Red Lights Over Phoenix, Again!
April 23, 2008
It’s been about 10 years since Phoenix residents were visited by unexplained red lights. News media are buzzing with reports from sightings, and at least one high quality video.
No official tracking could be found by military or civilian air controllers, and Luke AFB, the nearest Air Force Base, said there were no operations from the base to explain the lights.
Watch our featured video, on the right side column, to hear the frightening reaction of people observing the 1997 lights. This is a scary phenomenon, and not an uncommon thing, for many people living in Phoenix.
Several Phoenix residents have begun documenting these strange occurrences, and they agree that something about Phoenix seems to attract the events. Other UFO investigators say this is a hoax designed to discredit genuine UFO events.
White Dress
April 21, 2008
Once there was beautiful young girl who was invited to a dance, but her poor family couldn’t afford a brand new dress for the dance, and they really wanted to let their pretty daughter go.
They had almost given up hope when they saw in the window of a pawn shop, a beautiful white dress!
The young girl loved the dress so much that they bought it (it was the only one they could afford anyway), so when the
dance night came, the beautiful girl danced the night away, and had a wonderful time…so far.
She went to bed exhausted that night, she never took off the dress, and she never came downstairs in the morning. When her parents worried they went up to check on her…she was not breathing!
Her father quickly took her to the hospital and he patiently waited to hear that she would recover, she never did,
instead the doctor came out to tell him that her body was infected with embalming fluid and that the dress she had been wearing was contaminated with formaldehyde.
How could it be? The father asked. He later learned that the dress she had been wearing was stolen by a graveyard worker and put up for sale in the pawn shop.
The first girl who owned the dress is dead and the new owner will join her in the graveyard shortly.
Carolyn’s Puppy & Visit from Death
April 8, 2008
Image created by our friend Daniele Montella
Our friend Carolyn was thrilled to get a Cocker puppy for her 11th birthday.
The dog always slept on a little rug in Carolyn’s bedroom.
Carolyn got a terrible fever from an infection after tonsil surgery. It was so bad that she slept most of time and was too weak even to leave her bed for a couple of days. The dog was there every time she awoke, lying on the rug next to her bed.
One night she had a terrible nightmare that death was coming in her door. He looked like Death in all the movies, had a black cloak and glowing eyes, he had no scythe, but he did have bony skeleton fingers that slowly pushed open her door.
She was unable even to breathe as the vision entered her room and moved silently toward her, staring strait into her eyes the entire time.
Carolyn began to pray, not the usual prayers children say, but urgently crying to God for help. Her fear was unbearable.
As the shadow of Death crept across her floor it soon reached her puppy, and the dog whimpered softly, and at that moment Death turned and left.
When Carolyn awoke the next day her puppy was gone. Her mother sadly admitted that her new dog had died during the night with no apparent cause.
The Dance Job
April 6, 2008
The Top Hats were a popular band in the 1950s and 60s. “Playing Dance Jobs” (Gigs) in Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, they did weddings, church and company parties, and especially fraternal club parties like the Elks, Masons, Moose etc.
On one trip to Wyoming (the Top Hats were based in Salt Lake City, Utah) the band had an extremely eerie experience on the way home.
The dance party ended, and after packing their cars with their instruments the band started the long drive home. One band member, Bud, had drunk too much and was very tipsy. As they drove along the lonely road they came upon a single car accident involving a hearse. The driver of the hearse was drunk, and was sitting on the bumper at the back of the hearse, partway inside the open rear door. He was holding his head and rocking back and forth in dismay.
As the men approached him he moaned to them “don’t touch her, don’t touch her!”
Immediately all of their eyes followed the tearful gaze of the hearse driver, which was staring down the embankment to an open coffin with a womans corpse inside, and the top open. A chill went over the group, and incredibly, Bud, the drunk band member approached the coffin.
Before anyone could stop Bud he had the womans cold face cupped in his hands. Over and over he said “Poor lady, you poor lady!” He cried and carried on as though a loved one from his own life was lying in the coffin. The driver had to be restrained while the other men tried to get their friend away from the coffin. The whole thing was a frightening and unforgettable mess.
It was a great relief to everyone when they were able to get the two drunks into a car and get started to a town where they could get some help for the wreck, and the driver. Before long they were at an all night diner and pouring coffee into Bud and the drunk driver. As Bud sobered up he took several trips to the bathroom to wash his hands. He couldn’t believe he had been touching a corpse, and he couldn’t feel clean no matter how often he washed his hands.
On his last trip to the bathroom, the band members were starting to relax and laugh about what a crazy night they had had. The laughter was interrupted by a flickering and dimming of the lights in the diner. At the same time a shattering scream came from the bathroom.
Everyone ran to the bathroom. Four bodies crowded in the door to see the darkened room with Bud at the sink. He was panting hard, and his face was twisted with terror as he looked at the reflection in the mirror, where he saw not his own face, but the image of a woman glaring back at him!
This story was told by Willard Shingleton, Roberts great grandfather. Willard was a professional drummer for vaudeville, the symphony, and the Top Hats among other bands. He always related this story as true.
Museum Haunting Details
November 27, 2007
Ancestors of Mormon Pioneers are justifiably proud of the heritage and history of the brave people who settled Utah, Nevada and California in the 1800s.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum
One terrific organization devoted to preserving that heritage is the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Website for DUP.
Maureen Smith, the vice president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers took a few minutes to talk with me about the recent ghost sightings at the museum.
On October 10, 2007 Utah Capitol State Police saw an image on the monitors which come from the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum.
One of the officers actually took a photo of the image in the monitor, and gave the photo to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum.See the image here.
The monitors are in the Utah Capitol building, and the images come from the cameras in the Museum a few blocks away. State Police watch the monitors, and respond if there appears to be an intruder.
The image appeared four times over an 8 day period, and always appeared between about 11:00 PM and 3:00 AM. During these hours the Museum is closed and empty, no one is inside accept cleaning or maintenance.
During this 8 day period the motion detectors in the Museum were set off several times, and the image appeared 4 times. The ghostly image appeared without setting off motion detectors sometimes, other times motion detectors went off without showing the image.
Each time the image was seen it looked like the same person, and the image always persisted for several minutes.
Capitol State Police are the security for the Museum so they sent Officers to investigate and found the Museum secure each time they saw unusual images or motion detectors went off.
In an interesting side story, the Museum Director speculates that she may know who it is in the image. She thinks it could be the ghost of a girl who made a sampler that was on display in the museum.
20 Years ago the “sampler” was stolen from the Museum. A “sampler” is an embroidered piece of cloth that students of embroidery used to prove that they knew all of their stitches, because the cloth had a ’sample’ of every stitch.
A Museum staffer recognized the Sampler listed for sale on eBay, and that staffer contacted eBay, and sent documentation that the item was stolen, so eBay contacted seller. The eBay seller, who’s family had purchased the sampler in good faith years earlier, immediately returned the sampler to Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
During the interval of the images appearing to the State Police, and the return of the sampler, a Custodian reported that on one night he saw a young lady, dressed in black, sitting on a bench in the museum foyer.
The custodian explained that the museum was closed and she must leave, he unlocked and opened the front door for her, she never spoke but arose and walked out the door, BUT NOT DOWN THE STEPS! The girl floated above the steps, and sidewalk, until she disappeared!
Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum Ghost
This story was brought to our attention by Carolyn Richardson, a Daughter of a Utah Pioneer. The story originally appeared in their newsletter.
