SEASON’S WEIRDNESS
Welcome to our Christmas issue, a box of festively weird delights to see out 2023.
In our cover story, veteran Kentish monster hunter Neil Arnold celebrates the 60th anniversary of an oft-retold incident that brought high strangeness worthy of John Keel to a usually quiet corner of Neil’s own home. But as Neil’s research revealed, while the Hythe incident initially sounded a lot like its more celebrated American cousin – teens encounter a headless bat-winged entity in the dark lanes on the edge of town – things swiftly became even stranger and events less amenable to a single interpretation, with mystery lights, black magic, local lore, a burgeoning interest in UFOs and a local clergyman’s obsession with a wandering ghost all adding puzzling new layers to the case.
