Intergalactic Diva: The Pamela Stonebrooke Story

It's just human nature. If something exists, one of the ways we will try to explore it is by trying to have sex with it. Seeing as existence is required for this sexual exploration, I think that one of the best cases to be made for the existence of extraterrestrial life is the fact that many experiencers have claimed to have had some quite saucy encounters with the space invaders. You see my logic here? One of these experiencers is Pamela Stonebrooke, the self-titled Intergalactic Diva.

The Inside Scoop

The cover art of her album 'Alien'

Pamela's first alien experiences were of a non-sexual variety, and took place when she was somewhere between the ages of eight or nine. Her first odd experience was that of finding two strange scars on her skin. She had no idea where they had come from at the time - they had seemingly 'just showed up' - but when she grew older and more experienced she realised that they were likely the infamous 'scoop marks' left by extraterrestrial tissue sampling. She still has the scars on her shin, and she showed them to reporter Al Ridenour. These marks may have appeared without explanation, but her first consciously-recalled experience would be coming soon.

She eventually lost interest in the extraterrestrial phenomenon, and instead focused on her music career. Her talent was prodigious. Inspired by Billie Holiday, she assembled her first rock band at age sixteen - and after a tour through various cabarets and topless lounges (once she was of age, obviously) - she moved to California in 1975. Eventually, she was chosen to open the Playboy Club of Roppongi, Japan, and continued to perform with the top Japanese jazz musicians for eight years ater that. She then moved back to America to Los Angeles, where she quickly inserted herself into the local jazz scene as a platinum-haired wild child. However, she still maintained her interest in esoterica through the lens of astral travel and the New Age movement. She would later profess to be an experienced out-of-body traveller, and expressed some of her mystical leanings through her darker music throughout the ages. For example, she performed as Lilith in Exile and Incubus - both ironically named after malevolent spirits associated with sexuality. The irony will become apparent later.

It was 1994, and Pamela was working as a celebrity agent in Houston, Texas. She had not yet launched herself into her starstruck career as a jazz singer, but it seems that the space people didn't particularly care whether or not she had made it big yet. That day, she had just come home from working a long hours shift at her office, and had decided to go to sleep early. She closed her eyes and drifted off into a peaceful sleep - but when she woke she found that a scheduled return to the office would no longer be possible for her in that moment. She was curled in the foetal position in a dimly-lit metallic room 'shaped like a truncated pyramid', and the realisation quickly dawned on her that she was seemingly on board a spaceship. A line of small, grey-skinned beings walked into the room and looked at her. One of them - seemingly female - approached her and told her not to be afraid before requesting that she follow it. Perhaps realising that she had no other real options, she followed the Grey alien through a door into another room. The alien shut the door behind them and it instantly disappeared into the wall. When she turned from having watched the door vanish, she was startled to see that three female aliens of even smaller stature were looking up at her. She described them as being very frail like the other Greys, but with wispy hair like that of chemotherapy patients on their heads. They ran over to her, grabbed her arms and started calling her 'mummy'. A wave of fear suddenly crashed into her - leaving her dumbfounded with absolute terror before she suddenly found herself back in her bed. Staggering out of bed, brain still blazing with panic, she went to the bathroom to splash her face with water in an attempt to shake off what she perhaps thought was just a dream. 

The cover art of her album 'Experiencer'

As she was doing so, she had to roll up the sleeves of her kimono - and was horrified to see numerous small bruises on her arms. The reality of the experience came flooding back to her instantaneously, and she remembered when the aliens had grabbed her arms. Returning to bed, presumably with trepidation, she found herself unable to get a good night's sleep for obvious reasons. The experience continued to affect her in this way for 'nearly a year'.

Pamela would eventually agree to subject herself to hypnotic regression to try and retrieve further memories of alien contact - and she was terrified by what she uncovered. As she started to recall more and more, she came to the realisation that she had been subjected to several examinations by extraterrestrial Greys throughout the years - and that the aliens had been responsible for the four phantom pregnancies she had experienced. The aliens also showed her an apocalyptic vision of the future. She always found it 'pretty ludicrous', and actually spent the first year and a half after remembering it all feeling truly traumatised by it - but nonetheless she was able to embrace it as part of herself. She recruited an artist to draw one of the Reptilian aliens she now remembered having contact with, and even started a support group for people who had experienced similar phenomena. This support group, I presume, was what is referred to as having taken place in the Encino Women's Center in Los Angeles. An individual named Daryl Anka apparently made contact with an extraterrestrial metaphysician named Bashar in these sessions, and would relay messages of desire for intergalactic peace. Pamela told The Sun Online that she was able to overcome the embarrassment factor quite quickly and to tell her friends and family about what had happened to her. She used her musical talent - and career as a smoky-voiced jazz singer - to disperse some of the messages delivered to her support group by Bashar. Her song 'Alien' contains a segment consisting of her reading out a message from the extraterrestrial through a voice modulator. It's certainly an experience to listen to.

