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Mysteries revisited: the 1976 Stanford, Kentucky alien abductions

By T.K. Randall
February 1, 2025 · Comment icon 37 comments
Alien abduction car
What happened to the three women that night ? Image Credit: Bing AI / Dall-E 3
A sinister series of events saw three women abducted by unseen forces in one of Kentucky's most chilling cases.
The strangeness began on the evening of January 6, 1976 when three friends - Mona Stafford, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas had been driving home - a journey of 35 miles - from Liberty, Kentucky where they had enjoyed a meal at a restaurant to celebrate Mona's birthday.

At around 11:15pm, they noticed a strange red object in the sky that they initially thought to be an airplane but that quickly turned out to be something a lot bigger and a lot more sinister.

Over the next few minutes, the object seemed to toy with their vehicle - first appearing 100 yards ahead and then circling back around and showing up behind them with a blue light instead of red.

Suddenly, Louise, who had been driving, found that she was no longer able to control the car - some unseen force had taken over and was accelerating the vehicle up to speeds of 85mph.

The women felt their eyes burning as everything seemed to fade away.
Next thing they knew, they were 8 miles away on the outskirts of Hustonville and the clock showed that it was now 20 minutes later, with none of the women recalling what had happened.

They quickly discovered that they had sustained mysterious burn marks on their bodies and Louise found that her watch had started to spin uncontrollably.

Later, it turned out that local authorities had received several UFO reports from other individuals on the same evening and all three women passed a lie detector test about their experience.

They even underwent hypnotic regression in an effort to find out what happened and recalled encountering strange shodowy entities who abducted and examined them.

To date, no definitive explanation for their experiences has ever been forthcoming.



Source: wkdq.com | Comments (37)




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Comment icon #28 Posted by Trelane 13 days ago
Well , that could really be anything if taken at face value. That's why "revisiting" claims that are almost 50 years old without new evidence to support those claims tend to be counterproductive.
Comment icon #29 Posted by OverSword 13 days ago
I disagree.  Hearing these stories again is fun (which is why I'm here) and for people that are under 35 years old this story is probably brand new and imo interesting.
Comment icon #30 Posted by Trelane 13 days ago
Fun is one thing. People always love a good yarn. Campfire-type stories are great. The problem with the recycling of these stories for younger folks is the inability to present them in a balanced nature that removes the sensationalism they were originally reported with.
Comment icon #31 Posted by OverSword 13 days ago
killjoy 
Comment icon #32 Posted by XenoFish 13 days ago
I've been waiting for the chupacabra to resurface again. Like how the bigfoot and nessie threads die down for a while. Same goes for haunted ouija boards and dolls. All it takes is a movie or TV show it seems to get them started again.
Comment icon #33 Posted by Antigonos 13 days ago
Not going to lie, that’s why I’ve always enjoyed and collected pre 20th century stories about supernatural phenomena even though I’m skeptical as to their actual reality. That’s a keen observation and one that I think is true for some people regardless of whether they are skeptics or believers.
Comment icon #34 Posted by Trelane 13 days ago
No not at all. I do love a good creepy/spooky/mysterious story.   
Comment icon #35 Posted by OverSword 13 days ago
You didn't tell your kids there was no Santa Claus, right?
Comment icon #36 Posted by Trelane 13 days ago
Correct, they eventually figured that out for themselves.
Comment icon #37 Posted by Hazzard 12 days ago
Yep... same with ghosts, Nessie, Bigfoot and ? We still enjoy the stories of course. 


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