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Ep. 96 | A Very Victorian Alien Encounter & Scary Shadow Demon Appears · Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So i've been looking at various alien encounters recently the
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  Speaker 1: ones that most interest me at events that happened before
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  Speaker 1: the idea of alien visitors became a common cultural phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: in modern times we have endless movies and books and
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  Speaker 1: tv shows about extraterrestrials you can't really talk about aliens
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  Speaker 1: about conjuring up images of flying saucers and greys and
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  Speaker 1: people being abducted by big beams of light It's easy
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  Speaker 1: for skeptics to dismiss an alien sighting as the product
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  Speaker 1: of a vivid imagination, fueled by whatever television has taught
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  Speaker 1: us that aliens are supposed to look like. But what
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  Speaker 1: about the sightings from before aliens became fashionable? These are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that I find most interesting because they weren't
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  Speaker 1: influenced by any preconceived notions of what to expect. One
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  Speaker 1: such case comes from 1871 and was documented by a
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  Speaker 1: carpenter named William Robert Luceley. He wrote about his encounter
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  Speaker 1: in a secret diary. He knew that if he revealed
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  Speaker 1: what he'd seen he'd be ridiculed and it would affect
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  Speaker 1: his business. So he wrote down his experiences and hid
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  Speaker 1: them in a secret compartment in a desk that he'd
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  Speaker 1: built for himself. It was only after his death that
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  Speaker 1: the diary was discovered and years later that it was published.
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  Speaker 1: The encounter begins one early October morning. Loosily awoke in
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  Speaker 1: a fever at 3 a.m., finding his bed intolerably hot.
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  Speaker 1: he decided to step outside and try and cool down.
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  Speaker 1: So there he was, 3 a.m., standing in his garden,
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  Speaker 1: looking up at the night sky. And he noticed that
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  Speaker 1: one of the stars was moving. These days we probably
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  Speaker 1: assume it was a satellite or an airplane or something,
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  Speaker 1: but back in 1871 this was probably a pretty novel sight,
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  Speaker 1: so he stood for a while watching the star and
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  Speaker 1: it seemed to be getting bigger and bigger as if
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  Speaker 1: it was getting closer. Eventually it was so bright in
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  Speaker 1: the sky that he was actually able to see his
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  Speaker 1: own shadow being cast on the wall behind him. He
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  Speaker 1: watched the star moving across the landscape till it came
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  Speaker 1: to a halt above an area called Plummer's Hill. It
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  Speaker 1: then moved low to the ground and roved around deliberately
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  Speaker 1: as if it was searching for a place to land.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately it stopped at a small wooded area called Plummer's
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  Speaker 1: Green and it descended in among the trees and vanished.
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  Speaker 1: After that William returned to bed and fell asleep. The
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  Speaker 1: next day he'd asked his family and various townsfolk if
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  Speaker 1: they witnessed the shooting star during the night. Nobody had
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  Speaker 1: seen or heard anything, so he decided to investigate further.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't sure if he'd just dreamt the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: in a fever, but that afternoon he decided to put
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  Speaker 1: on his walking boots and head up to Plumbers Green
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  Speaker 1: to investigate. The woodland itself is several acres wide so
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  Speaker 1: it took him a long time to scour the area.
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  Speaker 1: He was walking back and forth, he was walking stick,
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  Speaker 1: turning over bushes and leaves, trying to find any evidence
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  Speaker 1: of this object which had landed. After a long time
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  Speaker 1: of searching he didn't find anything and he was ready
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  Speaker 1: to give up when he heard something rustling in the
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  Speaker 1: bushes next to him. He poked his walking stick into
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  Speaker 1: the undergrowth and hit something metallic. He assumed he'd hit
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  Speaker 1: some kind of discarded farm as equipment but then to
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  Speaker 1: his surprise the metal object moved forward and emerged from
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  Speaker 1: out of the bushes. He gives a pretty detailed description
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  Speaker 1: of the object in his dairy. It says it reminded
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  Speaker 1: him of an object that he was made to carve
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  Speaker 1: during his carpentry apprenticeship, a 20-sided object called an icosahedron.
