On July 14th, 1974 an article by Stoney Brakefield appeared in the Pennsylvania newspaper, NEWS EXTRA,
reporting an incident which allegedly took place in 1944 near this small coal mining town, yet because of it's nature it
had been covered-up for nearly 40 years until the son of the mining inspector who investigated the incident revealed it
as his father (then deceased) had related it to him.
This mining inspector and a fellow investigator had been called in to look into a "cave-in" in one of the Dixonville
mines. About 15 men had either been killed or turned up missing altogether in the strange disaster. Once inside the
mine the inspectors eventually came across the first victim. Although lying under a broken timber surrounded by some
fallen rocks and rubble, they concluded that the cave-in certainly could not have been large enough to kill the man. The
inspectors were shocked to find that the body of the miner was lacerated with claw-like markings from some unknown
creature. They continued and found a few other bodies, all dead and some of which had similar claw-like marks
covering them. Several other miners had vanished, and were nowhere to be seen in spite of subsequent diggings. This
tragedy apparently took place after the miners had broken into an ancient tunnel of unknown origin deep in the mine.
This tunnel (at the time the inspectors didn't fully recognize it as the recently discovered passage or drift) was then
followed by the inspectors at approximately a 45 degree angle downwards for about half a mile until they arrived at a
"room" which "seemed" to be the end of the passage. At this point the passage behind them just "happened" to
collapse (many accounts indicate that these underground creatures can create
"cave-ins" at will, as was the case in another disappearance below the island
of Malta which involved 30 school children who had forever vanished into the
catacombs of Hal Salflieni).
A follow-up team was sent in to intersect the inspectors while this was taking place. This other crew followed the
tracks of the inspectors into the mysterious tunnel and eventually found the "cave-in" and began digging through in
hopes of finding the now missing investigators. In the meanwhile one inspector (the father of the man who released the
story to the press) suddenly felt something like "hot breath" on the back of his neck. He closed his eyes, too terrified to
see what the "thing" was. As the other workers were breaking through, the "creature" left, perhaps frightened away.
The other inspector who was with him however observed the whole thing and in wild-eyed horror he exclaimed, "That
thing was not of this world!"
