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Shadowy figures appear in the night, terrifying all who encounter them.

I don't even know how to describe that level of fear, because it was this big,

hulking black mass.

They paralyzed their prey.

It was like being chained to the bottom of the ocean.

You can't move, you can't breathe.

And according to some, they are not only frightening, but deadly.

They explained it as these shadow entities were killing them.

Could dark entities known as the shadow people be more than just a product of

the imagination?

Are there beings coming to Earth from other worlds or other dimensions with

malicious intentions for the human race?

It seems menacing. It seems from another place. It's a mystery.

But it's a mystery that a lot of people are encountering.

There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We have never been alone.

Vientiane Laos, December 2nd, 1975.

In the wake of the Vietnam War, the Hmong people, a group of indigenous

Laotians, are forced to flee their country.

as the Communist Party seizes political control.

Thousands of displaced Hmong people immigrate to the United States, but as

become settled in their new communities, they face an unexpected and much more

mysterious threat.

There was a very strange rash of death of Hmong men who suddenly

died in their sleep, and medical technicians could find no reason for...

these strange deaths.

If you look at the statistics, suddenly, when the Hmong people arrived in the

United States, their death rate skyed. Why?

Nobody knows why, because they didn't have any symptoms. They just died.

After numerous inconclusive autopsies, mystified doctors were unable to find a

cause of death, but gave the phenomenon a name.

Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome.

All but one of the 117 men who died were in good health, with a median age of

33.

So while some doctors now speculate that the deaths might be explained by an

obscure genetic cardiac arrhythmia, the Hmong believe there is another

explanation.

Modern medical science could not explain these deaths.

But among the Hmong, they knew it was because they couldn't practice their

original religion.

In Laos, there is a belief that there are night spirits that are dangerous.

if you have done your rituals, your prayers, your ceremonies, and have your

ceremonial objects near your bed, you're fine. It's all under control when

you're in Laos.

But when you're brought to another country and you're working odd shifts

things, maybe your rituals get a little off. So you're in trouble. And the night

spirits get you and you die, which is just so strange. I mean, these are night

spirits. That's superstition. But they die. The deaths are real.

These shadowy night spirits are known by the Hmong people as Cho Chua and are

often described as pressure demons.

That is, demons that exert pressure by sitting on their victims' chests until

they can no longer breathe.

The Hmong people talked about some of the symptoms they experienced.

Not just nightmares, but visions and a terrible pressure on their bodies.

because their ancestral spirits were no longer protecting them. Among themselves

explained it as these shadow entities were killing and punishing

them for not having done their rituals correctly.

The reason why we know that they believe they were dying from this is because

medical experts, researchers, talked with the family members, and that's what

they said.

The Hmong people's description of their interaction with the pressure demons

known as Cho Chua bears a striking resemblance to what ancient astronaut

theorists describe as mysterious entities called shadow people.

An extraordinary experience has been reported by thousands of people

They're asleep, suddenly they wake up, and there's this dark humanoid figure

that's opaque. It appears to be made of some ethereal substance that reflects no

light.

Shadow entities can be a lot of different things.

But in general, what we see with these shadow entities are some common traits,

such as no facial features. Everything is black and dark in nature. Some may be

very solid, some may be very translucent, but we're not getting any

Due to their shadowy nature, experiencers have difficulty making

what these entities are.

But for most, the encounters are terrifyingly real.

Los Angeles, California, February 2011.

On a quiet night, journalist Paul Christensen is asleep in bed when

he's jolted awake by a jarring physical sensation.

It was like being chained to the bottom of the ocean.

You can't move. You can't breathe.

You open your eyes and there is a presence in the room with you.

You can't make out who it is, what it is.

It looks like just a dark entity.

The air behind them, I don't know how to describe this. It's kind of fuzzy.

It's kind of moving.

And then I was just trying to make something move or come out of me.

ended in just the most blood -curdling scream that I could get out of my mouth.

And as soon as I screamed, my girlfriend that was laying next to me woke up, and

I turned the light on, and it was gone.

Paul is uncertain how long the encounter lasted, but it was only the first of

several that would take place over the next five years.

Each left him paralyzed with fear.

At the time these were happening, I was frightened for my life.

Part of me feels like there's some kind of demonic presence around them.

