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🗓️ 6 July 2021
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Two small-town deputies’ encounter with the unknown takes them on the ride of their lives.
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0:00.0 | I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. |
0:18.0 | If you've watched the news lately, you might have seen a lot of talk about the skies, |
0:28.6 | or more specifically, what unidentifiable objects have or have not been seen in them. |
0:37.1 | The story we're interested in today is one that has, at least officially, been closed, |
0:44.3 | so it's not likely to show up in any declassified reports. |
0:49.3 | And, strangers, that's a bit of a shame, because this one's a real wild ride. |
0:56.4 | It all started in Ohio in the spring of 1966. |
1:01.1 | To be exact on April 17th, at about 5 a.m. |
1:05.7 | Portage County Sheriff Deputies Dale Spar and Barney Neff were on patrol that early morning, cruising a stretch |
1:12.6 | of U.S. 224 in eastern Ohio. Per the Akron Beacon Journal, the two deputies were just a little |
1:20.0 | ways outside Randolph Township. That's when their radio crackled with a message from dispatch. |
1:26.5 | A call had come in from a resident who'd seen |
1:28.8 | something strange, a bright object as big as a house in the night sky. It may go without saying |
1:36.4 | that the deputies didn't take this very seriously, at least not at first. They were probably |
1:43.3 | used to all manner of early morning oddities, |
1:46.8 | but, according to the Cincinnati Inquirer, they had spotted something that piqued their interest. |
1:53.0 | A vehicle stopped on the shoulder of the highway. It was a red and white Ford, a 1959 model, |
1:59.8 | and it was seemingly abandoned. And there was more. |
2:04.2 | When Dale Spar got out to investigate, he noticed what was painted on its side. A strange symbol, |
2:11.1 | a triangle paired with a lightning bolt, and the following words, seven steps to hell. And, per the inquirer, the car was absolutely, |
2:23.4 | quote, filled with walkie-talkies and radios. Now, what kind of shady business could this possibly be? |
2:33.5 | Unfortunately, Dale Spar and Barney Neff never got |
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