Flying pots terrify holiday hamlet.
From John Sampson. New York, Sunday.
Flying saucers – not to mention flying cups, glasses, pots and pans – were terrifying 300 residents of a summer resort called “Resthaven” today. Mr and Mrs Mikuleky reported to the police that late one night their bed began to shake. Next morning their 14-year-old granddaughter Susan, was hit by a tomato and a slice of ham. After that it was pandemonium. Their bungalow was filled with flying objects – a salt and pepper set, brushes, chairs, even a 3lb. doorstop.
With Susan, Mr and Mrs Mikulecky moved over to a nearby relative, Mrs Mae Blasek. They put the cat out and locked all the doors and windows and went to bed. A few moments later the cat reappeared. Then flying objects whistled about the Blasek home – pot lids, tins of vegetables, plums, a shaving mug. Terrified, all rushed across the street to an unoccupied house… and the first thing they saw was a dish rack sliding slowly on to the floor. Back to Mrs Blasek’s house they fled.
There they stayed up all night with the lights on. Next morning Mr Mikulecky called the police again. Deputy Sheriff Chester Moberley of Willington, Illinois, told me today: “Some mighty strange things have happened there. The folks are really scared. One family has already left and others are preparing to go.”
He said the Mikuleckys had packed their granddaughter off to Chicago, but had decided to stick it out themselves. “Someone had called Mrs Mikulecky a witch,” he said.
Daily Herald, 19th August 1957.