10-22-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On October 22, 2024 in the small village of Little Rock Nebraska, an unusual event occurred that has perplexed locals to this day. Farmer Jedidiah Buckwash was out doing the morning rounds in his fields as usual when he noticed something peculiar in the eastern sky. Through his battered cap and worn glasses he saw an object slowly floating across the horizon.

At first he thought it some trick of the morning light but as it drew nearer he realized with shock that it was some type of machine, circular in shape and gleaming in the morning sun. It drifted as if suspended upon unseen cords, completely silent save for a strange low humming that set Jedidiah's teeth on edge.

Terrified but intrigued, he scrambled as fast as his antique tractor could carry him across the dry cracked earth of his fields. As he drew alongside the object he cut the engine to better hear what sounds it may emit. The humming grew louder, a vibration that shook the very soil beneath his boots. But no doors opened, no metal steps descended, no sign if life showed from within the shining shell.

Jedidiah, though frightened near out of his wits by this point, steeled his nerves and gave the craft a good solid whack with his worn leather cap. To his surprise the shell reverberated under the blow like a fine bell, the humming pitching up an octave in response. But the thing did not retreat or attack, merely hovered as if waiting. And waiting it did, for a full hour over the dumbfounded farmer, before at last gliding away slow and silent to the east....