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The following podcast may not be
for all listeners. 

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Listener discretion is advised. 
The Pascagoula River in 

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Mississippi holds secrets, dark 
ones. 

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And on one dark October 9th in 
1973, it surrendered one of its 

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strangest and darkest secrets. 
Two men stood on its banks, 

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Charles Hickson and Calvin 
Parker Junior. 

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They were ordinary guys with 
fishing lines in the water, 

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their silhouettes barely visible
against the ink black 

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Mississippi sky. 
They weren't looking for 

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answers, and they weren't 
seeking the unknown. 

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But at 9:00 PM, as the chorus of
insect noises fell to an 

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unnatural hush, the unknown 
found them. 

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Little did they know that 
everything they believed about 

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reality would shatter like glass
within minutes. 

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This is the story of the 
Pascagoula UFO encounter. 

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The Pascagoula River snakes 
through Mississippi like a dark 

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artery, stretching 80 miles of 
murky waters that blur the line 

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between fresh and salt water. 
Where the river meets sound, 

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brackish currents whisper tales 
of what lurks beneath. 

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A place where 2 worlds collide 
and neither entirely claimed 

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dominion over the other. 
On October 11th, 1973, two men 

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went fishing on the West Bank of
the Pascagoula River. 42 year 

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old Charles Hixon and 19 year 
old Calvin Parker settled in 

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poles in the water light, 
chatting and hoping to catch a 

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few fish. 
But as dusk fell they began to 

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see lights. 
Blue, pulsing, otherworldly. 

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The Pascagoula River runs black 
as oil on autumn nights, and on 

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October 11th, 1973, it swallowed
the last moments of normalcy 

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Charles Hickson and Calvin 
Parker would ever know. 

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As twilight bled Into Darkness, 
pulses of cobalt light that 

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appeared otherworldly began 
dancing across the water like 

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fever dreams. 
Then came the sound, a 

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mechanical whirring that cut 
through the night air like a 

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blade. 
Charles would later describe it 

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as the sound of death itself, 
scraping against walls between 

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our world and whatever lay 
beyond. 

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What materialized above them 
defied earthly explanation, a 

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massive shape that hung in the 
air like a tear in reality 

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itself. 
The craft, if you could call it 

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that, stretched 30 or maybe 40 
feet across the night sky, its 

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hulking mass looming just eight 
to 10 feet above their heads. 

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It didn't float so much as it 
violated gravity, hovering with 

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an unnatural stillness that made
the air feel thick and wrong. 

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The light that had seemed merely
strange moments before now 

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poured from this monstrosity, 
casting everything in a sickly 

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glow that turned familiar 
shadows into writhing spectres. 

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What emerged from the craft 
would haunt both men's 

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nightmares for the rest of their
lives. 

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The beings moved robotically, 
but the three creatures floated 

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above the ground, approaching 
with inhuman grace. 

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Grey wrinkled skin, crab like 
claws, conical protrusions where

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ears should be and their faces 
were nothing but a slit where a 

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mouth should be and a carrot 
like growth where a nose should 

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be. 
What happened next turns this 

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from just another UFO sighting 
into something far more 

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terrifying. 
The beings paralyzed both men 

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and levitated them into their 
craft. 

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Charles and Calvin found 
themselves helpless, suspended 

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in mid air. 
Alvin, overcome with terror, 

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passed out, but Charles remained
conscious throughout the ordeal,

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feeling every moment of their 
clinical, emotionless exam. 

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Laying on an exam table, Charles
saw a device come down from 

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above. 
The device moved to each side of

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his head and back and front. 
It made clicking noises and then

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retreated back into the ceiling.
A more feminine being glided 

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into view and was visibly 
different in appearance than the

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other beings. 
She did not have crab like claws

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for hands. 
She had fingers, a detail that 

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made her is somehow more 
terrifying. 

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Charles couldn't look away as 
she loomed over him. 

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She pinched his cheek, then, 
without warning, forced her 

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finger down his throat. 
He gagged and thrashed as she 

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probed deeper, her fingers 
scraping against soft tissue, 

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searching for a path through 
flesh to emerge through his 

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sinus cavity. 
His screams came out as wet, 

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muffled gurgles, the pain unlike
anything he'd ever known were 

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thought possible. 
Telepathically, she spoke to 

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Charles. 
Don't be afraid, we aren't going

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to hurt you. 
Once the examination was 

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complete, both men were 
delivered back to the riverbank.

