Posted October 26, 2009
Brian Moore, Fielding Local News
" Some say that the base is a legend, misconstrued in a sea of small town stories, all fighting to hit national headlines. It is merely something to fund a "Haunted Sights" tour, not a place where a murder was planned, to kill hundreds." This is what Gerard Williams had to say when asked on the subject of the Affair, he arrived three days ago to begin research on his new book.
"A flaw in nature," some said, when asked on the subject that has now become known as the "Mayfly Affair," a tragedy which happened three years ago. Five hundred thirty-seven people dissappeared for four days, and then appeared out of nowhere, seemingly safe. The following day, July 15th, 2006, those same people who had dissappeared and reappeared so suddenly, all died at 1:34 PM. This is where a handful of people began to suspect a base, underground nonetheless, was where the victims were hidden.
As investigative reporter, I first went to the police and asked what the cause of death was, assuming some sort of poisioning was the cause of the death. They promptly laughed in my face, telling me that they had run every test imaginable with no applicable results. On paper this did seem accturate. There were no traces of any foul play, and the deaths looked completely natural.
Eventually, the investigation of the "Mayfly Affair," was closed, along with the funerals and memorial services, the luncheons for the families who lost loved ones; the memory of the Affair fading slowly away until it was nearly forgotten.
The Affair has recently been brought back into light, as The New York Times best-selling author, Gerard Williams has come to Fielding to begin writing a book about what happened to those people in what he calls "The Base," which currently remains an unsolved mystery; no one knows what transpired during those four days.
