Sources: An interrupted Journey About hypnosis News Articles: Betty's Death UNH Image collection Interview with Betty ( this is the one where she looks grizzled) Lam, Crowley, and New Hampshire More Hypnosis Audio clips 1 2 Wiki links: Zeta Reticuli The betty and Barney Hill incident Aleister Crowley Hypnotherapy images: Loose transcript: Quick recap/their trips upThe hills, barney and betty were a middle aged married couple living in portsmouth nh, in the early sixties Betty was at the time of the incident a 42 year old white social worker living and working right here in portsmouthBarney was a 39 year old black postal worker who would commute to boston for work The third hill was delseyThe pair took delsey and drove up to Niagara falls and montreal for a lovely weekend getawayThe trip was mostly without incident until the drive homeThey were driving down route three and interstate 93 to get from canada to portsmouth, mostly a straight shot south through the state until the last 45min-1hrAfter reaching colebrook they saw a mysterious object in the sky, and dismissed it as a plane or satelliteI’m gonna breeze through this a little because all this is a recap, if you’re confused check out last week's episode, and subscribe so you can catch up on all of it, and all the other cool stuff we coverEventually the object comes closer and they get out to look at it, barney goes nuts because there’s figures in the craft, nazi looking irish chinese men depending on how far back in the screen memory hypnosis you go. After this they get back in the car and try to book it home with the UFO flying saucer looking craft following them, sometimes disappearing and sometimes getting very close. When they reach indian head resort the craft gets very close and they hear a repeated beeping noiseThe beeping resumes 2 and a half hours later and like 45 miles south and they both abruptly wake up with no memory of the drive since the first beeping. A little shaken the drove home and went to bed, slept for the afternoon and found some weird stuff with their belongingsShoesDressLuggageRings on carAfter a few days, weeks and months of trying to figure out what happened they eventually reported the sighting to nicap. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and the airforce. There’s an airforce base in portsmouth. There was, now it’s a civilian airport since I think 91 So where we left last week they met major swett, yes that’s his name who was Former air forceReading poetry at their churchAmateur hypnotistRecommends them to doctor benjamin simonA psychiatrist operating out of boston comfortable with using hypnotherapy. And we left while they were on the way to their first session with doctor simon Brief aside. Contact with ufologists/air forceSo I wanted to talk about this last session but couldn’t really fit it in and in the end it doesn’t add much to the story but adds a little bit credibility wise. They reported their stories to a ufologist who documented the facts of the case in the nicap database, which would eventually match up with thousands of other reports The air force was cagey about their response but did actually admit that there was no training flight or military craft out that nightNot that they have to I imagine, but it’s another tick for the credibility column They did however find that the air force did pick up some sort of undesignated aircraft that night on radar. How common is that? No idea? Does it mean anything? Maybe but again that’s another little tick inching things forward on the believeometerBut for brevity’s sake I don’t think it’s really necessary to yank too much harder on that particular plot thread. Because it doesn’t go much further than that unless we really expand our scope out to the entire ufo abduction phenomena rather than this particular case. So they arrive in boston, a little bit early to be punctual and have time to grab a bagel on their way in F****n dunkin that’s right bud.So then they make it in and are on time for like a consultationSimon proceeds to get the same story as I just told plus the fact that barney has some anxiety about being a s****y dad because his kids from a previous marriage are out in pennsylvania and aren’t being dadded. He also has stress ulcers Betty mentions her recurring dreams slash nightmares but they don’t get much attention until later because it’s decided that barney will be going first.THey spend the next few weeks going to visit doctor simon going into a light hypnotic induction, the short version of that is that BnB have to get comfortable with the idea of hypnosis and practice going under several times and reinforcing cue words, in popular media that’s like they show up and he hits them with “You’re getting very sleepy you’ll fall asleep when I say bigfoot. Bigfoot. When you wake up you’ll have no memory of this. You’ll wake when I say chicken patty. Chicken patty”Doing that