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Book Review: Operation Trojan Horse by John A. Keel
An Enigmatic Friendship
Sometime during late 2006 I had a dream.
It was late night and I was in an unknown neighborhood that seemed vaguely familiar. I was alone and leaving an unknown residence. My objective was to reach my vehicle that I could see parked a block and a half across the street from where I was. The streets were empty but ominous. I nervously started jogging toward my truck. I reached the first street corner. The homeowner of the corner house was halfway through installing a new fence around the perimeter of the front yard. The unused pickets were lying in a pile near the sidewalk. Without stopping stride, I reached down and grabbed a wooden picket fencepost from the pile.
Suddenly, a threatening figure exploded onto the scene immediately in front of me, out of the fabric of some other existence, and into the reality of my dream. It was just as if you were watching a movie at a theater and someone busted through the screen to attack you. I was no longer just dreaming. I was under an astral attack.
The figure was a tall, slender, black youth. He attacked with ferocity and I was tentatively constrained in a matter of seconds. I looked down to witness him aiming a hypodermic needle toward me. He attempted to grasp my wrist and was trying to aim the needle at my index finger. I used this opportunity to attack my attacker with the fencepost I had grabbed from the yard just an instant before he arrived. I slammed the post into the side of his head.
Taken by surprise, he loosened his grip for an instant. Free from his constraints I was able to wake up and free myself from the astral assault. I woke up terrified, sitting up immediately in a rush of panic. I was breathing rapidly and sweating.
Even after waking, I remained afraid. I was aware of the real-life, physical-world dangers of astral projection attacks. There was not a doubt in my mind that if the perpetrator had been successful in completing his objective, I would have been screwed in real life. I don’t know exactly what the consequences would have been; I just know they would have been dire.
It was not only the attack and its implications that scared me so thoroughly. Before I woke I got a quick look at his face. His eyes were large, almond shaped, and completely black. It was more than disconcerting; it was terrifying. He looked like a young African American grey alien.
I pored over every detail of the astral incident and my attacker. I remembered that he wore saggy dark blue jeans, a dark-red over-sized T-shirt, and a black knit beanie hat. He was in his late teens or early twenties; and those eyes… I profusely searched the Internet for information on black-eyed people and black-eyed children, never finding anything that could help explain his identity or motives. I especially could not figure out why the attacker was trying to inject my index finger with the needle. Why my finger?
I described the dream/incident to my husband, Mike on numerous occasions over the next couple of years. I tried to emphasize to him the seriousness of the attack and the outcome had it been successful. At first he was incredulous. He suggested that it was just a nightmare and that I was overreacting. Eventually he conceded that something serious must have happened, due to my insistence that the incident was important and because I was not usually prone to exaggeration. Despite his belief he was unable to help me decipher the mysterious attack.
Three years passed. During that time Mike and I moved from Byron, California to El Sobrante, California. It was in El Sobrante that I began to experience very strange phenomenon on a regular basis. Late one night I decide to treat our housemate and a couple of his guests to some fast food. It was about one in the morning and our housemate volunteered to drive.
I was sitting in the backseat of his car as we approached the corner of San Pablo Dam Rd. The Camperland RV sales lot was on the right-hand side of the road. As I looked toward the lot I was astonished to see a large cloud descending steadily from the sky. It was the only cloud visible in the area and it was hovering above the RV sales lot.
This was not any ordinary cloud. This cloud looked like an alien skull wearing a football helmet.
As my housemate rounded the corner of San Pablo Dam Rd. the skull cloud actually turned, so that it was facing the car the entire time. (It reminded me of the holographic heads in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland which seem like they are facing you, no matter where you are standing…)
I mumbled out loud “Whoa. Do you see that?” Nobody heard me however, as they were all chatting away about something else. We proceeded to the ‘Jack in the Box’ drive through, and then made the return trip home. The cloud was not there anymore.
When we got back home I immediately told Mike about the strange experience and even drew him a sketch of the cloud apparition. He was as mystified as I was and we had no explanation for the event. By this time I was starting to get used to inexplicable events with no obvious rhyme or reason, so I just filed it away in my mental “weird-files.”
Fast-forward ten months. Mike and I had decided to move back to the Delta but we were still making regular trips to the Bay Area, especially to spend time at our friend Jeremy’s music studio, 23rd Street Productions. I had been helping him with business issues involved with his studio so that he could concentrate on music production and teaching.
Mike and I met young people from all over the Bay Area as they would come through the studio to record their music. This was how we met a young man called ‘Moody’. He was enthusiastic about rap music and started frequenting the studio on a regular basis, which was okay with Jeremy who was always proactive about keeping young people off the streets.
One day Mike and I walked in the studio and Moody was sitting on the couch. He was wearing a short-sleeved shirt with his sleeves rolled up. I could see several tattoos on his arms that I had never noticed before. To my surprise one of these images was familiar to me.
“Look Mike!” I exclaimed, before thinking about it…
”Look at his skull tattoo! That looks exactly like the cloud that I told you about in El Sobrante!” For some reason this seemed to fluster Moody and he immediately covered the tattoo up with his sleeve. He glanced up at me guiltily and then looked away. He did not say a word.
“Strange!” I thought to myself, but I felt bad for possibly embarrassing him for whatever unknown reason. I dismissed the whole incident from my mind.
Over the next few months we got to know Moody more. He was generally well liked by others but had an eccentric and idiosyncratic personality. For some reason he seemed to take a liking to me and insisted on calling me “sister”. I hadn’t noticed until Mike pointed it out, but Moody always made a habit of touching me in some small way or another, on my leg or shoulder. This bothered Mike who ended up confronting him about it.
“You wouldn’t want me touching your girl all the time like that, right?!” he told Moody one evening. “I’d appreciate it if you would keep your hands off of her.”
“Oh, it’s not like that!” was Moody’s reply. “She’s my sister, right?” He asked me.
“Sure.” I answered, glancing at Mike.
“Hands off.” Mike reiterated.
Time passed and I started to notice how the environment at the studio seemed strange more and more often. It was always when Moody was around. There seemed to be some kind of pervasive “energy” that would encompass the studio and the people there.
It was at these times that people’s physical features and characteristics appeared to change and several people at a time would take on the same “look”. They would appear to be squinting their eyes and their hair would be “slicked back”, more than normal. They would also appear to be scrutinizing you as they talked and would lean toward you from the waist forward, coming uncomfortably close into your personal space when talking to you. These people, especially Moody, could almost be described as “feline” looking when this phenomenon occurred.
Mike noticed these strange occurrences immediately as well, but he was not the only one. There was one other young person, Dustin who noticed something strange was going on, too. “WHAT IS THAT?!?” He asked Mike and me one afternoon. We knew exactly what he was talking about but had no explanation either.
It was during this general time that I began getting informative “downloads” and direct communication from an unknown source. I began calling that source “the Spiritual People.” I had not forgotten about the astral attack that had occurred years earlier and I was given a “lead” regarding the incident:
– Look at your finger closely. Why was the attacker trying to inject your right-hand index finger?
I looked at my finger very closely. This is symbol is what I found.