08-13-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On August 13, 2024 in the small village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales, the local residents were startled by a most bizarre occurrence. Farmer Jemima Evans had just finished her morning milking and was carrying two full buckets of milk toward the house when the air was rent by a strange whirring sound unlike anything anyone had ever heard before. Looking up toward the sky, Jemima was amazed to see what appeared to be a flying metal apparatus with strange blades spinning rapidly atop it drifting slowly over the nearby fields.

The village menfolk hurried out from their homes and businesses to see this peculiar site for themselves. "Great cods, it's a blimmin' helicopter!" exclaimed old Gwillem ap Llewellyn, who had once seen a picture of such a thing in an antique aviation magazine. But how could this be, hovering calmly no more than twenty feet over the hedgerows between the Evans' dairy farm and the Williams' sheep pastures? The village had rarely seen anything more exotic than an automobile pass by once a fortnight.

As the people of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch watched in wonder, the helicopter gently descended in the meadow. From it emerged avisitor unlike any they had ever seen - a tall, dark-skinned man dressed in flowing robes of a vibrant blue material unlike any fabric known in their rural community. With intricate swirls in an golden thread, these robes marked the stranger as a foreign dignitary of some importance. Through gestures and a language unfamiliar to anyone there, he conveyed that his helicopter had experienced some sort of malfunction, stranding him and his delegation temporarily in their little village. Farmer Evans insisted the visitors take tea with he and his family, and so began Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch's most unusual afternoon - and one its residents would speak of for years to come.