Fascinating thread and I say this because I lived in the area and used to go to the local school in Mathews ridge. Sometimes we would see men in dark
glasses and white shirts drive into the town on pickup trucks. My father used to tell me and my brothers to never approach these members of the
people’s temple because they were weird cultists known for not being very friendly.
The men we occasionally saw were always noticeable in being very aloof looking and local people just put it down to the fact that they were American
and accepted it for that.
We only ever saw men, never woman or children and I think these men carried automatic weapons on the few occasions that we saw them but I cannot
remember the type of weapons as I was nine years of age at the time. I am pretty sure they were M16s but they could have been FN FAL’s.
I lived in the GDF base at the time (my uncle in-law was the base commandant) seven miles west of Mathews ridge. Just outside the town about two miles
outside was the airstrip. I passed this airstrip twice a day in a military land rover and after the mass suicide I recall rows of bodies wrapped in
white sheeting being loaded on board silver Douglas DC3’s being prepared to be flown back to Georgetown.
I saw this when I was either going to or coming back from the school at Mathews ridge, I’m sorry I cannot remember the time of day. I do remember
that the suicide was talked about by GDF soldiers for months afterwards and it was thought by many that the cult had been destroyed by “jumbies”
(The GDF pioneers at the base were very superstitious).
One thing I can confirm as a witness is that the “people’s temple” used to get supplies from the town.
I am about to start a thread on something very odd that happened at the military base at around the time of the mass suicide. Many GDF pioneers died
and I was witness to it, and so close to it that I nearly got caught up in the carnage too.
I am trying to wrack my memories get my facts straight first before posting it but it is a slow process as I was nine years of age at the time.
Star and flag, you have jolted some memories.
[edit on 26-10-2009 by SmokeJaguar67]


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