Tweeting snippets from The Unexplained, the paranormal mag published from 1980-83. UFOs, cryptids, mysteries, SHC... Account run by @thebellow (100% unofficial)
Perhaps the most notorious photos in The Unexplained were from issue 2. A feature on spontaneous human combustion convinced a generation of readers they might suddenly burst into flames. Several cases involved fires and cigarettes, were they actually spontaneous? #unexplained
QUESTION OF THE DAY:
What first got you into the paranormal? {a book, an experience, a TV show, a location, something else}.
For me it was the @Usborne books & others alike. I loved Haunted Britain & Ghost Story compilations. All these blew my mind as a kid.
Please do tell.
🧵1/5: In May 1977, BBC1 broadcast 'Out of this World', in which Hugh Burnett interviewed UFO witnesses, and people involved in the UFO experience. A series of uninterrupted talking heads, it's a glorious parade of eccentrics: "I'll be damned, it's a blinkin' flying saucer!"
This was all I could think about when the kids asked me to test them with the words they have to learn for a spelling test & number 4 was spontaneous.
Vivid flashbacks to #Unexplained all them years ago quickly followed.
Page 898 of The Unexplained, and it’s eyes down for a brace of terrifying visitations as we encounter new case studies from…. The UFO Casebook! These examples both come from darkest East Anglia, but years before the events at Rendlesham Forest… #ufotwitter
They dismissed the explanation from the friends in the car, instead suggested they’d mistaken the flame stack from a local propane gas plant. Was there a connection between the two sightings?
Page 898 of The Unexplained, and it’s eyes down for a brace of terrifying visitations as we encounter new case studies from…. The UFO Casebook! These examples both come from darkest East Anglia, but years before the events at Rendlesham Forest… #ufotwitter
When he was discharged the next afternoon he spoke of a force that pulled him from the car and a ‘man in the flames’ pointing at him. The incident got a brief write-up in the local paper, including quotes from Doctors joking about ‘Martians’.