Secrets: Part 1

Author's Note: I've been watching The History Channel's "Project Blue Book" series since its broadcast some time ago. At first I wasn't sure that I could follow the show. The way the episodes are written and then turned into a television program…well it comes across as mixed up and confusing and a total work of fiction (which it is, fiction. Fiction salt & peppered with a taste-test of facts). Anyway, I began to understand that for, entertainment purposes, the show has been presented this way as to keep it from becoming boring. Whatever the reason I've decided to try my hand at producing a story of likeness.

So, here I go, my attempt at creating a work with UFOs, unknown phenomenon, spirits, phantoms, creatures of the night and, other ghostly ghouls. Oh, and there may be some earthly truths mixed in there too.

…"Secrets"….story takes up after the "Curse of the Skinwalker" season 2-ep7.

- Lacking in Social Skills -

Edmund, Edmund Fletcher, (not his real last name), didn't want neighbors, no. Actually he didn't want anybody in his life. He wasn't a socially apt type of person. Some people are like that.

Anyway, Edmund had a reason why he was the way he was. He figured that he was cursed, or maybe it was blessed. He jumped between thinking that it was one or the other. You see for years it seemed that he was receiving a "calling"….some alternate reason for his existence. A mission maybe. And after leaving his home and coming west he found out what that mission was.

Edmund had come to be in charge of his family's property. Actually it was his uncle's property. Ed didn't have associations with others of his kinfolk…..hadn't for years.

So okay, Ed had taken over the reins of his uncle's ranch. He had become overseer ever since the man had vanished (one night his uncle had literally disappeared right before his eyes. Phased out into nonexistence).

For a while Ed had thought that he was going crazy. He considered that he was delusional and might be insane. However, it was then he remembered something. It was something that his uncle had told him. He recalled that his relative had told him that his ranch, and the surrounding area, was haunted…..Pondering this idea Ed concluded that he wasn't, crazy that is. He began to consider that he may have been sent here to guard the place. Defend it against unseen forces. This was the reason why he didn't know if he was blessed or cursed. It seemed that the two were blended together.

Anyway, his uncle had told him that he needed to protect the others. It was his destiny. He was fated to become the overseer of this property and guardian of the territory of Uintah, Utah. That made sense to him now and his zealousness in doing the job may cause other to consider him a loon.

Now, about his uncle's disappearance? How could, or would, he be able to explain it, especially to the authorities? Well, maybe he wouldn't have to. You see Edmund's uncle was a bit of a recluse too. The man was as mysterious as they come. He basically kept to himself and he, along with Ed, enjoyed a quaint life of solitude. Few of their neighbors even knew who they really were. They used false names and aliases and didn't talk much to anyone, unless they had to. With that in mind of course people would think that they were totally "mental".

Ed's uncle, Luther (not his real name), had moved out to Utah back in the early fifties. He had come out here to get away from everything, and his nephew had done the same. It had been arraigned by Edmund's mother….and since her brother and her son seemed to be of the same caliber, misfits and oddballs, then it was deemed that they could be that way together.

Ed had come out west and his uncle had taught him how to hunt, how to ranch and oddly, how to construct scarecrows. The two hit it off well. However, then came the night, that night that his Uncle Lou told him about the ranch. He told his nephew how it was situated near Native American lands. He also shared with Ed all of the strange things that took place in these parts. The unimaginable, the unexplained. He spoke of how the area had been in some kind of dispute. A disagreement between Native Indian tribes. A conflict that had carried on for generations…

"Skinwalkers"…..Edmond had never heard of such. But Luther explained that they were demons of some sort, or devils maybe. Soulless creatures who roamed the land preying upon the fear and anxiety of others. They caused chaos and demise, and though they rarely harmed people, physically, sometimes they actually did. It was a scary thing. The Skinwalkers were a curse. A hex put upon the land that was meant to dissuade people from living or settling in the area, and it worked. Folk didn't stay around for long.

At first the younger man had thought that his relative was half-baked. He was thinking that his uncle had been in too many navy battles back in the war. However, as time went on Edmund could see that there were odd happening around the ranch, creepy things. Strange events that made no sense. Then he began to believe.

Once his uncle was gone he had found a cabinet in ranch house. It was old, locked and difficult to get into. However, in time he was able to manage. Inside Edmund found a bunch of notes. There were newspaper clippings, news articles and all sorts of recorded documents. There were stories about UFOs and a navy ship (the USS Eldridge) that had gone missing, back in 1943. There were notes where the author of some of the writings (Morris K. Jessup) was in correspondence with an individual named Carl Allende….and there was a photo next to the article. Edmund's eyes suddenly went wide….he stood there in total shock. The picture was none other than that of his uncle….Uncle Luther.

End Part 1