Gamida (A Story of an Abduction)

What was reported

A young Johannesburg woman of Indian and Malaysian parentage, a Muslim mother of two boys, wrote to Hind after hearing her on Radio 702. She described repeated night intrusions, at one stage five a week: a click like a key turning in a lock, then a hooded monk-like figure at her bed who blew into her ear while she lay paralysed and left through a closed window after 4 am. Arrivals were announced by vibrations, flapping wings and a bell. She says she was raped, found marks on her neck and wrists, resigned from work and slept with her brother praying beside her. Her sons say a man walked through their closed door and tickled them. A spiritualist failed to stop it and the family moved house. Encounters continued in April and June 1992.

What Hind made of it

Hind is still in touch with Gamida and hopes to meet her, calls the abduction more violent than usual and ongoing as late as June 1992, notes her Muslim background colours her memories, wants the children's descriptions of 'them', and promises a further report in No 8.

Explanation offered
Witness at first thought she had seen a ghost; husband brought in a spiritualist

In their words

• instead of feeling my son's hand, I felt a hard, cold, gnarled claw.

• These days I no longer see anything; occasionally I feel vibrations and I always feel a presence.

• Her abductions are an on-going exercise, as late as June, 1992.

Cross references

• Radio 702 Johannesburg
• The Click Sound, this issue printed pp 18-19
• Case No 63 Loxton
• Case No 50
• UFO Afrinews No 8 (further report promised)
• Secret Life by David Jacobs (bruising)

Connected

• Gamida (An Addition to her Story in UFO Afrinews 7)Case fileSame witness

  Gamida: the further report promised in No 7 delivered in No 8, pushing onset back to 1987 and last episode to 27 Oct 1991; Hind has since lost touch.

• Two women abducted while driving (Patricia and Deirdre)Case fileSame behaviour

  Click sound before the event; Hind's own article 'The Click Sound' in No 7 pairs Gamida's key-in-lock click with the two women's click as the light overwhelmed the car.

• One of the Earliest Recorded UAP Cases: Johannesburg 1946Case fileSame behaviour

  Thud then two clicks at Delvers Street 1946; click like a key in a lock for Gamida 1987-92. Independent witnesses 46 years apart; Hind accepts the 1946 clicks were 'stage-managed to draw attention'.

• The Unexplained: From Laura (living in UK), BenoniCase fileSame behaviour

  Beings enter and leave through solid wall, closed window or door at about 3 a.m. while a spouse or household sleeps on; Gamida in Johannesburg, Laura at Benoni caravan park 1986. Independent.

• 'Rhoda': the flattened cotton-reel craft over a hill south of JohannesburgCase fileNamed person

  Both reached Hind through her Radio 702 Johannesburg appearances (Rhoda's 1975 memory; Gamida after hearing Hind discuss Secret Life). 08-05-1, 13-19-1 and 13-21-1 also cite 702.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 7 (January 1993), spread 04-05, 11, 16

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