Category: Strange

This week I am going to have some fun. I want to jump out of the ET phenomena and share some ghostly encounters that have occurred with my family and me. Not to say I won’t get back to the other…I will. I just wanted to take a break and lighten up the scene with some horrifying yet comical encounters that we as a family have shared.
In The House
Yesterday was like every other day. I got up, walked to the kitchen, started up some coffee, all with a night light in the distance dimly shining. Now as I am pouring the water in the pot I see a mass of white mist in front of me. It was there only for a second before it moved out of my line of sight. Then later that day my husband looks down to find that the dog, which brushed up against him only moments earlier was air. My husband swore he was petting a dog. My daughter was sitting the night before on the loveseat with me when she sees a human arm that appeared to be dead pass by me, between us.
Interesting Correlations
One could consider ET’s and ghosts to be the same thing; they come in and out when least expected. And when you see them, knowing they are there, you can’t believe it. Unlike the ET phenomena the ghost phenomena is something that continues to visit us on a daily basis where we live and they make sure that we know it. If it isn’t one of us seeing something it is the group of us, and this group can include our animals as well. Even one of them had been attacked by something out of nothing. We never did see what she was barking at and what made her run out of the dining room yelping with her tail between her legs.
Like with the ET’s each of us has experienced this form of phenomena since we were young children. And like the ET’s it is the most memorable ones that keep us knowing something is going on. What is even better is when we all saw the same thing at the same time. It is then that we know there is no question of what just happened.
Down The Road
We are driving down a quiet back road from La Junta, Colorado to Trinidad, Colorado. It is quickest way to return home when we are visiting family in the Lamar, Colorado area. This was a first and the last time we would ever drive down that stretch of road during the nighttime.
It is late evening; the sun is set beyond the boundaries of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range to our west. The stars would intermittently find their way through the clouds that hung over this vast desolate landscape of the Comanche Grasslands.
The two lane road had not been updated for years and the wear and tear was evident. The darkness of this vast empty land didn’t lend to good visibility either. The limited light from the starry night and the evidence of no moon made it even darker. And with these things in play we decided that to travel at a high rate of speed would not be good thing, though we wanted to get home before 3:00 AM.
After traveling what seemed like a million miles we see our first and only set of head lights during the entire drive down this stretch of highway. We are now about a quarter to a half mile apart. Though there was darkness all around one could tell that we were both peeking small hills that would ultimately lead down to a small ravine. As the truck got closer; it was a large semi that was approaching, we saw what appeared to be a wolf, lion, or deer shaped aberration of pure white. Talk about a ghost. It was huge!
Clarification to the reader: Abe saw the shape of a lion, Hannah saw the shape of a deer, and I saw a shape of a wolf, though I could have argued that it was a horse.
So Abe, Hannah, and I turned to each other to validate what we had just seen. We had each seen something, but what we were not sure of. The wolf/lion/deer shoulders reached to the middle/upper grill on the truck. We estimated at least 4 foot high. The length span of this animal had to have been at least 8 – 10 feet. We never knew if the other driver had seen it or not. The truck never moved as if to avoid something.
We come to the spot where we saw the white wolf/lion/deer. We didn’t see anything in either direction that we look for some evidence it was still there. We didn’t get too far down the road from that spot when the backseat window went down. Hannah asked why I rolled down the window. I told her that I didn’t and that the child protective lock was set. I tried rolling the window back up, but I had to take the off safety feature first.
Needless to say our journey took a new turn. We saw something that none of us had experienced before. To this day we do not go down that stretch of highway late at night. We prefer to know what is around us. We have made several trips back to the area, but not a single one has presented the apparition we saw that night. Then again the drive was always during the daylight. Have a wonderful New Year!

