Core-Experiences
Part 3: A Walk on the Wild Side 1991 - 1992
Copyright © G Osborn 1997. All Rights Reserved.
Written by Gary Osborn between 1991 and 1997.
There is a sinister side to all this, which reads like something from John Keel’s classic book, The Mothman Prophecies.
It was in August of 1991 that Paul went to the College of Psychic Studies, to see if he could find out anything about his experiences. He later recorded an account of what happened:
Paul:
“I drove to the College of Psychic Studies, which was in London. I booked up an appointment to see a Trudie Brown who was a clairvoyant spiritualist. She actually worked within the College. My mother had decided to come along as she was interested.
The building is a large library type place. Anyway, when we got there my mother waited in the library where there was an enormous collection of esoteric books to read.
"I thought that this would be a wasted journey because when I first saw Trudie Brown she struck me as a middle-aged woman who I felt didn’t have her feet firmly on the ground. I was still very sceptical – not about the paranormal so much now because of my own experiences – but about the way in which the paranormal is sometimes interpreted; how it is exploited and how people can sometimes fool themselves into believing all sorts of things. I told her what had happened to me, and she didn’t really give me any answers; just to say that she could see that I had gone through something remarkable. She said she could see a golden light around me, and this is all she kept talking about. She said many other things in between – like I had the potential to become a healer.
"At first, I could almost feel myself squirming at the things she was saying, as I found it difficult to believe her. Although as the session went on there were many other things she said that were intuitive on her part . . . I suppose things that I agreed with at first. But then again, I thought that this could just be guesswork. I told her that I was out of work, and one of the things she did say that was true, was that I would be going back to work very soon. It was only a few weeks after this that I re-joined the family business. She said that this would be a shame because I would lose a lot of this new energy by my having to go back to work and concentrate again on the mundane things.
"She then said that though this was unavoidable, I would regain the full energy at a later stage. She said that I would only be able to use this energy at its full potential when I was a lot older . . . from middle age onwards.
"She then said that I was very “down to earth” and that I needed to join a group of like-minded people. She then suggested I join a group run by a chap named Geoff Boltwood whom I had never heard of before, but obviously, a guy she was well acquainted with. She said that he was much more “down to Earth” than a lot of the people she knew, and that he tends to question things as she said that I did. She then gave me Geoff Boltwood’s number . . . I think she gave me his card.
"I came out of there thinking that I hadn’t really got anywhere. I didn’t really know what I had wanted her to say; but what she did say seemed as if anyone could have made it up. I thought that anyone who wanted to play along with me about this would have possibly said the same thing; and though she seemed a really nice woman, this is what I felt about her at the time.
"I told my mother what happened while we were still in the library and she was interested in seeing Trudie Brown herself. I encouraged this because I was interested to know whether Trudie Brown was genuine . . . you know, from another angle as it were – just to see if she could come up with some information for my mother about Grandmother or maybe my Uncle John who had both been physically dead for some time. Because although I knew Trudie Brown was a spiritualist medium, she didn’t really work in that way with me – or should I say, she didn’t do what I expected a medium to do. She didn’t go into a trance, or anything like that to give me this information; she just talked to me.
"My mother then booked up an appointment to see Trudie Brown two weeks later. When the time came, my father took her to the College, and then he waited in the car. Apparently, Trudie Brown failed to come up with any real information – so much so, that she offered to give mother her money back – which I remember was sixteen pounds. It was then that Trudie Brown said, “Oh I’m sorry, I bet you’re disappointed aren’t you?” And mother replied, “No, not really, it’s my son that will be disappointed. Actually he came to see you a couple of weeks ago.” Trudie jumped and said, “Was that Paul?” Mother said “Yes, why? . . . Do you remember him?” Trudie Brown then replied “Oh yes I remember him . . . I wouldn’t be able to forget him, he was a very remarkable young man . . . the golden light around him was so bright!” Then she went on to say, “But there’s a funny thing connected with that meeting with Paul. I happen to run a launderette and a friend of mine came into the launderette one day last week and asked me if I had had a ‘sitting’ with someone named Paul on the previous Wednesday. I replied Yes, I did, and how did you know?”
"Trudie Brown then explained to mother, that this friend of hers – a man – owned a C.B. radio which he operated, from home – a ‘ham radio’ type of thing. She said that he had told her that he had overheard a conversation on his C.B. He said that he had heard two people talking to each other about my meeting with Trudie on a Wednesday sitting and that he heard them say something like: “Paul will meet Trudie Brown on Wednesday to try to get in touch with his grandparents, but he won’t be successful because there is no love lost there!” She explained that the main reason the friend had listened carefully was the fact that her name (Trudie Brown) had been mentioned, and that he was just looking at it from a coincidental point of view. After she told this story to my mother, she asked if we knew anyone who owned a C.B. radio. As if she was of the impression that friends of my mother or myself might have been ‘coincidentally’ overheard talking about me.
"Mother was very surprised at this and replied “No . . . I don't know of any such thing . . . I wouldn't even know what a C.B. radio was – and I’m sure that if I had friends who used one, I would have known about it by now.”
Later, when mother had told me all that had happened – and especially the story about the C.B. radio – I was flabbergasted, because there was no one outside our immediate circle of family and close friends who knew about my going to see Trudy Brown and they wouldn’t have really cared anyway. In fact, there were only a few people who knew, and none of these people had any interest in C.B. radio. It was the first time I’d heard of it since its craze in the late 70’s.
