Young Vern often saw people outside his house at night.
From age five to six, Vern would look out his bedroom window in Orrick, Mo., and people with large, fishlike eyes would walk around his yard and sometime into his neighbor’s houses. At the time, this wasn’t strange to him.
“They were the Night People,” Vern said plainly. Everyone Vern knew – himself, his family, his friends – lived in the real world during the day. The people he saw outside his bedroom window lived there when the sun went down. “In my mind we were the Day People and they were the Night People. I know that sounds weird but that’s how it seemed.”
Vern, now an adult living in Liberty, Mo., thought the Night People were normal.
“I’d wake up at night and see these people with big eyes living a regular life,” he said. “I could see faces, clothes, they had kids… I do remember the adult mowing the yard. But I thought it was weird because I couldn’t hear the mower.”
He also watched them walk up and down the street, pausing to speak with each other.
“They seemed like they were talking and interacting normally,” Vern said. “Like down home. You’d just see people talking.”
Then Vern’s family moved from Orrick to nearby Liberty and he saw the same fish-eyed Night People outside his window.
One night, he finally made contact … and never saw them again.
“The children were playing in the yard next door and I thought, hey, I might go play with them,” he said. “What’s weird, though, is the last time I saw them, it seemed like all of a sudden they seemed to notice that I’d noticed them. One of the adults just looked at me and just realized, ‘they see me now.’ And the next thing I see is it’s daylight and I never see (them) again.”
Vern had blacked out and came to hours later.
“If this was real, I probably wasn’t perceived as a threat until I decided to come out and play,” Vern said.
But who were these Night People only Vern could see? Vern’s memories of them are similar to that of alien abductees who also wake up to see large-eyed, friendly, familiar beings they later identify as classic gray aliens.
Margie Kay, host of the Quest paranormal radio program, ghost hunter and psychic, said Vern’s experiences were related to alien abduction.
“This is more common than most people think,” Margie said. “Vern is likely an abductee.”
Extraterrestrials, Margie said, live in another dimension and are capable of entering and leaving ours whenever they want to – like Vern’s Night People.
Another piece of evidence may have come out of Vern’s nose when he was 14.
“I had a nose bleed and didn’t stop it,” he said. “I finally blew my nose.”
What he found shouldn’t have been there.
“It looked like a capsule of silvery something,” he said. “At first it felt hard then started dissolving. I was trying to figure out what it was and it dissolved in my hand.”
Many people who claim they’ve been abducted by extraterrestrials report similar metallic objects coming from their nose. UFO researcher and physician, Dr. Roger Leir, has reported surgically removing many similar objects from patients.
“I wonder if I wasn’t tagged or something,” Vern said.
Margie thinks he was.
“This sounds like a typical implant in the nose scenario,” Margie said. “And he probably saw aliens, too.”
Whatever the true origin of Vern’s Night People – whether they are the product of a child’s imagination or alien abduction – it’s affected his life for decades.
“You have to realize I was five and six at the time,” Vern said. “It’s vivid enough I still remember it after 45 years.”
Copyright 2007 by Jason Offutt
Got a scary story? Ever played with a Ouija board, heard voices, seen a ghost, UFO or a creature you couldn’t identify? Let Jason know about it: Jason Offutt c/o The Examiner, 410 S. Liberty, Independence, Mo. 64050, or jasonoffutt@hotmail.com. Include your name, address and telephone number. Your story might make an upcoming installment of “From the Shadows.”
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
University of Missouri Professor Understands the Power of the Kalanoro
Under the surface of Madagascar, deep in the caves sacred to the Antakarana and Tsimihety peoples, lurk the Kalanoro.
A recent Internet story alleges Navy SEALs photographed a group of 13 Kalanoro in the late 1990s-early 2000s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – far from the island of Madagascar. These Kalanoro were described as a gray “unidentified ape” with quills that run along its spine.
Legends of the Kalanoro are older than 1997 … much older. The Kalanoro have been a part of Madagascar traditions since people arrived there 2,000 years ago. But opinions differ on what the Kalanoro might be.
According to travelafricamag.com, the Kalanoro is a physical creature covered with hair, less than three feet tall with long fingernails. One was reportedly captured by the Royal Geographical Society in 1889. The society discovered the Kalanoro not only had feet that point backward, the creatures were telepathic.
In the 1964 volume Western Folklore, Vol. XXIII, an article by Bacil F. Kirtley – “Unknown Hominids and New World Legends” – paints the Kalanoro of Madagascar as a “land-dwarf” that, much like European elves and trolls, steals human children and replaces them with Kalanoro children.
University of Missouri-Columbia professor Joe Hobbs knows something about the Kalanoro, and their connection to children. While researching the relationship between people and caves in Madagascar, Hobbs came into contact, not with the Kalanoro, but with local people who are convinced the Kalanoro exist.
“This story may strike some as funny,” Hobbs wrote in a recent e-mail. “But the people in Madagascar are quite serious about these and other spiritual beings.”
Unlike travelafricamag.com, Kirtley and the Navy SEALs story, the local people don’t consider the Kalanoro to be animals – they are spiritual beings. In Hobbs’ 2001 article, “People and Caves in Madagascar,” published in The American Geographical Society’s Focus, the people of Madagascar refer to the Kalanoro as “earth genies.”
People of Madagascar who have historically buried their dead in caves have a great respect for the Kalanoro – because the Kalanoro physically interact with them. One Kalanoro near the village of Ambalakida, pays particular attention to bad parents, Hobbs said.
