Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 143 · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998

Trudie's Story: her son's little mouthless creatures under the trees

1996 · Cape Town, South Africa

What was reported

Around Christmas 1996, after the family had moved back to Cape Town and the marriage had broken up, Trudie's son told her he had seen some little creatures under the trees. The family took no interest in aliens, so she doubted he was inventing it, but when he drew one she told him the drawing was all wrong because it had no mouth; he answered that the creature had none. She decided it was his imagination. Pam Puxley later asked whether the children watched UAP programmes: they liked the X-Files, but the boy had been frightened and walked out from the first episode, and nobody in the family watched similar series.

What Hind made of it

Trudie put it down to imagination; Hind lists the family's experiences among those she cannot wholly explain.

Explanation offered
a child's imagination

In their words

  • This is all wrong, your drawing shows no mouth.

    Trudie, spread 6

  • It doesn't have a mouth, Mom.

    Trudie's son, spread 6

Cross references

  • Case No 143

Connected

Source

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

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