"They are all wearing brown, full-length robes. They got their hands up in the air like they were doing some kind of religious ceremony."
I received the following account:
“Hi. Back in 1988, I was a brand new border patrol agent in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. We had more trainees than journeymen so they would stick two trainees together and say go do your job. In the usual shift, there might be four people working. So we had two guys upriver and my partner and myself downriver. Very little experience between the two of us. We had just gotten from the academy but neither of us had a happy year in there. So they send us down and tell us, go fight crime, midnights.
So we're driving down the river looking for anything we could see that didn't look right. Not really knowing what we were doing but trying to get on-the-job experience. We see this bonfire out on the hill that we used to refer to as 'the party house.' It was, at the time, out of town quite a ways. Now it's almost in town. We drove toward it thinking that maybe somebody was down there, maybe some smuggling. And at the time we had switches we could throw that could turn all the lights off in the vehicle. So if you hit the brakes and the backup light, nothing would come on. It wouldn't show where the vehicle was.
We turned off all the lights and we were driving down this long dirt road towards the river. As we come around the corner, about fifteen or twenty people are standing in a huge circle around a giant bonfire. They are all wearing brown, full-length robes. They got their hands up in the air like they were doing some kind of religious ceremony. I saw a movie called Race With The Devil with Peter Fonda and Warren Oates several years before this and that movie came to mind. I looked at these people just in time to see two of these people turn toward us and come running at us not in an aggressive manner but we didn't have any business in there at this little ritual. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning. I looked at my partner, and he looked at me, I threw it into reverse and hit the gas. I said, 'I don't see any immigration violations happening here.' I went backward with no lights, I made a 90-degree turn and I didn't slow down until I hit the highway.
Once we hit the highway, we're trying to decide what to do because our nearest backup is a good 20 to 30 minutes away. There's one sheriff's deputy and he's way the heck out of town. Who would you report this to? They didn't teach us this at the academy. We discussed it the rest of the night. Who should we report this to we could not come to a conclusion so at 8 o'clock in the morning, we decided that we were not gonna tell anybody and we were going to pretend like it never happened. We managed to keep our mouth shut for a good 20 years.”
Years later, I became a teacher in an adult education center in McAllen, Texas. One day I told the class this story about what had happened to me and my partner. One of the students said, “Hey, you know about a couple of years ago I was driving down by the river and came across the exact same situation." So apparently whoever these people are they are still out there and they are still doing their little rituals and I have no idea who they are or what they are doing.” C
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