This afternoon while dodging and darting about on my way home from work, looking for an unobstructed path from downtown to my house, I found myself driving past a long-abandoned underpass.
It gave me pause.
I had a funny feeling about it.
So, I turned back and took this picture.
This is the beginning of Washington Street. I'd call it a dead end, but it's the beginning of the street, so it's really a dead beginning. There's plenty of dead ends in the city, but how many dead beginnings are there?As I sat there in the jeep, staring into the darkness under the train tracks, something about this whole scene didn't look quite right. But I couldn't just leave. I had to get out of the jeep, walk over to the jersey barriers and see what was in there on the other side.
The instant I opened the door of the jeep, I heard a rustling sound, as if some small creatures were scrambling away out of sight. It gave me the creeps...
But I decided that, come hell or high water, I was gonna find out what was in there under that old abandoned underpass at this, one of the city's only dead beginnings...
And there it was!... some sort of alien pod dwelling, right there in the middle of our city!It was brilliant white, with some sort of red colored dome. It was hard to look at, but I persevered as best I could to take pictures of this strange anomaly...
I jumped over the jersey barrier and took picture after picture as fast as I could, from every conceivable angle, carefully storing them in the cellphone camera, one after another. I must've taken over two dozen pictures...
...but this is the only one that came out.
I can't say for sure exactly what it was, or how it got there, but one thing's for sure... I'm not going back.
I saw that there were other objects further inside the darkness of the overpass. There was something that looked like an ordinary cardboard box and another object that looked like an empty paint can, and there was even an object that looked just like a common bag of trash... It's anyone's guess how they can disguise themselves as such ordinary, commonplace objects...

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