Was it prophetic or just an urban legend that never really happened at all?
Nick Schneider recently received an interesting letter from a man who lives in Maryland who wondered if a story he read about in two separate books really did happen in a small southern Indiana town.
Nick read the letter to the town council and he hoped to get first hand information to send back to Maryland.
Thomas R. Shreck of Salisberry wrote the incident in question allegedly happened 66 years ago - exactly two years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - which unfolded on December 7, 1941.
The incident is described as follows:
"The message scrawled in paint on the sidewalk in front of the public grade school in Indiana, was, townsfolk thought an aggravating bit of vandalism. But what did the cryptic message mean? The huge letters spelled out: "Remember Pearl Harbor."
The citizens talked about the writing that winter morning in December, 1939. What did 'Pearl Harbor' mean? They never figured out who painted the words or why. It seemed just a prank or some mindless vandalism, and the incident was forgotten - until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on the exact day - two years later "
Shreck noted in his letter that he read about the incident in a book written by Frank Edwards and a second time in a blurb says - "Astounding stories of strange events! All authentic - all absolutely true!"
The Town Clerk shared the interesting letter with the members of the Town Council. They found it fascinating.
That article was by Nick Schneider from The Star Times in June of 2005.
That huge message WAS prophetic to the exact place, the exact month, the exact day and the exact time! That strange graffiti was 1st viewed by hundreds of young Americans walking into school just as the first call to classes clapper bells sounded at 7:55 AM
In part this is National Geographic Explorer's Time Line for the first Japanese plane's bomb attack on Pearl Harbor
0755 hours At the Command Center on Ford Island, Comdr. Logan C. Ramsey looks out a window to see a low-flying plane. A reckless U.S. pilot, he thinks. Then he sees “something black fall out of that plane” and realizes it’s a bomb.
Ramsey runs to a radio room and orders the telegraph operators to send out an uncoded message to every ship and base: "AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X (censored @ NATGO- NO SH!T) THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"
The coordinated attack begins as dive-bombers strike the Army Air Forces’ Wheeler Field, north of Pearl Harbor, and Hickam Field, near Ford Island’s Battleship Row. The Japanese, wanting control of the air, hope to destroy American warplanes on the ground.
Most U.S. planes have been parked wingtip-to-wingtip in neat rows to make it easy to guard them against sabotage. Most are destroyed.
Were those 3 chalked legendary words just a coincidence
Or just a sadly ignored "God wink" as penned by author SQuire Rushnell, a former guest on Coast to Coast AM many years ago.
http://www.whengodwinks.com