In November 1934 there were reports of strange lights
In the night sky high above the Norfolk Broads
It was reported in the Daily Mail but aroused little interest
I was certainly not aware of it when I moved to Wroxham
With my wife just over ten years ago
Jan having been an only child had inherited her fathers shop
It had been trading poorly for a number of years
And had actually been closed for six months before Tony died
We had always wanted to get out of London
As the price of properties were out of our reach
It was a golden opportunity to reinvent ourselves
We decided to revive the shop and attempt
To pick up the passing tourist trade in the summer
Ours was a jack of all trades shop selling all manner of things
And to our great surprise the whole venture took off
As within a couple of years we were part of the fabric of the area
On of our customers was an odd fellow named Darius Stephens
Who although rather abrupt was very knowledgeable
About the history of the area around the Broads
And it was Darius who gave me a church magazine
That contained a short article about the strange lights
It had been written in 1971 by a Carol Ennis-Jones
And described how her mother when was just a child
Was woken up night after night by what she described
As hordes of screaming skulls flying past her bedroom window
These skulls contained eyes and viper tongues and terrified the child
At the time it was dismissed as hysteria and dismissed
There were other reports locally but these differed from the child
Being a progressive church magazine it questioned the sightings
But obviously came down on the side of the Church
Giving a message that there are things that God only understands
It was as I was looking at a grainy black and white photograph
That I realised that the house where this had occurred was our shop
Obviously there had been alterations and the lane to the airfield
Was no longer there having been turned into a nature reserve
The horse trough could be seen although it is now full of flowers
There was still a sense of the flat lands of the area and the huge skies
In the following weeks I made light enquiries about Carol Ennis-Jones
But drew a blank as neither Carol or her mother were well remembered
Darius did mention however that the family moved from the area in 1990
Without even a whisper which shocked the community and especially the church
He did not have any information about her mother as no records existed