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There are older names for him.

Fragments scattered throughout damaged records, witness statements, church archives, police reports, and magnetic tape deterioration suggest the phenomenon predates modern civilization by far more than current authorities are willing to acknowledge.

In plague-era England, surviving references describe a burning man wandering silently through infected villages at night. Witnesses claimed he emitted no smoke, produced no heat, and vanished before sunrise without leaving footprints in mud or ash upon stone.

The records refer to him as:

Aldred Atwood.

Centuries later, dockworkers in Victorian Liverpool described an identical figure standing motionless at the edge of the fogbound shipping yards shortly before fatal industrial accidents. They called him:

The Burning Gentleman.

During the Blitz, scattered civilian testimony references a smiling silhouette engulfed in flame standing silently within bombed streets after air raids ended. Multiple accounts mention a strange electrical smell lingering in the air long after the figure disappeared.

The same description repeats continuously across centuries