Posted on 04/01/2018 11:03:37 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
On this day in 1979, a woman and four men were abducted from Grand Teton National Park. According to witnesses, a group of a dozen hikers headed out on March 29th with enough gear and supplies to return that Sunday evening.
Allison Rockford of Boulder, Colorado said all the hikers were experienced, and they had no trouble navigating the trail to Two Ocean Lake.
“We set up camp. Roger even commented it all seemed too easy.”
Roger Moore of Denver was the first to disappear. “We were just getting ready to eat. He was just gone. Everything was gone, even his walking stick,” Jeff King, also of Boulder, explained. “There wasn’t any sign of struggle.”
The remaining 11 hikers started a search until darkness fell and then huddled around a fire, they took turns keeping watch until morning.
They watched in pairs, and they disappeared in pairs as well. Griffin and Jennifer Rhodes of Douglas, Wyoming, took the first watch and when the next watch came, they were gone.
Jeff and Allison both took a turn and made it through their watch. Then Bruce Hornsby (Preston, Idaho) and Tom Wolff (Monmouth, Oregon) stood watch. They haven’t been seen since...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaldaycalendar.com ...
April Fools Day shares similarities with other days full of fools, tricks and merry making.
Some believe the day is celebrated in honor of the trickery Mother Nature plays on us this time of year with her unpredictable weather.
The Indian tradition of Holi which is celebrated on March 31st has the same foolery as April Fools’ day as does the Roman festival of Hilaria which was celebrated on March 25th.
The earliest known reference to April Fools’ day is in Chaucer’s 1392 Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Even so, the reference is so vague, and possibly not even occurring on the first of April, leaving doubt as to whether it is the first reference.
This is most likely the origin:
In 1508, French poet Eloy d’Amerval referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally “Fish of April”), possibly the first reference to the celebration in France. In the Middle Ages, New Year’s Day was celebrated on March 25 in most European towns. In some areas of France, New Year’s was a week-long holiday ending on April 1. Some writers suggest that April Fools’ originated because those who celebrated on January 1 made fun of those who celebrated on other dates. The use of January 1 as New Year’s Day was common in France by the mid-16th century, and this date was adopted officially in 1564 by the Edict of Roussillon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
What an odd article . . .
I was going to post a “Hillary indicted” thread as an April fools joke but then I thought nobody would believe it being that Jeff “Coma” Sessions is still in office.
AdmSmith wrote:
This is most likely the origin:
Wow, very informative - t y 4 posting...
“Everything was gone, even his walking stick”
Found later in a pile of bear scat.
LOL! That last one is completely unbelievable.
“Some believe the day is celebrated in honor of the trickery Mother Nature plays on us this time of year with her unpredictable weather.”
That I could believe. Yesterday, in my locale, it was 60 degrees and sunny skies.
Today, it is below freezing and snowing. Thanks April !
Those pics were just great. I LOL’d at all three.
what the hell is this?
Another example of disjointed millennial writing. The story starts with one topic, and for no explained reason skips to another.
Well done!!
Those are Hillaryous!
Apparently, the name Grand Teton is from the French for big boobs.
That I could believe. Yesterday, in my locale, it was 60 degrees and sunny skies.
Today, it is below freezing and snowing. Thanks April !"
Same sort of weather here!
Yesterday it was sunny and 80, today it's freezing - 62 degrees!
President Trump just signed an executive order putting those with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) on the no fly list. Plans to add them to the FBI background check to prevent another baseball type shooting.
I got married on April Fool’s Day. When the Justice of the Peace was two hours late, I should have taken it as an ill omen as to how the marriage would work out. Happily divorced and single since 1979.
Crying with laughter!
Hear you. The rabbi was late to our wedding. I should have seen that as a sign.
When you’re young and foolish, you’re in oblivion. Thank God most people do wake up as they get older. I know I did.
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