Hodges, though, had not been in Washington and did not yet have the meteorite. Hewlett Hodges got her meteorite back today,” the Atlanta Constitution reported. On December 9, 1954, less than two weeks after the meteorite fell through the Sylacauga sky, the military handed the rock over to Huel Love in the Washington, D.C. Love canceled all of his policies on the spot. “Huel, if you didn’t want the car anymore, you didn’t have to burn it out,” the agent said. Later, when Love went into the local insurance office to make a claim for the car, the agent joked with the lawyer to lighten the mood. It was the only time their mother had seen Huel scared, Love-Templeton said. When the explosion was complete, the only thing left of the vehicle was a wheel. Thankfully, she explained, the back half of the car blew up first, allowing Huel time to escape without injury. Once, she said his car was blown up because of his involvement in a case. His work, though, was something he took seriously. ![]() Her father didn’t speak often in detail about his job with his children, she explained. “The district attorney jumped up and said ‘Well, Jesus Christ’s first miracle was turning water into wine, and I guess Huel Love’s is turning wine into water,’” Love-Templeton said. During one trial, prosecutors tested the alcohol in front of the jury. Later, they’d find out that Love had represented bootleggers in Talladega and the surrounding counties. His sister, Julie Love-Templeton, is the “family historian.” She said that as kids, people in town would call their father “Little Jesus.” They’d ask about the nickname, and he’d shrug it off. “I don’t know if the statute of limitations has run on all that.” “There was plenty of craziness that went on,” he explained, but he doesn’t get into detail. As they worked, some of the men on Hodges’ crew said they heard an explosion. was working in Alexander City, about 40 miles from his home where he lived with his wife Ann and her mother. The day the star fell on Sylacauga, Eugene H. But it’s what happened in the wake of that November starfall – the media frenzy, the legal battles, the mental health struggles – that may have ultimately shaped Ann Hodges’ fate. Never before and only once since has a human been struck by an extraterrestrial object. What happened in Sylacauga was, without a doubt, a global anomaly. “God intended it to hit me,” Hodges reportedly said. Or if the landlady wanted it, as she had argued in court, maybe it should have just hit her instead.īut God had other plans, Hodges later said, and on a November afternoon 68 years ago, the meteorite smashed through the roof of her Sylacauga home, bouncing off a console radio and striking her as she slept under a quilt on the living room sofa. ![]() Or maybe just landed somewhere up the road. The reserved woman, an Alabama native, told her then-husband she’d wished that the meteorite had burned up in the atmosphere. ( WIAT) – She wished it hadn’t hit her.Īnn Hodges had made that clear.
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