The Stranger Within

Barbara Eden has an unusual pregnancy 

Foreshadowing, unexplainable pregnancies,
hybrid children and the creative process

In an easily down-loadable PDF (linked below), you'll find an essay that explores a haunting movie from my childhood. This was bottomless pit of synchro-weirdness and the whole thing leave me absolutely mystified. Thing were getting to the point where I needed to create a hand-lettered TIMELINE just to keep my fragile mind screwed on a little tighter.

The Stranger Within Essay

Click on the button on the far right to view in FULL-SCREEN mode.

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There was a made-for-TV movies from 1974 titled The Stranger Within. It stars Barbara Eden (form I Dream Of Jeanne) in a dramatic role. She plays a suburban housewife who is mysteriously pregnant with an alien hybrid. The movie was based on a 1953 short story by Richard Matheson titled Mother by Protest. Matheson himself adapted it for the small screen. The short story is essentially the same as the movie, including some word-for-word dialog.

What is positively bizarre is that a story from 1953 could so accurately predict a long list of details that have only recently emerged in the UFO abduction meme. There are presently books filled with accounts of mysteriously pregnant woman and alien hybrid babies, but how did these ideas manifest themselves almost 60 yeas ago?

Part's of this long-winded essay were recently featured on Robbie Graham's Silver Screen Saucers site. What is linked above is longer and more exhaustive in it's attempt to unravel some elusive mysteries.

Here's a brief excerpt:

There is a central phenomenon and then there is an outlying phenomena. It seems that Budd Hopkins was trying to document and educate on the core mystery within his research, something he did beautifully. I guess I've been trying to make sense of the mess that splatters off from that core. This essay is an example, there are threads that seemingly go everywhere. I am not trying to contain any of this into something manageable like my intellect tells me to do. I am ignoring that side of my brain, and wallowing in the messiness of my intuition.

The problem is that you, the reader, might feel lost in a maze of chaos. If so, you and I share the same response.

For me, this essay was a compulsive piece of work. I really mean that, I got swallowed up in the process of digging and writing. For reasons I don't understand, I pay attention when I'm confronted with that kind of overwhelming fixation on one project.

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A scene from 1974 that I remembered with absolute clarity
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This previously unavailable movie is now posted on youtube. This was downloaded in a high resolution, so it makes for better than average viewing. Embedded at the top of this post.
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Added text: Author Richard Matheson died in June of 2013. He was 87 years old. (New York Times obituary)
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Alien-human hybridization was predicted by Hollywood

see the second post above!

I've contributed a rather long-winded essay to Robbie Graham's Silver Screen Saucers. the post has the screaming headline of GUEST BLOGGER EXCLUSIVE all capital letters, bold red type and it's italicized!

The post is titled:
Alien-human hybridization as predicted by Hollywood (linked here)

There was a made-for-TV movies from 1974 titled The Stranger Within. It stars Barbara Eden (form I Dream Of Jeanne) in a dramatic role. She plays a suburban housewife who is mysteriously pregnant with an alien hybrid.

The movie was based on a 1953 short story by Richard Matheson titled Mother by Protest (later re-published as Trespass). Matheson himself adapted it for the small screen. The short story is essentially the same as the movie, including some word-for-word dialog.

What is positively bizarre is that a story from 1953 could so accurately predict a long list of details that have only recently emerged in the UFO abduction meme. There are presently books filled with accounts of mysteriously pregnant woman and alien hybrid babies, but how did these ideas manifest themselves almost 60 yeas ago?

Here's a brief excerpt:

I dug into The Stranger Within for emotional and personal reasons, there was nothing at all logical in my investigation. Peering into this made-for-TV movie unleashed a flood of synchronistic weirdness. Something palpable emerged and parts of it are aligned with my direct experience. I started this exhaustive essay by saying “bits of that movie have been stuck in my head for the last 38 years.” I was describing a very real itch, and when I started scratching, something elusive showed itself.

Please note:

I now have an even longer version of this essay. It's offered as a down-loadable PDF below.

The Stranger Within Essay

Click on the button on the far right to view in FULL-SCREEN mode.

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LEGO UFO abduction toy

The description right on the box says: UFO Abduction

Pop culture is saturated with the UFO ABDUCTION meme, much of it directed at the kiddies. LEGO features a whole line of products called ALIEN CONQUEST. The folks at project Bluebook are earning their salaries.

LIFTED (animated short from Pixar)

UFO abduction has seeped into our collective pop-culture so completely that mainstream kids cartoons can present the narrative without a single word of dialogue.

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flashcard

This is a real flashcard to meant to teach very young children the alphabet. In a by-gone era the letter "A" used to be for APPLE, but not now. One more example that the Alien meme is oozing it's way deeper into our collective consciousness. I found this odd bit of pop-culture weirdness HERE, at this site.

I updated my Mac operating system

Off-world computer generated effects, at the click of a mouse.

I just upgraded to Lion, and that's the latest operating system for my humble Mac. There is a program called PHOTO-BOOTH, and it has a handful of funny effects. You can choose things like sepia tone and X-Ray. But I was surprised to find that there is an effect called SPACE ALIEN. There seems to be embedded software that automatically makes the eyes bigger and changes the shape of the head to match the cover of Communion.

A while ago I would have hinted that the alien meme was seeping into our pop culture But now it's saturating it. I suspect the Reptilian overlords used back engineered technology from Roswell to create this odd effect.

Oh how the world desperately needs Mac Tonnies to chime in on this.

Also, compare the image (on the right) to an image I drew in October of '09, linked HERE. And while you're at it, don't you this space alien looks suspiciously like Masha Tyelna (well, sorta) from just a few posts down.

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