Abduction report from Janet: South Africa

What was reported

In 1969 Janet, newly divorced and living alone in a flat in central Durban, could not sleep and sat up in bed with a cup of coffee. Her wardrobe seemed to fade into the wall and become a long dark tunnel shaped like an ice-cream cone, with a light at its far end growing larger while she sat frozen with fear. A tall man stepped out: greenish jacket and trousers, black knee-boots, thick black belt, huge eyes, brown bowl-cut hair, large tipped ears, tanned skin and a lipless slit of a mouth. He beckoned and she heard 'Come, come' though his mouth never opened; she refused in her mind, yet was sucked into the tunnel and half-dragged by two figures gripping her arms down a long bright passage into a cold, strange-smelling room with a high narrow table under white sheets. She remembers nothing more; in the morning her arms were painful and too heavy to lift.

What Hind made of it

Hind says this was the only abduction case she knew of before the 1987 Washington conference and that it seems to have triggered Janet's later experiences; she prints it in confidence and asks others with similar experiences to write.

Explanation offered
friends laughed it off as a strange dream or Janet being soft in the head

In their words

• Bloody hell, I'm not going anywhere with you!

• My arms were painful and felt as heavy as lead.

• the room was cold and it had a strange smell

Cross references

• Abductees in Southern Africa introduction, spread 8

Connected

• In an Altered State of Consciousness: Jack van der Merwe at Durban harbourCase fileSame window

  Both dated 1969 in Durban: Janet's abduction from a central Durban flat and Jack van der Merwe's two hours of missing time on night shift in Durban harbour, about 6 km apart. No month or day for either. Independent channels: Janet wrote to Hind in confidence; Jack was interviewed by Pamela Puxley in Cape Town about 1992. Both reported roughly twenty years after the fact.

• In an Altered State of Consciousness: Jack van der Merwe at Durban harbourCase fileSame behaviour

  Shared features: a summons heard without a speaker ('Come, come' with mouth unmoving; a voice in the head telling him to relax and go somewhere quiet), paralysis or trance, figures seen, amnesia for the core, about two hours unaccounted for. Both fit hypnagogic or dissociative episodes (insomnia in bed; alone on night shift in a wool shed) as well as the abduction template Hind later adopted.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 1 (July 1988), spread 11-12

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