Rock Soldiers V.S. Invisible Injun Mole Midgets

This happened in my final year (1985) at Fort Riley, Kansas and I still don't fully understand what happened exactly.

When writing the first draft of this post, I thought I was relating a humorous anecdote about a massive series of gaffes in the military that led us to indulging a cockamamie story about being assigned to a security mission patrolling for invisible midgets out in the Kansas desert on the artillery grounds.

It was only upon writing the story down years later that I began to remember how afraid I was when all this was happening. It was originally funny years later thinking back to it when the emotions had faded. At the time, I remember feeling real terror in the middle of a dust storm seeing things I am not sure I saw and hearing things I am not sure I heard.

I knew at the time it was happening how ridiculous it all was. It was only in review for my first draft for this article I recounted the details of it all to put together a very different picture of the things that happened that night in the middle of nowhere. I remember darkness, howling wind and something moving in that nightmare of shadows and sand that I still don’t quite understand.

At first I thought it was a cat. They were common in the artillery test grounds. Both feral cats and wild dogs - likely abandoned by soldier families on post at some point. When it reared back on its legs and walked like a man for a few steps, I realized it was something else altogether. I could not help but wonder if it had come up out of that damned sinkhole.

To tell this story right, you have to know the finer details … like when hearing the tale of the “Mothman” at Point Pleasant in West Virginia. Without the background information or reports of earlier sightings, the rest of it doesn’t even seem to be consistent at all. This story is similar in that it occurs at the border of two very different regions and that in fact seems to have something to do with it all.

A lot of people might think this is some kind of story about aliens. I don’t think it is. If anything, I think it is a story about things that may live right underneath our feet.

So I will have to start from the beginning, with the advent of the dwarf trooper and the arrival of the special cannisters.