Case No 128 · UFO Afrinews No 15, January 1997
From Pat T., of Bulawayo: the hand gripped under the bed
unnamed boarding school dormitory, Zimbabwe
What was reported
Pat T., a Bulawayo reader whose long account was mostly paranormal, describes an episode at boarding school when she was nine or ten. Unable to sleep, she lay idly dropping her right arm over the bedside and letting it hang under the bed. Suddenly her hand was gripped firmly by someone beneath the bed and she found she could not move her arm or any part of her body. The grip released as abruptly as it came; she leaned over expecting to catch the girl she assumed was playing a prank, but nobody was there, and everyone in the dormitory was sound asleep. Hind places it among the unexplained because it fits neither UAP nor clear paranormal categories.
What Hind made of it
Hind says most of Pat's incidents belong to the paranormal rather than UAPs but this could fall in either category, so she presents it under 'The Unexplained'.
Explanation offered
a prank by another girl, ruled out because everyone was asleep
In their words
-
quite inexplicably my hand was firmly gripped by someone under the bed: I was paralysed.
Cross references
- Case 128 dream of the monk-robed being (15-18-2)