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sented after she told them as calmly as she could, "Oh, there's nothing there." When back in the chamber, the guide saw her expression and gave her a 'know- ing look’. About a week afterwards the disappear- ance took place, and on her second visit, she saw an entirely new guide who denied that the other guide had ever worked there, although she knew the new guide was hid- ing something. She learned from other more cooperative sources, however, that this was the tunnel that the children had entered, and after the last child had made it through the tunnel, the official version stated the walls 'caved- in’, and they were never found! (to be con- tinued) (Source: Trends and Predictions Analyst, Vol.8 #2) er, or my uncle or myself enter the flat, we are immediately compelled to walk on our hands." The uncle was sent for, who also con- firmed the story. Finally, the magistrate summoned the concierge of the building, who said: "All you have heard is true. I thought my ten- ants had gone mad, but as soon as I entered the rooms occupied by them, I found myself on all fours, endeavouring to throw my feet in the air." The magistrate ordered the rooms to be disinfected! time to spare, she climbed up the hill into the enclosed wood to gaze at her village from its summit. Then she walked back down the slope towards a gap in the bank. 'She had just got to the opening when she felt a queer kind of jerk, a muscular jerk inside her rather than outside, and before she realised what had happened she found herself walking quick- ly in exactly the opposite direction towards the centre of the wood again’. The same thing happened when she tried the gap a second time. She then made for the point at which she had entered, ‘but now she received her greatest shock, for she felt as if an invisible wall was there which she could not pass’. She was trapped for hours behind this magic wall, which felt so solid that she could follow it round with her hands. Meanwhile her absence had been a mat- ter of concern; evening passed into night, and four search parties set out. The girl later said that one party had passed within twenty yards of her, but they could neither see her nor hear her frantic yells for help, although she could see and hear them well enough. Some time later she became aware that the barrier had gone and was able to set off home, frightened and exhausted. (Source: London Daily Mail, 1st May 1907) FAIRY RINGS (Source: Trends and Predictions Analyst, Many strange stories abound in the Vol.8 #2) British Isles about fairies and fairy rings. UNUSUAL COMPULSIONS Even stranger stories emerge from People who have stepped on a patch of soil on In 1907, an elderly woman in Paris com- _ which fairies have placed a spell. plained to a magistrate that every time she The author Dermot Macmanus devotes a went through the door of her apartment, chapter of The Middle Kingdom , 1973, to "something" compelled her to walk on her __ stories of the 'stray sod’, as this enchanted hands. ground is called. The magistrate, thinking she was mad, In 1935 his aunt in Mayo hired a girl detained her, and sent an office to investi- from neighbouring village and sent her on gate. He returned with the woman's son, an errand which meant passing Lis Ard, a who told the court: "I do not pretend to beechwood capped hill ringed by a famous explain it. I only know that when my moth- _fairy-fort. As she was homesick and had "HONEY, WOULD YOU BRING ME A NEW ROLL OF ASBESTOS?" * 1833 - Lompock Ranch, California. A uman skeleton was found, measuring 12 eet in length; it also had a double row of teeth. * 1883- Warren, Minnesota.- 10 gigantic uman skeletons found. ¢ 1968- Delta, Utah.- Fossilised sanda rint found; estimated 250 million years old, from rock formation. ¢ 1845- King Quarry, England.- An iron nail was found inside solid rock. * 185- Springfield, Massachusetts. Nai ‘ound inside quartz rock. * 1869- Treasure City, Nevada. A 2" screw was found inside some feldspar. ¢ 1891- Crittenden, Arizona.- Granite "mummy case" found, made for 12 foot tall uman. * 1891- Morrisonville, Illinois.- A gold chain was found in a coal bed. * Baxter Springs, Kansas.- Human foot- print found in sandstone; 44"x 21"! Extracted from "Space-Time Transients & Unusual Events". Nelson/Hall 1977. NEXUS - 49 UNUSUAL COMPULSIONS GIANT HUMAN FOSSILS SL "HONEY, WOULD YOU BRING ME A NEW ROLL OF ASBESTOS?" JULY/AUGUST 1991 *- YEAR BOOK