Making notes while I'm viewing this... if it seems choppy, that's why...
This sounds like an awful lot like a MILAB abduction case... since when do aliens need to strap people's ankles down to a table leaving ligature marks?
Also, this is kind of odd--the three red spots in her case are all in a row, instead of a triangle, as in the "classic" abduction cases.
Cahill's creature by her bed had a cloak--Whitley Strieber mentions cloaked creatures quite a bit...
Man, this host is
awful. She's an even worse interviewer than Larry King. Okay, maybe not
that bad. But no sooner does she finish asking a question than she begins following up on it, I absolutely hate that.
And that, "Remember, Keep Looking Up!" at the end, isn't that Jack Horkheimer's tagline?
Well, I don't think this case is any more incredible than Leah's, or Katharina Wilson's or Karla Turner's, certainly--but it does add to the body of evidence of the phenomenon. And, why is Cahill's case so incredible, and Whitley Strieber's not? What makes people like Cahill any more believable than he? I mean, abductions accounts are pretty much the same aside from a few variations here and there--Strieber just had better recollection and was able to tell his story better, because he's a professional writer. But let's not forget that he was among the first--if he hadn't had the bravery to come forward, risking an already successful writing career, people like Cahill would still be stuck with the stigma of "crazy, nutjob, whacko" because he blazed the trail.
Maybe some wierder things happened to him than the others. Maybe there are some really even weirder things that happened to others we've never even heard about. But did his experiences last any longer than anyone else's?
I'm noticing some similarities between her case and Leah Haley's--including the weird electrical problems and the migraines--as well as the religious overtones. Cahill was a Pentecostal Christian, and Leah Haley was a pretty serious Southern Baptist... I wonder if there's a religious element to all these. Does anybody know, have any sworn atheists been abducted?
Karla Turner's "
Into the Fringe" came out in 1992, a year before Cahill's book, and Leah Haley's "
Lost Was the Key " came out in 1995, just two years later, as did Katharina Wilson's
The Alien Jigsaw.
I'm noticing a pattern here that the lady authors seemed grouped together a bit. Coincidence, or is there more to it?