Lloyd’s Sunday News (London) of Oct. 14, 1923 relates the case of John Blackman, a well-known labor leader of Eastbourne, Sussex, England. In April 1922, Blackman was committed to prison for arrears due to his wife. The judge who committed him died suddenly. When the man was released, he still refused to pay, and was sent back to prison. That judge “died … [Read more...] about Died suddenly
England
Unlike anything I had ever seen before
In Nature, 90-169 and additional subsequent pages is the account of a man, Charles Tilden Smith, who saw “two stationary dark patches upon clouds” on April 8, 1912 at Chisbury, Wiltshire, England. These patches were triangular and varied in size, but “kept the same position upon different clouds as cloud after cloud came along.” He watched them for more … [Read more...] about Unlike anything I had ever seen before
Black rain
Earthquakes occurred in England in 1884, according to correspondents in Nature, 30-6, during the same time that there were black rains. “An intense darkness” happened during this time at Preston, England (April 26, 1884), and a black rain at Crowle, near Worcester, on the same date. Two days later, near Church Shetton, was another black rain so intense that brooks … [Read more...] about Black rain
An illumination so brilliant
In Symons’ Met. Mag., 29-8, appears the account of brilliant light accompanying an earthquake and the sound of an explosion. It happened on Jan. 25, 1894 at 9:30 p.m., 20 miles west of Hereford at Llanthomas and Clifford. Half an hour later, near Hereford and Worcester, an earthquake was felt (Nature, 49-325). Symons’ Met. Mag. also records that at Stokesay Vicarage … [Read more...] about An illumination so brilliant
Unknown aircraft over Dover
Throughout January 1913, newspapers in England and Wales reported sightings of an unknown airship with lights on it. Reports began in the London Times on Jan. 6 (also London Standard, Jan. 24) that an unknown airship had been seen over Dover, and the lights of an airship had been seen over the Bristol Channel. An object was reported in the sky of Cardiff, Wales, by the chief … [Read more...] about Unknown aircraft over Dover