“Usually if you find one there’s gonna be several more behind it.”
David Sharpe, Resident of Ranlo, North Carolina
Scrap metal hunters got a bang out of what they found while picking through the woods near Ranlo, North Carolina (population 2,324) last weekend: a 500-pound bomb. No one knows how it got there—some are speculating that there was an old artillery factory back in the woods—but everyone’s glad it’s gone. Some residents are concerned, though, that where there’s one bomb there’s bound to be more. And they’re right. On Monday two more bombs were found. All three are World War II era bombs. A search of the archives reveals that an artillery company did indeed operate in the area in 1945. A former employee says he remembers the time the government placed an order for 5,000 bombs at that factory. And the search goes on.
Read the articles → 500 pound military bomb is the talk of Ranlo and Report: 2 more bombs found in Gaston Country
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