I've never felt that they were there for good intentions.

It's always come with a heavy feeling of darkness.

That they were there for something other than anything good.

While Paul's encounters with shadowy beings have left him frightened and

desperate for answers.

His experience is not unique.

In 2001, author Heidi Hollis released The Secret War, in which she shared her

own startling experiences with entities she called shadow people.

I don't even know how to describe that level of fear because it was absolutely

hulking over me.

And this started my whole journey into the topic of shadow people.

I'm a person that's not afraid to say I've experienced something.

I'm like, bring it out into the light and let's talk about it.

From the start, when I finally got the book published in 2001, thousands of

people from around the world, from priests to school teachers, have written

seeking help.

So my goal is to try to help people to understand that you can keep these

at bay.

According to Heidi's research, collecting and studying people's

these dark entities can appear as various shapes and figures.

The experiences that I receive often involve a person waking up, they feel a

presence in the room, and if they spot it, the thing comes even closer

and pins them down, and they're paralyzed.

They often come at nighttime because your guard is down. So they're taking

advantage of you when you're not at your best.

So they're sneaky, they're deceptive, and they evoke a lot of horrific things

into people's lives.

The dark humanoid appearance of shadow beings has caused some to identify them

as apparitions or ghosts.

But many researchers believe the shadow people are a much different type of

entity.

A ghost is a human spirit that is taking some sort of corporeal form.

With a ghost, we get a lot of detail in the apparition. We can see facial

features, we can see clothing, we can see details in the hair, where with

entities, we get almost nothing.

While many psychologists continue to dismiss the phenomenon as a symptom of

sleep paralysis, researchers point out...

that people have reported encounters that happened when they were wide awake.

In my own personal experience with the shadow people, I was getting ready to go

to sleep, sitting up in bed, and all of a sudden this black humanoid figure

enters into the room, walks across the room, I follow it and watch it, and it

just vanishes. I didn't experience any fear. I was totally perplexed by what

I've seen and thought, wow, what was that?

Believe it or not, the first shadow people experience that I had was

it following another friend of mine in broad daylight. And I saw this entity,

this big, hulking black mass that kind of looks like a man with its head

directly connected to its shoulders, going tree to tree and bush to bush as

we're walking along.

And I was just beside myself. The whole way that we go, we see this thing.

I really thought, you know, I just witnessed one crazy thing, and that was

I trust myself and I know what it is I experienced and I know what was going

If the so -called shadow people are not merely a trick of the mind, but very

real and possibly dangerous entities, what exactly are they?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining similar accounts that were

recorded thousands of years ago.

Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma.

This nearly 7 million acre territory is home to native people who have occupied

North America for more than 4 ,000 years.

The Choctaw continue to carry on the centuries -old traditions of their

ancestors to this day.

And one story that continues to loom large is that of the Nalusa Cheeto,

the Choctaw describe as a shadow being.

This Nelusa Tito is a demonic entity.

And the Choctaw believe that if you're having bad thoughts, that this will

attract the Nelusa Tito to you.

The Nelusa Tito would get you by creeping inside you and eating your

The Choctaw were so afraid of this creature, they would not say the name.

And many people would move along and abandon huts and things because of the

of this shadow figure.

We see the shadow people in the stories of other Native American people on

Native American reservations, particularly the Hickory Apache

Dulce, New Mexico. They talk about the shadow people as if they are their

regular companions.

The legend is this.

If a shadow person who's really a spirit sees you and that shadow people

attaches itself to you, it will be with you for the rest of your life.

The traditions of the Native American tribes originated centuries ago.

And as ancient astronaut theorists point out, accounts of shadowy entities can

be found in the legends of ancient cultures.

all around the world.

While there are stories of shadow people in modern times, what I find

interesting is there are also references to what seem to be shadow people in

ancient texts.

And frankly, they're very strange accounts.

Shadow beings go far back into antiquity, all the way back to the time

ancient Sumer, where in that culture you see accounts of Alu.

which is a type of Udag, which in their culture was a type of demon.

Now, Alu, in the way that he would appear to people, it was very much like

shadow entities of today, where he was very dark in nature. He had no facial

features, no eyes, no nose, no mouth.

And he would hover over people at night.

