The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages

[Aragorn]

DESCRIPTION

In 1984 something strange happened in the village of Dodleston. A BBC Micro was sitting on a counter, when it suddenly started receiving mysterious messages, which appeared to come from the 16th century. This might have gone unnoticed had local teachers, Ken Webster and Peter Trinder, not investigated to find that information was so accurate, it would be almost impossible to fake.

This whole event was documented in the book "The Vertical Plane", published in 1989.

DURATION

44 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDgG5MKndo

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It was most likely a hoax, but it will definitely haven taken a lot of research beforehand to pull this off.

It does make for a nice story, though.

[The One]

Author

This book is a record of a most unusual set of communications. They are described in the everyday context in which they occurred. It is therefore not a scientific document, but it does contain observations at first hand from a number of reliable persons. Despite the necessity of selecting from the communications I feel that this book is faithful to the events it portrays. I hope that the interest – and perhaps controversy – that this book will generate will not centre on the brief notes at the end of the book where I offer some personal thoughts on the genesis of the messages. These notes are simply to encourage discussion, for in all these matters I am acutely conscious of the inadequacy of my own knowledge. But I share the opinion and optimism of Sir William Crookes who, when asked to explain how the psychic, D. D. Home, managed his feats,retorted: ‘I didn’t say it was possible, I said it happened!’
Chester, May 1988