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A terrifying movie or book or show gets your blood pumping in the moment of consumption, sure—we covered our eyes in Squid Game with the rest of the world. But for the most part, you rest easy afterward knowing that what you've witnessed is fiction, deliberately spun up to creep you out. When the real world gets eerier than anything Stephen King could dream up, that's when you have every right to get a little scared of the dark.
Once in a while, a story of a dreadful disappearance, demonic possession, or devil worship will land in the local paper instead of a pulpy old paperback. We've rounded up the most unnerving real-life tales below. In honor of spooky season, here are eleven we can't stop thinking about.

The Axe Murder House

The Villisca Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa is a well-known tourist attraction for ghost hunters and horror lovers alike. The site of a gruesome unsolved 1912 murder, in which six children and two adults had their skulls completely crushed by the axe of an unknown perpetrator, was purchased in 1994, restored to its 1912 condition, and converted into a tourist destination. It costs $428 a night to stay at the old haunted home, where visitors always report strange paranormal experiences, such as visions of a man with an axe roaming the halls or the faint screams of children.
But in November of 2014, the haunting took a darker turn. Robert Steven Laursen Jr., 37, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin was on a regular recreational paranormal visit with friends when true horror struck. Per VICE:

His companions found him stabbed in the chest—an apparently self-inflicted wound—called 9-1-1, and Laursen was brought to a nearby hospital before being helicoptered to Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Laursen suffered the self-inflicted injury at about 12:45 a.m., which is around the same time the 1912 axe murders in the house began.
Laursen recovered from his injuries, but has never spoken publicly about what occurred that day. For Martha Linn, the owner of the home, the incident was very upsetting. "It's publicity, but it's not exactly the kind of publicity you desire to have. I don't want people thinking that when they come to the Villisca Axe Murder House something's going to happen that's going to make them do something like that.” The house remains open for tourist visits and overnight stays today.
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The Haunted Doll

When you think of haunted dolls, it’s likely the creepy old Victorian-looking porcelain kind that springs to mind. None of which you probably have laying around. Still, don’t get too comfortable around any kids toys too soon, though: a Disney’s Frozen Elsa doll that was gifted for Christmas 2013 in the Houston area made headlines earlier this year when it seemingly became haunted.
Per KPRC2 Houston News:

The doll recited phrases from the movie Frozen and sang “Let It Go” when a button on its necklace was pressed.
“For two years it did that in English,” mother Emily Madonia said. “In 2015, it started doing it alternating between Spanish and English. There wasn’t a button that changed these, it was just random."
The family has owned the doll for more than six years and never changed its batteries. The mother says the doll would randomly begin to speak and sing even with its switch turned off.

The family decided to throw the creepy doll out in December of 2019. Weeks later, they found it inside a bench in their living room. “The kids insisted they didn’t put it there, and I believed them because they wouldn’t have dug through the garbage outside,” Madonia told KPRC2 Houston News.

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At that point, Elsa ceased to sing the English rendition of “Let It Go” altogether, speaking only Spanish when pressed. The family then double-bagged the bizarre doll and placed it at the bottom of their garbage which was taken out on garbage day. They went on a trip shortly after, but when they returned, Elsa too had come back, and was waiting in the backyard of their home.
This time, the family mailed Elsa to a family friend in Minnesota, who taped the haunted doll to the front bumper of his truck. It doesn’t seem to have made its way back to Houston yet, as per Madonia’s latest February Facebook update on the creepy doll.

A Deadly Exorcism

In August 2016 in North London, 26-year-old Kennedy Ife began acting strange and aggressive following a pain in his throat. He reportedly bit his father, threatened to cut off his own penis, and complained of a python or snake inside of him before his family restrained him to a bed with cable ties and excessive force.
As the BBC reported:

“The family then set about attempting to ‘cure’ Kennedy through restraint and prayer over the next three days, the court was told.”

His brother, Colin Ife, told police:

“It’s clear that thing was in him, what we believed was a demon because it was not natural. It was clearly trying to kill him,” he said.
“We had to restrain him for himself. It was clear if we didn’t restrain him, he could have tried to harm people in our family.”

Kennedy Ife had been bound to his bed for three days without medical attention when his brother called emergency services, explaining that Kennedy Ife was complaining of dehydration. He appeared to have developed breathing issues, and was pronounced dead at 10:17 a.m.
As The Independent reported:

While police were at the house Colin Ife allegedly carried out an “attempted resurrection” by chanting and praying for Mr. Ife.

All seven of Kennedy Ife’s family members were accused of manslaughter, false imprisonment, and causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult. A post-mortem examination revealed over 60 wounds including a possible bite on Kennedy Ife’s body, and his father, Kenneth Ife, along with four of his brothers, sustained injuries as well.
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The BBC reported:

Kenneth Ife told jurors he ordered his sons to take shifts and use "overwhelming force" but denied that an "association with cults, occults and secret societies" played any part in the death.

After a four day jury deliberation, all seven family members were cleared of charges on March 14, 2019.
📷Witches prepare themselves for a journey by broomstick to the Black Mountain, circa 1650. From a 17th century Dutch copperplate by Adrianus Hubertus.Hulton Archive

Dead Animals in the Walls

When the Bretzuis family decided to insulate their home in Auburn, Pennsylvania in 2015, they discovered that it had already been—with scores of dead animal carcasses.
As Fox reported:

The dead animals were wrapped in newspapers from the 1930s and 40s and were among half-used spices, and other items.
After removing the items they sent hundreds of artifacts and carcasses to an expert in Kutztown.

The expert attributed the rotting animals in their walls to Pow-wow or Dutch magic, a ritual originating in the culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch to treat ailments and gain physical and spiritual protection. The Pennsylvania Dutch were a group of German-speaking settlers to Pennsylvania in the 1600 and 1700’s, and are often of Lutheran, Mennonite, or Amish faiths.
The Washington Post notes on the magic:

Many of the spells deal with the care of livestock, finding water, or the treatment of minor ailments, reflecting the conditions and concerns of early American settlers.
But powwow also has within it a tradition of darker spells, and even of such things as conjuring demons.

One notable ritual in their tradition is this hex to create loyalty in a dog:

To attach a dog to a person, provided nothing else was used before to effect it: Try to draw some of your blood, and let the dog eat it along with his food, and he will stay with you.

The mold found on the rotting carcasses in the Bretzuis home has caused illness among the family members, and they say that the odor hasn’t gone away.
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Florida Devil Worshipping

Friends noticed that Danielle Harkins, a 35-year-old schoolteacher near St. Petersburg, Florida, started acting strangely in June of 2012, developing an interest in demonic rituals.
Soon after, she was arrested for abuse of seven of her former students, as the Tampa Bay Times reported:

Danielle Harkins told the kids they needed to rid their bodies of demons as the group gathered before dusk Saturday around a small fire near the St. Petersburg Pier. They should cut their skin to let the evil spirits out, police said she told the children. Then, they needed to burn the wounds to ensure that those spirits would not return.
When Harkins held a lighter to one teen's hand, wind blew the flame out, police said. That prompted her to douse his hand in perfume before setting it on fire. The boy suffered second-degree burns, police said.
Another teen was cut on the neck with a broken bottle, police said. Harkins used a flame to heat a small key, which she then used to cauterize the wound.

The police were notified because a friend of one of the students who participated in the ritual raised alarms. However none of the students themselves told their parents about the event or would comment following the arrest of Harkins for aggravated battery and child abuse.
NBC reported:

Investigators said they've spoken to Harkins, but she didn't spell out what type of religion would require such drastic measures.
"She hasn't informed us exactly what she was trying to accomplish with this," Puetz [of the St. Petersburg Police Department] said.

The Death of Elisa Lam

Elisa Lam was last seen on January 31, 2013 in the lobby of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. She was vacationing through the West Coast, documenting the trip on her blog, and checking in with her parents every day. On January 31 those calls stopped. Lam had vanished. Soon the police were involved and her parents arrived to help with the search.
They had nothing. That February, LAPD released elevator surveillance footage of Lam before her disappearance. The footage shows Lam behaving strangely in the elevator, appearing to talk with invisible people, peering around the corner of the door, crouching in the corner, and opening and closing the door. But what exactly is going on in this video raises more questions than answers. Theories range from psychotic episodes, to demonic possession, to unknown assailants just out of the camera's view:
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Around that time, hotel guests started reported weird things happening with the Cecil Hotel water supply. As CNN reports:
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"The shower was awful," said Sabina Baugh, who spent eight days there during the investigation. "When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal."The tap water "tasted horrible," Baugh said. "It had a very funny, sweety, disgusting taste. It's a very strange taste. I can barely describe it."But for a week, they never complained. "We never thought anything of it," she said. "We thought it was just the way it was here."

On the morning of February 19, a hotel employee climbed to the roof and used a ladder to investigate the hotel's water storage tanks. That's where authorities found the decomposing, naked body of Lam, whose personal items were found nearby. After an autopsy, her death was labeled accidental. NBC Los Angeles reported at the time about the strange circumstances in the hotel's past:

The tank has a metal latch that can be opened, but authorities said access to the roof is secured with an alarm and lock.The single-room-occupancy hotel has an unusual history. "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, who was found guilty of 14 slayings in the 1980s, lived on the 14th floor for several months in 1985. And international serial killer Jack Unterweger is suspected of murdering three prostitutes during the time he lived there in 1991. He killed himself in jail in 1994.In 1962, a female occupant jumped out of one the hotel's windows, killing herself and a pedestrian on whom she landed.

In February 2021, a Netflix doc called Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel explored Elisa's tragic case and the history of the "cursed" Cecil Hotel.

An Exorcism in Indianapolis

Last year, the Indianapolis Star published a lengthy report on a family terrorized by three children allegedly possessed by demons. The account of Latoya Ammons and her family tells disturbing stories of children climbing up the walls, getting thrown across rooms, and children threatening doctors in deep unnatural voices. It would seem like something straight out of a movie–a work of fantasy, except all of these accounts were more or less corroborated with "nearly 800 pages of official records obtained by the Indianapolis Star and recounted in more than a dozen interviews with police, DCS personnel, psychologists, family members and a Catholic priest."
One of the more chilling sections of the report includes a segment about the possessed 9-year-old:

According to Washington's original DCS report—an account corroborated by Walker, the nurse—the 9-year-old had a "weird grin" and walked backward up a wall to the ceiling. He then flipped over Campbell, landing on his feet. He never let go of his grandmother's hand.

Another segment of the piece reads:

The 12-year-old would later tell mental health professionals that she sometimes felt as if she were being choked and held down so she couldn't speak or move. She said she heard a voice say she'd never see her family again and wouldn't live another 20 minutes.

