AKA Dan and Brenda’s wild night at the Iowa State Fair.
From Brenda’s notes:
We secured permission from Sutton to set up trap cams and take video from the chainsaw carving booth, specifically the vending area under the guise of trying to catch whoever stole the Cy and Herky Statues. Dan was left to monitor the whole affair.
Julie, one of Sutton’s assistants didn’t seem too happy about us poking around. Not sure what her issue was exactly. Thought I smelled something near the cash register that wasn’t sawdust. Reminded me a little of ritual incense.
Tom has to work tonight. He’s out of vacation for a while. I guess someone has to stock shelves. He was super helpful last night with everything that happened. He took care of me when I blacked out.
Dan has suggested we take my van tonight while his is being worked on. We know the trap cams at both stakeout sites were exceptionally active last night. I suspect our other cam footage will be revealing once we’ve had time to review it. Tom also noticed a spike in EVP and some other audio activity last night in the graveyard.
Dan has also asked for a remote viewing of either area. Of course he doesn’t understand the process or my abilities. After last night’s hemorrhaging from my nose, I’m not sure that’s a good plan. –Brenda Hart.
Much more comfortable than Dan’s heavily damaged cargo van.
Dan was noticeably upset about the damage to the driver’s side of the van and the smashed glass. At least the front windshield remained intact well enough to get it to the shop. They stopped long enough to transfer all of the gear into Brenda’s shiny red van. It was considerably more conspicuous than Dan’s white Ford Cargo Van, but much more comfortable.
Dan also had patches of missing time, the same thing Tom experienced the night before. Neither man could explain what had happened within close proximity to the carver’s tents. Sutton’s assistants stayed extra late after closing, however. It was beginning to look like they might be minimally involved.
Dan and Tom had begun construction on a new website and it looked as if the group was going to need it soon. Brenda and Dan glanced through the cemetery trap cam footage to see what they had missed. Not only had the cameras caught a group of teenagers sneaking around the graveyard in the dark, but several blurry images of human figures at different locations.
By the time the crew had rested and reassembled, it was late in the evening. Tom had just enough time to reset all of the cemetery cameras before going to work. Dan went back to visit A.J. Sutton again and obtained permission to renew their stakeout there.
A new statue had disappeared during the night, much to everyone’s dismay. This time it was Billy the Buzzard, a mascot for a local restaurant. The lawn gnome Dan and Brenda had been monitoring specifically had been picked up early, shortly after the Fair opened, according to Julie.
Meanwhile, in a Northwest Iowa Cornfield, a large crop circle was discovered by a pair of local kids out joyriding in a tractor.
More on that next time.
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