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Interesting If True - Episode 26 - The Specter of Sam
Welcome to Interesting If True’s very special Halloween edition. Where the scariest thing ISN’T the fact that we have microphones.
I'm your host this week, Jenn, and with me are:
I'm Aaron, and I’ve learned that married life and coupled life isn’t really all that much different… except the paperwork. So. Much. Paperwork.
I'm Shea, and this week I learned that every Sarah is descended from a single trisarahtops dinosaur. If we go off air, it’s because ancestry.com doesn’t want you to know this and they are trying to shut us down.
The 70s were a different time... and let’s not visit the Isle of Wight.
* https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sandown_Clown
* https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/sam-the-sandown-ghost-clown-england/
* https://www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2020/7/25/ep-183-sam-the-sandown-clown
* https://www.historydisclosure.com/two-children-close-encounter-strange-humanoid/
Ok, folks, today I bring you a story of the magic of childhood. And by magic I think I may mean nightmarishly bizarre.
A few things to keep in mind whilst I regale you with my story. Remember being a little kid? Perspective is different. Ever heard of the 70s, LSD was in the tap water and falling from the sky. You know the British? All lunatics.
So to begin: this story was first reported in the January/February 1978 edition of The BUFORA Journal. What bastion of journalistic strength is the The BJ? Well, for starters it’s an acronym for The British UFO Research Association. (It’s at this point in the story Steve has left the building.) But let’s not be hasty, this is definitely not your mother’s flying saucer story.
This is the story of 2 children, a young girl of about 8 who is known only as ‘Fay’ and an unnamed boy of about the same age and their experience with… Sam the Sandown Clown.
The setting is the Isle of Wight, one of the smaller of the British Isles, at Lake Common in the little town of Sandown. While walking around a golf course they heard a noise similar to an ambulance siren. They followed it across the golf course and through a hedge leading to a swampy field adjacent to Sandown Airport. The noise stopped.
https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1939-the-sandown-clown-wooden-astronaut-from-isle-wight/
Hut description: The being invited the children into his hut. The children crawled into the hut through a flap. The hut was divided into two levels. The lower level had a blue-green wallpaper and covered with a pattern of dials. Also, it had an electric heater and some basic wooden furniture. The upper level was less spacious and had a metallic floor. He told them that he fed on berries that he collected in the late afternoon without indicating where but indicated that he had a camp or a base in the mainland he could go. As far as drinking is concerned he drank water from the nearby river once he had cleaned it.
The children talked to the being for about half an hour and after saying goodbye they rushed out to tell the first person that they had seen the ghost. The man they spoke to just laughed assuming it was all just made up. Most probably lacking any other reference to their experience the children labeled the being as a ghost.
A few weeks later,
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Welcome to Interesting If True’s very special Halloween edition. Where the scariest thing ISN’T the fact that we have microphones.
I'm your host this week, Jenn, and with me are:
I'm Aaron, and I’ve learned that married life and coupled life isn’t really all that much different… except the paperwork. So. Much. Paperwork.
I'm Shea, and this week I learned that every Sarah is descended from a single trisarahtops dinosaur. If we go off air, it’s because ancestry.com doesn’t want you to know this and they are trying to shut us down.
The 70s were a different time... and let’s not visit the Isle of Wight.
* https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sandown_Clown
* https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/sam-the-sandown-ghost-clown-england/
* https://www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2020/7/25/ep-183-sam-the-sandown-clown
* https://www.historydisclosure.com/two-children-close-encounter-strange-humanoid/
Ok, folks, today I bring you a story of the magic of childhood. And by magic I think I may mean nightmarishly bizarre.
A few things to keep in mind whilst I regale you with my story. Remember being a little kid? Perspective is different. Ever heard of the 70s, LSD was in the tap water and falling from the sky. You know the British? All lunatics.
So to begin: this story was first reported in the January/February 1978 edition of The BUFORA Journal. What bastion of journalistic strength is the The BJ? Well, for starters it’s an acronym for The British UFO Research Association. (It’s at this point in the story Steve has left the building.) But let’s not be hasty, this is definitely not your mother’s flying saucer story.
This is the story of 2 children, a young girl of about 8 who is known only as ‘Fay’ and an unnamed boy of about the same age and their experience with… Sam the Sandown Clown.
The setting is the Isle of Wight, one of the smaller of the British Isles, at Lake Common in the little town of Sandown. While walking around a golf course they heard a noise similar to an ambulance siren. They followed it across the golf course and through a hedge leading to a swampy field adjacent to Sandown Airport. The noise stopped.
https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1939-the-sandown-clown-wooden-astronaut-from-isle-wight/
Hut description: The being invited the children into his hut. The children crawled into the hut through a flap. The hut was divided into two levels. The lower level had a blue-green wallpaper and covered with a pattern of dials. Also, it had an electric heater and some basic wooden furniture. The upper level was less spacious and had a metallic floor. He told them that he fed on berries that he collected in the late afternoon without indicating where but indicated that he had a camp or a base in the mainland he could go. As far as drinking is concerned he drank water from the nearby river once he had cleaned it.
The children talked to the being for about half an hour and after saying goodbye they rushed out to tell the first person that they had seen the ghost. The man they spoke to just laughed assuming it was all just made up. Most probably lacking any other reference to their experience the children labeled the being as a ghost.
A few weeks later,