The Eureka Incident

THE EUREKA INCIDENT: The True Story Based on Numerous Eye-Witness Accountsby F.K. Sterling

On October 29, 1952, something fell from the stormy skies over Eureka Springs, Arkansas. What crashed into Blowing Springs Hollow that Halloween weekend would shatter the quiet mountain town — and then vanish from official history.

When Deputy Del Runyon investigates a strange hum on West Mountain, he discovers a glowing furrow in the limestone and wreckage that is not of this earth. As the Ozark Folk Festival fills the Victorian streets with music and crowds, a military team led by Major Grantham Robb arrives with a flimsy weather balloon cover story. Reporter Opal Cagle begins piecing together impossible photographs and eyewitness accounts, while Reverend Hollis Tackett unearths his grandfather's forbidden journal containing an old Ozark rite to "seal what comes up hungry."

As an unnatural contamination spreads through men and livestock alike, the Army's containment operation clashes with local courage and mountain tradition. On Halloween night, amid costumed revelers at the Basin Park Hotel, the truth surfaces in a night of terror the town will never forget — and never officially admit.

Presented as a meticulously reconstructed account from razored ledger pages, surviving carbons, and military files that still don't add up, The Eureka Incident reads like suppressed history rather than fiction. Blending small-town dread, government conspiracy, and visceral body horror, F.K. Sterling delivers a gripping tale grounded in the real geography and atmosphere of 1950s Eureka Springs.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried.The hollow still hums.

From the author of Black Sea Atlantis.