Today is the day after Halloween, and I realize that some of you like this holiday. However, I absolutely hate it.
Am I one of those people that turn off all the lights in the front part of my house so that little kids that are out trick-or-treating think that nobody is home? Guilty as charged. Am I one of those people that pray for a torrential rainstorm on Halloween night to keep all the brats off the street so that I don't need to turn off all the lights in the front part of the house to pretend that I'm not home? Guilty as charged.
There appears to be a whole host of videos on YouTube that claim that Halloween is dead and that the streets look dead on Halloween night. Please, oh, please, oh, please. Don't get my hopes up too high. I would never get so lucky. Somehow these little brats always manage to find their way onto the streets to do their trick-or-treating on Halloween night in their goofy costumes, expecting everyone to hand them candy at their front doors. Count me out!
I once read this one article a year or so ago by this one woman who was single and had no children, and she said that she had forgotten all about Halloween; and when she got a ring at the front door on Halloween night and answered her front door, a bunch of kids in costumes were standing there, expecting her to give them candy. This woman actually went to the store afterwards to buy candy and came back to find even more of them standing at her front door than the ones that were still there.
Call it child cruelty if you must, but I would not have gone out of my way to go all the way to the store to buy candy to appease a mob of gluttonous children. I would have told them to go to the next house to get candy. I'm not a misopedist. I merely value my time.
Now, I know what some of you are going to say upon reading my article here. You're going to scold me for taking full advantage of this trick-or-treating ritual back during my childhood and not giving back to society in the form of handing out candy to this generation of kids on Halloween night during my adulthood. However, during my childhood, such traditions appeared to matter more than they do today. The birth rate is down, and people simply don't want to bother with this annoying holiday.
Do I have any kids of my own? I will not dignify that question with an answer, because I find it irrelevant. It could be that I simply find Halloween to be a pointless holiday that needs to be erased from our culture. Many Christian parents don't even allow for their children to trick-or-treat or participate in Halloween in any shape, way, or form. Of course, I'm not religious, so I guess that that would rule out that explanation for me not wanting to hand out candy on Halloween night.
Fact has it that I am a very busy person that merely doesn't want to indulge in the hassles of buying Halloween candy and staying at my front door for hours at a time to hand out candy to strangers even if they are small children. It's simply not my scene, and I have better things to be doing with my time. I won't even dress up in a costume for Halloween, because it is not something that I enjoy doing.
I do like the idea that television networks, cable networks, streaming services, YouTube, and the likes show horror films from way back when on Halloween night. Halloween even gets me thinking about urban legends throughout the United States and throughout the world.
There is one urban legend out in Utah that seems as though it could even be true. Therefore, sit back and enjoy the ride, because I am going to fill you in on that same urban legend if you don't already know about it.
1. The Gadianton Canyon Incident
Back in 1972, there was a group of four college girls traveling in a car in Southern Utah during the evening hours after they had been to a rodeo over in Nevada. They were trying to get back to their college dormitory before the place was to be locked up for the night. The driver decided to take what she thought to be a shortcut, and it took all four of these girls into the nightmare of their life.
Instead of providing you with the details of what happened to these four college girls from start to finish, I'm going to have you watch two videos below that contain all the information you need to get a good picture of how this same incident unfolded. This is something that stays with you for a long time after you hear about it. The second video below shows three individuals that are from Utah and have been hearing about this urban legend all their lives.
Four Utah College Girls Cross Over Into A Parallel Dimension Where People Are Not Human
First of all, if you're not from Utah and you have occasion to drive through that state, don't go driving around at night. If you're in Utah and you're driving around, don't stray from the path. Avoid shortcuts and detours, because then you don't know what you're getting yourself into.
Second of all, this story shifts in the kinds of details that get told from storyteller to storyteller. Does it mean that it is not true? Not necessarily. Bizarre incidents like these have a way of getting twisted around depending on who is describing them.
The police officer that found these four girls stranded in the desert was a woman rather than a man, and her name was Victoria Lindquist. The names of the girls keep changing from storyteller to storyteller, but it is only to be expected inasmuch as their true identities have absolutely been concealed to protect them from undue scrutiny by individuals that are only looking to create problems for them.
Second of all, I don't believe that these girls were taking drugs. They were obviously Mormons, and back in those days and even now, Mormon teenagers would not have been into the counterculture that was popular throughout our nation back then.
Now, here comes the million-dollar question that I know you're going to throw my way. Do I believe that this urban legend is true? I don't believe that it is necessarily untrue. I simply don't have the tools to authenticate it.
Astrophysicists and other experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have made discoveries in recent years providing circumstantial evidence that parallel universes do exist. I liked the series Sliders that used to be on television so many years ago about a group of four people that were able to travel from one dimension to the next. Of course, this particular incident, if true, was much more elaborate than anyone could ever have expected.
You may or may not have heard of Cynthia Sue Larson. In case you don't know who she is, she is a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley who strongly supports the Mandela Effect and believes in the multiverse. She claims that she herself has slipped into parallel dimensions.
What does baffle me about the Gadianton Canyon incident is that most people that tell about it don't have any description of what the intelligent creatures that the four college girls encountered in the alternate dimension actually looked like. The gentleman who narrates the first video above claims that they were some kind of reptilians that descended from the dinosaurs inasmuch as no asteroids ever hit the Earth to wipe them out in that parallel universe.
2. Final Thoughts
Will Halloween ever get canceled? It disgusts me to say that there is no escape from this torturous holiday, unless you could find a nation that doesn't celebrate it. No such luck. I recently found out that there is no nation anywhere on this planet that doesn't celebrate Halloween.
I heard that there was this one thing called "Trunk-Or-Treat." It's when people take their vehicles to a parking lot on Halloween. They all dress up in costumes and hand out candy out of their back trunks to children that trick-or-treat from car to car. Hmmm. Why couldn't they do that in my community? That way only people that wish to participate would be participating in Halloween. Nobody would have to pretend they're not home if they didn't wish to participate in Halloween.
I cannot deny that I do like how the entertainment industry will show scary movies and documentaries about urban legends on cable networks, regular television channels, online streaming services, and the likes this time of year. Those things do spark my interest.
What do I feel about Thanksgiving and Christmas? Well, each one of those constitutes another article for another time. I'll admit that I hate Halloween and leave it at that for now. I can do without those Charlie Brown cartoon specials in which Linus runs his mouth about how the Great Pumpkin will rise from a pumpkin patch. Who names their kid Linus anymore? Weird name for a little boy.
I'm now getting ready to watch another YouTube video about the Gadianton Canyon incident. It's an hour and a half long. I don't know what it could possibly say about it that other videos haven't said about it already. However, if it is as long as it is, there must be something in its contents that hasn't been covered in other ones. After all, it's less than a year old.
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