Ufologists Philip and Susan Mantle provide the following case as example of sighting of entities and abduction by entities witnessed by young people.
They indicate that William, living in Glasgow, Scotland, aged 6 or 7 when it occurred in the mid 1950's, was lying in bed one evening, recovering from a minor mishap, while his father was working night shift and his mother was asleep.
He looked across the room because some movement had attracted his attention and saw, standing next to a table, a figure with another one standing behind the first. The figures were not very tall and the closest stared right at him without blinking through round and quite large eyes. William noticed long snake-like things on the tops of their heads; which he called so because they appeared to move like snakes or works.
Both were doing something at the table, with one still staring directly at him while the other one moved around.
He then observed another figure over by the window, also seemingly staring at him. This third figure looked exactly like the others.
Then, in a type of voice that he'd never heard before, one of the figures said: "go to sleep little boy." The eyes and the voice seemed almost hypnotic to William, and he gradually fell asleep.
He was never frightened and states that he will remember this for the rest of his life.
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[Ref. pm1:] PHILIP AND SUSAN MANTLE:
Ufologists Philip and Susan Mantle provide the following case as example of sighting of entities and abduction by entities witnessed by young people.
They indicate that William, living in Glasgow, Scotland, aged 6 or 7 when it occurred in the mid 1950's, was lying in bed one evening, recovering from a minor mishap, while his father was working night shift and his mother was asleep.
He looked across the room because some movement had attracted his attention and saw, standing next to a table, a figure with another one standing behind the first. The figures were not very tall and the closest stared right at him without blinking through round and quite large eyes. William noticed long snake-like things on the tops of their heads; which he called so because they appeared to move like snakes or works.
Both were doing something at the table, with one still staring directly at him while the other one moved around.
He then observed another figure over by the window, also seemingly staring at him. This third figure looked exactly like the others.
Then, in a type of voice that he'd never heard before, one of the figures said: "go to sleep little boy." The eyes and the voice seemed almost hypnotic to William, and he gradually fell asleep.
He was never frightened and states that he will remember this for the rest of his life.
[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955, at night, seven-year-old William was in bed one night recovering from a minor mishap. His father was working nightshift and his mother was sound asleep in bed. William looked across the room because some movement had attracted his attention. Standing next to a table he saw a figure with another one standing behind the first. They were not very tall and the one closest to him stared without blinking through round, quite large eyes, right at him. William noticed long snake-like things on the tops of their heads. He thought they were snakes because they were wriggling and moving. Both figures were doing something at the table with one still staring directly at William while the other one moved around. William now observed another figure over by the window, which also seemed to be staring at him. This third figure looked exactly like the other two. Then in a type of voice that he'd never heard before, one of the figures said "go to sleep little boy." The eyes and the voice seemed almost hypnotic to William and he gradually fell asleep. At no time did he ever felt frightened by these figures.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Phillip Mantle.
As I experienced one hypnagogic hallucination with sleep paralysis myself, with the advantage of knowing what it this quite commonplace sleep phenomenon is, before it happened to me, and the advantage of having waken up because if the very sound that was the initial stimulus for the experience, and finally the advantage of being an adult when it happened, I can tell that I too heard a sound that "I never heard before or since", and that I will certainly remember the impressive, much more powerful than any dream, yet unreal experience, for the rest of my life.
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Inherited from the Greek-Roman mythology, Medusa is a creature shown in movies, books, and comic strips as having a hairset of living and moving snakes, and supposed to "paralyze" people by staring at them. It is possible that the inspiration for William's experience was not space visitors initially, and that this interpretation came later when the topic of alien UFOS became more popular. |
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
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| Id: | Topic: | Severity: | Date noted: | Raised by: | Noted by: | Description: | Proposal: | Status: |
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| 1 | Ufology | Medium | January 30, 2008 | Patrick Gross | Patrick Gross | Verbatim witness story not available. | Help needed. | Opened. |
| 2 | Ufology | Medium | January 30, 2008 | Patrick Gross | Patrick Gross | Possibility of hypnagogic hallucination apparently never occurred to anyone. | Help needed. | Opened. |
Probable hypnagogic hallucination.
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
| Main Author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Created/Changed By: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | January 30, 2008 | Creation, [pm1], [ar1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | January 30, 2008 | First published. |
