It Disturbed their Nerves

Findlay, Ohio May 23-
A weird spectacle made its appearance in the northern sky Tuesday night. All through the early hours of the night a fitful light flashed at intervals until shortly after 11 o’clock the light suddenly concentrated the formation of a clear and vivid representation of a hand of giant proportions through which pulses of flame red as blood throbbed and bounded as in human arteries, and then fell in huge ruby drops from the tips of the fingers to be swallowed upon the darkness below. The hand reached from the horizon through which it seemed to be thrust way to the zenith, the wrist and fingers being particularly well defined and perfect. The index finger pointed downward to the city. Back of the spectral hand banners of light constantly changing in hue from amber to amethyst rose and fell. For more than an hour this impressive and mysterious exhibition was visible and then slowly the hand began to fade away. The fire behind appeared gradually to die out, the banners of light and clouds drifted away and finally at midnight the sky resumed its normal appearance. The superstitious are thoroughly alarmed.

source: Evening Gazette
location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa