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Speaker 2: Credit for this story goes to Scaredycats skeptic dot co
dot uk. The strange case of the Todd Morton UFO
abduction has stumped authorities for decades. How did a fully
your own man wind up dead on top of a
pile of coal and ten feet high? And how did
a normal cop lose twenty five minutes of his life
In the case of the Todd Morten UFO abduction, many
questions remain unanswered to this day. The only thing we
know for certain is that the victim was fifty six
year old coal miner Zigmund Adanski, or Ziggy as he
was known to his friends. Mystery clouds the how and
whys of it all. One summer day in nineteen eighty,
Ziggy left his house to do some shopping in his
hometown of Tingley. Several hours later, he had not returned,
nor would he ever again. Lottie, Ziggy's wife, was baffled.
He had been expected at a family wedding the following
day and he'd very much been looking forward to it.
One of Ziggy's mining friends knew what had happened to him, either,
although he had been signed off work several months prior
with breathing difficulties due to a lung deformity. Five days
after his disappearance, he was discovered dead in the town
of todd Morton. The fact that the two towns are
twenty miles away from each other is odd enough all
in itself. However, the circumstances surrounding how the body was
found or nothing if not bizarre. On the eleventh of June,
local todd Morton police officer p C. Alan Godfrey was
sent out to investigate reports of a body lying on
top of a ten foot pile of coal beside a
railway line. When he managed to get to the top
to see what was going on, Alan noted that the
dead man was dressed in a suit, Yet there were
some things that struck the young policeman as odd, not
least that the body had hardly any coal on it.
Despite the smart attire, the body was missing a shirt,
his watch, and his wallet. Anything that could have easily
identified this person was strangely absent, and there was a
look of object terror plastered on this dead man's face.
Alan Godfrey is noted as saying, those eyes were staring
up at me. I was looking down on him from
a foot away. Those eyes sent a shudder down my spine.
They were wide open. He had a look of someone
who had seen something, or someone that had scared him
to death. Further inspection revealed that the dead man had
strange oval shaped burn marks all over his head, his neck,
and his shoulders. It was all very dark. Alan also
found that the body was covered in an unidentifiable substance.
This kicked off the theory of the Todd Morton UFO abduction.
James Turnbull, the coroner in the Toddmoorn Ufo A duction case,
was as baffled as Alan had been. He was unable
to identify the strange substance, but said that it appeared
as if the dead man's burns had been treated with
some sort of ointment. There was also only a day's
worth of stubble on the chin, and the hair had
been cropped roughly, as if it had been hacked at
with a blunt implement. Heart attack was stated as the
cause of death on the death certificate. James said that
the man looked as if he had been quite literally
scared to death. It was also evident that Ziggi hadn't
died on top of that coal heap, but had been
placed there. There was very little coal dust on him,
but there was no evidence of the coal having been
disturbed either. It was impossible that the ill man had
clambered up slippery loose shell in the rain without getting
himself dirty or causing part of this pile to collapse.
He had been placed there. Given that there were no
footholds in the coal, It seems that nobody could have
carried Ziggy up there either, which leads to the conclusion
that he was lowered down by something, but for what
reason nobody really knows. Next to a busy railway line
isn't exactly a great hiding place for someone wanting to
commit murder. After contacting all the local hospitals, James was
still none the wiser. None of them had treated anyone
with these types of burns. The ointment was sent off
to be analyzed by forensic scientists. To this day, it
has never been identified. This case of the supposed Todd
Morten UFO abduction case, remains the biggest mystery of James's career.
Zigmun Ndamski was a Polish national who, like many, had
immigrated to the UK during the war. He had met
his wife, Lottie, and they married in nineteen fifty one.
By the time of his disappearance, Lotti was wheelchair bound
and relied heavily on Ziggy's help. Because of his wife's
situation and his own health issues, Ziggi had applied for
early retirement. He had initially been denied, but the decision
had been appealed. Sadly, the decision to grant Ziggy's request
arrived in the post the day after he went missing.
