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Family’s Frightening GREY ALIEN CLOSE ENCOUNTER at Home
A young mother, alone with her two small children, experiences a frightening encounter with a Grey alien while in her bedroom one early morning. Now she fears it will happen again.
The following account was recently forwarded to me:
“During the summer of 1994, my husband and I purchased a newly-built home in a Sacramento Valley, California subdivision. We moved in with our four-year-old son and our soon-to-arrive baby daughter. The house was located at the end of the street with a lot of undeveloped land behind us.
Our son adjusted quickly, and he made many new friends. The neighborhood kids played on the street since there was no traffic during the day while most people were at work. Unfortunately, my husband was not able to find a job in Sacramento right away. He would stay with his mom back in the Bay Area during the work week and then he would drive back to the valley to check in on us. That’s when we would do our grocery shopping and other errands at that time. We only had one car and I was left stranded until he was back for the weekend.
On a particular Monday, after he left early for his commute to work, I felt uneasy and scared, but I didn’t know why. I decided to go back to our bedroom and lay down. I soon fell asleep, but I had a horrible nightmare. I dreamt that our son was missing and that we were running to different streets looking for him and calling out his name. I woke up suddenly and was relieved that it was just a horrible dream and my boy was fast asleep next to me. The baby was still in her bassinet next to the bed.
I turned over on my side facing the bassinet and noticed a bright light coming in between the window blinds. I thought out loud, “Is it morning already?” The light was coming in between the blinds and it was so bright, but the rest of the room was dark. There was also a bright light on the wall next to the window and I looked up to see where the light was coming from. To my horror, just above the bassinet, was an alien Grey’s face. It was just the head, no upper body, legs, or arms. The head was dark in color, very round, ending in a pointed chin and there was a small slit for a mouth. The nostrils were small, but the eyes were large and almond-shaped and very shiny black. It had some sort of glass lamp on the top of its head. The light on the wall was projected from the lamp.
Then I noticed that the being was looking down at my baby daughter. Oh my God! I couldn’t speak! My heart started pounding so hard that I started trembling uncontrollably. It saw me and realized I was looking at it. The being moved toward me and I started screaming and swinging my arms. I remember that I screamed out loud for it to leave! It floated from its original position above the bassinet to just above my face. I remember seeing this light blue fog build up in front of my face and then, in a dream-like manner, I heard a cooing sound, similar to Mourning Doves. I had the feeling that whoever was talking to me was stern and was telling me that it was for our own good.
Then I woke up. It was still dark out but it was around 6 AM and the blankets were perfectly made around the bed like nothing had happened. Everything was still. My son was asleep next to me and the baby was in her bassinet. I got out of bed and turned all the lights on in the bedroom. Then I walked through the house and turned on every light I could in order to check each room and closet. I checked the locks on all the doors, the lock on the backyard sliding glass door, and all of the windows were latched. Nothing had been tampered with.
I decided to go to the bathroom and shower. When I was washing my hair I felt a sore spot on the top of my head. There was no blood or swelling bump, but it was very sore. I got dressed and walked to the kitchen. I made some coffee, then sat at the counter while trying to make sense of all those events I perceived. I thought about the nightmare that I had woken up from and how relieved I had felt that it had just been a bad dream. But then that being was there and I couldn’t decide if it had been another bad dream or if that second part was actually real. It didn’t make sense.
My son was up at 9 00 AM and I kept checking in on the baby. She continued sleeping, which I thought was strange. She should have been up to nurse hours earlier. I called my sister and told her about my dream. I started crying because it seemed like it had been real. But I kept thinking that it couldn’t be real.
I checked on the baby. She seemed fine. There was no fever or anything other problem. She did not wake up to nurse until 2 PM that afternoon. By then I was sore and engorged with milk. As the day progressed I became anxious and before it was evening I again called my sister asking if she could come over and pick us up. I didn’t want to be there alone with the kids at night. She drove over and took us to her apartment. My sister wasn’t sure what to make of this whole situation.
I called my husband and told him about my bad dream but he thought it was just stress from being left alone so many nights and taking care of the kids. He picked us up from my sister’s place and drove us back to our house that evening. I tried to go about my normal routine of making dinner, bathing the kids before bed, and watching a movie. It was soon time for me and my husband to go to bed, so I put both kids in the bed between us. I was terrified that it would come back, that I would wake up and that face would be there looking back at me.
My husband continued to commute for another six months, so I was still alone in the evening. That was the worst part for weeks. Every night I would stay up just until I could see daylight before I felt safe enough to fall asleep. I would leave the TV and the bedroom lights on and fight sleep until I would see the early sunlight peek through the windows.
