The author recounts a wealth of tales, from the girl who sees her future in the mirror in a New Forest pub cloakroom to a junior officer in the 1980s who caught glimpses of a Second World War pilot in full flying kit on Farnborough airfield. Other accounts, some of them first-hand, include a young man whose life changed for good after a visit to the Rufus Stone, and another who swapped the train for his car after a frightening railway journey between Winchester and Brockenhurst.