Young Utah women warp through time and space

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
This is a very strange report dating back to 1972.
Seems the girls may have momentarily came into phase with another universe.

One of the strangest Highway Space Warp (HSW) cases took place in southeastern Utah near the railroad crossing of Modena, on the edge of the Escalante Desert.

There's a slickrock canyon just north of Modena that bears the name of Gadianton. It's a name that brings a shudder to God-fearing Latter-Day Saints.

"Among the freighters who hauled supplies to Pioche (Nevada) in the seventies (1870s--J.T.) there grew up a legend that a rocky gorge near the Nevada Line was haunted by the Gadianton robbers, a terroristic brotherhood which the Book of Mormon explains as having sprung up among the Nephites and Lamanites in the century before Christ."

The Gadiantons were a mysterious sect of assassins quite similar to the Bruder Schweigen of Germany or the Crna Ruka of Yugoslavia.

"Wide-eyed freighters told tales of rocks closing the way, and of the canyon folding up to entrap them."

Eventually the old Gadianton tales were forgotten in Utah's Iron County. Until May of 1972, when four coeds from Southern Utah University (SUU) were driving back to their dorm in Cedar City after spending Saturday at a local rodeo in Pioche. (All names have been changed to protect the witnesses' confidentiality--J.T.)
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More: Utah's Time/Space Warp Gadianton Canyon Encounter
 

Toroid

Founding Member
That was a good story. I wish they would have described the non-humans better. Interesting egg-shaped vehicles they drove.
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
An interesting account.....but it worries me that the only information on where this alleged event took place are in the reports themselves. Google earth doesn't have a location for it......but it does show that Modena is almost due west of Cedar City. The report raise far more questions than it answers.
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
An interesting account.....but it worries me that the only information on where this alleged event took place are in the reports themselves. Google earth doesn't have a location for it......but it does show that Modena is almost due west of Cedar City. The report raise far more questions than it answers.

I to find an old map of Utah from about 1968 - 1974 to see if the highway had changed at all. Perhaps was rerouted or something.
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
That I assumed.
But if there were changes then 56 could have crossed the railroad tracks at a different location than it does now. They spoke of a fork in the road right after crossing the tracks.
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
But I need an old map.
What shows up as old road beds could have been temporary access roads to some off road project or for a ranch.
Only sure way to tell the difference would be to compare a map from about 1971.
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
But I need an old map.
What shows up as old road beds could have been temporary access roads to some off road project or for a ranch.
Only sure way to tell the difference would be to compare a map from about 1971.

Find the USGS Quad Map of the area it will have the old road data.
 
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