Scaled For Her Pleasure

A portrait of the alien entity involved with the sexual liason

It was 1998 - a few years after she had composed Alien - that her contact experiences took a turn for the erotic. She would eventually go on to have three encounters with an extraordinarily sexually talented Reptilian alien. The first of these illicit rendez-vous started when she woke from her sleep to discover herself already making love with a 'gorgeous blond man' whom she compared to a Greek god. She was shocked - seeing as she apparently never brought people home like she had evidently done that night - and eventually she concluded that she must've been having a lucid dream. She closed her eyes and relaxed, enjoying how 'comfortable' she felt with the unknown presence. When she next opened her eyes - however - this supposed dream became something far less conventional. The intercourse became more aggressive - 'the energy felt totally different' - and apparently the size of her partner increased inexplicably. The Greek god had morphed into a 6ft-tall reptilian humanoid with a vaguely alligator-like snout and scaly, snake-like skin. She realised that she was 'making love to a shape-shifting alien', and when the entity sensed that she was scared it simply whispered 'We've always been together, we love each other'. The telepathic communication she shared with the Reptilian was apparently so intense and sensual that she felt happy to simply surrender to the intensely enjoyable sexual experience. She described the Reptilian as being sly and slick, and as having a 'playful, kind of bad-boy attitude'. The orgasms she experienced as a result were like nothing she'd ever felt before - it was as if the climax extended to every single cell in her body.

She would eventually go on to appear on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell to talk about her experiences, and would often say that she had received letters and emails from women relieved to know that someone else had experienced something similar. She regards these correspondences as opportunities to help people who might otherwise be institutionalised or even convinced that they are possessed by demons. An alien revelation that the Earth may well be nothing more than 'one big, terraformed experiment' inspired her to create an album called Experiencer - and this name would also be shared by a book that she published in late 2001. However, she chose to publish it seemingly exclusively on CD - and seeing as that medium is now effectively defunct, the book has also vanished. Her website is also now down (a reptile dysfunction, anyone?). I fear that her story may soon vanish to the ether if it is not publicised in blogs like this.

Sources

'Alien Lizard Jazz Goddess' by Al Ridenour

'Screwed by the Aliens' by Timothy Beckley and Sean Casteel

'Are You... Experienced?' by Skylaire Alfvegren for LA Weekly

'Sex and Alien Encounters' on crystalinks.com

That Time an Alien was Shot Dead by Military Police

In a two-hour period between 03:00 and 05:00 on January 18th, 1978, unidentified flying objects were sighted over Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, New Jersey. Shortly after the sighting, a military policeman known by the pseudonym Jeffrey Morse was ordered to go to gate #5 of McGuire Air Force Base to allow a state trooper to enter the site after an alert had been issued. The trooper apparently wanted access to a runway area which led to the very back of the airfield and connected to a heavily wooded area which is part of the Fort Dix training area. The trooper informed Morse that a Fort Dix MP (Military Police) had been pursuing a low-flying object, described as oval shaped and featureless, glowing with a bluish-green colour. The object hovered over the MP’s car, and a ‘thing’ appeared in front of the car, said to be about 4ft tall and greyish-brown in colour. It had long arms, a slender body and a ‘fat’ head. The MP had panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 calibre handgun into the body of the creature, and another into the UFO above him, which then flew straight up to join with eleven other objects high in the sky. The alien then ran off into the woods and escaped over the fence between the two bases before collapsing and dying on the deserted runway to which the state trooper had requested access.

An artist's rendition of the incident

Morse Meets the Martian

By the time that Morse heard about the incident, there were already several patrols involved. Morse and the state trooper found the body of the alien near the runway, likely having climbed over the fence and died while running. Despite the aberrant turn of events, Morse and his colleagues still followed normal crime scene procedure, and attempted to rope off the area before the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) came over and took charge of the situation, relegating Morse to a background role, but he could still see what was going on from a distance. He claims that there was a ‘bad stench’ coming from the body, which he compared to ammonia.

