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In July of 1893 several men on a fishing trip encountered a large beast that squirted electrified liquid out of the middle of its head. It rendered two men unconscious and chased the rest of them into the woods. It’s been called an electric monster not because it could fling lightning bolts out of its gnarled fingers – but because it appeared to be a machine of some sort.
If you scroll through old newspapers long enough you can find some pretty strange stuff. For instance – remember the Aurora Texas airship crash wherein the town folk buried the little gray pilot? That was in print day-of thanks to the Dallas Morning News.
It was a very old account of something that’s generally considered to be a recent phenomenon.This next story is pretty similar, but instead of a crashed airship it’s a beached water-ship. Or something. The men arrived at camp late and noticed there was a party of surveyors already snoozing away nearby inside of pitched tents. The recent arrivals all turned in – and then they were awoken by a horrible noise. The story, as Altnews.blogdig.net puts it, goes something like this (in a first person account):
“It was, I guess, about midnight before I fell asleep, but exactly how long I slept, I cannot say, for when I woke, it was with such startling suddenness that it never entered my mind to look at my watch, and when after awhile I did look at my watch, as well as every watch belonging to the party, it was stopped… instantly the whole air was filled with a strong current of electricity that caused every nerve in the body to sting with pain, and a light as bright as that created by the concentration of many arc lights kept constantly flashing.
At first I thought it was a thunder storm, but as no rain accompanied it, and as both light and sound came from off the bay, l turned my head in that direction, and if it is possible for fright to turn one’s hair white, then mine ought to be snow white, for right before my eyes was a most horrible looking monster.”
Men from both camps gathered on the beach there in the middle of the night. An electrical current described as feeling like a suit made of needles filled the air. One man from the surveyors’ camp felt brave and moved towards the ‘monster.’ It didn’t end well, according to the same site:
“One of the men from the surveyor’s camp incautiously took a few steps in the direction of the water, and as he did so the monster darted towards the shore and threw a stream of water that reached the man, and he instantly fell to the ground and lay as though dead. “Mr. McDonald attempted to reach the man’s body to pull it back into a place of safety, but he was struck with some of the water that the monster was throwing and fell senseless to the earth.”
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