In a rare dual-subject episode for us, we take a look at two
somewhat Christmas-themed stories, the mysterious yet
not-so-mysterious "Utah Monolith" and the Warminster "Thing." In
the first part of the show, we discuss the recent discovery of a
9.5-foot-tall metal triangular prism-shaped pillar we've dubbed
"The Christmas Monolith." This story made the rounds after state
biologists from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources spotted
the out-of-place-artifact while conducting a survey of bighorn
sheep by helicopter over San Juan County in southeastern Utah on
November 18, 2020. Two days later, the Utah Department of Public
Safety posted a photo of the monolith on Instagram, with more
pictures and videos of the puzzling pillar to follow. The
internet and media outlets were soon abuzz with speculation about
who, human, alien, or otherwise, would've illegally planted the
iconic looking structure in such a remote red sandstone slot
canyon in the middle of nowhere and why. Other metal columns have
appeared in Romania and California, prompting the question, are
these pranks, artworks, a message, or perhaps all three? The
second part of our show tonight examines a freakish "flap" of
High Strangeness that's so fantastic in its details and so widely
experienced at the time that it's baffling why the story has
mostly become forgotten. Generally considered to have gotten its
start in the early hours of Christmas morning in 1964, this saga
of shocking incidents in hindsight seems to have only publically
peaked on December 25th and continued well into the following
year, and only gradually declined in the decade to follow. The
holiday literally started with a bang for the residents of the
town of Warminster in Wiltshire County in southwestern England.
Numerous citizens and British soldiers training nearby awoke to a
medley of piercing, thundering, clattering, metallic noises in
the sky and on their rooftops, the nature of which nearly defies
description. The strange and untraceable sounds would continue to
accost the townsfolk, with some reporting these sonic attacks
were so violent it threw them to the ground and sickened their
pets. As 1965 wore on, the unearthly rackets would eventually
coincide with sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena and
craft so unique they sound unusual even for a UFO wave. And what
bouillabaisse of the bizarre would be complete without cattle
disappearances, freaky interstellar messengers, and tall,
humanoid-alien visitors? Warminster had it all. All told, this
series of strangeness was so beyond comprehension, and with no
vocabulary to satisfactorily describe it, the phenomena became
simply known as the Warminster "Thing."
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