Of course, there are many accounts of demons in the scriptures, the Christian

Bible, the Talmud. In Jewish lore, there is the shadow of death or the death

shadow. There is this idea that there are malevolent spirits that could harm

you.

Commonly compared with the shadow people is an entity known in Islam as the

jinn, supernatural creatures that are often invisible and have the ability to

shapeshift. The derivation of jinn comes from an Arabic root, j -n -n,

which literally means to hide or to conceal.

The jinn are created of smokeless fire.

Our English word genie, you know, the mythical spirit that lives inside of a

lamp, comes from the word jinn.

The jinn are considered more trickster in nature.

They have some interesting abilities, such as they can instantly transport

one place to another. They also seem to appear very dark and shadowy in nature.

They were these big, looming type of characters when they enter the room.

As a Muslim, you know, I believe the jinn to be real. Jinn can be angelic.

They can be demonic.

And so this idea is that you have to be careful with them because they are these

powerful figures.

They are these literally supernatural figures.

And so across the Muslim world in the present day, particularly in places like

North Africa, you may wear an amulet, you may have things to ward off the

you may have certain things that you do to protect you from the jinn because the

idea is that the jinn, when they're in their demonic capacity,

will do things that can be harmful or tormenting to human beings.

What I find fascinating is that you have a myriad of cultures from all over the

world that have very, very similar beliefs about these shadow entities.

Now, they may call it something different, but you see in Turkey, the

the dark presser, as a very, very similar entity as to the Khan of Tavaro

Fiji.

as to the pisadera in brazil they are all talking about the same type of being

the same type of entity and it calls into question how are these beings

all of these different cultures from all over the world since they did not have

any contact with each other historically since the beginning of time we have had

creature stories of strange beings shadows of the boogeyman

And they somehow echo some of the reports that we're hearing today.

They're somewhat similar. I don't think they've ever gone away.

They're still here on the planet.

Have separate cultures around the world and throughout history been haunted by

the same dark figures?

And if so, just what kind of entities are they?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining eyewitness accounts of strange

energy. When face to face with shadow people.

Virginia City, Nevada.

October 28th, 2016.

Researcher Michelle LeBaron and a group of colleagues are investigating reports

of a shadow -like entity at a historic saloon called the Washoe Club.

She and another woman ventured into one particular room, and between her and her

friend, this large shadow loomed up. She described it as about 6 '5", 6

'6", in height, but again, very, very dark in nature, so there was no detail.

At one point, she thought it had completely engulfed her friend, and they

up screaming and running out of the room.

Now, this woman, a few minutes later after they collected themselves, walked

back over to the hall, and there stood again this very tall, dark shadow.

But it started doing something very unusual. There was this pulsating energy

that was emanating forth from it, like a whoop, whoop, whoop, and she could hear

it as well as feel it.

In many cases...

People feel a certain energy projecting out from these beings.

And in this particular woman's case, it was this pulsating type energy.

With other people, it may be more constant.

So people are experiencing different types of energy from these beings, but

each of them, energy nonetheless.

I have interviewed people who have encountered shadow beings and they've

what sounded like electricity buzzing.

And the sound would disappear when the shadow people left the room.

There was another woman I interviewed who saw a flash of light out in her

hallway, and all of a sudden this shadow man ran into a room, jumped on top of

her, and pressed her down into the bed. And the shadow man jumped back off, ran

back out into the hallway, and she saw another flash of light.

The next morning when she woke up, she noticed that all the electronics in that

room had been absolutely fried, and she had to call the fire department for them

to come and inspect everything.

In addition to hearing and feeling surges of energy, witnesses often report

another curious detail about the shadow people, the appearance of glowing eyes.

A lot of the shadow people have no facial features whatsoever, just

But some do have glowing eyes, and in particular, it's the one with the red

glowing eyes that appear to be the most malevolent.

When it comes to shadow beings with eyes, especially blazing red eyes,

also experience a fear that is deeper than just there's an entity in my room.

And they feel that these entities are up to nefarious means.

So many reports of shadow encounters are associated with pulsating energy,

glowing eyes, and electronic disturbances.

that researchers wonder if some shadow entities might actually be misunderstood

technology.

It's often discussed that powerful alien technology can influence human

electronics and technology.

This is definitely something that is reported with the shadow people

experiences.

