The Spectral Sock Swiper (credit: Fortean Times)

Fortean Times has posted three creepy excerpts from Volume Two of their It Happened To Me! True-life Encounters with the Paranormal series. Check out the Spectral Sock Swiper below. Definitely sounds like a great Halloween read.

In 1959, when I was 19 years old, I visited Alnwick in Northumberland to see a friend. One afternoon, at about 2.00pm, I was waiting for a bus in very bad weather, with thick snow everywhere. Standing to my right was an elderly lady. She wore a long black dress and shawl around her shoulders, her hair pulled back in a bun, her face very thin with deep, tired and sunken eyes.

She commented on the cold day and then asked me if she could have a couple of pairs of socks. It was only then that I noticed that her feet were bare. I took off my socks and handed them to her. She thanked me, put them on and as I stood there watching she simply vanished into thin air! Needless to say, my socks went with her. I presumed she had died in or near that spot and that other people had seen her; perhaps many pairs of socks were now in her spirit possession. I was glad to help this poor unfortunate lady and maybe ease the pain of this earthbound soul. Throughout the encounter, she looked as real and as solid as a living human being.

Mrs VA Martin, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 1998 {source: Fortean Times}

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The declassified files have revealed many previously unknown cases (dw-world.de)

In the two years since the French made their top-secret UFO files public, more European nations have declassified documents. But the majority remain tight-lipped with a few refusing to even acknowledge the phenomenon.

On August 4, 1990, an unidentified flying object was seen hovering in daylight near the town of Pitlochry in Scotland. Eyewitnesses stated that the diamond shaped object hung in the sky for about 10 minutes as two military aircraft made a series of low-level passes near it.
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I recently heard Nick Pope discuss the case of Milton Torres and it’s got to be one of the more compelling pilot/UFO encounters I’ve heard of. You don’t usually hear of the pilots being ordered to intercept and shoot UFOs down. See for yourself in this emotional video from the Disclosure Press Conference held at the National Press Club on April 20th, 2009.

Torres and his fellow pilot were in the “alert shack” at RAF Manston when they received instructions to take to the air. The two pilots raced to their respective F-86Ds and took off well within the allotted five minutes. “As soon as my wheels were in the well, I received a call from the Ground-controlled interception (GCI) station at RAF Metropolitan (Met) Sector informing me that this would be a fire mission and that I would be selecting all 24 of my rockets,” Torres remembers.^[3]

“The very first thing they told me was that I was to fire my rockets at the object,” Torres said in a 2009 interview. “The message from GCI was clear. Someone had made the decision to shoot at the UFO even before I took to the air.”^[4] {source: wikipedia}

{video source: PRGVideo}