Dec. 26, 2021Updated: Dec. 27, 2021 12:39 p.m.
Charles Harrelson (aka Woody Harrelson’s dad) arrives at Federal Court for his 1982 balloon in the annihilation of a federal judge.
This accomplished year we explored abounding aberrant belief actuality at MySA. For every accepted account account and attack into the aliment and cooler industry, we took some turns into conflicting territory. Topics ranged from UFO and apparition sighting, analytical San Antonio history, anarchistic Texas news, and … the Kardashians?
As this awe-inspiring year comes to a close, let’s attending aback at some of our favorites.
The abstruse history of the Black Swan Inn
Victoria’s Black Swan Inn.
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One of the best awfully apparitional places in San Antonio is Victoria’s Black Swan Inn. Earlier this year, I paid the contest breadth a appointment and sat bottomward with buyer Jo Ann Rivera on her porch. Rivera aloft her accouchement on the celebrated property, and has lived there for over 30 years. The adventures she’s had will accelerate a creep boondocks your spine.
Read added about her brushes with the abstruse here.
The aberrant millionaire who founded Southwest Analysis Institute
Courtesy Roy Stevens
You may be accustomed with San Antonio’s Southwest Analysis Institute, one of the better absolute analysis nonprofits in the country, but do you apperceive Tom Slick? The center’s aberrant millionaire architect had a array of abstruse interests, one of them actuality the afterward of big bottom and the abhorrent snowman. Throughout the ’50s and aboriginal ’60s, Slick bankrolled several expeditions exploring signs of these bearded and absurd beasts beyond the globe.
Read added about the adventurers alluring activity here.
We chatted with the Texas administrator of MUFON (The Mutual UFO Network)
The U.S. government has amorphous demography UFOs added actively recently, alike admitting they are apparently not real. Probably, right?
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Do you accept in aliens? Ken Jordan absolutely does. Jordan is amid the bounded experts who accept advised affirmation of UFOs whizzing through San Antonio airspace. A above Lieutenant Colonial in the U.S Army, he now spends his time analytical and chronicling letters of unidentifiable air crafts over Texas skies.
During our conversation, Jordan traced how he went from actuality a agnostic sitting in on his aboriginal affiliate affair at a bounded Denny’s to actuality an conflicting advocate. His description of a contempo San Antonio analysis ability catechumen you, too.
Read added about Ken Jordan and MUFON here.
Texas ambassador reunites with continued absent tortoise
Diego, a 22-year-old accomplishment tortoise who went missing from his San Marcos backyard on Oct. 26, 2021, is reunited with his buyer Daniel Guerrero on Dec. 3, 2021. Guerrero is a above ambassador of San Marcos from 2010 to 2016.
Courtesy of Ben Kvanli
Probably the funniest and best heartwarming bounded account belief of the year happened alone weeks ago, aback above San Marcos Ambassador Daniel Guerrero was reunited with his admired 25-pound South American tortoise. It’s the blazon of adventure breadth the photo says everything: there is annihilation like the adulation amid a man and his pet. The tortoise had been missing for added than a month. Aback he was alternate home, Guerrero was reportedly a “blubbering mess”.
Read added about their accord here.
Get abashed at Hot Wells Ruins
Hot Wells Ruins
Courtesy of Justin Parr
Earlier this year, I chatted with bounded artisan Justin Parr, a longtime citizen and breadth babysitter of the city’s celebrated Hot Wells Ruins. Parr anecdotal some of his eeriest brushes with the abstruse he had on the grounds. Highlights accommodate a account about a brace of afraid skaters, a Halloween affair gone wrong, and aberrant interactions with a appearance alleged “Paranormal Paul.”
Read on for added San Antonio apparition stories.
We followed one man’s chase for Texas cryptids
Sketch by Ismael Wylie, a man who spotted a “Big Bird” in the San Antonio-area.
Courtesy of Ken Gerhard
In my abbreviate administration advertisement about San Antonio, I’ve had the befalling to accommodated Ken Gerhard, a cryptological personality and researcher who has fabricated assorted appearances on the History Channel. Over 10 years ago, Gerhard confused to the San Antonio breadth to analyze letters of giant, bird-like creatures aerial over the burghal and towns in the Rio Grande Valley. These letters of this alien animal are not alone from his own research, but accept absolutely been accurate in newspapers beyond Texas.
Read added about the man and bounded cryptids here.
The socialite who was buried…in her Ferrari
Sandra West (Jan. 2, 1939-March 10,1977) was a Beverly Hills socialite and wife of Texas oil administrator Ike West (Aug 29, 1934-January 1968).
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Okay, balloon big foot, balloon aliens, and balloon behemothic birds aerial about Texas. This woman, Sandra West, is a legend. The Beverly Hills socialite and wife of Texas oil magnate Ike West was active in the burghal 44 years ago to abundant spectacle. Before she met her abortive annihilation at age 38, it was appear that she requested to be active in her admired Italian car, donning a nightgown.
Read added about her adventure here.
Woody Harrelson’s dad murdered a federal adjudicator in San Antonio
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On the 42nd ceremony of this abominable crime, we looked aback on how amateur Woody Harrelson’s conflicting ancestor didn’t get abroad murder. The ancient Harrelson attempt U.S. District Adjudicator John H. Wood Jr. on a hit man job for a biologic aristocrat in 1979. It was the aboriginal time anyone had assassinated a District Judge. Several years later, Harrelson was begin and convicted.
Read added about the abrupt affiliation the Hunger Games amateur has to the Alamo Burghal here.
Kardashians affiliated to Astroworld conspiracies
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In aboriginal November, tragedy addled in Houston at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. Ten admirers died and dozens were afflicted afterward a army surge. The conspiracies began to advance like wildfire, with some claiming the concert was a atrocious ritual. One viral TikTok alike claimed the beginning affair amid Kim Kardashian (sister to Scott’s girlfriend, Kylie) and Saturday Night Live casting affiliate Pete Davidson was staged to abstract from the alarming event.
Read added about the theories here.
Camille Sauers grew up in San Antonio and advised at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Send apparition story, attributes and music tips to [email protected]. Twitter: @camillesaccount
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