DARESBURY and Moore are part of a triangle which is one of the strangest places in the world, according to UFO expert Jenny Randles.

Strange things in the sky, car engines giving out, people missing hours, or days, of their lives, and even an abduction to another planet, have all been reported in an area taking in Daresbury and Moore, Helsby Hill, and Runcorn.

The area attracts the supernatural like a magnet, according to Jenny, a professional researcher into strange phenomenon.

There are more cases of unusual happenings here than anywhere in the north west, and a wider variety of cases than anywhere in Britain.

They have been going on for more than 50 years. Because Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury, UFO experts have dubbed the triangle "Wonderland."

Said Jenny, who used to live in Warrington: "There are locations around the world where there are more than the average number of paranormal occurrences. They have been described as being like doorways to another dimension. The evidence in these areas is often part of a track record dating back centuries, and linked with legends."

Some of the cases have happened near Daresbury Laboratory.

Said Jenny : "I don't think the lab is responsible. There is no evidence, but where unusual research goes on there are often strange phenomena.

"It is always possible that the frontiers of new research have side effects you don't allow for.

"Strange things happened well before the lab existed. We have cases going back 50 years, which pre-date the lab.

"I think the cases will continue. There is nothing unique about these places, known as 'window' areas. There are 50 or 60 around the world, and a few in Britain. Wonderland is among the strangest places in the world. We need to figure out why it is happening. "

She has published 35 books, investigated secret MOD files, lectured in many countries, and made more than 1,000 radio and 150 TV appearances. She is also the official investigator for UFO sightings reported to Jodrell Bank.

Jenny believes that 95 per cent of paranormal phenomena can be explained, but the rest, she thinks, are part of our natural environment which we don't have the science to understand.

Tony Buckley, press officer for Daresbury Laboratory, said there was nothing going on at the lab which would provoke such phenomena.

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