West Country weird YEOVIL ALIEN
Faceless alien at a bus stop and a polt in a block of flats
A man is convinced he saw a 7ft (2m) tall faceless alien waiting at a bus stop in Ilchester Road, Yeovil, Somerset, around 2.45pm on 15 December 2016. “I was driving up the road and saw this dark-looking figure by Yeovil College,” said the man, who asked not to be named. “It looked quite tall and had this big Stetson hat. I slowed down to have a closer look and thought it’s not a man, it was about 7ft [2m] tall. It had this long thin tube coming from the top of it and spikes coming out of the side. The middle bit of it was like moleskin and hairy. The thing wasn’t moving at all and was in this box that had sparks coming out of it. It was like something out of science fiction.” The encounter unnerved him so much that he hadn’t slept for a week. He drew an annotated drawing of the entity, noting it was black, wore a “weird” coat and had silky hair. “I just keep thinking I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said. “It’s just mad.” Western Daily Press, 23 Dec 2016.
PESKY POLTERGEIST?
More strangeness from the West Country: some residents in Gilton House – a block of 46 warden-monitored flats in Brislington, Bristol – began noticing weird goings-on some months ago. Gloria Edie, 69, said she initially thought she was going mad when she found a plug in her bedroom had been smashed and a walking stick was missing. She then noticed that ornaments in her living room were being switched, moved or turned around whenever she went out. Things would go missing and then reappear in plain sight later after she returned from a trip to the shops. “A couple of other residents said they too had experienced strange things happening,” she said. “Some said that they noticed that when they went out, they’d come back and their front door would be unlocked when they clearly remember locking it. The chap upstairs said all his lights were switched on whenever he returned home. I began to doublecheck things and noticed more stuff was happening. One time my fireplace was completely hooked off the wall. I called in my neighbours and they all agreed someone must have done that, it didn’t unhook itself.” At a residents’ meeting on 31 January, some said they would install CCTV cameras inside their front doors and others expressed fears that someone had obtained a master key. Did anyone wonder whether a particularly vigorous poltergeist might be at work? Western Daily Press, 2 Feb 2017.
“It was like something out of science fiction”