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The following is from Mike Mott's book, Caverns, Cauldrons and Concealed Creatures. It gives us an idea about the types of activities that underground creatures perpetrate against us. The UFO occupants are also underground creatures, but there are others that that are situated closer to cave entrances.
They abduct, and they cultivate front-men to carry out their work on the surface. Mike Mott calls them lackeys, that's an appropriate term.
- THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
Norman L. (his name changed at his request), a single father living in the mountainous region of
North Alabama, is one person who can testify to the truth of this continued intrusiveness. His
wife had become deeply involved in caving (spelunking), leaving Norman and their toddler
daughter to care for themselves most of the time. The wife became engrossed and fascinated
with the past-time of caving, and often reported to her husband of seeing UFOs during some of
the expeditions made with her hard-partying friends, multiple-day trips into remote and
sometimes almost-inaccessible areas near "wild" caves and pits. The marriage began to
deteriorate for a variety of reasons, many of them traceable to the obsession of the wife for
spelunking; and strange phenomena began to occur around the house when the wife was
home, or on the rare outing with the family.
Around nine one evening this family of three paid a visit to a local department store, one of the
type which incorporates "mart" into its name. This store was located near a large ridge of
mountains which ran alongside the eastern edge of the town, mountains which are
honeycombed with caves and pits. The oldest part of the town itself is said to sit atop an
ancient network of caverns, around which many local legends revolve. So husband, wife, and
child cruised the aisles of the supermarket, when both adults became aware of an intense
sense of presence.
The back corner of the store was unusually dark, as if some of the lighting were either dimmed
or out. At the end of an intersecting aisle a strange figure lurked, literally leering at them as
they walked by. According to Norman L., this figure was hideously malformed, in that he had no
discernable neck, almost no chin, misshapen ears and facial features, and a decidely evil,
grimacing disposition. His eyes were squinted and piggish, his head literally "squarish." His
rounded, hunched body was wrapped in very loose clothing, primarily an immense flannel shirt
which hid the true contours of his body. His attitude was definitely menacing as he transferred
his gaze from the man, to the child riding in the shopping cart. He leaned forward as if to get a
better look.
Norman stepped forward defensively, even though he was filled with an instinctive revulsion by
this being. He insists that the person they encountered wasn't human, an opinion that his wife
at the time had concurred with. Norman's take on this strange voyeur?
"He simply wasn't a human being. He looked human in a fundamental, first-glance kinda way,
but he was something else. He had a strong air of evil and hate about him. He actually looked
like a troll."
Upon seeing Norman's reaction, the creature slunk back into the shadows of the aisle and was
soon left behind.
Over the next year, the marriage dissolved and ended. Norman ended up with custody of the
daughter, and took her with him everywhere. One night they visited a below-ground-level
toystore in a local multi-level shopping mall; with the exception of the sales clerk standing near
the front of the store, they were the only people in the place. Or so it seemed.
As his young daughter squatted to play with toys on the bottom of the shelf, Norman became
aware of another presence. He turned to see a small child slowing meandering down the aisle
toward them, seemingly a thin little girl of about five or six years of age. Suddenly this "child"
made a quick move toward his daughter, and Norman scooped her up and took several steps
back.
"It wasn't a little girl," he says. "It was wearing a dingy yellow dress, had a girl's shoes and
socks on, and its hair looked loose on its head, like a straight black wig, very artificial in
appearance--kind of like a "Prince Valiant (haircut)." Its skin was abnormally pale, the eyes
wide-set and almost at the side of its head, 'wrapping around the edge,' sort of. The eyes were
almond-shaped, turning up at the outer edges, but squinty, and they were pure black or dark
brown. There were no whites to the eyes at all! They were like ink."
Thinking that perhaps this being was an unsupervised, malformed or mentally-handicapped
child, Norman took his daughter and moved over an aisle; the little being followed them almost
immediately. This was repeated twice, but the being stood off, a bit warier than before, still
staring fixedly at Norman's daughter. He picked her up and they looked around the store for the
parent of the "disturbed child," but there was no other shopper in the place. Aggravated,
Norman complained to the cashier at the front of the store, asking that he have the parents of
the child come supervise "it."
The cashier reacted with complete surprise. "You and your daughter are the only customers in
the store, sir," he said. A quick look determined that this was in fact so, and no one had exited
by way of the only way of egress in the front of the business. A quick look through the store by
both men failed to reveal the strange "child."
Over time, many additional facts came out, largely gleaned from the daughter, who had been to
visit her mother upon occasion. The child was terrified to make these visits, indicating that,
among other things, she had been taken into wild, dangerous caves, leaned over pits (and
allegedly almost dropped into one, to luckily be caught by the mother's boyfriend), and other
such insanity. Eventually the mother's visitations were terminated completely, but this raises
the question of motivation and influence--what would lead a mother to risk the life of her child in
such a callous, almost sacrificial way? The child also witnessed UFO manifestations during
one of the caving trips with her mother. Since that time, the girl has grown to be a happy and
healthy teen, and no further instances of this type of encounter have troubled her, or her father.
First-hand accounts like this abound. Another account, also from the mountains of east-central
Alabama, involves a group of children (now adults) who saw what they termed "a leprechaun,"
following them through the woods one evening. Initially noticed as he sat atop an outcropping of
mossy rock, this entity hopped down from his perch as the kids passed, maintaining a
respectful distance, but he paralleled the children for miles, scaring them badly. He was
described by the now-grown woman and two men as being some two or three feet in height,
wearing green clothing, and looking quite sinister.
It's interesting to note that the TAG (a National Speleological Society term) or
Tennessee-Alabama-Georgia region is considered to be one of the most densely caverned
areas in North America. Many accounts of mysterious lights, UFOs, livestock mutilations, and
strange deaths and disappearances have come from this region. Tales of "haints" and
"boogers" abound in the hills and mountains, and some spelunkers joke to cover up their fear
when they talk about "hodags," unseen cave entities which cut rope or pull it up behind cavers
after a descent; drop or throw rocks and boulders; mislead with mysterious noises; and create
other such strange occurences.
A similar account comes from Olkahoma City, OK. One lady indicates that she and her child
are the objects of unwanted desire or attention from subterranean beings. She is extremely
lucid and utterly convinced of the reality of the experiences she and her child have had.
The entire sequence of events started when she was camping with her four-year old daughter in
a a remote area. The daughter mysteriously disappeared, to be eventually found a few days
later, "well-fed, clean, and happy." The little girl claimed that she had been the guest of an
"underground family" who had been very nice to her and had fed her.
By William M. Mott
His book, Caverns, Cauldrons and Concealed Creatures, is available at Lulu Books.
Posted by Dean