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Post by shatnerswig on Feb 19, 2010 8:28:39 GMT 10
ok brilly .... hows this for strange.... not a disappearance but like that story of the well........ this just happened today .....I look out my back window and there are footprints in the snow in the back yard .. now I havent been out back since the last storm and the snow is still about 1 1/2 feet deep , so I get suspicious... like maybe some ones casing my house to rob it or something... so I go out into the back yard to follow the foot prints which go into the woods behind the house and these footprints abruptly stop in a hollow between two small hills... like some body got beamed the fuck up! they just end .... what the hell is going on? ? this is friggin crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!they start in the front of the house but come out of the shubbery which is strange too,like somene walked through a solid friggin wall from inside to the outside... then go next to the house then into the back yard and into the woods!! this is freakin me out!
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Post by brillbilly on Feb 22, 2010 3:15:10 GMT 10
ok brilly .... hows this for strange.... not a disappearance but like that story of the well........ this just happened today .....I look out my back window and there are footprints in the snow in the back yard .. now I havent been out back since the last storm and the snow is still about 1 1/2 feet deep , so I get suspicious... like maybe some ones casing my house to rob it or something... so I go out into the back yard to follow the foot prints which go into the woods behind the house and these footprints abruptly stop in a hollow between two small hills... like some body got beamed the fuck up! they just end .... what the hell is going on? ? this is friggin crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!they start in the front of the house but come out of the shubbery which is strange too,like somene walked through a solid friggin wall from inside to the outside... then go next to the house then into the back yard and into the woods!! this is freakin me out! wtf,thats freaking spooky wiggly,could it be the IRS ;D
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Post by shatnerswig on Feb 22, 2010 5:52:14 GMT 10
ok brilly .... hows this for strange.... not a disappearance but like that story of the well........ this just happened today .....I look out my back window and there are footprints in the snow in the back yard .. now I havent been out back since the last storm and the snow is still about 1 1/2 feet deep , so I get suspicious... like maybe some ones casing my house to rob it or something... so I go out into the back yard to follow the foot prints which go into the woods behind the house and these footprints abruptly stop in a hollow between two small hills... like some body got beamed the fuck up! they just end .... what the hell is going on? ? this is friggin crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!they start in the front of the house but come out of the shubbery which is strange too,like somene walked through a solid friggin wall from inside to the outside... then go next to the house then into the back yard and into the woods!! this is freakin me out! wtf,thats freaking spooky wiggly,could it be the IRS ;D good point ! those irs are sneaky bastids! I have been trying to figure this out but i can t ...
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Post by brillbilly on Feb 23, 2010 4:01:41 GMT 10
what ever it was wiggly,its still dam spooky as its an invation of privacy
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Post by shatnerswig on Jun 17, 2010 7:32:47 GMT 10
In this account, said to have occurred on a morning in July, 1854, Bierce reported the fate of a planter named Williamson, who lived six miles from Selma, Alabama, who vanished before the eyes of his wife and child, and a neighbor and his son.
Mr. Armour Wren gave the following account of the matter while under oath in the course of legal proceedings relative to the settlement of the Williamson estate:
“My son’s exclamation caused me to look toward the spot where I had seen the deceased (sic) an instant before, but he was not there, nor was he anywhere visible. I cannot say that at the moment I was greatly startled, or realized the gravity of the occurrence, though I thought it singular. My son, however, was greatly astonished and kept repeating his question in different forms until we arrived at the gate. My black boy Sam was similarly affected, even in a greater degree, but I reckon more by my son’s manner than by anything he had himself observed.” (This sentence in the testimony was stricken out.)
“As we got out of the carriage at the gate of the field, and while Sam was hanging (sic) the team to the fence, Mrs. Williamson, with her child in her arms and followed by several servants, came running down the walk in great excitement, crying: ‘He is gone, he is gone! Oh God! What an awful thing!’ and many other such exclamations, which I do not distinctly recollect. I got from them the impression that they related to something more than the mere disappearance of her husband, even if that had occurred before her eyes. Her manner was wild, but not more so, I think, than was natural under the circumstances. I have no reason to think she had at that time lost her mind. I have never since seen nor heard of Mr. Williamson.”
James Wren insisted that he had seen Mr. Williamson disappear, but he did not give testimony in court. Mrs. Williamson’s manner had become increasingly “wild,” and she did come to lose her reason. The slaves were judged incompetent to testify. The courts decided that Williamson was dead, and his estate was distributed according to law.
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Post by shatnerswig on Jun 17, 2010 7:34:25 GMT 10
On September 3, 1873, an amateur athlete named James Burne Worson made a tavern wager that he could run to Coventry and back to Leamington, Warwickshire (England), a distance of a bit more than forty miles. Worson set out with the gentleman who had bet against him, a line draper, Barham Wise, and Hamerson Burns, a photographer, following in a light cart.
Worson jogged along for several miles, boastful of his endurance, scornful of the occasional cheer of jeer from the wagon ahead of him.
Then, as the record has it:
“Suddenly--in the very middle of the roadway, not a dozen yards from them, and with their eyes full upon him--the man seemed to stumble, pitched headlong forward, uttered a terrible cry and vanished! He did not fall to the earth--he vanished before touching it. No trace of him was ever discovered.”
As might be expected, the authorities were more than a little skeptical of the fantastic account related by the three eye-witnesses, and the men were taken into custody.
“But they were of good standing, had always been considered truthful, were sober at the time of the occurrence, and nothing ever transpired to discredit their sworn account of their extraordinary adventure, concerning the truth of which, nevertheless, public opinion was divided, throughout the United Kingdom,” Bierce writes. “If they had something to conceal, their choice of means is certainly one of the most amazing ever made by sane human beings
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Post by brillbilly on Jun 29, 2010 1:09:43 GMT 10
thats dam creepy wiggly,good short story but very strange,nice find,sorry i just got round to read it
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