I went on like this for three years. My husband would just tell me that it had been a bad dream. But after a few months, he didn’t like for me to talk about it. My daughter was only three months old when this happened she doesn’t have any strange scars or ill effects from the experience. But, I know that it was not a dream in regard to the encounter with the alien being.
I just pray that it never happens again. But, for some unexplained reason, I believe that it will. I feel that my children and I are destined to have more encounters during our lives. The fear of the unknown is more frightening than the actual experience.” M
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Family’s heartbreaking final words to murdered April Jones are revealed 10 years after five-year-old was abducted
THE family of April Jones have shared the heartbreaking final words they said to the five-year-old before she was murdered.
April vanished from her Wales home a decade ago but her body has never been found.
Now April’s sister Jazz has revealed the final words she said to the youngster[/caption]
Channel 4 has now delved into the youngster’s disappearance – which sparked the biggest manhunt in British police history.
Despite April’s body never being found, Mark Bridger was sentenced to a life behind bars for her abduction and murder.
Her family have now opened up about what they went through – including reminiscing about the last time they saw the youngster.
April’s sister Jazz and mum Coral have now also shared the final things they said to wee April on October 1, 2012.
Speaking in the first episode of the three-part documentary called The Disappearance of April Jones, Jazz recalled the last time she spoke to her younger sister.
Jazz remembered how it was a lovely, light evening – which was odd for October.
The now 27-year-old said: “I remember we were just by the back gate, a little bit, just from the back gate.
“I remember saying to April, I gave her a massive hug and I said, ‘I’m going now, I’ll see you later, I love you’.
“And she went off to play.”
April’s mum Coral also recalled her last conversation with the youngster in the hours that followed – telling her to come straight home.
The mum-of-three said her daughter had been playing with friends.
Coral recollected: “She came back and her and her friend then had dinner at our house, they wanted to take their friend home on their bikes.
“We said ‘yeah no problem, come straight back’.”
But April never did – the Machynlleth youngster was seen getting into a vehicle near her home instead.
At the time, Coral made an emotional appeal about her daughter, which led to Prime Minister David Cameron also issuing an appeal.
After April could not be found, police officially designated the case a murder inquiry on October 5, 2012, despite no body being recovered.
A large search operation was launched by the police in the area near her home with family, friends, and volunteers assisting in the search.
The day after April vanished, Bridger was arrested as he matched the description of the man eyewitnesses said spoke to April and drove her away in his car.
Although the girl’s body has never been discovered, DNA evidence discovered during the search of Mark’s home convinced police that she had been brutally murdered.
Meanwhile, just days ago Jazz revealed her family’s suffering since April’s death – and how it will never end.
She also recalled how Bridger had attempted to communicate with her before he abducted her younger sister.
The family recently opened up about their suffering since April died[/caption]
My sister April Jones was killed by evil predator when she was just five – our family’s suffering will never end
THE sister of murdered schoolgirl April Jones has spoken out about her family’s suffering since her death – and how it will never end.
April’s older sister Jazmin, 27, chillingly spoke of how monster Mark Bridger attempted to communicate with her before he abducted the youngster in 2012.
Jazmin Jones (pictured) is the sister of murdered schoolgirl April[/caption]
The disappearance of April in 2012 shocked the nation[/caption]
Mark Bridger was convicted of the youngster’s abduction and murder[/caption]
April’s disappearance from her home in Machynlleth, Wales in 2012 sparked the biggest manhunt in British police history.
But despite a national search to find the missing five-year-old, her body was tragically never found.
Local man Mark Bridger, a former abattoir worker, was later convicted of April’s abduction and murder, but his actions left a harrowing impression on the devastated family.
Speaking in a new documentary set to air on Channel 4 next week, Jazz said: “When she went, the whole thing just collapsed.
“Our family was fractured. Things are better now but, from that night, I didn’t have a mother. I had just lost my sister, and then I lost my mother too.
“I had to grow up overnight. I was on my own, really, trying to look after my little brother (just ten at the time), trying to help my dad.”
Speaking to the documentary, Jazmin’s mum Coral spoke of the devastating impact of Bridger’s heinous crime.
“He abused her,” he says.
“They found her DNA in his pants. Then we think he chopped her up and burnt her, after whatever he did to her.”
Jazmin said that although the details of the crime were unthinkable, she feels she needed to learn what happened to her sister to try and cope with the loss.
“I needed those answers,” she said.
“When you don’t have them you go to the worst-case scenario — what you are imagining is so terrible that anything is better than that.”
The now-27-year-old revealed that just a year before April’s murder, Bridger had attempted to communicate with her on Facebook.
Following his arrest, the predator was found to have downloaded disturbing images of children, some pornographic, alongside photographs of April and Jazz.
She said he had tried to add her on Facebook, leading to questions over his potential obsession with the two and his targeting of April.
“It makes my skin crawl,” she said.
