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High Strangeness Case Number Three: The Three Visitors

On July 2, 1987, I received a call from a thirty-six-year-old woman named Gail who at the time was living in Toms River, New Jersey. She found my number after hearing me on a radio talk show. When she called, Gail sounded very troubled and wanted to tell me about a number of paranormal visitation experiences she’d had. Sometime in late June 1987, while lying down on her bed, Gail began to feel uneasy, as if someone was watching her. The time was around 10 o’clock and she was alone. Her seventeen-year-old daughter was away visiting her father in New York; Gail is divorced. As she lay on the bed, she heard a voice say, “We have come for you . . . you will not be hurt.” Gail realized her entire body was paralyzed and she could only move her eyes. Lying on her back, she saw three strange-looking beings standing in the doorway to her bedroom.

Gail said the three beings were dressed in something that looked like tightly fitting black jumpsuits and they stood single file, one behind the other. As Gail watched them in great fear, she noticed the leader seemed to have a problem entering the room—it was as if some type of invisible shield was blocking his way. The leader lifted his hands and pressed them against the invisible shield, as if taking measurements. The light in the hall was dim, and Gail could not see their facial features clearly, but noticed they were about five feet tall with very long arms. The leader took some type of rod from a side pocket and unscrewed the bottom of it. The rod glowed with a green light and then the leader passed it over the doorway. The entities then walked into the room without any effort, still in a single file. Gail noticed that they had large heads and eyes that looked like a cat’s eyes that extended around to the sides of their heads. She never heard them speak out loud using vocalizations, but realized that the leader was communicating with the other two, because she perceived a variety of buzzing and clicking sounds in her head. When she heard these sounds, the other two moved; one pressed down on some type of black pad attached to its arm.

Gail tried to scream but couldn’t—she was only able to move her eyes. The leader moved to her right side, the other beings each went to the foot and the left side of the bed. The beings on each side of her then placed their hands under her head and raised it up. Gail said their hands were ice cold like the dead and all she wanted was for them to stop touching her skin. Gail then noticed that the being on the left had a tube in its hand that looked like a narrow roll of white cotton it started pushing up her left nostril. At that moment, she felt extreme pain in her head and started to lose consciousness. Gail remembers feeling as if she was falling from a great height, then everything went black. The next thing she recalled was waking up at eight in the morning with a very bad headache. As she walked to the bathroom, both nostrils started to bleed. She felt as if something was stuck up her nose but nothing seemed to be there. She looked in the bathroom mirror and noticed her nose was puffy and swollen; there was a vivid red rash on her neck and legs as well as a mild rash on her arms. Gail had hoped that the experience from the previous night was nothing more than a bad dream. She did not want to believe it and tried to block the entire episode from her mind.

When her daughter arrived home that evening, Gail began to tell her what happened, but before she even finished her story, her daughter started shaking. She revealed that on the same night, about the same time, she and her father were followed by a UFO on Route 116 near Croton Falls, New York. She described the object to her mother as a large, dark craft, triangular in shape that paced the car for five minutes just above the treetops. I found this report very interesting since Croton Falls is near the border of Westchester and Putnam Counties and lonely Route 116 was the site of more than one close encounter in the mid- eighties. I also found it quite interesting that both mother and daughter, even though widely separated by physical distance, had an experience with the paranormal at about the same time.

Gail’s rash and headaches lasted for the next few days and then disappeared, but Gail’s story does not end here. Several weeks later, I received a call from her telling me the entire experience repeated itself. She said, “Those creatures returned at the same time of the night and they did the same exact things they did before. It was as if I was watching a replay of the first time they came into my bedroom. They even had the same trouble getting into the room and the leader once again took out the glowing rod and had to wave it in front of the doorway so they could enter.” Her daughter was visiting her father, but did not have any UFO sightings this time. One night in October 1987, while walking into her kitchen at ten in the evening, the “alien” beings appeared out of nowhere. Gail fell to the floor and started screaming. She passed out and woke up the next morning with bruises on her legs and arms. To my knowledge, Gail continued to have visitations well into 2007. I am still working with Gail, attempting to document a complex series of continuing abduction experiences with beings that are not a part of this world. Her daughter married and no longer lives at home, so every night as the sun sets, Gail keeps all the lights in the house on, afraid her “visitors” will return.

High Strangeness Case Number Four: The Silver Shapeshifter

This next case involves a professional nurse; I will refer to her as “Kate.” Kate had a number of visitations as a child of a tall, silver, “robot-looking” creature that had the ability to change shape. The being would enter her bedroom by walking through the wall after a flash of blue light. Every time the being appeared, she would not be able to move or call her parents for help. In many cases like this one, sleep paralysis is a common occurrence and although the experiencers are not harmed, they lose the ability to move or speak while the entity is in the room. The only body part in which the person seems to be able to move is the eyes. The being said his name was Leenal and that he came from another land (dimension?) very close to her room. In one visit, he actually picked Kate up in his arms and walked through an opening in the wall to show her his world. She doesn’t remember much except that it was foggy and had all kinds of colored lights in the air that illuminated the mist. Could it be that another reality intercepted or crossed near her bedroom? When I heard of this case in 1993, it reminded me of a
Twilight Zone
episode (“Little Girl Lost”) in which a young child accidentally falls into another dimension after a portal opens up in the wall behind her bed.
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Although her parents could hear her, they couldn’t find her. Finally, just before the portal closes, her father and a scientist friend who figured out what is going on are able to rescue her. This episode was filmed in 1961; most people don’t know that Richard Matheson wrote the short story based on a real-life incident involving his young daughter, who rolled off her bed while asleep against a wall.
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Despite hearing her daughter’s cries for help, Matheson’s wife was at first unable to locate the young girl.

