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You know when you look through a fire, and it's wobbly? Well, that seemed to be their barrier. All you could see was the railway, because we didn't see it till you got through, like a barrier. And we ran into these horrible creatures. Now, they seemed to be pleased because they had put something at each side of the wall, and if you were too tall it affected you, or something.
He took me through into there, examined me, took some blood out of the back of my neck, and he said, “If you ever lift your head up, you will be killed instantly”. And I was petrified, I was nearly peeing myself. They examined me, they brought me out and they were as pleased as punch with me, but I was really bad, I tell you, I was shaking, and I stood beside these other creatures who were like men, but the tallest one was about 4-foot, and they went down to about 2-foot. There were three of them.
I said to the soldiers, “There's some horrible creatures down the lane. “Ohhhh,” he says, “it's children having a game, man”. I said, “Look at the marks on my face, man. It isn't!” Of course the officer said, “Come on, there's a pistol, go round the corner”, making himself look big, and when he saw what went on, he fired the pistol. All hell broke loose.
... smashed its head in with a shovel. He says, “I've never seen anything like it. Get Sergeant Brooks on Saltwell Road”... And Sergeant Brooks comes along and I says, “He's killed it, he's killed it!” He says, “Killed what?” and he went for his truncheon; he had his old-fashioned police mac on and he came round the corner... he crossed himself and said, “By God, I've never seen anything like it!” They put it in a coal sack, and pulled it into the back yard. The coal place is still there to this day – they pulled it into there.
It sounds feasible that he hit it round the head with a shovel, but I can never understand how it was not talked about in my family's house; I'm sure it wasn't.
Unfortunately, we don't have recordings of programmes from 8 or 9 years ago and are therefore unable to provide any audio. However, I can confirm at the time numerous callers did remember the events in 1940 and reading about them in local newspapers.
Now I don't know if they were aliens of Old Nick.. I mean the Devil's mob, you know what I mean, but I had people from Christian Churches... and the older ones in their nineties say, “Don't do anything, don't say sorry to nobody." They knew about it and they wanted to keep it quiet. Well, I thought the truth should come out... They're more frightened of us than we are of them...They're not damned GREEN, there wasn't one green one among the lot of them. They were GREY. All these years they took the mick, saying they were green. They WEREN'T. They were GREY. With big eyes. Scared the hell out of us.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: ConfusedBrit
This is pretty much what it's all about - claims and plausibility. Neither of which have ever led to confirmation in spite of them occasionally being persuasive. Take the PC Godfrey incident for example. David Clarke and Andy Roberts put it all down to psychological misfirings a few years ago in the Fortean Times. Jenny Randles made a similarly persuasive case that the incident was extraordinary and Godfrey himself remains convinced he literally saw what he said he saw.
With regards to Hall's story, I can't help feeling doubtful. Stories with this level of activity and narrative tend to leave me cold. There's a vibe of whoever was sending Len Stringfield letters years ago. I've listened to, and read, a lot of stories and people in ufology and some don't ring true. Bob Dean and Strieber spring to mind and the person you mentioned, Derrel Sims, is one of the best tall tale tellers in the field. He is astoundingly fluent in his patter! Reference him for humour and never for strengthening a case.
It's possible Hall has a memory from the time that's been subsequently buried beneath decades of embellishment. I wonder if a child hit another child? He could believe every word he says and trust his memories. Due to the research of Rich. D. Hall, it seems highly unlikely to be an accurate memory. If it was re-enacted they'd need half the street, 18 aliens and local plod and I don't mean that as an argument to absurdity. It's weighing up his claims/memories against those of others and finding they lack substance.
originally posted by: mirageman
Cool story. But the strange thing is that this bloke was just 5 years old and yet there appears to have been no adult supervision whilst they are gazing at the soldiers passing by. He's also described as "a maverick child, rebellious but kind and helpful". At five years old?
So yep good story and that's probably all it is.
originally posted by: mirageman
Cool story. But the strange thing is that this bloke was just 5 years old and yet there appears to have been no adult supervision whilst they are gazing at the soldiers passing by. He's also described as "a maverick child, rebellious but kind and helpful". At five years old?
So yep good story and that's probably all it is.
Most bizarre of all, and contrary to his general demeanour, Robert claims the aliens said they were looking for “relatives of Moses”, and wondered if he was the “son of Adam”, in addition to asking why humans were fighting each other in the ongoing war. My BS-detector started exploding at this point, but it's such a curious case as a whole that it was worth following Richard Hall's deeper investigation.
The Ape is a 1940 American horror film directed and produced by William Nigh, co-written by Curt Siodmak, and starring Boris Karloff.[1] Produced and distributed by Monogram Pictures, it was the last film in Karloff's nine-picture contract with Monogram.[2] Doctor Adrian then concocts an idea: he will tear off the ape's flesh and use its skin to disguise himself as the escaped circus animal and murder townspeople in order to extract their spinal fluid. Thus the murders will be blamed on the Ape and he, himself, will manage to avoid any suspicion.
I'm trying to remember things I did when I was five years old. Nothing as memorable as being abducted by aliens, so maybe that's why it's so difficult.
Cool story. But the strange thing is that this bloke was just 5 years old and yet there appears to have been no adult supervision whilst they are gazing at the soldiers passing by. He's also described as "a maverick child, rebellious but kind and helpful". At five years old?
I absolutely believe everything Hall says in his videos...every word....zero as you say embellishment..ALL TRUTH...and the incident is not SINGULAR there are others that are similar....I would strongly suggest anyone interested in discovering the TRUTHS take Mr.Halls data very very seriously....and if you are in it for entertainment value enjoy yourself its quite a cool story on any level.
I have a crystal clear memory of being age 5 or 6 and going to a park with a girl the same age who I still know today. We weren't allowed and our parents showed up so we ran off holding hands and locked ourselves in my parents' bathroom. Turns out it never happened. I brought it up with family when we were on a nostalgia trip late one night. The memory remains very clear in two parts and one of them was my dad opening the bathroom door lock from outside. Obviously there's no way I could see it from the other side of the door and yet I can picture it right now. Must have been a vivid dream that stuck in my memories - a classic false memory.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: SeaWorthy
It's still a vivid memory and I'm writing this with the events playing out in my mind.