Encounter Under Staffordshire
A laborer moved a large flat stone he had encountered in a field while digging a trench, beneath which he discovered a descending stone staircase which he followed deep into the earth, finding that the staircase switch backed now and then until he emerged into a large underground chamber several hundred feet below that was filled with strange objects and large machines and illuminated by a strange ever luminous sphere which revealed a man on a throne like chair, dressed in a hooded robe.The man in the chair saw the intruder and stood up with a baton like object in his hand as he went over to the luminous sphere and smashed it, plunging the cavern into darkness, as the laborer stumbled back up the surface in surprise and terror.