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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Men In Black

Men In Black
In the course of researching the "Poignant Kentucky" book, I josh to a man in Madison State who told me an vibrant loud noise. He didn't preference to be named on the maximum, and I lost track of the story having the status of hopeful he'd return to leaving on the maximum. Now I've lost track in the same way as the guy totally.

In a nutshell, he claimed that in the 1970s he was visited by a join of suspicious-acting, washed out, cadaverous men trendy shadowiness spectacles and appropriate in old, musty-looking black suits and ties.

In other tongue, the model Men In Black imaginary personification. As Wikipedia describes them:

Men in Black (MIB), in stylish institute and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men appropriate in black suits who are government agents who reproach or bully UFO witnesses to set aside them offhand about what they embrace seen. It is sometimes shrouded that they may be aliens themselves. The term is also regularly hand-me-down to print unsounded men working for foreigner organizations, as well as to diverse twigs of government hypothetically hypothetical to restrain secrets or complete other particular whereabouts.

The man in Madison State alleged the men were claiming to be commerce subscriptions to the "Richmond Tabloid Record" and other periodicals. Yet, their drumming was verbose and unpracticed, indistinguishable society uttering the tongue for the first time justly than society who had been proverb the same thing over and over at every single one admission he knocked on. Like better than embrace a bunch of "discover one" unsolicited mail in the same way as haughty information, they had very soon one flyer, and it looked water-damaged and tattered as if they'd found it on the ground. And he obviously felt as if one MIB was craning his neck to quick look wearing the house having the status of the other MIB was upsetting him.

I can't go into why he felt the men were section of at all secret agency, in need informer key information regarding his model. But I found his story compelling.

That's the same as I had an MIB knowledge face-to-face.

In 1991, I was living in the same way as a girlfriend in a house in Lexington's Clang Mall, and hosting a essay rockabilly radio show on WRFL. I was reasonable conceal up my show at the station the same as I got a arrange consider. It was a man from Richmond, who alleged he "reasonable happened" to be pouring direct Lexington and "reasonable happened" to grasp my radio show and "reasonable happened" to embrace a carload of ultra-rare rockabilly documents that he'd indistinguishable to get rid of, shoddy. Would I be interested? Oh "hell" yeah.

I gave him my building and told him I'd be install property in report, commencing I lived faithful to the station. Did he report where Clang Mall was? "I manifest I can clutch it." He was facing waiting current the same as I rolled up reasonable moments progressive. He was of customary height, snatched shadowiness bleak brim combed rear, mustache. He was very welcoming and professional-seeming in a lovely shadowiness fitting and tie.

I invited him up, and we hauled the boxes of documents up to my room. It was a gem trove of at all of the rarest best possible - Elvis on Sun, super-rare Elvis white-label RCA DJ copies, Fake Haley DJ copies on pink-label Decca, Gene Vincent LPs, and diverse splendid 45s of indescribable artists. And all in absentminded occur. We're dialogue thousands of dollars import of model rockabilly best.

I told him I couldn't running set off to be able to unused to buy the collection, but if he'd let me cherry-pick at all of the best ones out, I'd buy associates now and try to buy haughty progressive. He smiled a blistering and welcoming smirk and alleged, "Sequence you what. I'm in Lexington all the time. I live in Richmond and work at the Depressed Leaves Legion Computer. You set aside the documents and I'll end rear trendy in a team up living. That'll lead to you a chance to result direct them and order your colony."

I was amazed that he would trust society he had reasonable met in the same way as all these splendid documents, but happily harden. He wrote his link and chart down on a crumb of paper for me, we shook hands, and he headed to his car. And I never saw him anew.

When on earth he didn't show up after a few living, I called the chart he'd unambiguous me. I got the loud braying three annotations and the recorded robotic message: "We are pathetic, you embrace reached a chart that is cut off or is no longer in usage." I looked up the link he'd unambiguous me in the arrange book. He wasn't current. I called the Computer and asked for him but was told "they'd never heard of him."

Having the status of the hell?

At the time, I hadn't interrelated him in the same way as the Men In Black legend. I was reasonable contemplation "Kindly, I presumption the documents are mine now." But it troubled me that he knew diligently how to clutch me, so why wasn't he trying? Uniform if he lost my chart, he knew where I lived. Uniform if he forgot "that", he knew I worked at WRFL. Uniform if he forgot where that was, he knew I did a rockabilly show current and might embrace called the station.

For a third Kentucky MIB story, there's theoretically one in Bart Nunnelly's "Faceless Kentucky", but I haven't shed light on it yet the same as Bart never sent me my indication ;)

And consequently there's yesterday's Covered Ninja Land-living Diffusion story.