An eyewitness sketch of the base's layout

At varying times during his patrol duty, Morse was within 40-70ft from the prostrate body on runway #5. He was never close enough to gauge finer details like facial features or its hands and feet, but as he revealed under additional interviews done for a MUFON symposium, he could see that the unclad, hairless body of the creature was wet, shiny and snake-like under the glare of truck headlights. This description fits the anatomical description so often heard from supposed military sources who have claimed to see such beings at crash sites, as well as by an intriguing medical source who says that they performed an autopsy on such a specimen in the early 1950s. These beings are often called ‘Grays’ because of their skin colouration, and are widely known in UFO literature, supposedly being the entities behind the famed Roswell Crash.

In that same MUFON interview, Morse was offered the suggestion that the entity could have been a deer or an escaped ape from a nearby military experimentation lab, but Morse immediately replied ‘No zoo nearby. We did have a problem with deer on the runway, but no one ever made such a big fuss over a deer’. Morse also claimed that there was a strong smell of ammonia in the night air, which is also a feature shared by many other UFO cases.

Eyewitness sketch of the body seen

Later that day, a blue beret-wearing team from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base arrived in a C-141 aircraft and approached the body. They sprayed the creature’s corpse with some kind of material projected from a portable tank before covering it with a white sheet, and by daybreak the body had been carefully set down on a platform with a wooden frame built around it. Finally, this frame was placed into a large, square metal container of silvery colour, which was estimated to be about 10x10ft with ‘undistinguishable’ blue markings. The mysterious men then loaded the box-in-a-box into the plane using a fork-lift and took off. Nothing more was said about the incident; no report was made, and Morse and his companion were told that they would be court-martialled if they said anything about their experience on that day.

Two days after the event, Morse and the other participants in the bizarre happening were summoned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, where they were subject to an intimidating interrogation about the weird occurrence and were once again warned to not talk about the incident. As a side-note, Morse has supplied the names of the interrogators from his memories of their name badges, and their identities have been verified. Obviously, their names will not be listed here. According to Morse, the people ‘told me about my duty to keep my mouth shut… I signed a form and it is supposed to bind me for life.’ Quickly after returning to McGuire Air Force Base, Morse had more questioning forthcoming, being debriefed about the event by his commanding officer – a lieutenant colonel whose name has also been confirmed. Shortly after the debrief had finished, each of the airmen who were involved in the encounter were transferred to separate overseas bases, with Morse being shipped to Okinawa, one of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

The McGuire case is also interesting because a prominent UFO investigator named George Filer claimed to have been present at the base on the morning of January 18th in 1978, and told NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science) that he had witnessed a commotion with red lights on one of the runways in question when he arrived at the base at 04:00. Filer further claimed that he heard from a Senior Master Sergeant at the McGuire command post on the same morning that UFO activity had been sighted by the control tower and captured on radar at Fort Dix, and that an alien had been shot and found dead on the runway at McGuire.

In one more strange incident, this time in October of 1986 when Morse went on a trip back to the United States to visit his family. He was ‘detained’ in California under rather obscure pretences. Outraged at the holdup, he filed a lawsuit against the California-based authority and notified the MUFON interviewer (named Stringfield) so that he could return to the US in January 1987 for court appearances. During Mores’s layover in the States, however, it seemed that he could learn nothing more about the cause or reason for his detainment, or the identity of the source who ordered the so-called ‘pick and hold’ operation. His legal probes had all been stalled in metaphorical red tape.

The aftermath of this bizarre event certainly highlights the strange issue of the alleged harassment of UFO witnesses, apparently in an attempt to intimidate them into silence. Among these methods are the infamous Men in Black, who will be discussed at greater length in a later article. If the story supplied by Morse can be confirmed to be credible, then it could go a great length to undermining the UFO coverup as a whole. Unfortunately, if the government really are behind the UFO coverup (which I personally doubt they are) then Morses’s knowledge about the subject makes him vulnerable to attack and retaliation, thus impeding his ability to live a normal life.

Despite the truly epic story that I have laid out for you, there are always going to be those who deny its veracity based on numerous different points. For example, the ‘Incident Report’ that Morse supplied has been disputed by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) because the style of writing and terminology used within supposedly does not follow proper Air Force style, thus providing grounds for the accusation that this admittedly-fantastic story is a hoax. One of the key points made by AFOSI was that the pay grades of the witnesses were given instead of their ranks on the official form. However, we must remember to view both the angles taken by the believers and the debunkers with equal skepticism, and this becomes worth it when we realised that the AFOSI statement is incorrect, and that pay grades are frequently filed in official Air Force reports instead of ranks.

