Call them nocturnal assaults, call them sleep paralysis.

They happen to all sorts of people all around the world with very little predictability.

You wake up frozen, perhaps with a visible entity in the room, perhaps unable to move,

perhaps feeling a weight.

These common sleep disorders are probably nearly entirely responsible for the phenomenon

of alien abduction.

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Nocturnal Assaults Aliens in the Dark

I was five years old when my single mother was attacked by a ghost in her bed in the middle

of the night.

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