However, some of those missing individuals
are never found and no real explanation for their disappearance is given. If you’d like to consider a list of some of
these cases go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1990
. I’d like to take a few moments and
consider a few of them more in detail and offer my opinion. The reason I will consider these particular
cases is that the information provided on them indicate that perhaps there was
some “strange” implications along with the investigations. I am not here trying to provide an
explanation to the solving of these cases, just my opinion.
Paige Renkoski: Paige went missing on May 24, 1990. She was last seen talking to a man on the
shoulder of Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, Michigan. This is one of Michigan’s longest running
cold cases. According to witnesses, she
had seemed upset when seen talking to two African American men on the shoulder
of Interstate 96. Hours later the 1986
Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais she had been driving was found still idling, with her
shoes and purse inside. There was no
sign of Paige.
Fowlerville is about 30 miles southeast of
Lansing, Michigan and about 75 miles northwest of Detroit. According to Michigan MUFON State
Director, there are hundreds of UFO sightings reported each year in the state
of Michigan. True, the vast majority are
resolved as something of clearly human origin and simply a visual misconception
of what was seen. However, there are
many that remain unexplained in this state as is the case in many other areas. Greater Lansing itself has had no shortage of
strange sights: floating orbs, illuminated discs, silver teardrops and hovering
objects. And Detroit has not been left
out of the limelight. Over the course of
2021, there have been 12 reported UFO sightings in Michigan, several of which
occurred in the metro Detroit area, according to the National UFO Reporting
Center. Actually, Michigan ranks 11th
in the Center’s ranking of overall sightings within the United States. We also have to remember that we are dealing
with REPORTED cases. How many sightings
and/or contacts may go unreported by individuals? Could it even be possible that individuals
who might have a sighting or contact have been “programmed” to forget the
incident or in some other manner had the memory of the sighting or contact “removed”
from their minds?
You may also be familiar with the Michigan
Triangle. This is an area on lake
Michigan were planes and boats disappear.
It is scarier than the Bermuda Triangle because it is not located in the
middle of the ocean but it’s much closer to land. Is it possible that such an area COULD
exist in various locations ON the land and perhaps it is a
“moveable” climatic effect that appears and disappears from locations at
various times?
Could Paige have been caught in such an
event? Or could she be the victim of “alien
abduction”? Perhaps there is another
explanation that we have yet to even consider?
Joe Keller: The 18-year-old who vanished from a dude
ranch in Colorado’s Rio Grande National Forest in July, 2015. The summer between his freshman and sophomore
years at Cleveland State Community College he had gone on a road trip with his
buddies Collin Gwaltney and Christian Fetzner traveling to Las Vegas, San
Francisco, and the Grand Canyon before heading to his aunt and uncle’s dude
ranch in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado.
The full details of this incident can be
read at https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/leave-no-trace/
but here I will simply consider a few brief details.
Joe and his buddies went on a run likely
along Forest Road 250 which was to be about an hourlong run. Afterwards several people related how they
had seen Joe on various locations during the run; however, after the others had
completed the run and waited for Joe they returned to the ranch. Hours passed and NO Joe!
A small patrol of ranch hands went looking
for him and eventually the search engaged about 15 dogs and 200 people on foot,
horseback, and ATVs. But with these and
other efforts Joe was not found. Robert
Koester, a.k.a. Professor Rescue, commented: “I’m a scientist. I’m fond of Occam’s razor.” That’s the
principle that the simplest explanation usually holds true. He continued: “You could have a band of
terrorists tie him to a tree and interrogate him. Is it possible? Yes.
Is it likely? No.”
After some time had passed John Rienstra,
a search and rescue hobbyist, discovered Joe’s body in a boulder field below
the cliff band, less than two miles, as the crow flies, from the ranch. The preliminary cause of death was “blunt
force trauma to the head.” It seems that
Koester and his Occam’s razor theory was the correct way to go. But there were still many unexplained details
about the situation according to Joe’s mother.
Knowing the reputation of the Colorado
mountain areas as I do, perhaps another theory would be that Joe had an
encounter with a Bigfoot that wasn’t very interested in sharing his habitat
with Joe. Or could it fall back on
simply being the outcome of an unexpected falling accident after all? We may never really know the truth.
But as humans we are often so highly
emotional that the wild and fantastical explanation is the one, we want to
believe. We want to think that there are
things of fantasy that we will never understand or explain and therefore will
never be able to realize the truth about the physical world in which we
live. At times it may only be a coping
mechanism so that we can deal with various tragedies in our lives. Whatever the case may be, the simple fact
remains that we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Of all the things I've ever lost,
I miss my mind the most!"
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