Sources

I found this tale originally while browsing through the UFO Casebook. It is on this website that you can also read the official documents pertaining to the military's handling of the case. Further information is available on ThinkAboutIt Docs. 

The Baurú Incident

 It was July 23rd of 1947, and a group of surveyors were working in the countryside near Baurú in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo when they became aware of a loud whistling noise before noticing the sudden arrival of a saucer-shaped craft. All but one of them, José C Higgins, fled the scene in terror. This is his story.

UFO Contact from Uranus 

Higgins, a topographer, watched the object descend. It was a lens-shaped craft with a surrounding flange, and was roughly 150ft in diameter with a 3ft rim and a height of 15ft, according to one source. Its body was 'crossed by tubes in several directions', and it was from said tubes that the whistling sound emanated. The UFO landed about 150ft away from the terrified topographer, and appeared to be supported by four metallic struts that seemed to bend a little.

A beautiful sci-fi depiction of the incident

His curiosity got the better of him as he walked towards the anomalous aircraft, and saw a black glass window on the craft from which two humanoid shapes seemed to be watching him. A door opened beneath the rim of the object and three entities of about 2.15 meters (7ft) in height emerged. They were wearing inflated transparent suits which covered their bodies like 'plastic bags', and there were metal boxes affixed to their backs. Beneath the bubble-like spacesuits, the creatures are visibly clad in colourful shirts and shorts which appeared to be made of paper as opposed to cloth. Their heads lacked eyebrows or any other hair, and their eyes were described as being large and round. Their legs were said to be proportionately larger than those of a human, and all three of the entities appeared to be identical. Higgins couldn't tell if they were male or female, but he claimed that they had 'a certain beauty' about them.

The entities spoke amongst themselves in an unknown language, and Higgins noticed that they chose to remain entirely in the shade except for some very brief periods. One of them pointed a tube-shaped object at him and motioned for him to enter the door of their odd aircraft. Through this door he could see another, inner door and the end of a 'pipe' which was presumably some kind of corridor.

Higgins presumably decided to try and learn something from his unique situation, and so somehow asked the entities where they came from using gestures. All the sources concur that this was what he did - how on earth (or any other planet for that matter) he did it I have no idea. On the ground, one of the aliens drew a dot surrounded by seven circles. The dot was apparently supposed to represent the Sun - which the beings referred to as 'Alamo' in their language. They pointed to the seventh circle (presumably meant to represent Uranus) and named it as 'Orque'. They gestured alternatingly to the seventh circle and their spacecraft, seeming to imply that they had come from Uranus.

Knowing how most of these alien encounter narratives tended to go, Higgins came to the (likely reasonable) conclusion that the entities may try and forcibly transport him to Uranus. As a subtle ploy, he showed them a picture of his wife and said that he either didn't want to leave her, or wished to take her on the seemingly-inevitable trip to Uranus. Falling for his subterfuge, the giants allowed her to leave the scene and he retreated into the forest beyond.

A considerably less accurate depiction

However, Higgins was not yet ready to completely leave the ostensibly-alien entities behind. His curiosity once again got the better of him and he decided to hide in some bushes and watch the humanoids for a bit. As if the situation couldn't get weirder, the entities appeared to be 'playing like children, jumping in the air and throwing enormous stones'. They played these games for roughly half an hour, and then boarded their craft once again after having 'carefully examined their surroundings'. The UFO took off with its signature whistling sound and the giants were never seen again. Except of course for when entities matching their bizarre description almost exactly were seen again in the Swedish town of Uddevalla in December of 1965 by one Richard Höglund!

'Sometimes I doubt that these things can happen. If it were not for the workers with me at the beginning, it might only have been a strange and fascinating dream' - Higgins later mused, presumably in response to questioning about the bizarre incident.

Monsters of Myth?

Legends from all across the world speak of giants constructing megalithic structures in the dark reaches of deep time. Some stories specifically refer to these massive creatures throwing giant stones between themselves to create these structures from those that they drop. Bigfoot encounters often feature the hairy entities throwing stones at alarmed witnesses, and poltergeists are famous for initiating physically-impossible showers of rocks from nowhere. It seems that the Others definitely enjoy rock-throwing for some reason or another...

Sources

I found the information required to tell this baffling tale on a wide range of different websites, including the Cosmic Jokers site which is now unfortunately entirely defunct as well as Thinkaboutit Docs and UFOArchives. 

To Dance with Devils

It was the early hours of the morning on a fateful day in the early 2000s when a middle-aged woman was found unconscious on the road in a Diwanya suburb. When she was taken to the hospital, she had a horrific story to tell the authorities. Apparently, she was a musician, and she had been hired to provide entertainment for a gathering in a large villa in the neighbourhood she was found in. As the night went on, however, she came to realise that a number of her clients weren’t entirely human. She tried to escape and evidently failed.

