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of Europe’s wheat crops in 1851. In fact, all kinds of droughts and diseases affected crops from 1846 to 1854 throughout Europe, causing great suffering and starvation. She also allegedly stated, ‘‘Little children will be seized with trembling and will die in the arms of those who are Laat ~ wi PIMLIA Ht eb ne. anna ential an en nH a holding them....”’ This grim prophecy proved valid, too, when more than 75,000 people, mostly youngsters, died in an epidemic of ague—a malaria-like disease which produced fever and shivering and death. This was strong stuff in 1846, particularly because the children also reported that the Lady warned, “If my people will not submit, I shall be forced to let the army of my Son fall on them.” But, she added, ‘“‘If sinners repent, the stones and rocks will turn into heaps of wheat, and potatoes will be sown by themselves.” Because it is very unlikely that the two children could have invented aban. -Hn eben ntnn eee ne nan tbe abate eee. ee ee eat these prophecies, we can assume that their story was true, and in fact, it appears to conform to the now-familiar tactics of the ultraterrestrials. Their uncanny talents of precognition (ability to foresee our future) once again served to provide us with “‘proof” of contact. This tactic is still being used. The next year, 1847, that spirit moved into the little house in Hydesville, New York, and in 1848 the redoubtable Fox sisters began to communicate with it. Spiritualism began in earnest, and by 1852 there were thousands of adherents in the United States alone. From 1848 to 1851 there was a worldwide UFO flap, and poltergeist cases hit an interesting peak in 1849. Strange, isn’t it, that all these things should explode at once? The coming of the UFOs went unnoticed, but the poltergeists and hauntings created a sensation and gave added impetus to the spiritualist movement. In France, a man named Allen Kardec founded Revue Spirite in 1856, and spiritualism became the rage of Paris. And then, on February 11, 1858, a fourteen-year-old girl wandered into the French hillside and fell to her knees, her eyes filled with a vision of a beautiful woman. The girl’s name was Bernadette Soubirous. The hillside was a garbage dump outside thn bain ALT Aveda the town of Lourdes. The miracle of Bernadette is so well known that we hardly need comment on it. A local skeptic, one Dr. Dozous, followed the girl on one of her pilgrimages and watched in amazement as she entered a trancelike state, lit a candle, and held her hand in the flame for fifteen minutes without seeming to feel it or harming her skin. Then she scraped away at the ground and a spring suddenly bubbled forth. Word of Bernadette’s visions spread across France, and although she 224 / Operation Trojan Horse