All around the Edison house flowers thrived, butterflies flew, and the scent of nature was in the air.Įverywhere, that is, except for out the back. Clear as a whistle, the sky pale blue and milky white, the ground a freshly mowed green. Only once, you say? Well, watch what happens next. They even made a computer game and TV series about the event. The old place was converted into a motel and convention centre. The meteor was dispersed, the Edisons went sane again and everyone got on with their lives. Doctor Fred kidnapped one of them, the teenager Sandy, who was rescued by her college friends. The place was nicknamed ‘Maniac Mansion’ by the locals. After retrieving the thing, everyone in the place gradually went mad. He killed himself in 1983.Īlso not true: more than twenty years ago now, the Edison family home was very nearly struck by a glowing purple meteor. Sullivan of Virginia, USA, was struck seven times by lightning, from 1942 to 1977. They (nominative plural of third-person pronoun) say - lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
