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2.8 KiB
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59 lines
2.8 KiB
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SUBJECT: DEVIL'S TRIANGLE FILE: UFO64
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FISHING BOAT SKIPPER BARNEY SPOONER DIED AND WAS BURIED AT SEA
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OF THE BERMUDA ISLANDS HE LOVED. BUT HIS CORPSE WAS SNATCHED
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BY MYSTERIOUS FORCES IN THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE - AND HE WAS
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RETURNED TO THE REALM OF THE LIVING.
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FOR MORE THAN 72 HOURS, THE 69 YEAR OLD SEAMAN DRIFTED IN THE
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LIMBO OF THE LOST, THE TRIANGULAR GRAVEYARD IN THE ATLANTIC WHERE
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HUNDREDS OF PLANES, SHIPS AND PEOPLE HAVE FANISHED.
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I SAW THEM ALL - THE SIGHTLESS EYES, THE LIFELESS SHAPES, THE
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GHOST SHIPS AND THE PHANTOM PLANES OF THAT UNHOLY PLACE, CAPT.
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SPOONER TOLD THE NEWS FROM HIS HOME NEAR THE BAY OF IRELAND
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ISLAND IN BERMUDA.
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IT WAS LIKE SOME UNIMAGINABLE NIGHTMARE, BUT I REMEMBER THAT I
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WASN'T AFRAID. THEY WERE ALL DEAD. BUT I KNEW I WAS AS DEAD AS
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THEY WERE.
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YET I HAD THE FEELING THAT I WASN'T REALLY ONE OF THEM...THAT
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I WAS MERELY AN OBSERVER. I HAD THE FEELING I WAS IN A WORLD
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WHERE I DIDN'T BELONG.
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SPOONER'S JOURNEY TO THE NETHERWORLD BEGAN WHEN HE SUFFERED A
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HEART ATTACK ABOARD THE MATILDA II WHILE FISHING IN THE FERTILE
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WATERS SOUTH WEST OF GRAND BERMUDA ISLAND.
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ABOARD THE BOAT WERE HIS 64 YEAR OLD WIFE, LILLIAN THEIR
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GRANDSON, JONATHON, AND CREW OF 30 MEN.
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THERE IS NO DOUBT IN OUR MINDS THAT GRANDFATHER DIED,
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SAID JONATHON,27. HE JUST KEELED OVER AND THAT WAS IT. HE
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HAD NO HEARTBEAT, NO PULSE AND NO BREATHING. HE WAS DEAD.
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WE WERE GOING TO TAKE HIM INTO ST. GEORGE, BUT GRANDMOTHER
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SAID NO. SHE SAID, DAD ALWAYS INSISTED HE BE BURIED AT
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SEA AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT WILL BE - HERE AND NOW.
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WE TIED HIM UP IN A BLANKET, ATTACHED AN OLD ANCHOR AND THREW
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HIM TO THE SEA HE LOVED.
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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT ISN'T CLEAR TO SPOONER. HE RECALLS ONLY
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THAT HE WAS IN A STRANGE WORLD, AS IF HE AWOKE FROM A
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DREAM - AND PLUNGED INTO A NIGHTMARE.
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I SAW THEM ALL ... EVERY ONE OF THOSE SHIPS AND PLANES THAT
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HAD BEEN SWALLOWED UP IN THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE, SPOONER SAID
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I SAW THE LOST SHIPS - THE CYCLOPS, THE RAIFUKU MARU AND
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THE WITCHCRAFT.
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AND I SAW PLANES - THE FIVE NAVY AVENGERS, THE STAR TIGER
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AND SO MANY OTHER PLANES.
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I SAW THE FACES OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAD VANISHED OVER
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THE DECADES. THEY FLASHED BY ME LIKE A SLOW MOTION FILM
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SPOONER SAID NEXT HE WAS SUDDENLY LOOKING DOWN AT THE SEA
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FROM ABOVE AND SEEING HIS OWN LIFELESS BODY IN THE WATER.
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I COULD SEE EVERYTHING AS PLAIN AS DAY, HE SAID. I COULD
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SEE THE MATILDA II COMING TO RETRIEVE MY BODY.
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SPOONER'S WIFE AND GRANDSON SAID 72 HOURS HAD PASSED
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BETWEEN THE TIME HIS CORPSE WAS COMMITTED TO THE SEA AND
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THE TIME HE WAS PULLED ABOARD THE DINGHY - ALIVE.
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THE SEA IS A PLACE WHERE MANY MYSTERIOUS THINGS HAPPEN,
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HE SAID. I GUESS THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE
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MYSTERIES. SO BE IT.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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