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   SUBJECT: Alien Abductions by Dr Karla Turner                 FILE: UFO1018   
      
   PART 4   
           
        An even more bizarre event happened to a woman in the Southwest   
   during her encounter.  She said she was "removed" from her body and   
   stored in some inexplicable way, still aware, however, and able to   
   communicate with her captors.  They told her that another entity was   
   now using her body, that it was going through all her regular   
   activities, and that no one would be able to tell the difference.   
   The day after the abduction when she returned to her job, she found   
   that her body had indeed been at work, even though she herself was   
   somewhere else.   
      
   'INTERDIMENSIONAL BEING'.   
      
        These alien intruders apparently can behave and appear in a   
   variety of ways.  In one man's experience, a human-looking woman   
   often appeared, although she claimed she was an interdimensional   
   being whose real appearance was not what the abductee saw.  At times   
   she would be "completely there" and very three-dimensional, but at   
   other times only her head would be visible, or her head and hands.   
      
        The evidence from several cases also shows that the aliens have   
   an odd interest in our animals, yet this is hardly mentioned in   
   standard abduction research.  During a period of intense ET activity   
   in my family's life, for instance, our dog was somehow moved one   
   night from a fenced back yard into a locked garage. And the same dog,   
   conversely, woke us up one morning barking in the back yard, when it   
   had been put in a locked garage the night before.  In both cases,   
   there was no sign that either the gate or the garage door had been   
   opened.  The old dog was quite blind, at any rate, and would have   
   had trouble getting anywhere, even if both passageways had been clear.   
      
   PET PUZZLER.   
      
        Transporting dogs turned up again in the case of a UFO   
   researcher. Her dog slept outside, yet in the middle of the night   
   she was awakened by his wet tongue on her face.  She and the dog   
   were in her bed, but her bedroom door was still locked, as was the   
   outside door, and there were two other doors closed in between them.   
      
        Horses also have been moved, leaving their abductee-owners to   
   track them down in corrals far distant from where the animals had   
   been locked away for the night.  It's hard to imagine the purpose of   
   such events, yet they are part of the larger phenomenon and must   
   have some relevance.   
      
        There also seems to be a connection between abductions and the   
   disappearance or appearance of possessions and other objects. One of   
   the more humorous episodes occurred when a researcher was visiting   
   another city and staying as a guest in our home.  The day had been   
   spent in work with other abductees, and that evening the group   
   ordered Chinese food.   
      
      
   PREFERRED UTENSILS APPEAR.   
      
        As we sat eating the food, the researcher remarked that she   
   preferred eating Chinese food with chopsticks, but we didn't have any.   
   After the meal, the researcher went to her room then returned moments   
   later with a very puzzled expression.  "I thought you didn't have any   
   chopsticks," she told my husband. "And I certainly didn't mean for   
   you to go out and buy them!  But thank you anyway for being so   
   thoughtful." She held out a pair of chopsticks wrapped in paper and   
   smiled.   
        "Where did you get those?" he asked in amazement.   
        "They were on my bed," she replied.  "Didn't you put them there?"   
        "Of course not!" he exclaimed.  "There aren't--weren't--any   
   chopsticks in the house, I promise you.  And I haven't gone anywhere!"   
        Other objects have appeared out of nowhere, such as metal balls   
   falling from abductees' bodies when they rose from their beds the   
   morning after an encounter.  In another instance, a mother saw what   
   looked like a white book floating horizontally in her son's bedroom,   
   but when she went in, there was no book to be seen.  In one   
   abductee's home, a fish disappeared from their aquarium, and then it   
   reappeared ten days later, twice as large as it had been.  Within 24   
   hours, however, it died, as did all the other fish in the tank.   
      
   WOMEN IN DISTRESS.   
      
        Perhaps the most remarkable and disturbing set of cases   
   concerned two women I know but who are unacquainted with each other.   
   The first woman awoke one morning to find her bed soaked with blood.   
   It was during her menstrual cycle, yet she was surprised to have bled   
   so profusely as to soak through the tampon she had inserted before   
   going to bed.  When she went to the bathroom to clean up, she could   
   find no tampon to remove. Frantically she searched her bed, the   
   bedroom, and finally her entire apartment, but the tampon had   
   disappeared.  A few days later, she related the incident to me, but   
   neither of us knew what to make of it.   
      
