Charlie Foltz

the Allagash Lake.

We're up there for the experience, for the pure pleasure of canoeing and being out in the wilderness.

Well, we looked on the other side of the lake, and here's this sphere of light, and it's moving like a balloon moving very, very slowly.

What the hell is that over there?

And then I'm struggling to get up, and I see this face bending down to look into my eyes, and they began a clinical examination of me.

What did the beings look like?

a bulbous head with large eyes, no nose like us, slit area in the chin.

Are you freaking out?

Oh, my God.

On his legs, for several years, hair didn't grow there.

It was like a bald patch on its legs.

And his identical twin brother, Jack, had tumors growing in the exact spots.

Didn't even get a damn T-shirt.

Yeah, on the Allagash water system, yeah.

His identical twin brother.

Well, I was a college student at the time, going to college on the GI Bill.

Um, and my goal at that time was to become a school teacher, to teach art to children.

So I was a dual major.

I was printmaking and photography.

So I figured during the three months where I wasn't teaching, I could do artwork to supplement my income.