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46 Heedless of the time as children often are, she had no idea if any was missing. She also didn’t know what to think of the shadowy figures that sometimes appeared in the house, although she tended to believe they might be ghosts. On one occasion, though, the figure seemed very real. Beth woke up during the night and found a humanoid figure sitting on her bed. He was wearing a tight white outfit, and he proceeded to talk to her. She couldn’t remember, however, any of the things he said, and she couldn’t remember his face. Beth told her mother about some of these strange occurrences, and her mother replied that she had sometimes heard Beth in her room at night, apparently talking to someone. But when she tried to get up and check on the girl, her mother said, she was paralyzed. A little later, at age fourteen, Beth had a second UFO sighting. As she sat studying on the stairs by a window, she glanced out and saw an object through the trees. It stopped for a moment and hovered before shooting off vertically out of sight. Beth learned later that one of their neighbors had also spotted the object. Even when she moved away from that house, staying for a while after her father’s death in a boardinghouse, the unexplained occurrences followed her. One of her roommates there woke her up once, screaming, saying that she’d just seen a weird creature standing beside Beth’s bed. The being apparently noticed the roommate looking at it, because it started moving toward her, and that was when she screamed. Her description of the creature matches today’s well-known Gray entity. The odd events seemed to subside as Beth grew to adulthood. She went to college and then began working as a teacher. Nothing notable happened until she was married and pregnant with her second child. “| remember that | was so afraid that | wasn’t pregnant,” Beth said, “that it was a tumor, because it [the fetus] was not moving. | told my doctor frequently that it couldn’t be a child, that he was mistaken, but it was a big joke to him. “When | was almost six months into the pregnancy, | was very worried because the baby wasn’t moving. One night | remember that | suddenly felt so sleepy that | got in bed, and | had a dream. | saw myself on a doctor's table. A strange doctor put a needle into my navel. When he did this, | felt something like an electric shock, and the baby started moving. | also felt that something was put up my nose. And then | woke up,” she concluded. “And when | awoke, | was having a very heavy nosebleed and the baby was moving.” Beth carried the baby to term and it was born healthy. But a subsequent pregnancy a few years later didn’t survive. Beth apparently miscarried one night and isn’t sure if she saw any fetal tissue. This occurred, it should be noted, on a night when one of the neighbors reported seeing an unexplained light over Beth’s home. Whatever she may have thought about these numerous, often nebulous events through the years, whoever she might have thought was behind them, in the summer of 1978 an event occurred that left no doubt of its source. On the night of July 17, Beth went to bed around 9 p.m., where she read for an hour and then turned off the bedside lamp planning to go to sleep. In the dark, a light caught her attention through the window, where she saw a glowing object. Concerned, Beth woke up her husband and had him check the area. He came back to bed having found nothing unusual, and they turned out the lamp again to sleep. But the light returned to the yard and shone in through the window. Beth looked up at the light, and the next moment she was aware of being somewhere very different. She was in an unfamiliar round room, and she wasn’t alone.