By Wallace O. Charition
ISBN-10: 0585322503
ISBN-13: 9780585322506
ISBN-10: 1556222564
ISBN-13: 9781556222566
What occurred to the records captured within the Alamo? Does a ghost really hang-out the nation capitol in Austin? was once John Wilkes sales space killed or did he break out and flee to principal Texas? The authors current the recognized proof and conditions of those and different mysteries.
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Being unfamiliar with the territory, he carefully felt his way and started around the rocks. He stopped when suddenly some of the strange mystery lights appeared. Although he never explained exactly how they did it, the rancher claimed the lights "spoke" and advised him that he was three miles south of Chinati Peak, considerably off course, heading in the wrong direction, and dangerously close to a precipice. The lights advised the rancher to follow them or he would surely die. With no alternative he could think of at the moment, the man did follow the lights and they lead him to a small cave that would provide shelter from the fierce storm.
S. armed forces were planning to invade Japan, there was a small, select group of scientists working almost round the clock on the Manhattan project trying to develop nuclear weapons that would make the invasion unnecessary. At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. R. declared war on Japan and the following day, August 9, Nagasaki was demolished by a second atomic bomb. The spirit of the Japanese was finally broken and on August 10, their government issued a statement offering to accept a conditional surrender.
The sight of unexpected lights alarmed Ellison who immediately assumed the Apaches were on the move and perhaps headed in his direction. He spent the rest of that night sleeping in the dark with one eye open and one hand on his trusty Winchester. Not long after the Ellison incident, a surveyor named Williams, the grandfather of 1990 Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, was working in the mountainous area around Marfa and saw the strange lights. He later recorded in Page 2 his personal journal that the Indians of the region believed the lights to be the spirit of dead Apache chief Alsate.