The Tommyknockers was written in 1987 by Stephen King. In the story, Bobbi Anderson stumbles while walking through the woods. When she looks to see what caused her fall, she finds a metal object, like a rim of a large barrel. She touches it and it 'hums' with a sort of energy that possesses her to unearth the entire thing. It turns out to be a spaceship that sends out the "energy" and takes over the entire town.
Ron was mowing a few summers ago, and the blades would hit something metal "tinggg!" on this one pass. He finally decided to dig the object out of the ground.
"Guess what it was!" he called out.
"A spaceship!" I answered.
"Uh, no. A dryer."
"A clothes dryer?" I asked, in disbelief.
"And a typewriter!" he added.
You see, in WV, people will just push their old appliances off the porches of their mobile homes into the ravine below. Your own private landfill was just a dryer-push away! In fact, that's why it's so hazardous to run off the narrow twisty roads and into the creek or down the embankment; not the wreck itself, but the real danger of a kenmore coming through the windshield at you.
But wait- there's more!
Many moons later, he was back at it. This time, I joined in, using the van to help with the extractions.
My point of view from the driver's seat.
I caught one!
"This one has a hornets nest in it." (bang- bang with the shovel) "Oh, don't worry; they settle back down."
Trailer full of metal pulled out so far.
Water break.
We pulled out a stove...
In the foreground, a dishwasher, and still hooked to the chain- a fridge.
Most men in WV pose next to deer.
This poor guy was rudely evicted.
Never in my life would I have believed Ron would help his daughter catch a snake, but he did and she was very excited.
I wonder what we'll dig up next?
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