Speaker 1: Conscious recall versus hypnotic regression in an abduction case by
Speaker 1: Charles Lear. It has been determined by many researchers in
Speaker 1: the scientific community that during hypnosis, false memories are very
Speaker 1: likely to be generated, and distinguishing them from real memories
Speaker 1: is difficult, if not impossible, without some means of confirmation.
Speaker 1: This is, for instance, the conclusion of a report for
Speaker 1: the U. S Department of Justice by Martin t Ornett
Speaker 1: Hall titled Hypnotically Refreshed Testimony, Enhanced Memory, or Tampering with Evidence,
Speaker 1: published January nineteen eighty five in Issues and Practices in
Speaker 1: Criminal Justice. With the above in mind, it is helpful
Speaker 1: for researchers attempting to evaluate a case when a distinction
Speaker 1: can be made between elements of the report derived from
Speaker 1: conscious recall and elements derived through the use of hypnosis.
Speaker 1: A case for this can be easily done is that
Speaker 1: of Judy Kendall of Zamora, California, thanks to a newspaper
Speaker 1: article announcing her intention to undergo hypnosis to recover about
Speaker 1: four hours of missing time, and another article on a
Speaker 1: different paper after the procedure, which was apparently well attended.
Speaker 1: According to the article by Spencer c S headlined hypnotist
Speaker 1: will help woman find four hours lost during trip, published
Speaker 1: in the January twenty sixth, nineteen seventy seven Davis, California,
Speaker 1: Yolo County Shopping News. Kendall was scheduled to be hypnotized
Speaker 1: that Saturday to find four hours that experts think may
Speaker 1: have been stolen from her by space creatures who abducted
Speaker 1: her in an unidentified flying object. The term front loading
Speaker 1: comes to mind, but the circumstances that led Kendall to
Speaker 1: contact Center for UFO Studies director j Allen Heinik looking
Speaker 1: for answers are described in detail. According to c S,
Speaker 1: Kendall drove her two sisters hummed A, Zamora one pitch
Speaker 1: black night in nineteen seventy after leaving their grandmother's house
Speaker 1: in Bodega Bay at five thirty p m. Although the
Speaker 1: trip should have taken about three hours, they arrived in
Speaker 1: Zamoras seven hours later at twelve thirty a m. The
Speaker 1: youngest sister, twenty two, was reportedly asleep, as Judy twenty three,
Speaker 1: and her older sister twenty five, all ages are at
Speaker 1: the time of the article, found themselves driving much longer
Speaker 1: than expected as they looked for the turn off for
Speaker 1: Zamora after crossing the Cash Creek Bridge on Interstate five
Speaker 1: O five. Sis says they agreed that they should be
Speaker 1: getting there, and then quotes Judy as saying shortly after that,
Speaker 1: we were back in front of the flashing yellow light
Speaker 1: in front of the bridge again. According to Sias, when
Speaker 1: they got home, their parents were angry and thought their
Speaker 1: story was beloney. Kendall said her father called her grandmother
Speaker 1: and confirmed they left at five thirty, and then checked
Speaker 1: a map to see if they had driven in a
Speaker 1: circle and concluded that wasn't a plausible explanation. Kendall added
Speaker 1: that if they had driven for seven hours straight, they
Speaker 1: would have run out of gas with no explanation and
Speaker 1: everyone safe at home. The mystery is said to have
Speaker 1: been forgotten until nineteen seventy five, when Judy and her
Speaker 1: older sister went to sea escaped to which mountain featuring
Speaker 1: a Winnebago taking off into the sky, and remembered the
Speaker 1: ride at the same time. Ceas says, curiously, whenever Judy
Speaker 1: talks about her experience, she refers to setting down in
Speaker 1: front of the flashing light again, as if they were
Speaker 1: floating in the air. According to CEUs, Kendall saw a
Speaker 1: UFO that summer that she didn't report, but it reminded
Speaker 1: her of her experience. She talked with some friends and
Speaker 1: one of them suggested that she write to Heinech. Although
Speaker 1: Heinig didn't reply himself, his fellow researcher, Alvin H. Lawson,
Speaker 1: an English professor at California State University, contacted her and
Speaker 1: expressed an interest in her case. Lawson is reported to
Speaker 1: have contact did researchers in Los Angeles who checked out
Speaker 1: Kendall's credibility, and she is said to have agreed to
Speaker 1: be hypnotized that coming Saturday to see whether she remembers
Speaker 1: being aboard a spacecraft. Her hypnosuscession is described in the
Speaker 1: article headlined woman in Trance tells a Space Ordeal in
Speaker 1: the January thirty first, nineteen seventy seven Davis, California Enterprise.
