Cars, that is.
YONKERS, N.Y. – A mystery force field that blocks wireless car keys from working has Yonkers Avenue business owners, residents and even the police commissioner stumped.
Drivers were left wondering what renders their keyless remotes useless on the block. Many have been left stranded, but when their cars were pushed or towed a few blocks away from the mystery zone, the remotes suddenly work again. The zone stretches approximately from Yonkers Avenue and Orient Street to just past the intersection of Yonkers and Page avenues.
Similar problems have been reported around the country, Las Vegas, Waldorf MD, and Bremerton WA. As we become more reliant on technology we become more vulnerable to the whims of unseen forces. Or perhaps unscrupulous towing companies. Many complaining of cars that would not start found that simply having their vehicle towed a couple of blocks away solved the problem. Something on that street interfered with the signal from the remote to the car. For more of the story read Here.
A mystery of the unexplained?
Only until you look a little deeper. Reading the above could be an opening scene from any number of Sci Fi or horror films, in fact a similar scene occurs in the somewhat ridiculous movie “The Core.” Then it was caused by gaps in the Earth’s magnetosphere allowing solar radiation to disrupt electronics. Which it will, but not this time. UFOs are often the supposed culprit in cases where vehicles will not start as you will find at this website. Scenes from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “The X Files” come immediately to mind.
YONKERS,N.Y. – The twilight zone of car remotes is no more.
A Yonkers bar owner said Thursday night that the mystery behind the force field blocking keyless car remotes and baffling Yonkers Avenue drivers has been fixed.
A Massachusetts expert identified the source earlier this week as a piece of malfunctioning lighting equipment used by the disc jockeys, Selner said. The bar owner said he was just as baffled as everyone else about the phenomena and surprised to learn the culprit was right in his bar.
No UFO were reported. No unruly ghosts have been mentioned. The Jersey Devil was not sighted tampering with vehicles.
So if it is mystery solved why am I bringing it here?
Because it is mystery solved. And to ask the question, How often are the mysteries we encounter so mundanely caused if not so easily solved? We are creatures of imagination, it is a survival skill, to look for the unexpected. However our lives have become so safe, so controllable, that we hardly need the employ that capacity any more except for our own entertainment. Has it run so wild that it takes us over and makes us think the perfectly mundane is the truly unexplainable?
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