Golgotha

Two nights later, November 23, 1914, the English instructor of Gol­gotha Valley Elementary School, a Robert Wharton, saw two illumined blue globes move slowly over the west wall of the church.

November 24, and no fewer than twenty townspeople swore before a notary public that they had heard choral music echo in the dark and empty church.

The next morning, Silas E. Gutman, owner of the adjacent property, slit the throats of his two prize heifers because of their low, voicelike gutturals after grazing among the tombstones.

On November 25, the wife of the real estate agent, a Mrs. Gerald T. K. Hodges, complained to her husband that she heard the untended bell slowly tolling in the vapory hollow. Two hours later, she was dead of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Thus began the legend of Golgotha Falls. The events continued, in memory and fear, in the collective imaginations of the dying valley. Blue luminescences, disembodied voices at night, and animals gone mad from grazing too near the church were observed well into the next generation.