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  Speaker 1: The surface was of a mirror-like shining metal. The edges
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  Speaker 1: were smooth and most of the flat planes had a
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  Speaker 1: small protrusion on it. It was about 18 inches high
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  Speaker 1: and spat with mud and the occasional dead leaf. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be of a quality of craftsmanship that would
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  Speaker 1: have been almost impossible to produce at that time. The
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  Speaker 1: object turned to one side and one of the metal
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  Speaker 1: nubs flipped back like it was an eyelid and revealed
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  Speaker 1: a glass lens behind it, loosely poked into the glass
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  Speaker 1: but he could only see blackness within. At this point
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  Speaker 1: in the description I would assume the lens was part
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  Speaker 1: of some sort of recording device and that the metal
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  Speaker 1: object was kind of drawn. However in Victorian times remotely
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  Speaker 1: controlled drone cameras weren't exactly a common sight. I loosely
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  Speaker 1: imagined the lens to be a window through which a
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  Speaker 1: small creature was watching him from within. Another protrusion opened
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  Speaker 1: and revealed a similar lens and this one emitted a
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  Speaker 1: bright purple flash which dazzled William causing him to step backwards.
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  Speaker 1: I think flashed another two times and it caused him
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  Speaker 1: to be momentarily blinded. A third aperture opened and a
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  Speaker 1: long metal rod emerged from the hole. By this time
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  Speaker 1: he was sighted recovered enough to be able to see
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  Speaker 1: the object moving towards him, extending the rod towards his chest.
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  Speaker 1: He was obviously pretty frightened by this point and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to get touched by his rod not knowing
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  Speaker 1: what was going to happen. So he had to step
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  Speaker 1: backwards to avoid being touched. What preceded was a kind
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  Speaker 1: of slow motion chase with the creature following him slowly
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  Speaker 1: with the rod extended, loosely walking backwards to avoid being touched.
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  Speaker 1: The metal object seemed to reach a point where it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't able to go forward anymore at which point it
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  Speaker 1: turned around and departed. As William watched the object depart,
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  Speaker 1: he noticed it left behind three ruts in the ground
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  Speaker 1: as if there were three wheels underneath it. Although he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't able to see the wheels because they were hidden
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  Speaker 1: by a kind of metal skirt. He followed the object curiously.
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  Speaker 1: He was scared but obviously he was also very intrigued
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  Speaker 1: in wanting to find out more. He noticed that there
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  Speaker 1: was these three ruts crisscrossing all over the forest as
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  Speaker 1: this metal object had been searching through the forest all night.
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  Speaker 1: The metal machine stopped at a bush and its rod
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  Speaker 1: extended and a little claw emerged from the end of
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  Speaker 1: the rod and picked up a dead rat on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Then another rod emerged from its body, this one must
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  Speaker 1: have been a sort of tube because it let out
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  Speaker 1: a clear plastic substance which wrapped up the rat. Once
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  Speaker 1: the rat was completely wrapped up, Hatch opened in its
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  Speaker 1: body and it dropped the rat inside. then it continued
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  Speaker 1: on deeper into the woods. It stopped at one point
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  Speaker 1: and picked up William's walking stick which he dropped in
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  Speaker 1: his first encounter. Once it had the walking stick it
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  Speaker 1: lifted it up into the air and carried it deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the woods. William was following behind all this time
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  Speaker 1: and eventually they were merging into a clearing and loosely
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  Speaker 1: noticed that the whole area was flattened in a big
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  Speaker 1: wide circle as if a large object had landed and
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  Speaker 1: then taken off again. The metal machine walked up to
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  Speaker 1: another bush and pushed aside some leaves and he noticed
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  Speaker 1: that there was a second machine. It was almost exactly
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  Speaker 1: the same shape but it was much bigger. This one
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem to be able to move. It was as
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  Speaker 1: if the smaller object was the rover and the larger
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  Speaker 1: object was some kind of containment device. The smaller object
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  Speaker 1: passed the walking stick to the larger one. A hatch
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  Speaker 1: opened and it dropped the walking stick inside. At this
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  Speaker 1: point the smaller machine emits a humming noise. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to be able to move quicker on the flattened ground.
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  Speaker 1: Loosely described as movement as if it's skating around on ice.
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  Speaker 1: The grass around it seems to flutter. To me it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like some kind of hovering device, maybe like a
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  Speaker 1: hovercraft type of contraption or a low flying drone of
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  Speaker 1: some kind. It moves so quickly that it's able to
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  Speaker 1: get behind loosely and stop him getting away from the clearings.
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  Speaker 1: At this point he's sort of looking around himself trying
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  Speaker 1: to find some way of escaping. He's planning a mud
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  Speaker 1: dash through the brambles. All of a sudden a man
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  Speaker 1: appears in front of him. He described it as being
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  Speaker 1: like a slightly translucent as if it's a ghost and
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  Speaker 1: he looks a bit more closely because the man's kind
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  Speaker 1: of looking down at the ground. It's actually a picture
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  Speaker 1: of himself. To me it sounds like some kind of hologram.
