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The Doclopedia #1,891
State Secrets: Arizona – The Sedona Spider
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Sedona, Arizona, is a small town of around 10,000 people. It’s noted as being a hub for those of a spiritual nature/New Agers, hikers, folks who like the red rock formations and, from the early days of cinema until the 1970s, a location for many western movies.
But nobody talks about the enormous spider that roams the countryside a few miles outside of town. Of course, that’s mostly because the authorities bust their asses to keep it a secret. The FBI Special X Unit, which you’ll never see mentioned in any official way, monitors the area around Sedona heavily.
The spider itself was first sighted in 1956 about 15 miles north of Sedona by a local rancher. He described it to the sheriff as being the size of a fully grown steer and looking like a red tarantula. Given that the movie “Tarantula”, which was about a gigantic spider, had come out the year before, the sheriff thought the rancher was pulling his leg. But when they went out to have a look around and saw the spider moving along the top of a ridge, the sheriff got in touch with the Feds ASAP.
The speed with which the FBI and military arrived tipped the sheriff off that maybe they knew about the spider already. Naturally, they told him nothing except that talking about anything related to the spider would get him tossed into prison.
Despite a 60 year effort to capture or kill the spider, the government has been unsuccessful. There are plenty of theories and excuses as to why, but whatever the reason, the Sedona Spider still roams free.
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The Doclopedia #1,892
State Secrets: Arkansas – The Gateway Lake
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If you head north from Little Rock, after around 65 miles, you’ll reach Greer’s Ferry Lake, a fair sized reservoir popular with fishermen, boaters and tourists. There are several small towns located around the lake. The dam and lake were completed in July of 1964.
But out on the lake is one of the greatest mysteries of all time: A stable, moving wormhole that links Greer’s Ferry Lake with lakes all over the world.
The “gateway”, as it is called, first opened up on September 20th, 1966. There were few boats on the lake early in the morning when James Birch and Sonny Walden went out to do some fishing. As the later told the FBI, they were headed out from the boat ramp at Heber Springs and were “maybe a mile out” when suddenly the daylight went from just after dawn to late afternoon and they were on a much different lake.
That was because they were now on Lagao do Bonfim in Brazil, near the city of Sao Jose de Mipibu. When the Brazilian feds picked the two panicked men up and heard their story, they immediately isolated them and got in touch with the FBI in the US. Our country isn’t the only one that has to deal with weird secret shit.
James and Sonny were back in Arkansas the next day and thanks to them still having three days before they were supposed to be home and the usual threats of prison time, the secret never got out.
Over the next 50 years, the government has figured out a few things about the gateway.
1: It can open anywhere on the lake, but has never appeared anywhere on the Little Red River that feeds into and out of the lake, nor has it ever appeared on land.
2: The gateway only ever links to other freshwater lakes.
3: It is not open all the time. Sometimes it stays closed for up to three years.
4: The wormhole seems to be about 40 feet across.
5: The wormhole stays open and connected to the other lake for up to 90 minutes. If a swimmer or a boat turns right around and aims for the shimmer in the air, which is hard to see, they can come back.
6: Only man made devices and living creatures on them, or humans swimming or floating, can pass through the gateway. This explains why no non-native creatures have appeared in Greer’s Ferry Lake or lakes connected to it.
7: So far, there is no known way to detect or track the gateway.
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