photo by Upsilon Andromedae

Over at Phantoms and Monsters, Lon Strickler relates a horrific tale of a new mother who fears that her newborn child may be the victim of extraterrestrial experimentation. The story begins with a normal pregnancy, other than the mother was ordered on bed rest by her OB/GYN, who also insisted on performing the expectant mother’s checkups in her home as the delivery date grew near. During one of the otherwise routine visits, a nurse that had come to assist the doctor administered a “light sedative” that rendered the young lady unconscious. The remainder of the pregnancy and the delivery was largely uneventful.

Two months after giving birth to a healthy baby boy, the new mother noticed that his eyes had shifted from blue to a dark violet color. As her normal OB/GYN had taken an extended leave of absence right after she gave birth, the mother who Lon refers to as Lisa, phoned her new doctor who assured her that it was normal for the baby’s eye color to shift. Late in the morning of New Year’s Eve, the baby cried out. Lisa ran to her child’s side. Suddenly he stopped screaming, looked up and a membrane blinked horizontally across his eyes (not unlike you would see in a lizard).

Lisa rushed the child to the hospital. When doctors examined his eyes, they could find no trace of the membranes. Additionally when she inquired when her normal OB/GYN would return, Lisa was told he had quit his practice. Additionally, no one at the hospital or clinic ever remembers a nurse matching the description of the one that accompanied the doctor on his house calls ever working for either facility. While she has not seen the membranes since New Year’s Eve, Lisa swears something is different/wrong with her son.

Are Lisa and her son victims of experiments in human hybridization preformed by or for extraterrestrials, or is this a tale of a mother suffering from hallucinations caused by postpartum depression? After checking the facts given to him by Lisa, Mr. Strickler has been unable to find any fault with what he has been told about this troubling incident. I honestly do not know what to think, other than my heart goes out to Lisa, who is genuinely distraught over this experience. I can’t even begin to imagine what she is going through.

A New Mother’s Concern @ Phantoms & Monsters