Conspiracy goes with all curious events. One that very few know, is one that happened in front of my property.
One late november evening, a couple was driving past my home and property. The man was mentally unstable. He stopped his car, jumped out, ripped off all his clothing, and shouted that he was going to find God. Off he ran, across my field, shouting. My dogs heard it, and just had to go out, and bark at him. I put up my dog fence that summer. Had I not, they would have chased him down. I didn't know what was going on.
Then I saw police cars show up down the road, about a half hour later. About 15 minutes later, I had one come to my house, and I found out what was going on. Then, I was asked to not go out looking with them, they were trying to use dogs to track the crazy down, and my scent would confuse their dogs. Fair enough, besides, it was about 35 degrees out. Why go out and freeze my tail off?
Apparently, this nut ran about a mile north through farm fields, until he saw a large, well lit industrial plant that sits about seven miles from my place. So he ran to the lights, thinking obviously that was Heaven. He almost made it.
He wasn't found until spring, lying dead in the middle of a field. Some cockeyed physic had told the family he was hiding in one of my outbuildings. I met most of the family,over the coming days, because they insisted to search my buildings. Me telling them my dogs would have found him by that time didn't sit well with them. I finally had to have the sheriff order them to stay off my property, after three days of them just walking in and searching without my permission.
My, what I thought was normally sane neighbors, started tossing around conspiracy theories.
"He was picked up by the CIA"
"UFO's nabbed him"
"The Mob kidnapped him"
"He was a spy, and the Russians had picked him up and took him back to Russia"
"Black helicopters took him"
Oh come now, you HONESTLY expect me to believe that??? The only other explanation I didn't here was that the Great Pumpkin took him on as a partner. (He did run through a field of pumpkins on his naked run"
I wonder, do these conspiracy theorists actually know how silly they sound?