Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.comSit back and enjoy what is probably the weirdest "letter to the editor" in history. “The Guardian,” November 30, 1976:Recent reports of peculiar events have reminded me of a mysterious experience I had in East Anglia a few years ago. I was teaching in a small village school and the caretaker's husband declared that he had seen strange orange lights in the school field as he walked the dog home at about 10.30 pm. Cynics suggested that he had seen more light ale than anything else. I thought little of it. The next day a little lad brought me a small plastic toy pistol which he had found near the school. I popped it into my drawer until such time as some-one claimed it. Near the end of the afternoon of hectic activities I felt that I could not tolerate the compulsive and ceaseless chatter of one Sandra and on an impulse pointed the pistol at her saying mentally, “Gottya!” To my astonishment she immediately vanished. The other children, conditioned to ignore her…