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                           Abduction Digest, Number 8

 

                             Monday, April 8th 1991

 

Today's Topics:

 

                             Re: Abduction Research

                             Re: Abduction Research


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From: Elizabeth.Anderson@p0.f30.n134.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Elizabeth Anderson)

Subject: Re: Abduction Research

Date: 6 Apr 91 04:04:00 GMT


Hello, Jim. I was very interested in your message here about the possible 

connection between sexual abuse/abduction claims.



I have been interested for the last few years in the whole 'satanism' 

phenomena, and have noticed many parallels between abduction claims and the 

claims made by 'satanic ritual child abuse survivors'. I have been 

corresponding with Dr. Robert Baker, a professor of psychology at the 

University of Kentucky on this subject and he recently suggested that I look 

into getting a book called "Sexual Abuse Hysteria: the Salem Witch Trials 

revisited" by Richard A. Gardner. You might find this interesting reading as 

well.



Are you familiar with a book called 'Anomalistic Psychology' by Zusne and 

Jones? It is truly a book every skeptic and every 'believer' should read. 

The mind really is a very strange place.




Elizabeth  

 

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From: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)

Subject: Re: Abduction Research

Date: 6 Apr 91 22:03:00 GMT



 > Hello, Jim. I was very interested in your message here about the

 > possible connection between sexual abuse/abduction claims.

 >


Hi, Elizabeth. The message actually wasn't from me, but from Keith 

Basterfield, who is a leading UFO and abduction researcher in Australia. It 

was Keith who was among the first to suggest such a connection. I cross-posted 

the message to Abductions, where I thought it also belonged.


I am familiar with the book you cited, but I have not yet had a chance to pick 

it up. Interestingly enough, I am currently involved in researching one 

abduction case right now, but sexual abuse does not seem to be a factor, nor 

does any childhood trauma. (Please request the file LYDIA331.TXT from my 

system for an interim report on the progress of this case.)


I am also familiar with Dr. Baker, having met him briefly in Lincoln, NE in 

1988. He impressed me as someone who has long ago made up his mind that 

Fantasy Prone Personality is the culprit in abductions, and writes about the 

subject with a degree of vitriole and scorn that is quite unbecoming of a 

scientist. So far, in the few studies I'm aware of, including one being 

conducted by CUFOS as we speak, there is no real indication of a connection 

between FPP and abductions. That is not to say that one may not show up in the 

future, when a more statistically significant segment of the affected 

population has been screened. But it is certainly too early to draw any 

conclusions, as Dr. Baker seems to have done.


Jim


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