        A month passed, and I received a call from the second woman, who   
   lived far away from me.  She was perplexed by an event of the   
   previous night and wanted to tell someone about it.  This woman was   
   having her menstrual cycle also, and the night before had put on a   
   sanitary pad before going to bed.  Several hours later, she woke up   
   and decided to go change the pad, as she was an unusually heavy   
   bleeder.  In surprise, however, she found the pad was spotless, and   
   then she felt something inside her.  She told me that she removed   
   the tampon, but couldn't understand how it had gotten there.  "I   
   haven't used tampons in ten years," she said, "so this doesn't make   
   any sense."   
      
   ANOMALIES IN 'TYPICAL' REPORTS.   
      
        Anomalies have turned up in some cases that might otherwise seem   
   to follow the "typical" abduction sequence of going into the "ship,"   
   undergoing an examination and being returned with little or no memory.   
   Sometimes, for instance, the surroundings in the "ship" are described   
   as messy or dirty, with foul odors and signs of sloppy housekeeping.   
   Sometimes the interior is said to be crowded, buzzing with numerous   
   entities engaged in rapid, inexplicable movements from place to place.   
      
        Even more unusual are those accounts of abductions to inner space   
   rather than outer space.  In these cases, abductees tell of being   
   taken into large underground complexes, and their descriptions very   
   often include earthly--perhaps military-- apparatus as well as the   
   presence of both humans and aliens working together.  These   
   underground areas are reached through long vertical or corkscrewing   
   tunnels, the abductees say, and in one case the place looked like a   
   movie set of an old Western town.   
      
   'BATHROOM SETTINGS'.   
      
        A third anomalous episode, which may have taken place aboard a   
   craft or in an underground setting, involves abductees taken into   
   "bathroom" settings.  There they are made to get into "stalls" with or   
   without toilets, and in most cases the abductees are thoroughly   
   frightened by the events that occur in these surroundings, often   
   having to do with examination of their sexual organs.   
      
        Most of these anomalous details have come from a relatively   
   small group of abductees, yet similar cases are known elsewhere. In   
   the instance of the odd scar, which began this discussion, there are   
   cases of the triangular pattern turning up all over the world, yet no   
   prominent researcher has acknowledged this.  The scoop marks and   
   straight-line cuts are well known, but just as frequent are less   
   permanent scars and marks.  Single, double and multiple puncture marks   
   appear on abductees' bodies, as do wide paths of subcutaneous purplish   
   smears, triangles and other shapes made by skin discoloration rather   
   than punctures, and long claw- mark scratches, usually numerous,   
   accompanied by even longer welts of unbroken skin.   
      
   CHALLENGE TO 'POSITIVE' THEORIES.   
      
        As to researchers who claim that the ETs are here to help us   
   evolve some higher consciousness or that they are here for some   
   other positive purpose--saving our plant, promoting world peace,   
   etc.--I challenge those researchers to incorporate anomalous data   
   into this view.   
      
        What about those people who suffer total breakdowns after their   
   experiences?  What about those who undergo wild personality changes,   
   who find themselves obsessed with deviant sexual behavior they never   
   had before, often leading to the breakup of marriages and friendships?   
   These things have happened numerous times, but no researcher has yet   
   explained the higher purpose behind such results.   
      
        Particularly disturbing are those cases where previously healthy   
   individuals have an ET encounter and then develop debilitating or   
   terminal illnesses.  It is well known that many women suffer   
   gynecological problems after their experiences, often leading to   
   hysterectomies.  But other instances have shown the development of   
   severe fatigue, horrible swelling and itching, and even cancer.   
   Where are the positive effects in these cases?   
      
        Theories are starting places for research, not proven   
   conclusions, and UFO researchers must be willing to expand and alter   
   their pet theories according to the data they uncover.  It would be   
   wonderful if we could shape ET experiences into something positive,   
   but until the details of abduction encounters--all the details--are   
   given serious consideration, I think it's dangerous to cling to   
   theories that ignore data that will not fit.  We owe it to ourselves   
   to seek the whole truth.   
      
   (Karla Turner, Ph.D. received her doctorate in English studies from   
   the University of North Texas and was a university teaching fellow   
   for over a decade.  Author of the recently-released Into the Fringe,   
   she has researched the UFO phenomenon and worked with abductees   
   since 1988.)   
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