Ghoul Party!

This happened in Diwanya, Kuwait (Western Asia). In the early 2000s (source doesn’t give an exact date), stories appeared in the Kuwaiti media detailing the run-in that a hapless victim had with beings that would normally be confined to the dark reaches of mythology and folklore.

Art Source

The musician was a middle-aged woman who plays a traditional Kuwaiti instrument. She received a call from a prospective client who wanted to hire her for her services during the month of Ramadan. Since it is inappropriate to perform music during Ramadan, the witness initially refused - but the caller insisted, and tripled her usual fee - persuading her to go. The callers sent their own driver to pick her up, and what began as a usual musical event suddenly took a sharp turn for the supernatural. The party started early in the evening, but continued on till 12am, at which point some of the attendees began to act bizarrely. A group of young girls at the centre of the room, for example, started to dance very aggressively. They moved in such a vigorous manner that their legs began showing under their long dresses, revealing that their legs were not in fact those of humans - but rather bore a closer resemblance to 'horses’ legs’.

Terrified, as anyone would be in this anomalous situation, the woman ran out of the party where she found the driver who had picked her up waiting for her. Panicked, she quickly got into the car and refused to comment when the driver asked her what was wrong due to being too distraught to speak coherently. After a couple of minutes, however, she had calmed down enough to be asked again by the driver. She told him that some of the partygoers did not have human legs, prompting the driver to reply 'you mean just like mine?’ before revealing his legs under his clothes. Like the young girls at the gathering, they were those of an animal. The woman was hysterical with fear at this point, and so threw herself from the car and landed on the street, rendering herself unconscious. The next day, after reporting the bizarre incident, she decided to return to the villa accompanied by the local authorities. However, the villa was gone. It had completely vanished, leaving nothing behind but an empty yard.

Living Legends?

Ethiopia is sometimes said to be home to satyrs and fauns, which resemble humanoids with goat-like feet and legs. The source from which I garnered this story also makes a link to the Hebrew figure of the Queen of Sheba - or Bilquis - who was said in various folktales and apocryphal accounts from all three Abrahamic faiths to have animal hooves. This links her to the ghoul or ghul, which is sometimes classified as a type of Djinn in Islamic tradition. The words said by the driver just before revealing his non-human identity are also very closely mimicked in Japanese folklore, with the this time coming from the terrifying faceless shapeshifters known as Noppera-bō just before they make their human faces melt away with the intention of scaring the bejesus out of an unfortunate victim.

As for the source in question, well, unfortunately it's no longer available. It was a video on the YouTube channel Mysterious Middle East which has since been removed by the owners of the channel. I have no idea where they heard it from and I haven't been able to find reference to it elsewhere online. I think that this means that my retelling of the story is the sole surviving rendition - which is always pretty neat to know.

Subterranean Centaur Scare

It is early March of 1913 (probably the 7th, to be exact) - and hundreds of sweaty men are bustling about in the Chicksaw Mine under Kittanning, Pennsylvania. They are presumably quite desperate to see the sunlight outside, but the circumstances in which they would be forced out into the light in just a moment would haunt them for the rest of their days. Violent hoofbeats and a ghostly light seep their way through the subterranean gloom, signalling the fateful arrival of a bizarre spectre unlike any other...

The Kittanning Incident

The hoofbeats (which I have presumed must've been present) got louder and louder as the surreal form moved from room to room in the mine, ordering all the workmen to abandon their tools and leave the mine in a 'sepulchral voice'. Terrified and likely utterly dumbfounded at the sight, the workers promptly did as they were told by the incomprehensible creature - pouring from the entrance of the mine in droves, perhaps setting a new record for the speed at which a mine could be evacuated. 

The illustration that appeared in Fortean Times accompanying this story.

As my description of hooves might imply, this entity was not your average humanoid ghost. No, instead it was described as having a torso like that of 'an emaciated man' and the lower body of a horse. It was a centaur, to put it simply. In one hand, it carried an odd object which was compared to a dinner pail - from which issued 'lurid gleams' of phantasmal light. 

