Disneyland of the Gods by John Keel

Author:John Keel [Keel, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New Saucerian
Published: 2014-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

An Idaho Triangle?

T-shirts declaring "I traveled the Bermuda Triangle" are a hot souvenir in the Bahamas, and sooner or later there will probably be T-shirts announcing "I survived New Jersey" and "I got out of Idaho alive." Warp zones with high accident rates and frequent disappearances are not confined to the famous Triangle in the South Atlantic. Every community in the country has at least one "Dead Man's Curve" or hazardous stretch of highway where several terrible accidents occur each year. Most of these places are well-known to the local inhabitants and carefully marked with warning signs. But every state also has a patch of highway, usually a straightaway free from ordinary hazards, that produces several fatal accidents each year, much to the bewilderment of the local authorities. A few years ago Ivan T. Sanderson was called upon to investigate such a warp zone in New Jersey. We know of similar places in New York and several other states. In West Virginia we once investigated a strip of straight road where, for no discernible reason, drivers were always veering into a river. Most of them drowned. Those who survived could not explain their actions.

The ten-mile stretch of Interstate 15 between Inkom and McCammon, Idaho is known locally as a "mystery road" because so many automobiles have suddenly become junk while trying to traverse it. Two drivers were killed there in a single month one summer, and there were four accidents within four days that July. The Idaho Highway Department and the State Police have been gravely concerned with this seemingly harmless length of road for several years. Rumble strips to shake up sleeping drivers have been installed, along with special guard rails, patches of light and dark colored pavement and other safety devices. The police patrols have been tripled there. Still the accidents continue.

Six years ago the police started taking statements from people who happened to witness the accidents. In most cases, the doomed drivers were proceeding normally at moderate speed when, for no apparent reason, they chose to swing off the road, often with fatal results. In one case, a truck carrying two men was followed by a car filled with highway engineers. Suddenly the truck left the road, slammed into some rocks and overturned. The two men survived and had no idea what had happened to them. The men in the car behind them saw no reason for the accident.

Other survivors of crashes on the mystery road told the same story. One minute they were driving along leisurely. The next, they were off the road and upside down with no recollection of what had happened. Medical tests of the victims have yielded negative results. The drivers were well-rested and healthy. The police even tested for unusual gases in the area, and a wind speed study was carried out. No explanation for the accidents has been found, and none of the safety measures have worked. Probably the only solution is to build a bypass and close Interstate 15's haunted ten miles forever.

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