For those of us with an open mind, certain stories can drive us crazy.

We want to believe them, we want to be all in, and yet something won't let us, a detail,

a comment, an uneasy feeling in our gut.

The Travis Walton abduction is that kind of story.

A young man went missing for five days, and when he returned, he said he'd been abducted

by aliens.

And he wasn't the only one to tell this story.

His six co-workers reported it to police the night that he went missing because they witnessed

it.

And they all took lie detector tests to prove it.

But despite this, Travis' account has been debated and picked apart for 45 years.

Every skeptic has tried to debunk it.

But somehow, nobody can.

This is supernatural, a podcast original, and I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

Every Wednesday, I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained occurrence to try

and figure out the truth.

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This week's episode is about the Travis Walton abduction.

It's probably one of the most famous alien encounters in history, and the only alien

abduction in which the victim was reported missing for several days before being returned

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