Episode 55 – False Memories: Alien Abductions, Past Life Regression, and Satanic Ritual Abuse

So let’s say you go to a party and get black out drunk. It happens to the best of us, right? RIGHT!? Well, anyway, you don’t remember what happened but one of your friends tells you some stories about how you took your shirt off and put a tie on 80s-style, you put the lampshade on your head and jumped on the couch to dance. You start to remember bits and pieces of it and think that you can picture yourself wearing your favorite necktie and the lampshade and twerking to “Turn Down For What”, you start seeing it in your head. In fact, even though you start telling people stories about it.“Oh man, I got so wasted, I started making it clap on top of the couch on Saturday night, I’m so crazy, man, I’m so crazy…” Except when you tell someone else who was at that party the story, they say, “That’s weird, I saw you just passed out in the coat room all night AND you barfed on my girlfriend’s suede boots, not cool, yo, not cool.” Um, but you KNOW it happened to you, right? I mean, you remember it, and it’s not like you can remember something that never happened…But you can remember things that have never happened. Especially during&nbsp;hypnosis&nbsp;, where you’re at your most suggestible and that’s what we’re talking about in this episode (well, it’s the main topic, we talk&nbsp;a couple random haunted stories about Madison locations and congratulate Wendy for running her first 5K race!)We being the conversation by talking about&nbsp;Betty and Barney Hill&nbsp;, their “missing time” experience in the 1960s is the Big Daddy of all UFO abduction cases, and it only came out under hypnosis. You can actually listen to the entirety of Barney Hill’s hypnosis session.ARegressing people under hypnosis and uncovering alien abductions became&nbsp;de rigueur&nbsp;&nbsp;in UFOlogy since and have included books like&nbsp;Intruders&nbsp;&nbsp;which came from investigator Budd Hopkins and&nbsp;Harvard professor John Mack (&nbsp;in fact, watch the whole TV movie from 1992 right here&nbsp;&nbsp;online), the (allegedly) non-fiction&nbsp;&nbsp;Communion&nbsp;by Whitley Strieber (the book that put the grey aliens in the grocery checkout lane in every town in the United States), and also the fictional&nbsp;The&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fourth Kind&nbsp;, a found footage movie in the vein of&nbsp;&nbsp;The Blair Witch Project&nbsp;, which featured “recordings” of alien abduction hypnosis (with a title based on&nbsp;&nbsp;Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s scale of alien contact&nbsp;, the third kind (like the Steven Spielberg movie) is seeing an alien being, the fourth kind is abduction and being experimented upon.) So why did all different kinds of people start seeing grey aliens in the late 80s?But it’s not just aliens people are seeing, they’re also remembering past lives&nbsp;under hypnosis. And this isn’t just kids remembering things that they shouldn’t remember, it’s adults who are reaching way back to before they are born.&nbsp;&nbsp;The X-Files&nbsp;&nbsp;has a very memorable episode called&nbsp;&nbsp;The Field Where I Died&nbsp;,&nbsp;where Mulder remembers being in the American Civil War with Scully. It’s one of my personal favorite episodes.bAnd this isn’t just something from fiction though, even&nbsp;<a...