Sam the Sandown Clown

About this episode

This episode explores the bizarre encounter with the Sandown Clown, a mysterious entity from UK paranormal history.

The Sandown Clown | Paranormal Podcast This episode we dove into one of the strangest and most uniquely bizarre encounters in UK paranormal history, the Sandown Clown, where in May of 1973, two children on the Isle of Wight followed an unsettling wailing sound across a golf course and a marsh, only to find a seven-foot-tall, no-neck, bone-white, three-fingered entity in a yellow pointed hat living under a bridge who dropped a book in a creek, gave them a wave, and then invited them inside his metal shed for what ended up being a very long and surprisingly cordial conversation. We went through every possible theory for what Sam could have been — a very method-acting, very high Ringo Starr filming a movie nearby, an alien scout afraid of humans who found children to be the least threatening study subjects, and Charlie's personal favorite, a Fae entity operating by his own bizarre logic in a liminal space between dimensions, which explains the bridge, the enchantment, the mechanical speech, and why the child just was not scared at all. Episode Keywords: Sandown Clown, Isle of Wight paranormal, UK UFO encounters, high strangeness cryptid, fae entity encounter, alien scout theory…

People in this episode

Host: Believing the Bizarre

Topics covered

• paranormal encounters
• UK folklore
• cryptids
• alien theories
• children's experiences
• high strangeness

Keywords

• Sandown Clown
• Isle of Wight paranormal
• UK UFO encounters
• fae entity encounter
• alien scout theory
• paranormal children encounter
• liminal space paranormal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: British UFO Research Association

Places: Isle of Wight

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