Pascagoula

I don't know if, you know, Hamp and all our friends down on the Treasure Coast are feeling the same way like St. Augustine, you know, oldest city in America.

You know, it doesn't get hit as much, but certainly Vero and that area and the Gulf, friends in the Gulf Shores and along through Pascagoula, you know, Beaumont.

It's just there's a certain like, okay, it's September 9th, and you wonder if Mother Nature isn't just going to say, okay, you haven't had a lot of hurricanes, so I'm going to open the largest can of whoop-ass I can find on you, like a pent-up kinetic energy.

But anyway, just an abstract curiosity of that.

Rather than risk another possible attack by going through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, the ship went a long way around, past South Africa.

The Cole arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi on December 13, 2000.

There, it would undergo repairs at the Ingalls Shipyard, where it had been built six years earlier.

According to defense contractor Northup Grunman, the repairs consisted of, quote, more than 550 tons of steel structural repairs to replace the damaged area's exterior plating.

It's a legend as thick, murky, and inhospitable as the swamps themselves, a foul-smelling phantom that remains Florida's most infamous contribution to the great American monster mythos.

Now, while many of the creatures on this list are beasts of the earth, the story of the Pascagoula entities is different.

This is not a legend passed down through generations, but a direct, terrifying encounter from 1973 that blurs the line between cryptozoology and ufology.

The beings witnessed on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi were so bizarre and alien that they have become legendary entities in their own right.

On the evening of October 11, 1973, two co-workers, Charles Hixon and Calvin Parker, were fishing from an abandoned pier.

Their quiet evening was shattered by a humming sound and the appearance of a silent, egg-shaped craft with flashing blue lights.

Instead of catching them concocting a hoax, which he figured he would, the tape captured the raw whispered terror of two men trying to process an unbelievable event, with Hickson trying to calm the praying, weeping Parker.

This secret tape convinced investigators, including famed UFO researcher Dr. J. Allen Hynek, that the men were indeed telling the truth.

Now, let's take a look

at the Pascagoula abduction.

This case is a cornerstone of modern ufology.

because it provides a rare, perfect storm, if you will, of evidence.

Two witnesses with vastly different personalities, a physical examination, and most importantly, a secret police recording that captured raw, unscripted human terror.

The date, October 11, 1973.

Location, Pascagoula River in Mississippi.

This is classified as a close encounter of the fourth kind, slash abduction, slash psychological trauma.

M-I-S-S-I-P-P-I.

And I'm going to have the opportunity to tell you about one of the most infamous abduction stories, the Pascagoula River incident.

It's a river.

You ever heard of it? Never.

Sheboygan.

Before I dive too deep into it, let's figure out where in Mississippi we actually are.

With a population of 22,000 people, Pascagoula sits in Jackson County and is right on the coast of the Gulf.

Its name is taken from the Pascagoula tribe, which is found along the river.

Made the tackle.

Ray Rooster Jones out of Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Now the big difference in this series is the coaches have very wisely let Marino drop the ball off, give him some confidence and mainly the team confidence in him by throwing the short passes, gain that confidence.

So Pitt without a first down in the first quarter, they picked up successive first downs.

Lynn,

number three, and Wallace Thomas.

They call him Pappy out of Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Second down and ten from the 17.