Many of us enjoy a good ghost story. Many of us enjoy Science
Fiction. But how many stories do you know that start off as one
and evolve into the other? What's become known as "The mystery of
the Dodleston messages" is precisely just such a case. And if the
story is accurate, it comes with some of the most incredible,
baffling, and mind-bending implications we've ever encountered.
Towards the end of summer in 1984, teacher and musician Ken
Webster was renovating his 16th-century home named "Meadow
Cottage" when the strange activity began. Located in the village
of Dodleston, four miles southwest of the town of Chester in
northwest England near the border with Wales, life was taking its
usual somnambulistic pace while dusted with the discomfort and
drudgery of living in a small, historical residence during
construction. But one day, while Webster's lodger friend Nicola
helped to decorate, the pair noticed tiny, six-toed footprints
going up the wall that would reappear even after repainting.
Then, it seemed a poltergeist repeatedly stacked their pantry
goods in a playful yet orderly fashion. Clearly to them, some
acquaintance was having a laugh at their expense. But a bigger
mystery unfolded after Webster brought home a BBC brand word
processor from his school so Nicola could write comedy sketches.
Ken Webster, Nicola, and Ken's girlfriend Debbie noticed that
someone was leaving at first cryptic messages on the
microcomputer, but seemingly written in the style of 16th-century
English. Before long, the epistler, or as the trio first thought,
merry prankster, had identified himself as "Lukas" and was
wondering what all these strange but decent folks were doing in
his farmhouse, mucking about. Through leaving text documents back
and forth, an ongoing conversation and friendship developed.
Lukas claimed to be the original owner of the cottage. Not only
that, he said he was currently living under the reign of King
Henry VIII and his queen of the moment, Catherine Parr, making
Lukas' lifetime the 1540s of England. But as unbelievable as this
more than 400-year-old correspondence appeared, the situation
would become even more bizarre as Lukas, Ken, and his friends
would find themselves embroiled in royal Tudor intrigue with
trying to save Lukas' life. Complicating this otherworldly drama
was the emergence of mysterious correspondents who claimed to be
manipulating this portal through time. As relatively mundane as
Lukas' messages often were, these new entities professed to be
from the future, or perhaps a possible future, and warned that
messing with the paradoxes of time travel could lead to terrible
consequences with alternate timelines. Ken Webster documented
this series of mind-blowing events in his book, The Vertical
Plane, published in 1989. Tonight, we're joined once again by our
great friend and paranormal oracle, Richard Hatem. Rich made us
aware of this story by generously gifting us Webster's book,
years before its now princely sum of over $500 for a used,
out-of-print copy on Amazon. Part One of our series on this
unimaginable occurrence will focus on how Webster and his friends
got to know this true "Renaissance Man" and leading up to the
possibility that there are overlords of time who can dabble in
our destinies.
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