Trudie's Story: levitation across the floor, the husband's night terror and paired thigh bruises

What was reported

Trudie's own abduction-flavoured experiences. While she was pregnant her husband woke screaming that 'they' wanted to take the unborn child; he has refused to discuss it since, except to say that they kept on changing. In Port Nolloth she woke being dragged across the floor just above it, as if carried under the arms, reached the doorway, found she could scream and was left there; her husband thought she had lost her mind. In Cape Town she was again lifted and levitated, waking in bed feeling sick. She reports blank nights of disjointed images, waking in the kitchen with a deadly thirst, and paired bruises high on her inner thighs, as though gripped by thumbs or knelt on, recurring since before her son's birth.

What Hind made of it

Hind met Trudie in Cape Town between February and April 1998, found her quiet, wary and not forthcoming, and cannot believe she would lie; some events may have normal explanations but others are not explicable. Pam Puxley will monitor for further evidence.

Explanation offered
a dream, rejected by Trudie because a dream cannot lift a heavy person off the floor; gardening injuries, rejected because those would be below the knee

In their words

• I'm quite a fat person and a dream doesn't lift you an inch off the floor!

• My God, somebody's knelt on you.

• I cannot believe that she would lie about what happened to her

Cross references

• Case No 143
• The Threat: The Secret Alien Agenda by David Jacobs
• Intruders and Missing Time by Budd Hopkins

Connected

• Trudie's Story: her husband's schoolboy saucer at RondeboschCase fileSame witness

  Trudie's family saga (Case 143) spans 18-05-1, 18-06-2, 18-06-3, 18-06-4 and 18-07-1: one family, one investigator, interviews Jan 1997 to Apr 1998.

• Trudie's Story: the 14-year-old daughter's phantom pregnancyCase fileSame witness

  Mother's levitation and paired bruises; daughter's phantom pregnancy Jan 1997. The cross-referenced reading is Hopkins and Jacobs.

• Alien Intervention? Kerry's recurring craft experience and the grey clawed handCase fileSame behaviour

  Abduction template (paralysis or levitation, body marks, medical imagery): Trudie 1997-98, Kerry 1999. Both Puxley, both post-Hopkins/Jacobs; Hind cross-references those books for Trudie and worries that Kerry's heavy reading shaped her account.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 18 (July 1998), spread 6-8

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