Sam the Sandown Clown

Astonishing Legends vor 6 Jahren

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For children, the world is still new and full of wonder. Every
day is a chance for an adventure, discovering exciting
possibilities, and meeting interesting people. Sadly, today's
world is a little less safe for kids to explore on their own than
it was in the nostalgically idyllic year of 1973. In early May of
that year, two kids would make a new friend that may have
literally been out of this world. A 7-year-old girl known as
"Fay" and her friend, a boy about the same age, took a walk near
Lake Common, adjacent to the town of Sandown, on the Isle of
Wight off the southern coast of England. Around 4:00 p.m., the
pair heard a strange wailing sound coming from across the nearby
golf course. They followed the noise until it ceased. The
children were walking over a wooden footbridge that crossed a
narrow stream when suddenly a hand wearing a blue glove appeared
and out from under the bridge a most bizarre being emerged. After
some initial slapstick-like fumblings, what eventually followed
was an encounter and discussion with a creature whose actions and
description seem beyond the imagination of even the most
precocious child. Fay and her friend described its appearance as
nearly seven feet tall and similar to that of a partly wooden,
partly mechanical, partly flesh clown, and not like from any
circus you're likely to see. It introduced itself as "...all
colours, Sam." Seemingly friendly, and perhaps a little lonely
and certainly misunderstood, the children began to ask "Sam" what
he was, whether a man or if not that as best they could figure, a
ghost. The cryptic answer they received was, " ...Well, not
really, but I am in an odd sort of way." The two would spend
around 30 minutes visiting with their new friend in his liminal,
metal shack, which later vanished. Whether Sam was some
"Ultraterrestrial" entity, a sentient cyborg from another world,
or merely the "whimsy of a child," this is a story that is
precisely the kind we like to talk about... nay, MUST be
discussed. And that's what we're going to do in tonight's
episode, with the help of our good friends Micah Hanks of the
Micah Hanks Program and Rob Morphy from the Cryptonaut podcast.
We may never understand what Sam indeed was, but there are enough
weird and wonderful elements to this case that neither child nor
adult could ever forget meeting Sam the Sandown Ghost
Clown.

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