Luigi Vendittelli
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Podcast Appearances
And they went to the other window.
And it was already on the other horizon.
My grandmother was there and she was like, yeah, you know, he and Corrado ran in freaking out that they saw, we didn't see anything because they, it was gone.
But I think what happened was she believed it to a certain degree.
And so then my mom, because she was there, not believed the flying saucer, but something flew over the house.
Oh, God.
First of all, my grandfather, first, extremely old school Catholic Italian, like old school, very strict in terms of how he brought me up, you know, raised me.
always sit properly at the table, always wash your hands, always wear good shoes, always be nice to people, go to school, study, very old school.
And he was not the type at all to invent some story like that.
And he was also, I should say, back during the Second World War, he was a prisoner in a concentration camp
in Hanover, Germany.
So he spent two years in a concentration camp and almost died.
He was an Italian military.
And the SS came into the village, actually got caught at a train station.
So he and other soldiers were taken at a train station, put in a train, and he said, there was no seats, and he says, I was standing all the way to Germany.
And we were not allowed to sit down.
So that was a horrible thing, apparently.
But he stayed in Hanover in a concentration camp.
And he eventually got all this paperwork and was also later on, the German government sent a lot of money to my grandfather because of that.
He was able to prove that he was a prisoner.