In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Vibrating Pole: Mystery Solved
It puzzled me for days — what caused an old aerial pole on a neighbour’s house to oscillate wildly on a seemingly windless day? The answer, it turned out, wasn’t UFOs, but an equally fascinating phenomenon with its explanation rooted firmly in the science of fluid mechanics. I was genuinely baffled by the mystery of [...]
The Mystery Of The Vibrating Pole
It’s never done it before, and it hasn’t done it since. A disused aerial pole on a neighbour’s house was observed to be vibrating in an unusual fashion on Tuesday 4th November 2008. What could have caused it? This innocent-looking metal aerial pole (now disused — it’s minus the aerial) attached to my neighbour’s house [...]
The Truth Behind ‘Cold Comfort’
The story was so outrageous, many doubted it could be true — “Hailstones shooting out the toilet? Nahh. Gotta be a hoax.” When I published “Cold Comfort” a few days ago, it stirred up quite a controversy. So I dug a little deeper. My original source for the story was a humorous item published in [...]
Cold Comfort
What sort of consequences will we have to endure if, as I suspect, our weather starts to turn really cold in the near future? Hopefully, none of us will have to go through this Austrian resident’s unsettling experience … “I was sitting on the toilet in my apartment,” Martin Bierbauer told reporters in Eisenstadt, “when [...]
Pixies In My Fridge
Things disappear without a trace, you search everywhere to no avail, and then they turn up again unexpectedly and in odd places. We’ve all experienced it — but what’s really behind such events? Just poor memory? Or something more exotic? One of my favourite magazines, Fortean Times, often carries letters from readers who’ve experienced that [...]
The Picard Video
you have to watch this it’s awesome
