Flying Saucer Review May 1986 [antikvár]

i j' lÚliüMTHE JINN AND THE DOLMEN: THE MOST AMAZING CASE OF ABDUCTION YETAntonio RiberaThis is a preliminary survey of an extraordinary case. Xavier C- (his full riame Is on my files) is a young man of 23, born in Almería, on the southern coast of Spain, but now living and working in Barceloria. He is a pro essional photographer and a draughtsman and, with his brother José Maria C-, runs a small studio of industrial drawing and photography. He is married, but with no children.One Sunday in July, 1985, Xavier left his home at 8.00 a.m., saying to his wife that he was going to Vallgorguina,' a small village some 25 kilometres from Barcelona, to take some photographs. He took with him his standard modern 35 mm camera, loaded with 100 ASA 21 DIN fdm, for colour slides, and an old-fashioned box camera which he had made himselfAfter spending what he guessed to have been somewhere between 1 Vs and 2 hours in Vallgorguina, he set out to return home. It was a glorious day, without a cloud in the sky.Missing TimeHe is by nature a very careful person, and always checks and notes the mileage covered. So, after arriving home, he looked at his mileometer, and was astounded to find that, instead of having done the 50 kms. that it should have shown, it showed 300 kms. He had done an extra 250 kms.! And his petrol tank was almost empty, whereas it had been full when he set out that morning!And, to cap it all, his car was incredibly dirty, with stains of some viscose, sticky substance all over it, and there was mud on the wheels and the chassis. And the countryside was extremely dry at the time! In fact the farmers were worried over the very long dry spell!And there was another thing that surprised him when he got back to Barcelona. All the shops were open, just as on a normal working day and how could that be possible, seeing that it was Sunday?But the biggest surprise of all awaited him when he got home, and his wife and brother rushed to welcome him with sighs of relief! Both were very upset, and said: "Where in heaven have you been all this time? Where did you sleep?"Xavier was dumbfounded, and simply asked: "Why are the shops open on a Sunday morning?""Well, in the first place", replied his brother, "Today isn't Sunday anyway, but Monday. And the time is 6.00 p.m. We have been to practically every police-station in the city and to several hospitals, looking for you. We feared you had had an accident a traffic accident!"None of them could understand what had happened. But when Xavier began to check his photographic gear, he saw that the numbering on his mod-ern camera indicated that several photos had been taken. And that was puzzling. For he didn't recall having used it even for a single shot!Demonic FacesPiqued by curiosity, he had the slides processed and developed. And he was in for a terrible surprise! A series of slides with green demonic faces appeared. Badly upset, he contacted Carole Ramis, a well-known lady, born in Vienna, but who had been in practice in Barcelona for some years as a parapsychologist. She had known the two brothers already for about seven years, and knew that both were thoroughly honest, straight young men quite unlikely to be guilty of committing a hoax. (She also knew that in any case Xavier had already had many strange night-time or "oneiric" experiences.) For example, he had been visited in his bedroom at night by small humanoids of the "classical" type known to Ufologists big pear-shaped heads, small, nimble bodies who showed him a number of things, including pyramids. But he always had the feeling about "them" (the little beings) that they were benevolent, and would never do him any harm. (We do not know, of course, whether these 'Sdsi-tations" truly took place and were "real", or whether they were "oneiric" that is to say, of a dream-like nature. But Xavier's own feeling about it is that the small beings were real)Hypnosis ArrangedThe parapsychologist Carole Ramis was very upset at the sight of the pictures of the monstrous faces, and at once proposed that arrangements be set in hand for Xavier to be hypnotized, in order to attempt to recover those "lost" or "missing" 34 hours. She accordingly made arrangements for Xavier to attend at the office of Professor Francisco de Asís Rovatti Heredia, a noted Spanish parapsychologist and holder of a recognized diploma in hypnosis, who has already conducted sessions of regressive hypnosis on victims of UFO abductions among them Próspera Munoz, the Gerona lady who had been abducted at the age of seven, as reported in FSR 29/4 (Spanish Woman Recalls Abduction 36 Years Ago).