The Warminster "Thing"

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On December 25th, 1964 - Christmas Day - a housewife living just outside of the English town of Warminster reported an odd experience. She claimed to have heard an odd sound that reverberated across the countryside, described as "branches being dragged across gravel."

A small newspaper clipping would report this woman's finding several weeks later, but the woman's account was verified by dozens of other witnesses who all reported the same exact thing.

Soon enough, the town of Warminster was besieged by UFO enthusiasts, who hoped to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon that the media had started calling "The Thing." Decades later, the mystery continues to linger...

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Music Credits

ROZKOL - "Go Then There Are Other Worlds Than These"

Borrtex - "Creeping"

Pulse Emitter - "Moonlit Valley"

ROZKOL - "Golden Sphere"

Marcos H. Bolanos - "Radioheart"

Percival Pembroke - "Untitled Nude No. 7"

Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

Transcript

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0:00.0	I have never seen anything like it that Friday evening.
0:03.9	It was fantastic.
0:04.9	The people in the town, the reporters, all the daisies, my phone didn't stop ringing.
0:12.4	We had them knocking at the door.
0:14.4	I've never seen anything like it.
0:16.3	The only thing I could do on the Monday morning I went on holiday to get away from it.
0:22.5	Warminster is a small town in western Wiltshire, down in southwestern England.
0:27.7	It had roughly two hours west of London.
0:30.3	Warminster is about an hour southeast of Bristol, approximately 15 or so miles away from Stonehenge.
0:36.8	The prehistoric collection of large stones that many have tried to tie to religious, paranormal,
0:42.3	and even extraterrestrial phenomena.
0:44.9	Warminster was ultimately settled by Anglo-Saxons more than a thousand years ago, but the land
0:49.9	had been previously occupied by the Romans.
0:53.0	Warminster has shown that in addition to King Arthur himself once reigning over this land.
0:58.2	In addition to a countless number of other British royals, it has a long and storied history
1:03.1	dating back to the Iron Age.
1:05.3	Over time, Warminster evolved into a quaint small town.
1:09.7	Following World War II, the town had a population just shy of 10,000, which has continued to slowly
1:15.8	grow.
1:16.8	Since the 1960s, the population has nearly doubled.
1:20.8	The region remains quiet and unassuming, with an estimated 18,000 calling Warminster home.
1:27.8	Here, not much really seems to stand out.
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