A Zambian Experience: night visitations, paralysis and the vanished cyst

What was reported

Dimitri's later experiences, living outside Lusaka, began in 1982 or 1983 when he twice woke in the small hours breathing heavily to find a rat-like face almost on his own, puffing at him in the dark, followed each time by a curious calm and sleep. In 1985 he woke fully paralysed, eyes shut, arm dead, hearing hundreds of hooves running and then a metallic tak-tak on the corrugated-iron roof. He thought cattle thieves were about but could not move until the noise stopped. Six Alsatians fenced inside the house never made a sound. Recently a small brown cyst below his left eye, an 'olive' he had carried since Zambia, felt loose one night; by morning it was gone, leaving no blood on the pillow and only a razor-thin one-centimetre line. Since July 1996 he reports many strange lights in the sky.

What Hind made of it

Hind cannot help wondering whether this is an ongoing experience starting with the 1968 object or an imaginative stretching of his wish to be involved; she chooses to monitor rather than dismiss.

In their words

• He was totally paralyzed, although he could hear the sound of hundreds of hooves of cattle running

• is this an on-going experience, starting with the original object Dimitri saw, or merely an imaginative stretching of his wishing to be involved?

• There was no trace of blood on his pillow and the actual 'cyst' could not be found either.

Cross references

• Case No 145 1968 sighting (this issue)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 06

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