JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

true account

Just before nine o'clock on an October morning in 1963, Mrs. Coleen Butterbaugh, left her secretarial office to run an errand for the Dean of Studest, Sam Dahl. Classes at the Nebraska University were changing and the students were shuffling in and out of various rooms and clogging the hallway.

Mrs. Butterbaugh made her way through the the crush of the students and entered a room at the end of the hall. She had taken a few steps into the room when she was overcome by a strong odor, she couldn't identify. She coughed and choked until the air cleared, silence enveloped her; the noises in the hall behind her muted.

The secretary's eyes took in the scene. At a bookcase against the back wall, a tall young women stood with her right arm reaching up, as if for the top shelf. But the figure was frozen in place, Mrs. Butterbaugh had never seen her anywhere on campus and did not know who she was. The figure was describe as strangely attaried, she wore a long sleeved white blouse, long dark skirt, coarse stockings, and sturdy oxfords and she had a bushy hairdo. Not at all a contemporary look.

With mounting horror the figure vanished but Mrs. Butterbaugh still felt a presence beside herself there. She felt as if she was being watched. When Mrs. Butterbaugh looked out the window she stared out at a scene she never known before. There were no street, no landmarks, no sorority house that sat directly across the expanse of the lawn. The secretary realized she was in another time; one of the past.

The secretary stumbled out into the hallway, once again back in the year 1963. Mrs. Butterbaugh was distrubed by the incident, even though it had taken place just for a few minutes. She wanted to solve the mystery of what took place so she got out some old yearbooks, the campus history and talked to some of the older faculty members. A 1915 photograph showed the campus as she had seen it during the strange interlude.She also discovered a picture of a female music professor (which was the women she had seen at the bookcase)who had taught at the college from 1912 to 1936. Most astonishing was the fact that the teacher had died in that very room just before nine in October. It was concluded that Mrs. Butterbaugh was transported back in time at the very moment and place of the teacher's death.

*What do you think, was the secretary tranported back in time, or was she hallucinating?

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