Taken!by Brad Steiger
(Copyright 2008, Brad Steiger - All Rights Reserved)
Investigating authorities found it difficult to accept the theory that Potter had mistakenly opened the exit door instead of the lavatory door. According to airline officials, the door bore a warning inscription in large white letters on a red background. The door was hinged at the top and was secured by a safety chain and a heavy handle that could only be released by turning it 180 degrees to free two thick plunger bolts.
The president of Purdue Aviation Corporation, Grove Webster, commented: "It would take a concentrated effort to open the door during the flight. The door was locked securely on take-off.
You can stand in the doorway of a DC-3 in flight and not be sucked out. The plane is not pressurized. And to open the door takes a lot of effort. Crews close the door for our stewardesses and open it. And it is harder to open and close in flight than on the ground."
There were twenty-two passengers and two flight attendants in the cabin when Potter disappeared, yet no one saw the businessman force open a door and plummet to his death. In fact, no one could recall seeing him after the DC-3 hit that "bump· in mid-air. Could Potter have been in precisely the proper position for entrance into a "hole" in Space and Time? Or could some multidimensional interloper from the darker reaches of Shadow World selected Potter as its quarry? Whatever the explanation, no trace of the unfortunate man has ever been found in this dimension of reality.
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On March 23, 1957, eight-year-old Tommy Bowman stepped around a corner of a forest trail just ahead of six members of his family and vanished without a trace. This particular forest trail happened to be in the same Devil's Gate Reservoir area above the city of Altadena, not far from Azusa in California's Angeles National Forest where two other children, Donald Lee Baker and Brenda Howell, had disappeared on August 6, 1956. Although it may seem unbelievable that a human being could simply walk around a corner and disappear, Tommy Bowman's father, sister, brother, uncle, and two cousins insisted through their horror and shock that that was exactly what had happened.
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