“On three separate occasions, one as recently as 1998,” Hobbs wrote in his 2001 article. “The being became angry that parents had insufficiently cooked meat for their children and done other things particularly unacceptable to it.”
Unhappy with the parents, the Kalanoro kidnapped their children, Hobbs wrote. To get the children back, the distraught parents consulted another local spirit, a Tromba which had possessed a fellow villager. The tromba told the parents to leave offerings of honey and liquor in the forest. The parents did, the Kalanoro was pleased, and returned the children – one by one – to a local cave, the cave of Andoboara.
With permission from King Tsimiaro III, Hobbs visited the burial caves, including the cave of Andoboara, and saw first-hand the Kalanoro’s influence on the local cultures.
“The night we visited the cave, my assistant Patty Vavizara stayed close to me, fearful that the Kalanoro might be about,” Hobbs wrote.
Regardless of whether the Kalanoro are real or legend, animal or intelligent and telepathic, unknown hominid or earth spirit; to the peoples of Madagascar, the Kalanoro are real.
Copyright 2007 by Jason Offutt
Got a scary story? Ever played with a Ouija board, heard voices, seen a ghost, UFO or a creature you couldn’t identify? Let Jason know about it: Jason Offutt c/o The Examiner, 410 S. Liberty, Independence, Mo. 64050, or jasonoffutt@hotmail.com. Include your name, address and telephone number. Your story might make an upcoming installment of “From the Shadows.”
Jason’s book of ghost stories, “Haunted Missouri: A Ghostly Guide to Missouri’s Most Spirited Spots,” is coming in May. FREE SHIPPING when you order online at: https://tsup.truman.edu/store/ViewBook.aspx?Book=849. Visit Jason’s Web site, www.jasonoffutt.com, for his other books.
A recent Internet story alleges Navy SEALs photographed a group of 13 Kalanoro in the late 1990s-early 2000s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – far from the island of Madagascar. These Kalanoro were described as a gray “unidentified ape” with quills that run along its spine.
Legends of the Kalanoro are older than 1997 … much older. The Kalanoro have been a part of Madagascar traditions since people arrived there 2,000 years ago. But opinions differ on what the Kalanoro might be.
According to travelafricamag.com, the Kalanoro is a physical creature covered with hair, less than three feet tall with long fingernails. One was reportedly captured by the Royal Geographical Society in 1889. The society discovered the Kalanoro not only had feet that point backward, the creatures were telepathic.
In the 1964 volume Western Folklore, Vol. XXIII, an article by Bacil F. Kirtley – “Unknown Hominids and New World Legends” – paints the Kalanoro of Madagascar as a “land-dwarf” that, much like European elves and trolls, steals human children and replaces them with Kalanoro children.
University of Missouri-Columbia professor Joe Hobbs knows something about the Kalanoro, and their connection to children. While researching the relationship between people and caves in Madagascar, Hobbs came into contact, not with the Kalanoro, but with local people who are convinced the Kalanoro exist.
“This story may strike some as funny,” Hobbs wrote in a recent e-mail. “But the people in Madagascar are quite serious about these and other spiritual beings.”
Unlike travelafricamag.com, Kirtley and the Navy SEALs story, the local people don’t consider the Kalanoro to be animals – they are spiritual beings. In Hobbs’ 2001 article, “People and Caves in Madagascar,” published in The American Geographical Society’s Focus, the people of Madagascar refer to the Kalanoro as “earth genies.”
People of Madagascar who have historically buried their dead in caves have a great respect for the Kalanoro – because the Kalanoro physically interact with them. One Kalanoro near the village of Ambalakida, pays particular attention to bad parents, Hobbs said.
“On three separate occasions, one as recently as 1998,” Hobbs wrote in his 2001 article. “The being became angry that parents had insufficiently cooked meat for their children and done other things particularly unacceptable to it.”
Unhappy with the parents, the Kalanoro kidnapped their children, Hobbs wrote. To get the children back, the distraught parents consulted another local spirit, a Tromba which had possessed a fellow villager. The tromba told the parents to leave offerings of honey and liquor in the forest. The parents did, the Kalanoro was pleased, and returned the children – one by one – to a local cave, the cave of Andoboara.
With permission from King Tsimiaro III, Hobbs visited the burial caves, including the cave of Andoboara, and saw first-hand the Kalanoro’s influence on the local cultures.
“The night we visited the cave, my assistant Patty Vavizara stayed close to me, fearful that the Kalanoro might be about,” Hobbs wrote.
Regardless of whether the Kalanoro are real or legend, animal or intelligent and telepathic, unknown hominid or earth spirit; to the peoples of Madagascar, the Kalanoro are real.
Copyright 2007 by Jason Offutt
Got a scary story? Ever played with a Ouija board, heard voices, seen a ghost, UFO or a creature you couldn’t identify? Let Jason know about it: Jason Offutt c/o The Examiner, 410 S. Liberty, Independence, Mo. 64050, or jasonoffutt@hotmail.com. Include your name, address and telephone number. Your story might make an upcoming installment of “From the Shadows.”
Jason’s book of ghost stories, “Haunted Missouri: A Ghostly Guide to Missouri’s Most Spirited Spots,” is coming in May. FREE SHIPPING when you order online at: https://tsup.truman.edu/store/ViewBook.aspx?Book=849. Visit Jason’s Web site, www.jasonoffutt.com, for his other books.
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