Column Chronicles: Tales of the abducted, part 1

Tales of the abducted, part 1

Frank Cotolo
March 25, 2021

More and more people claim to have been taken from Earth by strange beings from other planets or planes. We now make public portions of transcripts from interviews with so-called abducted people. Believable? You be the judge.

Mr. K, age 43

It was a night lighted by a full moon but then the sky became blinding with light, like there were a few full moons. Then, before me, was a structure, a round one with wings like a parrot. I became dizzy, then joyful, then hungry, then sad, then I was sitting on a stool, surrounded by short, green figures with eyes like parrot eyes. I spun around three times and heard my mother call my name, then call another name, then another, and suddenly I realized I was on Venus...

Ms. T, age 54

My mind wanders when I cook but one night I blacked out while slicing peppers and awoke in a dreamy cloud of mist, or a misty cloud, you know, and I was being carried by a paper-thin person, a blue person, you know, like one of the members of The Blue Man Group, only this blue person had a blue face in the shape of a stick of margarine. When he put me down he said "Grumble viodack spitoonia baba duke ples maygrall." He said exactly that...

Mr. R, age 32

Simple. I was sleeping in bed and boom, my pajamas grew arms and carried me to a flying saucer that had landed in a pool of liquid grass, where I floated to an island where six guys with shiny armor laughed at me. But I wasn't scared because it all seemed normal, especially when one of the guys said, "Let's shoot some pool."

Ms. G, age 15

So like there were dozens of bubble people, you know like round and ready to burst, and they were floating around me, making me actually dizzy and light-headed, so as to maybe faint but not entirely, because they laughed and didn't burst, like the bubble expanded when they laughed and it was like a joke that no one told but it was funny and it made no sense but when dizzy and light-headed it did make sense and I thought oh crap I got an English test tomorrow...

Mr. O

Am I sweating? Because I was sweating the night The Enducers broke into my home and took me to their spaceship where we flew to Enducia, a planet no one knew about on Earth. Still, when I got there I felt at home, I felt like an Enducer or an Enducenite or an Enducish person, whatever someone is called who lives on Enducia...

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.