What stories do you rarely tell because nobody will believe you? I'm a living witness to something

known as the McMasterville Explosion. CIL, the paint company, made explosives. Their explosives factory,

which was a giant factory on the same grounds as the paint-making factory. One night the

whole thing blew up. I was looking right at it when it went. Not just the explosives, but

thousands of gallons of

flammable liquids from other parts of the factory all went up at once. It was estimated to have

the power of a one kiloton explosion. I lived on the side of a mountain called Mount St. Hiller,

a little over a mile away looking down at the factory site. When you see an explosion like that

from a distance, the land

ripples like water. Like when you drop a stone in water. I was riding a bike. The ground shook me first,

then the air blast knocked me on my butt. The factory was deliberately sunk into the ground and

surrounded by a high trench wall in case it ever blew up so the nearby town of Beloyle wouldn't get leveled.

So the explosive force got punched into the ground and the factory was blown straight up into

the air. Tons of wreckage rained down for miles. No one I know of was hit by anything, but many

small fires were started all over the place. My next door neighbor found a train wheel in his

backyard and it was red hot when he found it. Apparently this occurred in 1910. was started all over the place. My next door neighbor found a train wheel in his backyard,

and it was red-hot when he found it. Apparently, this occurred in 1972 and at least six people

died. That my father was arrested for stealing $100,000 worth of Hershey's kisses, and during his

time in jail, I found out that he was not my biological father. My biological father owned a chain of

restaurants that I frequented as a kid and teenager. I found all this out a few weeks after my 18th

birthday. What would you even want with a hundred thousand dollars worth of Hershey's kisses?

I was six years old and my parents took my family down to Disney World. Yay! On the flight down,

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