responding to this message, after a series of circuitous clicks following a conversation with a friend about the stephenville UFO earlier this year.
i grew up in san antonio..my childhood was all in the 1980s. i'd say the mid 80s is when i rode my bike all around my little section of the city, sometimes into the woods.
i'm responding to this because i grew up no more than 3.5 miles from the Olmos Basin area that is the subject of many of these posts.
I remember the first time i saw the book "Communion" it was at North Star Mall in the B Dalton bookstore, on the rack near the front. I was with my mom and brother, walking around, and i saw that alien picture on it, and it scared the living daylights out of both me and my brother.
over the years, my brother and i would talk about that alien photo alot and even joke about it having visited our house. i suppose i'm rambling a bit here, because after having read these posts, alot of past memories and experiences sort of link together....not claiming anything like Mr. Strieber claims, but i am saying that alot of things are overlapping now, and the coincidences and associations are really pronounced.
i'll outline this is sort of a block form, so it maybe makes a little more sense to me, and anyone who reads this.
1- as a kid, we used to visit the olmos basin alot. i have to say i was so very curious about it and nearly entranced by it. i remember riding in the car along 281 with my grandma nearly every single day in the summer (she had a business downtown she would take me to spend the day at) and always staring out the passenger window at that basin area from the highway, asking her questions about it. it seemed so mystical and alluring, that big expanse of wilderness in the concrete metropolis. on rare occasions we would detour down there, drive along the windy roads, look at the "old money" homes and the picturesque lawns and woods. i was definitely drawn there.
2- i have very fuzzy memories of being taken to a church in that area. i think it was an episcopal church, i was so young i can't remember
3- from the time i was adventurous and semi-independent enough to wander away from home on the weekend days and summer days, i rode my bike all around. i remember trying to convince my friends to ride with me into the woods. i always felt like something very special was in the woods. i dont ever remember seeing anything strange, but i do remember nearly begging my friends to go with me biking in the woods or fishing in the creek down there
4- we ended up getting the book "communion" sometime when i was in high school perhaps. maybe middle school. my brother and i both read it and scared the wits out of us. we also saw the Walken movie. my brother would claim that he remembers a little thing like the creature from the book, in his room, staring at him. i always thought it was a fiction-borne imaginative claim like kids often will do ("monster in the closet") etc.
5- when i first learned to drive, something would really pull me towards driving thru alamo heights then down into the olmos basin area. i always chalked it up to the serene scenery and beautiful homes. perhaps there is something more...just sooo coincidental these other postings on here and Strieber's book.
6- after college, i went to work with a military program. my boss held the highest rank you can get as an enlisted person in the Air Force. he and i got on the subject of the paranormal a few times. once, while alone in his office, just chatting, he closed the door and told me a story. he said while living as a newlywed in Alamo Heights, he and his wife would wake up, paralyzed, unable to move, and see bright, blinding lights in their house. the next morning they would wake in their beds, like nothing happened, but would remember the experience days or weeks later, as if in a dream. he went on to say many people in alamo heights (near olmos basin) had this experience. sent shivers up my spine.
7- obsession with "little people". my mom's family was irish. as a kid i was absolutely obsessed with "little people". i don't know if it was from watching darby o'gill, but i would ask my grandma all about the little people of ireland any chance i would get.
8- mid 1980s. incident in back yard. if you stood at the kitchen sink at my home, you could see out into the backyard. the window at the sink was perhaps 4 feet off the ground. i remember being in the kitchen late at night one weekend night and my mom absolutely freaked out. she said she saw a short man walk past the window and only saw the white of the top of his head. i always thought this was very weird because it had to have been someone very small or someone ducking down under the window. we looked outside and saw nothing and nobody. the backyard was a gated yard with a tall privacy fence.
9- dreams. a friend in high school and i always shared our dreams with eachother. a real common theme was flying thru the air or in space. we both read up on lucid dreaming after this and tried to recreate it, but never could. also i had a recurring dream of entering the upper levels and eventually attic of an old-style house like those found in olmos basin. in the attic, i found a small chest? that when i opened (about 3-4 feet long) contained the skeleton of a small thing/person. i had this dream maybe 1/2 dozen times and it scared the living daylights out of me. i was reminded of it when i watched x-files in high school.
10- i was always concerned with going to a special class or special school when i was little. i had fantasies of belonging to a school that taught mystical things. while in grade school, i was offered to go into a special program, but could not because i was obligated to attend speech therapy which conflicted with the schedule. i have an eidetic memory.
well i felt like i was rambling, so i'm closing this now.
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Originally Posted by Bob_Oso
Ok, I've just joined this thing in order to post comments. This has all been very interesting to me, because I have experience with the area Strieber writes about. The way I learned about him was because years and years ago I was describing a very vivid dream to a friend of mine, about an alien abduction, and then told her about seeing a UFO when I went to Incarnate Word College.
The year must have about 1976 and a very bright object appeared in the sky towards the Olmos Basin as seen from Marion Hall (my dorm). The object stayed in the sky the whole day and was even in the news; the news said it was a "weather balloon" even though it didn't move from that same spot all day and it was as bright as the sun, but smaller. Everyone on campus saw it too. So, this friend of mine told me about Strieber and his book Communion.
As I read his description of the place he went to, I knew exactly the place he was talking about, as I have been there hundreds of times. When I was single, one girlfriend even thought me weird for having such a fascination with the place. So anyway this is very strange for me because I hate sounding like a kook, but there's just way too many coincidences for me to explain. For example:
1. Same location as Streiber discribes.
2. UFO seen while attending IWC.
3. Vivid dreams about aliens and abductions.
4. Dreams of being in a "mystical school" of some sort.
5. Finally, a scar that's about one inch long next to my navel with no stitch marks and no reason for it to be there. In other words, no surgery, no wound, no nothing!
Alrighty then, there my weird confession and yes I know how it sounds, so let me have it. Tell me what any of you think about all this.
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