There's also an interesting idea in which these extraterrestrials may be

some sort of cloaking device to hide themselves from our view. But since they

may not quite understand the physiology of our eyes, it comes off more of like a

shadow. So what we may be seeing is an imperfect type of alien technology.

I've interviewed two different people who have described to me what sounds

it could be some sort of cloaking technology.

One person in particular said that he saw a cloak open and

saw beyond the disguise, and what he saw, he said, was reptilian scales.

I spoke with someone else who saw something similar, but described the

more like slick, like a frog's, but gray.

Could it be that we're not talking about shadow people, but some type of a

technology that appeared like a shadow? And it may be, you know, sometime a

technology did not work. It would reveal that person underneath the cloak or

underneath the device. And so they would be seen for maybe a fraction of a

second.

For ancient astronaut theorists, the notion that the shadow people might be

form of misunderstood technology.

is an intriguing possibility.

But what many consider an absolute certainty is their connection to

extraterrestrials.

As evidence, they point to the many accounts linking the shadow people

phenomenon and alien abduction.

There are a lot of common denominators with people who experience shadow

and those who are abducted.

You wake up in the middle of the night. You are taken by surprise. You are

paralyzed. You cannot move. You cannot speak.

You are helpless.

You feel that this entity has taken over you. It is projecting some sort of

energy that you cannot control.

In my professional experience as an investigative reporter,

talking with maybe about 3 ,000 people in the abduction syndrome over about

decades. One of the common experiences that you will hear from abductees is

that they feel paralyzed in the presence of something in their room, usually an

entity.

A few call them shadow people.

In March of 1991, in my mail, I received an envelope.

that contained illustrations and an audio cassette and a letter from a woman

lived in Porterville, California.

And part of the story was her encounter with shadow people.

And I would like to read a little bit about what she wrote.

I was in bed asleep when something woke me up.

The room was filled this time with an orange glow, and at the center of the

was a hole out of which Two well -formed, seemingly three -dimensional

shadow people were stepping.

The two shadow men grabbed me and pulled me toward the hole.

That is the last I remember.

And later I realized that the little guy, the gray guy that I call the creep,

was standing off to the right, watching my reaction to the whole thing. He also

seemed to be in charge of what was happening.

Could the accounts of alleged alien abductees reveal that reports of shadow

people are, in fact, extraterrestrial encounters?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a shadowy being often

encountered by UFO witnesses, an entity known as the Hat Man.

Shadow people witnesses often describe the entities they encounter as appearing

vaguely humanoid with no discernible features but in some accounts they take

curiously recognizable form one of the most mysterious types of shadow entities

is what people refer to as the hat man this type of entity may be wearing a

fedora type hat with An accompanying trench coat. It may be a top hat with or

without the cape. We don't see a lot of detail with the hat man. We see that

vague outline.

The hat man appears just like any other shadow being.

There's no definition. You can't see a nose, a chin, the eyes. You see the

outline of a fedora.

Many times people report these hat -wearing entities coming into their

at night, sometimes flanked by two humanoid type of shadow entities.

And they strike fear into the person they're lying in bed.

And like an energy vampire, feed off of that fear.

There's confusion out there between different entities, something I once

Hat Man Shadow.

He is not a shadow person.

He can take on different forms, yes, as far as being able to blend into a

shadow. But he could step out and he could be very solid.

He's a very different type of entity.

But people think he directs the shadow people.

So shadow people are essentially minions to hat man.

Could reports of the so -called hat man shed new light on the shadow people

phenomenon?

Perhaps further clues can be found.

by examining one of the very first reported encounters with these dark

Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1953.

Albert K. Bender, the nation's top UFO investigator, receives a threatening

visit that will bring his research to an abrupt and premature halt.

Albert K. Bender founded the International Flying Saucer Bureau. This

the big UFO flap of 1952 when flying saucers were witnessed over Washington,

.C. and many other areas around the world. And this organization blew up big

within that first year.

However, just a year later, he suddenly ended the International Flying Saucer

Bureau, and people wondered why.

And what happened was that he came home one night.

went into his bedroom and suddenly these three dark, shadowy figures

materialized through his wall into his bedroom. They were wearing the hats and

the overcoats. They had glowing eyes and they smelled like sulfur.