Probably the most documented and sighted incident in my life and that of my family would occur on September 3, 2000 at a place called the UFO Watchtower, owned and operated by Judy Messoline. Now let me back up to the events that led to the incident to put everything in perspective.
In the earlier part of August 2000 the family and I had ventured up to Denver to drop off one of Abe’s daughters. On the way up Abe wanted to get a copy of the Rocky Mountain News. It had been almost seven months since he had a chance to keep up with the news in the area and wanted to see what was going on. In the paper he saw an article on a place called the UFO Watchtower and read it to us on the trip. What is interesting about the UFO Watchtower is its location. It happens to be located in the San Luis Valley in south central Colorado. Since I had already read a book by Christopher O’Brian about the area I was fascinated that someone would have created a Tower so that others could watch for the activity reported in the area.
Upon our return trip home we decided to find the Tower and see what it was all about and truthfully I was hoping that we might see something on the way. We arrived at the Tower in the afternoon and to greet us was Judy Messoline. Judy is an amazing individual and what I found to be most unique about her was she did not pass judgment, as I would have expected when it came to the UFO phenomena. She was very opened minded and it made me feel extremely comfortable in who I was. For the most part I have kept this part of my life a secret except for only a select few. Ridicule was not something that I was willing to deal with at the time.
During the visit we found out that Judy had a campsite area and there had been reported experiences that had occurred there. The family and I made the decision that we would take the opportunity to come up over the Labor Day weekend and camp to see if we could have something similar happen with us. Call us the UFO hunters.
Upon returning home I made the effort to make a call to my dad to tell him of the place I had just been to. My dad was the one who introduced me to Christopher O’Brian’s book. We talked briefly and I told him we were going to camp over the weekend of Labor Day to see if we could see anything ourselves. This is when my dad jumps on the bandwagon joining us for this adventure. He was interested in what was going on there also.
September 2, 2000 came and we are all headed up the Tower for the campout. My dad, his wife, and my nephew were in the one car. Abe, Hannah, and I were in the other. My dad did not want to experience the rough life, so he got a hotel in a town just south of the location called Alamosa. He allowed our nephew to hang with us at the tent that night instead of hanging out with the grandparents in a hotel room.
We get there, set up the campsite, had dinner, and spent the early evening talking to Judy at the tower. Finally it was late enough to call it a night. The four of us head to the tent. This included my nephew, Hannah, Abe, and me. The tent could only hold at the maximum of four people. We all crammed into the small space, located our resting position, and went to sleep.
When we began to wake up the next morning each of us in the tent had an interesting amount of information to share about their night. After we shared our events with one another we went to Judy, who was at the Tower, and told her of what had happened. It was then that she shared something her son had recorded early in the AM about what he had experienced that night too. Judy’s son was visiting his mom at the time. And listed below is each occurrence as seen or heard by the individual.
1. My nephew: He asked if we had seen the roulette wheel that went over the tent. He had seen what he believed was a roulette wheel rotating above the tent. He explained that it went to the north and he then could see the Chico’s light up on the side of the tent walls. He also heard something like talking, but he wasn’t sure what was being said. Then he looked over and saw that Abe was not in his sleeping bag, but the tent door was zippered shut.
2. Hannah: She heard what she terms chattering. She said that there were many individuals outside of the tent speaking, but she couldn’t determine what was being said and how many individuals there might be.
3. Myself: I heard the microwaves that are given off by the ships. Note: I had the same experience in 1995 and was given this term of microwaves. When it was occurring I wanted to wake up but couldn’t. The more I tried to the harder it became and the next thing I knew it was morning.
4. Abe: Sat up after we had been discussing this for some time and stated, “I had the weirdest dream ever.” He then shared it. He said that he was outside the tent. To the north west of the location was a ship that was grayish in color, forty foot across, and was approximately 2 – 3 feet off the ground. Outside the ship was little white, similar to grey like beings, with emerald eyes, that had legs that reminded him of frogs. They were hopping around the area. His exact words were at that moment was, “What the world is going on?” He then saw a 6 – 7 foot being walking towards him that was a tall grey and not white like the others. And then he woke up to us talking about the night’s events.
5. Judy’s son: He woke up in the early morning hours to go to the bathroom. Upon returning to bed he had seen a light over the tower area. He then saw the light zoom off to the north at a high rate of speed.
6. There was a sixth observer, my dad, but he was not at the location where it happened. His experience was waking up in the early morning hours, about the time Judy’s son had woke up and felt uneasy. He looked to the north, where we were located, but couldn’t see anything from his vantage point. He relayed this us as he came by to pick up my nephew for a day of sightseeing.

All these experiences were recorded and listed in a book that Judy later published called, “That Crazy Lady Down the Road.” The extent of the information is not as detailed as here just because back then we were confused and scared on how much information we should share.
There were at least 5 confirmed witnesses and 1 witness that only had a feeling. We each had a different experience yet it all meshed together in the end. What happened did affect some, but it was my nephew who had to admit there might be something else to this world. He was not a believer at that point in time.
But it doesn’t end there.
Mary.