At first we thought we had stumbled across a secret government activity reminiscent of the Philadelphia Experiment, or maybe something eerie such as what goes on in government sites around Alamogordo, New Mexico. We knew of similar secret sites in the high plateaus of Colorado, and we knew some devices were exploded in Fallon, Nevada. But now, with Government funds largely diverted to the global war on terror and reconstruction efforts in Louisiana, we thought that with new priorities, maybe things had settled down.
Ghost Camp, indeed. We had heard before of similar spectral phenomenological sites in Lincoln, Nebraska and Loveland, Colorado. Netherworld visitations have been reported throughout Mississippi, and similar monkee business originated in Clarkesville just after the last train departed. But it’s far more frequent to see ghosts at massacre sites in the Black Hills of South Dakota than in the peaceful rolling hills of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg not withstanding. Then again, in Blueville, Kansas and in Cloverland, Wisconsin, you can find many fire pits that mark the now abandoned camp sites where spirits of the dead still prance about in the night.
We met one here in the Burke Lake Wilderness area. He had a British accent. He said he flew over from Hale Village, England, which has its roots in Anglo-Saxon times and is situated a few miles east of Liverpool Airport. He spoke in strange, otherworldly terms. He said, “The permis of the derialator has been overrun recently by a multitude of unsolicited onterators.” He warned that, “Future emications of this sort will result in the instantaneous vermitude and cotorment of those guilty parties whose salamity is involved.” But was it truth, or was it seditious calumny masquerading as innocuous verisimilitude? We cowered. We ran. As his voice trailed in the distance, we heard him yell, “April Fools!!!”
