Thank you for joining me and welcome. I'm your host, Nick Ryan. Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporter, Carlos.

Thank you so much for making the show possible. Our first experience of the night comes to us from Whitney and Whitney's experience is called Alien.

Whitney says,

I'm writing to you because I just listen to your recent episode,

titled Taken by the Grays.

The author of that story told about their experience of being abducted and how they met their

alien children.

When I heard that, my stomach dropped. It confirmed the story that I'm about to tell you and why I went into therapy for it.

The story is not necessarily my own, but I was very much a witness to the telling of it and my life has been intertwined with it ever since

Ever since I was a young child I have been obsessed with aliens and the paranormal

I would always make my mom buy me alien and

UFO books at the book fair instead of normal books like other kids. I would

sit out in my backyard for hours studying these books and staring at the sky with my binoculars in hopes of seeing

something.

I'm not sure what piqued my interest in aliens as such a young child.

It could have been all the episodes of The X-files that I sneakily watched in the doorway of the living room when I was supposed to be in bed, because I wasn't old enough to watch it yet.

I'd like to think that my interest in aliens is something more sinister, but I have no evidence of that, unfortunately.

Like I was saying, I have always been fascinated with aliens, and even when I got into college, you could still find me in the library, not studying, but reading books about aliens.

In my free time at home, I would spend hours on YouTube watching videos ofs and possible alien sightings.

Sure, I knew that a lot of them were probably fake,

but they were fascinating, nonetheless.

Although I was very passionate about the idea of aliens, this passion did have its downfalls.

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