On June 24th, 2024, a most peculiar event occurred in the small town of Beaverton, Oregon. It was a sunny summer morning when local resident Helen Cartwright took her normal walk around the neighborhood. As she passed the Baker household on Elm St, she noticed something was amiss. Where usually Mrs. Baker could be seen watering her prizewinning begonias, today the backyard was eerily still.

Helen peered over the fence for a better look and was astonished by what she spied. There, hovering three feet above the lawn, was Mrs. Baker! She appeared to be asleep, softly snoring as she drifted here and there to the breeze. Just then Mr. Baker emerged from the house, and seeing his wife aloft dropped his coffee cup in shock. "Mary!" he cried. "Not again!" Against all logic, it seemed Mary Baker had taken to sleeping in mid-air of late.

News of the floating Mrs. Baker spread through Beaverton like wildfire. Scientists were called, cameras clicked, but no one could explain the phenomenon. Some swore it was a trick of the light, but Helen knew what she saw. As quickly as it started, it stopped. From that day on, Mary Baker never flew in her sleep again. The people of Beaverton still speak of that day with wonderment at the mysteries we cannot explain. Such are the oddities that find their way even into lives as ordinary as Mrs. Baker's.