The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula – Fortean Times
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The strange history of a Mississippi town – an old legend of disappearance, a UFO abduction tale, and a case of hair fetishism that terrified factory workers during World War II.
The fortean claims to fame of the Mississippi town of Pascagoula rest on two things. There is the legend of the Pascagoula River, or Singing River, so named due to a peculiar sound that rises up out of its waters from time to time. The residents of Pascagoula thought the river was haunted and even sent a letter to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle asking him to investigate it. [1] The other major anomalous event is the famous UFO abduction of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker in 1973, during a night fishing trip to the river. But this was not the first abduction to have occurred there.
In 1885, a newspaper recounted the already fading legend of a mermaid sighting in Singing River and her abduction of a whole tribe of Native Americans who were never seen again. “Many years ago,” the newspaper wrote…
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