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Utah Murder-Suicide

In September of 2014, a Utah teen returned to his home to find his parents and three siblings dead. "In a notebook, a 'to-do list' had been scribbled on the pages ... The list looked as if the parents were readying to go on vacation—items such as 'feed the pets' and 'find someone to watch after the house' were written," The Salt Lake Tribune reported. It appeared to be murder-suicide, but there was no suicide note, no prior indication that they would do this, no explanation. Police could not figure out why two parents would kill themselves and three of their four children.
For a year, no one knew exactly what happened to the family, or what would drive the parents to do something so unthinkable. In January, police released more chilling details in the case. According to accounts from family members and an investigation by police, the parents were driven by a belief that the apocalypse was coming and an obsession with a convicted killer. As the Washington Post reported:

Friends and family told police that the parents were worried about the "evil in the world" and wanted to escape a "pending apocalypse." But most assumed they just wanted to move somewhere "off the grid." Investigators also found letters written by Kristi Strack to one of the state's most infamous convicted killers, Dan Lafferty, who was convicted in the 1984 fatal stabbing of his sister-in-law and her 1-year-old daughter. According to trial testimony, he killed the victims at the order of his brother, Ron Lafferty, who claimed to have had a revelation from God. The story became a book called "Under the Banner of Heaven."Police said Kristi Strack became friends with Dan Lafferty, and she and her husband even visited him in prison.

The Phone Stalker

In 2007, ABC news documented a series of cell phone calls to families with terrifyingly specific death threats. The unidentified callers knew exactly what families were doing and what they were wearing.

The families say the calls come in at all hours of the night, threatening to kill their children, their pets and grandparents. Voice mails arrive, playing recordings of their private conversations, including one with a local police detective.The caller knows, the families said, what they're wearing and what they're doing. And after months of investigating, police seem powerless to stop them.

This went on with the Kuykenall family for months, who reported a caller with a scratchy voice threatening to slit their throats.

When the Fircrest, Wash., police tried to find the culprit, the calls were traced back to the Kuykendalls' own phones -- even when they were turned off.It got worse. The Kuykendalls and two other Fircrest families told ABC News that they believe the callers are using their cell phones to spy on them. They say the hackers know their every move: where they are, what they're doing and what they're wearing. The callers have recorded private conversations, the families and police said, including a meeting with a local detective.

"The Watcher"

After moving into their $1.3 million dream home, a New Jersey family started receiving creepy death threats from someone who identified themselves as "The Watcher." As CBS News reported earlier this year:
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Since moving in, the owners said they have received numerous letters from the mysterious person. "The Watcher" claimed the home "has been the subject of my family for decades," and "I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming," Castro reported.The new owners have several children, and other letters asked, "Have they found out what's in the walls yet?" and "I am pleased to know your names now, and the name of the young blood you have brought to me."

The family was forced to flee from their home and later filed a lawsuit against the previous owners.

Issei the Cannibal

In 1974, 24-year-old Wako University student Issei Sagawa allegedly followed a German woman to her home in Tokyo, Japan, broke into her apartment while she was sleeping, and attempted to cut a piece of flesh off her body to consume. When she awoke, she reportedly fought him and he was later captured by the police. According to a 2012 Vice documentary that covered Issei's bizarre story, he was mistakenly charged with attempted rape and his wealthy father paid the victim a settlement outside of court to have the charges dropped.
Seven years later, in 1981, he allegedly committed a murder in France—shooting and eating a fellow University student, Renée Hartevelt. Issei creepily documented the entire experience with photographs and he was captured by authorities once again while attempting to dump the rest of her body in the Bois de Boulogne lake. He was deported back to Japan and committed to a mental institution. For reason unknown, his psychologists in Japan declared that he was sane. Furthermore, a legal technicality involving the French government refusing to turn over the documents from his case meant that his murder charges were dropped completely. He checked himself out of the mental hospital and has reportedly been walking the streets as a free man ever since. Issei has even become a controversial celebrity, writing over 20 books. According to Japan Today, he most recently fantasized about an unnamed TV actress, saying:
"I'll catch a glimpse of her thigh and think, 'That sure looks tasty.' But I don't feel like I actually want to eat it. As I accomplished the act of cannibalism once, there's no meaning to maintaining the desire for it anymore. In my book, I wrote that it [human flesh] was tasty, but that was not really true; I'd much rather eat Matsuzaka (Kobe) beef. But because I'd desired to consume human flesh for so long, I'd managed to convince myself that it would necessarily be delicious."
Issei Sagawa was also referenced in the Rolling Stones song "Too Much Blood," with the lyrics reading: "And when he ate her he took her bones/To the Bois de Boulogne." He is currently 73 years old and continues to live in Kawaski City, Japan. To this day, no one knows why France did not allow Japan to give him a trial.
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So, I followed the Viva New Vegas guide and that seemed to work fine. Then I got greedy and added a bunch of texture mods.
My PC has an i7-8700K and a RTX 3070. What's happening is that textures of the floor and walls inside buildings pop between all black and several versions of images. Also, some crashing when exiting buildings.
What am I doing wrong here? Help is greatly appreciated!!
Here's my mod list from MO2:
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I had an EBL oneshot that ended in the characters liberating the sheriff of a county of Deep Country. His deputies rebelled and started leading a gang of bandits.
They had a way to communicate with the gang and they told them they were taking the Sheriff to a bridge to lure them there. There, the other faction of witches would ambush them by throwing burning oil from the air, while the characters would single out the leaders (the 2 deputies), teleport them and kill them.
I didn't have a clue this would happen when I started the session, the whole scenario was something the players came up with. (I prepared a complex place with issues and a current state, not "an adventure".
It was a one-shot and there wasn't a lot of time, so I ended up narrating how they did it, some of the results, and how they succeeded, but I'm wondering how you would run such a thing if you were faced with this scenario. Also, it would be interesting to come up with some schema on how to create these epic battles.

"[N]o earthly power can justly call me (who am your King) in question as a delinquent ... this day's proceeding cannot be warranted by God's laws; for, on the contrary, the authority of obedience unto Kings is clearly warranted, and strictly commanded in both the Old and New Testament ... for the law of this land, I am no less confident, that no learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the King, they all going in his name: and one of their maxims is, that the King can do no wrong ... the higher House is totally excluded; and for the House of Commons, it is too well known that the major part of them are detained or deterred from sitting ... the arms I took up were only to defend the fundamental laws of this kingdom against those who have supposed my power hath totally changed the ancient government."

That's the United States court system's source for giving the entire government "sovereignty", and defining it to mean above the law. A king's ranting before he was decapitated as a traitor by his people, in a monarchy, not a democracy.
Charge:

"[F]or accomplishment of such his designs, and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked practices, to the same ends hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented ... wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said Charles Stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."

Indictment:

"[G]uilty of all the treasons, murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages and mischiefs to this nation, acted and committed in the said wars, or occasioned thereby." (An estimated 300,000 people, or 6% of the population, died during the war.)

The court (in 1649 in a monarchy) challenged the doctrine of sovereign immunity and proposed that the King of England was not a person, but an office whose every occupant was entrusted with a limited power to govern "by and according to the laws of the land and not otherwise".
Before being decapitated, he said:

"A subject and a sovereign are clean different things", and subjects "have no share in government".

His decapitated head was displayed for a day.
The judicial branch doesn't have the authority to make new laws. They do not have the authority to defy legislation. The separation of powers doctrine prohibits them from usurping the legislative branch's authority. They have a legally binding obligation under the constitution to have a legislative basis for their judicial decisions.
There is no relevant legal precedent for the way the United States defines the concept. No other nation in the world defines sovereignty to mean immunity from private redress from the nations own constituents, for acts outside the scope of public service - not even monarchies.
The judicial branch only has authority to interpret the legislation, and the legal axioms from common law. There have been numerous legislative attempts to provide equality under law. The inventors of democracy clearly were against the concept of sovereignty or anyone being above the law. English common law dismantled the much weaker version of it that once existed in English monarchy, long before the founding of the United States.
Here are some sources, many of which are legislative authorities (which the judicial branch does not have the legal authority to deny):
Herodotus:

"Democracy has the fairest name; nothing like monarchy ... power is held accountable."

Aristotle:

"It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens... if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the laws".

Cicero referred to statesmen, himself included, stating:

"We are all servants of the laws"

And in Rome you could generally sue statesmen.
The Magna Carta (which is considered a legislative authority in the USA) clauses 39 & 40 guarantee citizens the right to not be proceeded against by the government without due process, in Clause 39.
Clause 40 states:

To no one will we sell, deny, or delay right or justice.

The definition of Rule of Law is that no one is above the law, or, more rigorously:

"the subordination of arbitrary [government] power to the strict and well defined rules of law" (emphasis added on subordination).

The 11th Amendment explicitly says it does not give the government sovereign immunity from its own constituents).
See also John Locke, A.V. Dicey, the Code of Hammurabi,
The 14th Amendment:

"No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws",

The 5th Amendment:

"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law",

USC Title 42 Section 1985 (Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights), the inscription over the back entrance of the SCOTUS ("Equal Justice Under Law"),
Henry De Bracton:

"The king must not be under man but under God and under the law, because the law makes the king . . . for there is no rex where will rules rather than lex."

Abraham Lincoln:

"A government of the people by the people for the people".

California Constitution Article 1 Section 7.
These sources say explicitly that the law should be above ANY individual's, or actor's (on behalf of an entity), "sovereign" rights, INCLUDING A KING'S.

All were subject to this unchangeable [natural moral] law whether they were rulers or the ruled. In the Middle Ages, the king was a creature of law, which he swore to safeguard. It was held that “the law makes the king” (lex facit regem). He was not the creator of law; his power was not above the law, and consequently he could not arbitrarily change it. Indeed, Robert Nisbet writes that, “No legal understanding was more widespread in the medieval period than that which declared the ruler to be under the law.” (1)
In fact, subjects had the right to resist and were freed from their oaths of fealty when the law was violated by the ruler. They might even resort to force since “to oppose force to the king’s use of force was, according to the common legal creed of the Middle Ages, not only permissible but even in certain circumstances obligatory.” (2)
This bottom-up legislative process of “discovering law” that was sovereign over both ruler and ruled gave protection to the people, who knew they could constantly invoke it and hold authority accountable. This equality under the law is the basis of the rule of law and limited government that gave the West its great advantage over other civilizations.

https://nobility.org/2014/01/middle-ages-king-subject-to-law/
(1) Robert A. Nisbet, Twilight of Authority (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000), 154.
(2) Fritz Kern, Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages: The Divine Right of Kings and the Right of Resistance in the Early Middle Ages; Law and Constitution in the Middle Ages, trans. S. B. Chrimes (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968), 83.
https://link.springer.com/chapte10.1007/978-3-319-42733-1_4

Credence Sol explains that Magna Carta is more honoured in the United States than in the United Kingdom as it is considered by American people as democracy’s birth certificate, especially clause 39 under which the government has to abide by the law.

https://www.history.com/news/magna-carta-influence-us-constitution-bill-of-rights

America’s Founding Fathers abhorred the very idea of ever again being ruled by a king ... Magna Carta required the King to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by the law. It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment.”
The two most-cited clauses of Magna Carta for defenders of liberty and the rule of law are 39 and 40:

1. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.
   
2. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
   

In 1215, a band of rebellious medieval barons forced King John of England to agree to a laundry list of concessions later called the Great Charter, or in Latin, Magna Carta.
The Founding Fathers credited the 39th clause as the origin of the idea that no government can unjustly deprive any individual of “life, liberty or property” and that no legal action can be taken against any person without the “lawful judgement of his equals,” what would later become the right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers.
The last phrase of clause 39, “by the law of the land,” set the standard for what is now known as due process of law.
Writing in The Federalist Papers, James Madison explicitly referenced the 40th clause of Magna Carta when he wrote, “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”

Sovereign immunity isn't just a bad policy. It is a keystone underlying hundreds of years of perpetuated crime and atrocities. It fundamentally changed the structure of society, from a democracy with Rule of Law, into an ipso facto (by definition) tyranny.
The judicial branch of government did not have the authority to usurp the legislative branch's power to invent a new law which fundamentally altered the structure of society.
There was no legislative basis for sovereign immunity when it was concocted, or erroneously referred to as an axiom from common law, again, erroneously, by the United States Judiciary.
Sovereign immunity is not a tenet of common law, and it never was, either after the Manga Carta was written, or prior, in 1219.

"[N]o earthly power can justly call me (who am your King) in question as a delinquent ... this day's proceeding cannot be warranted by God's laws; for, on the contrary, the authority of obedience unto Kings is clearly warranted, and strictly commanded in both the Old and New Testament ... for the law of this land, I am no less confident, that no learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the King, they all going in his name: and one of their maxims is, that the King can do no wrong ... the higher House is totally excluded; and for the House of Commons, it is too well known that the major part of them are detained or deterred from sitting ... the arms I took up were only to defend the fundamental laws of this kingdom against those who have supposed my power hath totally changed the ancient government."

That's the United States court system's source for giving the entire government "sovereignty", and defining it to mean above the law. A king's ranting before he was decapitated as a traitor by his people, in a monarchy, not a democracy.
Charge:

"[F]or accomplishment of such his designs, and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked practices, to the same ends hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented ... wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said Charles Stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."

Indictment:

"[G]uilty of all the treasons, murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages and mischiefs to this nation, acted and committed in the said wars, or occasioned thereby." (An estimated 300,000 people, or 6% of the population, died during the war.)

The court (in 1649 in a monarchy) challenged the doctrine of sovereign immunity and proposed that the King of England was not a person, but an office whose every occupant was entrusted with a limited power to govern "by and according to the laws of the land and not otherwise".
Before being decapitated, he said:

"A subject and a sovereign are clean different things", and subjects "have no share in government".

His decapitated head was displayed for a day.
The judicial branch doesn't have the authority to make new laws. They do not have the authority to defy legislation. The separation of powers doctrine prohibits them from usurping the legislative branch's authority. They have a legally binding obligation under the constitution to have a legislative basis for their judicial decisions.
There is no relevant legal precedent for the way the United States defines the concept. No other nation in the world defines sovereignty to mean immunity from private redress from the nations own constituents, for acts outside the scope of public service - not even monarchies.
The judicial branch only has authority to interpret the legislation, and the legal axioms from common law. There have been numerous legislative attempts to provide equality under law. The inventors of democracy clearly were against the concept of sovereignty or anyone being above the law. English common law dismantled the much weaker version of it that once existed in English monarchy, long before the founding of the United States.
Here are some sources, many of which are legislative authorities (which the judicial branch does not have the legal authority to deny):
Herodotus:

"Democracy has the fairest name; nothing like monarchy ... power is held accountable."

Aristotle:

"It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens... if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the laws".

Cicero referred to statesmen, himself included, stating:

"We are all servants of the laws"

And in Rome you could generally sue statesmen.
The Magna Carta (which is considered a legislative authority in the USA) clauses 39 & 40 guarantee citizens the right to not be proceeded against by the government without due process, in Clause 39.
Clause 40 states:

To no one will we sell, deny, or delay right or justice.

The definition of Rule of Law is that no one is above the law, or, more rigorously:

"the subordination of arbitrary [government] power to the strict and well defined rules of law" (emphasis added on subordination).

The 11th Amendment explicitly says it does not give the government sovereign immunity from its own constituents).
See also John Locke, A.V. Dicey, the Code of Hammurabi,
The 14th Amendment:

"No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws",

The 5th Amendment:

"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law",

USC Title 42 Section 1985 (Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights), the inscription over the back entrance of the SCOTUS ("Equal Justice Under Law"),
Henry De Bracton:

"The king must not be under man but under God and under the law, because the law makes the king . . . for there is no rex where will rules rather than lex."

Abraham Lincoln:

"A government of the people by the people for the people".

California Constitution Article 1 Section 7.
These sources say explicitly that the law should be above ANY individual's, or actor's (on behalf of an entity), "sovereign" rights, INCLUDING A KING'S.

All were subject to this unchangeable [natural moral] law whether they were rulers or the ruled. In the Middle Ages, the king was a creature of law, which he swore to safeguard. It was held that “the law makes the king” (lex facit regem). He was not the creator of law; his power was not above the law, and consequently he could not arbitrarily change it. Indeed, Robert Nisbet writes that, “No legal understanding was more widespread in the medieval period than that which declared the ruler to be under the law.” (1)
In fact, subjects had the right to resist and were freed from their oaths of fealty when the law was violated by the ruler. They might even resort to force since “to oppose force to the king’s use of force was, according to the common legal creed of the Middle Ages, not only permissible but even in certain circumstances obligatory.” (2)
This bottom-up legislative process of “discovering law” that was sovereign over both ruler and ruled gave protection to the people, who knew they could constantly invoke it and hold authority accountable. This equality under the law is the basis of the rule of law and limited government that gave the West its great advantage over other civilizations.

https://nobility.org/2014/01/middle-ages-king-subject-to-law/
(1) Robert A. Nisbet, Twilight of Authority (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000), 154.(2) Fritz Kern, Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages: The Divine Right of Kings and the Right of Resistance in the Early Middle Ages; Law and Constitution in the Middle Ages, trans. S. B. Chrimes (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968), 83.
(2) Fritz Kern, Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages: The Divine Right of Kings and the Right of Resistance in the Early Middle Ages; Law and Constitution in the Middle Ages, trans. S. B. Chrimes (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968), 83.
https://link.springer.com/chapte10.1007/978-3-319-42733-1_4

Credence Sol explains that Magna Carta is more honoured in the United States than in the United Kingdom as it is considered by American people as democracy’s birth certificate, especially clause 39 under which the government has to abide by the law.

https://www.history.com/news/magna-carta-influence-us-constitution-bill-of-rights

Since America’s Founding Fathers abhorred the very idea of ever again being ruled by a king, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its decision in the 1907 case of Kawananakoa v. Polybank, suggests different reasoning for America adopting sovereign immunity: “A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends.” Magna Carta required the King to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by the law. It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment.”
The two most-cited clauses of Magna Carta for defenders of liberty and the rule of law are 39 and 40:

1. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.
   
2. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
   

In 1215, a band of rebellious medieval barons forced King John of England to agree to a laundry list of concessions later called the Great Charter, or in Latin, Magna Carta.
The Founding Fathers credited the 39th clause as the origin of the idea that no government can unjustly deprive any individual of “life, liberty or property” and that no legal action can be taken against any person without the “lawful judgement of his equals,” what would later become the right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers.
The last phrase of clause 39, “by the law of the land,” set the standard for what is now known as due process of law.
Writing in The Federalist Papers, James Madison explicitly referenced the 40th clause of Magna Carta when he wrote, “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”

Sovereign immunity isn't just a bad policy. It is a keystone underlying hundreds of years of perpetuated crime and atrocities. It fundamentally changed the structure of society, from a democracy with Rule of Law, into an ipso facto (by definition) tyranny.
The judicial branch of government did not have the authority to usurp the legislative branch's power to invent a new law which fundamentally altered the structure of society.
There was no legislative basis for sovereign immunity when it was concocted, or erroneously referred to as an axiom from common law, again, erroneously, by the United States Judiciary.
Sovereign immunity is not a tenet of common law, and it never was, either after the Manga Carta was written, or prior, in 1219.

Today thanks to a tip from Faraday_Rage, I bring you a ghost story from West Lake Hills, although saying that might be a bit misleading because West Lake Hills is a mid-20th century invention and the events of this story happen mostly before that. There used to be a village called Eanes in that general area full of farmers, ranchers, and cedar choppers before it was subdivided into one of the nicer suburbs.
There was only one bridge for vehicle traffic (besides the train bridge) from Downtown into South Austin before the 1940s. Because of this, the western part of Travis County was separated from the growth of Austin and the eastern part of the county, and remained sort of a wild frontier well after the surrounding lands were settled.
Among the early settlers in that area were two brothers named Alexander and Robert Eanes. There is a historical marker at the intersection of Red Bud Trail and Loop 360 which says the following:

Alexander Eanes (1806-1888) moved to Texas from Mississippi in 1845 and acquired this ranch by 1857. In 1873 he sold the property to his brother, Robert Eanes (1805-1895), who had moved to the area following the Civil War. A log cabin built on the Eanes ranch was the first Eanes school, and the community also assumed the Eanes name. Robert Eanes sold the ranch to his son-in-law, Hudson Boatner Marshall (1862-1951) in 1883. Marshall dismantled the ranch house and moved it to a site adjacent to the nearby creek.

So there was a man named H.B. Marshall who lived on the former Eanes Ranch with his wife Viola (Robert Eanes's daughter) and family.
H.B. Marshall was a Civil War orphan. His mom died shortly after childbirth and his dad died as part of Hood's Brigade. He spent his early life in Austin-area orphanages until he graduated high school at the age of 19. That was when the doctors of the era diagnosed him with "consumption", otherwise known as Tuberculosis today. There was no cure in the 19th century. Afflicted people were told to go live in the country and get some fresh air, and that's exactly what he did.
Lucky for him, HB's dad well fairly well off when he died and left him an inheritance. After he left the orphanage he used this money to buy the ranch from the Eanes family, met and married Viola Eanes, and started a family. Legends say a Mexican folk healer convinced him eating goat meat and drinking goat's milk was an excellent remedy for consumption, and so he raised goats.
The book Eanes Portrait of a Community has this photo of H.B. and Viola and their dog, along a brief biographical bit:

H.B. and Viola Marshall sold honey and butter and raised goats. At one time H.B. was president of the American Goat Association and traveled to Chicago to attend that organization's national convention. There he met and talked with Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. In its early days the Ford Motor Company used mohair from goats to make a soft, long-lasting fabric which was used to upholster the seats in its "tin lizzies". H.B. Marshall was one of the company's first mohair suppliers. Later, after Bee Cave Road became a better, more reliable road, Marshall, who was a skilled printer sometimes worked in Austin at that trade.

