Plot
Ella Gibson, a pupil at Cragmere Grange, was struck by lightning on the moors. She was unhurt, but on her right wrist was the print of a horseshoe from a chain bracelet given to her by Josh Jessop. He was the village blacksmith, who said it would protect her from evil. During another storm, a weird whirling shape formed out of the rain and entered the school’s sick room, but when Ella thrust out the horseshoe, the thing disintegrated. Later, Ella found she attracted metal object – like a human magnet. The swirling shapes that Josh named the Electrids, took control of several people at her school.
Notes
Appeared
- Ella and the Electrids – Mandy: #551 (6August 1977) – #556 (10 September 1977)
Are the Electrids aliens?
I’m missing the last episode, I don’t know if they are revealed to be aliens in that episode, but the episodes prior to that, just refer to them as evil spirits, the blacksmith, says that iron can protect people from them. They possess several people, Ella manages to free one teacher temporarily by getting her to touch an iron radiator. In the penultimate episode Ella comments about a strange cloud that is hanging around since the electrids appeared and wonders if thats where they come from (so it is possible that it is some kind of alien transport)