1941 Kidderminster, Worcestershire

 Source: John Hanson, Haunted Skies Vol. 1, pp 26-27

 

“Alison Richards, a woman in her late 60s, whom we met on a number of occasions at her Kidderminster home.  We were accompanied by Phil Hoyle of the Shrewsbury UFO Group, a man who specialises in counselling women claiming to have been the subject of alien abduction experiences.

“Alison outlined her early childhood memories, from when she was aged between five and six.

“These included a series of bizarre, frightening experiences while living with her badly crippled mother in a tiny cottage lit by gas and candles…

“At the time her father, a soldier with the Ninth Army, was away fighting in North Africa, during 1941:

‘When Mum went to bed she had to bandage on a metal splint to her leg, as her only way of getting about was to hop.

‘It was always an unwritten rule that if I needed her, perhaps because of sickness, I would always go to her, except for when I had a visit from what I can only describe as ‘horse beings’, who always entered the room from out of the linen cupboard, next to the window over the stairs, when I would scream and shout for her.

‘By the time my Mum had reached the bedroom they had left via either the window, or the linen cupboard.

‘I kept telling Mum what I had seen.  She insisted horses could not physically get into the house, but I knew they were real because, on at least four occasions, they actually hurt me.  I would end up with flesh gouged out of my left leg on the shin bone, about the size of a five pence piece (Approx. 20mm). The injuries to my leg, (which always happened after the shortest one came into the room), frightened my mother.

‘She thought, to begin with, that I had caught the leg on a loose mattress wire on the bed spring.  She and a neighbour thoroughly checked the bed but could find no trace of what was causing these injuries to occur, always in the same place on the skin.’

Hanson notes:

“Sadly, Alison died in August 2008.  however, knowing her quite well, we wondered if the ‘horse entities’ she described had parallels with the small beings often described as ‘greys’. Whose role in abduction phenomena are well documented”.

THS:  The illustration accompanying this account clearly shows two ‘typical’ Greys so with no other description it has to be assumed that this is what Alison was referring to.  I do wonder with the mass of accounts of ‘demons’, ‘aliens’ and ghosts as well as many other evil things coming out of bedroom closets and cupboards in the UK and US how many people think of bricking them up.

The annoyance here is that we have “horse beings” as a description yet an illo of Greys who can in no way, shape or form be called horse-like. It is interesting that these encounters happened at night and that the entities vanished one way or another before Alison’s mother arrived –but in the abduction scenario we are told that people sleeping in the bed next to the abductee and in other rooms cannot be woken.

People, through diet or illness can develop leg sores –I know of two people (male) who have had these for years. It happens so even if we rule out self-inflicted wound there is still no evidence of this being caused by ‘aliens’.

Obviously we have no case history.  Any corroboration of strange events or even when Alison first contacted Phil Hoyle or what actions he took.

Conclusion: Repeated dreams or hypnagogic –she was awake enough by the time her mother arrived. Like so many cases nothing of interest unless one is interested in the number of ‘abductees’ who exhibit signs of hypnagogia.