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30 I’m starting to have military flashbacks, and my phone clicks and goes crazy. The ‘Morse code’ and humming in my ear has literally driven me up the wall.... | don’t want to be used for experiments or reproductions, but how do | stop them? | pray until sometimes I’m prayed out. Why won't God help? By the way, | don’t feel special or chosen like they said.” | began my investigation with Lisa by asking about any unusual childhood events. Her responses showed a pattern of activity going back as far as she can remember. “The sounds of things walking through the house,” she said, “have been going on since | was small. The shadows [dimly discernible figures] happened more in my later life, from twenty years old on. Like | said, they do it [appear] right in front of me.” She also recalled episodes of missing time in childhood. “I would go to the woods-we owned twenty-five acres when | was a child-and come back, and it would be dark.” And the missing-time experiences still occur. “Now, I'll look at the clock and roll over and look at it again, and sometimes it will be an hour later and other times four hours,” she explained, “and | could swear it hadn’t been but a few minutes. It makes me disoriented after | realize there’s been some missing time. It’s hard to go on when something robs you of your life, and you have no memory of it. “The Grays appeared about three or four years ago,” she continued. “Before that, | didn’t know what was causing these things, but the shadows I’ve seen forever, seems like.” In 1980, however, Lisa did see something very different from the shadows, in a terrifying event. “A being appeared to me,” she recalled, “when | was a couple of weeks pregnant. We had just got into bed and Neal already seemed ‘out of it, and the being appeared on the end of the bed, squatting, telling me mentally the child | was carrying was special and it would be a boy. | almost had a fainting spell. | threw the covers over my head as the being was leaping toward me, | believe, and said, ‘In Jesus’ name, take it away!’ It disappeared, and | fell quickly asleep. It was about three feet tall, dark-skinned, leathery looking. | don’t remember anything else.” The child, incidentally, did turn out to be a boy. Now in his teens, he has proven to be extraordinarily intelligent, with an IQ that tested above 140 when he was seven. After going through Lisa’s early memories, | asked her to fill out a preliminary questionnaire which focused on a number of events most often reported by abductees. A comprehensive comparative chart of the responses to this questionnaire by all eight women is presented on p. 231. Because Lisa’s experiences are so very typical, however, many of her responses will be discussed here in some detail, as representative of reports from numerous abductees. She had already mentioned a couple of these things-the odd phone disturbances, the beeping and humming sounds in her ear - and there were other details, internal and external, which are often part of the alien abduction phenomenon. For instance, there were sightings of unexplained lights, within the house as well as in the sky. Lisa described “large whitish-yellow lights in the sky that blink out like a light switch and fast- moving streaks of light.” She has also witnessed “large and small balls of red or white light bouncing in the house” and blue, orange, and white lights flooding in through the windows from craft outside. A couple of passages from her journal show some of these typical events: “August 10,1993. When | got ready to go to sleep at 11:30 or so, my cat noticed it, then | did - a small ball of light bouncing through the room. It was just zipping around. | probably saw it for fifteen seconds, then it went out of the room. In the morning my eyes were burning and irritated.” “August 24, 1993. Woke at 1 a.m., felt something was happening, looked around the room, fell back asleep. Woke up at 4:25 a.m. with white lights turning, like strobe lights, outside of my