to call the station

that was met only with static. This wasn't uncommon once you got out of town. So instead he turned to the stronger radio in his police car. But again, he was met with nothing but static. He was alone. Just him and this... Thing. Next to Alan in the passenger seat of his car was a clipboard with a sheet of paper on it. He picked it up and began to draw what he was looking at.

Something the police would have done back then when dealing with a traffic accident. The object in the road was hovering five feet off the ground, spinning in the centre of the road. It was diamond shaped. Godfrey estimated that it was around 20 feet wide and 14 feet higher. The object was dark and appeared to have some sort of black panelling across the top of it. He couldn't say if they were windows or not because he couldn't see into them. It didn't make a sound.

He couldn't feel any vibrations from inside his car but this thing was moving. It appeared to be spinning in an anti-clockwise direction, below it, in the five feet of space above the ground. leaves and branches were flying through the air, curiously, spinning clockwise, going against the movement of the object. Godfrey was furiously scrambling down as many details as he could when suddenly he heard a sound. A deep, loud wishing. Then everything seemed to go white, just for a fraction of a second. Alan Godfrey was now driving down the road in the opposite direction. He didn't start driving, He didn't turn his car around. It was like he came to midway through doing this action.

He was already 1,500 yards away from where he had been just a fraction of a second ago. Godfrey slammed on his brakes and looked into his mirror. The road behind him should have given a clear line of sight back to where the object was. But there was only darkness. Alan looked down at his watch. Half an hour had gone. Where he was sure only two minutes could have passed. Godfrey was close enough to the town now and he knew that no one would believe him if he just ran into the station with this wild story.

He quickly found another police officer who was patrolling the area on foot and asked him to come with him. As Godfrey promptly drove back to the site of the incident, he excitedly explained what he had seen to the other officer. The other man was skeptical at first, thinking that Godfrey was just messing with him. But then they arrived at the site and got out of the car. Sure enough, there was the debris of branches and leaves strewn all over the road, as though they had been blown over by some sort of strong storm. But other than a little rain, nothing like that had passed through. Then he spotted it.

Right in the centre of the road, the ground all around was soaking wet with rainwater, but there was a spot in the centre of the road. around 20 foot across, that was bone dry. Next to this area of the road was a park. The gates faced out onto the road. The other officer, still unsure about Godfrey's story, suggested they should go and look inside. Maybe whatever it was he had seen had entered the park somehow.

Maybe that was how it vanished from his view so quickly. The two men were forced to climb over a large fence as the gates were still locked at this time. Godfrey was sceptical that they would find anything in there. With a little difficulty, the two men hoisted themselves over and began to investigate. At first, nothing seemed to miss in the park. That was until the two officers walked past the rugby field. Standing there, in the middle of the locked field, was the herd of cows.

The following day, Godfrey filed his report of what he had seen to his superiors. Every morning the local newspaper would phone up the station to see if anything interesting had happened and it appeared that someone at the station leaked Godfrey's encounters to them. Within a week Alan's story was in the paper and then it just snowballed from there. He did give an interview. It seems a little unclear if this was under the chief inspector's instructions or if they had just given him permission to do it. But either way, his superiors had okayed Godfrey speaking to the press.

But when the attention on the case grew, they appeared to have second thoughts. Some of his colleagues believed Alan. Others mocked him both to his face and behind his back. As the story went out to a wider and wider audience, the connection was quickly made that this was the same police officer who had investigated the Zygman-Adamski case and the theory that his death was somehow linked to a UFO. F.O. became an inseparable part of his story. It seemed though that Godfrey wasn't the only witness that day. Numerous reports were made by other locals. A bus driver reported that he had just started his morning route when he was driving down the same stretch of road that Godfrey had been on

only moments before. He stopped his bus suddenly when he noticed something strange in front of him. The driver stepped out of his vehicle and said that all around the road were the dead breeze of nearby bushes and trees, as though they have been violently blown all over the road. He also noted that in the middle of the road was a patch of ground that was totally dry, despite everything else around it being wet, as he stood in this area. He said he felt something strange, like a kind of updraft of air, not like wind as such, just as though the air were moving up from the ground to about the height of his neck. He thought, it was strange but just got back into his bus and drove on. He never really questioned it too

much until reading Godfrey's account later. Then there was a school caretaker who was opening up at the local school building that day. He spotted something in the corner of his eye in the pre-dawn darkened sky. He looked up to see a light in the valley, just a little further away. He didn't know it at the time but where he was looking was the same stretch of road that Godfrey had his sighting. The caretaker said he saw this strange light, shoot from one end of the valley to the other, and then back again. This repeated four times before it just shot off into the air at an insanely fast speed. The most credible of all though were the other police officers. Now there seems to be some confusion on if this took place on the same night as Godfrey's encounter,

