Pennies from heaven and a slice from the sky
Here are two more weird but true stories for you. They’re not scary like the man in the stovepipe hat or the black stick man of earlier tales I’ve told here but probably just as disturbing.
Back in 1987 I was living for a time in St Clement’s vicarage in Notting Hill, London. The vicar provided refuge for young lesbian and gay people escaping persecution from evangelical Christian communities and at the time I fitted the bill, having just been effectively excommunicated for coming out as gay in the Christian fellowship I’d been involved with in Cobham, Surrey. I’d nowhere to go – I didn’t want to go home to my parents, though I could have, I suppose with hindsight – and when I called the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM), they found me the place to stay and recover from what had been an awful experience.
tags: apparitions, apports, Fortean, strange, unexplained, weirdThe terror of the black stick man
Have you ever seen something so far outside your normal, everyday experiences you are at a loss to explain what you saw? What follows is the true story—in that nothing is made up, though I cannot vouch for what is real, or waking dream—of an extraordinary encounter with an apparently alien presence in urban surroundings.
In the early hours of a weekday morning when I was living in London as a student, back in the early 1990s, I was walking back from a friend’s house where another friend, Sue, and myself had spent the whole night talking and revising with a group of other people. No drugs or alcohol had been involved other than coffee. Sue lived some way away, so I’d offered to let her crash over at my place. Dawn was just breaking as we turned onto my street. We were very tired and didn’t say much to each other until I spotted a man walking up towards us on the same path, some distance away. I didn’t think anything of it; in a city like London, people are up and about at all hours and besides, weren’t we? He could have been a milkman, a refuse collector, a night-shift worker heading home.
tags: aliens, black stick man, elementals, fear, fey, Fortean, nature spirits, phenomena, sightings, strange, unexplained, unknown, weird
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