The Last Voice

During the second World War, Russians began testing the effectiveness of paratrooper units.

Sometimes -more often than most Russians care to admit- the 'chutes didn't open. During the invasion of Finland, hundereds of troops were dropped in the dead of winter, and as usual, some of the 'chutes failed to open. These soldiers plummeted to Earth; drilled straight down into the fresh snow... as deep as fifteen feet.

The Finnish farmers fanned out that night with their shotguns. They walked out into their fields, found the holes and fired down them, into the darkness.

During the 1979 drought in the Midwest, American farmers began renting their property out to the US government as sites for missle silos. They were told that some of the silos contained Minuteman missles, while some contained nothing. Additionally, some of the silos were designed to look exactly like regular corn and grain silos. The military called these "Decoy Silos," but the farmers called them "Scarecrows."

The government hinted that some of these silos might be connected by hundreds of miles of railroad tracks... far below... in the darkness.