Victoria's Wisdom
ENCOUNTER
UFO's.
What can I really say about them? Are they real? Why don't I leave the answer
up to you? Let me list some of the strange events I've had in my life and you
decide for yourself. It is hard to know where to start because of so many
unexplained events.
MISSING TIME
At
the end of the summer of 1969 [while living in the country], my steady
boyfriend and I went looking for a parking place after the show to watch the
sunset as darkness began to descend. We found a new road [off a paved main
road] that we'd never seen before in an area we frequently traveled and decided
to check it out to see where it went. The road was new, raised above ground
with fresh red-brown dirt packed on it, and across the road they were building
a new highway. We figured this was a
driveway to some place we hadn’t been before.
As
we entered the tree line on our way in we noticed one large boulder in
particular on our right because the road curved around it. We drove perhaps
another 200 feet before we found ourselves just above some cottages in an empty
parking area that was surrounded by really tall, huge old trees and thick
foliage. We thought at first we had come across some new cottages being built
in the area. The area itself was flat with a circular dirt road descending down
toward the cottages and the upper flat part where the cars parked was grass
covered - we parked closest to the cottages on the top of the flat. We thought
we should be able to see the water because we knew from the layout of the land
that there was a lake here but absolutely nothing was visible except the
cottage roofs about 100 feet in front of us.
The
trees that draped over the cottages and the cottages themselves blocked our
view of the water. We found it strange that we could not hear the water - it
was dead silent here, even the crickets and other night sounds could not be
heard. The moonlight failed to penetrate the steadily growing darkness and only
the cottage rooftops were visible in our headlights [we noticed one of them had
a hole in it and my boyfriend explained that raccoons probably took the
shingles off]. We knew the stars were out because of the clear skies but we
could see none directly above us.
We
thought we'd found a place to cuddle and reasoned that when someone came in to
park here or to descend to the cottages below, we'd leave. As we sat there in
the surrounding blackness we noticed that there were no lights in the cottage
windows below us yet we saw some light behind the trees every once and a while
[where the cottage fronts would be]. We reasoned that someone had a fire lit
that would blaze upwards every once in a while illuminating the trees around it
- as this was off season for bonfires he said it must be a contained fire for
burning debris. We tried to listen to the radio but it was so full of static we
gave up.
Twice
we thought we saw stars above but they were quickly blotted out as we watched -
as if some huge passing cloud had moved in between the stars and us except that
this 'cloud' remained stationary and we couldn't see a thing through it. We
both pointed out the weirdness of the overhead sky and we even jokingly said
there was something invisible above us like a UFO that kept us from seeing the
stars. It did make me very uneasy at times but then I'd forget as I snuggled
close to him.
Both
of us felt nervous, like we were being watched from the bushes and trees - the
impenetrable darkness and the absence of night sounds didn't help. We both got
so creeped out that we decided to leave shortly after. The car wouldn't start.
Well, the people at the bonfire could help us we reasoned [if we needed it - my
boyfriend was a pretty fair mechanic]. He decided he had flooded the carburetor
and so we sat for several minutes. This happened eight or nine times and we
were beginning to get upset because of our surroundings - being stranded here
was not our idea of fun even if there were people below and we thought the
battery might be part of the problem now as well. My boyfriend had a flashlight
with him but for some reason the new batteries wouldn’t work so he attempted to
walk down the path by the use of his car headlights but it was impossible to do
so in the pitch dark. His headlights
didn't seem to be as bright as before and we thought it was due to the deep
darkness around us [or a failing battery]. He said he understood now why the
cars parked above as the ground was very uneven and all that was there was a
rough stone path that he said recent rains had partly washed away - he had
fallen twice before deciding to give up. He said the last thing we needed to
add to the situation was him falling down a steep hill and breaking something
and me unable to either find him or to be able to get help until daylight. I
offered to go down in the dark because I see very well in the blackness and I
have a 'knowing' of where things 'are and are not' but he refused me saying it
was safer if I just stayed in the car. After several more tries the battery was
noticeably dying so we just sat and talked.