So HB Marshall and his family were very good at raising goats.
The Marshall Family were also beekeepers. HB liked to be called "Honey Bee" Marshall later in life. He lived the rest of his life on that ranch and died in the 1950s.
Now that you have that little bit of backstory, on with today's tale. The following article appeared on page 21 the Austin American-Statesman on May 16, 1966:

MYSTERY
Old Grave Beside Creek
The mystery of who is buried a shallow grave beside Smith Creek, seven miles southwest of Austin, may never be solved.
With it goes a tale of a robbery and killing said to have occurred more than 60 years ago on the Bee Cave Road.
But at least one story told by a man who died last year sticks in the minds of some residents of the hill country behind Zilker Park.
The man was long-time stock man and World War I veteran John Marshall, who lived out his life on the Eanes-Marshall Ranch seven miles southwest of Austin. His story told him as a child by his father, early Travis County settler and school teacher Hudson Boatner (Honey Bee) Marshall goes something like this:
In the late 19th century, a man from Bee Caves came to Austin with a wagon load of cotton. After selling it, he was returning home when his hired hand killed him and took the money. The slain man was not found for several days, and when he was, he was buried on the spot, several hundred feel off the road.
This is the way Cecil Johnson, of 1500 West Bee Caves remembers the story. He heard it in 1956 when he and his brother-in-law, Elmo Freitag, dug into the grave and found a skeleton. Freitag and Johnson went from where they live to buy a dog killed by a car on the Marshall ranch, Johnson said. "When we found the bones, we were pretty scared," Freitag said. "We went up to the ranch house to tell John Marshall about them." "That's when John told us the story," Johnson recalls. "He said we should cover the bones back up and let the old man rest."
The story was brought to the attention of the American- Statesman by Bruce Marshall of Houston, a nephew of John Marshall and an heir to 10 acres of the old ranch land. Others who lived along Bee Caves Road, or who knew John Marshall, recall hearing him tell the story, but no one contacted so far remembers hearing the story from anyone else.
Sheriff T. O. Lang said he has no records dating back that far, Marshall was born around 1887, and Johnson said the killing and robbery occurred "before John's time."
A check into the archives in the Austin Library's Austin and Travis County Collection reveals a similar crime which occurred in 1871. On Feb. 7 of that year, according to Frank Brown's Annals of Travis County, "an old citizen" named Charles Barnes, who "lived seven miles north of Austin," was killed and robbed after he had come to town and sold a wagon load of hay. He was shot and killed "probably for his money," and his body was found 30 yards from the road, three-fourths of a mile from his dwelling. A $1,000 reward was offered for the criminal, but he was never captured.
This "official" report is quite similar to the story told by John Marshall, but the directions from Austin do not coincide.
There are descendants or a family named Cotton who live in Bee Caves, according to Miss Jessie Roy, former teacher who lives on the Rob Roy Ranch on the Bee Caves Road two miles beyond the Marshall ranch. But she said she never heard of any of them being robbed or killed. Her family moved here in the 1890s.
Conceivably, with the tale handed down by word of mouth for three generations, the name Cotton, and the product "cotton" could have gotten confused. And the Brown report, probably taken from a newspaper account, could have been mistaken about the direction (north or west) from Austin where the crime was committed.
But if the wagon load was cotton instead of hay, the crime would have occurred most likely in October, according to Austin rancher and historian Carl Widen. Widen said in the old days Austin, it usually came from the south and west, from Dripping Springs and Bee Caves, in October, "in time for the circus." "The whole family would come to town with the load of cotton usually one or two bales to a wagon and after it was sold the women bought cloth for dresses and the kids went to see the circus. Then they got back home late that night.
Another hill resident, Charles Roberts, 80, who lives on a creek near the Rob Roy ranch, said he remembered people hauling cotton in trains of three or four wagons pulled by oxen, rather than by horses or mules. And Austin resident Charles Dellana said it used to take at least four mules to pull a wagon load of corn out of the bottoms or "The Narrows" between Bee Caves Road and the Colorado River. He opined that the murder and robbery must have occurred "earlier than 1903."
Besides the Cotton family out Bee Caves way, other family names familiar to those still living are Theodore Bose, Joe Beck, the Freitags, the Teagues, the Simpsons and the Moores. But who is buried beside Smith Creek on the Marshall ranch, how he died, and when he was buried, no one seems to remember.

Well this old story was apparently told far and wide. There was another article on that same day (May 16, 1966) in The Statesman: (h/t/ jbjjbjbb)

Ghost Hunters Have a Go at Ghosting
San Antonians Learn of Murder and Such Things on Austin Ranch
Ghosts, anyone? A strange tale of murder and theft was spottily told Saturday night by a "spirit" who was supposedly in communication with a group of ghost- hunters seven miles southwest of Austin. The ghost hunters, five people from San Antonio, gath ered on the old Marshall Ranch in West Lake Hills with two news reporters. They apparently believed they were communicating with a ghost named Tom Burns.
"Margaret, Margaret, Margaret," the ghost kept repeating through the automatic-writing technique of Mrs. Joan McKee, wife of Don McKee. McKee is manager of the Builders Exchange of Texas, in San Antonio. He and his wife say they are "student" parapsychologists. Spelling out the name of Margaret Owens, Tom Burns said, "She is dead now. She is my love."
The names of Margaret Owens and Tom Burns were interpreted by the McKees from an almost indecipherable scrawl which Mrs. McKee transmitted to sheet after sheet of paper with a pencil, while her husband held her elbow. They were seated at a table in the single upper room of the old Marshall ranch house. With them were this reporter, ranch owner and Houston Post business writer Bruce Marshall, and San Antonio residents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. John Mac-Donald, and Mrs. Mary K. Cook. The only light in the room came from a lantern.
"Burns" said Margaret "Owens" was buried on a mountain top east of the ranch, and had been killed in or near some water. Burns also said he had been killed by three men on a road near the ranch as he was hauling a wagon load of hay. Placing the date at 1904, possibly on a Monday, he said he was shot as he got down off the wagon to move a rock that was in the way.
Although at least two other spirits were supposedly contacted beyond the pale, that of Burns appeared to be the most communicative and the most interesting. It was either Burns, or a ghost named Nathan Anderson who spoke of a John Anderson who came "often" to the ranch to drink "rum from South America" with Robert Eanes.
Eanes, according to Marshall, was the first man in the family to own the ranch property. He died in the 19th century and is buried in a family plot on a hill near the ranch house. Marshall said later there had been a man named John Anderson who was a friend of the Eanes family. Marshall and this reporter have established, from local folklore and from written records, that a man, possibly named Charles Barnes, was killed seven miles from Austin around 1871, after selling a load of ether cotton or hay in town.
There is a grave of an unknown man beside Smith Creek on the Marshal ranch, not far off the Bee Caves Road, which is seven miles from Austin. Neither Marshall nor this reporter have verified that the grave on Smith Creek is the one in which the robbery victim was buried, but the coincidences of the known facts leaves room for speculation that it may be the one.
Burns said he had worked for a man named Cotton Roberts, and that Roberts had worked for a man possibly named Mitchell Treadwell. The name of Treadwell first came to the attention of the group when MacDonald, a former announcer for KONO-TV, fell into a trance through what was called auto-hypnosis. He said he got the name from a ghost present in the room, and that he also received "an impression" of the dates 1890 to 1901. Marshall later disclosed that the old ranch house had been built sometime between 1890 and 1905.
The name "Mitchell" was written on the paper when one of the persons asked aloud, "Does the name Treadwell mean anything to you?" Burns also spoke of his mother, naming her variously Mary Markham, Marstur, Masters and Markem, who he said had been sick in a barn and subsequently died.
Mention was made of a bearded man who wore a big hat and was deaf in one ear, of a box buried beneath a barn, and of wild mohair goats. Marshall said the last man to live on the ranch, his late uncle John Marshall, found a hole on the ranch about 30 years ago where a box apparently had been buried. This was when Miriam A. Ferguson was governor of Texas, he said.
He also said a bearded deaf man had once been a ranch hand there and that John Marshall's father, H. B. Marshall, had raised Angora goats on the ranch. Burns said Roberts had buried the box, and he (Burns) had dug it up. "Money means death," came the scrawled message on the paper.
Two of the most dramatic events of the evening occurred when the McKees tried to communicate with a ghost named "Robert" Both of them believed the ghost to be that of Robert Eanes, whom they described as having a very powerful, domineering personality. Mrs. McKee broke down and could write no more after transcribing the words, "My time is up now. Many have come but nobody will listen." Later McKee tried to communicate, and apparently went into a trance after receiving the word "yes" to the question of whether "Robert" had been born in July.
Just before McKee went into a trance, Marshall and this reporter were curious to notice that a strong wind the only one noticed during the entire night rattled the eaves of the house for about a minute.
The time was shortly after midnight Mrs. Cook, who writes radio and TV commercials, took down the following from McKee's barely audible words: "I have many children. I am as Abraham I shan't stay around where my people don't want me. It is dark. Darkness is in the land. We shall bring light."
Further efforts to communicate with "Robert" failed. After this incident, the "ghosts" seemed to leave the parapsychologists and their fellow delvers into ESP (extra-sensory perception).
A long vigil at the family cemetery until almost dawn proved fruitless. Gibson, sales manager for Pratt and Lambert varnish makers, whose supposedly "haunted" house in San Antonio was the subject of a Houston Post story several months ago, conceded with high good humor that he had seen no ghosts Saturday night "But Robert was around," he affirmed confidently.
Marshall and this reporter scratched their heads, totaling up the number of "unexplainable coincidences" which made the night at least a little provocative if not downright exciting. It would take a patient historian to check the names listed. As for the "ghosts" well, who knows?

H.B. Marshall had a son named John and he in turn had a son named Bruce. Bruce Marshall was an artist who spent most of his time in Houston but moved back to the family ranch in 1974. Marshall recounted the story of the 1966 ghost hunt in this 1983 article:

THE SEARCH FOR ghosts is not uncommon with visitors to the Marshall Ranch off Loop 360 South. It is the home of artist Bruce Marshall and his family and nine ghosts, those of seven people and two horses.
Marshall studio and gallery is a restored, pre-Civil War ancestral home located next to the family residence. Parapsychologists visited the building in 1966 and declared it to be haunted by a man who was attacked, shot and killed near the original entrance of the ranch. The ghost of the dead man, whose unmarked grave is still on the ranch, reportedly told the ghosts hunters about his fate. The ghost also admitted that he had committed murder, killing a woman named Margaret by drowning her.
There are two creeks near the ranchhouse that are the source of several other ghost stories.
"SUPPOSEDLY ONE GHOST walks the creek towards Eanes (Elementary) school calling for someone," said Marshall. "There were some kids camping near the creek about six months ago, they heard dogs barking and the noise of a wagon drawn by horses. The wagon has no driver and follows an old road which used to connect to Bee Cave Road."
Marshall said his family tries to play down the ghosts tales surrounding his homestead. "If we really become convinced that we're haunted, we really lose our enjoyment of the place. People seeking ghosts out here are very unwelcome," he said. "If there are such things, they don't bother me. They like me. They probably feel that if I go, the house goes, the property changes, and they're evicted.

