AudioBlog: The Allagash Abductions

Four friends studying at the Massachusetts College of Art, Chuck
Rak, Charlie Foltz and twins Jim and Jack Weiner, set out from
Boston for a wilderness vacation in late August 1976. They were
dropped off in northern Maine by pontoon plane and canoed through
the Allagash Waterway. On the night of Thursday, August 26 the men,
all art students, were night fishing on Eagle Lake. In order to
easily find their way back to their campsite in the dark, they had
prepared a large log bonfire as a beacon to mark their camp. 
Shortly after they began trout fishing a glowing oval object was
spotted rising above the forest. Charlie Foltz signaled to the
object with a flashlight which apparently caused it to stop its
ascent and slowly move towards the students’ canoe. Read
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