Family "abducted by aliens" in Stanford in the Vale feature in new book The Veiled Vale by Mike White

WHAT really happened to the family who encountered a UFO in Stanford in the Vale?

What tragedy made a young Wallingford girl daub a wall with her own tears?

And what does the Uffington White Horse get up to once every hundred years?

An amateur paranormal investigator from Grove has answered these and dozens more questions in a new book of unexplained mysteries from southern Oxfordshire.

Father-of-two Mike White has spent two decades compiling his collection of spooky stories while working in the civil service and in IT.

Now he has published the collection in a tome called The Veiled Vale.

The 55-year-old said: "The Vale of the White Horse and the beautiful countryside of South Oxfordshire is a landscape steeped in thousands of years of legends, history and mystery: there are witches, monsters and ghosts; old legends and modern-day tales of strange encounters with the unknown."

Among the unexplained anecdotes is the story of a family who thought they were abducted by aliens while driving through Stanford in the Vale near Wantage.

In 1978, John Mann, wife Gloria, and his sister Frances were driving home to Gloucestershire through the village with their children, Natasha, five, and Tanya, three, at 10pm.

They saw a bright white light in the sky up ahead, pulled over and got out the car, staring at it.

The light became a "vast circular shape, more than 100 feet up" moving very slowly over -read more

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Astonishing new footage shows gorilla 'PROTECTING' boy and holding his hand before being shot dead

Astonishing new footage how Harambe the gorilla was protecting a four-year-old boy who fell into his cage - minutes before he was shot dead.

Moments later, the 17-year-old gorilla was fatally shot by zoo staff in a bid to protect the boy who had fallen 12 feet into the enclosure.

However, eyewitnesses have claimed that the gorilla was showing no aggressive behaviour towards the boy.

It is claimed that screams from those watching the unfolding situation panicked the animal, causing him to drag the child at a quick speed across the water.read and watch video

STONER SHEEP get the MUNCHIES after feasting on £4k worth of cannabis plants

A flock of sheep that are about to meet their maker at the abattoir got high on cannabis plants worth £4,000, after the drugs were ditched in a Surrey field.

"My sheep weren't quite on their backs with legs in the air but they probably had the munchies," farm shop manager Nellie Budd told local rag the Surrey Mirror.

"They haven't had any other side effects but I'll tell you about the meat next week."

The stash of marijuana plants, which were each roughly three foot tall, were dumped at the edge of Fanny's Farm in Markedge Lane, the paper reported. Budd's shop was just 200 yards from where the drugs were fly-tipped, apparently.

Police told Budd that the cannabis had a street value of about £4,000.

She added:

"My sheep being inquisitive had an interesting feast on it," she said. "At first I thought it was someone's hedgerow rubbish. I went down to get the bags so the sheep weren't eating black plastic.

"When I got there I realised it was a form of herbal cannabis plant. They were very strong in scent."

Budd said she was puzzled by how the plants came to be in the field, and speculated that someone could have taken a detour off the motorway to offload the drugs.

The stoned sheep, meanwhile, are understood to be wandering around r-e-a-l-l-y-s-l-o-w-l-y and feeling a tad bit paranoid while searching for a massive chocolate bar and a family-sized bag of crisps, man

Cask from the past: archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old beer recipe

Chinese villagers could have been raising a pint 5,000 years ago, according to new research.

Archaeologists studying vessels unearthed in the Shaanxi province of China say they’ve uncovered beer-making equipment dating from between 3400 and 2900 BC - an era known as the late Yangshao period - and figured out the recipe to boot.

The beer of yesteryear

 

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“China has an early tradition of fermentation and evidence of rice-based fermented beverage has been found from the 9000-year-old Jiahu site. However, to our knowledge, [the new discovery] is the first direct evidence of in situ beer making in China,” said Jiajing Wang of Stanford University, first author of the new research.

The team examined residues in the vessels to reveal that the brew was made from a wide range of plants, including broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum), Job’s tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) and barley.

The discovery marks the earliest known evidence of barley being used in China, suggesting that the crop arrived in the country around 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. =read more

would ban all smacking?

could all smacking soon be illegal due to britain's  children's  commissioners pleading to the u.n to back ban on any form of smacking.at present in england and wales only parents can give a child a light tap or a reasonable chastisement .

