Pain
From the 1970s into the 1990s, abduction investigators noticed a sharp uptick in accounts involving dire physical insult. In such cases, a victim’s fright over loss of liberty is intensified by physical pain. Terry O’Leary, Sandy Larson, and Jackie Larson (Sandy’s fifteen-year-old daughter)—three North Dakotans abducted in August 1975—recalled under hypnosis that they traveled to two planets, and were studied there by a robot with red eyes. The group endured harsh physical examinations. Indeed, Sandy Larson recalled that her brain felt as if it were being pulled from her head.
In Liberty, Kentucky, on the sixth of January 1976, three women that encountered a brightly colored object were abducted from their automobile while driving. Whatever happened to them while (presumably) inside the object was wiped from their memories, but a look at a clock revealed that their captivity lasted nearly five hours. Some details of the event came out under hypnosis: the women had suffered intrusive physical examinations and scaldings with a mysterious hot liquid.
In many cases involving physical pain, bodily paralysis induced by the aliens holds victims fast. Worse, victims often are conscious, and aware of every detail of the probes levied against their bodies. Psychologically, this is not far removed from the venerable terror of being buried alive, an unimaginable situation in which victims are awake, alive . . . but trapped and physically helpless, forced to consider slow death—if the sheer exertion of panic does not kill them first.
Paralysis during painful abduction events, then, has a horrific metaphysical aspect every bit as potent and emotionally damaging as the accompanying physical torment. The abductors are not likely to be thinking in metaphoric terms, but to human victims—already buffeted by self-involved governments, unsympathetic bureaucrats, and laws that seem frankly adversarial—abduction and torture by aliens may seem just an extreme expression of the depredations of human systems that can neither be reasoned with nor controlled.
Tales of abusively painful alien abductions come from around the globe, and there may be no other more awful than an event that occurred in an isolated area in southern Brazil, near São Paulo, sometime in September 1988.
On the 29th, two boys exploring near Guarapiranga Reservoir discovered a nearly nude male corpse showing signs of bizarre multiple trauma. A medical examiner declared that the victim’s internal organs had been taken from his body by “suction devices” placed against neat holes carefully drilled or cut into the armpits. Other holes symmetrically arranged across the face, chest, limbs, and at the rectum suggested the strange suction action, as well, taking with it muscles and other tissue. The holes themselves, the examiner reported, appeared to have been created by precise, sharply focused beams of heat, akin, perhaps, to a laser.
The body contained no blood; it had been drained dry. The perpetrator(s) took away an odd assortment of body parts: the left jawbone, left ear, both eyes and eyelids, tongue, lips, and scrotum (the penis remained), plus the aforementioned internal organs and muscle groups. Two small holes in the cranium suggested that portions of the brain had been removed.
The cause of death is on the books as cardio-respiratory arrest caused by extreme and prolonged pain.
Because neither the body nor surrounding ground showed blood spatter or signs of struggle, and because the body was not left tied or otherwise restrained (indeed, no evidence of ligatures came to light), investigators surmised that the man had been dumped near the reservoir after being killed elsewhere.
Certainly, a case can be made that the hapless victim died at the hands of a particularly vicious, perhaps vengeful, criminal(s). Human beings have shown themselves to be capable of perpetrating such horrors. However, experienced UFOlogists recalled similar mutilations, particularly one that followed the 1956 abduction of USAF Sgt. Jonathan Louette near the White Sands (Nevada) Missile Test Range (a superior witnessed the man being dragged into a “silver disc”); and a nearly nude, neatly mutilated male corpse discovered by hunters in Idaho in 1976.
Further, UFOlogists experienced with cattle mutilations became very interested in the Brazilian case because the damage done to the man’s body paralleled damage done to livestock found dead, all around the world, in the vicinity of strange lights or flying objects. In such instances, cattle are precisely, neatly mutilated and left without internal organs and, frequently, blood. Sensory and sex organs are frequently taken (as happened to the men in Brazil, Nevada, and Idaho). Investigators of cattle mutilations frequently suggest that the large animals are victimized while being held fast in some fashion that leaves no trace, such as the induced paralysis that characterizes many cases of human abduction by aliens.
When UFOlogists warn that extraterrestrials must be approached with care— or, better yet, not approached at all—they give advice intended to save human lives.