Spring Semester
By: Roy Ryder
Horner’s Used Book Store was burglarized over the weekend, with the owner stating that cash and several rare volumes had been taken. Co-owner Ray Overstreet arrived at the store on the morning of Monday, June 29, and found that the back door had been forced open. He called police, who responded and searched the store. On finding it empty, they began forensics procedures and the store was closed all Monday. Horner’s reopened on Tuesday.
Ray Overstreet and his wife Linda have owned Horner’s Used Books Store since 1992, when they purchased the business from Delilah Horner, the granddaughter of founder Amanda Horner. Ray stated that this is the first time that the store has been burglarized, although they have had several incidents of vandalism occur in the past. Pinebox police have not reported any other recent burglaries in the area. Pinebox police officials refused to say if they have any suspects in this crime.
“We keep only a little bit of cash in the store overnight, so that wasn’t a big loss. But, the burglars got into our special collection and took a couple of rare tomes that we’ll never be able to replace,” Linda Overstreet stated in an interview. “These are historical texts that contain firsthand accounts of science in the middle ages and haven’t been published in centuries. If the police can’t recover them, the knowledge in them will be lost forever.”
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Spring Semester
By: Dorine Mercy
An ancient sketch was found yesterday at the ETU Library. The sketch fell out of a folded map of Texas, a historic map kept within the library from the early 1900’s.
The inked sketch contains an image of a lake and “GC, 1836″ was signed on the back of the sketch.
While at first the sketch appeared to have little meaning the librarian Jeanne May suggested something more, “‘GC’ to me at that date might actually be Carter Greystone. It might even be the lake named after him, Lake Greystone. That lake sure looks familiar.”
Carter Greystone had lived with many settlers around the, now named, Lake Greystone back in early 1800 before he traveled north and disappeared from the history books.
Local historian Robert Montgomery examined the sketch at the site of Lake Greystone, “I can imagine that Carter Greystone may have sat at these very waters and created this image himself on one of the many nights he was here.”
Robert Montgomery continues, “The most astonishing thing about this discovery is that this piece of art is well over 100 years old. In that time mother nature and man has made many changes to the landscape and these waters, yet this picture is outstandingly accurate to the current condition of the lake — it looks like it was drawn today and not back in the 1800’s.”
Experts have verified the art to be old as the date states on the back. They are baffled at the similarity of the reality and imagery and will continue to investigate the situation.
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Spring Semester
By: Steve May
In a bizarre case, the Golan County Sheriff’s Department is reporting that more than ten animal skins have been found in the forest just north of the ETU campus. The skins are from various animals including a dog, raven, coyote, armadillo, and a white tailed deer.
Sheriff Butch Anderson stated that, “Some of them are difficult to identify and been sent over to the lab in Houston. The skins seem to have been ritually removed from the carcasses, but so far no one has found the bones or any other piece of the animals. Just the skins. The cuts are very precise, as if some kind of surgeon’s tools were used.”
When asked if this was some sort of cult activity, Sheriff Anderson shrugged, “We don’t know. It’s weird, but no people have been harmed. However the SPCA has been contacted about the animal cruelty case and we will continue to investigate and see what we can find.”
The Sheriff’s department has asked anyone with information about his case to contact their office immediately.
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Spring Semester
By: Steve May
An old house exploded last Tuesday night. The home, which had been abandoned for several years, was completely destroyed by the blast, the cause of which is unknown.
“The gas lines have been turn3ed off for years so unless some strange mistake was made, we have no idea what caused the explosion,” said Sheriff Butch Anderson at the scene.
“There was a two-tone brown, 1983 Buick Regal with expired plates, liscense number U81-OIC, found abandoned nearby on the Pinebox Cutoff Road. We are asking that anyone with information about this explosion or this car contact us at 1-800-55-4357.”
This article refers to a short story by Trey Gorden in the Buried Tales of Pinebox Anthology called Mother. Trey is a native East Texan, who spent his youth tramping around in the Piney Woods pretending to be, depending on his mood, either Legolas or Nyarlathotep. After living among the Misty Mountains and damp cafe’s off the coutnry’s upper left hand orner for several years, he recently returned to East Texas and is now a graduate student in English at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. He has decided that, if he can’t be Legolas or Nyarlathotep, he’ll settle for being a college professor.
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Spring Semester
By: Roy Ryder
The Raven’s Theater had a standing-room only crowd on Monday afternoon for ETU’s student organization presentation of Dr. Eric Von Brunt of the World UFO Organization (WUFOO). Attendees were treated to a lecture by Dr. Von Brunt, including a video presentation, and a lively question and answer period. While scheduled to last 90 minutes, many students remained seated after three hours had passed.
As director of WUFOO (pronounced woo-foo) for sixteen years, Dr. Von Brunt has extensive experience with so-called unidentified flying objects. WUFOO and other organizations like it have collected thousands of first-hand accounts from all around the world.
“The truth is that there are a lot of people who believe in UFOs,” Dr. Von Brunt said during the introduction of his presentation. “There are also a lot of people who have had witnessed a UFO or had an even closer encounter with one. In fact, Pinebox is considered a UFO hot spot.”
While speaking of Pinebox and ETU, Dr. Von Brunt used the opportunity to announce that WUFOO would hold its next annual conference at ETU in July of 2010. The conference is open to the public and Von Brunt encouraged those students still at ETU to attend.
One of Dr. Von Brunt’s goals is to make the study of UFOs more respectable. “I know how we are perceived. You know, we’re the crazy guys who keep saying there are little green men out there. But the study of UFOs is serious and what people have had done to them by aliens is no joke. There’s nothing funny about anal probes.”
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