Around 1983 we invited a group of friends to our
home in Delta, BC, with the intention of trying to assist a lady who was puzzled by an
incident that had taken place during her return from a holiday in the Chilcotins. She, her
son and a male companion, had been approached by a red ball of light while driving along a
road. They had lost all memory of events from that point on, until quite some time later.
The purpose of our get together was an attempt to
recover, with the assistance of hypnosis, the unrecalled events "lost" during
the UFO(?) encounter.
Present were myself, my wife, a native Indian
(Ojibway) friend, the lady who had experienced "missing time", and most
important of all, our experienced hypnotist friend.
The subject stretched out on our chesterfield, with
myself by her head holding a microphone of the tape recorder. Facing the subject and
positioned by her feet was the hypnotist. My wife and our remaining female guest were sat
facing the subject. Our red setter was locked in the kitchen.
Initially, the hypnotist followed an established
routine to set the subject at ease, before commencing his count down to hopefully obtain a
positive response from the subject.
Events quickly indicated that the lady was
responding in a predictable manner. After some time the hypnotist suggested that she
return to a possible previous life existence. Her response to this was to provide a
description of events that suggested a frightening episode in the Middle East(?) during a
past century.
As the hypnotist was bringing her back from this
event to an already agreed upon "safe" location they lady looked up to her
right, where only a window was located, and said, "there is a man here, he is telling
me not to be afraid", . . . . she was visibly shaking. Further questioning revealed
that "he" was tall and dressed in a dark scuba diving type suit. As her fear was
clearly apparent our hypnotist friend made valiant efforts to return her to the haven of
safety and bring her out of the hypnotic state. For some time she seemed not to hear him
or chose to ignore him. Needless to say these events had created a degree of tension
within the living room.
Suddenly, without any warning, there was a
thunderous knocking at our front door. Everyone jumped about a foot into the air. The dog
started barking. The only person who wasn't apparently startled was the lady on the
chesterfield.
My wife went to the front door to see who was there
at this late hour. I should explain that our house which had been built in 1902 had a
steep staircase to the front door which became easily slippery in the perpetual wet
weather that BC offered. Consequently we very seldom used it ourselves and discouraged
others from doing so. Alternatively, we had a paved path to our back door, with good
illumination from the driveway. This was our regular route into the house. During the
twenty years we lived in this house we only had about two people who ever came to the
front door. This was one of them!
On opening the door my wife found a youngish man,
dressed, she thought rather inadequately for the damp, cold, fall weather. He was seeking
directions to a street number that we knew did not exist locally. She suggested that he
try further down although it was not likely to be productive. With that he renegotiated
the dangerous steps and set off down the garden even though my wife called out after him
that he could not get out that way as it was fenced off. He appeared not to hear her and
continued on into the darkness. She closed the door.
By this time our hypnotist friend had brought back
the frightened lady to our present time slot. She seemed none the worse for her
adventures. We all proceeded to discuss the night's events.
When some time later we played the tape back we
could hear all that had taken place up to the "arrival" of the man in blue. That
wasn't on the tape. Nor was the thunderous knocking on the door! Despite the fact my
microphone was only ten feet from the front door. However you could quite clearly hear our
dog barking twenty feet away, despite the closed door.
On reflection it is interesting that this stranger
arrived at the exact moment we were seeking information about the man in blue and the
circumstances of his presence. Talk about synchronicity.
Not only did this interruption serve to destroy our
quest for further information, but we never were able to convene again to uncover those
"missing time" events.
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