or if it had been the previous evening. But a group of five police officers were searching the moors late that night looking for a motorcycle thief. Apparently it wasn't uncommon for teenagers to steal a bike and riders around the desolate moors. But as the group were out that night searching, they saw something that they at first thought could be the headlights of the bike, but there was something off about it. It was blue and more importantly appear to be floating through the sky lowly above the tree line of a nearby forest. They got a good look at the light before it appeared to just zip off into the distance, in a flash. They could never explain what it was they saw that night. Numerous UFO investigators got

involved in the case and one group seemingly convinced Godfrey to undergo hypnotic regression with two psychiatrists to see if they could figure out what had happened during his lost period of time. What emerged was chilling. Under hypnosis, on three separate occasions. Godfrey described the events of that night. They filmed these sessions. Alan claims he didn't remember what he said under hypnosis, but they did eventually play the tape back to him. In the video, Alan is laying down with his eyes shut. He says he can see a light up ahead. He thinks it's a bus, bringing workers to the mill. But then he says, it's not a bus, in a curious tone. Suddenly, Alan throws his hands up across his face and begins screaming about a light, clearly

terrified. The next thing Alan says is that he is inside the object. Inside he saw a room with brilliant white walls, lit from nowhere. He was met by a humanoid being called Yosef. Tall, bearded, dressed in a long robe and wearing what looked like a skullcap. Beside him were small mechanical creatures. the size of children, with large black eyes and head shaped like light bulbs. At different points he refers to them as creatures, while at others he calls them robots. They laid him on the

table, which Alan resisted at first but quickly gave in, before they started to do things to him. Things that Alan can't really explain. The strangest detail of all is one of the last that Alan recalls. He remembers turning around while laying on the bed and seeing sat there, staring at him, a large black dog. Things got stranger still for Adam Godfrey when he received a letter that had been sent from Moscow. It was from a man who identified himself as a Professor Zakharov. The professor was asking Godfrey to provide him with any information he could about his sighting. And strangely, also anything he may know about a similar event that had just happened in Surrey. Godfrey didn't know it at the time, but his sighting had taken

place just one month before the most infamous UFO sighting in British history. The Rendell Shum Forrest incident. I have an entire episode on that case that I'll link in the description, so I won't get into it in detail now, but essentially across two nights in late 1980. Military personnel at two Air Force bases further south in England claimed to witness the UFO incident, with at least two men claiming to have close contact with a mysterious craft that didn't sound drastically dissimilar to what Godfrey had seen. There are also a few other connections too, including the lost time. Godfrey was understandably cautious about responding to this Russian professor, so he was shocked when he was told by his superiors to send a letter to his last time.

to send a letter back. In fact, they encouraged him to respond to the professor multiple times under the instruction that they be allowed to see while Zacharoff replied with each time. Not long after this, Godfrey met the man from the ministry for the first time. One day, Alan was called into his chief inspector's office, but when he entered, he realised he wasn't alone. Sat at the far end of the table was a man he didn't recognise. When Godfrey asked who he was, he simply said, All you need to know is, I am the man from the ministry.

He didn't elaborate any further. The man was holding a thick file, and when he opened it, Godfrey saw that his sketch of the object was in there. He was informed he should not talk to the media again. He should stop talking about what he had seen. And curiously, the man stated that he also should not talk any further. about Zygmund, Adamski. The man from the ministry showed up repeatedly after this,

seemingly attempting to intimidate Godfrey, showing that he could follow him anywhere. When he showed up one day in Godfrey's local pub, Alan quite matter-of-factly told the man to leave him alone. Seemingly after some time, realizing that the intimidation wasn't working, or that Godfrey wasn't a threat to whatever they were trying to keep quiet, the man did leave him alone.

Adam Godfrey's life began to crumble. The Yorkshire Police Force was already under a great deal of scrutiny for their handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case, and this insane story of a UFO being linked to another death that they couldn't solve was publicity they didn't want. Godfrey felt like they were trying to push him out of his job, reassigning him from his usual roles, generally making a mockery of him, making him seem crazy and unfit to serve in the police force. Godfrey turned to drink. He said at his lowest point he was putting away a bottle of whiskey every day. His marriage fell apart. He lost his home. His professional career ruined. He felt like a laughingstock. There his community had turned on him.

