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People who did crazy things because aliens told them to
By K. Thor Jensen / www.geek.com/author/kthorjensen/
Apr. 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager was asked about UFOs recently, and he publicly announced that if she is elected, she will work to unseal and release to the public as many documents as she can about our country’s extraterrestrial interactions. That’s a pretty ballsy move for a Presidential candidate, but in a year that’s seen a new season of The X-Files, it might be politically savvy as well.
People have been claiming contact with outer space for nearly a century, and those alien messages have contained some curious requests. In this feature, we’ll introduce you to eleven people who took action on messages from beyond the stars. Some created amazing artwork, while others ended up on the wrong side of the law. We’re sure it’s all part of the plan, though.
Build a pyramid
One of the most iconic scenes in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is when Richard Dreyfuss builds a replica of Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Constructing edifices to bring us closer to our alien friends is a time-tested UFO trope, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that in the heart of the Mexican desert there’s a real example. In 1984, farmer Raymundo Corona was visited by an extraterrestrial who commanded him to build a 22 foot tall Aztec-style pyramid. The visitor was a “tall man with honey coloured eyes and white hair down to the ground,” so this could have certainly been a wandering hippie, but Corona did as he was told and his structure stands outside the town of Monclova.
Rob your mom
Not all extraterrestrial directives are good ideas. Case in point: John Michael Kirby, who got a message from outer space telling him to break into his mother’s house and steal food to give to the homeless. This wasn’t out of character for Kirby, who had just weeks previously smashed a window at his uncle’s house and swiped food and toiletries. After he made the incursion into his mom’s, police got fingerprints and brought Kirby in. He confessed readily to his crimes but insisted that he was under orders from space aliens. A judge sentenced him to a year in prison, where hopefully he’ll be protected from any more orders from UFOs.
Break into an amusement park
Amusement parks at night, when they’re all abandoned and spooky, are certifiably cool. But why would aliens tell North Carolina woman Francis Greene to leave her 8 month old baby in the car so she could break into Carowinds, a family fun spot on the outskirts of Charlotte? In January of 2015, security at Carowinds discovered a tiny child locked in a truck in the parking lot’s drop-off area, crying its eyes out. They called police, and 20 minutes later Greene and her boyfriend came back to pick up the kid. When interrogated, Greene claimed that “the voices that she thought were God, were actually extra-terrestrials, and that they wanted her to leave her body behind and come with them.” And that was going to happen, uh, on the roller coaster?
Murder two people
If creatures from outer space were transmitting messages into your brain, how would you know? It’s not like that happens every day. In 1993, Robert Joe Moody murdered his 56-year-old neighbor Patricia Magda and a woman named Paige Malone. Even though he had smoked a copious amount of crack cocaine before the crime, Moody refused to blame the drugs for his actions. Instead, he claimed that “extrasensory biological entities” from another dimension had taken over his body and compelled him to do the crimes. The trial was a slam dunk for the prosecution, and Moody actually requested the death sentence. He believed that after his body died the extraterrestrials would resurrect him to prove to humanity that they were real. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
Build a dome
There are a number of structures on this planet that people think aliens had a hand in. The great pyramids of Egypt are dogged by nasty rumors that they couldn’t have been built by humans alone. A little closer to home, a strange domelike structure in the middle of the Mojave Desert called the Integratron was allegedly made with instructions from beyond. Designer George van Tassel believed that entities from Venus contacted him in 1953 and mentally transmitted the knowledge necessary to build the structure, which could work as a time machine, fountain of youth and anti-gravity device. None of those things has happened so far, but van Tassel died in 1978 before it was finished. There was talk of turning it into a disco, but a pair of sisters bought it and use it for “sound therapy.”
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People who did crazy things because aliens told them to
By K. Thor Jensen / www.geek.com/author/kthorjensen/
Apr. 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager was asked about UFOs recently, and he publicly announced that if she is elected, she will work to unseal and release to the public as many documents as she can about our country’s extraterrestrial interactions. That’s a pretty ballsy move for a Presidential candidate, but in a year that’s seen a new season of The X-Files, it might be politically savvy as well.
People have been claiming contact with outer space for nearly a century, and those alien messages have contained some curious requests. In this feature, we’ll introduce you to eleven people who took action on messages from beyond the stars. Some created amazing artwork, while others ended up on the wrong side of the law. We’re sure it’s all part of the plan, though.
Build a pyramid
One of the most iconic scenes in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is when Richard Dreyfuss builds a replica of Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Constructing edifices to bring us closer to our alien friends is a time-tested UFO trope, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that in the heart of the Mexican desert there’s a real example. In 1984, farmer Raymundo Corona was visited by an extraterrestrial who commanded him to build a 22 foot tall Aztec-style pyramid. The visitor was a “tall man with honey coloured eyes and white hair down to the ground,” so this could have certainly been a wandering hippie, but Corona did as he was told and his structure stands outside the town of Monclova.
Rob your mom
Not all extraterrestrial directives are good ideas. Case in point: John Michael Kirby, who got a message from outer space telling him to break into his mother’s house and steal food to give to the homeless. This wasn’t out of character for Kirby, who had just weeks previously smashed a window at his uncle’s house and swiped food and toiletries. After he made the incursion into his mom’s, police got fingerprints and brought Kirby in. He confessed readily to his crimes but insisted that he was under orders from space aliens. A judge sentenced him to a year in prison, where hopefully he’ll be protected from any more orders from UFOs.
Break into an amusement park
Amusement parks at night, when they’re all abandoned and spooky, are certifiably cool. But why would aliens tell North Carolina woman Francis Greene to leave her 8 month old baby in the car so she could break into Carowinds, a family fun spot on the outskirts of Charlotte? In January of 2015, security at Carowinds discovered a tiny child locked in a truck in the parking lot’s drop-off area, crying its eyes out. They called police, and 20 minutes later Greene and her boyfriend came back to pick up the kid. When interrogated, Greene claimed that “the voices that she thought were God, were actually extra-terrestrials, and that they wanted her to leave her body behind and come with them.” And that was going to happen, uh, on the roller coaster?
Murder two people
If creatures from outer space were transmitting messages into your brain, how would you know? It’s not like that happens every day. In 1993, Robert Joe Moody murdered his 56-year-old neighbor Patricia Magda and a woman named Paige Malone. Even though he had smoked a copious amount of crack cocaine before the crime, Moody refused to blame the drugs for his actions. Instead, he claimed that “extrasensory biological entities” from another dimension had taken over his body and compelled him to do the crimes. The trial was a slam dunk for the prosecution, and Moody actually requested the death sentence. He believed that after his body died the extraterrestrials would resurrect him to prove to humanity that they were real. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
Build a dome
There are a number of structures on this planet that people think aliens had a hand in. The great pyramids of Egypt are dogged by nasty rumors that they couldn’t have been built by humans alone. A little closer to home, a strange domelike structure in the middle of the Mojave Desert called the Integratron was allegedly made with instructions from beyond. Designer George van Tassel believed that entities from Venus contacted him in 1953 and mentally transmitted the knowledge necessary to build the structure, which could work as a time machine, fountain of youth and anti-gravity device. None of those things has happened so far, but van Tassel died in 1978 before it was finished. There was talk of turning it into a disco, but a pair of sisters bought it and use it for “sound therapy.”
CONTINUE READING: www.geek.com/news/people-who-did-crazy-things-because-aliens-told-them-to-1652043/