2008 BentProp Progress Report # XX

P-MAN X Update #16 - Short hike, long hike
07 March 2008 - Friday

Today's plan was to go back to the Aimeliik area where the Allison Corsair crashed and continue to search. There was a possibility that a couple of members of the Civic Action Team might join us, but we learned on the way that they were too busy to get away. Maybe later in the trip.

Joe also told us this morning that yesterday, at a spot in some woods just south of our new Police Hill target area, he got an eerie feeling near a couple of small caves. He also had a visit last night from a ghostly apparition. The feeling wasn't so much scary as just feeling as if someone were trying to send him a signal. Believe what you will about supernatural goings-on, but Joe's intuition has on many occasions led him to important discoveries. So putting these two experiences together, we all felt that it would be worthwhile to go back up to those caves today and do some more poking around.

Joe took us back to the caves, and we explored the area thoroughly, including sweeping the little vally adjacent to the caves with a metal detector. We found some rusted iron objects that looked like hinges, plus some badly deteriorated metal roofing. As if there had been a small structure like a tool shed across from the upper cave. But nothing else of interest, and the terrain just doesn't match the stories about executions.

We then drove on up to Aimeliik, to the same spot from which we hiked earlier in the week. Pat, Flip, Laura and I did a series of line-abreast sweeps north and south from the Graves Registration Unit coordinates that we believe refer to the Allison site. For five hours. Found nothing. Came out soaked but relatively intact. During that same period, Joe and Grover worked an area west and slightly north of the area that the rest of us surveyed.

After an uneventful drive back to Koror, we showered and headed to Bandidos for dinner. Another excellent Mexican dinner. Joe and his lovely wife Esther joined us.

- Reid
 

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