15 May 2014 08:54:57
I was talking to my wife about things that made an impact on me when I was young and the one thing that stood out after about 40 years was a "Nationwide" story about a woman being terrified by a creature with red eyes that has climbed the stairs in her home.
The reason this stick out for me was that the tv screen at the moment they mentioned red eyes went black and they flashed two glowing eyes out - scared me rigid as a 6 year old!
Does anyone else remember this story and if so do they remember any follow up to it?
Funnily enough my grandmother claimed that a creature with red eyes looked into her living room window at night, even though the drop from her living room to the ground outside was around 12 foot. Before you say it - she told me about it years after the Nationwide story.
Anyone else have similar stories?
Spring Heeled Jack was a Victorian myth if I remember rightly.
Although my recollection is hazy now - old age gets to us all! - I think this story ran around 76-78ish.
A woman was interviewed saying that she woke one night to see a black shadow standing on her landing with luminous red eyes - this was when the tv when black and they flashed two red lights on screen - as you can imagine that was pretty scary in those days.
I'm sure it was the programme Nationwide that the report was on.
As for the beast at my gran's window she said it was black headed and had piercing red eyes. looked at her throught the pane and then dropped down as if going to all fours - maybe this was a Rhondda Valley ABC? :)
PmacC
I was a child in the 80s but had an aunt who was in her late teens. She told me a story about the 'half-baked monkey'. It was well known to men who went fishing on the grand union camel, less than half a mile north of the Bath road and parallel to it, running east/west.
Only seen at night the monkey had glowing red eyes. It was a known and accepted legend due to the number of people whom had seen it.
Well, my aunt almost ran the monkey over in her car. She was driving on the bath road in the early hours on a Friday or Saturday night and was close to the laboratory site. The half-baked monkey ran out into the road in front of her. She slammed on the brakes and came to a halt. She stared at the monkey and the monkey stood in the road staring at her. She describes it as being chimp like, 3. 5ft tall, red eyes that glowed but there was something very different about its legs, they were more like a horse's rear legs in terms of their skeletal form. Kind of back to front.
The monkey ran off after a few seconds.
I no longer live in slough but grew up with some great stories. In the mid 70s at least 150 witnesses saw a large silver UFO land and then after 5 minutes take off from a park in north slough, in the middle of a sunny afternoon. I have a good friend who was perhaps 3 at the time who lived in a house which backed on to that park. He ran out into his garden to be confronted by this UFO, silver, seamless and disc shaped. He ran scared back into the house. He maintains it took up the whole park which would suggest it was a minimum 100m wide.