In 1999 Marshall sold the house and the ranch to The Eanes Historical Society, who moved it next to the current location of Eanes Elementary School, where it has become the home of the EHS and serves as a small museum today.
So who is in the mystery grave at Smith Creek? I found one lead.
Back in February of 1916 a 20-year-old man named Albert Cook had an unfortunate accident and was killed. The Statesman reported it like so:

While setting a wolf trap on the Marshall goat ranch, eight miles from Austin, Alfred Lee Cook, 20 years old, accidentally shot and killed himself at 8:30 Friday morning, a charge of buck-shot from the left barrel of a double-barrelled shotgun entering his abdomen.
Cook was a laborer on the Marshall ranch, near Summitt. Early Friday morning he attempted to set a steel trap for wolves. He was carrying a shotgun and was accompanied by two small boys.
Setting his shotgun, both barrels of which were loaded, against a bush, he advanced to the trap. The gun fell across his path and he shoved it aside. As he did so, in some way the left barrel of the gun was discharged, the entire charge taking effect in his abdomen at short range and badly lacerating his body. Death was almost Instantaneous.
Justice of the Peace George W. Mendell, Deputy Sheriff Jim McCoy and Deputy Constable Matt Turner went to Summitt this morning for the Inquest. Justlce Mendell rendered a verdict of accidental shooting. The name of one surviving relative was reported to the Justice of the ponce, being Mrs. Rebecca Ann Brown, mother of the young man

Is this the person in the grave? I can't say for sure without DNA testing, but poor Mr. Cook might be the best candidate.
Time is short and space is long today so I'll leave it there. The Eanes-Marshall house today is called the Eanes History Center, and sits next to Eanes Elementary School at 4101 Bee Caves Rd. Bonus Items to follow:
Bonus Pic #1 - Photograph of Bruce Marshall standing next to the graves of his ancestors in Eanes-Marshall Cemetery - unknown date (mid 1970s?)
Bonus Pic #2 - "Photograph of Bruce Marshall and Dorothy Depwe in the Eanes-Marshall Cemetary looking down at a tombstone." - unknown date (mid 1970s?)
Bonus Video #1 - Eanes History: HB Marshall (from Eanes History Center)
Bonus Video #2 - Eanes History: HB Marshall Ranch House Tour (from Eanes History Center)
Bonus Article #1 - Masons BBQ meet at The Marshall Ranch - November 17, 1919
Bonus Article #2 - "Better watch out! Spirits on the prowl!" - May 14, 1966
Bonus book excerpt? - Notes from an interview with Earl Short (a reformed bootlegger), in which he mentions he saw H.B. and John Marshall setting up a soda stand one Election Day after he bribed some illiterate people for their votes.

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CHC	CIN	Jameson Taillon*	Mark Leiter Jr.L3:10, Adbert AlzolayL3:1	Michael Fulmer	Michael RuckerL3:53	Brandon HughesL3:12, Jeremiah Estrada, Julian MerryweatherL3:24	Javier AssadL3:75
CHW	@DET	Jesse Scholtens***	Kendall Graveman	Joe Kelly	Reynaldo LópezL3:30	Keynan MiddletonL3:9, Aaron BummerL3:27, Gregory SantosL3:16, Garrett CrochetL3:41	Jimmy LambertL3:31
CIN	@CHC	Brandon Williamson*	Alexis Díaz	Lucas SimsL3:25	Ian Gibaut	Alex Young, Buck Farmer, Fernando CruzL3:15, Eduardo SalazarL3:51	Kevin HergetL3:41
CLE	STL	Tanner Bibee	Emmanuel ClaseL3:32	James KarinchakL3:12	Trevor StephanL3:24	Eli MorganL3:27, Enyel De Los SantosL3:2, Sam HentgesL3:13, Nick SandlinL3:12	Xzavion Curry
COL	NYM	Chase Anderson*	Pierce JohnsonL3:29	Justin LawrenceL3:21	Jake BirdL3:7	Brent SuterL3:5, Daniel BardL3:25, Brad HandL3:39, Matt CarasitiL3:39	Peter LambertL3:41
DET	CHW	Michael Lorenzen	Alex LangeL3:17	Jason FoleyL3:23	Will VestL3:15	José CisneroL3:19, Chasen ShreveL3:16, Tyler Holton, Mason EnglertL3:44	Tyler AlexanderL3:37
HOU	@OAK	Framber Valdez	Ryan PresslyL3:13	Bryan AbreuL3:21	Hector NerisL3:17	Ryne Stanek, Phil Maton, Rafael Montero, Seth Martinez	Parker Mushinski
KCR	WSN	Brady Singer*	Scott Barlow	Aroldis Chapman	Taylor Clarke	Josh StaumontL3:33, Amir GarrettL3:28, Carlos HernándezL3:16, Jose CuasL3:36, Nick WittgrenL3:59	Josh TaylorL3:23
LAA	MIA	Shohei Ohtani	Carlos Estévez	Matt Moore	Chris DevenskiL3:19	Chase Silseth, Aaron LoupL3:26, Jacob WebbL3:30, Sam BachmanL3:47	Tucker Davidson
LAD	@TBR	Clayton Kershaw	Evan Phillips, Brusdar Graterol		Caleb Ferguson	Shelby MillerL3:15, Yency Almonte, Victor GonzálezL3:13, Justin BruihlL3:36	Phil BickfordL3:13
MIA	@LAA	Edward Cabrera*	Dylan FloroL3:33	Tanner ScottL3:42	Huascar BrazobanL3:24	Matt Barnes, JT ChargoisL3:25, Andrew NardiL3:11, Steven OkertL3:10	Bryan HoeingL3:26
MIL	SFG	Corbin Burnes	Devin Williams	Peter Strzelecki	Joel PayampsL3:8	Hoby MilnerL3:27, Elvis PegueroL3:37, Trevor MegillL3:29, Ethan SmallL3:69, Jake Cousins	Bryse WilsonL3:12
MIN	TOR	Pablo López	Jhoan DuranL3:13	Jorge López	Brock StewartL3:20	Emilio PagánL3:21, Jovani MoranL3:24, Griffin Jax, Cole Sands	José De LeónL3:40
NYM	@COL	Justin Verlander	David RobertsonL3:15, Adam OttavinoL3:13		Brooks RaleyL3:25	Drew SmithL3:24, Jeff BrighamL3:17, Dominic Leone, Tommy HunterL3:37, Stephen Nogosek	Josh Walker
NYY	SDP	Luis Severino**	Michael King, Clay HolmesL3:12, Wandy PeraltaL3:21			Ron MarinaccioL3:21, Albert AbreuL3:27, Jimmy CorderoL3:41	Ryan WeberL3:50
OAK	HOU	Hogan Harris***	Trevor MayL3:18, Austin PruittL3:17, Richard LoveladyL3:13, Garrett ActonL3:9, Sam MollL3:23			Adrián MartínezL3:17, Sam LongL3:22, Lucas ErcegL3:45	Shintaro Fujinami
PHI	@ATL	Zack Wheeler	Craig KimbrelL3:40	Seranthony DomínguezL3:16	Matt StrahmL3:19	Gregory SotoL3:25, Connor BrogdonL3:37, Jeff HoffmanL3:29, Andrew VasquezL3:8, Yunior MarteL3:13	Dylan Covey
PIT	@SEA	Roansy Contreras	David Bednar	Colin HoldermanL3:14	Robert StephensonL3:3	Dauri MoretaL3:12, Duane Underwood Jr.L3:13, Jose Hernandez, Rob ZastryznyL3:9	Yohan RamirezL3:25
SDP	@NYY	Michael Wacha	Josh HaderL3:26	Nick MartinezL3:26	Steven WilsonL3:22	Tim HillL3:10, Luis GarcíaL3:20, Tom CosgroveL3:21, Brent HoneywellL3:21	Drew CarltonL3:9
SEA	PIT	Luis Castillo	Paul SewaldL3:13	Justin Topa	Trevor Gott	Matt BrashL3:20, Gabe SpeierL3:11, Tayler SaucedoL3:34, Juan ThenL3:23	Chris FlexenL3:21
SFG	@MIL	Logan Webb	Camilo Doval	Tyler RogersL3:17	John BrebbiaL3:28	Taylor RogersL3:37, Scott AlexanderL3:8, Jakob JunisL3:45, Ryan WalkerL3:29, Tristan BeckL3:33	Sean ManaeaL3:22
STL	@CLE	Jack Flaherty	Ryan Helsley	Giovanny GallegosL3:21	Drew VerHagenL3:21	Andre PallanteL3:6, Génesis CabreraL3:41, Jordan Hicks	Chris StrattonL3:55
TBR	LAD	Tyler Glasnow***	Pete FairbanksL3:22	Jason AdamL3:27	Colin PocheL3:10	Jalen BeeksL3:31, Kevin KellyL3:26, Trevor Kelley, Jake DiekmanL3:25, Calvin FaucherL3:39	Cooper CriswellL3:56
TEX	@BAL	Andrew Heaney	Will SmithL3:19	Brock Burke	José LeclercL3:16	Jonathan HernándezL3:14, Josh Sborz, Joe Barlow, Cole Ragans	John KingL3:22
TOR	@MIN	Chris Bassitt	Jordan RomanoL3:20	Erik SwansonL3:26	Nate PearsonL3:38	Tim MayzaL3:26, Trevor RichardsL3:32, Adam CimberL3:26, Yimi GarcíaL3:25	Anthony BassL3:14
WSN	@KCR	Josiah Gray	Kyle FinneganL3:32, Hunter HarveyL3:41		Carl Edwards Jr.L3:48	Andrés MachadoL3:27, Mason ThompsonL3:12, Chad KuhlL3:21, Erasmo RamírezL3:9	Thaddeus WardL3:13

TRANSACTIONS

Date	Team	Player	Category	Description
5/26	LAA	Sam Bachman	PROMOTION	Contract selected from minors
5/26	CIN	Fernando Cruz	INJURIES	Activated from 15-Day IL
5/26	MIL	Ethan Small	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors

05/27/2023 04:15 pm
Guam Power Authority:
The Guam Power Authority (GPA) continues its restoration and post-typhoon recovery efforts. GPA reports that as of 1 p.m. today:
12% of the System Load (Customer Demand) has been restored.
46.2% of GPA’s Substation Energization has been restored.
17.5% of GPA’s feeders/circuits have been energized/restored.
Guam Power Authority:
The Guam Power Authority (GPA) continues its restoration and post-typhoon recovery efforts. GPA reports that as of 1 p.m. today:
12% of the System Load (Customer Demand) has been restored.
46.2% of GPA’s Substation Energization has been restored.
17.5% of GPA’s feeders/circuits have been energized/restored.
GPA notes that feeders and circuits may be energized only if GPA’s substation is energized and that system load will increase once feeders and circuits are energized.
Customers can contact GPA’s 24-Hour Trouble Dispatch at 475-1472/3/4 or via direct message on GPA’s Facebook page at facebook.com/GuamPowerAuthority.
Guam Waterworks Authority:
GWA continues its restoration and post-typhoon recovery efforts. GWA reports that as of 1 p.m.:
Currently 50% of operable wells are online
GWA continues to operate all available wells to increase reservoir levels throughout the northern system
The connection to Navy-supplied sources at Sånta Rita-Sumai and Nimitz Hill has been restored and service is being restored to the area
The new Winward Hills Reservoir was put online after chlorination reached acceptable levels. providing partial service to the village of Talo’fo’fo
GWA crews continue to work to repair a water main break in Hågat before service can be restored
GWA’s southern water system is being operated at reduced capacity due to damaged control equipment at the Ugum Surface Water Treatment Plant. Restoration has commenced toward the Malojloj pump station to restore service to downstream lines and tanks in Malojloj, Inarajan, and Malesso, however, GWA crews are monitoring for breaks that may have occurred and must be repaired before restoration can be completed.
GWA has deployed four 6000-gallon Flexible Potable Water Tanks overnight in Mangilao, Ordot, and Dededo. Two more are being prepped and will be deployed to Merizo and Agat later today. Once the tanks are depleted, they will be refilled and returned to service at locations still without water.
To report water outages, call GWA at (671) 647-7800.
GSWA Service Update:
The Guam Solid Waste Authority (GSWA) will resume curbside trash collection services on Monday, May 29, 2023. GSWA will prioritize accessible routes and provide curbside collection services to these areas. GSWA will schedule additional collections for customers located in inaccessible areas as roads are cleared. Customers are reminded to place their trash carriers on the curb the night prior to their designated collection day.
GSWA Residential Transfer Stations located in Harmon, Hagåt, and Malojloj will reopen Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Transfer stations will operate seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until further notice. GSWA Customer Service and administrative offices have resumed normal business hours. For more information, please visit gswa.guam.gov.
Open Burning Unauthorized:
The Guam Fire Department (GFD) reminds our community to refrain from burning debris. Low water supply throughout the island will challenge the response to extinguishing fires. Residents are urged to call their respective village mayor's office for guidance on disposing of debris and to call the Guam Fire Department to report unauthorized burning.
Guam International Airport Authority:
The A. B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, Guam (GIAA) issued a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM)
at 9 a.m. today after completing the final inspection of the airfield and navigational aids, and opening Runway 6L/24R for operations.
GIAA is open for humanitarian and essential cargo operations only and prior permission for landing is required. GIAA received the first cargo flights coming in this morning from Saipan, Rota, Kwajalein, and Yap transporting military relief personnel, equipment, and essential cargo.
GIAA anticipates the first relief flights will follow tomorrow, transporting FEMA and critical federal response personnel coming to aid in the island’s recovery from Typhoon Mawar. For these initial relief flights, GIAA is working with the US Customs and Border Protection and Guam Customs and Quarantine for humanitarian personnel clearance.
The Airport previously announced the anticipated resumption of commercial passenger services on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, which is aligned with the NOTAM issued. GIAA will be meeting with airlines on the plan of execution. GIAA continues its recovery efforts to resume inbound and outbound passenger processing, and testing of all GIAA and federal regulatory technical systems and equipment required for safe and secure passenger processing is ongoing to ensure conformance with regulatory and security requirements.
Passengers are advised to contact their airlines directly for flight status and rescheduling their flights. Below are contact numbers for our airline partners:
United Airlines
Tel: +1(800) 864-8331
Fax: (671) 649 6588
Cargo: (671) 645-8570
www.united.com
Jin Air Co. Ltd.
Tel: 1(671)642-2800
Fax: 1(671)642-2801
www.jinair.com
[email protected]
Jeju Air Co.LTD
Tel: 1(671)649-3936
Tel: +82.1599.1500
(Automated Menu)
www.jejuair.net
[email protected]
Korean Air
Telephone: 1(671)642-3200
Admin/Sales 1(671)642-1125/6
Cargo: 1(671)642-5333
www.koreanair.com
[email protected]
Philippine Airlines
General Sales Agents for PAL
(Ticketing) 1(671)632-1615
www.philippineairlines.com
[email protected]
T'way Air Co.LTD
Tel: 1(671)989-1500
www.twayair.com
[email protected]
Matson Update:
Matson’s vessel Maunawili 234W, originally scheduled to arrive Tuesday, May 23, remains positioned nearby and poised to enter Apra Harbor as soon as given the all-clear. Matson plans to commence cargo operations immediately upon arrival.
Refrigerated containers have been fully powered throughout the voyage and those not picked up immediately by customers will continue to be powered with available resources in the terminal. Matson’s next two scheduled Guam voyages remain on time, with Manoa 483W showing an ETA of Tuesday, May 30, and Manukai 237W showing an ETA the following Tuesday, June 6.
ARC Emergency Assistance Items:
The American Red Cross (ARC), working alongside village mayors, is providing emergency assistance items to residents that have been displaced, or whose homes were destroyed, due to Typhoon Mawar. The following items are made available to those in need:
Tarp
Flashlight
Cooler
Clean-up kits: squeegee, push brooms, brush, work gloves, latex gloves, bleach, trash bags, sponge
Bucket
ARC emergency assistance supplies are available for residents whose homes were destroyed as a result of Typhoon Mawar, meaning a total loss of structure, the structure is not economically feasible to repair, or complete failure to major structural components (e.g., the collapse of basement walls/foundation, walls or roof).
Contact your village Mayor’s Office for information on the availability and distribution of ARC emergency assistance items:
AGANA HEIGHTS Paul M. McDonald, Mayor [email protected] 671-472-6393/8285/6
ASAN-MAINA Frankie A. Salas, Mayor [email protected] 671-472-6581/671-479-2726
BARRIGADA June U. Blas, Mayor [email protected] 671-734-3725/34/36/37/3859
CHALAN PAGO-ORDOT Jessy C. Gogue, Mayor [email protected] 671-472-8302/3/7173
DEDEDO Melissa B. Savares, Mayor [email protected] 671-632-5203/5019/671-637-9014
HAGAT Kevin J. T. Susuico, Mayor [email protected] 671-565-2524/4330/4335/4336
HAGATNA John A. Cruz, Mayor [email protected] 671-477-8045/47/671-472-6379
HUMATAK Johnny A. Quinata, Mayor [email protected] 671-828-2940/8251/52/58
INALAHAN Anthony P. Chargualaf, Mayor [email protected] 671-475-2509/10/11
MALESSO Ernest T. Chargualaf, Mayor [email protected] 671-828-8312/2941
MANGILAO Allan R.G. Ungacta, Mayor [email protected] 671-734-2163/5731
MONGMONG-TOTO-MAITE Rudy A. Paco, Mayor [email protected] 671-477-6758/9090/671-479-6800/6801
PITI Jesse L.G. Alig, Mayor [email protected] 671-472-1232/3
SANTA RITA-SUMAI Dale E. Alvarez, Mayor [email protected] 671-565-2514/4337/4302/04
SINAJANA Robert RDC Hofmann, Mayor [email protected] 671-472-6707/671-477-3323
TALOFOFO Vicente S. Taitague, Mayor [email protected] 671-789-1421/3262
TAMUNING Louise C. Rivera, Mayor [email protected] 671-646-5211/8646
671-647-9816/9819/20
YIGO Anthony P. Sanchez, Mayor [email protected] 671-653-5248/9119/9446
YONA Bill A. Quenga, Mayor [email protected] 671-789-4798/0012/1525/6

