Haunted could not describe Calvin’s emotions as he comprehended that Lori Mae had witnessed her father’s alien abduction. Mind- and heart-clenching was more correct. But that did not make him stop. Rather, it only heightened his emotions and senses, and he decided to continue his reading and to learn more about the farm’s history and its alien activity.
Another Lori Mae Kessling sketch caused Calvin’s hands to shake and his heart to thud erratically. By the end of summer in 1886, he had determined that Lori Mae had also been abducted, but unlike Papa, she had returned to the farm. Her sketch, dated September 27, 1886, detailed a self-portrait of the young woman, naked and splayed over a metal bed. Five alien figures were sketched around her, all of which held unrecognizable tools of vario