“I don’t want to think about it. I want to believe she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but if that was the case, I would have swapped places with her a million times over. I would have taken her place.”
SPECIAL BOND
She said that she and April, who was born with cerebral palsy, developed a special bond, as she became adept at caring for her little sister.
“When April came home from hospital, she had a hole in her heart and we were told we couldn’t let her cry because it would put strain on her,” she recalled.
“So my brother, Harley, and I would run to lift her when she cried.”
But after Bridger snatched the youngster, Jazz said her devastated family struggled to deal with the harrowing loss.
She said her mum Coral fell into a deep depression, staying in bed for days at a time.
Jazmin added: “I can understand her headspace, now, but at the time I was saying: ‘You still have a daughter!’
“But I was the forgotten daughter. I know that sounds selfish, but I was 16 and I didn’t have a mother for the last few years of my childhood.
“Afterwards, people would ask ‘How are your mum and dad doing?’ – No one asked how I was doing.
“At about 18 I started to drink heavily. When I drank I could forget my life, but that led to more rows at home.”
HEARTBREAKING
She said one of the most heartbreaking after-effects of losing April was still needing to sleep in the room they had shared, which was full of the five-year-olds things.
“Her teddies were all at the bottom of her bed. Her clothes, toys, DVDs were all over the place,” Jazz recalls.
“Every morning I’d wake up and in that time before you are completely awake, I’d look over expecting to see her.
“Unless I looked at the wall, I couldn’t avoid her things.”
Bridger will now spend the rest of his life behind bars for his harrowing crime, but Jazz says she doesn’t want to spend any time thinking of the monster.
“I have hated him, in the past, but now I don’t think he’s even worth that,” she says.
Now ten years on from the ordeal, Jazz said she can tragically no longer recall April’s face.
She said: “I can’t see her face unless I look at a photograph. I can’t remember how tall she is, how her voice sounds”.
The Disappearance Of April Jones starts on Channel 4 on Monday, December 12 at 9pm.
The five-year-old’s body was never found[/caption]
Bridger was sentenced to life in prison for the murder[/caption]
Prince Harry ‘will return to Britain to promote his explosive memoir’ casting a shadow over Royal Family’s Christmas
PRINCE Harry will reportedly return to Britain to promote his explosive memoir which will cast a shadow over the Royal Family’s Christmas.
“Spare” is due to hit bookshelves on January 10 — the day after the 41st birthday of Catherine, Princess of Wales and just four months after the death of the Queen.
Prince Harry may fly to the UK in the New Year to promote his new book according to reports[/caption]
Prince Harry’s memoir will reportedly cast a shadow over the Royal Family’s Christmas[/caption]
The bombshell book’s title is believed to be a nod to the age-old saying “the heir and the spare”.
It refers to the monarch’s first child being necessary to continue the line of succession – unlike the second, lower-ranking Royal.
And reports have now claimed that Harry may fly to the UK in the New Year to explain his “intent” in writing the book, according to Mail Online.
“Put it this way, it’s not going to make for a relaxing family Christmas,” a source said.
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It comes after reports that The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will snub His Majesty’s invitation to Sandringham for Christmas celebrations.
One insider suggests relations are believed to be at “near rock bottom” as the Duke of Sussex prepares to spill all in his new book in the new year.
A source said the royals were this week “completely caught by surprise” with the title of the book as publishers teased the memoirs “raw, unflinching honesty”.
It has also been claimed the move could potentially see retaliation from the palace, including stripping him and Meghan of their Sussex titles.
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The release could also affect the titles of Harry and Meghan’s children Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, , which are said to be up in the air due to the memoir.
Writer Tom Bower has warned the memoir’s reception will be a make or break moment for Harry and Meghan.
Bower said: “This book is really make or break. I imagine that King Charles has been warned that any retaliation won’t be pretty.
“All that King Charles can really do is to withhold the titles for his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet.
“Ultimately, I suppose, he could take away Harry and Meghan’s titles as well, but that’s pretty drastic.
“I don’t know what else he can do. If it is as bad as I think it is, then Harry and Meghan have gone fully rogue.”
He added that the best thing the royal family could do in this scenario would be to “break ties” with the pair.
Relations with William are also still frosty with reports surfacing that the Prince of Wales has barely spoken to his brother since the news of the memoir.
Harry’s bombshell insight flies in the face of the old royal convention of “never complain, never explain”.
Earlier this week long-awaited details of the 416-page title were revealed, including publisher Penguin Random House’s description.
It reads: “With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
“Spare takes readers immediately back to one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror.
“As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling – and how their lives would play out from that point on.”
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This week commentators suggested the title showed that Prince Harry still begrudges his lower status.
One expert even slammed its as a “pathetic” dig at the Royal Family showing the Prince “hadn’t moved on”.