His failing health, though, makes it incredibly unlikely that he
could have climbed to the top of a greasy coal
pile ten feet hot without help, especially given that it
had been raining the day he went missing. Ziggi and
Lottie were inseparable, completely devoted to one another, so when
Ziggy went missing that fateful Friday, his family were convinced
he hadn't been suffering from depression and hadn't had any
reason to disappear. At the time of his disappearance, the
Adamskis were entertaining visitors. Ziggy's cousin and her son were
over from Poland. They had been out shopping in Wakefield
during the day and then sat down to a chippy tea.
He had run through the speech he had prepared for
his goddaughter's wedding the next day. Everyone present said that
he had been in high spirits. At three point thirty pm,
Ziggi realized that they were running low on potatoes in
the house and said he was going to nip out
to the shop. He spoke briefly to a neighbor who
was outside cleaning his car, and then continued on his way,
but he never made it to the shop. Later on
that evening, Lottie made a call to the Wakefield Police
station to report her husband missing. Despite an investigation and
an appeal in the local paper, the police drew a blank.
Ziggi had vanished without a trace. Who could have known
that the disappearance of one man would become the basis
of the Todd Morden UFO abduction case. When no satisfactory
answers were found for why Ziggy would be found in
the state he was, the newspapers went wild. They headlined
amazing ufo death riddle in the Sunday Mirror. It's not
quite the knee jerk reaction it seems. In the weeks
leading up to the tale of the Todd Morn ufo abduction,
there had been several reports to newspapers and the police
about orange fireballs and other UFOs cited across West Yorkshire.
This activity seemed to be occurring mainly in Bradford, Halifax
and todd Morton. While some of these sightings were explained
as aircraft, atmospheric phenomena and flares used by Moreland rescue teams,
a few are still unexplained. This continued to happen for
some time after Ziggy's disappearance. We are still unsure as
to what caused them. Alan Godfrey couldn't get the case
of Ziggy and the supposed Todd mart UFO abduction, yet
he couldn't have known that he too, would become an
integral part of the case, and a way he could
have never anticipated. On Friday twenty eighth of November nineteen eighty,
Alan Godfrey, our trustee Bobby, was on night patrol. He
was driving on Burnley Road out of todd Morten after
receiving a report of escaped cattle on a housing estate.
As he was driving, he became aware that there was
a strange oddity on the road up ahead of him.
Thinking it was a crash bus, he slowed the car
to a crawl and drove closer, but on nearing the object,
he stopped the car. This was no bus and the
sky up ahead. Hovering about five feet from the ground,
he could see a very large aircraft. Not quite believing
what his eyes were seeing, the aircraft was diamond shape
with a row of lights on the top.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more paranormal odyssey.
Speaker 2: Alan estimated that the UFO was twenty feet across and
fourteen feet high. It was spinning slowly and the leaves
on the road were spinning in the opposite direction with
the force. Godfrey said, it looked very real, real enough
that if I had gotten out of my car and
thrown a brick at it, it would have made a
clang sound. Two Scared though to get out of his
ford Es Court Panda car, Alan picked up his police
radio and tried to call for backup, but his radio
wasn't working. He turned on the blue lights and tried
his personal police radio, nothing there either. Being the professional
police officer he was, he decided that the best course
of action was to take out his notebook and make
a sketch of the scene, just like he would have
done in the case of a road traffic incident. But
as he was sketching, there was a brilliant flash of light,
and then the next thing Alan was aware of was
being sat in the car thirty yards from where he
had originally been. When he checked his watch, he was
astonished to discover that twenty five minutes had passed and
he had no idea what had happened in that time. Bizarrely,
Alan also noted that one of his boots was split
and his foot was itchy. He took his boot off
and saw a strange red mark on his foot. He
decided to return to the scene of the crime and
saw that the road where he had seen the UFO
was bone dry. It had been raining, and the rest
of the road and everywhere around in either direction was
shiny and wet from the rain. If that wasn't strange enough,
Alan then saw that the cows he had initially been
caught out for were all congregated in a park at
the side of the road. They hadn't been there before.
