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Offline dutch508

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There was this one time, at that one place...
« on: January 21, 2014, 02:56:14 PM »
BOREDOM! I liked the old DU better. The dungeon was way more happening and the people were way more enertaining. Now- when you dig into the dungeon you find shit like this:

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1950 or 1952
There was a day that was very strange, it started some time in early afternoon.

I was with my sister and brother-in-law to be, and my parents. Ed was listening to Pittsburgh Pirates game, Rosy Rowswell and Bob Prince. It was an afternoon game.

We were traveling from McKeesport PA to Girard Ohio. None of them fancy roads back then, just farms and fields. Lovely sunny day. My parents were friends/relatives with people there, all from Checoslovakia and we were going for a visit.

All of a sudden it got very dark. Pitch black. No sign of smoke or smell of fire. Just darkness, and some fireflies. It got darker and darker. We had just entered Ohio.

The game was on the radio. Bob Prince said he didn't know what to make of it. Forbes Field was too dark to play, and they were goint to put the field lights on. Pittsburgh was the only stadium that had night lights. So we listened for a while.

My mother has a panic attack, and Dad was nervous too. So they turned off the radio and Mother pulls out her rosary and we did Hail Mary's for a helluva long time, and Ed didn't object. He was a Marine from the Japanese front and didn't scare easily, but he was uneasy. Close to 5 pm we rolled into Girard, and it was NOW completely light and sunny, all of a sudden, and my relatives said that they had the 3-hour or so darkness too and they were petrified.

My usual Sunday friends were at movies and missed the darkness. At that time, when you went to a movie, you saw it once, stayed for a second, and if no second, stayed to watch the first movie again. Got our quarter's worth. But they didn't see the darkness. Funny thing is that nobody ever mentioned it again, my parents or my sister and Ed.. They are all dead now, and no one can confirm.
There was nothing in the papers about the darkness except 4 lines buried that said there was a fire in Canada. No pictures or stories of where the fire was.

I finally found something on the net, but I think they got the wrong date. They are saying it was 1950. I say it was 1952. When we got to Girard, we made arrangements to have my cousin Margie come to visit. She did and we went to a new movie in McKeesport called "Wait till the Sun Shines Nellie" which was released in late June 1952. I figured that the game was on July 20 by the long time that the movie got to our town.

Was anyone else alive then? It was the same year that ufos were flying all overf the place, including Washington, DC...

I think that's why I have such an interest in them.

http://the-red-thread.net/sunday.html

There's a book out about that Sunday, and there are comments from readers saying they thought it happened after 1950, but no one remembers exactly when.

I know it was 1952 because of the movie "Nellie" that Margie and I went to see at the Liberty Theater in McKeesport.

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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2014, 03:08:46 PM »
at the link...

September 24, 1950
A mysterious day when the sky became dark as night during the middle of the day. The explanation by local officials was that a forest fire had occurred in Canada - but none were ever recorded on this date for Eastern Canada. Moreover, there was no smoke involved in the darkened skies as there has been in all other forest fires around the country since that date. Most people at the time thought that the world was coming to an end and that it was a sign from the heavens. Was it actually a Western Canadian forest fire? Or, was it really a 'sign' that marked the 'end of times', as man has begun to play God.

Norman P. Carlson puts a face on the dark day, which supports the 'forest fire in Canada' reason for black Sunday. Read his detailed account of the Canadian forest fire here.
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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2014, 05:09:01 PM »
Nah, it was really just swamp gas and a weather balloon.
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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2014, 05:29:05 PM »
What is the dungeon?

Sounds like something from the George Noory show.. "Coast to Coast".
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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2014, 05:30:08 PM »
Speaking of chemtrails, aliens, and CT nuts, I read an article claiming Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle team in the Super Bowl this year, is a full-blown 9/11 troofer.

The press searches high and low for anything to fill column-inches of Super Bowl crap, so it should come up in the next week or so.
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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2014, 07:26:50 PM »
   
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There was this one time, at that one place...

...It was a dark day at Band Camp.
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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2014, 07:36:18 PM »
It was a dark and rainy night in Girard, Ohio, and all the good whores had the summer flu.
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Re: There was this one time, at that one place...
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2014, 11:06:05 PM »
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He was a Marine from the Japanese front and didn't scare easily,

I have never, ever heard the Pacific called that.  Ever.  I think this codger (D)Ummie is concocting hisself a little false memory.
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