According to legend, in the fall of 1967, a local fisherman and 3 friends were on their way home, traveling along the coast road when they, along with several other residents, observed a collection of bright lights in the sky hovering over the area of Shag Harbour. While they watched, the lights dropped suddenly into the bay right on the edge of Shag Harbor. Believing it to be the crash of some sort of aircraft, they notified the police. When they described the event to the RCMP, they were questioned about their sobriety. Once it was acsertained that they were not under the influence, officers were sent and an aggressive search and rescue effort was organized and launched into the dark waters of the harbour. Upon arriving at the estimated location of the crash site, the rescuers observed a glowing thick yellow foam rising out of the dark water. The presence of the foam was sufficient to discourage the divers from investigating further. After some deliberation, and in light of the fact that the window in which to recover survivors was rapidly closing, the search continued. However, the official report concluded that in fact no planes had gone missing and nothing was reported to have been discovered under the mysterious yellow foam. Hmmmmm....
You can follow the whole story by watching all 6 youtube videos and following this link to the wikipedia page describing the incident.
One thing you will not find there is information about this baby alien that I actually got a chance to hold at an undisclosed location in the vicinity of Shag Harbour! I can't disclose exactly where, but I can tell you that you should not feel badly for this little guy. Turns out his name is Marvin and he's actually alive and doing well. He loves to play this gag on tourists where he pretends to be dead in this little glass jar. Ha, he's such a kidder!
Actually he's very well versed on the UFO incident and told me not to worry about his friends on the craft, they were fully insured. So there you go, another happy ending from Nova Scotia.
Gotta run, Marvin's visiting for the afternoon and he's hollering for another beer.
Cheers!
~B
3 comments:
I don't understand..........shouldn't Austin Powers be included in this story somewhere? Yeah Baby!
Isn't this the kind of eerie thing that attracts tourists to NS? Like Bicycle Bobby?
Didn't Marvin the alien change his name to Lee? I thought I heard that somewhere......maybe not.
JM
No... that was Lee Marvin who played in the sequel to War of the Worlds. It was a "B" rated B&W film called "Midnight in Shag Harbour" and it tanked at the box office. Some reports indicated that Lee... or Marvin... or one of the costars lost his shorts during the making of the film. So that begs the question once again... Boxers or Briefs?
MJ - Way to make the all to obvious inside family joke. No, it's just Marvin. As regards the question of undergarments, it's neither - Marvin wears a very smart and colorful Ferengee flight tunic. I believe he said it was hand made on Zebulon 5. He was walking around in it after consuming way too many beers last evening. - Gee, I wonder how long this goofy thread is going to last. I long for the days of meaningful and informative comments....sigh... ~B
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