It is a belief widely held by
conspiracy theorists and ufologists that there exist just out of
phase with our own world an infinite number of other realities neatly
stacked atop our own. Those who scoff at tales of the long dead
returning argue that ghosts are simply beings from these other worlds
visible as through a window when conditions are just so and portions
of the two parallel realities briefly graze each other. In the rare
cases in which they overlap, we sometimes get reports of people
vanishing without a trace or the appearance of people without a
verifiable past.
On December 15, 1974, mankind quite
unintentionally averted disaster when our world and another very
different from our own intersected for seven and a half seconds. In
that short time, a creature fueled by hatred and destruction crossed
over into our own world. Thankfully, at that precise spot in space
and time, we were building a parking garage and the beast found
itself caught half phased within a concrete support pillar being
poured. Because the parking garage was built by skeptics, they
thought nothing of the haunting little round face in the middle of
the completed pillar and dismissed it as a strange fluke in the
cement.
- Originally mailed to J. Knight from Pascagoula, Mississippi
