Trudie's Story: the 14-year-old daughter's phantom pregnancy

What was reported

About two weeks before the 31 January 1997 interview, Trudie's 14-year-old daughter complained of severe pain in the lower back and abdomen, with what her mother recognised as the classic symptoms of pregnancy. A hot bath brought no relief; she collapsed and was taken to hospital, where a doctor took Trudie aside to ask whether the girl might be pregnant and suggested an ectopic pregnancy. Examination confirmed she was a virgin, as did a gynaecologist, who therefore declined an internal examination. The doctors, stunned, did nothing more, and after three days on morphine the pain and symptoms vanished as suddenly as they had begun; she went back to school with no marks. Hind counts this among the events she cannot explain.

What Hind made of it

Not explicable, in Hind's view; Trudie was told to be glad her child needed no emergency surgery.

Explanation offered
ectopic pregnancy, suggested by the hospital doctor and ruled out by examination

In their words

• No more pain, no marks, nothing!

Cross references

• Case No 143
• editorial on vanished pregnancies and false pregnancy syndrome (spread 4)

Connected

• Trudie's Story: levitation across the floor, the husband's night terror and paired thigh bruisesCase fileSame witness

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

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 18 (July 1998), spread 7-8

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