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They immediately called the 
Jackson County Sheriff's Office.

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What makes this case different 
from so many others is what 

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happened after. 
When Charles and Calvin reported

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their experience to the local 
sheriff, they were left alone in

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an interrogation room with a 
hidden tape recorder. 

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Law enforcement expected their 
story to fall apart. 

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When they thought no one was 
listening, law enforcement had 

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high hopes of catching them in a
lie. 

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Instead, they captured something
more chilling. 

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Calvin told Charles. 
I got to get home, get to bed, 

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or get some nerve pills or 
something. 

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I can't stand it. 
I'm about to go to pieces, 

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Charles responds. 
I'll tell you when we get 

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through this, I'll get you 
something to settle you so you 

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can get some damn sleep. 
You're about to hear the actual 

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recording from the interrogation
room. 

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The audio is poor quality. 
I tried to clean it up a bit, 

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but in the beginning you'll hear
an officer ask them if they'd 

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like some more coffee and then 
he excuses himself, leaving the 

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two men to continue being 
recorded. 

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You hear about some rocket? 
But. 

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You can't believe me. 
I don't know. 

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I don't know. 
Many 7 the United States have it

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there. 
Noise. 

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I've never, never done about 
what we see. 

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I did something in the airport, 
No noise up there. 

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And this ain't gonna be the only
time this gonna happen again. 

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I you know. 
He brought you out of. 

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That damn thing. 
And you brought me up. 

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I like to know when the hell you
got you straightened up, man. 

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But I. 
Don't know my heart I just froze

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that just like it I couldn't do 
it just like and stuff they. 

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Didn't know they didn't do. 
After both men passed lie 

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detector and sobriety tests, law
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their story. 
Both maintained their story 

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until their dying days. 
Charles underwent hypnosis, 

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revealing details so consistent 
and disturbing that the 

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hypnotist himself became 
convinced. 

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But here's where the story takes
an even darker turn. 

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In the years following the 
incident, other witnesses came 

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forward. 
A couple driving nearby reported

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strange blue lights. 
A man on the other side of the 

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river described seeing an 
unusual craft. 

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Most disturbing of all were the 
reports of similar creatures 

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that had been made in the area 
before and would continue after 

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this incident. 
What if Charles and Calvin 

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weren't chosen at random? 
What if something about the 

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Pascagoula River draws these 
beings back again and again? 

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Calvin spent decades trying to 
forget that night. 

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He moved away, changed jobs, and
avoided the spotlight. 

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But in 2018, few years before 
his death, he finally broke his 

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silence. 
What he revealed in his book 

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suggests that whatever happened 
that night was even stranger 

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than the original reports. 
Was it aliens, interdimensional 

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beings, or something even more 
sinister that our human minds 

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can't comprehend? 
The waters of the Pascagoula 

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River hold their secrets close, 
but one thing's certain. 

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On that warm October night in 
1973, something reached out from

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the unknown and touched our 
world, and we are still feeling 

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the ripples to this day. 
If you find yourself driving 

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along the moonlit shores of the 
Pascagoula River just north of 

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Engel's shipyard, pause for a 
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Let the engine idle. 
Listen to the waters whisper. 

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This is where they came that 
night, emerging from the 

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darkness above. 
But the river wasn't their only 

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hunting ground. 
Six days later, on a lonely 

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stretch of Interstate 10 between
Mobile and Pensacola, another 

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encounter occurred. 
Another victim, same description

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of these otherworldly beings 
with inhuman claws. 30 minutes 

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of lost time. 
This gentleman was taken into 

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the ship with his truck, and 
then they returned him back to 

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Pine Forest Rd. 2 encounters 
just days apart. 

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Two stories that mirror each 
other in the most chilling way. 

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I guess the question isn't 
whether they're still out there,

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it's whether they're watching 
right now, waiting for their 

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next opportunity to reach down 
from the darkness. 

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As I head back into the 
unexplained realms, remember 

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that when you're driving alone 
at night, there's lights in the 

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rearview mirror. 
Might not be from this world. 

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Until next time, keep watching 
the skies and listening closely.

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That humming sun might be an 
otherworldly visitor returning 

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for another dance with humanity.