It Happened to Me…

Strange episodes

At the back of the houses where we lived in Flint, North Wales, there was a high wire fence between concrete posts, beyond which was a very overgrown embankment with the railway line on top. On a late autumn morning in 1964, when I was 12, I was in the back garden. Noticing that the wire had become free at the base of one of the posts, I decided to wriggle through and see what was on the other side. I must have walked for about 10 minutes going past the rear of neighbours’ and friends’ houses. I came to a clear patch and sat down. As I looked around I realised that the familiar was now the unfamiliar. It all seemed somehow “reversed”. My left hand was resting on the ground and I felt something smooth under the palm of my hand. Looking down there was something white just beneath the soil. I pushed my fingers in and brought out the skull of some creature no bigger than the palm of my hand. I looked again and saw another white shape. I brought this out and it was another skull.

Then from behind me I heard a woman’s voice say “You’ve found the little dragons”. Startled, I turned around and saw two women smiling down at me