One of the strangest tales that has come from Bedfordshire must be that of the Blue Man of Studham. Not necessarily a ghost story, but interesting nonetheless.

The events took place on 28th January 1967 in a small dell near to Studham Lower School. Seven boys from the school were returning there after lunch, at about 13:45, when they encountered the Blue Man.

Ten year old Alex Butler was the first to see him/her/it, as he was a little ahead of the others as they approached the dell. Climbing the surrounding bank he looked down into the dell and saw the Blue Man, not twenty metres away. The figure was described as a little blue man with a beard and wearing a tall hat. Alex called to his friends and they all rushed over and stared down into the dell. At first they were too amazed to move, but after a while they all ran down into the dell towards the figure. The man did not move, instead he seemed to emit a cloud of yellowish-blue mist, then he quite literally vanished.

The boys searched the dell but at first there was no sign of the Blue Man. Then he was spotted further along the bank, again about twenty metres away. As the boys moved towards him he once again vanished in a mist. They all reached the spot where he had been standing, but there was again no sign of him. To their surprise he was seen once more standing near to where he had first been spotted.

People are convinced that the boys were telling the truth, especially as the tale seemed too detailed to have been invented by them. So what was he, an alien or something preternatural?

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