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stranger as for my own; and would be grateful for any other mother to feel the same about my children. My children were my life. So why did they push this issue about children being taken and experimented upon? Was this designed to hurt me specifically so that I would feel bad and the entity, whoever he was, could feed on the energy of my suffering? Or was I being driven to learn something important; something crucial for all humanity? I thought it would be a relatively easy thing to buy a world almanac and discover what the statistics on missing children were: how many were missing, how many were successfully returned to their families. Nothing. How about plan C? I called agencies and said I was a freelance news reporter doing an article. In this country, that’s a fair way to get public information. No special credentials are required. There are now dozens of organizations and agencies that are devoted to “missing and exploited children”. The only problem is, you still can’t get a straight, single answer to a simple question: how many children go missing every year and how many are returned safely and where’s the proof? Everywhere you look you get a different figure, though, over time, a sort of “standard” figure has evolved. But getting any kind of hard copy on hard statistics with data to back it up is, as far as I have been able to tell, impossible. Nobody wants to talk about it in those terms. What’s more, during that week of trying to get answers to this one particular issue, I began to get a feeling that something was definitely not right with our world. Something was horribly wrong and nobody was admitting it, much less talking about it. I had no proof that what the communication from the board had told me was true. Yet I most Maybe he or she was telling a simple truth. And wasn’t that what I was after? Even though I was asking for Truth, like everyone else, I still had the idea that Truth ought to be “nice”. The fact that Truth 151 High Strangeness — Part One identified with all mothers. I would take as much care for the child of a There was only one thing to do: get some facts. Okay, plan B. I made calls to local law enforcement agencies. What government department kept track of such statistics? I was passed from one to the other and back again. But it didn’t matter. No one knew much about missing children. And I began to ask myself “why”? definitely had been obstructed in trying to prove it to be false.