Someone anonymous wrote to a UFO website about 2000 and told he remembers that when he was 6 years old, in St Louis, Missouri, USA, in 1965, he woke up in his bedroom sometimes after midnight, and remembers looking out of the window to see is a small figure, with very thin legs and arms, a large head and large eyes, floating in a fine mist.
Without ever really seeing the being's lips move, he heard, "don't be afraid Indian". He found this strange because at age 6, he had no idea he was an American Indian. He remembers it felt like the air was sucked from his bedroom, that he panicked and runs to his parents' room, where he found his mother and father sound asleep.
We are told with no more details that he was to have further dream-like episodes and experienced severe headaches.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000814
Date of event:
1965
Earliest report of event:
2000?
Delay of report:
3 decades?
Witness reported via:
Mail to extraterrestial contacts website.
First alleged record by:
Mail to extraterrestial contacts website.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
Mail to extraterrestial contacts website.
First certain record type:
Ufology book.
This file created on:
July 15, 2008
This file last updated on:
July 15, 2008
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
Missouri
Type of location:
In bed in bedroom.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
No
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
6
Witnesses types:
Not reported.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
1
Type of entities:
Humanoid
Entities height:
Small
Entities outfit type:
Not reported.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported.
Entities skin color:
Not reported.
Entities body:
Very thin arms and legs.
Entities head:
Large.
Entities eyes:
Large.
Entities mouth:
Yes.
Entities nose:
Not reported.
Entities feet:
Not reported.
Entities arms:
Not reported.
Entities fingers:
Not reported.
Entities fingers number:
Not reported.
Entities hair:
Not reported.
Entities voice:
Talked without moving mouth.
Entities actions:
Is outside in a mist and says "don't be afraid Indian".
Entities/witness interactions:
Entity says "don't be afraid Indian".
Witness(es) reactions:
Observed, fled.
Witness(es) feelings:
Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation:
Not reported.
Explanation category:
Possible nightmare or hypnagogic hallucination, unreliable memories.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in St Louis, Missouri, in 1965, at night, the 6-year old witness remembers waking up in his bedroom sometimes after midnight. There is a window in the bedroom and even though he doesn't want to he opens the drapes. Outside the window floating in a fine mist is a small figure, with very thin legs and arms, with a large head and eyes. Without ever really seeing its mouth move the witness heard, "don't be afraid Indian". The thing he found strange about this was that at age 6, he had no idea he was an American Indian. As this all transpires it feels as if the air is sucked from his bedroom, he panics and runs to his parent's room. There he finds his mother and father sound asleep. The witness was to have further dream-like episodes and experienced severe headaches.
Albert Rosales indicates as source http://www.etcontact.net/newsite
Points to consider:
The source www.etcontact.net/newsite does not exist anymore as of 2008. This website used to publish alleged alien encounters testimonies sent by the readers.
A 6-year-old witness cannot be considered a witness at all. An experience dating back to that age cannot be a reliable experience.
It is rather obvious that the most likely explanation is that the very young child, who was sleeping when the experience begun, and was still in bed when it happened, made vivid nightmares or had a series of hypnagogic experiences, that impressed him and when adult, he suspected to be a real alien encounters from reading the sensationalistic literature and websites on the topic.
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
"The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural interpretation", paper by R.C. Ness, in Cultural and Medical Psychiatry, vol. 2 #1, pp 15-39, March 1978.
"Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep", book by Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Routledge publisher, U-K., 1994.
"Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal And Scientific Account Of Sleep Paralysis", book by Jorge Conesa Sevilla, Xlibris Corporation publishers, U-K., 2004.
"Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories - a neurological approach", by L.C. Alvaro, in Journal of the History of Neuroscience, vol 14, #2, pp 100-115, June 2005.
"Effects of hypnagogic imagery on the event-related potential to external tone stimuli", paper by N. Michida, M. Hayashi, T. Hori, in Sleep, Vol. 28 #7, pp 813-818, July 2005.
"Sleep and Society: Ventures into the (Un)Known", book by Simon A. Williams, Routledge publisher, 2005.
"Mental representation of space: Insights from an oblique distribution of hallucinations", paper by T.A Girard, D.L. Martius, J.A. Cheyne in Neuropsychologia, vol. 45 #6, pp 1257-1269, 2007.
"Parasomnias", paper by D.T. Plante, J.W. Winkelman, in The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 29 #4, pp 969-987, December 2006.
"Paranoid delusions and threatening hallucinations: A prospective study of sleep paralysis experiences", paper preview by J.A. Cheyne, T.A. Girard, scheduled in Consciousness and Cognition for April 2007.
List of issues:
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Topic:
Severity:
Date noted:
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Description:
Proposal:
Status:
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Data
Severe
July 15, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source disappeared.
Help needed.
Opened.
2
Ufology
Severe
July 15, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Case is only a web report, no known investigation of checking.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
July 15, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Witness was 6, cannot be a reliable observer.
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Ufology
Severe
July 15, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Mention of dream-like side to experiences.
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Evaluation:
Possible nightmare or hypnagogic hallucination, unreliable memories.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
