Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 143 · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998

Trudie's Story: children's nose-bleeds without blood on the linen, a tube-like mark and alternating sores

1996 · Cape Town, South Africa

What was reported

In November 1996 Trudie's youngest child complained of a nose-bleed; her nostrils were caked with blood that had run down beside her mouth, yet there was not a spot on her bed linen. Towards the end of 1996 her son, a keen swimmer, kept swiping at a sore nose; inside one nostril was a skid-like mark, as if a hollow tube had been pushed up it, and his nose had also bled without staining the linen, though blood had once been found on his face. Earlier the boy had lots of tiny sores, smaller than a mustard spoon, alternating from one leg to the other, which a doctor called classical impetigo; Trudie, who bathed her children daily, thought that nonsense.

What Hind made of it

Hind suggests the son's impetigo may have a perfectly normal explanation; in UAP Effects Part II she notes that continual nose-bleeds and nasal obstructions are common after abductions.

Explanation offered
boy stuck his finger up his nose; streptococcal or staphylococcal infection (classical impetigo)

In their words

  • like someone taking a hollow tube and sticking it up the nose

    Trudie, spread 6

  • there wasn't a spot of blood on the bed linen

    Trudie, spread 6

Cross references

  • Case No 143
  • UAP Effects Part II, Implants (spread 9)

Connected

Source

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

Nearby

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