Meal of Happiness #1

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Paula Weldon, an 18 year old Sophomore of Bennington College who was out hiking on December 1, 1946. She never returned and no trace of her was ever found.

Exactly 3 years later on December 1, 1945, a veteran named James E. Tetford was taking a bus back to his home at the Bennington Soldier's Home, returning from a visit with relatives. Witnesses saw him on the bus the stop before this, but, whwn the bus arrived at his destination, he was nowhere to be seen. His luggage was still on the bus.

Eight year old Paul Jepson dissapeared on October 12, 1950, while his mother was busy feeding the the pigs. Despite of having a highly visible red jacket, none of the search parties formed were able to find the boy.

3. San Luis Valley

San Luis Valley, in Southern Colarado is an area high in inexplicable phenomeno including UFO sightings, and hundereds of unexplained farm animal mutilations. UFO sightings are so common that a woman named Judy Massoline has even set up a UFO watchtower on her property, which has witnessed over 50 UFO sightings since 2000 alone. Some of these are observed by dozens of people at a time.

For the UFO skeptics out there, far more chilling are the tales of animal mutilations from the region. They began in 1967, with a horse named Snippy. Snippy was found one morning with her brain missing and her neck bones completely cleaned. Since then, hundereds, if not thousands of inexplicable animal mutilations have been occurred in the region, sharing several things in common - firstly, there is never a trace of blood around the animals, and secondly, the animals are all damaged with precise cuts, distinctly not the work of predators. Finally all of the mutilations happen overnight to otherwise healthy crestures.

Investigations into the incidents haven't weilded any results, yet they continue to this day. Some farmers report seeing strange lights in the sky the nights before finding a carcass, leading some to believe that extraterrestials are involved. Though it's hard to imagine aliens caring so much about farm animals in Colarado, the alternative isn't much more appealing - that humans are the so called "Phantom Surgeons of the Plains". Personally I'd rather they were aliens.

4. Bigelow Ranch

Bigelow Ranch (formely known as Skinwalker Ranch and Sherman Ranch) is a 480 acre property in the northwest Utah that is home to countless UFO sightings, animal mutilations and other strange occurrences. Though mysterious incidents have been documented since the 50s, some of the most bizarre stories happened to a pair of ranchers named Terry and Gwen Sherman after they got it in 1994.

First day they moved onto the property, they saw a large wolf out in the pasture. They even went to pet the wolf as it seemed tame (to the curious reader, yes, this is always a good idea). It was docile with the Shermans, but ended up grabbing a calf by its snout through the bars of its enclosure. When Terry shot at the wolf with a pistol, the bullets had no effect. It finally left after Terry brought out the shotgun, though even that didn't do any actual damage. Tje Shermans tried tracking the wolf, but its tracks stopped abruptly as if it had vanished.

And that wasn't the emd of things, the Shermans were constantly plaqued by such events such as UFO sightings, intelligent floating orbs (reputed to have incinerated three of their dogs), inexplicable cryptids, and gruesome cattle mutilations. It got so bad that the founder of the National Institute for Discovery Science, who wanted to study the mysteries surrounding the ranch. Bigelow owns the ranch to this day a d NID keeps a tight lid on their findings.

5. Devil's Sea

The Devil's Sea (or the Devil's Triangle) is the area of the Pacific Ocean as riddled with strange happenings as its Atlantic counterpart near Bermuda. Located off the coast of Japan, it's been the site if countless claims of unexplaimed phenomena including magnetic annomalis, inexplicable lights and objects, and ofcourse, mysrerious disappearances. This area is even considered a danger by Japanese fishing authorities.

One story has it that in 1952, the Japanese government sent out a research vessel, the Kalo Mura No.5, to investigate the mysteries if the Devil's Sea. Naturally ofcourse, The Kalo Mura No.5 and it's crew of 31 people were never seen again. Another story tells of Kublai Khan's disastrous ailments to invade Japan by crossing the Devil's Sea, losing atleast 40,000 men in the progress.