October is Here!!!!

When I was ten years old I used to take Karate Lessons back in Nazareth, PA. One night, my mom was driving me into town on the night of a new moon. There were a few stars in the sky but for the most part it was dark. I was in the passenger seat of the grey Oldsmobile (with the burgundy vinyl top) when I noticed something up above out the side of my window. Curiously, I lowered the window and looked up and saw a strange object in the night sky. It was dark with a few faint lights around it. Yes, it was circular in shape and it wasn’t so high that I thought it was a plane – maybe just a helicopter or a “weather balloon”. Anyway, it was traveling above us, seemingly along the same path as us, down Georgetown road. I said to my mom, “Hey, do you see that up there?” She replied, “Yeah, what is that a helicopter or something?” But when we came to the next stop sign, it stopped above us too! My mom looked again at it and looked somewhat puzzled. We continued on our way and when we started to move again, it moved again! I listened but it didn’t make any noise at all, and it couldn’t have been more than a few hundred feet in the sky. As we entered a particularly desolate area of the road, a strange feeling came over me, it was as if time was slowing down for a moment, I can’t really describe it beyond that. We kept on going and as we were about to turn the corner into town, we saw the headlights of an oncoming car not too far ahead. All of a sudden I looked up and the object sped off really fast and disappeared! I wrote off this event.

About 2 years later my cousin Billy and I were sleeping out on the back porch when I was awakened suddenly without warning. Billy was still asleep and I wasn’t sure why I woke up from a dead sleep, but I stood up and looked out the window. It was a clear sky, well lit from the full moon and in the right hand side of my field of view was an object. It looked like an airplane but it suddenly disappeared and then reappeared in the middle of the sky, towards my center of view. I was so puzzled because there were no clouds behind which this object could travel and the speed that it was going was such that it wouldn’t naturally travel from point A to point B without “jumping” through the sky. I walked outside of the patio then watched as it again jumped through the sky, all the way to the left this time, then out of view altogether. I didn’t think much of this occurrence and I walked back in the patio and went back to sleep.

A few years later I was sleeping in my bedroom at the same house when I woke up out of a dead sleep. My eyes were still closed and I was puzzled why I was awake. I half opened my eyes and to my panic in the right hand corner of the room was a dark object standing between my dresser and my window, which suddenly froze when it noticed I was stirring. I shut my eyes back closed and thought to myself, “That wasn’t there, you’re just dreaming RJ, you’re just dreaming!” I decided to slowly open my eyes again and it was still there, staring right at me in the corner of my room in the shadows. I shut my eyes again and was scared to death. If I screamed for my parents in the next room it would surely get me, and I definitely didn’t have enough time to run out of my room. I was in my bed trembling at this point. What was I going to do? I decided to try to open my eyes again, just halfway so it wouldn’t see me open them, just to verify one last time it was still there. When I did, it sure was, and now it started to move, silently across my room, to the door and out of sight! I was so scared I was frozen in fear and I inexplicably fell back asleep. The next morning I sprang out of bed to check for signs of breaking and entering or check that everyone in the house was ok – not only was everyone fine, but there weren’t any signs of intrusion.

Throughout my youth I used to have these weird “stomach pains” as my family called them. Now I did have an allergy to shellfish during my youth, which I grew out of, but this was different. For no apparent reason, there would be days when I was bent over in stomach cramps. These would last anywhere from minutes to hours and would occur without warning. I went to several Doctors, even a Gastroenterologist, but they could never figure out just what was causing the problem. I ultimately was taken to the hospital by my mom and made several trips to the ER for this – had Barium studies and everything done, but to no avail – no one could find out what this meant. To this day it remains a mystery and went away as mysteriously as it came. My family said it was “nerves”.

What do all of these events have in common? I just finished reading a book called ‘Communion’ by Whitley Strieber. I read this book every night for the past week right before bed and I have to say, it freaked me out. Based on a true story, it was about a man who owned a log cabin with his wife in upstate New York. The story is his tale of being a victim of an alien abduction which he didn’t discover until he was under hypnosis. He discovered that he had been visited all throughout his life and it turns out these visitors would observe him in the corner of his room. He would see UFOs in the night sky and on further analysis, they would shove probes down his throat and into his anus and he would wake up the next day with stomach aches! Reading this book I thought, “Holy Shit! What if all of these seemingly unrelated events are all tied together into some intricate web of abduction and experimentation? What if I were the subject of aliens visiting me in the night?" I could always undergo hypnosis to see if there was more than I remember of those strange nights, but the thought occurred to me, “If you were even possibly the victim of alien abduction, would you want to know about it?” My answer is no. I’ll tell you right now, if there are aliens taking me without my knowledge and sticking probes up my anus – I don’t want to know about it! Until I open my eyes one night and they look at me in the face and say “Hola Roberto”, ignorance is bliss!

I throw this out there – What’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to any of you?

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Well, October is here, and you know what that means – this is the month that I leave this place! Yeehaw it’s finally come! Today I walked to lunch with a newfound energy in my step. Our replacements are scheduled to arrive any day now and the pack-up will soon commence. While I’m not at liberty to tell you the exact date I’m leaving for security purposes, I can tell you all that it’s in the low 20s, both the days remaining and the day we’re scheduled to leave. I’m very excited, since October is one of my favorite months and since Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I just spoke to my niece and she told me over the phone that she was going as a little devil. I told her that I was going as LT Dangle from Reno 911! To quote my sister, “Gross, yet funny”! The costume is complete with shorts, shirt and even a “package enhancer” – please hold back the comments on that one…LOL.