Is Great Falls creepy? (Red Lodge: rent, buy, shop)

[Reziac]

And then there was the guy who lived on an abandoned ranch NW of Manhattan MT, who when caught had something like 8 different people's hands in his freezer. I forget the year, but around 1975ish? anyway, he'd been at it for years.

Funny how he "hanged himself" in his cell shortly after being caught... no one seriously believed he'd done himself in, but no one complained too much.

[Gman2007]

don't forget the cattle mutilations.....


Unsolved Mystery Resurfaces in Montana: Who's Killing Cows? - The New York Times

[Jbechtel]

I don't take UFO sitings near air force bases seriously. What's difficult for me to understand is there's no direct bus service from Billings to there. That is creepy!

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Jbechtel

I don't take UFO sitings near air force bases seriously.

Me neither. Everyone knows the Air Force is just test-flying the UFOs anyway.

Originally Posted by Jbechtel

What's difficult for me to understand is there's no direct bus service from Billings to there. That is creepy!

You are supposed to hitchhike. That gives the bogeymen in the bushes and the trolls under the bridges a fair shot at catching and eating you, which they'd be denied if you took the bus. You wouldn't want the countryside to be infested with hungry trolls, would you??

[TypicalCalifornian]

The 1970's cannibalism case evoked an entire flood of memories. I was working on a mobil logging crew up in the Little Snowies and got in to town but once a week. I opened my mail and there was a note from my best friend in Madison Wisconsin that he was geting married and I was going to be a "sort of uncle" in 4 months could I stand up at his wedding. Poor as I was I decided hitchiking was the quickest way to get there and within 15 minutes was standing out on Rt 87 to Billings then I90 to Wisconsin. No problem at all I was in Billings in 2 hours. All day long I stood on I90 in Billings having people curse, throw things and even a few driving their cars at me at speed causing me to dive into the ditch. Finally a guy in a pickup stopped and advised me not to be there as there was an incident of cannibalism that maybe involved a hitchiker. I walked across road and hopped a freight train and rode all night long to Minneapolis and hitchiked the rest of the way to Madison with minutes to spare before the wedding.
The few times I've related that story to people I get looks of incomprehension so I'm glad you all brought it up lol.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by TypicalCalifornian

The 1970's cannibalism case evoked an entire flood of memories. I was working on a mobil logging crew up in the Little Snowies and got in to town but once a week. I opened my mail and there was a note from my best friend in Madison Wisconsin that he was geting married and I was going to be a "sort of uncle" in 4 months could I stand up at his wedding. Poor as I was I decided hitchiking was the quickest way to get there and within 15 minutes was standing out on Rt 87 to Billings then I90 to Wisconsin. No problem at all I was in Billings in 2 hours. All day long I stood on I90 in Billings having people curse, throw things and even a few driving their cars at me at speed causing me to dive into the ditch. Finally a guy in a pickup stopped and advised me not to be there as there was an incident of cannibalism that maybe involved a hitchiker. I walked across road and hopped a freight train and rode all night long to Minneapolis and hitchiked the rest of the way to Madison with minutes to spare before the wedding.
The few times I've related that story to people I get looks of incomprehension so I'm glad you all brought it up lol.

Heh.. I remember when hitchhiking was a perfectly good way to get around. Now, even tho there's way less crime per capita, everyone is scared of everyone else, and no one would pick you up or you'd be scared of someone who would. Sad, really, that we've lost so much trust, and for no reason.

As to Billings... one night in 1984 I was going that way on I-90, and about the time I get thru Laurel, here's someone apparently dancing on the shoulder for no visible reason... drove a bit further and there's some guy standing on the shoulder, peeing at passing cars! he had good aim, too -- got the car ahead of me square on the windshield. I swerved over a lane and he missed me. -- So I got off at my exit west of Billings, and the next thing I see is some guy throwing things at passing cars. He threw a paper cup at me and it landed on my hood and rode there for a while... Is there a lunatic asylum out near Laurel that I don't know about??

And remember when some unknown person got hit on I-90 near Laurel, and all they found was bits and pieces strung 200 yards along the pavement?

[Jbechtel]

Originally Posted by Reziac

Me neither. Everyone knows the Air Force is just test-flying the UFOs anyway.



You are supposed to hitchhike. That gives the bogeymen in the bushes and the trolls under the bridges a fair shot at catching and eating you, which they'd be denied if you took the bus. You wouldn't want the countryside to be infested with hungry trolls, would you??

Good one! I miss my old hitchhiken days. I went from Ohio to San Diego with $150 in my pocket once. OOps, I'm showing my age, that was in '72. I slept under the bridges a lot but never ran into any trolls. Damn! I like to pick up hitchhikers, how 'bout you all?

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Jbechtel

Good one! I miss my old hitchhiken days. I went from Ohio to San Diego with $150 in my pocket once. OOps, I'm showing my age, that was in '72. I slept under the bridges a lot but never ran into any trolls. Damn!

Are you sure YOU aren't the troll under the bridge?

Originally Posted by Jbechtel

I like to pick up hitchhikers, how 'bout you all?

I've done so a few times ... once was some guy stranded in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. Tho the unfortunate hitchhiker has to ride in the back of my truck, since the front seat tends to look like someone lives in there

[Jbechtel]

Originally Posted by Reziac

Are you sure YOU aren't the troll under the bridge?



I've done so a few times ... once was some guy stranded in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. Tho the unfortunate hitchhiker has to ride in the back of my truck, since the front seat tends to look like someone lives in there

That is creepy! We have to stick with the theme, you know.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Jbechtel

That is creepy! We have to stick with the theme, you know.

See, I parked under a bridge in Great Falls (my truck was bought there after all, at Bison Ford) and a troll moved into my front seat. 31 years later I still haven't managed to pitch the damn thing out. Dang troll has accumulated so much junk there's barely enough room left for the driver!