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Anyway, Betty then went to the library and checked out a book about UFOs, trying to make some sense out of what had happened to them. A week after reading it, she would suddenly remember the "abduction."

Specifically, she started having a series of vivid dreams: walking through the woods with her husband, who seemed to be in a trance-like state, until they were led onto a spacecraft by short guys with greyish skin, dark eyes, and, uh, greasy black hair. Once onboard, they did the typical alien medical exam (no anal probe for her -- they instead used a sharp needle to stab her navel). They were then taken back to their car to resume their drive.

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Barney still didn't remember anything and thought Betty's dreams were just dreams, and was largely dismissive of the whole abduction story. They did try driving back out to the site to see if anything would trigger more memories, or if they could find evidence, or ... anything at all to prove they weren't going crazy. Otherwise, aside from a couple of meetings with a local UFO study group, they simply kept the whole thing to themselves.

It was more than two years later that somebody convinced them hypnosis would help recall the memories, and in the process relieve some of their lingering anxiety. And here's where I'll say that if the Hills were just making this up to amuse themselves, then Barney was one hell of an actor. You can listen to some of his sessions below, if you're in a place where you can crank audio. Fast-forward to the 20-minute mark, when Barney relives seeing the aliens for the first time and starts fucking screaming: