1976 Incident

 We are in October, which is a great month for talking about... well, things that are weird.

A few months back when the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville was in the middle of it's theater season, they did a performance of "High Strangeness" a play based on a supposed alien abduction in 1976.

The night I went to the performance Elizabeth Orndorff (who wrote the play) was there, along with Roger Compton, one of the actual people involved in the original case, AND a character in the play!

Those two did a Q & A during the intermission.  Roger mentioned that he let the theater use his actual hat from his navy days in the performance.

Elizabeth talked about meeting with Mona Stafford as she wrote the play.  Mona is the last living member of the 3 girls who claimed to be abducted in 1976.

Elizabeth mentioned some things that concerned Mona after the reported abduction.  She said that Mona was careful about getting together with the other girls involved, as they thought that their getting together might influence another abduction to happen.  Also, Mona seemed to have thoughts that she will be visited again.

it was interesting seeing this play in Danville, not too far from where the incident happened.  Also, the women involved all seemed credible from the reports.

Pioneer Playhouse did a good job with the performance, and with the history of the case.  They set up a case with articles about the abduction.

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/07/26/2271586/the-play-high-strangeness-recalls.html