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than I!] and found at the spot where the form had appeared, an imprint of a four toed footprint similar to one found at a place called Devils’ Dyke near Brighton, where there was known to be a black magic “coven”. Stringer made a quick sketch of the footprint. It was unknown to him at the time, that it matches a footprint reproduced in Collin de Plancy’s “Dictionaire infernal” published i in 1863, and that this footprint is supposed to be that of al. GN WL ee a cL) UFO sightings continued at Clapham into 1978 and 1979. The spate of strange reports at that time concluded with the disappearance of the Reverend Neil Snelling, vicar of Clapham church. One morning after shopping at Worthing, he decided to walk back to his Steyning home through Clapham Wood. He has not been heard of since and an exhaustive search of the area Paul Glover and Dave Stringer and another man went to Clapham to see if they could spot any UFOs. There was no activity. They decided to go home and as they were walking out of the woods, all three of them simultaneously had a feeling of intense cold. They hurried on and the feeling ceased. They decided to go back and check it out again. They did this three times, and each time experienced the sensation of a sudden and unnatural drop in temperature. Glover pointed his camera at the area of the cold, even though nothing was apparently visible. When the film was developed, it showed an uncanny white mass in the unmistakable image of a goat’s head.” All in all, I was coming to an awareness that this phenomenon was not only strange, it was possibly dangerous. Just how strange and dangerous I would discover soon enough. The gentleman who had arrived late was, apparently, well known by the group as an “expert”, which interested me as much as his name. He talked at length about the theories of Zecharia Sitchin. I was intrigued by the historical connections to UFO sightings, though I discounted the precise interpretation put on the Sumerian writings by Dr. Sitchin. At the end of the meeting, I asked this gentleman where he came from and told him that his uncommon surname was the same as my great-grandmother’s. He recognized her name and told me that his father had been her younger brother. The only reason I had never known of him or met him was, according to him, there had been a “religious” schism in the family. My great grandmother had abandoned the Baptist church and became Methodist. ° Howard, Hamish, Newton, Toyne, Mysteries of Mind, Space & Time, Volume 4, Stuttman, Westport, 1992. 85 High Strangeness — Part One the “Demon Amduscias”. revealed nothing. Back to the account of the MUFON meeting. It seems that synchronicity was rapidly becoming my middle name.