Betty and Barney Hill

High Strange

Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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After vacationing in Montreal and Niagra Falls Betty and Barney Hill were returning to New Hampshire when a multi-colored craft crossed in the sky above them, Barney explained it away as a plane until he noticed through binoculars that it was getting closer to them. Can’t wait for the next episode? Subscribe to Tenderfoot+ and binge the whole season right now! Members get all episodes ad-free plus bonus content throughout the season. Sign up at apple.co/highstrange. For Spotify, Google, and other Android users, visit tenderfootplus.com. Follow along on social and the web: @highstrange on Instagram @highstrange on TikTok highstrange.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:27.2	Hey, I was 13 years old in 1961 when Betty and Barney were abducted. My mother was on the
1:38.0	phone with Betty. I listened. My mother was concerned and I knew that something was wrong.
1:47.9	When she hung up the phone, she told me Betty and Barney had seen a flying saucer up close
1:56.3	the night before. They were afraid they'd been contaminated.
2:07.0	Welcome to High Strange. On September 19, 1961, newlyweds Betty and Barney Hill were traveling
2:17.7	along US Route 3 in the mountains of New Hampshire. What transpired that night would forever shape
2:23.5	the horror sci-fi genre of alien abductions in pop culture. I'm going to start out telling you
2:32.2	about my capture, which happened on September 19, 1961.
2:39.8	This is Betty Hill, sharing her story at the International UFO Congress in 1977.
2:45.6	On that night, my husband Barney and I were returning from Montreal. We left there late afternoon,
2:55.0	and Barney and I was having a very pleasant drive home to close with New Hampshire.
3:01.3	All of a sudden, I saw that I thought was a new star in the sky. It began to move.
3:09.8	zigzagging, going up and down, spinning. This object left the top of the mountain,
3:17.2	came out over the highway directly in front of the car and stopped.
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