Roughly 7 years ago u/TheGreatZiegfeld did an experiment of a post to determine what the best films of each year would be from 1940 to 2011 (before the 2012 S&S polls).
With the recently updated TSPDT and the 2022 S&S list, I decided to do the same from 1940 to 2021 regarding what critics thought were the best of each year.
Keep in mind this is all from a critics' poll, not from one specific critic's list. Also no short films or miniseries (meaning no Twin Peaks or Meshes of the Afternoon), as well as those from 2022 and beyond because of the last S&S poll.
With all that in mind, let's begin.
1940
Winner: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
Other nominees: The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin), The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford), The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch), The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
1941
Winner: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Other nominees: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges), Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges), The Maltese Falcon (John Houston), How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
1942
Winner: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Other nominees: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles), To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch), The Palm Springs Story (Preston Sturges), Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
1943
Winner: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
Other nominees: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer), Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock), I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur), Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
1944
Winner: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Other nominees: Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger), To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
1945
Winner: Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
Other nominees: Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini), Brief Encounter (David Lean), I Know Where I'm Going (Powell and Pressburger) Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
1946
Winner: It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Other nominees: A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger), Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock), My Darling Clementine (John Ford), Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
1947
Winner: Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
Other nominees: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur), Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin), The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1948
Winner: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Other nominees: The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger), Letters from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls), Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
1949
Winner: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Other nominees: Late Spring (Yasujirō Ozu), Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford), White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
1950
Winner Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Other nominees; Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel), In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
1951
Winner: The River (Jean Renoir)
Other nominees: Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson), Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica), Early Summer (Yasujirō Ozu), Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1952
Winner: Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
Other nominees: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica), The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Quiet Man (John Ford)
1953
Winner: Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu)
Other nominees: Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Earrings of Madame de (Max Ophüls), The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli), Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
1954
Winner: Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Other nominees: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock), Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini), La Strada (Federico Fellini), Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1955
Winner: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Other nominees: The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton), Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray), All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Kirk), Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
1956
Winner: The Searchers (John Ford)
Other nominees: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson), Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk), Aparajito (Satyajit Ray), Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
1957
Winner: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Other nominees: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini), Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
1958
Winner Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Other nominees: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles), Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
1959
Winner: The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Other nominees: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder), North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks), Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
1960
Winner: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
Other nominees: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini), L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni), The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1961
Winner: Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
Other nominees: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais), La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni), West Side Story (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
1962
Winner: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Other nominees: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford), Jules and Jim (François Truffaut), Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda), L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1963
Winner 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
Other nominees: Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard), The Leopard (Luchino Visconti), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga)
1964
Winner: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Other nominees: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy), Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
1965
Winner: Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Other nominees: Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov), Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda), Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
1966
Winner: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Other nominees: Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson), The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo), Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1967
Winner: Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Other nominees: Mouchette (Robert Bresson), Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville), Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel), The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
1968
Winner: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Other nominees: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone), Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski), Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea), Faces (John Cassavetes)
1969
Winner: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Other nominees: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), Kes (Ken Loach), My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer), Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1970
Winner: The Conformist (Bernado Bertolucci)
Other nominees: Wanda (Barbara Loden), Performance (Nicholas Roeg), Husbands (John Cassavetes), Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
1971
Winner: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Other nominees: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
1972
Winner: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Other nominees: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog), Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel), Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1973
Winner: Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
Other nominees: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache), The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice), Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg), Badlands (Terrence Malick)
1974
Winner: The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Other nominees: Chinatown (Roman Polanski), A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
1975
Winner: Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)
Other nominees: Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky), Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), Nashville (Robert Altman), Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
1976
Winner: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Other nominees: News from Home (Chantal Akerman), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders), In the Realm of Senses (Nagisa Oshima), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
1977
Winner: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Other nominees: Star Wars (George Lucas), Close Encounter of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg), Eraserhead (David Lynch), The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
1978
Winner: Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Other nominees: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi), In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1979
Winner: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Other nominees: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky), Alien (Ridley Scott), Manhattan (Woody Allen), All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
1980
Winner: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Other nominees: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick), The Empire Strike Back (Irvin Kershner), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino), The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
1981
Winner: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Other nominees: Possession (Andrzej Żuławski), Blow Out (Brian de Palma), Mad Max 2 (George Miller), An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
1982
Winner: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Other nominees: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg), The Thing (John Carpenter), The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
1983
Winner: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Other nominees: L'Argent (Robert Bresson), Videodrome (David Cronenberg), Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky), A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
1984
Winner: Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
Other nominees: Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Love Streams (John Cassavetes), Amadeus (Milos Forman), Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
1985
Winner: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
Other nominees: Come and See (Elem Klimov), Ran (Akira Kurosawa), Vagabond (Agnes Varda), Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
1986
Winner: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Other nominees: The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer), The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky), Aliens (James Cameron), Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
1987
Winner: Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Other nominees: Where is the Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami), The Dead (John Huston), Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson), Yeelen (Souleymanne Cisse)
1988
Winner: My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Other nominees: Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris), Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
1989
Winner: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Other nominees: A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen), When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
1990
Winner: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
Other nominees: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai), An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion), Paris is Burning (Jessie Livingston)
1991
Winner: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Other nominees: Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash), The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski), The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
1992
Winner: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Other nominees: The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice), Orlando (Sally Potter), Life, and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami), Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
1993
Winner: The Piano (Jane Campion)
Other nominees: Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg), Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
1994
Winner: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Other nominees: Satantango (Bela Tarr), Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai), Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Through the Olive Tree (Abbas Kiarostami)
1995
Winner: Heat (Michael Mann)
Other nominees: Underground (Emir Kusturica), Safe (Todd Haynes), Casino (Martin Scorsese), Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
1996
Winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
Other nominees: Fargo (Joel Coen), A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh), Crash (David Cronenberg)
1997
Winner: Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Other nominees: Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai), Lost Highway (David Lynch), Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
1998
Winner: Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
Other nominees: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick), The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen), The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg), Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
1999
Winner: Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
Other nominees: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson), The Matrix (Wachowskis), Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
2000
Winner: In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
Other nominees: Yi Yi (Edward Yang), The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda), Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr), In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)
2001
Winner: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Other nominees: Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel), A.I: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg), The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
2002
Winner: City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Other nominees: Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing), Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar), Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sukurov), Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
2003
Winner: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Other nominees: Dogville (Lars von Trier), Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola), Elephant (Gus van Sant), Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
2004
Winner: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Other nominees: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry), The Intruder (Claire Denis), Before Sunset (Richard Linklater), Sideways (Alexander Payne)
2005
Winner: Caché (Michael Haneke)
Other nominees: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu), Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), The New World (Terrence Malick), Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
2006
Winner: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Other nominees: Inland Empire (David Lynch), Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro), The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
2007
Winner: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Other nominees: No Country for Old Men (Coens), Zodiac (David Fincher), Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas), 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2008
Winner: The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Other nominees: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton), Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman), The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan), Hunger (Steve McQueen)
2009
Winner: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Other nominees: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard), Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold), Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino), Avatar (James Cameron)
2010
Winner: Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Other nominees: Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman), The Social Network (David Fincher), Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz), Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2011
Winner: The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Other nominees: A Separation (Asghar Farhadi), Melancholia (Lars von Trier), The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2012
Winner: Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
Other nominees: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer), The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson), Amour (Michael Haneke), Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
2013
Winner: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Other nominees: The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino), Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche), Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski), 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
2014
Winner: Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Other nominees: Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard), The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson), Girlhood (Celine Sciamma), Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
2015
Winner: Mad Max; Fury Road (George Miller)
Other nominees: Carol (Todd Haynes), Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien), No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
2016
Winner: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Other nominees: Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade), American Honey (Andrea Arnold), Arrival (Denis Villeneuve), Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
2017
Winner: Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Other nominees: Zama (Lucrecia Martel), Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson), You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay), Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
2018
Winner: Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
Other nominees: Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher), Burning (Lee Chang-dong), An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo), Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
2019
Winner: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
Other nominees: Parasite (Bong Joon-ho), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino), Atlantics (Mati Diop), First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
2020
Winner: Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)
Other nominees: Time (Garrett Bradley), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hitman), Days (Tsai Ming-liang), Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)
2021
Winner: Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma)
Other nominees: The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion), Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Titane (Julia Docournau), Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Prosecuting Murdaugh for the double murder cost taxpayers $264k
By Chris Joseph, WISTV
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Prosecuting Alex Murdaugh wasn’t cheap.
The South Carolina Attorney General’s office confirmed to WIS that it spent $264,316.68 on housing, witnesses, travel, and other materials to successfully prosecute Murdaugh for the double murder of his wife and son.
Taxpayers footed the bill, but a Columbia-area watchdog is calling for Murdaugh and future convicted defendants to pick up the tab for their prosecutions.
Two former Midlands prosecutors strongly oppose the concept.
The costs
Columbia-area citizen watchdog John Crangle provided WIS with a spreadsheet of the Attorney General’s costs for the Murdaugh Trial.
The Attorney General’s Office spokesman Robert Kittle verified the spreadsheet.

Here’s the breakdown

Kittle declined to comment on the story beyond pointing to the length of the trial (six weeks) and transportation to Colleton County as factors driving cost.
Former 11th Circuit Prosecutor and Current Defense Attorney Jim Huff said a non-death penalty murder trial in South Carolina usually runs three to five days.
He said multiple on-scene witnesses or a case based on circumstantial evidence can drag out a trial.
However, there are times when prosecutors can drag out a trial with “too much evidence.”
“Prosecutors sometimes feel that anybody that touched the case that knew anything, they just got to put everything into the recipe so to speak, to bake a cake. Sometimes they just don’t know when to stop,” he said.
The vast majority of Murdaugh prosecution expenses were for lodging, but the largest single expense went to California-based Park Dietz & Associates.
The state paid the forensic consulting firm $37,840. The spreadsheet describes the expense as “Professional Services and Expenses”.
On its website, the firm claims to have provided experts who have testified and consulted in “thousands of criminal matters,” including high-profile cases.
Kittle told WIS the firm did not arrange any witnesses but did consult on criminology.
Another $16,100 went to witness Dr. Kenneth Kinsey for consultation and research. Kinsey played a key role in the prosecution’s rebuttal of Murdaugh’s legal defense.
The office spent $171,044.26 at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Walterboro. That included housing for office attorneys, staff, and witnesses, along with various accommodations from mid-January through early March.
Travel costs drove up the price by $22,533.70. They included flights for witnesses, travel reimbursements for staff/witnesses, and the rental of a 2021 Ford Explorer used for 11 days in January.
The largest individual travel reimbursement was provided to prosecutor David Fernandez at $1,764.24 for his time between Jan. 22 and March 3.
JLA Investigations and Security LLC were paid $10,769 for an “expert retainer” and “professional services”. The company specializes in digital forensics.
The remainder of the costs are comprised of miscellaneous items the prosecution bought for the trial. They included posterboard, maps, a book on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Gorilla Duct Table, and other items.
The attorney general’s office also indicated which items were reusable and which were not. Only 0.94 percent of the expenses ($2,488.52) went to reusable items.
“A lot of the expenditures are not going to be usable in another prosecution. The witnesses against Murdaugh can’t be used to prosecute John Doe. Right? All the investigative work done that was done by SLED can’t be used to prosecute Jane Roe,” Crangle said.
Murdaugh’s defense attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin declined requests for comment on this story.
Footing the bill
Crangle argues that convicted criminals, such as Murdaugh, should pay the costs of the investigation and prosecution through restitution.
“The taxpayers now are being forced to pay these costs, when the criminal defendants should be required to pay them. Particularly when the criminal defendants have assets that can be attached,” he said.
Crangle conceded defendants often lack resources but said the issue should fall to the judge in the case. He said there could be judgments where the convicted offenders would be required to pay the costs if they obtained the money to do so.
“Some statutory guidelines could be formulated, to give the judge a basis on which to make. Or you could simply trust it to the discretion of the judge to make that determination. But I don’t think it’s difficult in a case like Murdaugh,” he said.
Crangle points to the 2007 case against former South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, who was ordered by a federal judge to pay $28,676.31 to the State of South Carolina to compensate it for the legislative session held to replace Ravenel.
Former 5th Circuit prosecutor Brett Perry and Huff both raised concerns about equal protections – a concept enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause 14th amendment.
Perry disagreed with Crangle’s argument and said the Ravenel case is a different situation.
“It was not a situation where Mr. Ravenel has assessed the cost of the prosecution. Believe that case was in federal court if I’m not mistaken, and I don’t believe Mr. Ravenel was ordered to pay a penny to the federal government, who absorbed the cost of prosecuting him,” he said.
Ravenel did not pay the court for his prosecution but was responsible for a $221,323.69 fine.
Perry also questioned where the line would be drawn.
“If it cost 100 percent of your net worth, to cover the cost of your prosecution, would you take everything someone had in order to do that?” he asked.
Huff also strongly opposed the concept, describing it as unconstitutional. He said prosecutors would begin considering factors other than the crime and its worthiness of prosecution.
“Lady justice isn’t blind anymore. We’re going to look at the resources of the accused. ‘Let’s go prosecute the folks that have money, not because the prosecution merits it, but we can fund our office better,’” he said.
Crangle disagreed with the concept that the rich would face additional punishment.
“I don’t regard it as an additional punishment. I regard it as a every defendant should be required to pay restitution for their wrongdoing, whether you’re judgment proof or not. The question is are you capable of paying it and can it be recovered?” he said.
Huff said Crangle’s concept also presents the opportunity for reverse enforcement.
“By the same token, then if the prosecution loses, they should bare all the cost to the defendant. It’s not a system of justice I would want to be a part of I can tell you that,” Huff said.
Crangle said he wants to see legislation on the issue, but is early in his lobbying efforts.
In the meantime, Murdaugh’s attorneys unsuccessfully attempted to release funds for an appeal of his murder convictions.