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  Speaker 1: Loosely doesn't recognize it as this. He thinks it's maybe
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  Speaker 1: some kind of phantom. The picture changes and it shows
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  Speaker 1: loosely stepping back in alarm and then it changes again
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  Speaker 1: and shows him covering his eyes. To me it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like in his first encounter with the metal object when
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  Speaker 1: it flashed three times it took three photographs of him
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  Speaker 1: and these were being reproduced in the air in front
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  Speaker 1: of him. Then the image vanishes and it's replaced by
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  Speaker 1: a picture of a floating globe. It seems like the
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  Speaker 1: creatures are trying to communicate in some way now that
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  Speaker 1: the globe flashes. First it flashes once and then it
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  Speaker 1: pauses and then it flashes twice and then pauses and
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  Speaker 1: then flashes three times and it counts up to the
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  Speaker 1: number six. At which point loosely holds up seven fingers
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  Speaker 1: completing the sequence. After that he's given a series of
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  Speaker 1: weird shapes that he finds really hard to make any
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  Speaker 1: sense of. He tries to describe him. He describes it
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  Speaker 1: as kind of a spiky ball like a chestnut with
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  Speaker 1: rings around it and various rings are flashing. Although he
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  Speaker 1: tries to make accurate descriptions of it in the diary
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to relate everything here just because it
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  Speaker 1: won't be very interesting to relay everything he describes. I
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  Speaker 1: recommend going to read the account itself if you want
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  Speaker 1: to learn more. After this the projection is getting even
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  Speaker 1: more incomprehensible. It's just given a load of shapes and
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  Speaker 1: things that don't make any sense to him. He's actually
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  Speaker 1: getting pretty tired at this point because it's getting dark
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  Speaker 1: and it just seems like they're projecting a load of
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  Speaker 1: images at him. They're trying to speak to him and
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  Speaker 1: cut some kind of symbolic language that he can't make
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  Speaker 1: heads or tails of. Eventually the projection just completely stops.
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  Speaker 1: The little creature moves into the center of the clearing
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  Speaker 1: and raises its rod into the air and loosely sees
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  Speaker 1: this as his chance to get out of there and
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  Speaker 1: he does. He quickly runs away and makes his way
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  Speaker 1: out of the forest. That night he was walking again
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  Speaker 1: and he was able to see the falling star return.
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  Speaker 1: It returned to the area and then took off again.
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  Speaker 1: It was more cloudy that night so he wasn't able
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  Speaker 1: to see it as clearly but he assumed that that
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  Speaker 1: was the craft returning to retrieve the machines. After that
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  Speaker 1: night he never saw any strange sightings ever again and
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  Speaker 1: he actually writes or writes again in the diary ten
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  Speaker 1: years later that he's starting to wonder if the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was a dream but he's glad that he's got
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  Speaker 1: the diary to remind him that it actually happened. First
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  Speaker 1: thing much to the end of the encounter is pretty
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  Speaker 1: interesting and I recommend you go and read it for
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  Speaker 1: yourself because he gives a lot more detail and I've given.
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  Speaker 1: There is a book I'd recommend as well. It's by
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  Speaker 1: David Langford and it's called An Account of a Meeting
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  Speaker 1: with Denizens of Another World. It's got the entire diary
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  Speaker 1: in the book and then at the back Langford gives
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  Speaker 1: his own interpretations of some of the messages that the
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  Speaker 1: aliens are trying to convey. For example, something that didn't
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  Speaker 1: occur to me when I was reading the diary entry
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  Speaker 1: was that one of the basic intelligence tests we give
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  Speaker 1: to children and to animals to see how good their
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  Speaker 1: self-awareness is to show mirror image of themselves to see
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  Speaker 1: how they react. So it was almost as if they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to do that we've loosely shown him a
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  Speaker 1: picture of himself to see what his reaction would be.
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  Speaker 1: After that came the basic counting experiment to see if
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  Speaker 1: he was able to complete the sequence and then once
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  Speaker 1: they'd sort of established if he had some level of
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  Speaker 1: intelligence they were went on to give him some images.
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  Speaker 1: One was another sequence of numbers. One of these sequences
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  Speaker 1: numbers is actually one sequence in the Pascal triangle and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know much about mathematics but it gives a
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  Speaker 1: pretty detailed explanation of it in the book. The second
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  Speaker 1: sequence of numbers he's given is actually the Fibonacci sequence.
