Close Encounters and Creepy Camouflage
- http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/08/close-encounters-and-creepy-camouflage/
- August 17, 2015
- Nick Redfern
I have on record a large number of reports that strongly suggest entities from elsewhere are using camouflage to move among us. We’re talking – as bizarrely as it surely sounds – about creatures that don’t look entirely human and who wear hats, wigs, and large sunglasses to mask their true identities. If there were just a few such reports, we could dismiss them as nonsense. But, there aren’t just a few. There are dozens. And I’m talking only about the cases I have on file. Who knows how many similar reports other investigators have?
Of course, references to odd-looking people wearing hats, wigs and sunglasses – and in relation to UFOs – instantly provoke imagery of the Men in Black. The matter of the so-called Black-Eyed Children springs to mind, too. After all, the BEC are rarely seen without their black hoodies, which offer a degree of camouflage, and particularly so during night-time encounters. But the MIB and the BEC are just two parts of a much bigger mystery. Let’s take a look at a few cases and comments.
In issue 187 of Fortean Times magazine, writer Mark Pilkington reviewed the FortNite 2004 gig. He commented on some of the data revealed at the conference by the late alien abduction researcher Budd Hopkins: “…in order to better blend in with us humans, the greys have taken to wearing wigs and sunglasses…the aliens are also experimenting with growing hair on the heads of their genetic hybrid grey-human creations…they’re also developing pupils to get around those giveaway wraparound black eyes.”
Writer Eris Andys had her own run-in with one of these camouflaged ETs, in 1988, as she described in an appropriately titled 2004 article for Fortean Times: “A Quiet Invasion.” While walking down one particular street (location not stated) Andys encountered a humanoid creature with “waxy, grey” skin, “…with no pores and no hair. It looked damp. The mouth was small, the nose tiny, and the chin pointed.” She added: “The most amazing thing was the pair of glasses ‘he’ wore – made of some yellow reflective stuff, they wrapped around the sides of the head like some futuristic ski-wear.”
Going back further in time, we have the account of “Kartott.” In 1974 or 1975, south of St. Louis, Missouri, she crossed paths with “…a very pale entity, wearing a thin black coat (like a rain coat) with collar turned up to cover her neck, a heavy long haired wig, and very large black glasses. This did not entirely hide her strange face: a very pointed chin, scant lip and nose. She did not speak.”
And further back into the 1970s, there’s a story that John Keel highlighted in his classic book, The Mothman Prophecies. It’s a story I wrote about earlier this year, here at Mysterious Universe. So, for our purposes, I’ll keep the summary brief.
The odd affair surfaced in late 1971 and was focused on a woman named Shirley Cromartie. She was a mother of three, who held a security clearance in the Florida White House and who found herself plunged into a profoundly strange situation. In a Florida parking-lot, Cromartie was placed into a hypnotic state by a mysterious wig-wearing woman. Keel suggested, in his book, that the hypnotic abilities of Cromartie’s mind-altering woman amounted to “…not some small demonstration for the benefit of President Nixon.”
Check out too the odd saga of Whitley Strieber, his 1987 book, Communion, and a man named Bruce Lee.
Is all this talk of strange humanoids, wigs, hats, sunglasses, and camouflage nothing more than the results of coincidence, paranoia and modern day folklore in the making? I seriously doubt it. Something is going on. There is a pattern. It’s not a good pattern. And as I noted, I have dozens of such cases. It would be interesting to see how many other researchers have similar cases on file. And it would be very interesting to see where all this might lead.
A Mind-Altering Mysterious Woman
- http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/01/a-mind-altering-mysterious-woman/
- January 20, 2015
- Nick Redfern
There is, however, one case that Keel only briefly touched upon in his all-time classic, The Mothman Prophecies, but which is of such genuine high-strangeness that it is definitely worthy of further study and commentary. It was a story that surfaced in late October 1971, and reached the eyes and ears of the United States’ media. This was hardly surprising since – in a curious fashion – it involved none other than President Richard Nixon.
The story – which Keel presents in his book, in verbatim form from a newspaper article – revolves around a woman named Shirley Cromartie. She was a mother of three, who – the press revealed – held a security clearance in the Florida White House and who found herself plunged into a profoundly strange situation.
The media began, on October 23, 1971: “A part-time housekeeper at President Nixon’s Key Biscayne retreat has testified she was put in a hypnotic daze by a stranger who told her to shoplift four dresses.”
The press continued that Mrs. Cromartie “…pleaded no contest Thursday and was given a suspended sentence after law enforcement officers and a psychiatrist testified they believed she was telling the truth. Mrs. Cromartie holds a security clearance to work in the Florida White House, according to testimony.”
Mrs. Cromartie said a mysterious woman met with her in a parking lot and asked if she had the time, and then ordered her to shoplift the items and bring them to her. The press added, elevating the high-strangeness to even greater levels: “Mrs. Cromartie testified she fell into a daze when the young woman released a jasmine-like scent from her left hand.”
She added: “I just sort of lost my will. It was a terrifying experience.”
The media coverage continued: “Mrs. Cromartie joined the Key Biscayne White House housekeeping staff about a year ago, according to FBI Agent Leo Mc Clairen. He testified her background was impeccable.”
She was also examined by a psychiatrist, who, the newspapers said: “…found she could be hypnotized ‘quickly and easily’ and believed she was telling the truth.”
“But it wasn’t the same when he hypnotized me,” Mrs. Cromartie said. “I couldn’t remember anything afterwards. Whatever that young woman did to me, it was like being in a sleepwalk, only awake.”
As the media continued to dig into the story, things got even more bizarre. The mysterious woman, with the mind-altering, “jasmine-like scent,” was described as being attractive, young, and…wearing a wig – the latter being something which is a staple part of certain “Women in Black” cases I have investigated (and which are the subject of a book I have almost finished writing).
Also, both the WIB and their more famous male counterparts, the Men in Black, are oddly fond of asking people the time, as Mrs. Cromartie’s mysterious woman was so very careful to do.
Metro Court Judge, Frederick Barad, said of this surreal saga: “This is all so bizarre that I’m frightened what could happen to the president.”
This latter point was something clearly on the mind of John Keel, too. He speculated in The Mothman Prophecies that the hypnotic abilities of Cromartie’s mind-altering woman amounted to “…not some small demonstration for the benefit of President Nixon.”
It’s curious that very little additional coverage ever surfaced on this genuinely weird affair. Whether officialdom – as a result of the White House connection – learned any more is a matter that, outside of governmental channels, remains unknown…
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