Thread by @TheUfoJoe

1 "One case that always impressed me is vouched for by my friend Lois Bourne in her book, Witch Among Us. Lois is a ‘witch’ in the sense of possessing odd psychic powers, of whose reality I have not the slightest doubt. She is an extremely sensible and down-to-earth lady and, in

2 "her book, among many stories that psychical researchers will find credible enough, she tells a story that will obviously cause most readers to doubt her truthfulness. Staying on holiday at a cottage at Crantock, in Cornwall, she met another member

3 "of a Wiccan coven, and spent an evening at her home. The woman’s husband, Rob, asked her if she would like to see a goblin. One appeared, he said, among the rushes of the millstream at Treago Mill every morning at sunrise, and if she wanted to see him, she had to be up early.

4 "The next morning Lois and her husband Wilfred joined Rob at the mill gate, and they crept up to the stream. ‘I have never been able to decide, and still cannot decide, whether I really saw that goblin, or if Rob made me see it. Whatever it was, there,

5 "sitting on a stone calmly washing his socks, was an elfin creature with a red hat, green coat and trews, one yellow sock on, and one in his tiny hands in the process of being washed. I remember thinking at the time in my sleepy befuddled but practical way 'what an atrocious

6 "'colour combination'. Suddenly he saw us and he disappeared … 'Now do you believe me?' asked Rob.’ I have known Lois for years. I may be gullible and she may be a liar, but I believe her. She is not the type to invent such a silly story. And neither

7 "is her husband Wilfred – who also saw it – the type to support a downright lie.

"In short, I firmly believe that the world is full of living beings that are invisible to us, and the poltergeist is only one among many.

"Why is this book about Contagion? Because one of its

8 "basic arguments is that poltergeists are not ‘one-offs’, as researchers (including myself) used to assume, but seem to be capable of spreading like an infection – a startling idea new to poltergeist lore."

~Colin Wilson

Cornwall, May 2009

9 That's the foreword to a book I just bought, "Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion."

Elves? Goblins? I haven't spent time on that kind of thing but anybody who has read "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" will recognize why the last part of that quote is important. #contagion

10 Same book but a more recent foreword:

"Darren’s book presents intriguing evidence of ‘contagion’, a process whereby poltergeist phenomena can spread out from the home of the principal witnesses and affect others, such as members of their extended family, or investigators.

11 "However, although people affected by contagion will probably find their experiences perplexing and frightening, it seems that the activity becomes diluted as it spreads (Stories in "Skinwalker" dispute that). Darren and Michael speculated that contagion could be

12 "either ‘active’ or ‘passive’. With the former, someone who is connected with the afflicted person or family would be deliberately targeted by the intelligence behind the phenomena. In passive contagion, however, the process would occur

13 "automatically, like accidentally catching a cold from a friend."

After reading Skinwalkers & listening 2 various interviews, seems Lacatski may have been targeted (active) but daughter of biotechnologist in Bend, Oregon was just in the wrong place @ the wrong time (passive).