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(00:00):
The following podcast may not befor all listeners.
Listener discretion is advised. The Pascagoula River in
Mississippi holds secrets, dark ones.
And on one dark October 9th in 1973, it surrendered one of its
(00:24):
strangest and darkest secrets. Two men stood on its banks,
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker Junior.
They were ordinary guys with fishing lines in the water,
their silhouettes barely visibleagainst the ink black
Mississippi sky. They weren't looking for
(00:45):
answers, and they weren't seeking the unknown.
But at 9:00 PM, as the chorus ofinsect noises fell to an
unnatural hush, the unknown found them.
Little did they know that everything they believed about
reality would shatter like glasswithin minutes.
(01:06):
This is the story of the Pascagoula UFO encounter.
The Pascagoula River snakes through Mississippi like a dark
artery, stretching 80 miles of murky waters that blur the line
(01:26):
between fresh and salt water. Where the river meets sound,
brackish currents whisper tales of what lurks beneath.
A place where 2 worlds collide and neither entirely claimed
dominion over the other. On October 11th, 1973, two men
(01:49):
went fishing on the West Bank ofthe Pascagoula River. 42 year
old Charles Hixon and 19 year old Calvin Parker settled in
poles in the water light, chatting and hoping to catch a
few fish. But as dusk fell they began to
see lights. Blue, pulsing, otherworldly.
(02:15):
The Pascagoula River runs black as oil on autumn nights, and on
October 11th, 1973, it swallowedthe last moments of normalcy
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker would ever know.
As twilight bled Into Darkness, pulses of cobalt light that
(02:38):
appeared otherworldly began dancing across the water like
fever dreams. Then came the sound, a
mechanical whirring that cut through the night air like a
blade. Charles would later describe it
as the sound of death itself, scraping against walls between
our world and whatever lay beyond.
(03:03):
What materialized above them defied earthly explanation, a
massive shape that hung in the air like a tear in reality
itself. The craft, if you could call it
that, stretched 30 or maybe 40 feet across the night sky, its
hulking mass looming just eight to 10 feet above their heads.
(03:27):
It didn't float so much as it violated gravity, hovering with
an unnatural stillness that madethe air feel thick and wrong.
The light that had seemed merelystrange moments before now
poured from this monstrosity, casting everything in a sickly
(03:49):
glow that turned familiar shadows into writhing spectres.
What emerged from the craft would haunt both men's
nightmares for the rest of theirlives.
The beings moved robotically, but the three creatures floated
above the ground, approaching with inhuman grace.
(04:11):
Grey wrinkled skin, crab like claws, conical protrusions where
ears should be and their faces were nothing but a slit where a
mouth should be and a carrot like growth where a nose should
be. What happened next turns this
(04:33):
from just another UFO sighting into something far more
terrifying. The beings paralyzed both men
and levitated them into their craft.
Charles and Calvin found themselves helpless, suspended
in mid air. Alvin, overcome with terror,
(04:53):
passed out, but Charles remainedconscious throughout the ordeal,
feeling every moment of their clinical, emotionless exam.
Laying on an exam table, Charlessaw a device come down from
above. The device moved to each side of
his head and back and front. It made clicking noises and then
(05:18):
retreated back into the ceiling.A more feminine being glided
into view and was visibly different in appearance than the
other beings. She did not have crab like claws
for hands. She had fingers, a detail that
made her is somehow more terrifying.
(05:41):
Charles couldn't look away as she loomed over him.
She pinched his cheek, then, without warning, forced her
finger down his throat. He gagged and thrashed as she
probed deeper, her fingers scraping against soft tissue,
searching for a path through flesh to emerge through his
(06:04):
sinus cavity. His screams came out as wet,
muffled gurgles, the pain unlikeanything he'd ever known were
thought possible. Telepathically, she spoke to
Charles. Don't be afraid, we aren't going
to hurt you. Once the examination was
(06:26):
complete, both men were delivered back to the riverbank.
They immediately called the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
What makes this case different from so many others is what
happened after. When Charles and Calvin reported
their experience to the local sheriff, they were left alone in
(06:47):
an interrogation room with a hidden tape recorder.
Law enforcement expected their story to fall apart.
When they thought no one was listening, law enforcement had
high hopes of catching them in alie.
Instead, they captured somethingmore chilling.
Calvin told Charles. I got to get home, get to bed,
(07:11):
or get some nerve pills or something.
I can't stand it. I'm about to go to pieces,
Charles responds. I'll tell you when we get
through this, I'll get you something to settle you so you
can get some damn sleep. You're about to hear the actual
recording from the interrogationroom.
The audio is poor quality. I tried to clean it up a bit,
(07:35):
but in the beginning you'll hearan officer ask them if they'd
like some more coffee and then he excuses himself, leaving the
two men to continue being recorded.
(08:08):
You hear about some rocket? But.
You can't believe me. I don't know.
I don't know. Many 7 the United States have it
there. Noise.
I've never, never done about what we see.
I did something in the airport, No noise up there.
(08:28):
And this ain't gonna be the onlytime this gonna happen again.
