By Tim Binnall
A peculiar piece of footage from England shows a puzzling winged anomaly, which some have likened to the legendary Tooth Fairy, fluttering outside a family's home. The strange scene was reportedly captured last Sunday evening by the doorbell camera of Alicia Stoddart's residence in the town of Hemel Hempstead. While visiting her parent's house in the community of Clacton that night, the security system alerted her to something strange happening back at her home. When she checked her phone to see what had triggered the camera, Stoddart was stunned to see what appears to be a small white figure bearing a sizeable set of wings.
"My first thought was 'oh my God, it’s a fairy,'" she recalled, "we were racking our brains trying to think of what it could be and Googling possible culprits." However, Stoddart says, they were unable to find what sort of prosaic creature could account for the sprite-like anomaly. "None were matching the outline and size of the image," she explained, leaving her family "convinced it’s the Tooth Fairy." As one might imagine, Stoddart's three children were particularly enchanted by the video, specifically her son, who is "a believer of all things magical" and just so happens to sporting a loose tooth at the moment.
No doubt skeptical observers will suggest that the 'fairy' in the footage is simply an insect, perhaps a moth, that flew past the camera and its supernatural appearance is simply a trick of light and shadow. While that is very likely the case, Stoddart mused "we all need a bit of magic and belief in our lives," especially during these tumultuous times. Can you identify the curious visitor who stopped by the family's house last Sunday evening? Share your best guess with us at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.