But despite this, Godfrey never wavered on his story. To this day, he stands by what he saw on the road that night. And over the years that followed, there's more and more. people saw lights in the sky over Todd Morden, more and more people began to believe him. Sightings became so common that a support group was set up in the local area, to allow witnesses a safe space to discuss their experiences with one another. Godfrey questions why when the MOD released most of their UFO files to the public. His account was not included. Freedom of Information Act requests have been put in but with no luck. Some have said that Godfrey's report he first gave was destroyed shortly after the attention began.

To this day many speculate about this case. Was Adamsky connected to these sightings at all? Was Godfrey's experience genuine? As more and more people come forward however, it seems to suggest that something is happening, maybe not aliens, maybe not UFOs. But there are many that believe that out there are many that there, there on the moors surrounding the town of Todd Morden that something truly unexplainable was lurking in the darkness and maybe just maybe it's still there so what really happened

we've already discussed most of the major theories involving adamski's death but there was one interesting one i dug up that backed up the idea that he was killed by someone connected to his family a couple of years back, the podcast astonishing legends performed an interview with British UFO expert Philip Mantle about the case. Philip had grown up in Tigley and both he and his father had actually known Adamski. While he believes Godfrey's sightings from five months later, he does not believe the two cases are connected in any way, that it's simply the words of the coroner and the strange coincidence of Godfrey being involved in both that keeps people coming back to them. Apparently, the generally accepted theory at the time from many of the coal miners that worked with

Adamski was that he was having some personal issues with his wife. She apparently wanted to move back to Poland but Adamski was very against this idea. When a few of her family came over for the wedding, they attempted to pressure the man into moving back to Poland. The theory is they took this a little too far, essentially kidnapping the man. During the five days they held him, they took care of him, but wouldn't let him leave until he agreed to come back to Poland with them. It is believed that Adamski was being kept in a shed and that he tried to escape. In the struggle knocking over tins of some sort of substance that burned his skin,

the men who held him captive had tried to treat his wounds, but in all the stress of the incident, Adamski had a heart attack. The men had driven him far away from his home to Todd Morden, where they disposed of his body in the coal yard. By the time the police were able to identify the body, The men had already fled back to Poland. This theory was given more weight when Mantle was working at the headquarters of the Yorkshire UFO Society in Leeds, just a couple of years later.

A woman had called up, claiming to be the niece of Adamski, and laid out the story in this exact manner. The man who took the phone call urged the woman to call the police, but they never heard from her again. This detail feels odd to me. The woman on the phone never gave her name, nor the names of the name. men responsible for Adamski's death. She had also gone out of her way to track down the contact details of this small UFO investigators group, rather than approaching the authorities, leading some to speculate that this is simply someone trying to sow disinformation, although it is still regarded as the most realistic theory. As for Alan Godfrey's citing,

he stands by exactly what he reported and will still tell his story to this day if people ask him. He even wrote a book later in his life that he sells directly from his own website, detailing his accounts in his own words. He does, however, not put a lot of weight personally into what he said during his hypnotic regression sessions. Godfrey admits that this happened a while after his sighting, and during the following months he had read up extensively on UFO topics, most notably the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. And he doesn't know what elements of what he recalls were his own memories and what parts could simply be the stories of others that he had consumed in the wake of his experience. The most commonly used explanation to debunk this story is the

Futuro house, futuristic-looking round house that was displayed in Todd Morden during the 1970s, standing a few feet off the ground on legs and with windows all around the top. It's hard to argue that this thing doesn't look like a UFO, and fairly close to Alan's UFO at that. However, Alan Godfrey would have seen this building countless times before. It was located by the police station, so he likely would have passed it on a daily basis multiple times in the years prior to his experience. So it feels unlikely he would have mistaken the house for something else. It also doesn't really explain a lot of the other elements of Godfrey's encounter.

Of course, if he were making the story up, though, it could have given him the inspiration for how the craft and his story should look. Godfrey has been very clear about this detail over the years, though. He says that what he saw was not the future of house. He has no doubt in his mind about that. Regardless of what you believe in terms of UFOs and what Alan Godfrey and others claim to have seen, One simple undeniable fact remains. Zygman Adamski's death is unsolved. No one knows how, or why, he ended up laying on that pile of coal.

His face contorted. His eyes wide open. Frozen. Impure Terror. That's all for this entry into the tape library. As always, please do let me know your theories on this case. There are so many different directions you can go with this one, so I'm really intrigued to see where your mind takes you.

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