According to Bender, the three entities communicated with him through telepathy,

warning him to discontinue his UFO research and stop publishing his

magazine, The Space Review.

Afterwards, he became ill and didn't eat for three days.

After this experience, Bender was repeatedly visited. He said they gave

headaches, they controlled him telepathically, and he ultimately gave

researches and stopped publishing the space review in which he documented UFO

sightings throughout the world.

He told the people that had been subscribers and he was working with.

They told me, we come from a very, very far distant place in this universe.

And we have been coming and going from your planet for some time, and we cannot

allow you or anyone to interfere.

And in fact, we have taken many humans from this planet to cover up

our operations until we are done.

This is a very influential point in our history, especially in the ufology

community, in which shallow entities interfered and thwarted somebody's

and possibly set the field back a number of years.

The visitors Albert Bender encountered match descriptions of what is today

as the hat man, but he called them by another name, the men in black.

While the men in black...

are often portrayed in pop culture as government agents.

Many who claim to have encountered them believe they are something other than

human. The men in black are mysterious and nefarious entities.

They're shadowy. They wear black clothing.

Many people believe that they're either extraterrestrials or somehow they're

working for extraterrestrials to prevent humans from learning the truth about

extraterrestrials on Earth.

They talk to UFO witnesses.

Some people have reported they seem to not know things that are common, like

which end of a pen to use, or if they're offered something to eat or drink, they

don't know how to eat or drink it.

Both the hat man and the men in black are known for wearing a hat.

They both influence people telepathically. They both appear to be

malevolent. And they could, in fact, be the same type of a being.

There's a theory that the hat man and the men in black are actually the

ringleaders of the shadow people, and that in fact they direct the shadow

to influence humans in particular to keep them from investigating UFO

experiences.

There's no question that the stories of shadow people, men in black, and other

visitations are all mixed in together.

Are they the same?

Possibly. But what I think what is really happening on this planet is mass

hysteria of real events that are happening to real people.

And they can't understand what's going on.

Who knows what's happening?

For ancient astronaut theorists, the wide variety of reported shadow people

encounters makes finding an explanation for the phenomenon all the more

difficult.

But some researchers suggest that we may come closer to the answer.

by asking the question, where do they come from?

One of the most common and most curious observations reported by shadow people

experiencers is that these entities are able to make physical contact with them,

but then often disappear as though they are merely holograms.

Generally, the shadow people will leave the room.

Either they will dissolve in a puff of smoke or they will walk through a door.

And they may or may not be material, have mass, have structural form.

And there's been talk about maybe they come from some other dimension.

We take for granted that we live in a three -dimensional universe.

The quantum theory makes higher dimensions possible.

Think of fish living in a pond, for example.

The pond is two -dimensional.

The fish are stuck in a two -dimensional world. They cannot visualize a third

dimension.

But you could lift one of these fishes into the third dimension and they'd be

shocked. Shocked to realize there's a whole universe in the third dimension

beyond their pond.

Well, we physicists, some of us believe that we are the fish.

We spend all our life in a three -dimensional pond.

thinking that that's all there is. But right above us, there could be higher

dimensions, hyperspatial dimensions up to 11.

Theoretically, we have up to 11 dimensions.

There may be other entities and other life forms living within these

Now, how would they look to us if they crossed over those dimensions and

into our world?

Well, maybe a shadow entity is one of these interdimensional beings that has

crossed over from some other place in space -time into our world. And we're

seeing them as a shadow because their energy and their personal resonance

doesn't quite adhere to the energy and the resonance of our planet.

If shadow people exist, and it's very possible that they do, I think they're

coming from other dimensions within our universe.

I think they're entities that somehow leak through, because some of them even

look disoriented, like they don't know where they are.

Somehow they're coming through another dimension in two hours, and we're stuck

with them.

Could it be that shadow people experiencers are witnessing entities

capable of traveling between dimensions?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, there is evidence that

on Earth act as interdimensional portals. We see shadow entities in these

certain locations around the world in which they seem to appear more often.

There are locations around our planet where there is more of that Earth energy

that is rising out of the ground.

Stonehenge, the pyramids, Karnak, places with that ancient energy that's rising

from the ground.

Now, an interdimensional being may be using those locations to enter into our

domain.

Some researchers believe it is also possible that shadow people can alter

human mind to see into other dimensions.

