Redditor Gishgress has an eerie tale to tell:

The abductions started when I was really young. They were not scary experiences but more like odd dreams. Every night I would sneak down to our living room which had a large window. I would face the window and say “How-Woo” after that a large wolf head would materialize and say “How-Woo” back to me and my next memory would be waking up. I was never caught getting out of bed or going down the stairs but I do remember that occasionally there would be leaves or dirt on the living room floor that my parents had no clue where it came from.

We moved into a suburbs and that changed the nature of the experiences. I don’t remember being afraid when I lived in the country but once I lived in the suburbs I was terrified of going to sleep. My first memory of an abduction experience was caused by a doctors visit. Someone I went to school with got sick with something and everyone who had contact had to get a shot.

I had never had a shot before but when the nurse approached me with the needle I lost my shit. I was probably nine or ten but it took three nurses and poor old Dr. Li, my pediatrician, to hold me down. I remember telling them to get that thing away from me and getting images of shadowy figures and flashes of pain in my eyes. After that I was always awake when they came. I’d wake up and they’d be next to my bed or looking in the window but they never tried to hide their intentions after that.

The abductions peaked around 13 or 14 with about one every two months. By that time I had adjusted my life to try to deal with it, going to sleep as soon as I got home from school and waking up at around midnight and staying awake until I went to school hoping it didn’t happen. It might have worked but it didn’t help with school and family life. Slowly the incidents became less frequent to maybe once a year.

My last abduction was on my 27th birthday. I was fully conscience and had just got done calling into work saying I would not be coming in that night. I walked outside to my car and looked up and saw something moving through the sky. It was black and amorphous and kept changing shape, at one point I thought it looked like the space shuttle but then it started heading towards me. I got in my car and tried starting it but it didn’t even turn over.

Right after that I got this buzzing ringing in my head that was jarring and painful. By then the craft was right over top of me and ahead of my car one of them just materialized and moved towards me. My car door just kind of opened on it’s own and it touched me with this rod thing it was carrying and I blacked out. I came to an hour later and immediately went to work even though I called off.

I haven’t had any experiences since but I still live the way I did when it was happening. I can’t sleep at night so I work at night and sleep during the day. Relationships were difficult to maintain but I’m doing much better now. I have some feelings that my parents were slightly aware that something was going on when I was younger. I’ve had several experiences of waking up some distance away from where I was previously or sleeping at. Twice I was wearing clothes that were not mine.

If anyone has any questions I’ll answer as best I can. Thanks for asking this seriously.