By Chris Holly
A paranormal researcher friend of mine contacted me about my past interviews with people who have encountered unexplained lost time abduction experiences He told me he knew a man who suffered from a lifetime of strange lost time events and thought it may be good for him if to him to talk with me so he would understand he was not alone in this strange unknown of lost time experiences.
My friend told me the man had been enduring extreme events of high strangeness since he was a small child. He did not enjoy talking about them due to the reaction of most people including those who investigate or write about them. Luckily my friend was able to convince him to talk to me about what he was going through
I met with Brian. He is a tall attractive man in his mid 40’s. He is well-spoken and friendly. He lives in a small town in the Pacific North West of the United States with his wife and 4 children. He does not often talk about the odd events that take place in his life but after telling him about others I have written about like him he was willing to tell me part of what he has endured over the last 40 years.
Brian’s ordeal began when he was a child about four years of age He was living with his family in a small sleepy New England town at the time. He recalls waking up in the middle of the night screaming and frozen in this bed unable to get up to run to his family for help. He recalls the terror of this so strongly it has stayed with him his entire life.
The events always occurred at night when his mother was working a night shift and he and his siblings were alone at home with his father. He recalls that his father admitted he could hear his son screaming for help on occasion yet when his father tried to move to help him he found he was not able to move from where he was as he suffered a strange paralyzed sensation and could not help Brian as he could not move. His father would remain paralyzed during these encounters unable to move his arms or legs. When he could finally rise he would run into the room only to find Brian alone terrified and crying. These encounters remained a family mystery as they never did understand what was happening to them during those strange night time events. Brian would scream for help and his father would not be able to move his body which would be frozen in a strange state. The family felt the encounters only lasted for a few minutes but really never were sure about anything that took place during the strange events.
Brian’s life continued on as a typical little boy on all other levels beyond the strange events at night until he was in his 8th year. He has a clear memory of an incident that happened to him when he was 8 years old.
He was alone in his room playing when a very tall (at least 7 feet tall) being entered his room. The strange creature was more of a shadow like being as Brian cannot recall it having any clear features other than wearing a robe type garment. The being had light behind and around it. Brian will never forget the crippling fear he felt as this being came towards him while he sat playing in his room. He recalls the fear was so overpowering he was not able to yell or move. He only remembers up to this point and has no memory at all of how the encounter ended. The fear he felt during this encounter was so horrific that he can still feel it to this day. He told me he thought his heart was going to pound out of his chest he was so terrified at the being standing before him. He does not recall anything other from that point on.
Brian lived his childhood and teens in constant fear of having one of these ongoing strange encounters . He often experienced the feel of a rush of wind pass over him leaving the sound of being in a wind tunnel in his ears. During this stage of his life he would also suffer from a pounding vibration in the front of his head. During these experiences he can recall being touched by hands on his wrists, and eyes. He could recall the sensation of floating during these episodes and being trapped in a dimly lit environment. He would feel extreme fear after one of these events occurred which would last with him for a very long time. Life was not secure or happy for Brain as a child.
Brian grew up and went about his life as normally as he could despite the strangeness of his childhood. He joined the military and went about the business of being a soldier. His life seemed to remain on the road of normal as he went about the work of his military service. He was discharged after his enlistment ended and returned to the ranks of civilian life.
After the military he married and quickly had four children. He had difficulty holding jobs and found he had to move his family often due to his need to constantly change jobs which was becoming the ongoing way of Brian’s families life.
He also found he was having strange lost time events that were causing him terrible problems with his wife and employers. Brian would go out to buy milk or do an errand for a boss and be gone for hours instead of the short time the task actually would ordinarily take to do. He told me that he would start out going about the business of what ever it was he set out to do and end up waking up as if he had taken a nap in a strange place a few hours later with no recall at all how or why any of it happened. He thought he was having extreme mental issues that terrified him and had no answers for his odd disappearance. These events did not take place often but did occur enough to cost him two jobs.
Brian also was aware that after these strange experiences he would suffer a few weeks of illness with stomach issues that also made it difficult for him to hold a long term job. His stomach issues became more serious with each event until he ended up in the hospital dealing with them.