Mount St. Helens erupts again
with surprising results!

AP NEWS OLYMPIA A former Olympia resident, Nathan Barnes is celebrating his 22nd birthday, and it apparently is having a global effect! Mount St. Helens in Southern Washington suddenly erupted sending lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air. This could be construed as purely conincidental except that just as suddenly as it erupted the active volcanoe became quiet and left a distinguishable pattern in the sky which some say looked like lettering. Reportedly, when the sun shown through the cloud of ash and smoke the words "Happy Birthday Nathan" were visible for miles around. There has been no confirmation from authorities of this phenomenon but one scientist from the University of Washington in Seattle, who requested anonimity declared that he saw it himself. Professor Hisstaff VonSchteppenpile, also of the University of Washington stated that he once experienced a similar event while exploring in South Old New Guinea in 1953. He explained "The molecular composition of the ash combined with the subatomic quantification in the atmosphere's substratousphere at exactly the right instance could cause a reaction in the overnuclear positivity coeficient bending the light rays from sun in a subtransfusional variance pedecent to the actual reactivity of the smoke with humidifous percentages, thus presenting a colorific and semi-quantitive appearance of visual predecision reacting with the eye and the brain synapse centers in a way that brings a perception of matterific existence." However he declined to say that he actually saw the words. A further investigation is pending by the State Department and NASA. Further confusing the matter is the instance reported by some in Lacey (a suburb of Olympia) that a certain 1981 Plymouth Sapporro that the man used to own was heard onerously repeating the words "Happy Birthday Nathan, I miss you". To date there has been no explaination of this phenomenon.

"Talking" 1981 Plymouth that reportedly once belonged to Nathan Barnes

Governor Locke Declares Nathan Barnes' Birthday a Statewide holiday

Olympia Governor Gary Locke presented a resolution to the state legislature in Olympia that Nathan Barnes' birthday should from now on be considered a statewide holiday giving thousands of state, county, and city workers time off with pay to celebrate the significance of the unusual events having taken place on this date. "It is obviously an important day to God and nature and I believe we should honor this day in respect to it's significance to us and the world" he stated. When interviewed, His father and step-mother, Rod and Pat Barnes of Lacey said "We hope that this birthday will be a really special one for Nathan and we know that his whole family here in the Olympia area miss him and wish him the best of birthdays. We love him very much and miss him". They further stated "We hope that even though we haven't sent his birthday present yet that he knows that we love him and are thinking about him. We hope that this year is the best year ever for him and his wife Nikki".