The Village That Fell Silent
From Time Slips & Past Lives · 12:47
Show by James Garner
On a Sunday morning in October 1957, three fifteen-year-old Royal Navy cadets walked into the village of Kersey in Suffolk — and the world went quiet. The church bells stopped. The smoke disappeared. The birds fell silent. The church tower was gone. The houses were empty, the streets were dust, and the only sound was a nearby stream. James follows the case from the cadets' map-reading exercise to the village thirty-one years later, and asks the question that matters: when a story is told once, thirty-one years after the event, what can we still check? Verdict: the record is too weak. Sources: William Laing's account to Andrew MacKenzie, Society for Psychical Research (1988); MacKenzie's village fact-checks (butcher's shop a private dwelling in 1957; Kersey Street surfaced after WWII; the Bell Inn within 100 metres of the stream).
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