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The Spirits of Flight 93
By Patty Wilson
FATE :: July 2003

Nearly everyone in this nation remembers where they were on September 11, 2001. We remember because it was the most horrendous act of hatred and violence against this nation that has ever occurred. We remember where we stood when we saw the Twin Towers struck and where we were when we heard about the downing of Flight 93 in an open area near the little Pennsylvania town of Shanksville. We have since learned more about fear and anger and frustration than we ever wanted to know. We have learned to distrust people even more than we once did. There were so many terrible lessons taught to us by those acts of extreme violence.

However, a couple of weeks after the initial events, whispers began to come out of Shanksville about many things. We began to hear that people on that flight had made cell-phone calls to loved ones. They had said good-bye, offered reassurance, and told of their determination to try to take back the flight from the hijackers. Those people were not quitters. They were willing to fight against any odds. And I began to hear whispers that there was something strange going on at the crash site.

The story was briefly told on Fox TV-8 by anchor and reporter Renee Kluck in Johnstown. Kluck interviewed Wagstaff at the trailer near the crash site for her television report. Wagstaff claimed to have seen apparitions at the site—and he had seen at least one of them clearly enough to identify who she was. (Wagstaff will not reveal the identity of the woman he saw because he fears that it would hurt her family.)

I was fortunate enough to have been granted an interview with Wagstaff, and his story of the hauntings was compelling. Perhaps it was even more so because the reporter who interviewed him experienced phenomena while she was at the site, and because the response by the local government was to hush up the story and dismiss anyone who talked.

I met with Wagstaff at a pizzeria in the area after the interview had been arranged by a mutual acquaintance. Wagstaff was a mountain of a man who seemed more interested in physical pursuits than in paranormal ones. He was a plain-speaking, honest man with no time for nonsense, and he seemed determined to tell his story so that the families would know that their loved ones were not truly gone.

That night in the pizzeria, Wagstaff was concerned that no one would think that he was making up stories or trying to hurt anyone. We spoke and agreed that all we would do was tell the simple truth. He would describe the actual events and I would report them and nothing else ...

Read the rest of this article in the July 2003 issue of FATE

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