One John Martel was working as the driver of the mine motor, and was allegedly at his place atop the machine when the spectre came for him. It apparently manifested out of nowhere, before pointing its bony fingers at him and uttering a single word - GO. Martel found himself unable to move for a moment, being literally paralysed with sheer terror. As soon as he was once again capable of movement, he screamed in horror and dashed away from the creature. He sprinted along the tracks towards the light streaming in from the mine's entrance - only momentarily glancing back the way he came to see the motor in hot pursuit, now apparently being somehow driven by the centaur. By the time Martel finally emerged into the safety of daylight, he turned back once more to see that the motor (now driverless) was close behind him. He had only just made it. 

The miners refused to go to work the next day, and as of the time that the story was originally published (in the March 9th, 1913 edition of The Philadelphia Enquirer), it had yet to be decided how business should proceed in the Chickasaw Mine. The centaur was apparently seen as some kind of ill omen. One of my sources speculated that perhaps this was an incredibly bizarre excuse for the miners to escape work - but surely there would be less fantastical and more believable stories to be made up for this purpose? And presumably to be employed more effectively? 

Sources

I originally found this story in an issue of Fortean Times, which sadly only included a very much abbreviated version of the tale and didn't offer me any realistic way to track down the original source or even any more information. Eventually, fellow researcher Albert Rosales was able to find the full story in various newspaper clippings. I was also able to find another source online that repeated what the newspaper clippings said. Here is that source.

The most extensive (and sadly least clearly scanned) clipping on the topic. 

The Vanishing of Alfred Beilhartz

The child in question

It was July 2, 1938 - and the Beilhartz family had decided to go camping deep within the Rocky Mountain National Park as a summer vacation. On the day in question, they were going to Estes Park to do some fishing - and were hiking along a trail close to a creek by the name of Roaring River at approximately 8am. Their son, Alfred Edwin Beilhartz, was roughly 4 years old at the time, and was walking along at the back of the line formed by his family. His parents would eventually realise that he had seemingly fallen severely behind and was now no longer anywhere they could see him. This would begin a desperate 10-day-long search operation throughout the region - but Alfred Beilhartz would never return...

Bloodhounds and the Damned Dam

His parents briefly performed a preliminary search to try and find their missing son (he was just one son of apparently ten children in the Beilhartz family), and when they had no luck they decided to call in the park service for assistance. The rangers were operating under the assumption that Alfred may have fallen into the nearby creek and drowned, and so they proceeded to dam the river. This dam consisted of a fence line adorned with barbed wire - there was no way that his body could be carried downstream and not be instantly found by the team of rangers searching for the unfortunate child. When this returned no results, they dragged the bottom of the river for good measure, but also found nothing to indicate where Alfred had gone. After five days, they gave up searching the river.

His parents told the rangers that they were certain that he must have been abducted. They knew that their son wouldn't just leave his family - and they were (unsurprisingly) unconvinced that he had fallen into the river. At this point, the rangers called in some bloodhounds from the nearby Colorado State Penitentiary. According to David Paulides (one of the usual suspects when it comes to discussing cases such as this) claimed that the bloodhounds were able to follow the boy's scent '500ft uphill' from where his parents had been when he vanished. This is obviously exceptionally bizarre, seeing as he disappeared when he was behind them as opposed to in front of them as the scent trail suggested. More bloodhounds were apparently called in, and followed the same paradoxical trail, only to lay down in defeat when they reached a fork in the road. The search was eventually called off after a total of 10 days spent looking for the missing child.

The Devil's Nest and the Mystery Man

Meanwhile - on July 3rd - William J. Eells and his (unnamed in the newspaper report) wife were also hiking in the Rocky Mountains National Park. They had made it quite far up the Old Fall River road when they got tired and decided to stop for a rest. While resting, they decided to look up at the beautiful slopes of Mount Chapin - only to see a young boy sat on a rock in a section of the mountainside known as the Devil's Nest. This spot was six miles west of where Alfred Beilhartz had intially vanished from, and Mr. Eells expressed his disbelief that any child could have gotten up to that spot without assistance.

The child - presumed to be Alfred at this point - apparently made a 'shrill noise', walked out to look over the ledge and then left the scene. Paulides says that it was as if he was jerked back out of view, but Wikipedia instead asserts that he simply walked out of sight. The Eells decided to retreat to the carpark, where they heard the news about the missing boy. Upon returning home, they checked the newspaper and confirmed that the photograph of Alfred Beilhartz within it matched the child they had seen in the Devil's Nest. They promptly drove back to the park and talked to the rangers, but the rangers stated that it would've been 'totally impossible' for Alfred to have made his way up to the slope in question - and that the rangers themselves couldn't even manage it themselves in under two days and without carabiners and ropes. They did eventually send a group of over 150 men to search Devil's Nest, but they came back empty handed.

