TIES THAT BIND: Journalism at its Finest
AUTHOR: Aesop
DISCLAIMER: The characters aren't mine, and I earn no profit by writing this.
SUMMARY: Six people left Roswell, but they still have ties to that town. Ties they are unwilling to sever.
From the Nov. 11th issue of the Chronicle
MIRACLE CHILDREN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!!
SANTA FE - On Christmas Eve of 2001, a ward full of terminally ill children were given a new lease on life by what many, both parents and hospital officials, claim was divine intervention. Twelve happy families left the hospital two days later, taking their children home, when most had believed that they would never be able to do so.
The only clue left by whoever was responsible for the mysterious healings was a silver handprint on each child. No one knew at the time what it meant. Now there is alarming evidence that there may have been something sinister behind these 'miracles'.
In mid October, eight of the twelve children were kidnapped under inexplicable circumstances. There have been accusations laid at the feet of a certain government agency, the FBI Special Unit, disbanded after their activities were revealed as a massive fraud.
Some say, however, that it wasn't a fraud, and that the children were part of an alien experiment. The Chronicle has found alarming indications that those twelve children are not what they seem.
The Special Unit kept files that contained many pictures of similar silver handprints. Most of them appeared on the bodies of dead Unit agents. The children may, one anonymous source claims, have been taken in order to complete whatever terrible experiment was begun on the night they were healed.
Authorities declined to comment on the investigation and are, at any rate, not equipped to track the abductees to where they may well have been taken. The FBI has no comment on the possible involvement of aliens and would not answer questions about the status of the Special Unit, except to say that the Unit was not being reformed to investigate this threat. In the meantime, worried parents continue to pray for the safe return of their children, hoping the aliens will see fit to return them safe and alive.
From the Nov. 8th issue of the Santa Fe Reporter
KIDNAPPED CHILDREN STILL MISSING
SANTA FE – The eight children kidnapped in mid-October from various homes and medical facilities around the state are still missing. All eight were part of a group of terminally ill cancer patients that was allegedly healed through divine intervention on Christmas Eve, 2001.
Police say that credit for making the connection goes to Brody Davis, a resident of Roswell, NM and the father of one of the missing children, eight-year-old Sydney Davis. They are reluctant to discuss the ongoing investigation, but they do say that they are looking into several promising leads.
The four remaining children of the group that have not been abducted are currently in protective custody while the investigation is underway. Authorities will say nothing of the children's whereabouts or their circumstances, and the extended families have expressed concern that no word has been had from the four children or their parents.
At present, the staff of the Santa Fe hospital where the alleged miracle occurred is being interviewed by police in order to determine if there is any connection between the hospital workers on duty that night and the abductions.
When the children made their remarkable recovery on Christmas Eve, many people, including the doctors treating the children, called it a miracle, and there is now some concern among police officials, according to a source that refused to be named, that the abductions may be the work of a cult. Official sources will only say that they are investigating all possibilities.
Of the eight missing children, five were taken from medical facilities where they were being tested for an unspecified illness, some type of hemorrhagic fever. Health Department officials, however, claim that no such testing was underway and are now conducting an investigation into the matter.
