About this episode

The episode explores two listeners' encounters with missing time and the folklore surrounding their experiences.

Two listeners. Two encounters with missing time and the old folklore that explains where it went. Driving home sober from a wedding on a quiet Welsh A-road, Bethan rounds a bend she knows well and the world goes silent: engine, tyres, radio, all muted at once. The colour drains out. The air turns thick and grey. A tall, still figure watches from a farm gate. Then she's suddenly five miles further on, with no memory of the miles between, and a journey that should've taken thirty-five minutes has taken over an hour. For a week after, she dreams of the figure, closer each night. Then Wesley, a thirty-year aviation mechanic in Taos, is driving his fourteen-year-old daughter home from a camping trip when a steady amber light starts pacing the truck. He stops. It stops. Then it drops, hangs above the sagebrush, and shoots off at an angle and speed his brain still won't accept, in total silence. He remembers a few minutes. His daughter is certain it was an hour. Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the Welsh tradition of being taken "into the grey," the watcher bound to the threshold who marks those who pass, and the New Mexico "star that comes down", that pulls the more open…

People in this episode

Host: Yvette Fielding

Guests: Bethan, Wesley

Topics covered

• missing time
• folklore
• paranormal encounters
• personal stories
• time perception

Keywords

• missing time
• folklore
• paranormal
• Wales
• New Mexico
• time perception
• personal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Wales, Taos, New Mexico

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