The next development in this increasingly-bizarre case came on July 8th, when the FBI announced that it was performing forensic tests on a piece of 'soiled' bandage that had been found in an abandoned cabin in the park. The disclosure of this finding was prompted by the insistence of the boy's parents that their son must've been kidnapped. Apparently Alfred had a blister on his foot at the time he had vanished, and his mother had bandaged it using similar material. It is unclear what came of this test, but I can be fairly sure that nothing did - otherwise there would be information available about it.

The Beilhartz family

On this same day, a woman by the name of Mrs. CA Linch who lived in Big Spring, Nebraska, allegedly saw Alfred and a mysterious man walking along a highway together as she and her husband were driving from Big Spring to Ogallala. She told her brother-in-law WB Linch (of Lincoln, Nebraska) about her sighting, and he then went to speak to a Denver detective sergeant by the name of Fred Renovati two days later on behalf of his sister-in-law. He said that she 'was positive the boy was the one whose picture she saw'. Seemingly nothing came of this odd lead either.

Held for Ransom?

Alfred Beilhartz had been missing for five months when his father was given a ransom note in November. It contained instructions for leaving $500 (equivalent to $8,900 as of 2018) in a tin can one block away from the Beilhartz family home in return for the safe return of their missing son in 24 hours, and also ominously said that 'the boy doesn't take to us'. However, by the 29th of that month the police were fairly certain that this was a hoax. This belief was all but confirmed by another police announcement announcement a day later saying that they had investigated two possible suspects - who were accused of attempting to extort money from the family. The suspects were not named and were apparently not being held, but here is where the trail of information about the Beilhartz disappearance stops - and so it is difficult to know what happened next. I imagine that it would've been announced if the suspects were confirmed to be guilty, but the ransom note was also never confirmed to not have been a hoax. 

Sources

Disappearance of Alfred Beilhartz on Wikipedia and all of the newspaper clippings provided as sources for that page. Some of the stranger details of this case were, of course, pointed out by David Paulides in an interview he did for MUFON on the 19th of February 2013 - which can be enjoyed here.

The Revelation of Cosette Willoughby

Cosette Willoughby had some very strange neighbours. She had been co-existing with the so-called Serpent People for three years by the time she wrote into Richard Toronto's Shavertron Magazine in 1981. Her story would be published in the Winter 1981 edition of the magazine, the tenth issue ever to be published. It would then be promptly forgotten by the esoteric community at large. I'm here to change that.

Subterranean Symbiosis 

It seems from her description that she never really saw these Serpent People up close. No, instead she would occasionally catch glimpses of her mysterious fellows. She described some of them as 'monkey-like', but gave them their serpentine name due to their strange, sinuous style of movement. Some of them are said to leave large tracks like the iconic Bigfoot prints, while others leave three-toed footprints instead. Seemingly her best glance at one of the creatures revealed a diminutive, naked humanoid with all its hair somehow 'piled on top of his head like a big glob'. The entities are apparently masters of camouflage, with their primary purpose in life being to never be seen. 

Their language sounds echoey, and they are adepts at the art of voice mimicry. Apparently one of them can easily sound like an entire yard full of playing children. When Cosette ventured up onto one of the cliffs in which the entities make their subsurface dens, she was able to hear heavy footsteps coming from underground. Despite the seemingly primitive nature of the creatures' society, Mrs. Willoughby claims that they are capable of crafting some extraordinary stone amulets, which they apparently leave all over the desert, for reasons Cosette speculates may have something to do with warding off rattlesnakes - seeing as she rarely spotted the reptilian pests while out looking for the amulets left by the strange critters. If or when she did run into snakes, she seems to imply in her account that the entities would somehow warn her.

Cosette had been trying to make friends with them for quite a while, and only just before she set about writing the article for Toronto's magazine had the creatures started to respond positively. She had been giving them candy, which they seemed to like very much, as well as some clothing and a mirror. A few months after she gave them the latter item, she claims that she saw one of the entities flash it at her. Although she knew where the entrances to their subterranean dwellings, she never once tried to enter or disturb them. Eventually the creatures would start leaving gifts for her in places they knew only she would go. These gifts included plastic toys (on two separate occasions), money (a quarter, a nickle and two pennies), a 'fabulously carved piece of golden glass' and what she described as her 'famous crystal machine'. She also found some strange-looking script on a rock as well, which is reproduced here for your viewing pleasure.

