THE STOCKSBRIDGE BYPASS MYSTERY
In September 1987, a mysterious chain of events unfolded around the Stocksbridge Bypass, then under construction just north of Sheffield.
Leon Marsh was driving home from his niece's wedding when he saw pulsating lights in a clearing in the pine forest along the side of the road.
They seemed to be attached to a circular object apparently floating about 50 feet off the ground. He pulled into a lay-by, but then drove off, afraid of what he might find.
When he returned home he was "missing" one hour. After the incident he was plagued by dreams of a grey face with large black eyes and of standing in the forest looking up at a brightly lit circular object.
Just days earlier two security guards had stopped their car near to where he saw the lights. They had seen four or five small beings, which they took to be children, dancing in a circle. But when they got out of their car the children vanished without leaving any footprints in the fresh mud.
Then they saw a hooded figure on the parapet of the bypass above them. They turned the car's headlights on, but they shone through the figure.
Other sightings have continued to the present day. Investigators found that a monk had been buried on unhallowed ground close by. His grave had been disturbed during the construction work.
The bypass was officially opened on a Friday the 13th in 1988. The place where the figures were seen is now a notorious accident black spot where several people have been killed and many more seriously injured