Written on 21 April 2019
Lowesoft, as its name suggests, is one of the lowest towns in all of England. So low, in fact, that it regularly floods.
Not just from the sea, of course, but rivers bursting their banks, rain, brewery leakage, overzealous teenagers pushing over lorries full of fizzy pop.
A lot of their lore comes from mysterious objects left behind after floods. Like the chicken with two heads, alive and well, in 1745. Or the chicken with three heads in 1765, though this was suspected to be a forgery of sorts, as it transpired it was a singular headed chicken wearing two heads as a sort of necklace.
The last major flood in 1985 left several curious trinkets behind once the water had rescinded. This included a copy of Sleepless in Seattle on DVD, curious for two reasons as DVD's hadn't been invented yet and the film hadn't actually been made.
Other items included two octopi tied together, some sort of demented Russian robot and a jiffy bag containing thirty adult human thumbs.