Needles, connected to long wires, probed their heads, arms, legs and spines. This pregnancy test left her twisting in pain.
Betty laughed, explaining that Barney had dentures, a fact of human aging the beings struggled to understand. Later, alone with the leader, Betty asked where the craft had flown, admitting she knew little of the universe. In , the Hills' story was picked up by a Boston newspaper.
After that, everything changed. The upstanding civil servants had become celebrity abductees. Barney holding up a diagram explaining the alien abduction. Some aliens even lived on earth and commuted back on weekends.
Richard J. Experts of all stripes have tried to explain why intelligent, otherwise mentally stable people came forward with these experiences. Many psychologists say sleep paralysis and hallucinations played a role. Leading questions during hypnosis—the main way most abductees unlock their stories —could also have been a factor. Barney and Betty Hill holding a newspaper reporting about their alleged alien abduction in a rural portion of New Hampshire in late September Those who report abduction might also see the world a little differently.
According to research , one of the strongest predictors of false recall is a vivid imagination. Many point to the stress of being an interracial couple living in a predominantly white state in a turbulent era.
The year of their hypnosis, , was marked by Cold War tensions and civil-rights unrest, with numerous urban riots erupting that summer. I find that very meaningful. Abductee stories depend on first-hand accounts—the most vulnerable form of evidence.
Memories can be distorted by stress or distraction, or even manufactured. When a false memory is in place, psychologists say, the brain works to fill in the details. Past experience also shapes human perception. Betty, meanwhile, who had been excited to see the aliens, bantered with the affable gray who performed her medical examination. They tried to shake it off, but a few days later, Betty began having nightmares. Two years later, the couple visited a psychiatrist.
There, under hypnosis, they both recounted what had occurred that night: short, gray aliens with big, wraparound eyes took them aboard their saucer-shaped craft and probed them with needles.
Barney in particular was terrified at the recollection. Betty was more comfortable sharing the story with friends and others, even giving lectures about the experience at schools and to local groups. Journalists started sniffing around, and the Hills agreed to the book deal.
The Hills were unlike many of the thousands of abductees to follow, in that they remembered—or believed they remembered—the experience. They just have a strong sense that it happened. In this way, Tom is a typical abductee. Something unusual occurs, and while other possibilities are considered—a friend suggested Tom might have gotten bruised at his job on a demolition site—something about aliens just feels right.
Yes, some people who claim to have been abducted are dishonest hoaxers. But French notes that rates of psychopathy are not that different among abductees than among the general population. Psychological profiles of abductees differ in some important and consistent ways, he says. Abductees are more likely to dissociate. They are more prone to experiencing altered states of consciousness, such as out-of-body experiences or lost time.
They are more fantasy-prone. These things in combination make a person more susceptible to false memories: recollections that feel completely real to the believer, but are nevertheless inaccurate. Memory is imperfect , and all of us have distorted memories to some extent. But this truth lingered in the air for 2 centuries until someone of a properly educated background could go tell everyone.
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