An otherworldly burial. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib.

And this is Ghost Town. If you follow, if you follow Cemetery Road, it leads to the Aurora Cemetery, a you guessed it old cemetery in the small town of Aurora Texas about 30 minutes outside of Fort Worth.

Approaching the southern entrance of the cemetery on Bochamp Road, you'll encounter a plaque

discussing the history of what occurred within.

As you go inside, walk to the right of a large tree. You're looking for a rock. If you find the

historical marker for one of the town's founders, you've gone too far. But if you

observe the cemetery closely, you'll see a small rock surrounded by many small mementos. The rock, light, tan, and rough,

has an oval carving on it with three crude holes inside of it. That rock, not even an original,

is the only evidence of an enduring local alien

mystery that's over 120 years old. Today we're talking about the Aurora

Alien Grave site. On April 19th, 1897 Dallas Morning News reporter S.E. Hayden

described a strange site, one that happened just two days earlier on April 17th

around 6 a.m. The peace said, quote,

about 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden

appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before.

Evidently, some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only 10 or 12 miles per hour,

and gradually settling towards the earth. It sailed over the public

square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of

Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion

scattering debris over several acres of ground,

wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden.

The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one on board and while his remains were badly

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