When Alan returned to the Todnik or the todd Morden
police station, he recounted his tail. His colleagues were very
unsure as to what to make of his tale. Most
of them were skeptical, and he was even ridiculed by
the same. But he couldn't forget the incident, and, on
the advice of a friend, booked himself a hypnosis session.
Under hypnosis, he recounted a strange tale. After the flash
of bright light, Alan said that he woke up in
a strange room, surrounded by small creatures that he was
unable to identify. He also said that there had been
a tall humanoid creature with a beard in the room.
When he told his colleagues of this new development, he
was disappointed to find that he was openly laughed at.
He decided not to talk about it anymore, Convinced as
he was that something very odd had happened to him
on that road. He didn't want to discredit himself. Several
weeks later, a very dejected Alan was called into his
inspector's office. On entering, Alan saw a man in a
dark suit and was told that he shouldn't ask questions.
All he was told was that this man was from
the Ministry. The man from the Ministry opened a folder
and Alan was surprised to see that the sketch of
the UFO from his notebook was in this folder. Why
did this person have his drawing? Alan wasn't allowed to
see what else was in the rest of the folder,
but was told his accounts of his interaction with the
UFO and his report on the Danski case were in there.
He was ordered to swear under the Official Secrets Act
not to speak to the media about any of the
things that he had witnessed, especially given their interest in
the Tidemorn UFO abduction. Being a gruff yorkshire Man, Alan
begrudgingly agreed and left the office. After that encounter, the
Ministry man kept showing up wherever Alan was. He was
clearly being followed. A few days later, Alan was in
his local pub having a pint when the mysterious man
appeared next to him, at which point a very distressed
Alan told him to bug off. Surprisingly, the man disappeared
After this. Allan's theories that the man was an agent
sent to spy on him. Others have speculated that the
man could have been a representative of West Yorkshire Police,
sent to dissuade him from drawing media attention to the force.
They had received quite a lot of negative attention already
on the account of their incompetence in the Yorkshire ripcase.
Shortly after nineteen eighty Allan left the police force. He
was in a serious state of depression and had started
self medicating with whiskey. His marriage fell apart and he
ended up living in a friend's attic utterly destitute. Luckily,
Alan met his second wife, Catherine, as she encouraged him
to talk about what happened, and they married in nineteen
ninety five and Alan's life begin to pick back up again.
Alan is now something of a celebrity about Todd Morten
and happily talks about his experiences. Some years after all
of this, the mod released all of its documentation on
uf POS, but Allan is very quick to point out
that they have never released his He is convinced that
they're still hiding something. While the MOD have admitted that
UFOs have been spotted over the years, it is very
important to note that UFO just stands for unidentified flying
object and include a myriad of anomalies. The MOD has
never announced the existence of aliens from other planets, which
is a very different thing. These two cases seem entirely
unrelated until you take into account the fact that the
man from the Ministry talked about them in the same breath.
I agree that the man from the Ministry was probably
a hub West Yorkshire Police trying to contain a situation
which might make the force look even more like idiots.
Given the state of the Yorkshire Ripper case, it seems
more likely in which case the Adanski case is unrelated
to Allan's encounter. Not being able to solve the case
of the murder of Ziggy would further reiterate to the
public that the police were incompetent. They were already making
a laughing stock of themselves in the Ripper case and
people were scared. In addition, a member of the police
claiming to have been abducted by aliens would have added
another layer of clown shoes to the West Yorkshire Police's reputation.
They just didn't want bad pressed. So having separated the
two stories, I can honestly say who knows and the
relation to Ziggy that one is a real mystery. But
there was obviously a series of unfortunate events that took
place there that we will never know of.
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