Speaker 1: According to the reporter, Kendall underwent hypnosis shivering on her
Speaker 1: warm living room couch in front of a room full
Speaker 1: of calm UFO researchers and incredulous friends. The article is
Speaker 1: written as if the reporter was present, so this seems
Speaker 1: to have been quite the public spectacle. In this account,
Speaker 1: the events are said to have taken place on a Sunday,
Speaker 1: November nineteen seventy one or nineteen seventy two. The rest
Speaker 1: of the brief account matches the one in the Shopping News.
Speaker 1: According to the reporter, Kendall realized for the first time
Speaker 1: during the hypnosis that she was kidnapped by a space
Speaker 1: She is described as shielding her face to avoid seeing
Speaker 1: a space creature she described as having a bulbous head
Speaker 1: with saucer sized, red, pupiled, gelatinous eyes. She is reported
Speaker 1: to have said it at holes for ears, an almost
Speaker 1: translucent white face with a mask covering the lower part,
Speaker 1: red veins on its neck that were not like the
Speaker 1: purple ones. We have a human like body and hands
Speaker 1: like ours with five fingers. Kendall reportedly said she was
Speaker 1: told by the creature in English, it's okay, it's okay,
Speaker 1: in a voice that sounded like it was muffled and
Speaker 1: coming through a distant megaphone. She is described saying, but
Speaker 1: it's not okay in a small, tight voice, and then
Speaker 1: grabbing her right side and leaning over as if in pain.
Speaker 1: According to the reporter, the hypnotist doctor D. W. McCall
Speaker 1: asked her what was happening, and she replied that she
Speaker 1: felt like she got poked, because said to have taken
Speaker 1: her through her experience repeatedly, and the story is told
Speaker 1: that she relaxed after being poked and was lying on
Speaker 1: a cold table with a sheet over her, and in disgust,
Speaker 1: announced that she was being catheterized and having urine taken
Speaker 1: from her. She reportedly saw three creatures at the foot
Speaker 1: of the table and couldn't describe their faces, and also
Speaker 1: saw a human woman with blue eyes and straight black hair,
Speaker 1: who handed the creature a tube of colorless fluid that
Speaker 1: you can't see through. Kendall is said to have been
Speaker 1: mystified as to how the woman knew her name as
Speaker 1: she tried to reassure her. Kendall was reported to have
Speaker 1: described the creatures looking at her feet throughout the experience,
Speaker 1: and have said that they probed her ear with something
Speaker 1: cold and hard, and that one creature put a heavy
Speaker 1: machine over her eyes with what sounded like a quiet
Speaker 1: motor whirring inside. Macaus said to have asked is it
Speaker 1: a brain reading machine, to which Kendall replied, I don't know.
Speaker 1: According to the reporter, she described being in a round
Speaker 1: room circled with windows and seeing two bucket seats on
Speaker 1: one side, with a console with a lever like a
Speaker 1: car gear shift in the middle. She is said to
Speaker 1: have pointed to her left and described seeing a table
Speaker 1: with what looked like doctor's probes on it, along with
Speaker 1: a black box that had speaker holes in it. Kendall
Speaker 1: is quoted talking about her sister, who, according to the reporter,
Speaker 1: wished to remain anonymous and wanted nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the hypnosis. I can hear calling my name. She is crying.
Speaker 1: She is really upset. She sounds far away. I hope
Speaker 1: she is all right. The next thing Kendall reportedly recalled
Speaker 1: was finding herself behind the wheel of her car, without
Speaker 1: knowing how she got there. Nicholls said to have ran
Speaker 1: her through the experience again, whereupon she remembered being carried
Speaker 1: by three creatures dressed in gray who threw her into
Speaker 1: the car. She is quoted as saying they must have
Speaker 1: carried me because I couldn't walk. According to the reporter,
Speaker 1: Kendall's utter sisters seemed to suddenly materialize, and when they
Speaker 1: were in the car, it was pitch black. Kendall in
Speaker 1: a disbelieving voice is quoted as saying, we just landed
Speaker 1: on the road in my car, and with certain amazement,
Speaker 1: adding in my car. Lawson is reported to have said that,
Speaker 1: in the reporter's words, Judy's story could be as much
Speaker 1: an idiosyncrasy in human make up as an abduction by
Speaker 1: space creatures. The other researchers are described as being in
Speaker 1: many ways as mysterious as the story itself, and not
Speaker 1: saying for certain how they felt about Judy's story. McCall
Speaker 1: is reported to have said that he had hypnotized about
Speaker 1: six others who had similar stories. Charles Lear is the
Speaker 1: author of The Flying Saucer Investigators, available in its second
Speaker 1: edition at Amazon dot com.