Mysterious Unicylist in Butte Montana Taunts Death

... visiting Butte, Montana, in 2005 to put flowers on my grandfather's grave, I saw this man dressed in black riding a unicycle through the tombstones. I asked if I could film him... he just rode away.

Later, something very strange occurred. At the highest peak in Butte, the Bell-Diamond mine head frame, he appeared again.

I thought he might be following me- like an apparition of death, first the cemetery, now this mining graveyard high above Butte. Without asking, I started filming. He rode around the abandoned mine works, never faltering, effortlessly jumping through the deserted buildings. At one point, he traced the edge of the huge tailings pile- dangerously close to the several hundred-foot drop to Butte below.

Then, as I was standing under the head frame, he drifted right beside me. A cold draft followed him. We never spoke.

As the sun set, he was still there gliding across the desolate landscape- the only sound, an eerie, faint laughter of wind through the head frame and the crunch of gravel under his unicycle.

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[ofoeti]

There are a thousand reasons to love Butte. This interesting little meditation on the place is one of them.

[ledgeman]

I remember that show- a bit frightening, no?

[ofoeti]

Oh, yes. 1966. NET Playhouse.

Just found your music. Very cool. Really liked "Sunset and Dyin'." Did you write the excellent music for this video, too?

[ledgeman]

yes- a 1930 National Guitar

[CailleachBeara]

Jaysuz Christ that's funny!! Was lookin' for the mangey dog too...runnin', jus' runnin'...an runnin'...separately, yet...

There's a travelogue in this one as much as the slap-walker, to be sure!

[ledgeman]

to CailleachBeara: what mangey dog?

[Super10min]

how did u get in to the mine yard that the head frame is in u need keys and the fence is covered in barbwire



[TheSizzler777]

I wish I still lived in butte.But my mean mom made us move!!!RAWR!!!!!

[CailleachBeara]

dude all my relatives are buried there...tank ye for finally passing thru there with some honour....

[Quickkiller0]

wow dude now thats just wrong... he has no respect

[ogsf4life]

i know im from butte i was joking

[smr1967]

figures ppl of butte have no respect for the planet why would they have respect for the dead.

[MachApocalypse]

I hope not to because that pretty lake is full of toxins.

[beth2548]

WTF

[kazybby89]

hey are you guys all from butte too? lol thats my grandpa's site too =]]

[CailleachBeara]

Ritasu...there is something that is VERYYY honoring to your Da here, about being from Butte and all the Picking and Choosing everyone did here...to Survive. (The graves have walkways between them, right?) Now, toughen up before your Dad thinks you a Sissy!!! FFS. get mad at the locals knockin the headstones over you feckin eejit!