"Another thing that struck me was this: Why did these people mention my grandparents? The first time I went along, I did not have any intention of asking about my grandparents. I was totally concerned with finding out something about this energy and my other experiences. It was only later that I encouraged my mother to go along and see Trudie Brown that I had my grandmother on my mind – but this was because I had known her very well and that she was the first close person to me who had died.
"I thought that if Trudie Brown was genuine she might have come up with some information about her . . . something that we could only know. The other thing is that my other grandparents – my father’s parents – both died before I could ever have known them properly. I wasn't even born when my grandfather died, and I was only an infant when my father’s mother passed away. My mother’s father was still alive at this time, though he later died in February 1992 of Leukaemia.
"Yes, I found that story very strange . . . that’s if it can be believed.
"It was only later when I began reading books on UFOs that I came across similar stories – especially in books by the author John Keel. I then underlined many of the case stories I read that spoke of this phenomenon. Things like strange coincidences; strange voices on phones and other communication equipment. Stories that were related to so-called “Men in Black” (MIBs) and other “entities” that can interrupt our lines of communication and predict future events – like the two people overheard on the CB who talked about my future meeting with Trudie Brown. Even though I found such stories intriguing, I didn't like the thought that I could be in danger of being sucked into all the apparent “delusional” paranoia associated with all that I now seemed to be encountering."
Gary:
The following extracts are taken from a few books written by John Keel.
‘There are now many cases in which the voices of deceased persons have seemingly called up their loved ones on the telephone, just as the metallic-voiced space people have been phoning researchers and reporters around the world. [See sub-chapter “Strange Phone calls.”] To add to our problems, the telephone system, world-wide, is sagging and breaking down, unable to keep up with the increasing load we are placing on it . . . Television sets, telephones, ham and citizen’s band (CB) radios in flap areas have been going awry on a massive scale during the periods when the UFOs have been most active.’ [1]
‘Both the reflective factor and synchronicity are at work, too, because the human mind when properly oriented – or disoriented – attracts the static from the superspectrum . . . While writers and investigators are often given a bad time, witnesses of the paranormal frequently suffer unspeakable horrors after their initial experience. Apparently, once these forces zero in on a hapless innocent, they hang on tenaciously. For years the UFO enthusiasts, most of whom were totally unfamiliar with the correlative psychic and occult lore, actively suppressed the more bizarre reports or reduced them to paranoid rumours.’ [2]
Paul:
“When I told my mother about what I had read about such things, she decided that she would send Trudie Brown a letter, reminding her about what was said that day and why I was then thinking that it may have something to do with UFO related phenomena – the like of which I’d recently read about.
"A week later, a reply came from Trudie Brown that was most upsetting and strange. She said that she could not remember telling my mother this story, and was almost implying that my mother was lying! She also said that UFO’s are dangerous and that she would advise caution in either my mother or me getting involved in such things. I thought that this would be impossible anyway. To me, it seemed as if she had become frightened by our ideas as to what it might have been and so didn’t want anything further to do with it. My mother was quite upset by her attitude which seemed very strange indeed.”
Gary:
A few years after this incident I read an account of something similar in a book by Marc Davenport entitled Visitors in Time: The Secret of the UFOs:
‘I once spent more than an hour discussing UFOs with a friend in the presence of three other people. She was keenly interested in my plan to write this book because a close relative of hers had had a close encounter. She volunteered a detailed account of it and told me she intended to ask her relative for more details. The next time I saw her, I casually asked if she had yet spoken to the woman who had had the encounter. She had no idea what I was talking about, even after I explained it to her at great length. She didn’t remember a word of our previous conversation, or about any relative of hers ever seeing a UFO. She was quite normal, a calm, open, friendly person. I had never known her to lie about anything else, and if she was lying about this, she had become an excellent actress without my knowledge. Her astonishment plainly showed on her face, and she clearly thought I was joking when I told about our earlier conversation about her relative’s encounter. But the others who had been present did remember the conversation.’ [3]
Do people really have that bad a memory? Is “someone,” or “something,” using these people to deliver ‘enticing’ information, and then “wiping” these people’s memories? Or have these people been silenced? Are they in denial? . . . Or do they express denial because of fear? These are the same kinds of questions, which Marc Davenport asks in his book. There are many other similar accounts given by people who research UFOs, or whose experiences happen to venture into this particular paranormal realm.
For instance, in 1978 journalist Rick Moran decided to retrace the steps of John Keel’s investigations into the Mothman phenomena at Point Pleasant during 1966 – 1967:
‘Only two days after returning to New York, my children began to complain that there was something wrong with our telephones. In fact, the next time I went to use one of them, the classic clicks and whirs of a phone tap were evident. Next, the kids reported that they were picking up the phone to hear conversations in progress . . . and the topic was our family.
While this was interesting, I was not overly concerned until a close friend told me the following story. She had phoned and, according to her account, began having a conversation with me. She swore that it was my voice and that the conversation touched upon things that only she and the immediate family would have known.
After about 10 minutes, the voice at the other end stopped her and began to laugh “demonically” as she put it. Then it paused and said in a totally different tone, “Oh, you wanted to talk to Rick, Sorry, I’m here all alone with the children.” Whoever it was hung up and my friend’s follow-up call got a busy signal. This was a near impossibility, given that the house had four lines, including one reserved for my personal use only; the system would roll over a call if any of the lines being called were busy. The children were indeed at home, alone, and said that they had not been using any of the phones.’ [4]