Leenal started appearing to Kate when she was five years old; her contacts with the being would continue on a regular basis until she was ten. Leenal would always enter the room the same way: walking through the wall on the east side of the house and at about the same time, between two and three in the morning. The contact took place once or twice a month, and during the visit she would be unable to move. Kate said that Leenal looked like a tall silver “robot” with a gentle and kind voice. The entity would often change shape into a dog or storybook character as if to entertain her or allay her fears. Leenal’s efforts were successful, because eventually, Kate no longer feared the alien’s appearance and began looking forward to seeing it. Kate tried to tell her parents about Leenal’s visits, but they told her it was just dreams. When Kate was eight, her parents took her to a child psychologist who found her “an intelligent child with a vivid imagination.” The doctor told her parents it was common for children her age to have imaginary friends.

The night after the visit to the doctor, Leenal paid Kate another visit and was very upset she had told the psychologist about him. Kate was puzzled—how did the entity knew about the visit? It couldn’t—unless it was watching her. Leenal told her that if she continued to tell people about their conversations he would become
very
angry and go away forever. Kate kept silent about subsequent contacts with the silver robot and didn’t mention them anymore to her parents or anyone else. When Kate’s mother asked her once about Leenal, she “admitted” to making him and his visits up—they were “imaginary,” like the psychologist said. Two days after her tenth birthday; Leenal appeared for the last time to Kate as a child and said goodbye. The “silver robot” told her that he would contact her once again in the future. It would be twenty years before Leenal would once again appear to Kate. By that time, she was thirty, working as a nurse in Arizona. Below is her story of her final contact (to date) with the shapeshifting entity.

Kate’s Story

“I got a job at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, just after I graduated from nursing school. I lived in a small apartment about a mile from my job so I walked back and forth to work when the weather was nice. I lived quite a simple life and had no strange things happen to me until several days after my thirtieth birthday. It was June 1992 and I had just finished the evening shift at the hospital where I worked as a nurse in the cardiac intensive care unit. It was almost 11:30 pm when I left my job; I was very tired and could not wait to get home to rest. Normally, I would take the streets to walk to my apartment, but that evening I had a strong impulse to cross a field (a shortcut), but it was pretty dark and isolated. The moon was almost full that night so I figured it would be safe since it was quite bright out. I slid under the fence and started walking through the field. It was about half a mile long and I’m not sure who owned it, but I thought if someone objected, I would never do it again; besides, there were no signs telling me not to trespass. I carried a small flashlight in my purse and took it out to see where I was going because there were many holes and I didn’t want to sprain or break an ankle.

“I was halfway through the field when three deer came out of the brush to my right; they were walking as if they were drugged and they just collapsed on the ground. Then several birds dropped from the sky and fell to my left and right—they seemed dead. At that moment, several rabbits ran by me and one of them rolled over on the ground and looked like it was having a convulsion. I then heard this loud humming sound and a yellow ball of light appeared in the air several feet above the ground. I was quite startled and stopped in my tracks, since whatever this was it affected the animals and could possibly hurt me. I felt strange, like when I was a child and would have those nighttime visits with the silver robot Leenal. The only difference this time was that I was still able to move, but couldn’t because I was so scared. I just stood there transfixed looking at the light.

“After several seconds, a mist shot out of the light with a loud ‘swoosh.’ The mist then formed into a shape that turned into Leenal! He looked just like I remembered him, tall (maybe 8 feet) and all silver with a helmet and visor like thing where his eyes should have been. He then spoke, ‘Hello Kate. I told you I would be back.’ It was quite upsetting to see this being again because I had convinced myself that those childhood experiences were not real and just dreams. I yelled, ‘Why are you bothering me now? It’s been twenty years!’ Leenal said that time had no meaning to his people and that he had to show me his world. He waved his hand and I felt myself go numb and fall to the ground.

“I opened my eyes and was in a different place that didn’t seem like planet Earth. The sky was red and a fog was all around me. Leenal was standing in front of me and started to change shape, first into a horrible creature that looked like the devil. When I turned away and screamed, he turned into a tall, handsome young man with long blonde hair, very pale white skin and the greenest eyes I have ever seen. He said he could take any form and be anything or anybody I wanted him to be. He told me we were in his world and he had to bring me there to establish a ‘permanent connection’ with my mind.

“Leenal explained that he was part of a very ancient race that existed before mankind, and that many of his people were trying to establish mental links with selected humans so his race could come into our world. He then turned back into the tall silver robot-like form and put his hand on my head. Once again, my body went numb, but this time I didn’t feel myself falling to the ground, I kind of floated. When I opened my eyes I was in the field and it was daylight. I looked at my watch—it was 6:23 am. The passage of time felt weird because it only seemed like I was in Leenal’s world for under an hour, yet at least five hours had passed.

I went home, opened my door and found my apartment a mess. Furniture was overturned and all my dresser and kitchen drawers were pulled out and emptied. I thought at first that I had been robbed, but my jewelry, money, television, stereo, and other valuables were still there. I asked my neighbors and the people who lived above me if anyone had heard or seen anything, but no one did.”

Although Leenal never appeared again to Kate since that summer night of 1992, she continued to have paranormal experiences in the form of poltergeists and saw shadow-like beings in her home and at the hospital when she worked the night shift. Kate felt as if the shadow figures were spying on her. In 2005, Kate would experience being abducted, not by aliens or dimensional beings, but by flesh and blood humans she said were government agents. This is one of two accounts that have come to my attention in which, after a paranormal or UFO experience, the individual involved was taken by a group of men to some type of secret laboratory. I will relate the story below as told to me by Kate just twenty-four hours after the kidnapping took place.