In the field of ufology, an abductee is a person who subjectively recalls real memories of being forcibly removed from his bed or sleeping bag by small, green-gray entities. These individuals firmly believe that they have suffered a traumatic alien abduction.
Under hypnosis, most abductees or experiencers describe harrowing scenes of invasive investigations carried out by these aliens. These stories often include unfamiliar buzzing sounds, feelings of weightlessness, eerie cackling voices, and strange lights just before an abduction takes place.
Abductees also report seeing the Grays standing around their beds, accompanied by a feeling of incomplete paralysis – an image that evokes a chilling response.
Of course this is all subjective. However, in December 1873, The London Times published a strange article about a couple who described events similar to those of those who were taken.
EXTRAORDINARY HALLUCINATION
A special circumstance came to light at Bristol Police Court on Tuesday. Mr. Thomas B. Cumpston and his wife, Mrs. Ann Martha Cumpston, of Virginia Road, Leeds, were brought up for being disorderly in the Victoria Hotel and discharging firearms.
In evidence it was stated by the landlady of the hotel, Mrs. Tongue, that on Monday evening the defendants took an apartment in the hotel and retired about twelve o’clock to rest.
About 4 a.m., she was awakened by loud screams and shouts in their bedroom, followed by the sound of gunfire. She went downstairs and discovered that they had both jumped from their bedroom to the courtyard below – a depth of more than three meters – and then went to the train station opposite.
Mr T. Harker, the night inspector of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, said that the party rushed into his office, partially clothed, shouting ‘Murder,’ and that they were in a terrible state of excitement.
They told him that they had escaped from a den full of villains and thieves, and that they had to defend themselves.
They had the impression that someone was following them, and they had him search the waiting room to see that no one was there. After summoning a police officer, Mr Cumpston was searched, and a revolver and three knives were found on him.
When the magistrate asked him what he had to say in explanation of the case, Mr. Cumpston, who had an impediment in his speech, said that he and his wife had resided at Clifton; but as they intended to go to Weston-super-Mare that morning, they came down and took a room at the Victoria Hotel, near the railway station.
They were alarmed at about four o’clock in the morning by terrible noises which they could not explain and which frightened them very much. The bed seemed to open up and do all kinds of strange things.
The floor also opened and they heard voices. They were so scared that they opened their bedroom window and jumped outside. Cumpston also gave her version of the affair.
She said they heard terrible noises around 4am. The floor seemed to give way. It certainly opened and her husband fell down a little ways, and she tried to get him up.
What they said was repeated every time they spoke. Being very scared, she asked her husband to fire his gun, which he did, into the ceiling. The sounds continued and they got out the window, but she didn’t know how.
When they got outside, she asked her husband to fire his gun again. Then they ran to the train station. In answer to the Bank, the lady said that she did not hear the sounds as clearly as her husband did.
At last a Mr. Butt, who had been telegraphed from Gloucester, attended the Court, and in reply to the hearing he said that the parties were in a very good position in Leeds.
He offered to take proper charge of them if they were turned over to him, which eventually happened when the defendants were released from custody. No explanation can be given for this strange affair, and it is thought that it was a hallucination on the part of the husband.
Source: The spiritual magazine
The Cumpstons experience at the Victoria Hotel sounds like a typical evening at the Overlook Hotel. However, something that night scared the couple so much that Mr. Cumpston was forced to shoot the thugs and thieves they said were out to get them.
