No one would have believed that since the 1^st Wacky Scarecrow Event held in 2008 that Baildon Village was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s.......No one gave a thought to the bales of hay and straw that disappears from local farmer’s fields would be a source of human danger...... Yet across the gulf of one year, busy minds were at work, scheming, thinking, plotting & deciding how to avenge the fact Farmers no longer used a friendly chap to protect the crops.

These bits of straw when combined together with old clothes took the shape of human form.  These “Scarecrow” creatures regarded Baildon village with envious eyes, and slowly and surely they drew their plans against us.

They planned on standing amongst us, mixing with both locals and visitors unnoticeable to human eyes behind the masks they wore, and they planned the time of the invasion to perfection.

On a day when all the Crows in the Village were nowhere in sight, the 2^nd Annual Wacky Scarecrow Walk took place in Baildon on 12^th September 2009.

Unbeknown to the public at the time, Scarecrow s of all shapes & sizes began to descend and mark their territory at strategic places within the village.  From around 07.00 hours BST (British summer time) and for the next 3 hours many different themed Straw humans (Scarecrow s) begin to position themselves ready for the second stage of their planned invasion.

By 10.00 hours – The public begin to purchase programmes and follow a pre-planned walk devised by the Scarecrow s. They had picked another fine day to observe Mum’s & Dad’s with their children wandering around, marking off on their programme each Scarecrow 's given number.  It was estimated that an army of 197 Scarecrow s observed the human activity on the day, well up on last year’s inaugural 120 of 2008.

By 12.00 hours one or two of the Scarecrow s starting to come alive, a group of hillbillies were playing in a band in Northgate.

While to the east at Hall Cliffe Community Garden strange things were going on.  Part of the Garden had been cordoned off to the general public.  What was going on behind this hastily erected taped barrier?  Was this the original crash site from where all these Scarecrow s materialised earlier in the day, or was it a “portal” to another world from which Scarecrow ’s ruled with a “straw fist”?  and in their spare time they also watched repeats of 1980’s espionage television series “Scarecrow & Mrs King” and late 1970’s children’s TV series “Worzel Gummidge”.

A lone Cyberman was sitting to the left hand side of the Gardens; while Doctor Who again was on hand to help out and protect the unsuspecting public.  It seemed that one of the dreaded Scarecrow soldiers (from Doctor Who series 3, episodes Human Nature/The Family of Blood) who easily blended in with the surroundings of the other Scarecrow s in the Garden had been summoned to aid the invasion.  As later in the day he came alive, and was seen wandering around the village and churchyards on route inspecting his troops.  After all it was a Wacky Scarecrow Walk.  He greeted many visitors, stopped for photographs, waved to the children and visited many of the invading Scarecrow army that had gathered.  At times he stood motionless, then suddenly moved, surprising the unsuspecting public that Scarecrow 's do come alive. 

At 18.00 hours, just as suddenly as the Scarecrow invasion had began earlier in the morning, they were gone.  Had they contracted a “common cold” off the human race to which they had no immunity?  Had the local Farmer’s recalled all the straw? One may never know, but just thought to consider, maybe next year the invasion will be even bigger.