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Chapter Six ...but just as suddenly as she’d been exhilarated, she was drained of all her energy and almost fell to the ground in a faint... Megan collapsed on the couch, unable to speak or even open her eyes for almost half an hour. (Wee 2 VAY (Turner, 1992) Another of the most common of all psychic phenomena is that of the poltergeist. An allied phenomenon is that of the invisible attacker. Raised scratch marks appear on the bodies of some poltergeist victims and on one occasion an investigating police officer saw cuts and and on one occasion an investigating police officer saw cuts spontaneously appearing on the legs and chest of a screaming poltergeist victim. An example containing elements of sex, poltergeist stigmata and possible vampirism also appears in Karla Turner’s accounts of UFO abductions: cuts on one an saw .-he woke up in his bed with a strange female alien being beside him. “‘ She was trying to get me worked up”, he said. “She got on top of me and tried to make me respond, you know, sexually. But I kept refusing, I pushed her away and begged her to leave me alone... she was naked, though, and she felt really cold when she touched me”. ... “I found these marks this morning”, he pointed... three large puncture marks on the skin on the back of his calf arranged in an equilateral triangle. [.,..] ..He was staying alone in a friend’s apartment, collapsing in bed after hours of walking the streets alone, and when he awoke he was covered with bruises and scratches all over his back. [...] “* ... was sitting on the couch, and it was late at night. And all of a sudden, the couch started hopping up and down, and then this footstool started hopping, I mean, really hopping. It was shaking me!” [...] “The whole bed started to shake, and when I tried to move, I found I was paralyzed. I couldn’t even speak, but somehow I finally managed to whisper a prayer, asking the god of truth and love to make this frightening force go away. I repeated the prayer again and again, until the paralysis broke, but the bed shook even more violently as my strength increased... I tried to rouse Casey and tell him what had happened, but he rolled over sleepily without responding... at that point, three women came in and approached me. They held me comfortingly and told me, ‘You did the right thing, You passed the test.’” (Turner, 1992) There are certainly striking parallels between the above events of an alleged alien abduction case and poltergeist phenomena. This High Strangeness is part and parcel not only of the UFO and so- ralled alien encounter scenarios, but also of mythical vampire called scenarios, also called alien encounter scenarios, but also of mythical vampire encounters and alleged cases of possession. When possessing entities have been questioned during exorcism about how they selected a target for possession they often reply that the subject was chosen before he was born. In most cases, the line of contact and the gradually building encounter