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Date: Spring 1932 or 1933.
Time: Near dusk.
Hi Brian, my
grandmother lived in rural southern West Virginia near a small town nestled in the Appalachian
foothills. There were very few cars in those days, so most people walked to and
from town or church often for miles along hilly paths or long stretches of
isolated dirt roadways night or day.
It was in the Spring
of around 1932 or 1933 that grandma , who was in her 40's, had been returning
to her home from town which was just a couple miles away. It was near dusk when
she found herself on a particularly isolated stretch of road near a hill the
locals had dubbed "Water Tank Hill".
At the time, she was
the only one on the road and as far as she knew the only one who witnessed this
event.
"Water Tank
Hill" was known apparently then for its "ghost lights".
Evidently, at some point in time, these ghostly lights were seen by various
people as "red, glowing fireballs" which would zig zag or bob along
this hill and adjacent ridges. As mysteriously as they would appear, they would
disappear, then reappear again in cycles.
Grandma had just
started down the gentle slope in the road when suddenly something shot out just
in front and above her in the sky from a ridge near the
"infamous" Water Tank Hill. She
said it had so startled her that she actually "froze" in misstep.
The next thought in
her mind was that she was looking at one of the "ghost lights". Her
description of it therefore fit what the others had apparently been seeing
during the nights, "red, glowing" or "fireball".
The next second she
realized it had to be something other than a "ghost light" and that
frightened her even more because she had no explanation at all for what she was
seeing. The red object hovered (as I recall, it made no sound ) and she saw
"protrusions" from the object.
When I asked her just
what she meant by that, her reply was 'well, like antennae’s or legs sticking
out from it". It therefore in her mind was "machine", not
"ghost" and this defied any concept of any machine she knew about.
I asked her if it
somehow could've been an airplane, but she shook her head emphatically 'no'.
She went on to say
that once she saw these strange protrusions, she ran like "a scared
rabbit" the rest of the way home. She didn't know if the object followed
her for she was too afraid to look up. Once she got inside the house and bolted
the door (a rare thing for one to do in those days, as people often left their
doors unlocked all hours), she wouldn't look out.
My grandma was not
the person who was easily frightened, but what she saw that spring night
unnerved her for sometime.
It's just possible she
was the only one who got a good look at the "ghost lights " that made
their appearances around this hill. From her description, I rather think that
these lights were more UFO related than will o' wisps or ghost-related.
Thank you.
Thank you to the
witnesses for the report.
Brian Vike, Director
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
