Thank you all for your feedback, information, links etc.

We just decided we have to go back there and booked a vacation in the Ariege near ussat les bains. We will be able to visit the area at the 10th of august. My husband wants to try to replicate the circumstances of that night 15 years ago, but I don't know if that is wise. It is scary, besides we also bring a kid with us now. And we don't do drugs anymore...

I am really tempted on the other hand....But what if we don't come back.. I have a very strong feeling that if we would have gotten out of the car that particular night we would have disappeared.

It's more likely however that nothing at all will happen. Maybe I follow up on this story if there's anything noteworthy to tell, but it is funny that We both fell the urge now to go on holiday there. I am very interested in the cathars also, so if nothing happens on the 10th then we still have loads of other interesting places to visit!

I recently had an experience that I can't explain and have never posted to this forum...but in light of this subject, I thought I would share:

I live next door to an old woman and her grown son. Her husband died five years ago. These people are very reclusive and keep to themselves. The husband had built their home himself 50 years ago...there was originally another shack on that lot before then.

So I'm in my yard playing with my dog when the old woman comes running to the fence and tells me there are strange men in her house and could I please come and tell them to leave. She says they won't listen to her. I go over and do a thorough search on the whole house...upstairs, downstairs...under beds, in closets. Nothing and no one was there. When I went to the basement I was a little taken aback. It was not like any basement I had ever seen. The floor seemed to give way to dirt and it had a cavelike, amorphous feel to it. I thought "This must be a root cellar". There was a big hole in the wall that was very dark and I thought "Do they put stuff in there?" I was actually looking for tree roots because a friend of mine had bought an old house and said there were roots in the basement. There were none...and I couldn't see into the darkness. There was only one bulb that lit the place. I left the basement and assured her the house was safe.

It turned out she was experiencing dementia and had a urinary tract infection that was making it worse...which is why she thought she was seeing people. However...

My husband and I were home when she showed up on our doorstep two days later in a disoriented state. (This is prior to diagnosis). We took her home and I said to him "You have to see this basement!" I had been telling him about the dug out hole that I had seen just two days prior. We went down to the basement together and it was a completely different basement! It had white cinderblock walls....a washer and dryer.....a ten speed bike from 1950....stuffed animals from that era. It was large...with a cement floor and well lit. No dirt. No darkness. No big hole in the wall. It was also about 10 times larger than I had originally experience. Cobwebs were gone too. My own basement was scarier than this one.

So not only did I not see those things anymore....but now I was seeing things that I surely would have remembered. Don't forget I was exploring the house. And it's not a big place.

I asked her and her grown son if there was a second basement but there was none. I checked the whole place again several times before I had to give up and just accept the weirdness.

Can't explain it. Not crazy. Don't use drugs or alcohol.