I
kept checking the sky overhead as we talked and at one point I noticed the
stars were visible so I told him to try the car then - the car pretty much
started on the first try and we were able to leave to go home. We both thought
it kind of strange that it started on the first try but we didn’t worry about
it – we figured it was just a short in the wiring or something. I don't think
either of us felt really secure until we each got to our respect homes that
night.
I
know time passes quickly when you are having fun and with someone who's company
you really enjoy, but neither of us could account for the huge passage of time.
We'd parked as dusk descended to watch the sunset and we left shortly after
because of the creepy feeling yet found to our amazement that it was midnight.
My boyfriend had to be up at 5 am for work.
We
were both freaked the next day when we each discovered strange marks on our
bodies. We were both so totally spooked by the marks and time passage that we
met again that night even though we were both very tired and hadn't planned to
meet.
We
drove back to the road to see if we could find any clues - we both felt
something had happened but couldn't imagine what. We got another shock when the
new dirt road we'd driven on was no longer there and there was no sign it had
ever been there. The ground where the road had been was nicely grass covered
and there was a fence around the property that had not been there when we were
the day before.
We
drove around the immediate area for over half an hour trying to find a way into
the cottages we knew to be there. The only thing we could find was an overgrown
cow path leading in off of a side road with three-foot high grass, heading in
the general direction of the cottages. The cow path itself was on a side road
[coming in from the south] and we missed it several times as it showed no signs
of recent use.
My
boyfriend told me to lock the doors [it was daylight] as he took off on foot
through the bush towards where we knew the cottages to be and was gone for a
very long time. When he finally reappeared he told me that he had found the
cottages all right. They seemed to be abandoned and in disrepair with no sign
of having been lived in for years and there was no evidence of a recent fire.
The only road leading into the cottages was the overgrown cow path coming in
from the south off of a gravel road and we had not taken a cow path, nor did we
enter from that direction.
My
boyfriend said he had also walked in the direction from where we had entered
[from the east] and said there was no way we could have driven in there because
of the huge boulders and trees yet we both knew we had. He then added that the
huge boulder we had noticed on our way in and out was there. He said there was
no evidence of anything ever driving in there and that even with a truck it
would be difficult. We had been sitting just above the cottages in the parking
area and there was no road leading into it from where we had driven.
He
got back in the car and we drove around to the east side again to have one
final look. My boyfriend got out of the car and scrambled down the culvert
beside us to get a closer look at the fence and ground. He said the fence was
not new and he could tell from the ground, etc. that it had been around for a
while. There was no sign of the road we had been on the day before.
We
drove around this one tiny open area for close to another hour before leaving -
there was no other way in. We could not account for what happened. With dusk
coming and what appeared to be strange lights in the sky, we quickly left the
area and drove home. The last thing we wanted was another strange encounter.
Neither
one of us drank or did drugs. This was an area which we both traveled at least
once every two weeks and what had surprised us both originally was that neither
one of us had ever seen the road before and we both knew the area very well -
his uncle lived just up the road. Where we had parked, the whole area couldn't
be wider than a half mile across and the cottages were perhaps about two
hundred feet in. Water was on two sides [north and west] and rocks, boulders,
uneven ground, a culvert and a fence on the third side [east - the way we knew
we entered from the paved main road]. The only one way in [south - the cow path
from the gravel side road] was right beside the cottages and we did not take
it. If we had taken it we would have traveled only about 30 feet, made a right
turn and would have been in the parking area above the cottages. We had driven
in from the main road and had not even gone near the side road.
As
an adult I've heard some strange stories about missing time and places that
didn't exist before or after the event yet did at the time of the occurrence...
You figure it out.
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out my web links page to see where I got my neat new
backgrounds.