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The Last Deed
By Kenny Young
FATE :: September 2003

Benjamin Davidson, a resident of Covington, Kentucky, had twice called my voice mail number, seeking to contact me directly. Upon receipt of his first message, I did not return the call immediately (being leery of the voice on the other end of the line). When he called a second time, I notified associate researcher Chris Coffey that someone with an “unusual voice” was trying to contact me regarding “something to do with UFOs.”

After listening to the recording and affording some serious consideration that the unusual voice might not be a prank, a decision was made to call the telephone number. Together we spoke with Davidson by three-way telephone conversation.

Davidson, who was born in 1938, explained that his body was ravaged with cancer and that he was dying. His voice had been destroyed by the disease and he could barely make himself understood. Davidson explained that he had “just a few days” left to live and had an important story that he wanted to tell. Both Chris Coffey and I listened closely to discern what he was saying in his slight, wheezy gasp.

This story, he explained, had never been told to anyone before he approached us in May 2001. He had never told his wife or anyone in his family—nobody. As we listened with cautious interest, Davidson said that he had been involved in an unusual incident in April or June of 1964 or 1965—the exact date was lost in the fog of time. The occurrence had strangely escaped his thoughts until the early 1990s. Davidson explained that while sitting at his kitchen table sometime in the early ’90s, a cigarette burned the hair on his arms. This burning smell triggered a flood of memories from April or June of ’64 or ’65 that he found very disturbing.

Davidson had been employed as an exterminator and would travel from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Cincinnati along U.S. Route 52. Frequently he would retrieve and haul chemicals along this route. It was on a late Sunday night midway along one of these hauls that he was driving along the dark roadway after taking a temporary diversion to visit his mother. As he approached a small clearing along U.S. Route 52 somewhere in the vicinity of Aberdeen or Manchester, Ohio, a semicircular object appeared situated on the roadway in front of him, obstructing his route.

The object was oval-shaped and was comprised of some sort of iron or aluminum with different colored lights around it. Davidson drew his car to a halt.

Davidson was then confronted by several entities standing along the roadside and taken onto the object. Davidson described them as “creatures,” or “what you would call aliens.”

“What kind of creatures, what did they look like?” I asked.

Davidson went on to describe the creatures, saying that these entities were not similar to the ones usually reported in UFO literature. They did not look like the child-sized, large-headed, black-eyed, staring aliens that appear on television and in the movies. Rather, these beings resembled the insect known as a praying mantis ...

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

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