[UA] Screams from nowhere

[Gareth Hanrahan]

>It reminds me a bit of those apocryphal tales of people vanishing
'into thin
>air' right in front of witnesses.  The most dramatic concerned a
farmer who
>disappeared in front of his house while his wife and children
watched.
>While he was nowhere in sight, his voice continued in anguished
screaming
>from somewhere under them.  They first thought he had fallen into a
>sinkhole, but all attempts to dig found nothing but hard packed
earth.  Over
>time, his voice began to fade, not from exhaustion, but rather as if
he was
>moving father and farther away.


In the version of this I heard somewhere, the father isn't screaming,
he's just calling out for his kids, and the calls get fainter and
fainter over a period of weeks...

Stories like that do freak me out. Getting killed by falling down a
mine shaft or shot or whatever is fine - the danger there is visible
and understandable. Just suddenly taking a step and vanishing...eeeh.

Gar



_______________________________________________
UA mailing list
UA at lists.uchicago.edu
http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua