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64 father what she had seen. Since he worked for the U. S. Navy at that time, her father told her he would inquire around the military base and find out what exactly had happened. But a few days later, when Beth brought up the subject again, her father told her that she must never tell anyone about what she had seen or even mention it again. No explanation was given, only a warning, and that made Beth believe some sort of mystery must have been involved. She was used to mysterious things, even at that young age. “Even before that,” she said, “as far back as | can remember, | was aware - and so was my family - that strange things were happening to me, most of them at night. It made me afraid to go to sleep, afraid that someone was going to come for me.” Unexplained noises often broke the silence of the night. Once, for example, Beth was startled awake by a “buzz or whooshing sound” in the room where she was sleeping alone. Frightened, she ran into her sister’s room. “They're looking for me,” was all she remembered saying, because at that moment her sister suddenly fell into a deep sleep and Beth’s body became paralyzed. Then she, too, lost consciousness. Another anomalous event took place when she ten years old. Beth had been outside for a while and had stopped to eat a piece of fruit. She consciously remembered standing still, taking a bite, and then looking down at a large, bleeding gash in her leg. “| didn’t know what to think,” Beth said. “How could my leg be cut and bleeding? | had not even moved from that spot.” 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 |