The "Dreadful Flap" was the name given by MIAOW to a Space-Time Rift located above Darlington. It opened above the town in 1965. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap)

Another Dreadful Flap was accidentally opened when the gory horror movie Get Thee Inside Me, Satan was remade in Whitby. (PROSE: Brenda's B&B)