Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date:
April 1970
Time:
9:00 am.
Location:
Los Angele, California.
Number
of witnesses: 3
Number
of objects: 1
Shape
of objects: Fiery apparition.
One
Saturday morning when I was 13 years old, I was walking with my brother and
sister down Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles. We were bored, and headed to no
place in particular. The weather was sunny. Traffic was heavy on the street.
We
came upon the old building that was three stories tall and 150 feet wide. It
seemed to be five office suites joined together. Between the building and the
boulevard was a concrete sidewalk. Visitors normally parked on the curb, or
parked their cars behind the building (instead of in front of it, as with
today’s strip malls). On this morning there were no cars parked in the street,
but there was a lot of traffic whooshing by. (Beverly Boulevard is a main
thoroughfare.)
All
the windows of the building had been painted over, and there was no lettering
or signs on it anywhere. It seemed abandoned. As I walked down the sidewalk
with my brother and sister, I pulled on the handle of the front door of each
office suite, just goofing around. The first two doors were locked, but the
third was unlocked.
Opening
the door, I stepped inside, followed by my brother and sister, and stood in an
empty room that was thirty feet wide and twenty feet deep. On the back wall
(opposite the front door) was a stairway with a banister that ran diagonally up
the wall. At the top of the stairway was an opening to a second-story hallway
that led farther back into the building. The room was silent. We could hear
traffic in the boulevard outside.
I
looked around at the empty room, wondering what the place had been used for,
when my sister said, “What’s that?”
At
the top of the stairway was a “devil face,” three feet tall, and floating in
midair, a giant face with no body. It was a sheet of orange flames, and seemed
to be staring at us with demonic eyes and a smiling mouth.
It
started down the diagonal stairway, moving sideways, continuing to face toward
us, rocking side to side as it descended. At no time did it make any sound. My
siblings and I watched it for a few seconds, stupefied. Then we fled the
building and ran all the way home.
Five
years later I returned to that same building, curious to find out what
happened, but the door was locked. (By that time I was living in Phoenix, but I
often returned to Los Angeles to visit friends.) Five years after that, I
returned once more, and once again the doors were all locked. In 1990, I
returned yet again, but the entire structure had been torn down.
In
1990 (twenty years after the experience) I asked my brother and sister about
the apparition, but they claimed to have no memory of it. (?) We were not
dreaming. This happened 37 years ago, but I still think about it from time to
time, trying to make sense of it.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
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Brian Vike, Director
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
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