(08:59):
I you know. He brought you out of.
(09:33):
That damn thing. And you brought me up.
I like to know when the hell yougot you straightened up, man.
But I. Don't know my heart I just froze
that just like it I couldn't do it just like and stuff they.
(09:54):
Didn't know they didn't do. After both men passed lie
detector and sobriety tests, lawenforcement began to believe
(10:16):
their story. Both maintained their story
until their dying days. Charles underwent hypnosis,
revealing details so consistent and disturbing that the
hypnotist himself became convinced.
But here's where the story takesan even darker turn.
(10:37):
In the years following the incident, other witnesses came
forward. A couple driving nearby reported
strange blue lights. A man on the other side of the
river described seeing an unusual craft.
Most disturbing of all were the reports of similar creatures
(10:57):
that had been made in the area before and would continue after
this incident. What if Charles and Calvin
weren't chosen at random? What if something about the
Pascagoula River draws these beings back again and again?
Calvin spent decades trying to forget that night.
(11:19):
He moved away, changed jobs, andavoided the spotlight.
But in 2018, few years before his death, he finally broke his
silence. What he revealed in his book
suggests that whatever happened that night was even stranger
than the original reports. Was it aliens, interdimensional
(11:42):
beings, or something even more sinister that our human minds
can't comprehend? The waters of the Pascagoula
River hold their secrets close, but one thing's certain.
On that warm October night in 1973, something reached out from
the unknown and touched our world, and we are still feeling
(12:06):
the ripples to this day. If you find yourself driving
along the moonlit shores of the Pascagoula River just north of
Engel's shipyard, pause for a moment.
Let the engine idle. Listen to the waters whisper.
(12:28):
This is where they came that night, emerging from the
darkness above. But the river wasn't their only
hunting ground. Six days later, on a lonely
stretch of Interstate 10 betweenMobile and Pensacola, another
encounter occurred. Another victim, same description
(12:50):
of these otherworldly beings with inhuman claws. 30 minutes
of lost time. This gentleman was taken into
the ship with his truck, and then they returned him back to
Pine Forest Rd. 2 encounters just days apart.
Two stories that mirror each other in the most chilling way.
(13:10):
I guess the question isn't whether they're still out there,
it's whether they're watching right now, waiting for their
next opportunity to reach down from the darkness.
As I head back into the unexplained realms, remember
that when you're driving alone at night, there's lights in the
rearview mirror. Might not be from this world.
(13:33):
Until next time, keep watching the skies and listening closely.
That humming sun might be an otherworldly visitor returning
for another dance with humanity.
The following podcast may not befor all listeners.
Listener discretion is advised. The Pascagoula River in
Mississippi holds secrets, dark ones.
And on one dark October 9th in 1973, it surrendered one of its
(00:24):
strangest and darkest secrets. Two men stood on its banks,
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker Junior.
They were ordinary guys with fishing lines in the water,
their silhouettes barely visibleagainst the ink black
Mississippi sky. They weren't looking for
(00:45):
answers, and they weren't seeking the unknown.
But at 9:00 PM, as the chorus ofinsect noises fell to an
unnatural hush, the unknown found them.
Little did they know that everything they believed about
reality would shatter like glasswithin minutes.
(01:06):
This is the story of the Pascagoula UFO encounter.
The Pascagoula River snakes through Mississippi like a dark
artery, stretching 80 miles of murky waters that blur the line
(01:26):
between fresh and salt water. Where the river meets sound,
brackish currents whisper tales of what lurks beneath.
A place where 2 worlds collide and neither entirely claimed
dominion over the other. On October 11th, 1973, two men
(01:49):
went fishing on the West Bank ofthe Pascagoula River. 42 year
old Charles Hixon and 19 year old Calvin Parker settled in
poles in the water light, chatting and hoping to catch a
few fish. But as dusk fell they began to
see lights. Blue, pulsing, otherworldly.
(02:15):
The Pascagoula River runs black as oil on autumn nights, and on
October 11th, 1973, it swallowedthe last moments of normalcy
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker would ever know.
As twilight bled Into Darkness, pulses of cobalt light that
(02:38):
appeared otherworldly began dancing across the water like
fever dreams. Then came the sound, a
mechanical whirring that cut through the night air like a
blade. Charles would later describe it
as the sound of death itself, scraping against walls between
our world and whatever lay beyond.
(03:03):
What materialized above them defied earthly explanation, a
massive shape that hung in the air like a tear in reality
itself. The craft, if you could call it
that, stretched 30 or maybe 40 feet across the night sky, its
hulking mass looming just eight to 10 feet above their heads.
(03:27):
It didn't float so much as it violated gravity, hovering with
an unnatural stillness that madethe air feel thick and wrong.
The light that had seemed merelystrange moments before now
poured from this monstrosity, casting everything in a sickly
(03:49):
glow that turned familiar shadows into writhing spectres.
What emerged from the craft would haunt both men's
nightmares for the rest of theirlives.
The beings moved robotically, but the three creatures floated
above the ground, approaching with inhuman grace.