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  Speaker 1: After that he's given a series of strange shapes. The
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  Speaker 1: one I described with the weird spiky ball, the rings
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  Speaker 1: around it that sounds like they were describing a solar system. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so he give two different solar systems and one of
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  Speaker 1: them was supposed supposedly our own sun. So I was
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  Speaker 1: interested about the interpretation because it was from 1980. Langford
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  Speaker 1: wondered why when they show loosely a picture of the
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  Speaker 1: solar system they only show eight rings surrounding the sun
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  Speaker 1: because he says surely they'd know that Pluto existed and
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  Speaker 1: it was shown nine rings because it was written in 1980.
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  Speaker 1: Pluto was still considered a planet. It was only in
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  Speaker 1: 2006 that it was actually downgraded. It might show that
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  Speaker 1: the aliens had some kind of knowledge that was greater
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  Speaker 1: than what we possess for a hundred years or more.
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  Speaker 1: After that there's a weird series of shapes which loosely
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  Speaker 1: tries to describe but he doesn't really make any sense
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  Speaker 1: of him. It's like a spinning ball with shapes being
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  Speaker 1: around it. One of them looks like an hourglass, one
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  Speaker 1: of them looks like a ring. Langford actually managed to
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  Speaker 1: decipher the shapes as being pictures of atoms and it's
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  Speaker 1: actually thought to be part of the Schrodinger equation. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: again I don't really know much about physics but he's
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  Speaker 1: described as being the solutions of Schrodinger's wave equation for
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  Speaker 1: wave particles. What's most interesting about this is although the
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  Speaker 1: diary was written in 1871, Schrodinger's wave equation wasn't formulated
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  Speaker 1: until 1926. He was given some knowledge that wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: discovered for a number of decades afterwards. There's way too
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  Speaker 1: much in the book to describe in the recording but
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  Speaker 1: I definitely recommend if you want to learn more about this,
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  Speaker 1: get the book. So anyway I'll end the recording here.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to share with you something I've never
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  Speaker 1: really heard anyone speaking about this particular case and I
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  Speaker 1: found it very interesting so I kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 1: spread the word, share it with the wider world. Let
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  Speaker 1: me know what you think. I've never heard of any
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  Speaker 1: such alien encounters before with these strange metal objects. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be looking into some more old alien sightings
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  Speaker 1: as I do want to happen just down the road
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  Speaker 1: from where I live. So I might go and investigate
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  Speaker 1: the area in a future video. I hope you like
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  Speaker 1: this one. It's been a while since I've uploaded a
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  Speaker 1: video actually. I've probably used for a huge delay in
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  Speaker 1: uploading a video. Hopefully it won't be so long before
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  Speaker 1: the next one. I've just been having a massive mental
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  Speaker 1: block I think. Hope you enjoyed the recording. If you're
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  Speaker 1: So this week my computer decided to completely die on
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  Speaker 1: me and right now I'm in the process of trying
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  Speaker 1: to transfer some of my old video files over to
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  Speaker 1: a new computer and I don't have any my usual
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  Speaker 1: editing software or anything to work on and therefore I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been able to work on any recordings this week.
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  Speaker 1: But I did see a picture that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: share with you. So this could well be a photoshop
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  Speaker 1: but even if it is it's still pretty creepy and
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  Speaker 1: worth sharing. So this comes from Macruber Mall in Kitwe
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  Speaker 1: in Zambia. So I'm going to go to the Zambian
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  Speaker 1: Observer for the news for this one. According to eyewitnesses,
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  Speaker 1: the strange image that looked like a human was in
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  Speaker 1: the sky for over 30 minutes whilst looking down on
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  Speaker 1: the mall. One eyewitness said we were shocked to see
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  Speaker 1: images that looked like a human in the clouds for
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  Speaker 1: close to 30 minutes. Others started worshipping it but others
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  Speaker 1: ran away. It was so strange. So that's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: all there is to the story. There's a few other
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  Speaker 1: articles on different websites about it. They all pretty much
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  Speaker 1: say the same thing. For such a strange image to
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  Speaker 1: appear in the clouds for over half an hour, I
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  Speaker 1: find it weird that only two photographs of surface of
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  Speaker 1: it and so far no recordings have been taken. So
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  Speaker 1: what do you think of the image? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: it's real? Do you think it's a Photoshop? I hope
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  Speaker 1: you enjoyed this short video. Hopefully I'll get back to
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  Speaker 1: normal working order soon.