Through the Looking Crystal

She found her so-called crystal machine while out on the low hills hunting for the amulets left behind by her cryptic neighbours. When she first found it, she quickly noticed that it was no ordinary stone, seeing as it had something resembling a carved window on the side of it. She examined this window with a magnifying glass, and was able to see 'an endless series of pictures' through it. These pictures were small but apparently gave her the immersive feeling of seeing them on a much larger scope, as if she were actually there, among the beautiful fantasy scenes she apparently saw through the rock. 

There were stunning palaces filled with gold and jewels among tall, marble buildings which made up great cities. The people inhabiting these cities were apparently so real-looking that she would sometimes almost catch herself speaking to them. The clothes worn by these mysterious people were richly decorated with jewels and gold, and the women of their kind wore crowns of rubies, pearls and 'every stone you can think of'.

Utterly enraptured by the curious rock, she started to ask it specific questions. She requested to see the 'wizzards of olde' and was shown six of their number, all wearing intricate gowns with pointed turbans. The sages looked directly at her and greeted her as if they could actually see her - but surely that was impossible, right? She asked to see the tree of life, and was rewarded with a vision of a mist-filled alcove. As the fog cleared, she was astounded to see a bizarre tree with tentacular branches and a gold and turquoise light shining out from behind it. She would later describe the branches as looking more like roots than branches, and as lacking leaves. Upon looking up the tree of life in HP Blavastky's The Secret Doctrine, she found that it was described as much the same thing she had seen through the amazing crystal machine. Apparently this is a tree that grows upside-down, with roots for limbs. 

When she asked to see the King of the World as referred to in worldwide esoteric literature, she was greeted by a view from below a mighty face which seemed to be looking down at her and studying her. She bade Rigden Djapo her greetings, and he seemingly responded by telling her 'volumes without words'. She felt intense love towards him, and she somehow knew that he felt the same for her. The last thing of note that she describes having seen in the crystal is something that she called the Second Adam. She had apparently never heard of this esoteric concept before, but the wisdom imparted to her by the weird crystal and the writings of HP Blavatsky provided her with the tools to reconstruct the genesis of the universe as she would come to believe it truly was. 

In the beginning, the Elohim had created what Cosette calls the First Adam. This Adam was etherical, perhaps lacking a physical body at all. Then came a colossal serpent-like being that emerged from the void of deep space and covered our planet Earth in its entirety. This serpent was what was known as the Cosmic Mother. This motherly being eventually 'blended into' a powerful life-giving force, potentially mating with the incorporeal First Adam. From this bizarre unison, she grew pods all over her body from which emerged the Second Adam. At first, this new Adam was spherical in shape - a hermaphroditic amphibious creature capable of reproducing asexually. 

As time passed on this primordial Earth, the Second Adam appeared in different places all around the world, and as he did so he started to grow a tail-like structure behind him. In his need to survive, this tail began to grow a body for some strange reason which isn't adequately explained. Arms appeared, and then legs. After this, the Second Adam became male and female, and was eventually able to live independently from the Cosmic Mother. The Cosmic Mother, now seemingly wont for a purpose, was absorbed into the Earth and became some sort of terrestrial life-force. Humankind was now far more independent of her, but Cosette warns that it seems as if we still need some contact with our Cosmic Mother, seeing as astronauts apparently become weaker the longer they're in space. 

A Mundane Revelation?

This is possibly the strangest article I've ever written on any of my many blogs. Anyways, Shavertron Magazine was unable to verify Cosette's claims - and the closest they came at first was in the form of an anecdote from one Joan O'Connell of the New Atlantean Journal who was apparently sent one of what Cosette called her 'drinking rocks'. She placed this rock in some water, and nothing happened. She then put it in some beer, and 'it didn't even hiccup'. 

Somehow, Shavertron managed to get their hands on some of Cosette's fabled stones - whether this was through O'Connell or otherwise I cannot possibly say - and they quickly handed them to their rock-book expert, one Bill Bliss. Bliss scrutinised the stones and found what he referred to as 'some low grade images'. The clearest one was apparently of a bald fat man's head. He made some carbon tracings of the pictoral stories in the stones, and said that images can be seen in these tracings if they're viewed from a distance of 10ft away. To be honest, I don't see anything in the tracings. 

And so that brings us onto the monumental question of just what the hell is going on with this case. This reminds me of Joseph Smith's use of a seeing stone to transcribe the Book of Mormon from the golden tablets, and also of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic creation myth in terms of the multiphasic creation story involving numerous divine beings splitting and merging. The script allegedly found on one of the stones by Cosette seems to resemble John Dee's Enochian writing. This story is comprised of a rich soup of all sorts of weirdness from all sorts of sources. I don't quite know what to make of it.