Bones of Thomas Becket to return to Canterbury – via Hungary

A fragment of bone believed to come from the body of Thomas Becket is to return to England from Hungary for the first time in more than 800 years in a vivid symbol of reconciliation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics.

The relic, held in the Basilica of Esztergom, the country’s most important Catholic church, is to form the centrepiece of an elaborate week-long “pilgrimage” to London and Canterbury involving the Hungarian President János Áder, and top-level clerics from the two churches.

It will be reunited temporarily with a handful of other relics revered for their associations with the murdered archbishop as it travels from his birthplace on Cheapside in the City of London to the site of his murder in Canterbury Cathedral.-read more

25 million to one eggs.

2 sisters managed  to fry a breakfast with a rare triple yolk egg followed by 3 double yolkers which had odds of 25 million to one.

lion shot dead over mans apparent suicide .

in santiago metropolitan zoo ,chile  ,visitors looked in shock when a naked man clambered into the lions cage screaming about religion.the african lions were shot dead due to sinking teeth and claws into man,the man is critically ill in hospital.

chapel of king arthur.

in glastonbury,somerset the remains of a medieval church are being excavated to learn age as said to have been visited by king arthur .

school bans playground whistle.

st.monicas catholic school ,milton  keynes has decided to ban teachers from blowing a whistle at end of playtime as it may scare the children.now the teachers put up a hand and wait for children to notice.

E.s.a Blues

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WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: CFZ Awards

a day out ,interrogated,felt like crap -esa assessment test

on firday  the  27th i went  to launceston  ,hospital for my assessment ,yeah happy days not ,onarrival i had to prove i was me via birth and marriage certificate then sit waiting room that was almost barren for an hour over appointment time as doctor running late.when finally got to interview room i handed over proof of illness and then felt like a prison officer in an old war film when questioned by ss official , informed as had to give dates how got ill ,how affected ,daily routine then a very basic exam then told to expect a letter to seal my fate yet again how i wish life was as easy as newspapers think it is.

Astigmatism

Introduction 

Astigmatism is a common and usually minor eye condition that causes blurred or distorted vision.

It occurs when the cornea or lens isn't a perfectly curved shape. Many people who wear glasses have some degree of astigmatism.

Astigmatism belongs to a group of related eye conditions known as refractive errors. Other common refractive errors include:

• short-sightedness (myopia)
• long-sightedness (hypermetropia)

If you have astigmatism, it's likely you'll also have one of these conditions.

Left untreated, astigmatism can cause headaches, eye strain and fatigue (tiredness), particularly after doing tasks that involve focusing on something for long periods, such as reading or using a computer.

What causes astigmatism?

Astigmatism is usually the result of an irregular-shaped cornea or lens. The cornea is the transparent layer of tissue at the front of the eye.

The cornea should be regularly curved like the surface of a football, but in cases of astigmatism it has an irregular curve, more like the shape of a rugby ball. This means that light rays entering the eye aren't focused properly, creating a blurred image.read more

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traffic jam relief

this is an unusual or weird way to help you in a traffic jam.it is a device called hewee go active -jockstrap like item-149 pounds -a man can wee through a washable  and tear resistant plastic bag and even hols up to a pint .read more

Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Depression

Getting high on a psychedelic drug extracted from "magic mushrooms" could help those who struggle with incurable depression, new research suggests.

Half of patients in a small pilot study of 12 people had reduced symptoms three months after taking psilocybin capsules.

While the study authors warn that it is too early to make strong conclusions about the use of the drug, it did show that more research was needed.

Lead author Dr Robin Carhart-Harris from Imperial College London said: "This is the first time that psilocybin has been investigated as a potential treatment for major depression.

"Treatment-resistant depression is common, disabling and extremely difficult to treat.

"New treatments are urgently needed, and our study shows that psilocybin is a promising area of future research.

"The results are encouraging and we now need larger trials to understand whether the effects we saw in this study translate into read more

todays special buy -Brazilian wandering spider .

in a Bolton supermarket -a Tesco branch-a customer found a surprise when he brought bananas from it that day when he got home.when he peeled them back he claims hundreds of spiders hatched believed to be brazilian wandering spider-venom from this spider can kill in 2 hours .