Stories from Ben Woods
That day, the digging crew were all away and the only person on site
was a
college student who was the land watchman. We stopped and talked to
him for a
while and he was very helpful but a bit vague about what had been found
in
the large dug out hole in the ground. He did say that the dating they
had
done on the site placed the date at about the same time as the Anasazi
Tribe of the Chaco Canyon area. We went through the large pile of "trash"
they had thrown out and found some broken arrow points, hand tools
etc etc.
I asked if it would be possible to go down into the excavated hole.
He said yea, but to not tell anyone he had let us in. I went in first,
and
Wife followed me down the short ladder.
Nothing to see, just smooth Earth with marks from the digging instruments.
I did a slow turn and stopped facing one wall and focused on it. I
laid my
hands on the wall about head high and slowly moved them down till I
was
squatting and touching the wall. I seemed drawn to this site, almost
like I
was being directed to that one site. What happened next had never happened
to me before, I "saw" as clear as day, a scene in that dwelling,
I
described it to my wife and the guy there as it became clear.
Wife said I
just started talking in a clear low voice.
I said " There is an old women here. She is cooking at a fire right
here
where I am touching. She has long black and silver hair and is stooped
over
stirring something in a pot on a low charcoal fire. She turned her
head, and behind
her on the right is a low bunk or pallet of some sort with a small
male
child playing with a younger girl child on the floor. They are not
wearing
any clothing except shawl type wraps.
The whole place is cool and they seem unaffected by the cold. "
When I stopped talking and looked up, Wife and the student both were
speechless and staring at me with their mouths open. I ask the guy
if they
had found any one in the dig and he won't answer me. We climbed out
and sat with him on the ground in front of his tent. Finally he told
us that
UNM had removed the complete body of an Indian woman, from the
exact place I was standing earlier that week!
They had not released the find to the media until they
could do some more study on it. They did not find the two children
that I
told him about, but I had a feeling they were in the area. He then
told us
of another site they knew of and pointed to the desert and showed us
where
it was located in a depression not far off. I never went and looked
for it, but
the site is still a desert field.
Thanks for the story, Ben!--tbs