Episode 183 Sam the Sandown Clown

Original Airdate 07.25.2020 (On Podcast Audio Platforms)
For children, the world is still new and full of wonder. Every day is a chance for an adventure, discovering exciting possibilities, and meeting interesting people. Sadly, today's world is a little less safe for kids to explore on their own than it was in the nostalgically idyllic year of 1973. In early May of that year, two kids would make a new friend that may have literally been out of this world. A 7-year-old girl known as "Fay" and her friend, a boy about the same age, took a walk near Lake Common, adjacent to the town of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England. Around 4:00 p.m., the pair heard a strange wailing sound coming from across the nearby golf course. They followed the noise until it ceased. The children were walking over a wooden footbridge that crossed a narrow stream when suddenly a hand wearing a blue glove appeared and out from under the bridge a most bizarre being emerged. After some initial slapstick-like fumblings, what eventually followed was an encounter and discussion with a creature whose actions and description seem beyond the imagination of even the most precocious child. Fay and her friend described its appearance as nearly seven feet tall and similar to that of a partly wooden, partly mechanical, partly flesh clown, and not like from any circus you're likely to see. It introduced itself as "...all colours, Sam." Seemingly friendly, and perhaps a little lonely and certainly misunderstood, the children began to ask "Sam" what he was, whether a man or if not that as best they could figure, a ghost. The cryptic answer they received was, " ...Well, not really, but I am in an odd sort of way." The two would spend around 30 minutes visiting with their new friend in his liminal, metal shack, which later vanished. Whether Sam was some "Ultraterrestrial" entity, a sentient cyborg from another world, or merely the "whimsy of a child," this is a story that is precisely the kind we like to talk about... nay, MUST be discussed. And that's what we're going to do in tonight's episode, with the help of our good friends Micah Hanks of the Micah Hanks Program and Rob Morphy from the Cryptonaut podcast. We may never understand what Sam indeed was, but there are enough weird and wonderful elements to this case that neither child nor adult could ever forget meeting Sam the Sandown Ghost Clown.
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[@megabigdump]

These 2 kids (now adults) need to come forward and update everyone.

[@r.w.bottorff7735]

Im so glad you guys are doing all colors sam!

[@TokixWartooth]

The idea of an encounter like this seems amazing. I would love to encounter another being, much like myself, in the sense that I would want to communicate, and learn. Just for the sake of learning, and better understanding this reality, and our order in this cosmos. The actual reality of seeing such a being physically in front of you, would be a lot different. It takes that "feeling" of known reality, and then really breaks it. It's the breaking of everything you thought you knew, that really terrifies you. Things were different back in the 1970's, but I'm sure children knew better than to follow a being as described, unless the being was making them feel comfortable enough to do so. This really is an intriguing story, and I'm nearly envious of such an encounter.

[@TokixWartooth]

I wanted to add on, that the being in the story, admitted its fear of humans. Now whether that's true or not is conjecture, I'd like to believe as the kids were able to freely leave the encounter, it was in no way malevolent. It seems from the story the being even attempts to entertain the children. Because the being outright admitted fear, I think that's damn near perfect mutual meeting grounds. They fear us, and we fear everything unknown to us. Wherever Sam is, I hope they've made a lot of human friends. More and more people are opening their minds, and in turn, opening their hearts. Thanks so much for the story, and the laughs!!

[@ScottMartin-dh1ys]

Its demonic nothing more especialy since only children can see it

[@entrthedragon]

I wonder if Stephen King heard this story back then? Being a clown phobe, he would have been freaked out. He lived in a wet area. The kids had to duck in to get to his lair. Things very similar to Pennywise.

[@stewartfooter3580]

😂

[@mucoursi8588]

A fellow on the Think Anomolous video comments brought up an interesting idea of Sam being a man in a traditional tribal costume.

[@Astonishinglegends]

Ohhhh, that's interesting!

[@meangene408]

Or a morris dancer.

[@DrLeePercussion]

Ya it almost sounds like a African tribal dance costume.