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1880 CASE OF DEMATERIALIZATION
Man Vanishes in front of 5 Witnesses
Excerpted from Whitley Strieber's
book, Majestic, this incident "took place on 23 September 1880 near
the town of Gallatin, Tennessee. At approximately three-thirty on that sunny
afternoon, Mr. David Lang, a farmer, dematerialized in front of five witnesses,
including his wife, his two children, his father-in-law and a local judge.
"The father-in-law and the judge had just
pulled up in a carriage. Mr. Lang moved toward them across a field followed by
his family. Without warning, he simply ceased to exist. There was no cry, no
sign of distress. Mrs. Lang, distraught, rushed up and pounded the ground where
he had been walking. All that afternoon, and into the night the field was
searched. Subsequently the county surveyor determined that there were no hidden
caves or sinkholes in the area of the disappearance.
"The subsequent April, seven months
later, the children heard their father crying distantly UNDERNEATH the field. He
seemed desperate and tortured, and was begging for help. His voice gradually
died away and was not heard again. Where he was last seen, there was a circle of
WITHERED yellow grass twenty feet in diameter.
"The family moved away from the farm.
"It can be surmised that Mr. Lang was not
removed above ground, but rather was taken into the earth and kept alive there
for some months, judging from the cries that were heard the next April. What the
poor man suffered during that time, and what finally put him out of his misery,
can scarcely be imagined..."
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