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Of the keystones, which one do you favor and why?
Originally posted by Latrodectus
Of the keystones, which one do you favor and why?
I find the Walton Case in Snowflake, AZ pretty compelling. I was familiar with it already because the movie "FIRE IN THE SKY" had officially creeped me out as a child, but on reading the actual case, I think the thing that catches my eye the most about it, is that there is corroborative eye whitness testimony from five different people, all but one of whom passed polygraph tests. I think the other one was an inconclusive result. having had some experience with polygraph tests I can tell you that the best the average guy can hope for is Inconclusive. espescially the older ones. It is extremely difficult if not impossible to Lie to one and expect a No Deception result. the best you can hope for is confusing results. and these days polygraphs are insane. they are monitoring 5 to ten physiological reactions. So the fact that four guys passed polygraph tests suggests to me that its highly likely that these guys at least BELIEVED they say Walton get abducted. Now is it possible that they had some shared hallucination or something of that nature, but then how would you explain waltons A: disappearance, and then B: memories of what happened later?
ALTHOUGH.................I believe waltons' memories of the event were pulled from hypnotic regression. But to me I like this one the best of the ones Im familiar with offhand.
My least favorite of the "keystone events" would have to be Whitley Striebers accounts of what took place with him in New York state which supposedly inspired him to write Communion and the Transformation. If all he had ever written was communion, I might have found his case to be compelling, but he just kept cranking out unbelievable garbage book after book, where he made himself out to be some sort of messenger chosen by the visitors to an envoy to humankind. after reading his second book in the Communion series I had had enough. His work reads to me like the ravings of a sick deluded person (honestly).
Originally posted by Latrodectus
I actually never thought about it like that. it would be pretty convenient for Streiber to just insert other peoples stories into his own since he had been attending contactee groups. That's hilarious. What really makes me suspicious of the guy is that he already wrote horror fiction as an occupation before he wrote his best known supposed "non fiction" work. it is just a little too convenient for me that his abduction story is truly frightening.
and I lol'd when you wrote the part about the face on the book creeping you out, because when I was a child my mom had that book and I would put the cover face down if I was in the room alone with it because it used to give me the willies There is something nasty about that face and you don't have to be a contactee to not like it. Its pretty bad man!
Originally posted by gemineye
reply to post by cklein61
I just heard about this case within the last 2 years or so. The women's accounts of what happened surprised me very much! I live very near Stanford and the first time I ever heard mention of it, one of our local news channels was featuring it in a segment they do on mysteries and the unexplained. It wasn't so much that I hadn't heard of it before that surprised me, but the fact that it allegedly happened so close to home! I've seen odd things in the sky on and off all my life here, but I have never known of anyone nearby who claimed to be an abductee. I know the road these women claim to have been traveling on, very well. I like seeing local mysteries pop up on ATS, so S&F to you, OP, for making mention of it! I do believe I'll read over the case again, just to refresh my memory.