It Happened to Me…

Timeslip in Grimsby

urther to Jenny Randles detailing the Oz-factor [], I outline a strange experience with multiple witnesses. I had a chance to revisit the site of the event with my children and this sparked off a need to record what happened. In 1977 I was at a secondary school in Grimsby and on an autumn evening a crowd of school friends called and we set off from Old Clee to Grimsby town centre. We followed a familiar route across Old Clee playing fields to Ladysmith Road and cut through a passageway to the end of David Street. We walked almost to the far end of David Street and turned right into a passage that led to Patrick Street with a plan to arrive on Hainton Avenue. As we entered the passageway joining David Street to Patrick Street, we passed garages to our right and were funnelled into the narrow connecting passageway at the back of the houses. On approaching the narrow section of the passageway, we could see bright white lights like a series of spotlights on the passageway wall on the left. The lights then pulsed brighter and dimmer and the wall appeared to change into a privet hedge with the trunks, leaves