AngelBreath
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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.