few times allows the subject to go under very quickly and much deeper. HypnosisPatients with things locked away possibly by trauma may be able to access those things through hypnosis.Gets into hologram theory where someone can tell you the names and eye color of everyone at their 5th birthday, I probably can’t tell you the eye color of all my best friends, let alone people that attended my fifth birthday, but that fucking B Roll eyeball footage is still in archive which is incredible. Naturally this process lends itself to recall of memories otherwise sealed off, through trauma or even some inserted mental block or screen memory. Essentially the practitioner is lulling you into a state of extreme relaxation, which you kind of have to consciously submit to, it’s not usually like the movies where someone can wave a pocket watch and make you cluck like a chicken, specifically not in a therapeutic context like the one that was in play hereOne thing that is really important when taking this story at face value is that the hypnotic state doesn’t necessarily produce absolute truth. It will generally (going off on the adverbs today oh my) it does generally produce what the subject believes to be the truth.So regardless of whether it happened, and personally I’m inclined to believe it did, the hills suffered very real physical and emotional trauma from their experience. With all that said, you are drifting off to the sound of my voice, on the count of three you will have the urge to share your favorite episode of the show with one or perhaps even several of your friends. 1. 2. 3. Sorry I dozed off for a second there. Benjamin simonLike I said earlier, psychiatrist outta boston comfortable with hypnotherapy, especially with amnesiacs I have no idea if that’s the termSkeptical of UFO phenomena, but openminded to the possibility that there could be something out there Also interestingly enough served in WW2 as an executive officer in the army’s primary psychiatric center in ww2 working on hypnosis and narcosynthesis eg using sodium pentothol (truth serum) and that timeline makes me immediately suspicious of him being wrapped up in MK ULTRA type stuff between WW2 and treating the hills, I don’t have any other evidence to support that but he seems like a prime candidate to be involved. Which is interesting. Or notGoalsOpen up amnesiaTreat their anxiety and weirdness, ufo stuff secondary, may be aliens but it doesn't really matter either way if my patient is or isn’t abducted by aliens, they’re still suffering either way so let's take the time to unpack it one way or the other Descriptions of the sessionsB didn’t feel like opening his hands or eyes, defiant bastardBoth exceptionally receptive to hypnotic induction, something like Thy’d forget all unless directed not too, simon wanted the full story before letting them in on itBarney first after 3 weeks of induction, hear his story in full then betty so they couldn’t influence each other. Descriptions of their encounterNow we get to the meat of what actually went onFor the sake of continuity I’m just gonna go through barney’s point of view, ignoring when hypnosis sessions begin and end except where it’s interesting, because the events themselves recollected under the hypnosis are a much more cohesive and compelling narrative. With that being said, some of the hypnosis itself is truly chilling, hearing this grown ass man sob and cry out in fear, saying shit like he’s pressing his eyes into my eyes, and please don’t let them take me! And things like that. I would include the audio but most of the actual sources of that audio have music over it and not to mention it was recorded 60 years ago so it’s not really winning any grammys for audio production you know?I’ll still put in some links to some clips of it that you can check out on your own. Sometimes it takes an additional session to get to the next scene, or to pull it out of amnesia. And sometimes they get so worked up Dr simon has to calm them down and or pull them out of it and sometimes they just run out of time in a billable session. But unless it comes up, assume that the whole case narrative is over several sessions. Seeing them from afar before the beeping.EyesIrish nazi chineseDescription in early sessionsScreaming running back Duh doh delsey de dotta det doutta dereThey get back in the car and this is what I talked about last session when the craft appeared to be pursuing them.They didn’t really breach anymore new information during the Quote “chase” Skip ahead to the beeping where there memory fades out right around the indian head resort in the middle of NHIt was sometime after this when they came to a roadblock of Some kind. I think I mentioned that last week, but the fact that later on betty had a full on panic attack over coming up to a completely normal roadblock gives this a little more validity Side note, in the end a lot of the
