Dodleston Research

I often think about this as I cook and EVERY recipe I make from anywhere (except China/Japan) requires some kind of tomato product... they're so ubiquitous now!

It definitely looks 'real' but that really doesn't sound like a goblin (I don't know what a goblin sounds like, but its not that!) I'd assume some animal with mange stuck in a hole... and is possibly what gave rise to the legend.

I remember this one... definitely contributed to my developing OCD!

Whenever someone sneers at bus spotters I invite them to look through local history pages on Facebook. A huge number of the old photos that people wax lyrical about have a bus in the foreground. So it is the bus spotters who are chronicling our history, and better than most.

After I've figured out how to tame WordPress of course. Seems to have fallen prey to the general enshittifaction of previously useful tools!!!

Ooooh... seems I'm not the only one planning a proper deep dive into what happened at Dodleston. Not sure if a high profile investigation would help or hinder my work but it definitely means I need to get off my proverbial and start actually writing...

They're fascinating because their oddness and pointlessness asks questions about the nature of true paranormal events or about the type of people who would make them up. Neither have easy answers.

These are the stories that fascinate me. I know high strangeness is a great term, but this is not even that 'high'. I look to Mothman a fair bit for these things as that was also essentially pointless and just kind of accepted as normal at the time.

And it doesn't follow received poltergeist narratives (if you ignore the terrible graphics). Its just a load of weird stuff and the lights are quite unique.

So this sits alongside Dodleston - 1980s, not a usual story, completely pointless, generally ignored. Just weird stuff happening.

But what makes me think its not a hoax is that it seems to be so little known. They evidently made a documentary in the mid 90s (based on hair styles) but no one benefitted from it. It didn't provide fame or fortune. Not even attention if it wasn't even released until 2023.

I'd assume that if it was real it would be better known as it injures a man, which is rare, and if it was a hoax it would be better known as it would have been quite audacious to fake a poltergeist hanging. Its quite complex, loads of witnesses, loads of footage.

It was surprisingly good! All happened in 1989 so no gadgets but loads of images and photos of light phenomena, they know who the entity is and an investigator is genuinely hanged and it is photographed...

Why have I never heard of it? 🧵

No one could decide how to say it! Pedro, Paydro, Peeedro... all from the same people. And they lived there! California... not like they're nowhere near Spanish speakers. I could understand it in Glasgow!

He is English and pronounces it 'San Peeedro'... brilliant!

Watching 'An Unknown Encounter: The True Account of the San Pedro Haunting' on Amazon Prime. It's dated as 2023 but is so amazingly 80s paranormal documentary it is wonderful... I'm ten minutes in and loving it! Apparently someone gets hanged live!

Plus this guy...

(If it doesn't, or you're prone to MH issues go see your Dr)

No one warns you about the affects of GAs! Usually people are too distracted or on pain meds so don't notice, but GAs can cause quite a substantial period of depression/lack of mojo. Someone literally turned your body off! It'll come back soon.

Tried to read it as a young teen (inspired by Kate Bush). Could not understand how such a revered author could make such a rooky mistake. Surely writing 101 is 'make the characters no one can actually see distinguishable from one another'.

But there is something in that as its a magnification of how these stories and theories spread and how one comes to be a 'specialist' in an area that doesn't have 'official' specialists and how beliefs are created and strengthened.

m.imdb.com/title/tt1261...

(The description claims the Documentary solves the case - it doesn't, and neither does it claim to - but it does provide some compelling and ultimately sensible theories)

and become a spectacle (e.g. Gef or Enfield). Dodleston just seemed to attract a general shrug from everyone involved!

One of the things I find fascinating about Dodleston is the length of the activity with no Streisand effect involved - it was essentially ignored so why bother? So many unexplained phenomena are either 'debunked' quickly encouraging further investigation (e.g. Dyatlov), or go fully to the press

Just watched a documentary on the Dyatlov pass incident. Really quite interesting and a pretty good example of a decent documentary about a mystery.

And certainly a good example of the Streisand effect.

Hey! This project has been delayed due to some 'life events' but I should be back on it in February so if you're interested in keeping up with the research and discussing a bit of stuff then give us a follow and we can get going...

Yes, thats the name of the book that was written by the guy it happened to. Do you know it?

Well, if I haven't seen a joke and there is no reference to a joke, I'm not going to boycott something on hearsay. I'd like to make my own mind up. If we've learned anything the last couple of weeks its that we can't just blindly agree with strangers' claims.

I can't see anything in the thread. I'd stopped subscribing before then because of my living situation. All I can see was there was a joke.

Its a theory of mine, but its possible that Voirrey had read it - in one SH story they deal with a crooked man who had lived in India and brought his trained mongoose home to London. Would give the right birth year for Gef and explain how he travelled from India...

What did they do? I've subscribed for decades and can't imagine them doing something actually offensive!