liminal.earth

A map of the strange, wonderful, unusual, and unexpected

Menu

Skip to content
  • About
  • All Stories
  • Random Story
  • Shop
  • Join Us!
    • Liminal Earth Community
    • TikTok
    • Youtube

Cornfield Red Light

+Submit Your Story
✕
São Thomé das Letras, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
07/2005

Eu e minha família estávamos de viagem em 2012 na cidade de São Tomé das letras. Resolvemos ir para uma cachoeira onde na entrada havia uma placa de sinal (da prefeitura mesmo) com metade dela com um desenho de um e.t metade branco, metade preto e, a outra metade da placa com uma cachoeira em branco. Antes de chegar na cachoeira passamos por um barzinho simples, onde no redor só havia um milharal e tomamos duas sodinhas de vidro (refrigerante de abacaxi famoso na cidade). Ao entardecer, resolvemos voltar para o hotel, porém quando estávamos voltando pelo caminho, já escuro, eu notei na janela do carro uma luz muito brilhante no céu, e avisei meu pai que estava dirigindo que a luz estava se aproximando. Foi neste exato momento que vimos que estávamos passando pelo mesmo milharal que abrigava o pequeno bar que passamos. Meu pai então resolveu parar o carro e desligar os faróis, pois ele sempre faz isso para nos botar medo. Dei a ideia pra minha mãe, que já estava impaciente e querendo ir embora loucamente, para tirarmos uma foto. Quando fui tentar ligar, nada funcionava, nem a câmera nem o celular. A luz se aproximava cada vez mais forte do milharal, então meu pai resolveu ligar os faróis e ir embora. Um ponto importante é que meu pai é militar e vimos que não era um avião, ainda mais em São Tomé das Letras que é um lugar tão alto e no meio das montanhas, não é comum ter aviões pousando lá, ainda mais em um milharal. Translation: My family and I were traveling in 2012 in the city of São Tomé das Letras. We decided to go to a waterfall where at the entrance there was a sign (from the city hall) with half of it showing a drawing of an e.t. half white, half black and the other half of the sign with a waterfall in white. Before arriving at the waterfall, we passed by a simple bar, where there was only a cornfield around and we had two glass sodas (a famous pineapple soft drink in the city). At dusk, we decided to go back to the hotel, but when we were returning along the road, it was already dark, I noticed a very bright light in the sky in the car window, and I warned my father who was driving that the light was approaching. It was at this exact moment that we saw that we were passing by the same cornfield that housed the small bar we passed by. My father then decided to stop the car and turn off the headlights, as he always does this to scare us. I gave the idea to my mother, who was already impatient and wanting to leave like crazy, so we could take a photo. When I tried to call, nothing worked, neither the camera nor the cell phone. The light was getting closer and brighter to the cornfield, so my father decided to turn on the headlights and leave. An important point is that my father is in the military and we saw that it was not a plane, especially in São Tomé das Letras, which is such a high place and in the middle of the mountains, it is not common to have planes landing there, especially in a cornfield.

Submitted by:
Luiza
Widgets

What Is A Liminal Map?

Spooky things happen every day all around us! Instead of brushing these peculiar moments and bizarre encounters off as chance, or mere coincidence, what if we talked about them, mapped them, and tried to decode the message?

Is there a specific place where you've seen fairies, ghosts, bigfoot, time travelers, extraterrestrials, ultraterrestrials, crow conferences, sentient lawn computers, lanyard'd ogres, broccoli wizards, etc.? Does your town have an urban legend you'd love to get to the bottom of?

  Submit your story by clicking the plus sign on the map!

Friends of the Map

  • WUFO UFO Watch Party
  • Euphomet
  • What's Up Weirdo?
  • Our Strange Skies
  • Psychic High School
  • John Tenney's Weird Lectures

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • Patreon

About The Liminal Earth Society

Liminal Earth (originally Liminal Seattle) is a curated map maintained by the Liminal Earth Society. The LES cannot officially guarantee the veracity of the accounts noted hereon, but encourage exploration and investigation. We welcome submissions from from denizens of all realms.  You can join The Liminal Earth Society and help support our work at http://patreon.com/liminalearth. Membership starts at ONE DOLLAR!

Email us if you have any questions: info@liminal.earth

Translations via Google Translate and/or ChatGPT

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Illustratr by WordPress.com.
✕

Add Your Story!

Edit Location

I Accept the Liminal Earth <a href="https://liminal.earth/tos/">Terms of Service</a>*

Add up to 5 images to create a gallery for this location.

×

Thank you!

We will check your location suggestion and release it as soon as possible.

✕