Hi there. I'm a paranormal researcher, been doing this for about fifteen years now, and there's one case that keeps me up at night. It happened back in September of 1961, to a couple named Clara and Marcus Hayes. They've both passed away since then, but what happened to them that night in the White Mountains changed everything we thought we knew about close encounters. The Hayes lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Clara worked as a social worker, handled child welfare cases, tough job. Marcus was a postal worker, drove sixty miles a day, worked nights. They were an interracial couple, which back in 1961 wasn't easy, you know? Both of them were active in the NAACP, real committed to the civil rights movement. They'd been married about sixteen months when they decided to take a belated honeymoon, drove up to Montreal and Niagara Falls. It was spontaneous, they were so busy they didn't even have time to hit the bank before it closed. Left with less than seventy bucks in their pockets. On the night of September 19th, they stopped at a diner in Vermont around ten PM. They'd been driving for three days and just wanted to push through and get home. Marcus figured if they beat the weather from an approaching hurricane, they could make it back to Portsmouth by two or three in the morning. Their dog Shep was with them in the car, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.
So they're driving south on Route 3, winding through the White Mountains, and Clara notices this bright light in the sky. At first she thinks it's a falling star, but it's moving upward, not down. And it keeps getting bigger and brighter with every mile they drive. Marcus was a World War II vet, plane enthusiast, really sharp guy. He tells Clara it's probably just a satellite that went off course. Nothing to worry about. But the thing is, this light kept following them. It would duck behind the trees, disappear behind a mountain ridge, then pop back up moments later. Sometimes it seemed to move toward them, then away, like it was playing some kind of game. Marcus kept driving, but both of them were getting uneasy. Finally, curiosity got the better of them. They pulled over at a picnic area just south of Twin Mountain. Clara grabbed the binoculars they had in the car. Through the binoculars, she could see this wasn't a satellite. It was an object, spinning in the air, flashing multicolored lights. She told Marcus, you know, if you think that's a satellite, you're being completely ridiculous. And he knew she was right. The night was too quiet for a helicopter or a jet. There was no sound at all. They got back in the car and kept driving, but slower now, trying to keep an eye on this thing.
About seventy miles past that diner, near a spot called Indian Head on Route 3, the object suddenly dropped down. It came right at them, hovering maybe a hundred feet above their car. Marcus slammed on the brakes, right in the middle of the highway. He'd hidden a pistol under the seat, shoved it in his pocket, and walked out into this dark field next to the road. Clara stayed in the car with Shep. Marcus looked up at this thing through the binoculars, and what he saw, he described it later as big as a jet but flat as a pancake. And there were windows, rows of windows, and behind them he could see figures. Beings. Wearing grey uniforms. Eight to eleven of them, he said. They were looking right at him. One of them stayed at the window while the others moved to the back. And Marcus said he heard a voice in his head, telling him to stay where he was and keep looking. alone out there sounds terrifying - Lucas' He tried to reach for the pistol in his pocket, but his hand wouldn't move. He couldn't lift it. That's when he panicked. He thought to himself, we're about to be captured. He ran back to the car, screaming, just hysterical, and they sped off down the road. Clara was leaning out the window trying to track where the craft went. And then, without any warning, they heard these loud, rhythmic beeping sounds coming from the trunk of the car. Both of them felt this overwhelming drowsiness wash over them, and then nothing. They just blacked out.
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