An odd-looking man had been pounding on the plastic barrier at the check-in desk while we were in the waiting room, shouting what sounded like a string of nonsense at the poor hospital employee behind it.
I was reaching that weird twilight state where the sedatives make everything seem slightly surreal – the pictures in the magazine I was holding seemed to be moving, and I was pointing them out to my wife, Marie-Anne, who suppressed a laugh in response.
I was a bit out of it but I do remember he was screaming something along the lines of that he was very sick, and that something was in his body with him and they needed to get it out.
As she led me out of the waiting room, my nurse cheerfully explained the procedure to me while wearing the brightest smiley face scrubs I’d ever seen.
I shot one look back to Marie-Anne because despite the waiting room being nearly empty, the yelling guy had sat down right next her and stared at her while he kept rubbing at his eyes. She smiled at me, gave me her ‘I’ll be fine’ look, waved me on, and pulled out a well-worn paperback.
Once we got past the door, there was a young woman in a hospital bed, being taken down the same hall as me. She smiled at me serenely, but there was something weird about her that I couldn’t put my finger on – maybe the way she stared at me without blinking, or how she breathed in odd, exaggerated breaths. It was almost as if she trying to demonstrate to those around her that she was truly an authentic, living, breathing, person. She stared at me with what looked to be curling, delicate black threads emerging from her eye sockets, but I chalked that up to the sedation meds at the time.
I don’t remember much about the scan itself. I’m not sure how long I had been trapped in there for, but it was late morning when I went in, and pitch black outside when I came out.
I had 'come to' in that dark and tight space to the gentle whirring sound of the machine. There were no doctors, nurses, or technicians in my room and the lights were off – it was eerily silent. I hadn’t realized where I was at first and had squirmed in my post sedation stupor. I instinctively tried to sit up and my nose made hard contact with the inside of the machine.
They had been kind enough to approve sedating me for the hour and a half long scan due to my claustrophobia but then apparently they had just…forgotten about me? I had pounded on the inside of that awful white tunnel and screamed until I was hoarse, and still no one came for me. At one point, I felt someone tug at me, cold and clammy hands pulled indelicately at my ankles, but they must have given up because not long afterwards I was alone again. I would’ve thought the whole memory was a fabrication of my drugged mind, but there was an odd grey-ish residue on my ankles when I finally got out. I thought of Marie-Anne sitting in the waiting room and didn’t know how everyone could’ve forgotten about me – surely, she would’ve asked about me when several hours had passed, and I still hadn’t returned?
Eventually I calmed down enough to release the belt and slowly inch my way out, trying to keep my eyes shut and my breathing steady while not focusing on the fact that my face was so close to the inside of the tunnel that I could feel my own breath reflected back onto my face. I tried to ignore the friction burns as I accidentally drug bare flesh against the smooth interior.
In the distance, awful screaming like I had never heard before seamlessly transitioned into a laughter that was so odd that it gave me chills. It floated down the silent hall.
At one point as I walked towards the elevator, I thought I saw small and perfectly round eyes gleaming at me from behind the glass panel in one of the darkened rooms. I told myself it was the last of the drugs in my system messing with my head. That was why the elevator buttons looked to be painted with still drying with blood as they lit up, too, I assured myself. Just the meds.
I stumbled back the way that I remember the nurse leading me, until I saw something that made me stop cold.
The handprints told a story, sloppily written in blood on what used to be an off-white floor.
Pull. Pull. Drag. From following the uneven and messy tracks, I guessed that someone had been hauling themselves down the hallway using their hands while the rest of them dragged along the dingy linoleum, leaving streaky crimson in their wake. The hallway was littered with what looked like long black hairs that seemed to be moving ever so slightly. At this point, I really, really hoped that I was just hallucinating.
It began from the path to the waiting room, and then continued the hall that forked away from me. There was so much blood, I didn’t know how the person was even able to keep going that far.
The smell was overwhelming. I’d accidentally stepped into it and could feel the still warm liquid as it seeped into my hospital-issued socks. I still couldn’t blink both my eyes in unison, but those very real-feeling sensations coupled with absolute lack of people and symphony of beeps and alerts from the rooms on either side of the narrow hall around me made it harder and harder to convince myself that I was simply drugged out of my mind. Somehow, despite all the other noise, I could still hear the faint wet dragging sound of someone crawling through the darkness.
I was a bit woozy and desperate to get out, so I called out into the distance that I was going to get help. The sound of raw meat dragging along linoleum paused for a few moments before resuming. I realized that it seemed to grow louder, almost as if they had changed direction and were now heading back towards me.
In that moment, I felt dread gnawing at me and suddenly, I didn’t want them to reach me – I felt that something terrible would happen if they did.
After heading away from the increasingly loud wet crawling sound in the hallway, I continued my trek back towards the waiting room. My moist socks left bloody footprints in my wake, the pattern which confirmed that I was still weaving a bit as I walked. If I were here alone, I probably would have hauled ass out the emergency exit door as soon as I saw the blood and whatever that was lurking in the darkness in the floor below, but I could see Marie-Anne’s lime green hatchback in the parking lot through a window in the hall. She was still inside.
Even though the trail led from the waiting room, the person crawling through the empty hallway was not my wife, I told myself. She was fine. She’d still be sitting right where I’d seen her last.
Some of the doors to the occupied rooms were just slightly ajar, and I tried to ignore the sounds coming from within them. I finally came across the nurses’ station that I had remembered being the last thing between myself and the secured doors, but what I saw there quickly killed any relief that had been forming.
There were feet sticking out from just behind the counter; they moved and twitched irregularly.
Despite my better judgement, I stepped over the mess of gore in the hallway to take a closer look. The legs seemed to dance to an unearthly melody that only their owner could hear.
I saw my nurse – the one who had taken me back for the scan. I was so out of it before that I’d forgotten her name, but not her smile that had matched the smiley faces on her trippy neon scrubs.
That smile was long gone now. There was still a jagged bit of ribs and torso left above the hip bone and both legs, but the rest of her was just… missing.
I stared in horror, and it took me a moment to for my eyes to adjust and see that the macabre dance was the result of something moving around just inside of the gaping wound in what was left of her torso.
I could see many of the now familiar delicate hair-like threads spilling out of her body. They moved in unison, and it almost looked as if the small tendrils were beginning to re-form the parts of her body that were missing. It was like watching an otherworldly 3D printer for flesh and bone.
I clamped a hand over my mouth tightly to keep quiet and took a last long, sad look at her blood-soaked scrubs and flailing legs.
I sped up and continued onward clumsily.
Despite what I’d told myself, I almost couldn’t believe it when I found Marie-Anne still sitting on a now sticky and saturated chair in the waiting room. Her sweater was slashed in places and stained – an entire arm of it was missing. Splatters and small droplets freckled her cheeks and the cover of the book she was now holding upside down, but she looked entirely uninjured. I had a fleeting moment where I wondered where the blood around her had come from, but was relieved more than anything else. The room was in disarray and single sneaker with the foot still in it peeked out from under her chair, but she didn’t seem even remotely phased by the carnage around her.
She stared at me for a moment – almost as if she had to flip through mental flashcards before she recognized me, but I figured it was due whatever horrible things she had recently bore witness to.
On our way out, I heard tapping behind the plastic panel at the check in desk. I made the mistake of looking and saw the young hospital employee from before, gripping the desk desperately trying to stay upright. His face, which was devoid of any emotion, looked misshapen, as if someone had tried to put together a human face having never seen one before. Those thin, black tendril-like threads emerged from his eyes and the cavernous gap where his lower jaw should had been. They were weaving together and seamlessly blending into his skin before my eyes, repairing what likely should have been lethal injuries.
We were so close to the exit when I heard the double doors move and ducked behind some chairs – I tried to pull Marie-Anne down with me but she stood firm. Shoes and the tattered and stained hems of brightly color smiley face scrubs came into my view from where I was hidden. It seemed as if my poor nurse had simply got up and strolled away, unperturbed by the minor inconvenience that the entire top third of her body was missing. My wife stared but didn’t react at all to whatever she was witnessing.
Eventually, what remained of my nurse walked out the front doors, and disappeared into the darkness beyond the lights of the parking lot.
We eventually made it to our car but I can’t drive yet and she’s just sitting in the driver’s seat staring at me without blinking, still and quiet except for an occasional loud and irregular breath. I swear I see delicate threads spilling from under her eyes. I’ve called 911 but keep getting the dispatchers in the next county over. They keep routing me back to my own county, but no one is answering.
I miss the moment when I thought waking up stuck after a full-body MRI was going to be the worst part of my day.
My wife has been acting so weird since my MRI. We’re still sitting here. I’m tired, confused, and have worst itch forming behind my eyes.

PREFACE: in the Phoenix Lights case, there were 2 events - 1) many people reporting a giant craft flying over their heads, and then 2) a purported craft, seemingly stationary in the sky, that we have video of. I'm only talking about the 2nd incident in this post.
Corbell has always been suspicious to me because of his background. He has a flare for the dramatic (e.g. "Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell", has a career in arts/fashion, can be really self-aggrandizing in his interviews/documentaries). He always has struck me as in over his head, and sort of a style-over-substance sort of guy.
Now, that doesn't mean he can't help provide us with cool things from insiders. For example, the Mosul Orb was - and still seems to be - legitimately cool.
That said, how on earth did he not know these were flares in the Mohave Triangle case? That seriously hurts his credibility. I mean, these things are a DEAD. RINGER. for the 2nd incident of the Phoenix Lights.
Here's a comparison I put together of screen grabs from a Phoenix Lights video, and from one of the Mohave Triangle videos:
https://i.imgur.com/pBqqgpX.png
The Phoenix Lights (2nd incident) has been pretty definitively debunked as flares (per Wiki):

The U.S. Air Force explained the exercise as utilizing slow-falling, long-burning LUU-2B/B illumination flares dropped by a flight of four A-10 aircraft on a training exercise at the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in western Pima County, Arizona. The flares would have been visible in Phoenix and appeared to hover due to rising heat from the burning flares creating a "balloon" effect on their parachutes, which slowed the descent.[14]
... Later comparisons with known military flare drops were reported on local television stations, showing similarities between the known military flare drops and the Phoenix Lights.[6] An analysis of the luminosity of LUU-2B/B illumination flares, the type which would have been in use by A-10 aircraft at the time, determined that the luminosity of such flares at a range of approximately 50–70 miles (80–113 km) would fall well within the range of the lights viewed from Phoenix.[17]

Now, here's the thing: even if you think that explanation is a load of crap (i.e. misdirection), this composite video of the objects superimposed in daylight over top of the mountain range they were above should erase any doubt in the case of the Phoenix Lights:
https://preview.redd.it/02xeqns98ni81.gif?format=mp4&v=enabled&s=7ecb024f0aa603526cf7e471912cc172629bd6f2
See this thread for more info (https://www.reddit.com/UFObelievers/comments/svqeaj/phoenix_lights_ufo_event_in_1997_what_really/)
I guess my point is this ... many people that know about the Phoenix Lights probably haven't seen this timelapse gif. But someone like Corbell - an alleged expert - should know better. He should've immediately seen the similarities. Just like how Mick West immediately piece together obvious clues (like superimposing the known footage of the Mohave flares, demonstrating that they dropped, etc).
To me, this definitively proves that Corbell is either: extremely ignorant and in over his head, or he's a complete charlatan that is knowingly pushing nonsense. Frankly both of these things might be true.
Addendum: the first incident in the Phoenix Lights case is still pretty intriguing to me.