Neil Arnold

Recent Actions

• Posted The Saturday Strangeness to Londonist
  129. The Faceless Phantom of Langmead Street Even the police stationed outside the house in Langmead Street couldn't find an answer. They couldn't explain the strange buzzing noises heard by 26-year-old Cecil Greenfield. They couldn't find a suspect to arrest for the weird banging noises which kept the family awake every night. The family of eight were tormented by an unseen assailant who dragged furniture about the West Norwood residence. And then, at 2:15am on a warm July night in 1951, Dennis and his wife Gladys got the shock of their life when they entered their home and were confronted by a tall, grey figure without a face.
• Posted The Saturday Strangeness to Londonist
  128. Putting the 'cat' in Catford! The recent 'Palace puma' and 'Sydenham beast' fiascos had kind of given reports of large, exotic cats a bad name. Firstly there were the media inaccuracies of the former - there was no puma - meanwhile the latter saw a poor domestic cat eaten in Sydenham Park by an unknown predator. The tale fizzled out however when a local woman claimed she'd photographed the beast - even though...
• Posted The Saturday Strangeness to Londonist
  127. Museum of Monsters Cryptozoology is the study of hidden animals - such creatures are given the tag 'cryptid', for researchers within the field believe such 'animals' to be on the verge of discovery. Although mysterious beasts such as the Yeti, Bigfoot and Nessie remain out of the reach of science, there are some creatures that remain as reasonably valid cryptids - undiscovered creatures around the next corner, or species thought extinct but which resurface.
• Posted The Saturday Strangeness to Londonist
  There's no denying that the recent 'Palace puma' story had become a bit of a farce. Episode 123 attempted to iron out a few creases, but for every piece of inaccurate fiction corrected, another story unfolds. And so the Streatham Guardian of Saturday 19th September put their fingers into the pie. They featured the bizarre story of Leia Mazur, who claimed to not only have photographed the local beast, but had become pretty friendly with it! You just couldn't make these stories up!
• Posted The Saturday Strangeness to Londonist
  125. Harassed by a ghost Richard Clarke was a farm worker in Northamptonshire. For several years, since living at the property he was pestered by a spook. Its demands, appearances and gestures tired the labourer, who, at the request of his wife, decided finally to converse with the wraith he had feared for so long.