Another X-file from real life

In the three previous three articles, I left out about 98% of the things that happened from 1987 to 1996.

by Richard L. Thornton, Architect and City Planner

Like . . .  one night I woke when the dogs were barking in my bedroom.  I looked out the window and there were about a dozen people in satanic robes in a crescent arrangement.   They were near the area light on a telephone pole just beyond the driveway.   At the center of the crescent was our largest male goat, Atlas.  He weighed about 330 pounds.    There was a purple circle on his forehead,   The people were chanting “Dominus, Dominus, Dominus.”   

I thought that I had experienced a nightmare.  Atlas was not in the front pasture when I woke up at sunrise. However,  my wife stated that she had viewed the same scene from her bedroom window.* When I went down to the barn,  he was there and had a purple circle on his forehead!  

And now . . . the rest of the story

We were given Atlas as a goat kid.  His owner, a nurse at Shenandoah County Hospital, had been found underneath her car, crushed to death,  with the car engine running and the doors locked . . . and a dog in the car.  She was supposed to be heading to the veterinary clinic for routine vaccinations.

Her husband was the chief mechanic at the Winchester Airport.  A few days before then,  the plane that was supposed to transport Col. Ollie North to a political campaign event had crashed on take off because “someone” had put the wrong type of aviation fuel in the airplane.

Col. North was running for US Senate from Virginia.  He had become nauseated just before the plane was to take off.  He got off to the bathroom, so the small commuter plane took off without him.

The husband of the murdered nurse moved to Alaska a few days after her funeral and was never heard from again. 

Separate bedrooms

*My wife forced me to sleep in a separate bedroom for most of the time in Virginia.  This was very demeaning to me and caused me to be resisting temptation for years.

After we were divorced I found her diary and a book entitled, A Woman’s Five Year Guide to Winning at Divorce.   Although her multiple personalities had been unfaithful from virtually the beginning of the marriage, she was trying to force me to have an affair with one or more members of her sisterhood (coven).   This is so she could make me look like the bad guy in the relationship. She was deluded to thinking that she would get everything in the divorce settlement. In the real divorce, I was awarded possession of the farm.

Actually,  I did unintentionally fall into a love relationship in December 1990 with the French actress.  It was not an affair. I never lied about anything involved with that relationship. 

However,  my wife was so contemptuous of me that she didn’t believe me and eventually told me, “The French actress thing is getting old. You are such a wuss. If you were a real man, you would be picking up young waitresses at the restaurants, when you deliver cheese, instead of staying at your middle aged friends’ house in Alexandria and claiming that a French actress was there!”    By that time Vivi was sending me checks for design of her winery.  My wife still didn’t believe me.   

One day,  I happened to see a full page magazine ad, featuring  Vivi. She made more money as an advertising model than in acting.  I pointed it out to my wife and said, now you know what my French actress looks like.   She laughed and cut the page out. She then taped it on the wall above my desk in the architecture office.

Some of the real X-files were funny.