Ancient peoples believed that shadow people have the ability to enter a

mind and change that person's perception so the person can see the spirit.

They've entered from their world into our world.

According to ancient astronaut theorists, the notion that the human

altered to access other dimensions is supported by experiments with a powerful

hallucinogen called dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, the active ingredient.

in ayahuasca.

This South American drug is traditionally used throughout the Amazon

intense visions.

Between 1990 and 1995, scientists at the University of New Mexico

administered DMT to 60 volunteers and were surprised to find that many of them

had very similar visions, including encounters with strange beings.

One of the greatest scholars about the effect of DMT and human beings and what

we see in the other world is Terence McKenna.

Terence McKenna explained that the strangest thing to him was those who

ayahuasca generally saw the same thing. What did they see?

Little green people.

People like Terence McKenna are saying that's the entrance to another world,

another dimension.

And we know, he says, that it has a separate existence from us because

from all different walks of life see the same thing.

These beings appear to be coming from higher or lower realms and entering into

our physical realm, perhaps to demonstrate that we too can cross over

realms. It's very important that we understand the nature and origins of

beings because it could be that they are going to lead us to innumerable

different species that exist in our universe, as well as how we too can

over into these other realms.

Experiments with electric stimulation of the brain have also caused people to

have unexplainable encounters.

There was a study done in Sweden where the scientists put electric charges in

certain parts of the brain just to see how the subject would react to them. And

a young undergrad was sitting there with a notebook. And when they increased the

voltage to a certain part of her brain...

She started pulling away from something that wasn't there. And afterwards, when

she was asked by the scientists to describe what was going on, she said

saw a shadow entity behind her. And when the voltage was at its highest, she

said it was trying to take the notebook and pen out of her hands, and she was

jerking to keep it from removing them.

So is it...

Some part of our brain that needs an electrical charge or some charge from

ayahuasca to help us see what's already there.

Very possibly.

Are shadow people witnesses encountering entities from other dimensions?

Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest there is an even more profound

explanation that just outside the range of human perception, Earth is inhabited

by a great multitude.

of other worldly beings.

The dark, hulking figure that comes in the night and paralyzes its prey remains

the most common shadow people experience.

But reports of these entities appearing in broad daylight, as well as other

types of shadow people accounts, make it difficult for investigators to pin down

exactly what this phenomenon is.

When it comes to the different types of shadow entities, their behavior, to me,

differentiates one from the other. The ones that don't pay any attention to

people at all, they could be interdimensional.

The ones that are spying on us could be extraterrestrial.

The ones that instill fear could be demonic entities.

So even though they look the same, generally, I don't think a lot of them

The multifactorial explanation makes a lot of sense.

It could explain why some of them instill fear and some of them don't, why

of them appear during daytime and some of them only appear at nighttime.

The fact is, we just don't know enough about the shadow people and a lot more

research needs to be done.

While answers remain elusive, one popular new theory is that the shadow

exist outside the limits of human perception, not occupying an alternate

dimension. But vibrating at a frequency we are not normally able to perceive.

It's a scientific fact that the human eye can only see certain things.

For example, we cannot see the infrared light spectrum.

So you have to wonder if shadow people operate in a spectrum that we

humans simply cannot see.

Perhaps there are certain people whose brains operate in a different way and

they're able to process more of the reality that we currently experience.

There are other spectra that continue on past our physical brain and our

physical self.

And so why is it so difficult to imagine that these entities could be existing?

that these entities exist in the other spectrum and tap into our spectrum

at will and upon command.

I think the benefit for mankind in learning about these entities, I think

get a better understanding of our universe and how everything in this

is connected, you know, I to you, us to the planet, the planet to the sun, to

the solar system, to our galaxy.

Everything is interconnected. We're all made of stardust. And I think we'll have

a better understanding of our origins and where we're going in the future.

One can argue, oh, it's just a figment of their imagination.

But some of these people have experienced this for their entire lives.

And I think that we need to investigate and listen to the people who tell us

these stories.

Is it possible?

that humankind shares the earth with other intelligent beings that only a

few are able to perceive perhaps the next step in humankind's evolution will

not involve the development of space -faring technology but an expansion of

consciousness allowing us to see for the first time that we truly are not alone

even on our own planet