Woman, boyfriend and child 'dissected like frogs'
By: Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 10/13/06 Section: Sci-Tech
Originally published: 10/13/06 at 1:21 AM EST
Last update: 10/13/06 at 1:20 AM EST
Originally published: 10/13/06 at 1:21 AM EST
Last update: 10/13/06 at 1:20 AM EST
You read that correctly. The monster stripped them naked, sawed open their heads and removed their brains. Larson states that after her brain was replaced, she felt smarter, as though the thing had given her gray matter a tune-up. If this really happened, and if Larson felt smarter after the procedure, I rather suspect it's because she received someone else's brain during the replacement portion of the examination. Either that, or the toilet paper monster cut out the lobe that controls belief in toilet paper monsters. That's all speculation, though.
Not content with just taking the brains out of a family's skulls, poking around on them and stuffing them back into their head-holes, the creature also took an instrument "like a knife or cotton swab" and stuck it up her nose. This caused some soreness, and Larson later became convinced that he'd inserted some sort of nasal implant. Though she does not remember it, the creature must then have returned the unlucky trio to he car.
Suffice it to say that there are some things that make me think this story is not entirely true.
First, the space mummy: As far as I can tell, this is the most horribly unique space alien in all of modern folklore. With the little gray space men, the UFO enthusiast makes the argument that since many people report them, the reports must be real. Similar accounts elsewhere prove the reality of the subject. The creature in this tale is so unique and so ridiculous (yardsticks for arms?) that he alone would torpedo this story for any rational person, no matter what the rest of the tale held.
But the rest of the tale has a number of problems. According to modern experts, the space aliens that are flying around in UFOs abducting people are: interested in some sort of breeding program and will steal your sperm; the devil, getting us ready for Armageddon; or top-secret government storm troopers in disguise. Notice that nowhere in that list is "neurologists." The removal of a subject's entire brain, and the replacement of it in better shape, is something so bizarre that it should, at the absolute least, be placed in the "wait for corroboration" category. (I must note, in fairness, that amputations and reattachments, or the removal and replacement of organs, are infrequently mentioned in abduction accounts. Entire brain cleanings, however, are conspicuously absent.)
Not content with just taking the brains out of a family's skulls, poking around on them and stuffing them back into their head-holes, the creature also took an instrument "like a knife or cotton swab" and stuck it up her nose. This caused some soreness, and Larson later became convinced that he'd inserted some sort of nasal implant. Though she does not remember it, the creature must then have returned the unlucky trio to he car.
Suffice it to say that there are some things that make me think this story is not entirely true.
First, the space mummy: As far as I can tell, this is the most horribly unique space alien in all of modern folklore. With the little gray space men, the UFO enthusiast makes the argument that since many people report them, the reports must be real. Similar accounts elsewhere prove the reality of the subject. The creature in this tale is so unique and so ridiculous (yardsticks for arms?) that he alone would torpedo this story for any rational person, no matter what the rest of the tale held.
But the rest of the tale has a number of problems. According to modern experts, the space aliens that are flying around in UFOs abducting people are: interested in some sort of breeding program and will steal your sperm; the devil, getting us ready for Armageddon; or top-secret government storm troopers in disguise. Notice that nowhere in that list is "neurologists." The removal of a subject's entire brain, and the replacement of it in better shape, is something so bizarre that it should, at the absolute least, be placed in the "wait for corroboration" category. (I must note, in fairness, that amputations and reattachments, or the removal and replacement of organs, are infrequently mentioned in abduction accounts. Entire brain cleanings, however, are conspicuously absent.)
