It’s more compelling to me since these small children didn’t have any theological training and didn’t even know to use the term “angel.” The adults had to figure that out. It seems to be mainly in the Western societies that all such reports are viewed with suspicion, a product of the Enlightenment and reliance on the scientific community for “truth.” I find it interesting that most people in third world countries report supernatural phenomena like this rather routinely. I have also heard several eyewitness testimonies from friends, who I knew would not lie to me who told of seeing an angel. I’ve always believed that small children and animals (like dogs) are able to see supernatural apparitions more readily than skeptical adults, perhaps because of their innocence or lack of formal education which, in our modern society, is steeped in anti-supernaturalism. One of them was a Red Cross volunteer lady, who saw a “butterfly person” standing near a grieving family afterwards.
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All those children describing the same thing independently? A few parents saw them also they gave their eyewitness testimony on the TV show. That doesn’t sound very convincing to me. Psychiatrists were quick to discount the phenomena in the aftermath as simply products of children’s imagination, due to stressful trauma - a way of helping to cope emotionally. Butterfly murals came to dominate the town along with butterfly sculptures, paintings, T-Shirts and business signs. A historical marker was erected for “The Butterfly People” on Maiden Lane north of 26th Street/Gabby Street Blvd. Marta is a natural skeptic and did not believe in “angels.” After numerous interviews she cannot discount the possibility because so many children, who didn’t know each other, told similar stories.Ī book was written about these interviews entitled “Butterflies at the Window: A Story of Butterfly People and Miracles in the Storm” by Mrs. He describes former newspaper reporter Marta Churchwell's investigation and interviews with people. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote an article about these apparitions entitled “The butterfly people of Joplin” (Dec. Many of these children stated that they somehow knew these “butterfly people” were there to calm them and help keep them safe.
The clinical director Dawnielle Robinson heard these stories first hand from many different children. Another version states that children saw “butterfly people” carrying other kids and adults up into the heavens - the ones who didn’t make it out alive (presumably their souls).Ībout one half of the children were counseled at Joplin Child Trauma Treatment Centers set up in the schools afterwards. Most of these stories had common elements - the tornado hit their home often parents were praying the roof was ripped off children saw a “butterfly person” descending down from the sky and covering them with wings those particular children usually emerged from the wreckage in good condition. They were described as colorful and “pretty,” so children called them “butterfly people.” Multiple children of varied ethnicities and socioeconomic status told eerily similar stories of seeing beautiful humanoid creatures with wings hovering over certain children and parents in that storm in a protective manner. The stories were told mainly by small children to parents in hospital waiting rooms, standing in lines for water or donated food, and to Red Cross counselors.
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What I didn’t see on the mainstream media were the descriptions of the “Butterfly People.” The TV series “Monsters and Mysteries in America” had a short documentary about these apparitions just last Sunday, which piqued my interest. The town’s population is overwhelmingly Christian. It was of particular interest to me because the church denomination that I attended in my childhood had its headquarters in Joplin. I remember watching the TV as images of the devastation were shown. It was on that day that a F5 tornado destroyed 900 homes, killed 161 people and left a landscape behind that resembled a foreign landscape on a barren planet. Is a date that most people around the town of Joplin, Missouri remember very well.
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