(04:11):
Grey wrinkled skin, crab like claws, conical protrusions where
ears should be and their faces were nothing but a slit where a
mouth should be and a carrot like growth where a nose should
be. What happened next turns this
(04:33):
from just another UFO sighting into something far more
terrifying. The beings paralyzed both men
and levitated them into their craft.
Charles and Calvin found themselves helpless, suspended
in mid air. Alvin, overcome with terror,
(04:53):
passed out, but Charles remainedconscious throughout the ordeal,
feeling every moment of their clinical, emotionless exam.
Laying on an exam table, Charlessaw a device come down from
above. The device moved to each side of
his head and back and front. It made clicking noises and then
(05:18):
retreated back into the ceiling.A more feminine being glided
into view and was visibly different in appearance than the
other beings. She did not have crab like claws
for hands. She had fingers, a detail that
made her is somehow more terrifying.
(05:41):
Charles couldn't look away as she loomed over him.
She pinched his cheek, then, without warning, forced her
finger down his throat. He gagged and thrashed as she
probed deeper, her fingers scraping against soft tissue,
searching for a path through flesh to emerge through his
(06:04):
sinus cavity. His screams came out as wet,
muffled gurgles, the pain unlikeanything he'd ever known were
thought possible. Telepathically, she spoke to
Charles. Don't be afraid, we aren't going
to hurt you. Once the examination was
(06:26):
complete, both men were delivered back to the riverbank.
They immediately called the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
What makes this case different from so many others is what
happened after. When Charles and Calvin reported
their experience to the local sheriff, they were left alone in
(06:47):
an interrogation room with a hidden tape recorder.
Law enforcement expected their story to fall apart.
When they thought no one was listening, law enforcement had
high hopes of catching them in alie.
Instead, they captured somethingmore chilling.
Calvin told Charles. I got to get home, get to bed,
(07:11):
or get some nerve pills or something.
I can't stand it. I'm about to go to pieces,
Charles responds. I'll tell you when we get
through this, I'll get you something to settle you so you
can get some damn sleep. You're about to hear the actual
recording from the interrogationroom.
The audio is poor quality. I tried to clean it up a bit,
(07:35):
but in the beginning you'll hearan officer ask them if they'd
like some more coffee and then he excuses himself, leaving the
two men to continue being recorded.
(08:08):
You hear about some rocket? But.
You can't believe me. I don't know.
I don't know. Many 7 the United States have it
there. Noise.
I've never, never done about what we see.
I did something in the airport, No noise up there.
(08:28):
And this ain't gonna be the onlytime this gonna happen again.
(08:59):
I you know. He brought you out of.
(09:33):
That damn thing. And you brought me up.
I like to know when the hell yougot you straightened up, man.
But I. Don't know my heart I just froze
that just like it I couldn't do it just like and stuff they.
(09:54):
Didn't know they didn't do. After both men passed lie
detector and sobriety tests, lawenforcement began to believe
(10:16):
their story. Both maintained their story
until their dying days. Charles underwent hypnosis,
revealing details so consistent and disturbing that the
hypnotist himself became convinced.
But here's where the story takesan even darker turn.
(10:37):
In the years following the incident, other witnesses came
forward. A couple driving nearby reported
strange blue lights. A man on the other side of the
river described seeing an unusual craft.
Most disturbing of all were the reports of similar creatures
(10:57):
that had been made in the area before and would continue after
this incident. What if Charles and Calvin
weren't chosen at random? What if something about the
Pascagoula River draws these beings back again and again?
Calvin spent decades trying to forget that night.
(11:19):
He moved away, changed jobs, andavoided the spotlight.
But in 2018, few years before his death, he finally broke his
silence. What he revealed in his book
suggests that whatever happened that night was even stranger
than the original reports. Was it aliens, interdimensional
(11:42):
beings, or something even more sinister that our human minds
can't comprehend? The waters of the Pascagoula
River hold their secrets close, but one thing's certain.
On that warm October night in 1973, something reached out from
the unknown and touched our world, and we are still feeling
(12:06):
the ripples to this day. If you find yourself driving
along the moonlit shores of the Pascagoula River just north of
Engel's shipyard, pause for a moment.
Let the engine idle. Listen to the waters whisper.
(12:28):
This is where they came that night, emerging from the
darkness above. But the river wasn't their only
hunting ground. Six days later, on a lonely
stretch of Interstate 10 betweenMobile and Pensacola, another
encounter occurred. Another victim, same description
(12:50):
of these otherworldly beings with inhuman claws. 30 minutes
of lost time. This gentleman was taken into
the ship with his truck, and then they returned him back to
Pine Forest Rd. 2 encounters just days apart.
Two stories that mirror each other in the most chilling way.
(13:10):
I guess the question isn't whether they're still out there,
it's whether they're watching right now, waiting for their
next opportunity to reach down from the darkness.
As I head back into the unexplained realms, remember
that when you're driving alone at night, there's lights in the
rearview mirror. Might not be from this world.
(13:33):
Until next time, keep watching the skies and listening closely.
That humming sun might be an otherworldly visitor returning
for another dance with humanity.
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