518: DEEP DIVE: The Dodleston Messages | A Time Travel Story

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Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Imagine a quaint cottage in Dodleston, where Ken Webster, a teacher, encounters a bewildering phenomenon. Unusual messages appear on his computer, supposedly from someone living in the same house, but in the year 1541.

As the communication evolves, Ken and his friends grapple with the mystery, oscillating between skepticism and belief. The narrative unfolds with peculiar incidents, intriguing historical inaccuracies, and a cryptic entity known as 2109, leading to a cross-time dialogue that challenges the boundaries of belief and reality.

This story weaves a compelling tapestry of mystery, history, and the unexplained, inviting the listener on a journey through time and the unknown.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone this is James Harkin and Anna Tashinsky two writers of the TV show
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0:39.9	In December 1984, Ken Webster, a high school teacher, was living with his friend Nick and girlfriend
0:45.8	Debbie in the small village of Dodelston.
0:48.8	One evening, the three were walking home for the local pub when they saw a pulsing green light emanating from
0:54.6	their cottage windows. When they got inside they saw something that terrified
0:58.6	them. Though their computer wasn't connected to any network and everyone in the house was gone all night.
1:04.5	A strange message was written on the screen.
1:07.6	A message addressed to them by name.
1:10.8	Over the next few months, more messages appeared and eventually Ken and his friends began
1:15.5	corresponding with the person on the other side. At first Ken thought this was a hoax or
1:20.9	prank but over time he came to believe that
1:23.7	not only were the message is real,
1:25.8	they were being written by someone living in the very same house
1:29.4	in the year 1541. As written in
1:51.0	as written in Ken Webster's book The Vertical Plain, strange things started happening as soon as they moved into Meadow Cottage at Dodleston, near the border of England and Wales. One day Ken noticed that small six-toed footprints seem to walk directly up the wall and through
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