Unraveling the theories behind the collapse of dozens of children at a marching band event, ranging from pesticides to radio waves, at the Hollinwell Incident. Ad-free episodes, bonus content, & more: redwebpod.com In 1980, dozens of children suddenly collapsed during a marching band event in a quiet English village. The symptoms were real, but the cause was never found, leading to theories of toxins, radio waves, aliens, and more. Today, we investigate the mysterious Hollinwell Incident. Our sponsors: Shopify - Go to http://shopify.com/redweb to sign up for your $1-per-month trial period. Aura Frames - Go to http://auraframes.com and use code REDWEB to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/redweb to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened at the Hollinwell Incident in 1980?
In 1980, dozens of children suddenly collapsed during a marching band event in a quiet English village. The symptoms were real, but the cause was never found, leading to theories of toxins, radio waves, aliens, and more. Today, we investigate the mysterious Holland Well incident. This is Red Web.
Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the paranormal. I am your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me, hearing this case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.
Very interesting incident we have here on our hands, but also validated incidentally.
yes so i think that's the like key thing i took away from that man it could be a number of things it really could a whole like frequencies that mess with people's brains like that's not far-fetched at all you know they have a bunch they have a whole chart like a manual of just like this frequency does this to a human does that to a human this frequency does this yeah so yeah diabolical if you're testing on a marching band
Let's blast these kids here with this. Maybe we can make some superheroes out of this radio wave blast to these kids.
Yeah, that's a little intense. So I'm very interested to see what happens. Also, you mentioned alien just wild. If like, I don't know what aliens just swoop down real quick, blasted a band and just like took notes and then dipped.
Like a little drive by, like blast them with a little confusion, knock them out and then leave. All right. Hit them with it. Yeah. A little boom bop.
Go, go, go, go, go. They all drop.
Listen, there's something about the unknown, the unexplained that the people always got to bring an alien into the picture. It's not always a robust theory, but we got to mention it when it's on the table. There's not a whole lot to be said, but there's there's an element there. We got to talk about it. We'll talk about, you know, the background of this incident because it was real.
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That's a great clarifying question. So it sounded like it more it's more that they fell just directly to the ground that they didn't like catch themselves, nor did they fall into one another. It's that it was kind of localized to one or two. And then from across the field, almost maybe with an eyesight of one another, they then began to fall. Interesting.
So it was across the whole field, not like emanating from an epicenter outwards or into one another. Just double clarifying that because then that would be like a whole new... Right, you're like, what happened right there? Yeah, a whole can of worms. Yeah. Okay.
So of course, soon hereafter, both children and adults begin collapsing on the field itself where the marching bands are, but also on the sidelines where the spectators are. One of the affected adults actually went so far as to say, and this was Margaret Pailthorpe, one of the parents, she said, quote, "'I collapsed and then lost the use of one of my arms.'"
And so I'm trying to figure out through all these accounts, as they are fainting and collapsing, are they fully going unconscious? Are they just falling? And it's really hard to tell. It seems that some people are truly fainting and some people are collapsing, maybe out of sort of weakness, but still conscious enough to be like, well, I can't feel my arm or I can't move my arm.
And pretty quickly, it seemed that more and more children were collapsing, some even as they tried to help up their friends. They're saying, oh my gosh, Timmy, you fell. And they themselves fall prey to whatever is happening. But then also adults too. And adults. And it doesn't stop there.
In the stands. Yeah. So now I feel like it's this infected area.
Exactly. And new symptoms started appearing as people began to vomit. They said they were suffering from sore throats, dizziness, watery eyes, and then general weakness across the body. And less commonly, there were reports of people being inflicted with, like I said before, Mrs. Pailthorpe had limbs going numb.
Others were saying that there was a metallic taste in their mouths and in the air there was this smell of bleach. And so it started with what seemed like just straightforward fainting, things that we can explain from our gut inclinations, right? But then suddenly it really started to spread into, okay, now people are vomiting. Now people are smelling stuff. Right.
And it wasn't a shared, like, synonymous symptoms ring. Like, some people felt something, some people had the taste, some people were vomiting, some people were passing out. So it was just this ultimate collection of odd things happening on the field all at once.
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